The Professor Moves Ahead of Schedule

"Lava Golem, Volcanic Queen..."

Masumi Momono stood there in a daze, gradually beginning to question his life.

He wondered if every card he had played in his life had gone to the dogs.

Could that actually work?

And that final Bomb with Sacrificial Embrace...

A self-destruct that triggered the instant a Tribute Summoned monster attacked. Without question, the summons of Lava Golem and Volcanic Queen themselves had been bait to lure him into a Tribute Summon. Those two bastards had eaten his monsters, occupied his field, and were about to burn through his Life Points. Any ordinary person—especially one in a Life Point crisis—would naturally think of using them as Tributes to get rid of those troublesome things.

Little did he know that doing so meant stepping right into the second layer of the despicable trap laid by that sinister bastard.

"Looks like I won."

Kira walked over to the kneeling Masumi and planted his hands on his hips, looking down at him.

Masumi looked up and saw the Duel King beneath the moonlight, his face pale and as terrifying as something out of a horror movie.

He remembered that the previous-generation Duel King he had faced years ago had not been this frightening.

Masumi instinctively turned his head away from Kira's gaze, struggling to keep his voice from trembling. "Y-you can ask whatever you want, but I won't say a word.

"I'm a Hired Duelist. Please respect my professional ethics!"

Kira laughed. Oh? A tough guy.

He had already noticed that Masumi Momono was not a Dark Duelist at all, but merely a mercenary. He was similar in nature to the fake Dark Duelist Titan from the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, as well as Flame O'Brien later on.

Not every person who used duels to take lives and