Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85 - 85: Teacher, I Want to Learn Card Printing

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The second week at Duel Academy was coming to an end, and the Ra Yellow Dorm's exchange matches were wrapping up.

Kira had already dueled everyone he needed to, though he still felt a bit unsatisfied. Once in a while, he'd see Ra Yellow Dorm students still finishing their matches in the dorm area.

He sometimes stopped to watch. Overall, although quite a few students had been schooled by him in the last two weeks, there wasn't a toxic spread effect like in the dojo.

After all, just getting into the Academy made you an elite duelist; everyone was proud of their decks and wouldn't easily change them, so they were different from the dojo newbies.

Passing by, he saw a Ra Yellow Dorm student: "My turn, draw! I set four cards face-down and end my turn!"

Kira: "..."

This setup felt familiar.

Well, there are always surprises.

He noticed that, lately, Ra Yellow Dorm students had started running more backrow traps. No one outright copied his deck, but everyone seemed to be gravitating a bit toward the toxic style.

If this keeps up, and there's ever a big inter-dorm tournament, then students from other dorms—

No, if you think even further ahead...

If this toxic spread keeps going and someday takes over the whole Academy, then when Sartorius shows up, he'd just shake his head and leave, saying, "This place is too dark for my Light of Destruction to work."

And if, in the Yubel arc, the whole Academy gets warped to another dimension, the whole story might change from "students and teachers struggling to survive" to "otherworld monsters overwhelmed by the Academy's toxic meta."

Kira reflected—if it ever turned out like that, it definitely wouldn't be his fault.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a two-player game, but only one person gets to play.

That's just how dueling works.

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Afternoon, Alchemy Class.

By the end of the second week, class attendance had already visibly dropped by a quarter.

No surprise—most students thought alchemy was too mystical and didn't see how it would help them duel.

Plus, the teacher, Professor Lyman, looked so easy-going: he never took attendance, didn't care how many people skipped class, just lectured to himself, and left on time. So, alchemy was seen as the easiest class to coast through.

But Lyman noticed that no matter what, Kira from Ra Yellow Dorm always sat up straight and took constant notes. No one else in the class was this serious.

"It's just my thought—if I'm wrong, please correct me. But I think: the alchemical methods described in the books, and the process of fusing two ordinary monsters in a duel to create something new and powerful...

Isn't that just like turning stone into gold? It's a miracle, isn't it?"

Lyman: "!?"

For a moment, Lyman looked genuinely surprised, his eyes nearly opening fully for the first time.

He couldn't help it—this student's words hit him right in the heart. It was exactly how he'd felt during years of research, but he'd never voiced it in class or to anyone.

And yet this student had figured it out just by reading books and self-study...

But that was to be expected.

Because Kira's theory was straight from Lyman—in the anime's Seven Stars arc, Lyman told Jaden almost exactly this. Kira had forgotten the exact words, but the meaning was the same.

For maybe the first time in front of a student, Lyman dropped his goofy mask and looked at Kira seriously.

"Fujiki Kira, right? You're interested in alchemy?"

"Yes, professor," Kira answered sincerely. "I hope I can keep learning from you."

Kira was laying his cards on the table.

He wanted to learn card-printing from the Academy's hidden master.