Yuu Tokari is just a lucky man who found a rare card at work. Is he ready to punch his ticket to stardom? Or will his fight as a Duel Revolutionary destroy everything he holds dear? (This reimagining of Yu-Gi-Oh takes inspiration from the stories of...
Silence filled Daimonji Manor. Yuu could feel the sweat wicking from his forehead into the vacuum that surrounded Ruin Varudras, the carcass of armageddon. Gozu stood across from them, her overwhelming presence distorted into concavity, looming over them in the shape of the room.
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Zato, his hand empty, was plowing his fingers across his scalp. On the sidelines, Fey had leaned back in his chair to get a full view of Gozu's monster, gentle intrigue sprouting on his face. Chizu Daimonji, who was up next, had seemed to detach from the game entirely, focusing only on her niece, who now tilted her Xyz Monster up to pull away one of its materials.
"Sunsaga and Finis Terrae become 2 Xyz Materials," Gozu declared. "Now, Ruin Varudras can detach one of them to destroy one card on the field! I'll destroy Arcastral Flipper R!"
Zato flinched as the spaceship next to his head imploded, filled in an instant with brittle hollowness and crushed. Gozu slotted Finis Terrae out from beneath Ruin Varudras and into her graveyard.
Just as she did, an eye appeared in the graveyard slot of her duel disk, shooting out a beam of blue, immobilizing light. "Finis Terrae's effect activates when it's sent to the graveyard! Negate the effects of Arcastral Comet Highscore!"
Comet Highscore's burgeoning surface began to slow and liquefy as Finis Terrae's curse spread across it. Wisps of flaming dust tore from its surface and fizzled into ash; Yuu was reminded of how Lava Golem had looked as he faced it down in his endless struggle for survival. He'd stopped breathing without realizing it, his diaphragm seized into a fetal shape.
"Finis Terrae's effect works from being Xyz Material because the effect only relies on being sent to the graveyard, as opposed to being sent there from the field," Fey mused from the sidelines. "And now, Comet Highscore is defenseless."
Gozu's glove stretched as she closed her fist. "Now, detach the second material and destroy it! Ruin Varudras!"
The color drained from Highscore's star surface, each localized storm and solar flare becoming mucous and gray, churning to a halt. When the fusion reaction stopped existing, so did the phenomenon. Highscore's removal from existence was complete and silent.
Chizu watched Gozu for another moment. She sighed, then reached for a card in her hand.
"I activate the effect of Amorina's Guardian Angel! When a monster is removed from the field by a card effect, I can special summon it from my hand! It can't be targeted by card effects or destroyed this turn!"
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