Chapter Summaries

Jiang He defeated Alexis Rhodes by letting [Lava Golem] drain her Life Points, and Alexis conceded after he summoned [Sphere Kuriboh]. After the duel, Alexis accepted the loss, promised to keep Syrus Truesdale’s appearance in the girls’ dorm secret, and grew more comfortable with Jiang He.

• Alexis Rhodes lost 1,000 Life Points to [Lava Golem] and ended her turn without finding a way to change the duel.
• Jiang He summoned [Sphere Kuriboh] in Defense Position, and Alexis conceded because she could not overcome his defenses before her Life Points ran out.
• Alexis resolved to improve her deck and defeat Jiang He in a rematch, while Jasmine and Mindy complained that he had provoked Alexis.
• Jiang He explained that [Sphere Kuriboh] had been the only monster he could summon, and Alexis stopped Jasmine from arguing with him.
• Alexis agreed to keep Syrus Truesdale’s appearance in the girls’ dorm secret and told Jiang He he could call her Alexis.

During Professor Banner’s alchemy lecture, Jiang He checked the refreshed system shop and found a protective Crimson Dragon skill he wanted but could not yet afford. Meanwhile, Professor Crowler panicked over a photo Jiang He had taken and planned to hire a duelist to win it back.

• Jiang He hitched a ride with Jaden Yuki and the others, while Alexis Tenjo watched their boat leave and wondered why he had become more interesting to her.
• Professor Banner taught an alchemy lecture, but Jiang He focused on his system interface and reviewed the Emotion Points he had gained from dueling Alexis.
• Jiang He saw that the shop offered the Dragon Head Mark, which could shield him from Shadow Duel damage, for 3,000 Emotion Points, more than the 2,200 he had saved.
• Jiang He decided he could earn the remaining points during the afternoon’s practical dueling class.
• Professor Crowler worried that Jiang He’s photo could get him expelled and resolved to placate Jiang He before hiring a duelist to win it back.
• Someone opened Crowler’s office door, and Crowler hurried behind his desk and put on a serious expression.

Jiang He asked Professor Crowler to assign him a stronger opponent for the practical dueling class, and Crowler approved his request to face Bastion Misawa. The class began with Jaden Yuki matched against Chazz Princeton, while Jaden promised Jiang He he would challenge him someday.

• Professor Crowler tried to appease Jiang He by offering Syrus Truesdale as his practical duel opponent, but Jiang He turned him down and requested someone stronger.
• Crowler suggested Bastion Misawa, and Jiang He accepted the matchup; Jaden Yuki also asked to face Chazz Princeton, and Crowler approved both requests.
• At the practical class venue, Jaden and Syrus complained about Slifer Red's food while Jiang He enjoyed the lunch he had bought at Aunt Dorothy's shop.
• Professor Crowler began calling the first-round duels and announced Jaden Yuki versus Chazz Princeton.
• Jaden excitedly headed toward his duel and told Jiang He to watch, saying he intended to challenge him someday.

Jaden challenged Chazz to a duel while Jiang He watched with Alexis and her friends, suspecting Professor Crowler had secretly strengthened Chazz’s Deck. Chazz brought out VW-Tiger Catapult, leaving Jaden’s lone defensive monster facing a stronger opponent.

• Jiang He told Alexis that Jaden had chosen Chazz as his opponent, while Professor Crowler watched and secretly hoped the Slifer Red students would be defeated.
• Jiang He’s Sphere Kuriboh sensed Crowler’s malicious thoughts and alerted him.
• Jaden began the duel by summoning Elemental HERO Clayman in Defense Position and ended his turn without setting any cards.
• Chazz summoned X-Tiger Jet and used Frontline Base to Special Summon W-Wing Catapult.
• Chazz combined his machines into VW-Tiger Catapult, and Jiang He realized Crowler had supplied him with rare cards.

Chazz assembled VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon and used its effect to banish Jaden’s Burstinatrix, leaving Jaden facing a direct attack. Jaden activated Hero Signal to respond to the attack.

• Chazz attacked Jaden’s Clayman with VW-Tiger Catapult, lowering Jaden’s LP from 4,000 to 2,800.
• Jaden summoned Burstinatrix in Defense Position and set a card.
• Chazz summoned X-Head Cannon and Z-Metal Tank, revived Y-Dragon Head with Call of the Haunted, and fused his machines into VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon.
• Chazz banished Burstinatrix with VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon’s effect and declared a direct attack on Jaden.
• Jaden activated his set Trap Card, Hero Signal.

Jaden defeated Chazz after evolving Winged Kuriboh into Winged Kuriboh LV10 and summoning Elemental HERO Sparkman. Jiang He was then called to duel Bastion Misawa in the practical lesson, as Jaden and Alexis watched him head to the field.

• Jaden drew Elemental HERO Sparkman and used its 1600 ATK to reduce Chazz's remaining 1000 LP to zero.
• Professor Crowler called the next practical lesson matchups, including Bastion Misawa versus Jiang He.
• Students questioned Jiang He's ability, while Alexis, Jasmine, and Mindy frowned at their comments.
• Jaden told Alexis that Jiang He was strong and that Bastion was the stronger opponent Jiang He had requested.

Jiang He and Bastion Misawa began a duel, with Bastion preparing a strategy to summon Water Dragon. After Jiang He set four cards, Bastion assembled two Hydrogeddon and one Oxygeddon and summoned Water Dragon, leaving Jiang He’s response pending.

• Jiang He and Bastion Misawa started their duel after Bastion said he wanted to face Jiang He’s supposed Exodia deck.
• Bastion activated Graceful Charity, summoned Oxygeddon, and set two cards.
• Jiang He set one face-down monster and three face-down cards, prompting confusion among the spectators.
• Bastion summoned Hydrogeddon, used Top Hat of Survival to revive another Hydrogeddon, and activated Bonding - H2O.
• Bastion tributed both Hydrogeddon and Oxygeddon to summon Water Dragon.

Jiang He stopped Bastion Misawa’s Water Dragon from attacking by revealing a second Torture Wheel, leaving Bastion with low Life Points and no cards in hand. Bastion then drew Mystical Space Typhoon, a Quick-Play Spell that could answer the trap restraining his monster.

• Bastion Misawa used Raigeki Break to destroy Jiang He’s set monster, then negated Jiang He’s first Torture Wheel with Solemn Judgment, paying half his Life Points.
• Jiang He activated a second Torture Wheel and trapped Bastion Misawa’s Water Dragon before it could attack.
• Bastion Misawa ended his turn with 2000 Life Points, an empty hand, and Water Dragon restrained; Jiang He still had 4000 Life Points and two cards in hand.
• Jiang He drew, dealt Bastion Misawa 500 damage with Torture Wheel, and set a monster and another card.
• Bastion Misawa drew Mystical Space Typhoon and revealed the Quick-Play Spell.

Jiang He countered Bastion Misawa’s attempts to free Water Dragon and summon Diamond Dragon, then tributed both monsters to summon Lava Golem onto Bastion’s field. Bastion was trapped in Lava Golem’s cage as Jiang He called the move a gift of friendship.

• Bastion Misawa destroyed Torture Wheel with Mystical Space Typhoon, but Jiang He activated Fiendish Chain to bind Water Dragon again.
• Bastion Misawa used Carboneddon’s graveyard effect to Special Summon Diamond Dragon.
• Jiang He activated Bottomless Trap Hole, trapping Diamond Dragon face-down in Defense Position.
• Jiang He used Clear Mind’s guaranteed draw ability, then tributed Water Dragon and Diamond Dragon to summon Lava Golem onto Bastion Misawa’s field.
• Lava Golem dropped a chained cage over Bastion Misawa, leaving him horrified by Jiang He’s so-called gift of friendship.

Jiang He defeated Bastion Misawa by reclaiming Lava Golem with Owner's Seal and exploiting Oxygeddon's effect. Bastion accepted Jiang He's strength, while Crowler held back his anger and planned to get revenge later.

• Bastion Misawa revived two Hydrogeddon and one Oxygeddon with Water Dragon's Graveyard effect.
• Jiang He activated Owner's Seal, returned Lava Golem to his control, and attacked Oxygeddon instead of a Hydrogeddon.
• Oxygeddon's effect dealt 800 damage to both players when Lava Golem destroyed it, reducing Bastion's Life Points to zero and giving Jiang He the victory.
• Crowler realized he had forgotten Oxygeddon's effect and resolved to wait for the duelist he had hired before taking revenge on Jiang He and retrieving the incriminating photos.
• Alexis Rhodes and her friends recognized Jiang He's skill, and Bastion praised him and resolved to study more before challenging him again.

Jiang He returned to the practical dueling class spectator area, where Zane, Professor Banner, and Chazz had been watching him. After Sphere Kuriboh awkwardly inspected Jaden’s Winged Kuriboh, Jiang He watched the remaining duels and wondered whether Chazz had already left Duel Academy.

• Sphere Kuriboh warned Jiang He that Zane Truesdale and Professor Banner were watching him, and Jiang He noticed they could see Duel Spirits.
• Jaden Yuki invited Jiang He to duel him later, but Sphere Kuriboh startled Winged Kuriboh by parting its fur to check its sex.
• Jiang He welcomed Jaden’s challenge and asked Alexis Rhodes whether she would duel in the practical class; Alexis said she might not get a turn as a second-year student.
• Jasmine praised Alexis as the strongest queen in the Obelisk Blue girls’ dorm, and Alexis blushed while Jiang He agreed she was powerful.
• Jiang He spotted two of Chazz Princeton’s former lackeys dueling each other, then searched for Chazz and wondered if he had temporarily left school after his defeat.

Jiang He exchanged Emotion Points for the Crimson Dragon’s protective Dragon Head Mark after learning Alexis Rhodes had visited the abandoned honors dorm connected to Atticus Rhodes’s disappearance. The next day, he weighed which toxic deck to buy while relaxing on the Duel Academy rooftop.

• Sphere Kuriboh told Jiang He that Chazz Princeton had left the island, and Jiang He expected him to return for another chance to exploit him.
• Sphere Kuriboh reported that Alexis Rhodes had taken a flower to the abandoned honors dorm, where her brother Atticus Rhodes had disappeared.
• Jiang He spent 3,000 Emotion Points to obtain the Mark of the Crimson Dragon: Dragon Head Mark and felt its protection against Shadow Duel damage.
• Jiang He hid from the construction noise on the classroom building’s rooftop and considered exchanging his remaining points for an Arcana Force, Morphing Jar, or Stealth Bird deck.

Jiang He agreed to join Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley on an expedition to Duel Academy’s abandoned dorm, hoping to test his protection against Shadow Duels. Meanwhile, Crowler hired the supposed Shadow Duelist Titan to target Jiang He and Jaden, but he doubted the mysterious fog around Titan.

• Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley told Jiang He they had heard about the abandoned dorm from Professor Banner and planned to explore it that night.
• Jiang He agreed to go, interested in discovering whether a Shadow Duel would occur and testing the Crimson Dragon’s protection.
• Sphere Kuriboh alerted Jiang He to someone near the rooftop stairs, but Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley found no one there.
• In a forest on Duel Academy grounds, Crowler revealed that Jiang He and Jaden Yuki planned to visit the abandoned dorm and waited for a hired duelist.
• Titan introduced himself as a professional Shadow Duelist and promised to destroy Jiang He’s camera and photographs, while Crowler questioned the fog surrounding him.

Jiang He brought Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley to investigate the abandoned dormitory, where Alexis warned them that students, including her brother, had disappeared. After Sphere Kuriboh sensed a malicious stranger nearby, Jiang He went after Alexis, and a disguised Titan attacked her to lure Jiang He into a Shadow Duel.

• Jiang He and the others arrived at the abandoned dormitory and found a fresh white flower near its entrance.
• Alexis Tenjo appeared, admitted leaving the flower, and warned them that students had vanished there, including her brother.
• Sphere Kuriboh sensed a malicious presence in the woods, and Jiang He suspected that Professor Crowler had hired Titan.
• Jiang He told Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley to enter the dormitory while he went to check on Alexis.
• Alexis turned back toward the dormitory, but Titan ambushed her and tried to seize her as bait for a Shadow Duel with Jiang He.
• Someone hurled a heavy piece of wood at Titan, striking his head and interrupting the attack.

Alexis Rhodes and Jiang He tracked Titan to the abandoned dormitory, where they joined Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley. Titan revealed himself as a dark duelist and challenged Jiang He to a Shadow Duel.

• Alexis Rhodes kicked Titan in self-defense, but he recovered and fled toward the abandoned dormitory.
• Jiang He used Sphere Kuriboh to locate Titan, and Alexis went with him to investigate.
• Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley reported seeing a tall shadow in the dormitory and agreed to search for the attacker.
• Jiang He led the group into a stone chamber, where they saw white mist drifting across the floor.
• Titan emerged from the mist, identified himself as a dark duelist, and named Jiang He as his target.

Jiang He exposed Titan’s fake Millennium Puzzle just as Titan accidentally activated a real Shadow Duel ritual. After dark creatures swarmed the chamber and possessed Titan, he challenged Jiang He to a duel with the loser facing the darkness.

• Alexis Rhodes blamed Titan for her brother’s disappearance, but Jiang He said Titan was probably unrelated and pointed out that his Millennium Puzzle was a fake.
• Titan tried to leave, but his movements activated symbols around the chamber and began a real Shadow Duel ritual.
• Pitch-black creatures surged toward the group, but Sphere Kuriboh and Winged Kuriboh drove them back; Alexis Rhodes and the others discovered they could touch the Duel Monsters.
• The creatures engulfed Titan and entered his body, briefly turning his eyes scarlet.
• Titan challenged Jiang He to a duel and warned that the loser would be swallowed by darkness.

Jiang He faced Titan in a dangerous Shadow Duel, using his new Stealth Bird burn deck while Titan relied on an Archfiend deck and a real Pandemonium field. The duel remained in its opening turns, with Titan mistaking Jiang He's face-down monster for Celtic Guardian of Noble Arms.

• Jiang He stopped Alexis, Syrus Truesdale, Jaden Yuki, and the others from taking his place, then began the duel with Titan.
• Titan summoned Shadowknight Archfiend and activated Pandemonium-Archfiend's Lair, creating a real Archfiend field that removed his monsters' life-point costs.
• Titan set a card and ended his turn, and Jiang He drew the key card from his Stealth Bird deck before setting a monster and three cards.
• Titan guessed that Jiang He's face-down monster was Celtic Guardian of Noble Arms after Syrus Truesdale nearly revealed the group’s suspicion.

Jiang He used Wall of Disruption to reduce Titan’s Archfiend monsters’ attack, then revealed that his face-down monster was Stealth Bird rather than Celtic Guardian. Stealth Bird’s defense sent the attack back into Titan, leaving him wounded and at 2300 Life Points.

• Titan summoned Doomking Balerdroch beside Shadowknight Archfiend and raised Balerdroch’s attack to 3000 with Shadowknight Archfiend’s effect.
• Titan equipped Shadowknight Archfiend with Kiss of the Fiend, raising its attack to 1600, then ordered it to attack Jiang He’s face-down monster.
• Jiang He activated Wall of Disruption, reducing Shadowknight Archfiend’s attack to zero and Doomking Balerdroch’s to 1400.
• Jiang He revealed that his face-down monster was Stealth Bird, whose 1700 defense repelled Shadowknight Archfiend’s attack.
• The reflected attack wounded Titan and reduced his Life Points from 4000 to 2300.

Jiang He used two revealed [Stealth Birds] and a possible [Wall of Disruption] to put Titan in a dilemma over whether to attack. Titan finally summoned [Archfiend General], leaving the threat of Jiang He's face-down cards unresolved.

• Jiang He summoned a second [Stealth Bird] in attack position, then used both birds' effects to turn them face-down in Defense Position.
• Titan realized Jiang He had deliberately revealed the birds and grew wary of the two face-down cards in Jiang He's back row.
• Alexis Rhodes explained that attacking the birds could trigger a trap, while leaving them alone would expose Titan to 2,000 LP of damage from their effects.
• Jaden Yuki, Syrus Truesdale, and Chumley understood that Titan was caught between those risks, while Jiang He watched him hesitate.
• Titan summoned [Archfiend General] in attack position.

Jiang He used two traps to reduce Titan’s three monsters to 0 ATK, and Stealth Bird’s effect left Titan unconscious with 600 Life Points. Jiang He finished the duel and led the others out as the Shadow Duel space collapsed.

• Titan boosted Archfiend General’s ATK and ordered it to attack Jiang He’s face-down Stealth Bird.
• Jiang He activated Half Shut and then another Wall of Disruption, reducing Titan’s monsters to 0 ATK.
• Archfiend General attacked Stealth Bird, whose effect dealt Titan 1700 damage and knocked him unconscious at 600 Life Points.
• Jiang He Flip Summoned the other Stealth Bird, reduced Titan’s Life Points to zero, and triggered the collapse of the Shadow Duel space.
• Alexis warned the group to escape, and Jiang He sent them riding on the two Stealth Birds toward a crack of light.