"My Turn, draw!"
Vetrix swiftly played a Spell Card from his hand.
"I activate the Equip Spell 'Explosive Emblem'! I equip it to 'Shining Angel'!" (Original Work Card)
The Spell took the form of an emblem like a golden shield. Chains around it rapidly tightened, as though binding themselves tightly around the angel.
Judai asked curiously, "You're equipping it to your opponent's monster?"
"Exactly." Vetrix laughed loudly. "But this isn't an Equip Card that boosts power. Explosive Emblem's effect is that when the equipped monster is destroyed, its controller takes damage equal to half that destroyed monster's monster atk!"
Judai finally understood. "I see. It's an equip card meant to amplify damage."
Equip Cards with negative effects were rather rare among Equip Spells.
"Next, I summon 'Harpie's Pet Dragon'!"
Vetrix waved a hand and played a second Heraldic Beast. Though this emblem beast was indeed "two-headed," it was not the sort people normally imagined, with two heads atop one neck. Instead, its two heads were positioned one above the other, as if the head and tail of its serpent body were each snake heads. A pair of black wings extended from its back.
[Harpie's Pet Dragon, ATK 1700]
"Battle!" Vetrix waved. "First, 'Harpie's Pet Dragon,' attack 'Shining Angel'!"
The two-headed serpent lunged at Shining Angel like twin black bolts of lightning. Its upper head hissed as it bit down on the angel's neck, while its lower head clamped onto its thigh. Its body coiled around the angel seven times in an instant like a living rope. The angel's wings warped under the crushing pressure, and holy light let out sharp cracks like shattering glass beneath the serpent's scales.
Both heads injected venom at once, and cracks began spreading across the angel's body. Purple-black fissures burst from the bite mark on