"I enter the Battle Phase."
Yūki raised his hand and pointed at the now-empty opposing field.
Chazz still had his eyes shut, waiting for the end. At those words, his eyelids twitched, but he never opened them.
"[Lone Wolf], direct attack!"
The gray wolf crouched low on all fours, its hind legs kicking out a ring of shattered light.
It charged past Thunder Dragondark, its black claws sweeping across Chazz's chest.
[Chazz Princeton, LP 4000 → 2300]
The impact projection knocked Chazz back two steps.
He raised a hand to shield his face, his blue uniform whipping in the wind. Just as he regained his footing, a heavy dragon's roar sounded overhead.
"Next, [Thunder Dragon Colossus]."
Yūki didn't look at Thunder Dragon Titan, with its 3,200 ATK.
"Direct attack!"
Thunder Dragon Colossus spread its wings. The electricity glowing in its chest raced along its scales to its horns.
The next second, a pillar of lightning plunged straight down, engulfing Chazz and the entire field behind him.
[Chazz Princeton, LP 2300 → 0]
An enormous zero popped up above the Duel Disk.
Thunder Dragon Titan's three heads were still raised in the air. It hadn't even had time to open its mouths.
It was probably tonight's most imposing spectator.
The duel's end chime sounded, and the monster projections in the hall faded one by one.
The churning thunderclouds vanished, the overhead lights returned to normal, and only a few lingering blue streaks of light remained on the floor.
Chazz knelt at the edge of the Dueling Arena, one hand braced against the floor.
He didn't look at his depleted Life Points or at Yūki.
Those eyes, usually so full of arrogance, stared at the floor, terribly empty.
Top of the Academy's middle school for three years, Obelisk