I'm a Caring Person / Chapter 2: Duels Should Bring Depressed Grins! ...
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Starting with a Hellish Deck, Depressing the World. Author: Call Me Husband
Jiang He transmigrated to a world of dueling, activated the [Strongest Duel Depression System], and started with a hellish deck.
As long as he depressed his opponents, he could earn Emotion Points from them and exchange those points through the system for all kinds of decks and abilities.
The ultimate burn deck, the hellish temptation deck, the ability to see card spirits and make them materialize, and more...
Dark Magician Girl: I'm going to follow Jiang He, mwah!
Jiang He: Duels should bring the opponent a "depressed" "grin"!
Chapter 1: I'm a Caring Person
Inside a venue at Duel Academy.
At that moment.
The practical exam at Duel Academy, a school dedicated to training elite duelists, was underway.
A middle-aged professor with a strange blond bowl cut, purple lipstick, and an effeminate appearance was dueling a teenage examinee whose hairstyle alone made him look like a strong duelist.
"Listen up, Jaden Yuki boy. Dueling has absolutely no need for your meaningless obsession."
"Even if you summon Flame Wingman with 2,100 attack points, it still can't match my Ancient Gear Golem."
"The doors of Duel Academy have closed to you, n-not!" The blond bowl-cut man known as Professor Crowler raised a finger and spoke contemptuously to Jaden Yuki, who had just summoned Flame Wingman.
"It looks like this is the end for examinee number 110," Syrus Truesdale said pessimistically from the spectator seats around the distant arena.
Then he quickly noticed that the black-haired, laid-back young man sitting beside him, who had come with Jaden Yuki, had also seen what was happening and suddenly stood up.
"Examinee number 111, are you planning to give up already?"
"No, it's just that Jaden's about to win over there. I'm going to get ready, that's all." The laid-back, black-haired young man waved a hand casually.
What he said shocked everyone around him!
He was actually saying that examinee number 110, Jaden Yuki, who had been unlucky enough to catch Professor Crowler's attention and face him personally in the duel test, was about to win?!
Syrus Truesdale, Bastion Misawa, who had also just finished his exam, and the others all looked at him suspiciously!
Could this examinee number 111, who seemed to be named Jiang He, have been subjected to the enormous pressure of Professor Crowler personally testing the last two examinees who had arrived late...
...and had it driven him a little crazy?!
Jiang He really wanted to make a retort.
He couldn't exactly say that he'd seen the original anime and knew Jaden Yuki was about to win.
That's right! He had actually transmigrated here.
And he had physically transmigrated to somewhere nearby while playing a Yu-Gi-Oh! mobile game.
Just in time to witness, a little over ten minutes ago, Jaden Yuki and Yugi Muto, two people whose hairstyles alone showed they were good at "playing cards"...
...crashing into each other and falling over because the former was in a hurry to get to his exam!
After recognizing the two of them, Jiang He immediately guessed that he had transmigrated into the world of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX era.
He guessed that Jaden Yuki was apparently on his way to take the Duel Academy exam, and that Yugi Muto would call the academy's principal to delay the end of the exam.
Jiang He decisively stepped forward and made himself known!
Then he took the opportunity to hitch a ride through Duel Academy's back door!
For Yugi Muto, it was just a matter of mentioning two people instead of one when he made the call. There was no difference at all.
Naturally, he was more than happy to secretly help two juniors in the dueling world who wanted to get into Duel Academy!
After successfully taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiang He also managed to activate the cheat system he'd received upon transmigrating.
[Strongest Duel Depression System]:
As long as he depressed the person dueling him, made them lose their composure, and won...
He would receive a large number of Emotion Points!
With those points, Jiang He could buy all sorts of cards and the "supernatural abilities" of the Yu-Gi-Oh! world in the system shop!
There were decks such as the Maiden with Eyes of Blue deck, the Dark Magician Girl deck, and all kinds of hellish decks.
There were also powers like Shadow Duels and the ability to see card spirits!
Jiang He immediately declared that Dark Magician Girl wasn't important!
The main thing was that he was kindhearted and liked being able to see card spirits, so they wouldn't be lonely like ghosts!
Chapter 2: Duels Should Bring Grins!
Although Jiang He regretted that the beginner gift pack deck the system had given him upon activation didn't contain Dark Magician Girl...
It didn't even have a single female monster...
And the first ability he got from opening the beginner gift pack wasn't a power like seeing card spirits, either.
Still, he believed that the combination of the deck and ability he'd received should be able to bring Professor Crowler a "depressed grin"... ahem, a healing smile!
After Jiang He stood up to get ready, the story unfolded just as he knew it would!
Professor Crowler still appeared to have a huge advantage. His Ancient Gear Golem had 3,000 attack points, enough to overwhelmingly crush Jaden Yuki's Flame Wingman with its 2,100 attack points.
But once Jaden Yuki used the Field Spell Skyscraper to increase Flame Wingman's attack by 1,000 points, the situation instantly turned around!
With Flame Wingman's special effect, he defeated Crowler, who still had 3,000 life points, in a single blow!
"He actually won?!" Syrus Truesdale and the others beside him watched in shock!
They all looked in disbelief at Jiang He, who was already walking toward the duel field!
Although they were shocked that Jaden Yuki had managed to defeat the exceptionally powerful Professor Crowler...
They were even more astonished by Jiang He, who had seen the situation turn around at a glance and declared outright that Jaden Yuki had won when he was clearly at an overwhelming disadvantage!
"This guy...! He could even see that coming! Examinee number 111...!" Bastion Misawa stared wide-eyed at Jiang He and muttered.
"The next duel test will be for examinee number [111], Jiang He." A gentle female voice sounded over the announcement system.
There was still a trace of surprise in her voice at Professor Crowler's defeat by Jaden Yuki.
"I won! Jiang He, you're up next!" Jaden Yuki said with a smile to Jiang He as he appeared on the duel field.
Although they had known each other for less than half an hour, they had at least gotten acquainted by coming to the exam together!
Jiang He nodded and took the opportunity to borrow Jaden Yuki's Duel Disk...
The lousy system seemed intent on depressing even its own host. It had given him the most important things, the beginner gift pack's deck and skill, but hadn't given him a Duel Disk.
"So this is a Duel Disk..." After Jiang He borrowed it, put it on his left wrist, and muttered as he familiarized himself with some of its functions...
Across the duel field, blond bowl-cut Professor Crowler was still clutching his hair with both hands, immersed in his earlier defeat and unable to accept it!
He had nearly burst into tears!
Why, on the rare occasion he had personally stepped in, had he lost to a poor student he wanted to keep out of Duel Academy?!
"Professor with the blond bowl cut over there, may we start the test?" Jiang He's helpless voice rang out.
"Professor... with the blond bowl cut?!" Crowler bristled at once, got back to his feet, and glared at Jiang He through gritted teeth!
Around the arena, the other examinees, the upper-year Duel Academy students, and the other examiners watching the duel field were also momentarily stunned!
Then stifled snickers broke out from all around!
The description of Professor Crowler was simply too accurate!
It was just that they never dared call him that normally.
Damn poor student, he's the one who was late, just like that Jaden Yuki, isn't he?! Professor Crowler thought through gritted teeth.
He immediately composed himself, put on a stern face, and readied his distinctive advanced Duel Disk again.
Then he took two new cards from his pocket and deliberately adjusted his original deck!
I absolutely cannot lose again this time!
I can drive out the examinee who already passed later, but I must keep this even more hateful examinee from passing the duel test!
Don't blame me for using this ace monster from the Dark Underworld deck that I originally didn't want to bring out and use to bully a student! Crowler thought bitterly.
Chapter 3: You Go First
"The duel test for the final examinee will now begin. Once again, I, Professor Crowler, Duel Academy's highest authority on practical dueling, will be his opponent!" Professor Crowler announced forcefully.
Then he and Jiang He spoke together.
"Duel!"
The Duel Disks they wore lit up with red light and unfolded at the same time. Each duelist's life points immediately appeared on the duel field, showing 4,000 LP apiece.
"I'll let you go first, examinee number 111," Professor Crowler said directly to Jiang He as he drew his opening hand of five cards from the deck on his Duel Disk.
At the same time, he smugly added something with a silent chuckle.
He would consider it compensation for using those two ace cards he'd originally been unwilling to use, so no one could accuse him of bullying an examinee!
"Uh... I think you should go first, Professor Crowler?" Jiang He glanced at the five cards he'd drawn from the deck on his Duel Disk, an odd expression on his face.
Then he spoke to Professor Crowler across the field with pity.
As though he were looking at an extremely unlucky fellow!
He had actually drawn an opening hand from his system beginner gift pack deck that could only be described as perfect.
"Damn poor student, what's with that annoying look?!" At his words, Professor Crowler across from him nearly gritted his teeth so hard that he grabbed his own collar and tore at it wildly!
He had the distinct feeling he'd been insulted!
"Whoa!!"
"That examinee actually gave Professor Crowler the chance to go first?!"
In the seats around the duel field, many examinees and Duel Academy students couldn't help but erupt in an uproar, crying out in surprise.
That was Professor Crowler, after all!
Although he'd just been defeated quite unexpectedly by examinee number 110, the one called Jaden Yuki, through "dumb luck"...
That didn't mean Professor Crowler was weak!
"What an arrogant guy...!" Syrus Truesdale said in some surprise from the examinees' seating area.
"No, perhaps he really has something he's counting on," Bastion Misawa said thoughtfully, watching Jiang He on the duel field.
Then he asked Jaden Yuki, who had just returned to the seat beside him, "Examinee number 110, do you know what kind of deck that examinee called Jiang He uses? You came together, didn't you?"
"Ahaha, well, Jiang He and I did come together, but we've known each other for less than half an hour," Jaden Yuki answered, awkwardly scratching the back of his head.
"..." Bastion Misawa and Syrus Truesdale were speechless.
The others who had pricked up their ears to listen could only turn back to the duel field in silence as well.