Over the next few days, Kira completed the remaining two battles of the WRGP Preliminary Rounds. Naturally, there were no surprises—he claimed them both with the same effortless calm.
During the WRGP Preliminary Rounds, Fujiki Kira's name shone like an unsheathed blade, its edge impossible to ignore. Before the tournament, Kira had no record and no fame to speak of, yet in just a few days, he had become the most watched "rookie" of the WRGP.
His stunning performance against the Psychic Team in the first match had merely been the beginning of a legend. In the following two preliminary matches, though his opponents were not as eye-catching as the Psychic Team, they still could not halt his advance.
The two teams were called Iron Gears and Wings of the Gale. They were little-known second-tier teams in the Dueling World, with mediocre tactics and unremarkable Deck Building. Their dueling styles were conventional; they possessed neither the Psychic Team's ability to rapidly launch an all-out offensive nor ace monsters capable of turning the tide—well, at least Kira had not let them summon any.
In fact, the six duelists from those two teams had barely managed to summon any respectable monsters at all. They had spent virtually the entire time trapped in Kira's Infinite Trap Hell.
Those two teams had never been particularly strong, and both their reputation and strength paled beside the Psychic Team Kira had faced in his first match. Against his endless chain of traps, they had no effective countermeasures whatsoever and were simply trapped to death from start to finish.
A number of so-called renowned experts and commentators in the Dueling World began analyzing this unusual phenomenon. One expert claimed that Kira's dueling style remained as sharp and precise as ever, dissecting holes in his opponents' tactics like