Chapter 393: High Tower

Chapter 1447 Tower

"Hmm!?" Sitting in his room, Saiou, who had just finished another divination, was sorting out the tarot cards, but suddenly found that although he was so skilled at shuffling the cards, a card suddenly fell out of the pile and fell to the ground.

Saiou, who was a little sleepy, became alert immediately like those people who "knock over a coffee cup to wake people up more than drinking coffee". He lowered his head and tried to catch the card to prevent the corners of the card from hitting the ground and being damaged.

Although he has always regarded divination as his main job, Saiou is not only good at using professional tarot cards for divination. It is more convenient to use the [Power of the Mysteries] deck based on tarot cards directly for divination because of the increasing popularity of Duel Monsters. He also carries a Duel Monster deck with him. He also used his own deck to divine for Ed before.

Thinking this way, it is understandable why Saiou is so nervous - after all, Duel Monster cards are really expensive, and the card exchange service provided by the International Illusion Club is no longer free as it was when it was first launched a few years ago. Instead, the price difference required for the exchange depends on the rarity and wear of the card.

At the beginning, except for cards like [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] that are so rare that there are only a few in the world, even cards that are torn in half can be exchanged for new ones for free at the stations opened by the International Illusion Club in major cities across the country.

Although the price that comes with it is that some cards will be forcibly replaced with the latest version - such as [Future Fusion], which was originally an equipment magic card but now has become a continuous magic card - but most people are willing to use brand new cards in their decks instead of a pile of broken cards.

As Sai Wang was the agent of Ed and made money by fortune-telling in his spare time, he was not a poor man and even had plenty of money. However, he could only afford to maintain and replace the cards once a year. If the cards were damaged due to his own mistakes, even he would feel bad for the loss.

‘Why didn’t I think of putting some card sleeves on the cards? I should have known better for fortune-telling,’ Sai Wang thought with some regret.

Fortunately, when the card fell, it happened to slide against the tablecloth that stretched to the ground on the table in front of Sai Wang, and when it fell to the ground, it just happened to land on the back of the card, which reduced the possibility of damage to the minimum in all aspects, which made Sai Wang feel relieved.

Unfortunately, when Sai Wang looked at the fallen card carefully, he found that the card was [Power of the Mystery V-Pope].

As Sai had told Ed on the phone before, in Sai's divination, this card is the Major Arcana card that can represent Ed Phoenix, and the "Pope" in the Tarot card also symbolizes "keeping people from going astray, guiding them to recognize their conscience, and realizing the road of today and yesterday".

In other words, Ed is a "trustworthy friend" to Sai.

The appearance of the "Pope" also made Sai frown, because there are not so many coincidences in the world of duelists, especially since Sai is not only a duelist but also a fortune teller.

For him who is quite skilled in drawing and shuffling cards, it is already a special thing that the card can be called out from the deck without authorization, and the card that fell is the [Power of the Mystery V-Pope] that can represent Ed, which makes Sai really unable to ignore it.

After he ended the call with Ed, could it be that something else happened? Saiou picked up the fallen [Mystery Power V-Pope] with a serious face, put it back into the deck and shuffled it again, then drew three cards from it and placed them face up on the table.

When he turned over the first card, Saiou was extremely confident and did not hesitate, as if he knew what the card was in advance. At the same time, he muttered: "Then let me divine, Ed, whether this uneasy situation of mine is related to you [Mystery Power V-Pope]."

The card was turned over, and it was the [Mystery Power V-Pope] card that Saiou had just put back into the deck to shuffle. Obviously, Saiou did not deliberately remember the cards or use the cheating shuffle method of a gambling master, but he shuffled this card back to the top of the deck by "coincidence".

"Sure enough, you've encountered something, Ed." Seeing the expected card, Sai Wang was not nervous. Instead, he clasped his hands together, held his chin, and smiled, "But it doesn't matter. Even if you make a fuss on the Duel Academy Island for the answer you want to pursue, the power I put in your deck will help you."

"After all, you are my most trusted friend. There is no difference between helping you and helping me. Those who lose to Ed's deck with my aura will have their souls stained with this white and succumb to me, becoming slaves of fate."

Of course, Sai Wang did not hide the fact that he had tampered with Ed's deck from Ed, but he only told Ed that he had injected a dark game power into Ed's deck that would allow him to not fear others.

How could he deceive his friend? This was just not telling the whole truth. After all, you see, isn't part of the truth also the truth?

"Yes, that's how it should be. With the hint of the 'Pope' in the Tarot cards, what happened to you?" With doubts, King Zai slowly opened the second card, and then his pupils Shrink.

The card he turned over was [Power of Mystery XV-Demon], which represents the fifteenth number in the Major Arcana card - the existence of "Devil", and its meaning in Tarot cards. It can be said that it is an existence that is completely opposite to the hint of "Pope" held by Ed.

"Pope" represents spiritual purity, trustworthy people, spiritual satisfaction and the right path, but "Devil" in Tarot cards represents weakness of will, betrayal by friends, addiction and corruption, and going astray. The meanings of the upright position and the reverse position can be said to be opposite to each other, and can even exist as the opposites of each other.

Although King Zai is currently conducting divination around Ed, because Ed has been investigating the situation of students in Duel Academy not long ago, King Zai even just listened to Ed's complaints, and he learned a lot of information about them by the way. , and soon thought of one of them.

"Among the hints of 'devil', there is also a hint of lust, depravity, and things getting stuck. And I remember that Ed mentioned before that a student named 'Tenjoin Fubuki' was admitted in the same year as 'Caesar' Ryo. A talented student, he was also a playboy who flirted with women everywhere, but he disappeared after being active for a year, and he did not appear on the list of graduates this year, and he is suspected of having repeated the grade. "

Picking up the card of [Power of Mystery XV - Demon], King Zai narrowed his eyes: "A playboy addicted to lust, a fallen genius, and someone who failed to graduate but was blocked and repeated a year. It seems that he possesses the 'Devil' 'The person hinted at was indeed the student named Tenshoin Fubuki. Did Ed meet him? "

"It would be a good thing if Ed defeated him and made him the spearhead of my invasion of Duel Academy. He seems to have a sister who is only two years apart in Duel Academy, and is also with the one who holds the hint of 'The Fool' Yujo Judai is very close, and the hint he holds is also a 'lover'. Maybe we can become useful chess pieces for me."

King Zai is still very confident about Amity's strength. Although he was slandered in public opinion because he was defeated by "Caesar" not long ago, King Zai knows that the strength of "Caesar" is absolutely extraordinary.

After this year's professional dueling events, "Caesar" will probably be able to accumulate enough points to enter the top ten rankings in the world. It's just "unlucky luck" that Ed will be defeated by him - even if King Zai is actually very unwilling to use this opponent. It was a humiliating word for him as a fortune teller, but there was really no better adjective.

However, the anxiety and uneasiness he felt when the [Power of Mystery V-Pope] card just fell suddenly flooded into King Zai's heart again, causing him to focus on the last card. After taking a deep breath, King Zai slowly opened the card, but his eyes suddenly widened.

It is not the "chariot" that often appeared when King Zai performed divination for Ed in the past, which can represent "victory". The result of King Zai's divination this time is [Power of Mystery XVI-Tower], which represents Next to "Devil" is the sixteenth Major Arcana card - "Tower".

"Tower" is a very special Tarot card that is not a good thing regardless of whether it is upright or reversed. It is also the only Major Arcana card that does not have a good meaning. It is said to be the least favored among all divination results. There is no exaggeration in what one would like to see. Its meaning can be simply summarized as "collapse", "downfall" and "tragedy".

“Love him to the end.”

"Wow!" Fubuki sat up suddenly, sweating profusely, as if he had a nightmare and suddenly woke up.

In fact, he actually lay on the bed, but it was not the big bed in his dormitory, but the bed in the school medical room - he spent time sleeping in this "exclusive bed" after getting rid of his "Darkness" identity. It’s almost longer than the time he spends sleeping at home!

However, after he looked around, he discovered that Teacher Ayukawa Emi, who had been working here for a long time, was not in the school medical room. Instead, the screen between the hospital beds had been folded up, allowing Fubuki to see at a glance what was inside his body. There was another person lying on the bed next to him - if he looked carefully, he saw that it was the Ed Phoenix he had dueled with before.

Thinking of the duel, Fubuki was confused for a moment, because he really didn't remember the outcome of the duel at that time. He only remembered that when he attacked with [True Red Eyes Black Heavy Steel Dragon], that guy Ed Phoenix didn't I used the [Wheel of Destruction] that was meant for mutual destruction in a martial way, trying to drag myself into the water to clear the base.

"Hey, are you awake?" The curtain in front of the hospital bed was suddenly opened. Fubuki saw Hayato Kobayashi appearing in the infirmary, leaning out from the curtain. When he saw himself sitting up, he waved and said hello, "How does it feel?"

"I had a terrible nightmare." Although the fearful mood only stayed at the moment when he woke up, and what exactly he dreamed about was completely forgotten by Fubuki subconsciously the next second he sat up, but Fubuki There was still some lingering fear in his heart, and he vaguely felt that the figure of the man in front of him had appeared in the dream, "Also, I don't know if it's an illusion, but I seem to have dreamed about you, Principal Hayato."

"Oh, it's normal to dream, because I beat you, so you don't have to worry about it." Hayato said casually and waved his hand, "I didn't ask you what you were dreaming about, I asked you about the feeling of your body. "

"No, then it doesn't sound like it's something you don't need to worry about, right?" Fubuki complained, "And since Hayato-sensei you said you beat me, then my body must be really bad if you think about it. Not only does it not hurt, Feeling very relaxed?"

"Of course it's easy. After all, this guy who has been hanging on you was finally caught by me using this opportunity." Hayato said, taking out a card from nowhere in his hand and showing it to Fubuki. The mask in the card is obviously the mask that Fubuki wore before - which is the symbol of the power of "Darkness".

However, unlike the previous appearance of being surrounded by chains in Fubuki's hand, in the card in Hayato's hand, the mask was already full of cracks, as if it would be shattered at the slightest touch.

"Although I told you that Ed has special powers in his deck, I didn't tell you to challenge him for a duel? I was obviously thinking that although you are usually aloof, you are better than ten after all. If they are more mature, they can stop others from dueling with Ed, and after I deal with these recent things, I can slowly solve the hidden dangers in Ed’s deck.”

Hayato pressed the front and back of the card with two fingers, and flicked it without caring about whether the card would be damaged. The card spun in his hand, "Judai is an idiot, Sho Marufuji has no opinion, and Ai Wanzhi is a fool." You're in the limelight, Asuka can't lie to Judai, and there's Sky Gozawa who doesn't have a presence, but you're a brat who's more showy than I expected."

"However, you are a blessing in disguise. After I noticed the data of the new Duel Disk being used on the island, I went to your location to take a look, and I happened to see that the power of 'Darkness' on you is the same as the one in the Ed deck. That force was so inextricable that it was all overtaken by me."

Yes, from the very beginning, Hayato never asked Fubuki to find Ed. From the beginning to the end, Hayato just informed Fubuki about the special power in Ed's card group, and then let him rely on his excellent skills when necessary. Using tricks and the ability to attract fans to prevent other students from dueling with Ed, this is something that neither Judai nor Manjōme can do, and only Fubuki, who has many fans, can do it.

It's just that Hayato didn't expect that Fubuki had made a good promise to him in person after knowing this, but secretly he actually had the idea of ​​"I'll defeat Ed first so that others don't have to duel with Ed". .

Hearing Hayato's words, although Fubuki was very happy that she had completely gotten rid of the shadow of the past, she remembered something again and quickly asked: "Compared to those things, what was the result of that duel, Hayato-sensei? Did you see it?" The result of the duel?"

Hayato glanced at Ed, whose breathing rhythm had changed on the hospital bed next to him, and then looked at Fubuki with a smile: "Did you forget what card you have in your hand regarding the result of the duel?"

Although there is no Pope card in either the real card or the animation, the power of the secret ritual of King Zai is the same in the setting - and coincidentally, there will be an event next week, and there will be a duel between KENN and Zian Wuren, respectively representing the Overlord. Judai and Saiou will probably have new cards by then