"Even Ryou Akiyama lost. He was the winner of the Digimon Tournament, the legendary Tamer known as the Digimon Emperor..."
Seeing Ryou Akiyama admit defeat, Hirokazu and Kenta, who had regarded him as their idol, wore complicated expressions.
They had witnessed Cyberdramon's strength, as well as Ryou Akiyama's skill as a Tamer.
Both were unquestionably first-rate. Even Takato and Guilmon probably would not have been a match for them.
Yet such a powerful combination had been defeated so cleanly.
If Cyberdramon had lost to MetalGreymon, didn't that mean Ryou Akiyama, whom they idolized, had lost as a Tamer to Juri...?
But Juri was clearly just a newbie Digimon Card Game player!
Not only did she not understand which cards to use and when, she had not even figured out the basic rules.
Yet this very newbie had defeated their idol, the legendary Tamer Ryou Akiyama.
"Looks like there's nothing so impressive about being called the Digimon Emperor. You couldn't even beat my disciple."
Of everyone present, Ruki Makino was probably the happiest to see Ryou Akiyama lose.
Because Ryou Akiyama had gone missing, there had always been rumors that she was inferior to him.
But now Juri and Seiya had easily defeated Ryou Akiyama and Cyberdramon, which left Ruki feeling thoroughly vindicated.
She had indeed been the one who taught Juri how to play the Digimon Card Game, so it was not really wrong to call Juri her disciple.
"Ruki, if I had gone up just now, I probably couldn't have beaten Snowballmon either."
Ruki and the others naturally knew just how strong Seiya was in MetalGreymon Alterous Mode.
Back in the Real World, Hogmon had been able to take on all three of them at once, yet before Seiya, it had been killed with barely any ability to fight