Chapter 358 Graduation Duel
Chapter 1412 Graduation Duel
"Graduation duel? That seems to be happening."
Pushing up the plain glasses that were just a decoration on the bridge of his nose, Hayato looked at Ryo Marufuji in front of him with some confusion: "Wait a moment, let me take a look at the transcripts of this year's graduates first."
Every year at the end of the semester, the Duel Academy will hold an event called "Graduation Duel". However, although it is called "Graduation Duel", the members who can participate include all students in the school. It is only for third-year graduates. Just a special request.
In the graduation duel event, graduates need to accumulate 100 duel points, and the way to obtain points is naturally duel.
Regardless of the outcome of the duel, you will get one duel point for each guaranteed duel, and then you can get an extra point if you duel with a first-year student and win, and so on, if you duel with a second-year student and win, you will get two extra points, and three extra points. The grade is three o'clock.
However, the same opponent can only get points once, regardless of victory or defeat. Fortunately, duel points can only increase and will not decrease due to loss. Therefore, theoretically speaking, if only third-year students duel and win consecutively, only You need to duel twenty-five times to get a score of 100 points and complete the graduation duel. Even if you want to find a first-year student to abuse, it only takes fifty times to complete.
But the graduation duel is not such a simple activity. More importantly, the scores for this duel can be accumulated infinitely. If you can do it, it will be no problem for one person to beat all the students in the school, and the accumulated scores will be At the end, the credits obtained in each semester of the previous years are added together and finally used as the final score of the graduation test.
Theoretically, if you rely on this activity to improve your grades in one go, even if you never take classes or take exams well in the first three years, you can still make up the points required for graduation, or even graduate with honors. After all, as a professional The most important thing for a duelist is actual combat rather than theory - this rule was even set by the founder of the Duel Academy, Seto Kaiba himself.
As for students like Maeda Hayato who have many shortcomings in dueling but are quite talented in other fields, the school naturally has corresponding special plans. Let’s take Maeda Hayato as an example. He just left the school’s special channels and has not yet After graduation, he went directly to the International Illusion Society, and his studies at Duel Academy were not "graduation" but "completion", which did not violate the regulations related to graduation.
Of course, there is another reason why there is no upper limit on scores for graduation duel activities, and that is to make a ranking for all students in the school after adding the final scores to previous years’ scores to get the final score, because previous years’ credits will account for Due to the largest proportion, no matter how hard the students in the first two grades work, it is difficult to compare with the students in the third grade, so the first few dozen students will basically only be third graders.
As the first placer, although they will be tasked with performing a special graduation duel with a performance and commemorative nature, they can also receive a special graduation gift at the same time. Sometimes it is a rare card, sometimes it is a channel to arrange a job after graduation, it all depends on the graduate's own wishes - in other words, the first-place reward can even be understood as a "wishes".
Those who will make the "wishes" come true will be the entire Duel Academy, and even the Kaiba Group and International Fantasy Society behind them. Of course, this also includes the principal of Duel Academy, Hayato Kobayashi, who will also contribute to the "wishes" of the graduate representatives. .
With such a huge supply of resources, as long as they are not outrageous wishes such as "Resurrect someone", "Collect all the Dragon Balls", "I want a [Blue Eyes White Dragon]", "Give me the Yama Sword", etc., in modern times Basically, all wishes that can be realized in society can be realized.
Even if he directly asked for 100 million US dollars, there would be no problem. It would only surprise Kaiba, who knew the wish. "I thought it was just another daydreaming wish, but it turned out to be a beggar." Kaiba could definitely say it. .
Even because Hayato holds the [Quantum Cube], he can freely open the door to the underworld. If he does not ask for "resurrection" but just wants to see someone who has died, even this level of wishes can be fulfilled.
Therefore, even if they don't know the second half, just the wish reward of 100 million US dollars is enough to make students excited. After all, for most people, even if they have an income Even with a generous and decent job, it is difficult to earn $100 million in a lifetime.
"Hmm~ Sayaka Shindo of Obelisk-Blue has a score of 941; Kenichi Yamashita of Sun God-Yellow has a score of 945; Atsuhisa Matsumoto of Obelisk-Blue has a score of 966, as well as Yamaguchi Silly, who is in the same dormitory. Things. I mean Yamaguchi Satoshi, with 971 points. Then there is Yasunori Urakami, who is also in the blue dormitory, with 987 points.”
"Oh? You are the one with the highest score. Ryo Marufuji has a perfect score of 1,000, and your grades are quite good, so you are going to have a graduation duel as this year's graduate representative."
Looking up at Caesar, Hayato smiled and said, "Have you decided who you want to duel with? You can choose from all students in school."
"No, I no longer have an opponent I want to duel with in school. The duel with Yujo Judai is the only one I can look forward to, but that will never happen now, but should happen when I grow stronger The future." Shaking his head, Caesar looked directly at Hayato and said, "Principal Hayato, the opponent I want to choose is you."
"Me?" Hayato pointed at himself and confirmed with Caesar.
Caesar nodded: "Yes, and I am not challenging Hayato Kobayashi as the principal of the Duel Academy and the teacher, but I hope you can duel with me as the legendary duelist, the undefeated and invincible duel king, the absolute strong man Hayato Kobayashi. And this is the 'wish' I want to realize after I got the 'wish' as the representative of the graduates."
Caesar's words made Hayato quite strange: "But the problem is, even as a teacher of the school, you have never defeated me?"
"It's different. Even if you duel with us as a teacher and have maintained an undefeated record for a long time, I and all other students know very well, Principal Hayato, you have never given your all. "Caesar said seriously, "I want to use the graduation duel with you to see how broad the world is."
"I see. It is indeed a good choice to give this duel to you as a graduation gift for you who are about to enter the world of professional duelists."
Hayato turned off the graduation report card on the computer screen, saved the game, and then stood up and said, "Okay, I accept your invitation to duel. I really heard your wish, and you are destined to be together."
It's a pity that there is no 500 yen coin on hand, otherwise Hayato feels that he will be more powerful when he says this line.
"But then again, you want to be a professional duelist after graduation, right? Have you found a professional duelist agency to sign with?"
Caesar nodded: "Duel Academy sends graduates to Kaiba Group's professional duelist agency for interviews every year. I have passed the initial interview and can sign with the agency after graduation."
"It's not bad to be under Kaiba's name. At least it's a formal agency that won't send signed duelists to underground duel arenas without authorization." Hayato smiled, "Also, although it's a very competitive and involuted place for ordinary people, it's quite suitable for strong people with real kung fu. After all, Kaiba is really willing to spend money in this regard."
"For example, Jonouchi saved enough money for a house in Tojino City in five years."
"Mr. Jonouchi Katsuya, the champion of four consecutive professional duelist world championships. Should I say that the housing prices in Tojino City are high, or should I sigh that the prize money for the world champion is generous?"
Even Caesar couldn't help but say it after hearing the news revealed by Hayato.
The reason why the housing prices in Tojino City are high is that even a legendary duelist like Jonouchi Katsuya has to spend all his four-year bonuses to buy a house; the reason why the world champion's bonus is generous is that Jonouchi can afford a house in Tojino City with only four bonuses.
However, this is also because Jonouchi did not use the installment mortgage provided by the Kaiba Group, which most people would choose, but paid the full amount at once, and the place he chose was not a remote area in a corner, but a house in the new capital of Tojino City, and it was even a three-story building.
When Hayato went to Tojino City before, he took a look at Jonouchi's house. Jonouchi told Hayato that he had planned it all. The first floor could be rented out to a quiet store like a cafe to collect rent, the second floor would be used as an office for his own duelist office that he planned to open in the future, and the third floor would be his own residence - it was also fortunate that Jonouchi hated gambling and only drank lightly, otherwise Hayato was really worried that he would quarrel with Peacock Dance and separate in the future and would have to live with his daughter.
As the representative of the graduates, Caesar and Hayato had a graduation model duel scheduled for Friday, which was also the last day of this semester. When the graduation model duel ended, it would also announce the official graduation of Caesar and other students of the 2003 class.
Let’s not talk about Hayato, who was still playing games in the office and didn’t seem to be worried about the duel at that time. But after issuing a “challenge” to Hayato, Caesar came to the vice-president’s office.
"Come in."
"Liang?" Samejima was a little surprised to see that the person who opened the office door was Caesar, "Shouldn't you be preparing to choose your opponent for the graduation model duel now?"
"I have already chosen my opponent, it's Principal Hayato."
"Oh, it's Judai, I knew you would choose... Wait, Hayato?!" Samejima subconsciously thought that Caesar chose Judai as his opponent for the graduation model duel, and suddenly realized that Caesar was talking about Hayato halfway through his speech, showing a surprised expression, "Why did you think-"
"No, it's Hayato. If he said it, it's not wrong. It's better to say that it can only be Hayato." Samejima thought about it and understood why Caesar chose Hayato, "You have tasted the taste of failure and experienced the joy of victory. Now you have the courage to duel. Passion and desire for victory, as a professional duelist, the only thing I lack is probably vision, right? And the duel with Hayato is precisely the choice that can broaden my horizons the most. "
"Will I win?"
"I will lose." Caesar said frankly, with a calm face, "I have won too many times in the past, and I have long been numb to victory. It was not until recently that I realized how sweet victory is compared to the pain of failure. But it is precisely because of this that I am now in need of a heavy enough failure. "
"The ten thousand feet of aiming brought me the oppressive feeling of being on the verge of failure; Yuki Judai gave me a real failure, which made me more eager to win; and Principal Hayato, even if the duel has not yet begun, I know that I can get precious things from the duel with him, and I am completely defeated. "
"Only continuous failures can make me fall into hell completely, and if I can become a ghost in hell, I can see a different horizon."
"Really? That's what you think now."
Because in the world of "Duel-Links", through the duel between Caesar and Judai, he clearly saw his current mind. Samejima knew that his most proud disciple was not as deeply in the darkness as he showed. He was just walking in the darkness in his own way to pursue the light of duel. Therefore, he did not try to preach to Caesar to correct his thoughts.
After all, today's Caesar is an adult who is about to graduate. He is about to enter the society and enter the circle of professional duelists to become a real duelist. "The master leads the way, and the practice is up to the individual" also applies to duels. No one can completely follow the path of the predecessors and must go out of their own way.
Looking at Caesar in front of him, the image of the boy who practiced in the Electron Flow Dojo several years ago appeared in front of Jiaodao's eyes. The two faces overlapped but staggered. Jiaodao knew that although Caesar was still the boy he was back then, he could no longer look at Caesar with the same eyes as that boy back then.
Because now Caesar is already an excellent duelist who is not inferior to him.
Retracting his gaze from the memories and refocusing his eyes on Caesar in front of him, Samejima smiled and said, "You've grown up, Ryo. No, now you call yourself 'Hell Caesar', right? You've really made it, Caesar."
"Even though you are about to graduate from the Duel Academy and are no longer a student of the Duel Academy, you are still Teacher Samejima, even if you are not Teacher Samejima. It doesn't matter if you call me 'Ryo'." Caesar said seriously, "Thank you for your care all the time."
"I have never been partial to you, Ryo. I just provide the best help to the outstanding students in the school as the vice president of the school." Samejima stood up and patted Caesar on the shoulder. "Before graduation, go find Professor Chronos. He cares about you even more than I do."
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