The non-original characters in this fanfiction are copyrighted to Kazuki Takahashi, Studio Gallup and Toei where applicable. All other characters are considered public domain by the author and may be used freely, but he does request that you ask permission as a courtesy.
The card names used are translations of the Official Card Game (OCG) names. For the TCG names, see the "Cards used" at the end of the story. And don't forget to e-mail me your thoughts (vm_postitnotes@yahoo.com). Thank you very much for reading.
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Mark Walker and Hinata Toragami were still in the midst of their duel. Both players still had 4000 life points. Mark's field contained Levia-Dragon Daedalus and his ace for the duel, Rainbow Snake Eingana, along with a facedown card. Toragami had her ace, the Judgment Dragoon.
However, she only had nine cards left in her deck.
"It's my turn," Toragami said. "I'll draw."
"Before you do, I'd like to tell you one thing," Mark said. "In the interests of full disclosure, I thought you should know about Rainbow Snake Eingana's special effect. You see, if Eingana is destroyed, whether it be in battle or through a card effect, all of your monsters are automatically destroyed as well."
The crowd gasped as Mark's strategy became apparent.
Toragami eyed her opponent.
"You place your belief in your deck, don't you?" she said. "I suppose you think that makes you a true duelist."
"Of course," Mark said. "What kind of duelist would I be if I didn't?"
"I'm going to teach you something about belief," Toragami replied. "Trusting in your cards and the strategy you've created to come through for you... that isn't enough. Your belief will fail you."
Mark chuckled and ran his fingers through his hair. "Are you trying to get in my head?" he said. "I wouldn't think someone who was called the 'Blitzkrieg Queen' would resort to mind games."
"This is not a mind game," Toragami said coolly. "It's a simple fact. What you believe in is not enough. That's all."
She looked at the card she drew and placed it in her hand.
"My next move," she stated finally, "will prove it to you."
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YU-GI-OH! -0
Turn 17: "The Paradox of Fate! Judgment Dragoon VS Blue Ice White Nights Dragon"
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Toragami drew the cards in her hand together and pointed at her opponent. "First... I'm going to pay 1000 life points to activate Judgment Dragoon's effect."
"What?! But that will just destroy the entire field!" Katsuki shouted.
"Go!" Toragami shouted. "Erase everything with the light of truth!"
The Dragoon's body glowed all white, and then released this gathered light onto the field. It was so bright that the entire audience had to shield their eyes.
When the light finally faded, all the monsters - Lightlords and Sea Serpents alike - and the cards on the field were blanched white except for Judgment Dragoon. Their holograms shattered one by one.
"Rainbow Snake Eingana's effect activates now," Mark said. "And it'll destroy your Judgment Dragoon!"
A rainbow burst came out of Eingana's shattered body and rippled through Toragami's field. It struck Judgment Dragoon, who reeled back, roared and eventually shattered himself.
The audience was up in arms.
"That guy... defeated the Blitzkrieg Queen's ultimate card!"
"I can't believe it!"
"We don't know which way this match will go now!"
Katsuki looked ready to spit. "I can't believe this!" she muttered. "Why on earth would Toragami-sama intentionally trigger that losing dog's effect?"
"It was probably a smart move," Aino mused.
"Huh?"
"By destroying all the monsters on the field, Toragami doesn't have to send ten cards to the cemetery on the end of her turn," Aino said. "She needs to limit her deck loss now, or she'll lose the whole match."
"But... without Judgment Dragoon..."
"Have you lost faith in Toragami-sama already?" Aino replied with widened eyes. "Surely you know she's capable of winning without Judgment Dragoon."
"I know, but..."
"Or perhaps you're acknowledging that Mark Walker is a skilled duelist?" Aino's expression suddenly turned into a coy smile.
"I... what... no! I... hmph!"
"That's not all," Mark said. "My facedown card? It was a card whose effect only activates when it's destroyed while facedown, so I must thank you. Reveal trap... 'Dowsing Point'! Because of its effect, I can select any Monster card in my deck and place it in my hand straightaway!"
Tenjouin and her colleagues watched the duel from the faculty room above the stadium.
"My student's playing well, don't you think, Tenjouin-san?" Ra Yellow dormmaster Abe said.
"Yes, very well," Tenjouin said with a smile. "I'm sure we'll get a good match n..."
Tenjouin cut herself off when Mark revealed his choice of card.
"I take the Blue Ice White Nights Dragon from my deck," he announced. "And it goes to my hand."
"Blue Ice..." Chiba gasped.
"...White Nights Dragon?!" Isabel finished.
"Impossible!" Katsuki and Aino shouted together.
Toragami's eyes widened; apparently, she couldn't hide her own impression.
While the rest of the audience was surprised utterly at Mark's acquisition of such an ultra rare card, Tenjouin, on the other hand, was horrified.
'How could he have *that* card?'
"It looks like that American boy got his hands on an interesting card," Chancellor Kiyotaki remarked.
"Kiyotaki-kouchou..." Tenjouin cast an accusatory glance at the Chancellor.
"I have nothing to do with what's in Mark-san's deck, Tenjouin-san," Kiyotaki said, raising his hands a bit defensively. "The fact is, his family has enough resources to send him to Duel Academia, so it should come as no surprise that he has access to such rare cards."
Tenjouin turned back to the duel and clenched one arm with the other. 'Blue Ice White Nights Dragon... I used that card when I was a member of the Society of Light. As Kiyotaki-kouchou said, I was complicit in a plan to destroy the world...
'Cards and decks hold memories, and that one holds a memory of a 'me' I do not wish to remember. And it keeps coming back to haunt me... Why?'
Tenjouin squeezed her arm hard.
'Do you want me to use you again... White Nights Dragon?'
"So your plan is to use that card," Toragami said. "But my turn has just begun. I summon from my hand, Lightlord Magician Leila in attack position."
A black-haired woman wearing white religious robes and a cape and holding a jewelled wand materialized on the field.
"Leila!" Toragami commanded. "Attack my opponent directly. Light of Purity!"
Leila pointed her wand forward in front of her, and a blast of white light shot out of the orb, striking Mark's chest. He staggered back as his life points dropped to 2300.
"I'll set two cards facedown and end my turn," Toragami went on. "And send three cards from the top of my deck to the cemetery, due to Leila's effect."
A light shined from Toragami's Duel Disk, and her third and final Beast Wolf appeared on the field.
Mark blinked. "I thought you were going to show me something," he said. "Something about my belief not being enough."
"I already have," Toragami said. "You believed your Eingana would prevent me from using Judgment Dragoon's power. But it didn't stop me. And now you're relying on your deck to get you out of this situation. Am I right?"
"Well, I wouldn't be sure I'd have room to talk!" Mark chuckled. "By my count, you had nine cards left in your deck and four in your hand when you started your turn. And I knew what two of them were - Lightlord Beast Wolf and Lightlord Barrier.
"One of those facedowns is, of course, Lightlord Barrier, isn't it?"
"You're very perceptive," Toragami said. "In fact, I'm sure you've been verifying each and every card I've sent to the cemetery, haven't you?"
Mark stammered a bit. "W-well... yeah, of course."
"Your eyes are on the past," she replied. "Like most people, you look to things that have happened in the past to guide your future. That is why most humans are doomed to continually repeat the mistakes of history."
"Now I know you're trying to confuse me," Mark said. "We're having a friendly match here, so let's just get on with it, shall we?"
"As you wish," Toragami said.
'Of course, I'm really bluffing,' Mark said as he drew his card. 'There's no guarantee that either of Toragami's cards are what I think they are. All I really know right now is that she has one Beast Wolf in her hand.'
He glanced through his hand. 'I studied all of the Lightlord cards before preparing for this match. Most of Toragami's most helpful cards are in her graveyard. I know I'm safe from Mirror Force. That went to the graveyard early in the match.
Finally, Mark looked at the card he drew, and smiled broadly. 'What am I worrying about, really?'
"First off, 'Killer Snake' goes from my cemetery back to my hand," Mark said. "Then I activate from my hand, the spell card 'Heavy Storm'!"
A wind began to whip through the arena.
"What a guy," Katsuki said. "To get that card when he needed it the most!"
"Alright!" Isabel shouted, thrusting her hand into the air. "Fight, Mark!"
Toragami's facedown cards were revealed before they were destroyed - 'Lightlord Barrier' and 'Vanquishing Light'.
''Vanquishing Light'... that would have been an annoying card,' Mark thought to himself. 'She could have tributed one of her monsters to negate the summon of mine. But now that that's out of the way, I can proceed with my combo!'
"You only have five cards left in your deck," Mark said. "Which means you have very little to choose from to deal with what I'm about to play!"
"He can't be saying he's going to summon the Blue Ice White Nights Dragon," Aino said. "Even if he had Legendary City Atlantis in his hand, he still would need two sacrifices to get it out."
"No!" Chiba shouted. "That's not the goal of his deck. His true goal is..."
"I activate the spell card... 'Raise Dead'!" Mark shouted, using its Japanese name. "And I use it to revive Rainbow Snake Eingana!"
The rainbow-colored snake unfurled itself on the field, hissing loudly.
"Next, I'll put the spell 'Big Wave Small Wave' into play," Mark announced triumphantly. "With this spell, I must destroy all water-attribute monsters I control, and for each one, I can Special Summon a water-attribute monster from my hand."
Tenjouin gasped. "'Destroy'? That means..."
Eingana's hologram shattered into pieces, and another rainbow wave emanated from it.
"Rainbow Snake Eingana's monster effect, activate," Mark shouted. "When it's destroyed in battle, or by any effect, all of my opponent's monsters are immediately destroyed!"
Beast Wolf and Magician Leila were struck by the rainbow and were shattered as well.
The arena began to rumble with power once more.
"I have two cards in my hand," Mark chuckled. "I could summon Killer Snake, but that would be a joke, wouldn't it? No... the card I summon is a great elemental beast of pure power... unequaled in the world of water and ice!"
A bright light erupted in front of Mark, which once again temporarily blinded the audience.
"Come out, my ace of aces... Blue Ice White Nights Dragon!"
A sea of water congealed itself into ice and took the form of a winged dragon - one that bore remarkable resemblance to the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Its attack points, at 3000, were equal to that dragon's, and its roar had a distinct sound that was like the Blue-Eyes, only hollow and echoic.
"So his real plan was to revive Eingana and then destroy it while getting the White Night Dragon out," Abe said. "Very good."
Tenjouin hit the window with her fist and choked back a sob.
"Tenjouin-san?" Osiris Red headmistress Matsutani asked.
"It's okay, Matsutani-san," Kiyotaki said. "That monster just holds a special significance to Tenjouin-san."
Tenjouin hadn't remembered her past with the Society of Light, but it was flooding back to her quicker than she could handle. The deeds she had done while her heart had turned to ice... and the duel that shattered that ice.
'I had wanted to forget that part of my life,' she thought. 'But you won't let me make a mistake like running away from my past... would you, Judai?'
After his dragon was summoned, Mark blushed and rubbed the back of his head.
"Hey... that felt pretty good," Mark grinned. "A guy could get used to this making speeches stuff."
Toragami looked up at the beast and then back at her opponent. "So that was your true intention," she said. "I have to applaud you. It was a well thought-out strategy."
"Thanks for the compliment!" Mark said. "But I wouldn't say it's over yet, would you? 'It ain't over until the fat lady sings!'"
"W... what?" Chiba blinked, utterly confused.
"It's an American expression," Isabel said, translating for him. "It means nothing's over until the last move is played."
"But, Toragami-san only has 3000 life points since she used Judgment Dragoon's effect," Chiba replied. "If Mark-san's attack connects, it really is over!"
A glimmer appeared in Mark's eye, and he prepared himself. "Blue Ice White Nights Dragon!" he commanded his creature. "Attack Toragami-san directly... White Night Lightning!"
The dragon roared and shot a chilling blast of energy at its opponent. Toragami stared down the blast directly, not moving as the blast exploded around her.
"ĄDios mio!" Isabel shouted.
"Mark..." Chiba muttered.
"...won?! That dog *won*?!" Katsuki yelled, pulling at her hair.
"No," Aino said. "It's not over."
When the image of White Nights Dragon's attack cleared, Toragami's life point value was unchanged.
"Are you wondering why I haven't taken any damage?" Toragami said, and displayed a card from her hand to Mark.
Mark choked a bit. "Arcana Force XIV?!"
"That's right," Toragami said as she placed the card into her cemetery slot. "Arcana Force XIV - Temperance. By sending this card from my hand to the cemetery, I've negated the damage your dragon would have given me. It was a noble effort, but in vain."
Tenjouin's eyes rolled back and she swooned.
Abe ran to help her out. "Tenjouin-san, are you okay?"
"Arcana Force?" Tenjouin whimpered when she came to. "Toragami-san has those cards... why..."
Kiyotaki gripped his hands together. 'First the 'Hierophant's Wand' and now Arcana Force cards. These apparent coincidences may not be coincidences at all. Given Tenjouin-san's extreme reactions... It would seem that Toragami Hinata may be the holder of that light..'
Mark gritted his teeth. "Damn it," he sighed. "I was hoping to end it here. But I'm not finished yet. Turn end."
"My turn," Toragami said. "Draw. Since you have a monster and I have none, I can activate Cyber Dragon's special effect, Special Summoning it from my hand."
A white, metallic snake-like dragon appeared on the field.
"Now I'll sacrifice my Cyber Dragon to summon Lightlord Dragon Gragonith to the field."
The Cyber Dragon shimmered away to be replaced by the Lightlord's regal dragon, not as commanding a presence as the Judgment Dragoon.
"Oh dear," Chiba gasped.
"What is it, Chiba-kun?" Isabel said. "That Dragon can't do anything at 2000 attack points."
"It gains 300 attack points for every Lightlord in the cemetery, Isabel-san," Chiba said. "Mark is in real trouble now. The Blue Ice White Nights Dragon can't match that kind of power."
"The Lightlords in my cemetery - Jean, Garoth, Leila, Luminous, Beast Wolf, Ehren, Raikou, Jenice and Cherubim - lend me your power to defeat the opponent in front of me!"
Gragonith's power rose by 300 for each monster Toragami counted off - to 4700.
Chiba's eyes widened. "All those new Lightlords!" he shouted.
"As expected from the Blitzkrieg Queen, of course!" Katsuki chuckled. "That rat was just fooling himself to think he had a chance! Toragami-sama's old deck was unbeatable, her new one even more so!"
"Lightlord Dragon Gragonith," Toragami ordered her monster. "Destroy Blue Ice White Nights Dragon!"
Gragonith reared back and shot a blast of light at Mark's dragon. It penetrated its chest, causing the ice around its body to shatter and for the dragon's hologram to explode amid a stream of smoke.
Mark's lifepoints took a hit as well, lowering to 1100.
"Lucky shot," he muttered.
Toragami blinked. "So you still think it's about luck," she said.
"Luck is what drives this game, and I think you know that better than anyone," Mark said. "You haven't won yet, and on your end phase, you have to send three cards to the cemetery because of your Gragonith. That will leave you with just one card in your deck."
"Gragonith has another effect," Toragami reminded him. "In case you were thinking of laying that Killer Snake in defense position, it can penetrate defense."
"You're right," Mark conceded. "I guess that means I have to rely on my deck to come through for me!"
"I end my turn," Toragami said. "And as you said, I send the top three cards of my deck to the cemetery."
Mark watched the cards she sent carefully. 'Honest, Light Spiral and Charge of the Light Brigade,' he thought. 'So she had a card like Honest. This girl is full of surprises. But she's right. If I don't draw something good right now, I'm doomed. But if I can just survive this turn...'
"My turn," Mark shouted. "Draw!"
He glanced at his card and, once again, grinned widely. "Looks like luck is on my side after all," he said. "I summon... Tribe-Infecting Virus in defense mode!"
A red gas cloud appeared on the field.
Boos echoed in the auditorium from those familiar with the card.
"What a cheap card!"
"Go back to America!"
Mark smirked and rubbed his nose. "By discarding one card from my hand, this monster can destroy any type of monster I choose," he said. "I send Killer Snake to the grave and choose Dragon types!"
The gas cloud spread across the field, covering Gragonith, who began to choke and cough. In an instant, its hologram vanished from the field.
"See there? Luck plays a powerful role in this game," Mark said. "And you can't win 'em all!"
Toragami glowered at her opponent. "What you call luck... can you really rely on that?" she said.
"Hunh?"
"What you're talking about is not luck. It's fate," Toragami said. "And fate is predetermined. It cannot be altered. Until you understand that, you're powerless to change it!"
"Wha...? Did you just say that you can't change luck unless you know you can't? I'm confused."
"I'll give you an example." Toragami placed her hand on her deck. "There's a card you need, and it's in your deck, but you are unable to draw it."
"We've all been in that situation," Mark said. "But you're bringing it on yourself by wrecking your own deck with your monsters!"
"On the contrary, I've ensured my win by doing so," Toragami responded. "Because as I've sacrificed the cards in my deck, I've reduced the possibility of drawing cards I don't need. And now that I only have one card in my deck, the chance that it is the card that I need...
"...becomes 100%."
Chiba gasped softly. Whatever he thought he saw before... he was definitely seeing it now. A light that shined around Toragami so brightly that it made her body look darker in comparison. But Aino, Katsuki and Isabel didn't seem to notice.
"Draw!" Toragami shouted. "I summon Prophet of World Creation!"
A magician wearing a veil and holding a staff appeared on the field, light emanating from her.
"Is that the card you were waiting for?" Mark asked, confused.
"It is," Toragami said. "Prophet of World Creation's effect activates. By sending one other card in my hand, I can return a level 7 or higher monster in my cemetery to my hand. And, like you, I only have one other card."
She sent the Lightlord Beast Wolf in her hand to the cemetery.
"You... you knew that card was at the bottom of your deck?" Mark grumbled.
"I did not 'know'," Toragami said. "Someone like you could not understand. You should simply accept your weakness! I return Judgment Dragoon to my hand, and summon it now!"
For the second time, the Judgment Dragoon ripped its way onto the duel arena.
"This is bad," Chiba said. "There's nothing Mark can do to avoid losing now!"
"I never had any doubt," Aino said. "Did you, Katsuki-chan?"
But Katsuki was already gone.
"Judgment Dragoon!" Toragami ordered. "Cleanse the field, and annihilate my opponent... with the light of truth!"
The field once again became bleached in white as Mark's Virus cloud was destroyed. He didn't even have time to recover as Judgment Dragoon's attack came quickly, a beam of condensed light that struck Mark with such force that he fell off his feet onto the ground.
The match was over, and Toragami had won.
"You were looking to the past, to the cards that I had buried," Toragami said as Katsuki began removing her duel disk from her arm. "To be the victor, you must always look to the future, and to the victory that is yours. Otherwise, you will never be able to change your fate. Otherwise, you will always be a loser!"
Mark bit his lip. 'Could Toragami be... cheating? No. She used an Academy Duel Disk, the same as me. But she somehow had faith in the cards up until the end. I was just hoping I'd get what I need. How... how can she do that?'
"That was awesome, Toragami-sama!" Katsuki squealed. "You put that losing dog in his place!"
Toragami didn't respond, just turned away from her opponent and left the arena.
The announcer's voice swum over the arena. "The winner and still undefeated, TORAGAMIII HINAAATA!"
Mark frowned and walked away from the arena, dejected. Chiba and Isabel met him.
"I'm sorry, Mark," Isabel said in English. "It was really close."
"How did she know what her last card would be?" Mark said quietly.
Chiba raised his voice to say something about what he saw, but thought it best to keep it to himself.
"She's a great duelist," Mark went on. "Like the other legendary duelists, she has total faith in her deck... not like me."
"Mark..." Isabel said in a disappointed voice.
"I'm going back to my room," Mark said. "I'll see you guys later."
Isabel watched Mark go. 'His fighting spirit's gone...' she thought to herself. 'He's lost before but he's never taken it like this. That Toragami really is fearsome...'
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After the duel, Asuka Tenjouin returned to her room and looked over her deck.
She had been working on it awhile, albeit not intending to duel with it, but now it seemed truly as though, like Kiyotaki said, the time was approaching where she'd have to use it.
A bad omen hung in the air.
Tenjouin's PDA rang, and she answered it, fearing the worst. "Hello?"
"Come to the medical office quickly," was the response on the PDA. The ID said it was from Ayukawa, but the voice didn't sound like hers.
"Who is this? What's going on?"
*click*
"Hello? Ayukawa-sensei? Hello?!"
No response.
Tenjouin felt a chill go through her. 'It's Shougo-kun,' she thought to herself. 'It has to be!'
She grabbed her deck and headed out the door.
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"That was an awesome duel, wasn't it?" an Obelisk Blue student said to another, as they walked back to their room.
"I was scared!" the other replied. "I almost thought that that American guy had it in the bag! That Toragami-san is a demon!"
"No kidding."
But suddenly their path was blocked by an Osiris Red student.
"What do *you* want?" the taller one of them said.
"You were talking about Toragami," the Osiris said. "Where is she?"
The tall Obelisk chuckled derisively. "What, you want to challenge her? Don't make me laugh!"
"Where *is* she?!" the Osiris repeated, his tone becoming harsh.
"S-s-she just finished a duel with some Ra Yellow guy!" the shorter one stammered. "The whole school was watching! Weren't you there?"
The Osiris was breathing heavily, as if he had been running for some time. He stepped out of the shadows he hid in.
The tall Obelisk gasped. "I know you... you're..."
"I have some time to kill," the student interrupted him. "How about I duel you two?"
The short student looked nervous. "Us? Come on, we're tired. We just want to get back to our rooms."
"Is that a no? Then I guess you lose by default." He activated his duel disk and put a card on the panel.
Moments later, two screams were heard...
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TODAY'S FEATURED CARD: The Effect Monster, "Prophet of World Creation"
Level 4 Light Spellcaster, attack power 1800, defense power 600. By discarding 1 card from your hand, add 1 Level 7 or higher Light-attribute monster from your cemetery to your hand.
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Chiba: "It's an emergency! How terrible! Shougo-kun has vanished!"
Tenjouin: "It's no mystery where he is. Students start to show up in the infirmary, apparently having dueled recently. They have no energy to even move."
Isabel: "Are you saying that Shougo-san's doing this? Impossible!"
Aino: "Tenjouin-sensei struggles to find Shougo before Toragami-sama does, knowing if the two meet each other, an intense battle will begin."
Chiba: "Shougo-kun!! Regain your true self! This is not who you are!"
Aino: "Next time on Yu-Gi-Oh! Negative Zero: 'A Desperate Search! Countdown to a Battle of Destiny.'"
Tenjouin: "Aoyama Shougo... I won't let Darkness swallow you whole! I'll definitely stop this!"
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CARDS USED BY MARK WALKER:
* KILLER SNAKE (Sinister Serpent)
Effect Monster (L1 Water Reptile, 300/250)
During your Standby Phase, if this card is in your cemetery, you can place it in your hand.
* RAINBOW SNAKE EINGANA
Effect Monster (L7 Water Sea-Serpent, 2200/2400)
If this monster is destoyed and sent to the cemetery, destroy all monsters your opponent controls.
* DOWSING POINT
Normal Trap
If this face-down card is destroyed, select 1 Monster Card from your Deck and place it in your hand.
* BLUE ICE WHITE NIGHTS DRAGON (White Night Dragon)
Effect Monster (L8 Water Dragon, 3000/2500)
Negate the activation of a Magic or Trap Card that targets this card and destroy it. When a face-up Monster you control is selected as an attack target, by sending one face-up Magic or Trap card you control to the cemetery, change the attack target to this card.
* HEAVY STORM
Normal Magic
Destroy all Magic and Trap cards on the field.
* RAISE DEAD
Normal Magic
Select 1 monster from either player's cemetery and Special Summon it to your side of the field.
* BIG WAVE SMALL WAVE
Normal Magic
Destroy all face-up Water-attribute monsters on your side of the field. Then you can Special Summon, from your hand, Water-attribute monsters up to the same number as the monsters destroyed by this card's effect.
* TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS
Effect Monster (L4 Water Aqua, 1400/1000)
Discard 1 card from your hand and declare 1 Type of Monster. Destroy all face-up monsters of the declared Type on the field.
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CARDS USED BY HINATA TORAGAMI:
* LIGHTLORD MONK EHREN (Ehren, Lightsworn Monk)
Effect Monster (L4 Light Warrior, 1600/1000)
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f this card attacks a Defense Position monster, return that monster to it's owner's Deck before damage calculation. During your End Phase, send 3 cards from the top of your deck to the cemetery.
* LIGHTLORD BEAST WOLF (Wulf, Lightsworn Beast)
Effect Monster (LV4 Light Beast-Warrior, 2100/300)
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. When this card is sent from your Deck to your cemetery, Special Summon this card.
* LIGHTLORD BARRIER (Lightsworn Barrier)
Continuous Trap
Send 2 cards from the top of your deck to the cemetery to negate an opponent's attack against a "Lightlord" Monster you control.
* JUDGMENT DRAGOON (Judgment Dragon)
Effect Monster (LV8 Light Dragon, 3000/2600)
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except when there are 4 or more unique "Lightlord" Monsters in your cemetery. By paying 1000 Life Points, destroy all cards on the field except this one. During your End Phase, send 4 cards from the top of your deck to the cemetery.
* LIGHTLORD MAGICIAN LEILA (Lyla, Lighsworn Magician)
Effect Monster (LV4 Light Spellcaster, 1700/200)
You can change this card from face-up Attack Position to face-up Defense Position to destroy 1 Magic or Trap Card your opponent controls. If this effect is activated, this card's battle position cannot be manually changed until the end of your next turn. During your End Phase, send 3 cards from the top of your deck to the cemetery.
* VANQUISHING LIGHT
Counter Trap
Sacrifice 1 "Lightlord" Monster you control. Negate the Summon of a monster and destroy it.
* ARCANA FORCE XIV - TEMPERANCE
Effect Monster (LV6 Light Angel, 2400/2400)
During either player's turn, you can discard this card from your hand to reduce Battle Damage from 1 attack to 0. When this card is Summoned, flip a coin and apply the appropriate effect:
- Heads: Halve all Battle Damage you take.
- Tails: Halve all Battle Damage your opponent takes.
* CYBER DRAGON
Effect Monster (LV5 Light Machine, 2100/1600)
If you control no monsters and your opponent controls at least 1 monster, you can Special Summon this card from your hand.
* LIGHTLORD DRAGON GRAGONITH (Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon)
Effect Monster (LV5 Light Dragon, 2000/1600)
This card gains 300 ATK for each unique "Lightlord" Monster in your cemetery. When the ATK of this monster is higher than the DEF of a Defense-position monster it destroys, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. During your End Phase, send 3 cards from the top of your deck to the cemetery.
* HONEST
Effect Monster (LV4 Light Angel, 1100/1900)
During your Main Phase, you can return this card from the field to its owner's hand. During the Damage Step of either player's Battle Phase, you can discard this card from your hand when a Light-attribute monster you control battles to raise its ATK by the ATK of the opponent's monster until the End Phase.
* LIGHT RESILIENCE (Light Spiral)
Continuous Trap
When a card(s) is sent from your Deck to the cemetery by a "Lightlord" monster's effect, remove the top card of your opponent's Deck from play.
* LIGHTLORD REINFORCEMENT (Charge of the Light Brigade)
Normal Magic
Send the top 3 cards of your deck to the cemetery. Select 1 "Lightlord" monster in your Deck and place it in your hand.
* PROPHET OF WORLD CREATION (Herald of Creation)
Effect Monster (LV4 Light Spellcaster, 1800/600)
Once per turn, you can discard 1 card from your hand to add 1 Level 7 or higher monster from your cemetery to your hand.
