"Angelic Light - Radiant Halo, attack!"
As Angelic Light - Radiant Halo's arrow tore through the air, Kira remained unhurried and revealed a card from his hand. "Then I activate the Trap Card 'Dimensional Wall' from my hand!"
Droube: "Activating a Trap Card from your hand!?"
"Yeah, and I have you to thank for that." Kira chuckled. "When you Xyz Summoned Angelic Light - Radiant Halo just now, you destroyed my Set Card in the Back Row, didn't you?"
Droube: "!"
That was true. He had caught a glimpse of it just now—the card Angelic Light - Radiant Halo had destroyed upon being Summoned appeared to have been some kind of Trap Card. It did not seem like any commonly used Trap, and since he had never seen it before, he had not paid it much attention.
After all, duelists in the anime world did not have any card database tools. You could only read an opponent's card effect word for word when its enlarged projection appeared on the Field during activation. A strange Trap Card had flashed by and gone straight to the Graveyard, leaving no way to find out what it did even if he wanted to.
And before this, Droube had never thought a Trap Card that had already been destroyed was worth paying attention to.
"The card you destroyed was the Trap Card 'Cross Counter Trap.'" Kira said. "Its effect is that during the turn it is Sent to Graveyard by an opponent's effect, I have one chance to activate a Trap Card from my hand that turn." (Original Work Card)
Droube frowned. "A double Trap? The first Trap was merely bait to lure me into destroying it?"
"That's right. Thanks to that, you stepped into my Dimensional Wall so smoothly." Kira smiled. "Dimensional Wall's effect