Card Shop Destroyer

Alice, her hair disheveled, blinked blankly. She pushed aside the messy hair hanging over her forehead, secretly glanced at Kira, then looked at the Long Trench Coat Man before her.

Was this guy really that strong?

Kira had said she was no match for him, and Alice could not help feeling a little unconvinced. She puffed out her cheeks in displeasure.

But I'm really strong too.

"Masumi Momono, right?" Kira sized him up. "The former 'Card Shop Destroyer.' So you've started taking hired jobs now, too."

"Oh?" The Long Trench Coat Man chuckled softly. "There are still people who know my old title? Interesting."

Masumi Momono had appeared in the DM spinoff, Yu-Gi-Oh! R. Or perhaps calling it a spinoff of a spinoff would have been more fitting. His story had nothing to do with the main plot of Yu-Gi-Oh! R; he was merely a character who appeared in a short story at the end of a volume.

Yugi's Grandpa Mutou, Sugoroku Mutou, had publicly displayed the Three Phantom Gods in his card shop to draw more customers and let duelists come pay homage. He had also held a shop tournament, attracting duelists from all over to compete. The winner would earn the chance to duel Yugi, the Duel King.

That tournament had drawn in the man known throughout the Dueling World as the "Card Shop Destroyer"—Masumi Momono.

He robbed people of their Decks through duels and demanded protection money from card shops, like some kind of street-dwelling dueling mafia.

Although he had been nothing more than a street thug back then, his skill had been anything but lacking. It was said that he had never suffered a defeat before meeting Yugi and had taken countless people's Decks. Even Joey Wheeler had lost to one of Masumi Momono's underlings during