Vector and Nash came to their senses and continued the Duel, while Astral silently glanced at Tetsuhiro, inwardly putting himself on guard.
"Idiot! I knew you'd use that card!" Vector flipped his face-down card with a wild laugh. "[Defense Eradicator] changes the DEF of every monster on the field to 0, then inflicts 400 damage on you for each monster with 0 DEF!"
"What? That's 1,600 altogether, way more than Shark's 100 Life Points!" Yuma exclaimed.
Tetsuhiro reassured him from the sidelines. "Don't worry. Look how calm he is."
"Hahaha... you're just bluffing! Farewell, Nash!" Vector swept his arm out, and the attacks of every monster on the field converged into a single blast that shot toward Nash.
"I activate [Xyz Charge]!" Nash flipped his Trap Card just as the attack struck him.
"This card negates the damage I take. Did you really think I wouldn't prepare?"
"I activate the effect of [Split Defender] on the field. Thanks to Defense Eradicator, the monsters on your field now have 0 DEF too. Choose one and transfer control of it to me."
"Tch. I choose [Judgment Demon]."
"He really did!" Yuma asked happily from outside the arena, "How did you know, mister?"
"You were simply too worried about him. Observation and thought are the foundations of a Duelist," Astral instructed sternly.
"Exactly. Yuma's just too naive," the little girl chimed in.
"Tori, why are you saying that too?"
"Because you're a naive, hotheaded idiot."
Watching this familiar scene, Tetsuhiro's lips curled upward without his realizing it.
In the Duel Arena, once the monster had changed sides, Nash activated Xyz Charge's other effect, sending the card to the Graveyard to increase the ATK of the Xyz monsters on his field by the amount of damage it had negated!
``` Judgment Demon
ATK: 1600