Chapter 22

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Featued Duel: Kankuro & Jun vs. Toraji & Ryuzo
Eeach player has 4000 Life Points and a field. A duelist's partner is treated as "himself" rather than "his opponent" for card effects, and a duelist can use their partner's cards as their own. Neither player can attack until all players have had a turn.

Turn 1: Ryuzo


 * Sets a monster.
 * Sets 3 cards.

Turn 2: Jun


 * Ryuzo activates his Set "Curse of Darkness" and "Annoying Kid", targeting Jun's Field Spell Zone.
 * Sets a monster.
 * Sets a card.

Turn 3: Toraji


 * Sets a monster.
 * Sets 3 cards.

Turn 4: Kankuro


 * Normal Summons "Reverse World's Death Guide".
 * Kankuro sends "Reverse World's Dark Puppeteer" to his Graveyard.
 * Sets 2 cards.
 * Toraji activates his Set "Remains of Greed".

Turn 5: Ryuzo


 * "Remains of Greed" gains 1 counter.
 * Activates the effect of "Gravity Wizard", switching Jun's Set "Splash Bomb" to Attack Position.
 * Normal Summons "Wizard's Double".
 * Attacks and destroys "Splash Bomb" with "Wizard's Double" (Jun 4000 → 3000 → 2000).
 * Activates his Set "Replay"; however, the effect of "Splash Bomb" prevents "Wizard's Double" from inflicting any more damage.
 * Sets 1 card.
 * The effect of "Gravity Wizard" activates.

Turn 6: Jun


 * Special Summons "Swarming Mantis".
 * Tunes "Swarming Mantis" and "Reverse World's Death Guide" to Synchro Summon "The Unifier".
 * Toraji activates his Set "Bottomless Trap Hole".
 * Jun activates his Set "It Backfired!" (Toraji 4000 → 2800).
 * Activates the effect of "The Unifier".
 * Normal Summons "Whirlwind Sphere".
 * Activates its effect, targeting Toraji's Set "Sly Cat".
 * Attacks "Wizard's Double" with "The Unifier".
 * Toraji activates his Set "Nightmare Wheel".
 * Kankuro activates his Set "Reversed Bribe". The attack cotinues and "Wizard's Double" is destroyed (Ryuzo 4000 → 2400).
 * Attacks Toraji directly with "Whirlwind Sphere" (Toraji 2800 → 1400).
 * Sets 1 card.

Turn 7: Toraji


 * "Remains of Greed" gains another counter.
 * Toraji activates its effect.
 * Normal Summons "Sly Monkey".
 * Activates its effect, Special Summoning "Sly Hedgehog" and "Sly Dog".
 * Tunes his monsters to Synchro Summon "Monera".
 * Attacks Kankuro directly with "Monera".
 * Kankuro activates his Set "Call of the Haunted", Special Summoning "Death Guide".
 * Toraji attacks and destroys "Death Guide" with "Monera" (Kankuro 4000 → 3500).
 * Sets 3 cards.

Turn 8: Kankuro


 * Toraji activates his Set "DNA Studies", choosing "effect".
 * Normal Summons "Twilight Soldier".
 * Special Summons "Reverse World's Chaos Bringer".
 * Ryuzo activates his Set "Nightmare Bind".
 * Attacks "Monera" with "Twilight Soldier".
 * Toraji activates his Set "Reckless Defense", making "Sly Hedgehog" the attack target. "Sly Hedgehog" is destroyed (Kankuro 3500 → 2700). "Twlight Soldier" mills 1 monster, so it loses 100 ATK (ATK 2000).
 * Toraji activates his Set "Replay" (Kankuro 2700 → 1900). Twlight Soldier" mills 2 monsters, so it loses 200 ATK (ATK 1800).
 * Toraji activates his Set "Animal Trail", adding "Sly Hamster".

Turn 9: Ryuzo


 * Sets a card.

Turn 10: Jun


 * Activates the effect of "The Unifier".
 * Normal Summons "Zombie Melody".
 * Tunes "Zombie Melody" and "Swarming Mantis" to Synchro Summon "Rocket Knight".
 * Ryuzo activates his Set "Transcending Enchantment", banishing "Wizard's Double" and "Shadowpriestess of Ohm" (Jun 2000 → 1000).
 * Ryuzo activates the effect of "Wizard Knight" in his hand.
 * Activates the effect of "Rocket Knight (Ryuzo 2400 → 0).

Turn 11: Toraji


 * Normal Summons "Sly Hamster".
 * Banishes "Sly Hamster" and Ryuzo's Set "Magical Gardna" to Special Summon "Cursed Cannon".
 * Sets a card.

Continues in the next chapter.

Featured Cards
Cards in italics debuted here.

Ryohei vs Koga
The Duel isn't fully shown.

Ryohei's turn


 * Ryohei attacks and destroys Koga's "Achromatic Void" with "Netherworld Knight".
 * "Void" returns and Ryohei takes damage because of "Achromatic Souls" (Ryohei 2900 → 1500). [Ryohei notes how tense it is to duel Koga - it's as if nothing he did had any result; not even Knight's effect works]
 * Sets 1 card [Ryohei also controls "The Rising Graveyard"].

Koga's turn


 * Normal Summons "Achromatic Sins".
 * Tunes "Sins" and "Void" to Synchro Summon "Achromatic Bastard".

Time skip.

Ryohei's turn


 * Xyz Summons "INOCHI" and activates its effect to revive "Netherworld Mad Beast", whose Level doubles.
 * Overlays "Knight" and "Beast" for "Phantom Cavalry of Hades".
 * Detaches 1 ORU to add "Water of Life" to his hand.
 * Activates "Water of Life", Special Summoning "Mad Beast" again (ATK 2800), which he just detached.
 * The effect of "Hades" activates, destroying "Bastard". "Mad Beast" gains 100 ATK (ATK 2900).
 * Koga activates "Futile Efforts", ending Ryohei's turn.
 * "Bastard" returns to the field together with "Sins" thanks to "Achromatic Lamentation", and "Bastard" brings "Void" together with its effect.

Koga's turn


 * Synchro Summons "Achromatic Vassal" with "Sins" and "Void". [Announces he's a Xyz user.]

Time skip.

Koga's turn


 * Koga controls the Rank 9 "Void-Eyes Hell Dragon", with Ryohei noting he's used his Synchro monsters to perform an Xyz Summon.
 * Ryohei attempts to activate the last effect of "Hades", but notices it doesn't work.
 * Koga attacks with "Void-Eyes".
 * Ryohei attempts to activate his face-down "Miracle", but it doesn't work either. "Hades" is destroyed (Ryohei 600 → 0).