Yu-Gi-Oh!: A Modern Card Player Who Wins Duels Beyond the Meta

In the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, summoning styles flourish in all their variety: Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, and Link. Each has its devoted followers, and they all look down on one another.

Yusaku, transmigrated as an apprentice at a slum dojo, just wants to find the button to quit the game.

But someone insists on making him take a side: “Tell us, which summoning method is the strongest?”

Yusaku answers honestly. “They're strongest when mixed together.”

The whole crowd bursts out laughing. A random mishmash of a deck, talking about strength?

The duel begins, and his opponent boasts that they'll let him go first.

Yusaku sighs, casually pulls Dark Magician from his deck and slots it into a toy engine, mixes in Mathmech parts, and tosses in three copies of Snake Rain for good measure.

“What kind of hodgepodge is that?!”

Before the words are even out, his opponent steps on and destroys every card in his back row.

Then the real show begins.

All three copies of Snake Rain trigger at once, summoning Naturia Exterio, Knightmare Gryphon, and The Last Warrior from Another Planet.

Spells locked down, monsters locked down, summons locked down: a three-pronged trap.

The whole crowd falls silent.

Yusaku claps his hands. “That's why I said mixing them together is the strongest.”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.