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Happy birthday!

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The reason for coming to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, Li Bai no longer wants to investigate and ponder.

Before that, she could be said to be a mentally unsound person, and none of them seemed to be a complete personality in the eyes of the outside world. Not knowing a lot, not understanding a lot, the new world was a good thing for her, and she learned a lot here—with her family, friends, and even enemies, she drew from all the joys and pains she had experienced.

She began to know how to grow, began to understand what the so-called reality was, and began to become more like a person.

Hidden in her heart, the prototype of the celestial body that represents the microcosm of her mind continues to evolve as she grows and realizes. It will begin to spread with her ease and joy, and it will revert to a blinding white light with her pain and sorrow—it is not just a celestial body, it is a mirror, a link of emotions and wills, and has evolved over many years.

Since separating from Nelofa, Li Bai has never taken the initiative to come here, she doesn't want to deliberately recall what she once said to another girl who is exactly the same here, she doesn't want to think about it anymore, whenever a similar thought arises, she will remember the truth she once saw in a certain book.

"I should have been kind to myself." Whether this sentence is really useful or not, people will always like to listen to it or repeat it to themselves.

As a result, this mysterious area of the mind was no longer cared for for a long time, and even its ruler did not want to look at it again.

"You've been looking forward to this day for a long time." Step by step into the gloomy palace, Li Bai walked straight to the figure that had appeared in her nightmares many times.

The connection between the same source has exerted a more terrifying attraction than ever as the distance closes, and it is unimaginable that just looking at each other here, she will actually rise a flame of hope in her heart.

She couldn't help but remember the beautiful images that had happened in the dreams that had been haunting her lately.

"Really...... Restless feeling......" Stopping, Li Bai couldn't help but clamp his slender legs under the long skirt, and a touching pink appeared on his fair cheeks.

"The lion is still ...... I really didn't lie to me again, indeed, too close to your words...... I'm probably going to do something terrible, something I can't forgive myself......"

Smuggling in by boat from the cliff near the edge of the lake, Li Bai felt that she had thought through everything, she had not encountered any enemies on this route, and perhaps those soldiers and generals did not expect that at such a juncture, someone would take the initiative to go to the enemy's base camp to do this kind of thing that was no different from sending them to death.

"So at this distance, continue our unfinished duel."

Nelofa put down the hand covering his eyes and looked up at Li Bai, who was twenty paces away from him.

After struggling from her chaotic memories, she reverted to her usual frivolous and indifferent look, but it seemed that something was different.

"You're right." "I've been looking forward to this day for so long that I've almost forgotten what we're looking for," she says...... I have been looking forward to this moment for countless nights and dreams, where I have pursued your apparitions, and I have repeated them again and again...... And now you're standing in front of me. ”

“…… I'm not going to let you slip away again. ”

Feeling the gaze of the familiar blazing gaze, Li Bai frowned, and his fist under the lace cuffs clenched tightly: "'We'? 'What are we determined to pursue'? Ha...... What nonsense are you talking about, we had the opportunity to create a future that may be a little ordinary but has no regrets, but the people who abandoned this future...... Isn't it you? A mixture of the Dark Evil God Zocnelofa and Mithra's First Princess, Skelin Phil, the Conscious Memories - when you choose to prove your existence to me in that way, it's hard for us to be so simply together...... Please don't say anything more 'we', it's you who gave it up! The choice is yours! It has nothing to do with me! ”

"So do you want me to deceive you at that moment, when I have clearly recalled some of the reasons for my existence, and still think that I am simply 'Her Royal Highness the Princess'?"

Immediately following the words that did not fall, Nelofa calmly retorted: "Unfortunately, I don't think that's wrong, if I do, I'm sure I'm a fool, and I might lose you completely." ”

"You've lost me a long time ago, when you later choose to return to Mithra with Nit."

Li Bai interrupted her with an angry expression: "Everything you did was for your selfish desires, just because I left you on that day and didn't choose to accept your invitation, you chose to persecute me through such a self-righteous behavior...... Doesn't that make you feel guilty? Do you think that in this way, I will be able to willingly obey you? You are so naïve! ”

If there is one of the many behaviors of Nelofa that makes Li Bai feel the most disappointed and puzzled, it must be that she took the initiative to provoke this dimensional battle at the forefront, she doesn't understand why the other party will not even give her a little patience, and rely on her own subjective will to force her to accept something, completely ignoring how much life will change the trajectory of life.

Li Bai herself is not a very kind person, she doesn't have the mentality of compassion and love for any living creature like some innocent characters in the movie, she just can't accept such a way, and she can't understand why the starting point of a widely implicated ordeal is so ridiculous.

"Selfish desires, hey......" the woman in the gorgeous dark black dress sighed softly, "It seems that you didn't believe my brand, what she once said to you." ”

"'A system of integration and innovation that prepares for threats from beyond time and space.'...... In that case, how do you want me to believe it? Not to mention that you're just guessing. Smiling disdainfully, Li Bai raised his left arm that had fixed the dueling plate: "Come on, the opportunity you have been waiting for for a long time is in front of you, and your true thoughts and soul will be verified through this duel!" ”

"If I said that an accident happened before you pushed the door open and I changed my mind about continuing this fight, you might say that I was belittling and teasing you......"

Shaking his head and sighing, Nelofa waved his hand to summon the mist that filled the hall, condensing them into an ice-crystal-like duel disc in his left arm.

"But from other perspectives, being said to be selfish is actually a correct interpretation, okay? I'm desperate to get something out of my way to you, and the duels, while not the most ideal, are enough for me to complete them......"

"Then stop talking nonsense!" Li Bai pursed the corners of his lips, and the five cards were instantly pulled out of the duel plate by him, "I'll start the first attack......

"Attack me first." Nelofa took the first step to draw the sixth card [Note], feeling the unhappiness in Li Bai's eyes, she naturally smiled: "How can I say that I can be regarded as occupying the convenience of the home field, and the role of the starting arrangement is naturally reasonable to be given to the host...... Unleash the Perpetual Magic Card [Dark Tent]! ”

[Dark Tent] Perpetual Magic: If the card you draw in the gacha stage is a dark monster, you can send it to the graveyard after showing it to the other party, and then you can draw a card from the deck again.

"Pitch Black Tent ......" Li Bai stared for a moment.

I came up and filmed this thing, does this mean that I want to fight a protracted war?

Still is...... Decks consciously specialized?

The Black Account is a card that has a 0 or even negative return on the round it is played, but it has a very high long-term return. You must know that there are many, many excellent monsters suitable for being piled up in the graveyard in the huge category of dark attribute monsters, if the deck is specially constructed with an ultra-low demon trap ratio, once it is "drawn to the dark attribute monster - launch the dark tent - open - send to the graveyard - draw 1 - is the dark attribute monster - launch the dark tent ......" such a cycle of the program gallops, then in the next round the opponent will continue to filter out most of the card deck is not an accident.

"Then set a monster in the front court and fold two more cards."

After completing the deployment in his round, Nelofa spread out his free right hand at Li Bai: "It's your turn." ”

"......" Li Bai took out his sixth card, looked down, and then his expression darkened faintly.

There's no magic, no traps, and the highest attack power of any of the lower-level monsters that can be played directly is only 1500 - this hand is really not good, and it can even be described as bad, and it's not a little worse than the opponent's balanced start...... But since they have all arrived in this field, she can't have any way out, or only the person she is facing, even if there is a way out, she is not willing to give up.

"I summon the Divine Dragon, the Inspirational Dragon, and enter the ......"

"I'll follow your summons and open the fold!" Just when Li Bai had just called out the low-level monster with the highest score in her current hand, Nelofa quickly clicked on the trap card she had deployed.

"Usually the trap card [Ambush], which can be activated when the opponent summons or reverses the summoning, the effect is that I can choose a special summon of a dark attribute monster with LV4 or below from my hand, and the monster I want to choose is actually very familiar to you." She picked one of the two remaining cards in her hand and flipped it over: "It's still this guy - the Knight of the End!" ”

Followed by the dragon that seemed to be composed of golden and red flames, the red turban knight wearing rusty armor also appeared, but a more unusual scene really appeared at this time, that is, after the monster appeared, it did not wave its long sword to pull the monster in the deck and send it to the graveyard as usual, but just stood there and did not move.

"Knight of the End...... Don't choose to activate the Graveyard effect? Li Bai's eyes widened, the abnormal phenomenon in such a critical battle could never make her feel at ease that it was the other party's mistake, her heart lost control in an instant, and began to beat violently in her chest.

Generally speaking, there is only one consideration for abandoning the activation of the "inducing effect of the chain caused by the special summoning of the monster" at this point.

"You're right, I'll choose this way, naturally, to prevent the timing of other inducing effects of subsequent insertion from being stuck." Nelofa read her thoughts from Li Bai's tense expression, and nodded approvingly: "Giving up the small for the big, that's pretty much it...... Because of the special summoning of the Knight of the End, I continued to open another gaka that met the activation conditions. ”

"Hell's Rampage Summons!"

[Hell's Rampage Summoning] Rapid Attack Magic: There is a table on the opponent's field that indicates the existence of a monster, and it can only be activated when you have a monster with an attack power of less than 1500 on your own field. The monster with the same name as the monster with the special summon attacks all the cards in your hand, deck, and graveyard to indicate a special summon. The opponent selects 1 monster that is indicated on the side of the opponent's own field, and the monster with the same name as that monster is specially summoned from the opponent's own hand, deck, and graveyard.

"Giving up 1 chance to Exact Pile Graves is for 2 of the same chance, and also includes 2 new Dark Monsters......"

Seeing that the second and third Knight of the End were specially summoned to appear, Li Bai's heart suddenly became empty.

She looked at the high-spirited, white-haired woman standing in front of her, her eyes full of phantoms of her past.

In an instant, the unknown layer that covered her eyes shattered.

(Finally forced it out.) ）

Nelofa's gaze gradually moved up from Li Bai's pupils to a nearly transparent crown suspended directly above her head.

This enigmatic crown played a pivotal role in their last face-to-face encounter, when the concept of "darkness" belonging to Nelofa was completely suppressed by the crown, otherwise she would not have watched Li Bai flee there under her nose.

At that time, she thought that this crown was the embodiment of Li Bai's subconscious "absolute rational will".

And until recently, she still thought so.

(But I now know very well that this is not the case...... ）

(It's not that simple.) ）

Nellofa bit her lip unconsciously, staring at the crown, and her body under her skirt trembled imperceptibly.

(Now I'm just...... One of the many mes, like many who used to be, repeats the process of moving from ignorance to self-knowledge. ）

(In this respect, Shiro is the same as me, but she is difficult to awaken because I have divided too many souls.) ）

(But this thing is different.) ）

If Li Bai could raise her head distractedly at this moment, she would definitely be surprised to find that Nelofa, that extremely domineering guy with a strong subjective will, would actually reveal such an emotion in her eyes at this moment.

A mixture of amazement, fascination, pity, sadness, pain, anticipation...... They were blended together and turned into an indescribable weight, pressing on the top of Li Bai's head and directly above the crown that Li Bai was wearing.

Yes, since the memories of reincarnation were suddenly put together, of course, Nelofa knew very well at this moment what the meaning of the crown represented.

That's not "absolute coldness and sanity".

It is the product of many "Li Bai", with many "life" pursuits and dreams, and a collection of many "desires" and "hatreds".

It is the most important puzzle piece of the Path of the Fire Sword, the most important key to reconstruct the world, and the most important weapon to subvert fate, the Crown, a replica of the crown.

A pinnacle of ideas.

A treasure as fragile as a dream.

A flower that blooms from time.