Heroic Spirit Deck in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Chapter 195 - 195

"Is the room small? There's no bathtub, so you'll have to use the shower. Is that okay?"

Akasha gave a bright smile. "No problem at all! I'm just happy to have a shower to cool down~"

"Then you go first, Akasha-chan. I'll leave your change of clothes outside the door." Hoshino pointed towards the bathroom. "Though my clothes might be a bit big for you, they're comfortable enough to sleep in."

"Mm, thank you, Hoshino-nee!" Akasha nodded her golden head obediently, and barefoot, she dashed into the bathroom.

"Want me to come in and lend a hand?"

"If you dare come in, Hoshino-nee, Akasha will call the police, okay? =w="

"Tsk, not cute >3<"

Splash—!

The clear sound of water came from the bathroom.

"Well, just in time..."

Hoshino plopped herself down on the bed, and a wave of exhaustion washed over her.

"What a day, but also quite productive. System, open the card shop."

[Detected: You have an SSR summon ticket. Redirecting you to the SSR-specific banner.]

"Emmm, how about I use up the rest of my Saint Quartz first?" Although Hoshino always used her SSR ticket eagerly, as her summoning experience grew, she developed her superstitions.

"Using the SSR ticket first would mess with her 'luck balance,' making her normal 10-pull less likely to give her anything good. She'd learned that the hard way after her Hokusai pull had ended in disaster."

On the other hand, since an SSR is guaranteed anyway, saving it for last might provide psychological comfort even if she got unlucky at first.

"Hahaha, I'm such a superstition master." Hoshino, grinning, navigated out of the special store.

Now she faced two choices:

[Special Limited Banner: Divine-Spirit Servants UP]

[Saint Quartz Summon (Limited Pool): Featured Servants from the Mist City London]

"167 Saint Quartz isn't a small amount. I have to plan carefully." Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Hoshino squinted and thought hard.

167 Saint Quartz—if she were harvesting from the kids at Kame Game Shop, she'd have to squeeze 33.4 kids dry. With the little brats nearly all tapped out, this Quartz felt even more precious.

Strategically, pulling from the Divine-Spirit Banner would provide the highest boost to her team's combat strength, but just as she had mentioned before…

That banner was a BAIT!

Over 200 Quartz dropped, and not even one showed up. While that's typical in FGO, in this world, with limited resources, Hoshino couldn't help but suspect that Da Vinci had set this up just to scam her Quartz.

"Guess I'll have to use my tried-and-true Hoshino Superstition #2: 'Throwing Quartz to Test the Waters'!"

Re

Marik, feeling his pocket, wore a look of confusion. "The God card suddenly became agitated."

He pulled the God card from his deck, and sure enough, the radiant light emanating from it, as bright as the sun, illuminated the entire dark street in an instant.

"Is it the Winged Dragon of Ra? What's going on?" Rishid, also witnessing this for the first time, asked in confusion.

Holding the God card tightly between his hands, Malik replied, "I can barely sense it... such intense emotion from Ra..."

"Ra's emotions? I didn't know cards had feelings," Rishid remarked.

"They do, especially God cards," Marik said with a slight smile.

Marik, who trusted no one except Rishid, held nothing back from him.

"Just a now, it felt as though the gears of history that drive this world were turned by someone."

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"I'm done, Hoshino-nee!" came Akasha's light voice from behind the wooden door of the bathroom.

"Ah!" For reasons unknown, Hoshino panicked, and she quickly stuffed the blank card into her deck.

"Need help drying off?" she asked.

"No need, I've already dried off!" Akasha responded, pushing the door open. Swallowed up in Hoshino's oversized shirt, Akasha looked like a doll, her delicate shoulders peeking out as her damp golden hair tumbled down her back.

"Not bad, not bad at all," Hoshino complimented, looking at the porcelain-doll-like Akasha.

"Hoshino-nee, you look awfully suspicious~" Akasha squinted at her with a mischievous smile. "Were you up to something naughty while I was in the shower? You sounded pretty flustered."

This little rascal, she's so sharp!

"Ahaha~" Hoshino scratched her head, laughing awkwardly.

Then she quickly changed the subject. "Let me dry your hair for you. You might catch a cold with it still wet~"

"Okay!" Akasha obediently tilted her head forward, letting Hoshino dry her damp hair.

As Hoshino stroked Akasha's soft hair, the pleasant scent of the shampoo mixed with Akasha's natural fragrance.

"Smell good~"

"You can't eat me, Hoshino-nee! I'm still little, so there isn't much meat."

"I won't, don't worry. I'm not some kind of human evil~"

If I had a little sister, she'd probably be like this, Hoshino thought, feeling a small sense of happiness.

"Hoshino-nee, are your cards all rare?" Akasha asked suddenly.

"Hmm? Why the sudden question?"

"No reason, I was just curious! You've used so many cards, but I haven't seen a single one like them before."

Hoshino smiled smugly. "Heh, if we're talking rarity, my deck is probably the rarest in the world~"

"Oh? Is that so..." Without turning her head, Akasha slightly shifted her eyes, glancing at the two decks placed beside Hoshino's bed.

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"I'm turning off the light now~"

After the lights went out, the exhaustion from the day's events quickly overtook Hoshino, and she soon fell asleep while hugging Akasha.

The night was deep and quiet. The streets, no longer filled with the noise of daytime duels, seemed to suggest that everyone had spent all their energy. Even the toughest duelists needed this moment of peace to soothe their weary souls.

But in the stillness of the night, when all living creatures were at rest, a small figure quietly moved into Hoshino's room...

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