"Whew... that was close."
Having successfully taken down his opponent, Joey Wheeler wiped the sweat from his brow, still looking a little shaken.
He glanced at V, who was already sprawled on the ground, and muttered.
"That was close. Your... whatever it was, that Dyson Sphere thing, was pretty strong." Joey patted his chest. "If I'd rolled even one less Heads, I'd have been done for. Close, close. Good thing I was more skilled."
V: "..."
More skilled, my ass.
V had not felt it quite so strongly before, but hearing that from his opponent made him suddenly feel genuinely stifled. Back then, he had put in immense effort just to successfully master a powerful Number like Dyson Sphere. Then, combining the Crest Power given to him by his father with his own scientific wisdom—and risking having his soul and consciousness consumed—he had barely managed to control the Chaos Form Dyson Sphere, CNO.
He had taken such a huge risk and steeled himself so thoroughly, pulling off a fierce sequence to bring out Dyson Sphere. Then his opponent had simply played Time Wizard, flipped a coin, and declared himself more skilled.
How exactly was he supposed to evaluate that?
Still, that was one thing. Aside from the Coin God Physique that had not missed a single flip throughout this duel, what truly stirred up a storm in V's heart was that his opponent had used both Xyz and Synchro at the same time.
Performing both a Synchro and an Xyz Summon in one turn was such an unimaginable feat that it was hard to connect it with what the other side did next—
—he Synchro Summoned a Demon Dragon that looked absurdly powerful, shoved it onto his opponent's Field, and then used a combined inside-job-and-lockdown Infinite Loop, a left-foot-stepping-on-right-foot spiral