Soul-Damned Pegasus

"Through Red-Eyes Alternative Black Dragon's effect, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, revive!"

Joey Wheeler shouted, and a spiraling pillar of flame shot into the sky, taking the form of a burning black dragon. The armor resembling fire and lava slowly peeled away, returning it to the most classic form of Red-Eyes Black Dragon!

Red-Eyes Black Dragon, ATK 2400

"Sorry to trouble you again, old friend." Joey smiled at Red-Eyes. "But I'll have to ask you to keep lending me your strength."

Red-Eyes seemed to truly understand him, answering with an overbearing dragon roar.

"Red-Eyes revived through Red-Eyes Alternative Black Dragon's effect has its attack power doubled!"

Red-Eyes Black Dragon, ATK 2400 → ATK 4800

"Oh my God, its attack power is actually 4,800!" Pegasus put on a terrified expression. "Simply unbelievable, Joey Boy!"

Joey narrowed his eyes. "Your acting's way too exaggerated, Pegasus."

"Is that so?"

Pegasus's terrified expression vanished in an instant. He gracefully brushed aside the long hair covering half his face and chuckled.

"Well, I thought Joey Boy was the simple-minded type. Looks like you're not that easy to fool after all."

Joey snorted heavily.

He had not forgotten the hidden ability of Pegasus's underworld Relinquished. Back then, Yugi had been severely tricked by it.

When Relinquished had absorbed an opponent's monster as an Equipped Monster, if it was attacked, it could choose any monster equipped to it to take the attack instead.

The Equipped Monster could be destroyed by battle in Relinquished's place, and the resulting Battle Damage would be taken by that destroyed monster's original owner.

This effect was even more underhanded than after Physical Card Adaptation, though the physical version had merely been weakened rather than completely removed.

When the physical Relinquished was attacked while equipped with a monster, although its controller