"Even after studying my deck and preparing countermeasures like Buster Blader, is this really all you’ve got?"
Kaiba asked disdainfully.
Gozaburo frowned.
"Your White Dragon has been crushed, and your LP is down to a mere 300," Gozaburo said. "Your odds of winning are virtually zero." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
"Oh? Care to bet on it?" Kaiba responded. "I beat you at the orphanage, and after all these years, the result won’t change.
This duel, and our grudge, will end in the next turn."
"Interesting."
Gozaburo drew two more cards.
"Then show me how you plan to break this situation, Seto.
I set a card and end my turn."
"My turn, draw!" Kaiba declared. "I set three cards, then activate the Spell Card ’Card of Demise’!
Draw until I have five cards in hand, but in five turns, at the next Standby Phase, I discard my entire hand."
Kaiba’s signature card, instantly refilling his hand.
"From my graveyard, I activate the Trap Card ’Breakthrough Skill’!" Kaiba said. "By banishing this card from the graveyard, I negate an effect monster’s effects until the end of the turn.
I negate ’Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman’s’ effects!"
A vortex opened in the graveyard, the trap card flipped in midair, and energy chains shot toward Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman.
"So that was the card you discarded for ’The Melody of Awakening Dragon’? I see. As long as the monster’s effect is negated, its anti-Dragon suppression is useless," Gozaburo nodded. "But as I said, I’ve prepared for everything.
You think I’d let you get away with that?"
Gozaburo matched him move for move.
"Then I activate the effect of the Trap Card ’Destruction Sword Memories’ I discarded for ’Destruction Sword Flash’ and that’s now in the graveyard!"
"Oh?"
"You’re not the only one who can activate graveyard traps, Seto," Gozaburo said. "When ’Buster Blader’ is targeted by a Spell, Trap, or monster effect, banish this card from the graveyard to negate the activation and destroy it."
He pointed to Kaiba’s trap card.
"Negate and destroy ’Breakthrough Skill’!"
The energy chains shattered instantly; the trap card exploded into fragments. Kaiba snorted: "Heh, if that’s all you have, you’re not even worth defeating."
He slapped down a monster card.
"I summon ’Exiled Force’."
[Exiled Force, ATK 1000]
"By tributing ’Exiled Force’, I can destroy a monster on the field," Kaiba said. "Destroy ’Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman’!"
The Exiled Force charged like human bombs, swarming Buster Blader for a suicidal attack.
"Then from my graveyard, Trap Card—’Skill Prisoner’!" Gozaburo countered, "Banish ’Skill Prisoner’ from the graveyard, and for the rest of the turn, all effects targeting the selected monster are negated.
Of course, I choose ’Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman’!"
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