After dinner, the group parted ways outside the cafeteria.
Bastion Misawa was heading back to the Ra Yellow Dormitory to organize his Monthly Exam records.
Jaden did not leave right away. He ordered a serving of curry rice and fried shrimp from the takeout window and carefully packed them in a paper bag.
Yūki looked at the paper bag.
"You really got him takeout?"
"Of course."
With that, Jaden picked up the paper bag and ran toward the Red Dormitory.
After a few steps, he looked back.
"Yūki! Go on ahead. See you tomorrow!"
"Got it."
Yūki stood there, watching Jaden disappear around a corner in the dormitory area.
Sometimes, that guy really was frustratingly dense.
But he never missed a single thing that needed doing.
Yūki returned to his dorm, washed up, and spread the deck he had used that day across his desk.
The core cards of the Fire Princess deck were neatly laid out to one side.
[Fire Princess].
[Butterfly Dagger - Elma].
[Spell Absorption].
[Gearfried the Iron Knight].
Today's duel had gone smoothly.
He had not drawn Fire Princess in his opening hand, so he had first used a few draw filter spells to thin his deck, then launched straight into his combo after drawing the key components.
There had been no mistakes in the chain that followed, either. Chazz Princeton had not even gotten a turn.
The result had been excellent.
But the deck's problems were just as obvious.
If he did not go first, an opponent could easily interrupt Fire Princess's chain midway.
As long as the opponent had set disruption cards in advance, or held a card that could deal with Fire Princess, the entire deck would immediately lose its damage engine.
At that point, no matter how many times Butterfly Dagger returned