Draw it! The Sword Called Card!!!-3

Where does the first memory of life begin?

5 years old. Her answer would always be the same.

“Hello~ You must be Blonie. I’m the woman who moved in next door today.”

“Hello.”

As she bowed deeply with immature pronunciation, the woman chuckled.

“Nice to meet you. And… this is my son!”

The woman pointed to a boy holding tightly to her hand. He was a striking boy with flawless skin and large, bright eyes.

“Hi. Nice to meet you!”

Blonie’s face bloomed with spring at the boy’s cheerful greeting, revealing his teeth.

“Oh, hello. I’m Blonie.”

Blonie twisted her blue hair, which fell to her shoulders, with her fingers.

Where does the first memory of life begin?

5 years old. Her first memory began with meeting him.

They went everywhere holding hands, not caring about the teasing of the neighborhood children.

Rather, as if stimulated by the teasing, they even played house together.

He was always the husband, and Blonie was the wife.

When Blonie placed a round lump of dirt on a worn-out plastic plate and shouted that it was a delicious cookie, he would pretend to eat it deliciously.

“Honey, you’ll always be by my side, right?”

When the boy imitated words he had heard somewhere, not knowing the weight of the words,

“Yes, I will always be by your side and protect you.”

The girl smiled brightly and accepted the words.

Even in that game of imitating their parents, Blonie’s heart fluttered.

It was after her childhood that she realized the nature of that fluttering.

Their relationship, which began as next-door neighbors, developed into school friends.

She and he, who entered the same middle school, went to school together every day.

Although they no longer held hands as they used to when wandering around the neighborhood, Blonie didn’t particularly miss it.

Because he was always by her side.

“Where are you going after school today?”

She asked as they parted ways, being in different classes.

“Ah, we’re going to stay and duel with the guys today.”

Duel. It was a game that had appeared a few years ago and was gaining explosive popularity.

At one time, she thought it would end as a passing fad. But her prediction was proven wrong.

It began to spread rapidly, regardless of generation or gender.

“Okay, have fun. I’m going home first.”

All club activities were suspended due to dueling. With nothing to do, she went straight home after school.

“Why don’t you duel with us, Hana?”

He widened his eyes and brought his face closer, and Hana blushed and avoided his gaze.

“I, I don’t know much about dueling yet. Maybe later.”

“I can teach you… Anyway, okay. See you at home then.”

He used to prioritize her over other appointments… Hana felt like she was being pushed aside by dueling.

“This trend needs to pass quickly… It’s not cooling down.”

She thought, watching his back as he walked away.

[At today’s Infinite Expansion Party convention, Representative ‘Jeongdopeul’ was elected as the party leader. Meanwhile, Representative ‘Labyrinth’ of the Hamtteok Party proposed a constitutional amendment, arguing that dueling should be more integrated into daily life and that only citizens with certified decks should be given the right to vote.]

The world is going crazy.

[Breaking news. A terrible crime occurred in the downtown area of Doremi City, where someone attacked a pedestrian and tried to steal their deck. The perpetrator is on the run, and the police are pursuing them to arrest them through a duel.]

Dueling is ruining the world.

[Conflicts over wedding gifts have recently intensified. There is an increasing number of cases where the rare cards brought by the bride’s side as part of the dowry are actually Ghoulz (fake) cards that cannot be used in official duels.]

Common sense is collapsing.

Hana’s mind gradually became exhausted in the rapidly changing world.

The frenzy of dueling did not stop. It spread to the world and began to dominate the universe.

Everything began to revolve around dueling.

A store that used to sell cute stationery began to sell dueling supplies, and a school that used to teach various subjects was transformed into a dueling academy.

Thieves stole cards instead of money, and people carried decks instead of identification cards.

“This isn’t normal.”

It was Hana’s catchphrase.

Everything around her was going crazy.

“Hana, it’s me.”

And ‘he’ was included in all of that.

It had been a week since she locked herself in her room. He came to see her.

“What’s wrong?”

The two men and women faced each other with the door between them.

“Your mother called and asked me to come. She said you haven’t been out of your room lately… What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. Just go back. Go duel with your friends.”

Hana spat out sharp words and closed her eyes.

She didn’t want to hurt him, but she was at her limit.

“Is it… because of me?”

Her childhood friend, who seemed like he would go back to dueling, asked her.

“…What?”

Hana’s voice was curt.

“That… last time we, we ‘Fused’… I was wondering if I did something to upset you…”

“Don’t say ‘Fusion’!!!!”

“Hana?”

“Don’t say ‘Fusion’!!! Don’t even mention the word duel in front of me! I’m sick of it! This world is crazy! Dueling, cards, development, hand traps, advantage, graveyard, banishment, side deck, ban list, semi-limited, unlimited!! Please! Please! Please! Don’t talk about dueling in front of me!!!”

A resentful voice echoed through the house.

Overwhelmed by the force, her childhood friend left the house, promising to come back later.

Watching her lover’s figure disappear through the window, Hana burst into tears.

It was that night that a voice came to her.

She had been repeating the cycle of crying until she was exhausted and falling asleep, and she received a guest in the early morning when everyone was asleep.

It came in through the window, faint like morning mist.

It told Hana, who was wary, about the truth of the world, and she had to seriously consider whether she was crazy for a while.

“So, that ‘duel’ is ruining this world?”

“That’s right. You don’t think this world is normal now, do you?”

The growling sound of a beast was heard.

“No. This world is crazy.”

“Then, accept me. I am an existence that was sealed long ago.”

“How did you get sealed?”

“The ‘duel’, fearing my power, tricked me and sealed me. Thanks to that, its power is growing without restraint.”

It’s a kind of faith. The voice said.

“How can I trust you?”

“Instead of trusting me, you must trust my purpose.”

“Your purpose?”

“My goal is to avenge the ‘duel’. If I use my power at the cost of my existence, it will surely be destroyed.”

“If the duel disappears, will this world return to normal?”

“That’s right.”

“……..”

Hana hesitated. To suddenly appear and tell her to fight against the world together. Who would readily agree?

“Hana. Shouldn’t you regain what you cherish?”

The voice said to her, who was hesitating.

[Honey, you’ll always be by my side, right?]

[Yes, I will always be by your side and protect you.]

Precious old memories come to mind. Hana looked up at the being floating in the room.

“…Okay. Then what should I do now?”

“Use the deck I created to challenge people to a ‘game of death’ and win. By gaining that power, you can defeat the one with the strongest dueling power.”

“Sounds simple.”

“The simpler the theory, the more difficult it is to implement.”

The voice said calmly.

“…Okay. I’ll be your sword.”

Hana reached out her hand. A whitish figure moved and clasped her hand.

A strange sensation began to be transmitted to her.

“By the way, I didn’t ask your name.”

Hana asked, feeling her vision gradually blurring.

“It has been erased from the records, but I have been called by many names.”

Recalling the past, the voice said.

“I am a provocation that blocks the enemy,

A charge that strikes the center,

A nimble quick attack,

A shield from the sky,

A cry that announces war,

And its end will be an echo.

I am the right, and the creation,

Someone’s 12 o’clock,

I am a prayer.”

Call me Dolgame.

With the voice’s words, Hana closed her eyes.