Stacking The Deck - Chapter 25.2 (Patreon)

The next day, as classes ended early at lunch, Yarden was more or less the first out of the door. Granted, he sat at the back of the class with Alexis, Jasmine and Mindy, so it wasn't far, but he was still up and out pretty quick.

"Like, what's the rush?" Jasmine huffed, having to speedily power walk to keep up with him.

"Yeah, you're never exactly one for staying in class long, but you tend to leave pretty slowly," Mindy pointed out with a raised eyebrow, "You never really rush…anywhere."

"I heard last night from Zane that Yugi's deck is going on tour and the first stop is here," Yarden slowed down a bit, a bit taller than him they may be, but they had to walk in incredibly short skirts and high heeled ankle boots. The Obelisk female uniform was great for guys to look at and made them look hot as all hell, but it wasn't exactly practical, "It's going to be announced over the intercoms in a bit according to him, I figured we'd skip all that and go get tickets now."

"Wait, really?" Alexis who had just been following along, more used to his whims paused, eyebrows raising and a glimmer of excitement flashing in her eyes.

"Yup," Yarden grinned at her, stepping over to wrap his arm around her waist and resting his hand on her stomach, "Not really all that exciting to me, but I knew you'd be super into it, so I figured I'd grab us all some tickets and we can go together."

"What'ya mean not exciting?" Jasmine goggled at him, "That's Yugi's deck! The best duellist like ever, the King of Games himself!"

Huh…even Jasmine put that much stock in seeing it?

"And?" one of his eyebrows rose in question, "It's just some cards at the end of the day, and not any I really have an interest in now since I already have the only card in his deck that would be worth checking out."

'Aw master, you're making me blush~' Dark Magician Girl tittered in his head.

'I meant Curse of Dragon.' Yarden deadpanned.

He still wasn't happy with her for daring to insinuate a man who wore a spiked choker and leather pants, and who looked like he came straight out of a bdsm submissive club was more manly than him.

He'd show her once he could get his hands on her! It wouldn't be long now until he acclimated fully to Relinquished's power and he could bond with Dark Magician Girl.

Then, not only would she be able to guide him through using his energy for different purposes easier, he would give her that spanking she so deserved.

'Sure you did~' she giggled, 'And can't wait master, let's see if you have the guts. Besides, I never said that, I only said if you measure manliness in girls, Atem had way more than you. He had hundreds, you have one human girl, two maybe's and me. If you measure in power, he also beats you. Though if you measure in muscles, you win.'

Tch.

That still meant he lost in two out of three categories.

'So competitive~' she giggled again, fondly.

"Of course your only interest would be Dark Magician Girl out of Yugi's deck," Alexis snorted, "Don't you feel any sense of awe at all, it's the best deck in the entire world, with it even a complete amateur could very well defeat pro's."

"Debateable," Yarden pulled her gently into his side with a smirk, "After all, I'm pretty sure I could take it and Yugi." he boasted confidently.

Especially if it was the same one used in the original timeline that Jaden fought. Yarden would clap the shit out of that deck with his. Dimitri would be lucky to last three turns if it were that one. That deck was no threat without the god cards.

…It would be a lot tougher if it was the deck he saw him use last against Kaiba though after he learned about the new variations of cards he had from Dark Magician Girl.

That shit was whack. Most of Yugi's iconic monsters like his magnet warriors, magician girls and shit had all new powerful variations. Dude even had two new versions of Gandora and who knew what else since he hadn't been in much public duels since his last one against Kaiba that got interrupted and cut off.

Not to mention there was apparently a whole archetype around one of the cards and fusions he got from Dark Magician Girl, Aleister the Invoker that seemed to be a pretty nasty archetype to duel against.

"There you go again running your mouth," Jasmine snorted, "You proved us wrong before, so I'm not willing to say you don't have a chance, but do you really believe in your own hype that much?" she asked, casting a brief frown at his arm around Alexis' waist before meeting his eyes.

His smirk just grew, "Baby, I am the hype." he shot back, and held his other arm out for her, inviting to come into his embrace.

Her frown deepened and she shook her head, denying him, "Somebody really needs to beat you soon before your head gets any bigger and you float off into space," she rolled her eyes, continuing on as if their little silent exchange never happened, "It's not as cute as I remember it being in the beginning."

"That's just cuz' he's dating Lexi now." Mindy pointed out with an impish grin, and took him up on his offer in Jasmine's stead, stepping into his arm and wrapping it around her waist.

"I dunno, I think I'd pay to see him duel someone good enough to beat him," Alexis smirked over his shoulder at her black haired friend, "Might cool him off a bit and be a good learning experience at the same time."

"Ouch," Yarden mock winced, tightening his grip slightly around both girls waists and forcing them to begin walking with him, "Excuse me while I storm off in a tantrum to brood."

"You'd have to let go of us first for that genius." Alexis rolled their eyes.

"Yeah, see, I thought about it for a split second, and decided that brooding isn't worth letting go of my super hot girlfriend and her hot friend," he shrugged, "I'll just have to not be an edgy wimp and deal with emotions normally."

"Hey, why does Lexi get super hot and I only get hot?" Mindy pouted.

"Probably because he's seen me in my underwear, that or special treatment." Alexis shrugged.

Mindy blinked, "Huh…okay, fair enough."

"Wait, already!?" Jasmine shouted, shocked.

Yarden smirked all the way to the card shop.

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When they got the card shop, it was empty of customers except for them. The only person in the shop right now currently was Sadie.

"Each ticket costs a thousand DP," Sadie explained, "So that'll be four thousand in total."

Eeesh, pretty expensive just to get in a small room and look at some posters of Yugi Moto and his deck in a display case. One hundred pounds per ticket that amounted to, four hundred in total.

He could buy multiple season tickets to Celtic games for that total amount. That was blasphemy.

Granted, football was a lot less popular here and so the tickets were even cheaper here, but still.

"Alright, ring them up." Yarden shrugged in the end and replied, bringing out his PDA.

"Alrighty." Sadie nodded and did just that.

"You don't need to pay for us you know, we have our own funds." Alexis pointed out.

"Meh, lemme spoil you a bit," he turned around and leaned back against the counter and grinned at her, "Besides, I'm practically rolling in DP here, got over two hundred thousand at the moment."

And he'd get a lot more soon. He just had to bide his time and do some betting when the time came.

"T-two hundred thousand?!" Jasmine sputtered, going wide eyed, and she wasn't alone, Mindy usually one that didn't get shocked easily had her eyes fly wide open as well and even busty blonde girlfriend's mouth fell a bit low.

"Yup," Yarden basked in their shock with a grin, "You have no idea how much DP I make a day, especially after I started dating you Alexis, every time I get to the dorm a bunch of the clowns challenge me, I mope them up and rake in easily ten thousand a day, they seem to think I'll slip up at some point if they keep challenging me."

As if he ever would. Honestly, it was quite boring, and his Cyber Dark Dragons practically oozed dissatisfaction into his mind, after the first few idiots he clowned on with them, they actually lacked the desire to fight.

They wanted to fight the strong.

Which was why Yugi's deck might be a good test for them. If Dimitri actually stole it again at least.

He eyed Jasmine specifically after explaining to them and raised his eyebrow challengingly at her.

After all, funds were one of the excuses she gave.

She grimaced, understanding his meaning and looked away.

"…Well that's impressive, I only have like four thousand left." Mindy scratched the back of her head and giggled lightly.

"I've got seven thousand, I've been using most of mine on cards," Alexis shrugged after regaining her bearings, "Just how many wins do you have so far?" his girlfriend asked.

"Check for yourself." Yarden shrugged, flicking through his PDA to his profile and holding it up for them to see.

Name: Yarden Odhar
Age: 15
Birthday: 01/11/XX
Dormitory: Obelisk Blue
Status: First Year
DP: 222,750
Wins: 400
Draws: 0
Losses: 0

He'd been at three hundred and ninety four wins this morning, so mopped up a few of the clowns at his dorm when they were growling at him to get it to an even four hundred.

They were just that easy to goad. One mention of how he couldn't wait to invite Alexis back to his room later after class and bam, they were on their feet demanding a duel.

"F-four hundred?!" He got to bare witness to the rare event of his cool headed girlfriend sputtered in shock.

"Zero losses and draws as well," Jasmine grimaced, "…I knew it was gonna be absurd, but damn, no wonder you're so full of yourself, that's crazy, not even Zane has a record that clean."

"Well obviously, since I beat him." Yarden pointed out smugly, basking in their wide eyed looks.

"Well, I mean, yeah totally, but Zane has more wins than you, but he's also got a few draws and a couple losses," Mindy pointed out, "Lexi's older bro was his big rival, total top tier duellist and a total hottie at the same time."

Huh, they knew about Atticus.

…Actually, they were Alexis' more or less childhood friends so of course they would.

There was a coy little smirk on the woman's face.

…She'd caught him checking her out a few times, and he'd maybe a few times directed her to bend down low to get to a card for him to check out on purpose.

"I like what I like." he shrugged, picking up the tickets.

"Oh, I know, trust me." Sadie snorted in amusement, raising her eyebrows knowingly.

…So yeah he'd flirted with her a little bit since he was always at this shop. And he was a pretty big spender.

He could feel a set of eyes burning into his back.

That was definitely Jasmine.

"So, anyway," Yarden coughed, "I'm looking for a specific card, want to see if you have it in stock." he changed the subject.

"Well, give me the name and I'll take a look if we have it in stock," Sadie's coy smirk grew and leaned forward a bit, "Better hope it's not on a low shelf this time, eh?"

Two more gazes burned into his back. Somehow, this was enough to annoy even Alexis.

Damnit.

"Right, well the name of the card is Falling Current," Yarden quickly pushed on, "It lets you target one monster face up in your control and change it to either a level one, two or three monster."

It was a long shot since it was a pretty new card where he was from, but he'd gotten his Diamond Head Dragon not long ago and was looking through his heavy hitters and remembered the card and how well it would go with some of his base fusion monsters like Kaiser Dragon.

Like with it, he could make Kaiser Dragon a level one and equip it with Fusion weapon, boosting its attack to thirty nine hundred. And then to take it even further he could add Opti-Camouflage Armour, letting it attack directly, or even Triangle Power that would boost its attack by another two thousand.

"Hmm?" Sadie tapped her chin in thought for a moment, "We do have a few of them, came out last year if I remember right? Not really a popular card, so they're only worth like a hundred DP each, gimme a sec to go dig a few out." she gave him a cheery wink and turned around, hips swinging and rear end stretching out her thigh length dark blue skirt like a shelf noticeably.

She was doing that intentionally!

…Still, nice!

"Hey lap dance boy," a petite hand landed on his shoulder, "Something you want to come clean about?" he felt large, soft breasts press against his back and Jasmine's dry voice directly in his ear.

"I think I'd be interested in hearing this as well." Alexis's voice added dryly.

"Really Yarden, the card shop counter girl as well?" he could practically feel Mindy shaking her head in disappointment.

"…In my defence," Yarden turned around, finding himself nose to nose with Jasmine, "I flirted with her before I was dating you Alexis."

"Who haven't you flirted with on this island?" he got a point blank look at Jasmine rolling her eyes, "Honestly, you'd probably hit on a tree if it was shaped like a woman's crotch." she huffed, standing back.

Hey…now that was just hurtful.