The Iron Knight raised his arm.
"I activate Gearfried the Iron Knight's effect to destroy the Equip Card."
Butterfly Dagger - Elma was crushed by the iron armor.
"I activate Butterfly Dagger - Elma's effect. When this card equipped to a monster is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, it returns to its owner's hand."
The dagger returned to Yūki's hand.
The entire process was almost too fast to follow.
Chazz Princeton had only just raised his hand when Butterfly Dagger landed in the Spell & Trap Zone again.
"I activate the Equip Spell Card, Butterfly Dagger - Elma."
Spell Absorption activated.
Yūki recovered five hundred Life Points.
Fire Princess activated her effect.
Flames struck Chazz Princeton's chest for the third time.
[Chazz Princeton: 500 LP → 0 LP]
The Iron Knight raised his hand, and the Equip Card was crushed by his armor again.
Butterfly Dagger - Elma returned to Yūki's hand once more.
From the initial equip, to Spell Absorption's recovery, Fire Princess's burn damage, the Iron Knight's destruction, and Butterfly Dagger's return to the hand, the entire loop took less than two seconds.
Before Chazz Princeton could even finish declaring his counterattack, the Life Points on his Duel Disk had already reached zero.
The flames dispersed.
Chazz Princeton fell to his knees, his palms braced against the ground, traces of soot still on his face.
He stared at his Duel Disk.
[Fujiwara Yūki: 7500 LP] [Chazz Princeton: 0 LP]
Those numbers made his eyes ache.
For this duel, he had spent all the credits and living expenses he had saved. Learning from his last defeat, he had specifically gathered information on Fujiwara Yūki and prepared counter cards.
He had prepared an entire set of responses.
Yet from the beginning of the duel to