"Because the Field Spell 'Burning Honnoji' is on the field, during my Standby Phase, I can Special Summon 1 'Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga' onto my field!"
The raging flas of Honnoji engulfed the entire arena. Even the fingers Hoshino extended toward the Graveyard zone on the table could feel the scorching heat emanating from the duel platform.
"However, when activating the effect of 'Honnoji,' I chain the effect of 'Heroic Spirit – Spartacus' in my Graveyard! During the Standby Phase, if the opponent controls more monsters than I do, this card is Special Summoned!"
[Heroic Spirit – Spartacus ATK 1500]
"Rebellion returns!" Knocking his muscular arm, the revived Spartacus stepped out from the blazing inferno of Honnoji before Nobunaga could.
Eve quickly understood. "Even if the opponent only has one Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon, by chaining the effect first, when 'Heroic Spirit – Spartacus' resolves, Hoshino had no monsters on the field at that ti!"
"And then, we resolve the Field Spell 'Burning Honnoji'—life lasts but fifty years, like a fleeting dream!—Special Summon 'Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga'!"
[Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga ATK 3000]
"Damn it! That was supposed to be my stylish coback entrance, and it got stolen!"
Pulling down the brim of her hat, Nobunaga stepped out from the flas of Honnoji, clearly displeased that Spartacus had taken the spotlight.
"Can't be helped. I'll just vent my frustration on that two-headed thing over there! Hurry up and battle, Master!"
"Not so fast, Nobu." Throwing another Spell Card onto the table, Hoshino declared, "Quick-Play Spell 'Bond with Heroic Spirits'—activate!"
[Quick-Play Spell Effect: Discard 1 "Heroic Spirit" monster from your hand to activate. Shuffle your Deck, draw 1 card, reveal it to your opponent, and if it is a "Heroic Spirit" monster, Special Summon it to your field.]
"I discard 'Heroic Spirit – Jeanne d'Arc' from my hand, then draw 1 card from my Deck!"
Having resolved to end the duel this turn, Hoshino had already sensed that Jeanne no longer had the resources to be summoned again.
"If she discards a monster from her hand using that Spell, doesn't that an Hoshino has no cards left?" Eve said uneasily as Hoshino's remaining two cards dropped to zero. "If she doesn't draw a monster to Special Summon, this is a huge loss—trading two cards for nothing."
"You don't get it—don't worry!" Mokuba explained confidently. "The card literally says 'Bond with Heroic Spirits.' If it's Hoshino drawing, she'll definitely draw a monster."
"Ah… it's not a monster card," Hoshino said, glancing at the card she drew from the top of her Deck.
["Well, that can't be helped, Aibo. Mokuba just raised a flag right before the draw."]
"Even if it's not a monster, this card is way more useful than one~"
Because of the effect of 'Bond with Heroic Spirits,' the drawn card had to be revealed. Hoshino flipped it over and activated it imdiately.
"—Spell Card 'Restricted Seal: Decision Start!'!"
[Spell Effect: Can be activated if there are 6 or more "Heroic Spirit" monsters in your Graveyard or banished zone. Draw 2 cards from your Deck. If you have no other cards in your hand or on your field when this card is activated, add 1 "FGOTHESTAGE" from your Deck to your hand.]
A radiant Round Table materialized, lighting up one by one with six released restraints, shimring across the surface of the card.
"Arthur: The Round Table vote begins!"
"rlin: Agreed! Bedivere, Gareth, Lancelot, Mordred, Galahad!"
"The Heroic Spirits in my Graveyard and banished zone—Sakura Okita, Sumr Nobunaga, Demon King Nobunaga, Mash… and Jeanne, who was just sent to the Graveyard! With the condition fulfilled, I draw two cards from my Deck!"
After activating the Spell, Hoshino replenished her hand from 0 to 2 cards, yet the glow of the Round Table on the Duel Arena had not faded.
"Sacred Round Table Domain—STAGE!"
"Since I had no other cards in my hand when I activated 'Restricted Seal: Decision Start!,' I can add the Sacred Round Table Domain—'FGOTHESTAGE' to my hand!"
"Now then, I activate a Trap Card!" As Hoshino replenished her hand, Spirit Kaiba flipped over his set card. "Trap Card 'Reckless Greed'!"
[Reckless Greed Trap Effect: Draw 2 cards, then skip your next 2 Draw Phases.]
Spirit Kaiba also replenished his hand from 0 to 2 cards, though at the cost of being unable to draw for the next two turns.
"'Reckless Greed,' huh… so you've decided as well—this turn will be the final battle," Hoshino said, glancing at him.
Even with the drawback of skipping two Draw Phases, if the duel is decided this turn, the drawback becos irrelevant.
"Then this is the final Battle Phase, Kaiba!"
Responding to Hoshino's declaration of the final battle, the flas coursing through the Field Spell Honnoji surged upward, forming pillars of fire that roared into the sky.
Kaiba: "Co at with everything you've got, Hoshino!"
Mokuba: "Big Brother, I told you already—it's not you dueling right now! Snap out of it!"
"'Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga' effect—when this card battles a Level 10 or higher monster, its original ATK is doubled!"
[Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon LV10]
"By fusing the two White Dragons into Twin Burst Dragon, you gained immunity to destruction by battle—but that increased Level is exactly my opening!"
With her attack declaration, the flas behind Hoshino surged forward instantly toward Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon.
"Heavenly Demon Descends—!"
At the sa ti, a mysterious barrier unfolded. Countless muskets floated across the sky like a thousand worlds. Breaking through the flas of Honnoji with sheer magical force, Nobunaga revealed behind her a massive skeletal avatar—the manifestation of the Sixth Heaven Demon King.
[Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga ATK 3000 → 6000]
"All that stands before —gods, Buddhas, and mortals alike—shall be reduced to endless remains! Like a fleeting dream, I will turn everything in this Honnoji to ashes!!"
Eve exclaid excitedly, "6000 ATK! Even if Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon can't be destroyed by battle, the Life Points of the Star Relic Spirit won't be able to withstand it!"
"Hmph!" With a signature scoff, Spirit Kaiba drew a card from his hand and slamd it onto the field.
"—I activate the special effect of 'World Legacy – 'World Lance' from my hand!"
"Oh, the World Lance?!" Pegasus exclaid in shock.
Catching everyone off guard—even if they could guess that Spirit Kaiba would activate a defensive counter Trap—no one could have imagined he would simply throw out "World Legacy – 'World Lance'" directly.
"World Legacy – 'World Lance' effect! When battling a monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, discard this card from your hand to reduce the opponent's monster's ATK by 3000!"
The World Lance, which had been thrown to the center of the Duel Arena by Spirit Kaiba during Demon King Nobunaga's previous attack—restoring the holographic system—activated its original card effect. It split the earth, tore through the flas of Honnō-ji, and thrust toward Nobunaga.
"A hand trap that directly reduces ATK by 3000—what an incredible effect!" Mokuba said in disbelief.
"So this is a weapon-type World Legacy…" Yugi analyzed. "In a clash where both sides would have 3000 ATK, the Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon—which cannot be destroyed by battle—actually has the advantage."
Although it required battling a monster summoned from the Extra Deck, the Fusion Summoned Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon clearly satisfied that condition.
"So you just threw out the World Legacy, huh? I really didn't see that coming." Staring at the highly technological-looking 'World Lance' slicing through the flas, Hoshino responded, "But whether it's a hand trap or a Trap Card—it doesn't matter!"
Clang—!
A violent tallic collision rang out, unleashing a massive shockwave that even blew away the raging flas of Honnoji in an instant.
Above the Duel Arena, Oda Nobunaga—facing the piercing strike of the holy lance—held in her hand the Demon King's sword, which seed to have absorbed all the flas burning across the field, eting the tip of the World Lance at a single point.
It was a sword that, though standing upon a distant land, still burned to this very day—the Demon King's blade.
"After entering the Battle Phase, I activate the effect of the Trap Card 'Like a Fleeting Dream' from my Graveyard!"
[Trap Effect: If this card is in the Graveyard, you can banish this card and 1 "Oda Nobunaga" monster from your Graveyard; Special Summon 1 "Beyond the Aeons" from your Extra Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions.]
Removing two cards from her Graveyard, Hoshino declared:
"I banish 'Like a Fleeting Dream' and 'Heroic Spirit – Oda Nobunaga Sumr Demon King' from my Graveyard! Special Summon the Demon King Sword that stands upon the eternal land!"
Just like the Demon King Nobunaga who embodied all possible versions of herself, this sword condensed every blade Nobunaga had ever wielded.
Even upon the eternal land, the ever-burning sword continued to await the Demon King's return, standing there forever.
"The Demon King Sword… could it be?!" Mokuba said in disbelief.
"That's right," Yugi nodded. Even though it was Atem who dueled back then, he would never forget the final strike of the KC Grand Prix finals.
"The ultimate anti-divine sword born from the possibility of the Legendary Dragon!"
[Beyond the Aeons ★★★★★★★★ (Level 8)][FIRE][Warrior/Fusion/Effect][ATK 3000/DEF 2500]
[When this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 Warrior monster on the field; equip this card to that monster as an Equip Card. The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK, and neither it nor this card is affected by your opponent's card effects.]
"Draw your sword, Nobunaga! I equip 'Beyond the Aeons' to Oda Nobunaga—this way, Nobunaga won't be affected by the World Lance and won't lose ATK!"
"Hahahahahaha!" Deflecting the World Lance, Nobunaga raised the blazing Demon King Sword high and burst into laughter.
"Did you hear that? The demonic blade of destruction in the Demon King's hand is—'Demon King Sword'! Isn't that just way too cool~"
…Ah, she almost dropped the sword.
[Oda Nobunaga ATK 6000 → 7000]
Instead of decreasing, her ATK increased. Although Nobunaga's original ATK doubles when battling a Level 10 monster, the Demon King Sword's Equip bonus does not benefit from that doubling effect.
"Then let's continue the battle—Demon King Sword Nobunaga's ultimate bombardnt!"
With Oda Nobunaga—now unaffected by card effects—leading the charge, the roaring flas on Hoshino's field surged once again toward Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon.
"I activate a Continuous Trap!—'Call of the Haunted'! I can revive 1 monster from my Graveyard!"
Flipping his set card, Spirit Kaiba returned the strongest monster from his Graveyard to the field.
"Co forth—Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"
[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon ATK 4500]
"ROAR—!" The supre emperor returned, the roar of the white dragon piercing through the flas and echoing across the battlefield.
"Even if it's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, summoning it now is aningless!"
"In the end… you still want to decide the duel with that monster!"
Uttering a line that didn't sound like sothing a World Legacy Spirit would say, Kaiba flipped his final set card, combining the power of the two White Dragons on his field.
"—Trap Card 'High Speed Aria'! I discard 1 Normal Spell from my hand and activate its effect instantly!"
From the two cards Spirit Kaiba had drawn with Reckless Greed, aside from World Lance, one remained—his final resource to pair with this Trap.
"—Spell Card 'Gift of the Martyr'!"
[Spell Effect: Send 1 monster you control to the Graveyard, then target 1 monster you control; it gains ATK equal to the sent monster's ATK until the end of the turn.]
"I send Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon to the Graveyard, increasing Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's ATK by 3000!"
[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon ATK 4500 → 7500]
"It's over! This transcends ti and space itself—Ultimate! Destructive Burst Stream!!"
[Hoshino Chiyuki LP: 500]
That exact 500-point difference—perfectly matching Hoshino's remaining Life Points—drove the combined White Dragons to unleash a counterattack surpassing ultimate limits.
"W-wait! In this situation, shouldn't Hoshino be able to rewind the attack? The number of monsters on the opponent's field changed!" Eve panicked.
"No, Eve—you might not know this, but the Duel Arena doesn't support attack rewinds," Mokuba explained awkwardly. "That rule wasn't implented until the latest Duel Disks."
"And besides… Hoshino never intended to stop attacking!" Yugi said firmly. "If she sees this duel as a battle to cut off the path of her past defeat, then she will definitely use that monster!"
"In the end… I still want to decide the duel with this monster!"
Repeating the exact sa line as Spirit Kaiba, Hoshino slamd the final monster from her hand onto the Duel Arena.
"This ti… I will win for sure, Emiya!!!"
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