Draw it! The Sword Called Card!!!-1

The coated card was drawn as if stuck to his hand. A familiar and comfortable sensation that fit perfectly in his hand.

He could guess how much the body’s owner had handled the cards.

Kang In-ho counted the number of cards in his hand.

A total of 4 cards.

Two orange cards, and one pink and one blue card each.

“Are you stalling for time? Don’t forget that you’re the one who loses out in the end! The game of death eats away at the participant’s mental strength!”

A woman with an icy impression, as cold as her blue hair, shouted.

Kang In-ho found her nagging voice annoying.

‘How noisy.’

“Kang In-ho! You can do it!”

“There’s no way the duelist I recognize would lose!”

“Save the world from destruction!”

And the spectators surrounding him and her. The space was separated by a translucent barrier, making the people’s figures appear faint.

Memories of cartoons he watched on TV as a child and information he glimpsed in online communities began to assemble in his mind.

As the blocks of information merged into one, he roughly grasped what kind of world this was.

He put aside the question of [Who on earth is the Dimension Management God who created this ridiculous world?] for a moment and focused on the four cards in his hand.

Given the flow, a duel was unavoidable. If it was the ‘that game’ he was thinking of, he could proceed to some extent.

And he examined the field.

His own field was empty, while his opponent’s field had two monsters and one face-down card.

What about life points?

He had 100 life points, while his opponent had 5500 life points.

A complete disadvantage.

“You’ve always prioritized duels. You’ve never really looked at me, your childhood friend.”

The woman in front of him shouted at Kang In-ho with tearful eyes, as if she was upset about something.

Her long blue hair swayed.

“Duel, duel, duel!! Yes, you’re obsessed with duels. Duels are the problem. So… if I created a world without duels, wouldn’t you look at me?”

She said, clutching the card she held as if crumpling it.

“A world without duels…”

“Such a terrible…!”

‘What a load of crap.’

The voices of the spectators outside reached him. Kang In-ho was dumbfounded.

“So I made a contract. With an ‘existence that should be forgotten’ that had been sealed in a card for a long time.”

She fiddled with her deck.

“What’s its name?”

Kang In-ho spoke to her for the first time.

“Hehe… you want to know? It’s the sealed…”

“No, not that name. What’s your name?”

At Kang In-ho’s words, a vein popped out on the woman’s forehead.

His remark seemed to have shocked everyone in the space, as no one said a word.

As if he had touched a forbidden nerve, they watched the woman’s next move with keen interest.

Gulp, one could even hear someone swallowing nervously.

“Ha… ha… ha…”

She mechanically let out a dry laugh.

“You’re joking, right? Right? Inho… you’re just trying to shake my composure, aren’t you?”

The woman asked again, as if she couldn’t believe it. But Kang In-ho didn’t answer.

“I’m Bronia! Bronia! Your childhood friend!!!”

Black energy surged from the woman named Bronia. The gust of wind created by the materialized energy pushed back Kang In-ho’s forehead.

While Bronia was growling, Kang In-ho managed to imprint the information of the cards in his hand in his head.

‘I’ll have to go with this for now.’

He placed one of the orange cards on the duel disk.

“I summon [Raging Pia-chan].”

A card that could be normally summoned without any special summoning conditions.

But there was no reaction.

“Huh?”

He looked back and forth between the machine and the field.

He checked the card’s text again. There were no special restrictions on summoning.

But why…?

While Inho was scratching his head in confusion, he heard the voices of people outside the barrier.

“Inho’s mental strength…”

“It’s over. He’s not ‘immersed’ at all…”

“He recovered his life points with the [Last Chance] card… but his mental strength was already at rock bottom.”

“Damn it, Inho, who is more sincere about cards than anyone else, can’t ‘immerse’ himself…”

“Immersion…?”

Kang In-ho was simply dumbfounded by the worries and pity of strangers.

But he seemed to know the cause anyway.

“Ugh, damn it… seriously, do I have to go this far… at my age…”

He muttered, as if he really didn’t want to do it.

He picked up the card he had placed on the duel disk with his index and middle fingers.

“Hoo…”

He took a long sigh and opened his eyes wide.

Extending his hand forward, he shouted.

“Break through this crisis, the vanguard of my deck! I normal summon [Raging Pia-chan]!”

As he placed the card on the duel disk with the incantation, a yellow-haired woman was summoned to the field.

When the energetic woman appeared, Bronia gritted her teeth as she looked at her.

“I don’t like it! That yellow-haired woman! Both her appearance and her name!”

“[Raging Pia-chan]’s effect activates. If I have [Running Nobel-chan] in my hand, I can special summon that card. Come on out, [Running Nobel-chan].”

A purple-haired woman was summoned to the field.

“Another… another woman…”

Bronia gritted her teeth until they were about to break.

“Their attack power is 1000. It’s a shame, but I can’t attack. I’ll set one card and end my turn.”

At Inho’s declaration, Bronia shouted as if she had been waiting for it.

“I’ll get rid of those two ugly bitches right away!”

As Bronia reached out her hand, a monster in the form of a giant eel roared.

“You haven’t forgotten the effect of [Deep Sea Beast Leviathan], have you? Once per turn, it can destroy all monsters other than this card!”

As the roar ended, a huge wave rose as if to swallow Kang In-ho. It was a tsunami.

“Nobel and Pia, whom you cherish so much, will end here. Disappear!”

Bronia’s voice was filled with thick hatred.

The shadow created by the tsunami loomed over Inho and his field.

“Activate the set card, [Moon Guiding Wildness].”

As Inho reached out his hand, the set card opened.

Darkness fell on the field, and a full moon rose.

“Why suddenly that card…?”

A simple card that increases the attack power of monsters on the field. It was not a card that would appear in a situation where the monsters on the field were being destroyed.

As if answering Bronia’s question, Kang In-ho covered his face with his palm and struck a pose.

“[Deep Sea Beast Leviathan]’s tsunami doesn’t destroy the monsters on the field. But, that tsunami won’t come.”

“[Moon Guiding Wildness]’s hidden effect. The moon’s gravity holds the tsunami in place.”

The huge wall of water that was about to fall on the field began to be sucked into the moon floating in the sky.

“H-How is that possible!”

“This is the duel of ‘immersion’.”

Kang In-ho twisted his lips and smiled.