"My turn. Draw."
Kira inserted a card into the back row slot.
"Spell Card 'Advance Draw.' Tribute a Level 8 or higher monster on my Field to draw two cards from my Deck."
Kira pointed at the steel giant Yubel had gifted him.
"I Tribute 'Torture Giant' and draw two cards from my Deck."
Torture Giant's body was enveloped in golden light, then slowly began to break apart until it completely dissolved into countless motes of light that gathered above Kira's Deck.
Kira drew two cards.
"Hmph, that was a monster I went out of my way to give you," Yubel grunted. "What an ungrateful thing."
Kira smiled and paid it no mind.
"I activate the Spell Card 'Gladiator Beast Training Ground,'" Kira said. "I add a Level 4 or lower 'Gladiator Beast' from my Deck to my hand.
I add this card from my Deck—"
Kira drew the card that had automatically popped out of his Deck.
"At the end of last turn, 'Gladiator Beast Murmillo,' which automatically returned to the Deck, was added to my hand once more."
Yubel frowned. "This thing again?"
The monster summoned by a Gladiator Beast's effect had the ability to destroy cards. Though it was merely a low-level weakling, it was an especially annoying one.
Well, there was nothing to fear.
Yubel glanced at her current mighty dragon body and snorted inwardly.
Want to keep blowing things up?
Fine, bring it on.
But once the Knight of Despair's shell was destroyed, he would understand that he had personally freed the strongest and most terrifying Devil to descend upon the world.
Trying to get rid of me, Yubel, by destroying cards? Ridiculous.
Having returned from beyond the heavens this time, what I, Yubel, feared least was destruction.
"The effect of 'Test Ape' in my