Chapter 840: Chapter 813: The Unprofessional Elf
"N-no, impossible..."
Ryuzaki collapsed on the ground, mumbling to himself.
"I wasn’t supposed to lose anymore, I was promised I wouldn’t lose again. I sold my soul, the Evil God’s power... fake, it’s all fake..."
"Yeah yeah, all fake."
Yugen squatted next to him and said casually.
"So why don’t you tell me more about that Evil God?" Yugen said. "What kind of cult are you guys? What god do you worship? What’s your goal? And also..."
He pointed at the big eye floating behind him.
"What do you want this goofy Elf for?"
"Yeah yeah, spill it already!" The big-eyed Elf chimed in, but immediately realized something was off. "Hey! ’Goofy’ was unnecessary, okay?"
"The sect... the sect is... the Descent Sect. The Evil God... is just the Evil God."
Yugen frowned.
If all he had was "Evil God," that was way too broad. In this world, these days, any Monster Spirit with a slightly higher Star Level could call itself an Evil God, and just by showing a bit of Extraordinary power it could scam a bunch of believers.
Or it’s even possible that this so‑called god doesn’t exist at all, and is just a tool the sect’s founder uses to Brainwash subordinates into loyalty. But that founder would still need some real ability, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to display Extraordinary power to convince others.
This kind of thing had definitely happened before.
"Then who is it?" Yugen pointed at the eye behind him. "And why do you want it?"
Ryuzaki mumbled for a long time, unable to form a single coherent sentence. After Yugen pressed him over and over, he actually started crying.
"I... I don’t know, I really don’t know..."
"I just didn’t want to keep losing, I didn’t want to be a loser anymore. I don’t want..."
"Mom... Mom, I wanna go home..."
Yugen: "......"
Alright, looked like he really didn’t know much.
But there was still plenty he could be asked about the organization. For example, where their usual base of operations was, who his superiors and teammates were, and so on.
It was just that once you started asking specifics, the details were endless. Yugen felt that would be too time‑consuming and too much effort. Might as well leave it to the professionals.
So he opened a channel to the Hanuo Knight.
"This is Revolver, I’ve sent my coordinates over," Yugen said, pressing his earpiece. "Send someone to clean this up within three minutes."
After he hung up, he turned around, only to find that the eye that had been behind him was nowhere to be seen. Yugen frowned, looked carefully around, and finally spotted the eye shrunk back into a patch of shadow, its gaze toward him full of terror.
"Come on, the danger’s over."
Yugen said in a friendly tone.
"The bad guys chasing you have been dealt with."
The eye blinked twice and didn’t dare make a sound.
After watching that Duel just now, it suddenly couldn’t help doubting whether turning to this guy for protection at the last second had been a terrible idea.
Because from that brief Duel, this guy’s Card Deck was so full of Darkness, his Duel so Evil, even his tone of voice and mannerisms, and that whole vibe he had just now—he was 100% the Evil BOSS face who commands the powers of Darkness.
Oh, and the way he won just now...
The Elf’s jaw hit the floor.
This guy had tossed out an Infinite loop like it was nothing—something that in its understanding of the Dueling Realm should be extremely rare, a world‑shaking ultimate technique. Yet for some reason, this guy used it so casually it felt like, to him, it was just a basic auto attack.
It couldn’t help wondering if it had walked right into the tiger’s den, thinking it had escaped the clutches of an Evil cult, only to run straight into the arms of a Great Demon King a hundred times more terrifying...
Yugen took out that completely blank card again, studied it for a moment, and felt that he still couldn’t really see anything from it.
"So weird, I’ve never seen an Elf like you. You actually managed to forget who you are..."
The big eye put on a shy act. "Ehehe, I’m really not that great..."
Yugen was speechless. "I wasn’t complimenting you."
"Eh? You weren’t?"
Yugen temporarily slid the card into his card case, then stood up to leave.
"So where are we going next?"
The eye asked.
Yugen gave it a slightly puzzled look.
"What?" the big eye asked.
"Nothing... just thinking you’re pretty talkative."
The big eye got shy again. "Ahaha, I’m really not that great..."
Yugen: "..."
Yeah, and its self‑esteem was in excellent health.
He already had quite a few Elves, but one this lively was probably a first... though that mostly came down to an Elf’s personality.
Judai also had a Card Deck full of Elves, but in the anime the one who popped up the most was still Feathered Chestnut Ball. No matter what happened, it was always Feathered Chestnut Ball that came out to warn him, and when there was nothing going on, Chestnut Ball was still the one that liked chatting with Judai the most.
"..."
When they arrived at Kaiba Group, Keihei Kaiba and the expert team from Kaiba Company all clicked their tongues in wonder when they saw the card.
"This is also my first time seeing something like this."
The researcher in a white lab coat looked at the card with a strange expression.
"There’s actually an Elf that can forget who it is..."
"And so a memory and self‑perception issue can affect a card’s power, huh." Keihei propped his chin on his hand. "The information that should be on the card won’t show up—does that have to do with him not remembering his own identity?"
The researcher found it very novel and also thought this was a fun topic worth digging into. If an Elf’s lack of self‑recognition could cause the card’s information to disappear, didn’t that mean that a change in the Elf’s self‑perception could also unlock the card’s potential, or even evolve it into a new form?
"We still need to run some tests," the researcher said. "If we dig deeper into the power of this Blank Card, we might find more clues about its true identity."
"Sure."
Yugen glanced at the eye floating next to him.
"But it’s kind of inconvenient to keep calling it ’that Blank Card’..."
"Oh, oh."
The eye floated over.
"Then give me a name. What do you think I should be called?"
Yugen thought for a moment.
"Then I’ll call you ’Eye’."
Keihei choked.
"Isn’t that name a bit too random?"
But before Yugen could say anything, the eye was already spinning around in delight.
"Nice, I have a name now! From today on, I’m Eye!"
Keihei: "..."
Uh, since the party involved actually liked it, whatever then.
So the researcher took the card into the lab to run tests with their equipment.
From inside, they kept hearing Eye’s various weird cries.
"Ah—no, you can’t touch there!"
"What are you all looking at such indecent places for!"
"No, don’t put that in... it’ll... it’ll make me weird..."
Yugen: "..."
Keihei: "..."
They waited outside in silence for several minutes.
Then Keihei quietly turned his head to look at Yugen.
"You sure... this is a proper, decent Elf?"
