Yu-Gi-Oh!: Starting as a Rabbit-Eared Demon King

The National Professional Fighting Tournament has finally begun.

Li Youming and Jonouchi registered together, but Jonouchi was eliminated in the top 16 of the city tournament. His deck was indeed weak at that time. He had only gradually improved his deck during his time in Duel Kingdom.

Li Youming, on the other hand, won every match in the city competition and fought his way through to the championship match.

After all, the environment of using equipment magic to enhance monsters and then having Axe King clash with them, coupled with the ancient rules prohibiting direct attacks, made Li Youming feel that the duel difficulty was indeed too low.

This allowed Li Youming to use cards that reduce the opponent's health, such as "Self-Saving and Hermit's Poison," and restrictive cards like "Pot of Greed, Angel's Charity, Lightning Strike, and Black Hole," to directly impact duelists in this environment.

After several days of intense competition, Li Youming finally engaged in a final battle with the feather moth, an insect from the storyline.

This decisive battle also served as the impetus for Bekas to launch the virtual imaging system developed by Haima. Li Youming was also very much looking forward to this decisive battle.

"Finally, I can see the card monsters materialize! I'm so excited!" Li Youming thought to himself. After all, what card player wouldn't look forward to their cards materializing into giant monsters for duels?

Across from the venue, a child with a blue-green watermelon-shaped head, dressed in bright green clothes that looked like his wife had run away (this is not a personal attack by the author, it's just that I don't like green), and with a repulsive face, was standing there looking at Li Youming with a lewd expression, which made Li Youming feel a chill.

"So this is the Insect Moth Human? It's really disgusting to look at." Li Youming looked at the Insect Moth opposite him with great disgust. After all, in this entire anime, this character is even more hateful than the villains (I don't want to go into details about his deeds to pad the word count; those interested can search it on Baidu).

"Let me show you my strength, the national champion is definitely mine!" The insect moth opposite pointed at itself and made a boastful statement. However, it didn't look very heroic; instead, it looked rather sleazy.

"Whether it's you or me depends on the match result," Li Youming replied casually to the insect moth. In truth, Li Youming wasn't used to being overly dramatic. But it seemed that everyone in the Yu-Gi-Oh! world was quite dramatic.

The insect moth felt slighted by Li Youming's indifferent attitude and couldn't help but feel angry.

"Game start!"

"Duel!" "Duel!"

Insects and feathered moths: 2000

Li Youming (Bakura): 2000

"Since you're so arrogant, then it's my turn to go first. My turn, draw!" The Insect Moth took advantage of Li Youming's momentary lapse in attention and began its turn. "I summon Cockroach Ball (1200/1400) in Attack Position! End of turn!"

"My turn, draw!" Li Youming drew a card as usual. "I face down one monster, then face down two more face-down cards, end of turn."

"Seriously, you drew 'self-destruction' again, didn't you?" The insect moth looked at Li Youming with malice. "It's the same old 'self-destruction' trick over and over again. You can't beat me with that kind of trick!"

"You know it's true, so just destroy it. What are you saying? Really..." Li Youming was too lazy to argue with him and directly mocked the insect moth, leaving it speechless.

"You bastard, watch out for my power!" Insect Moth directly drew a card: "I Normal Summon a Flying Mantis (1500/800) in Attack Position, and then activate the Equip Spell, Unity Power! Equip it to the Flying Mantis. Due to the effect of Unity Power, the Flying Mantis gains ATK equal to the number of monsters on the field multiplied by 800, which is 1600 ATK!"

On the virtual screen, the flying mantis suddenly became enormous, and its attack power increased from 1500 to 3100.

"This is an attack power even higher than Blue-Eyes White Dragon. You can't possibly fight me. Your 'Self-Destruction' requires your opponent to have 4 monsters on the field to deal 2000 damage, while I only summon these two monsters. Your 'Self-Destruction' can't kill me."

"Oh, so how do you plan to win?" Li Youming countered, knowing that triggering the "Insect Moth" debuff would result in certain death.

"Hmph, with just this one monster, I can make you lose because you can't summon any monsters in the end. What can you do?" At this point, Insect Moth's face turned sinister: "But just to be on the safe side, I'll destroy one card. I'll activate my normal attack spell card, Whirlwind! Destroy that face-down card you have in the middle of the field!"

"Phew, it really triggered the debuff, otherwise I would have had to reveal my trump card." Li Youming wiped his sweat, and then, just as the whirlwind in the virtual image was about to blow over, he raised his hand and said, "Open the face-down card next to me, activate the Trap Card 'Self-Destruction'! The opponent takes 500 damage for each monster on their field. If you have two monsters on your field, you take 1000 damage!"

The self-destructive force transformed into a ball of light, striking the insect-moth directly and causing it to lose 1000 health points.

The whirlwind also destroyed the card in the middle and sent it to the graveyard.

"You actually used your only 'Self-Saving' card! I didn't even destroy it, yet you used it yourself. How are you going to defeat me now? Hehehehehe..."

The insect-moth, seeing that it had scared Li Youming out of his self-satisfaction, burst into laughter. After all, it was an open secret that Li Youming relied on self-satisfaction in the competition after he had participated in several matches. The insect-moth also thought that it had been targeted.

"It's because you destroyed that card with your whirlwind that I was able to use Self-Destruction directly!" Li Youming was amused by the insect moth: "I activate a trap card in my graveyard! Rewind!"

"What! Activating a Trap Card from the Graveyard?" Insect Moth stared wide-eyed at Li Youming, as if he were an idiot.

"When this card is in the Graveyard, you can banish one Trap Card from your Graveyard (excluding Transaction Reversal) to activate its effect! I banished My Own Destiny from my Graveyard, and activated its effect again, deducting 1000 damage from you. I won, Insect Moth!"

As Li Youming explained, the insect moth sat directly on the platform, its expression one of disbelief. Its health points dropped from 1000 to 0.

"The winner! Bakura wins!" The host excitedly announced Li Youming's name. Li Youming was then left to present the championship trophy, which was naturally carried onto the stage by Pegasus, the father of Duel Monsters!

"Congratulations, Bakura boy! You've won the championship!" Pegasus, with long white hair and a red suit, walked up from the podium carrying the trophy. His eyes were sharp and aggressive. His long white hair covered half of his face, but the golden light emanating from it could still be seen.

"A Thousand-Year Eye!" "A Thousand-Year Eye!"