01x20 - Hidden Messages

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Now, the exchange of rings!

I attack with Kirara, boosted by Tough Boy!

Wedding hold!

This isn't quite what I had in mind...

But maybe this isn't so bad...

Miss Emi?

Goal in!

Well, Kamui, since you lost to me, we're
getting married like you promised, right?!

Where shall we go on our honeymoon?

I've always wanted to sail on the Seven Seas!

No! I don't wanna marry you!

Your new house will be on
a hill overlooking the sea.

Let's move!

Not a chance!

T-True, I did lose to you!

But Team Q4 hasn't lost!

So our agreement is still up in the air!

I see. Whichever team wins two
matches first wins the tournament.

We lost the first match to Team Handsome, but
there's no way Kai will lose the second one...

That'll make it a tie.

Huh? Then...

The match after that one,
my win or loss, decides it?!

I beg you, Brother! Please beat Gouki!

It's a successful defense!

Resurrection!

This is it!

Everything is sacrificed
to the Malevolent Soul...

of the Immortal God of Destruction!

M-Misaki...

I-I really think you should
play instead of me.

What are you saying?

Well, if I do play as scheduled,
and Team Q4 loses because of me...

You said you'd stay in
it to the end, remember?

Th-That's right, I did...

The Hidden Message

It's the regional tournament finals...

And let's move on to the second match!

Good Luck, Team Handsome

W-What should I do?

What should you do?! Brother,
please do your best!

My future with Miss Emi is on the line!

I can't do it! I know I can't!

Aichi's totally freaking out!

Oh, Aichi!

All right! I, Katsumi Morikawa,
will stand in for him!

You can't!

What the heck?! Don't
sh**t me down in harmony!

For one thing, you're not registered as a
team member, so it's out of the question!

OOTQ!

I don't blame him.

All this time, he's been
dependent on the team,

but now it's his responsibility
whether they win or lose.

Who wouldn't panic?

When you put it that way... It's like, if
they sold stress, he'd be all stocked up.

From the team that can't lose
again, Team Quadrafolio...

Or Q4, for short...

Toshiki Kai!

I know! If I left here...

I'm sure Misaki would fill in...

I would never fight a guy
who ran away, even once.

What's he talking about?!

...Versus Kaoru [Ka-boom]
Komatsubara from Team Handsome!

Is that really part of his name?

Yes! Ka-boom!

Okay, Ka-boom!

Let's blow it up!

Rip off that guy's mask of c*ck!

Yes, ka-boom!

If you lose...

you're gonna eat a thousand sea urchins!

Ka-boom?!

Please do your best, Mr. Kai!

Kamui the Great's fate is in your hands!

Jeez! "Mr. Kai"?!

What the heck is that?!

Everyone, cheer him on! EC, yo!

Forget it!

Until the jerk honestly admits that I'm
the strongest Cardfighter there is,

there's absolutely no way
I'm gonna root for him!

Kai! Get outta there and let me take over!

What were you just told?! It's impossible!

This guy's a riot!

I have to cheer for him?!

Naturally! After all, your fate's
in his hands, isn't it...

Mr. Husband?

Give it all you've got!

For a four-leaf clover, Quadrafolio
still has a long way to go.

Kai...

The second match of the regional
championship final fight...

Let's start!

Stand up, the Vanguard!

Stand up, Vanguard!

In this second match,

Kai is playing with a Kagero deck, and
Ka-boom is playing with a Granblue deck!

What a great match-up!

This is so boring!

Just be patient until the awards ceremony.

After we give flowers to the
winning team, our work is done.

The winning team, huh?

Hey, do you think that boy has a chance?

I'm not really interested anyway.

Oh, Kourin, you're saying things like that again?!

I would never fight a guy
who ran away, even once.

After all, it would be way better
if Misaki switched with me.

I mean, Kai must know that I'll lose...

Ka-boom of Team Handsome is going first!

I draw!

I ride Samurai Spirit, ka-boom!

When a Granblue unit goes
to the Vanguard Circle,

Guiding Zombie can move to a
rear-guard circle, ka-boom!

That's the end of my turn.

You've gotten to the finals,
so you're a pretty good player,

but against a guy like me, who has
experience playing at the nationals, you're no match!

I'm gonna win this match real quick, ka-boom!

It's my turn.

Draw.

I ride the Embodiment of Armor, Bahr.

When another Kagero unit

enters the Vanguard circle,
the Lizard Soldier, Conroe,

moves to a rear-guard circle.

I call two Iron Tail Dragons.

Attack Samurai Spirit!

Damage trigger check, ka-boom!

Conroe gives a boost!

Bahr attacks!

Drive trigger check.

Got a critical trigger!

Bahr gains +1 Critical.

He does 2 damage!

Ka-boom! That came out of nowhere!

Wake up!

Iron Tail attacks!

Skeleton Lookout, ka-boom!

My turn ends.

This is awesome!

In just the second turn, 3 points of damage
have been delivered to last year's winning team!

It was a fast and furious attack!

Huh?! Sounds like things
are popping out there!

Kai, making his debut here
with this impressive match,

is receiving roars of
approval from the crowd!

I'm not surprised!

He is the strongest Cardfighter after me!

Nobody believe him!

NB, yo!

Those little brats...!

Well, they are right.

Kai lives up to expectations, doesn't he?

What, that's no big deal...

Doin' great!

Kai really is great...

Compared to him, I'm...

What are you doing?!

If you lose, I mean it, it'll
be a thousand sea urchins!

D-Don't worry! He just caught
me off guard, ka-boom!

O-Or rather, think of it as me
giving him a courtesy, ka-boom?!

Hiroshi, prepare the sea urchins!

Now I'm psyched, ka-boom!

Now it's my turn!

I'm gonna show you the power of
a national tournament fighter!

At the bottom of the deep blue sea,
where even sunlight doesn't reach,

there are undead pirates!

That's...

The doomed souls of these pirates,
along with their ship...

I ride, ka-boom!

I call Samurai Spirit, Ruin Shade,
and the Dandy Guy, Romario, ka-boom!

I attack with Ruin, boosted by Romario!

I attack Bahr!

Then I activate Ruin's skill!

I put the top two cards from
my deck into the Drop Zone,

and Ruin gets +2000 added to her power
until the end of the battle, ka-boom!

Go-go-go!

Here I go!

Drive check!

Ka-boom!

Check.

I'm not done yet, ka-boom!

I attack with Samurai Spirit,
boosted by Guiding Zombie!

It's gonna be 3 damage?!

What the heck is he doing?!

No guard.

Now this is what you'd expect from
last year's winner, Team Handsome!

He returned Team Q4's furious attack
with a fierce attack of his own!

Yes! Now they have 3 damage, too!

He caught up quickly, right?

Yeah!

You get it now?! That's the power of
somebody who's played at nationals, ka-boom!

Yeah, I get it.

I get that there's nothing I
can gain from you, either.

There he goes!

So he's finally done warming up, huh?

Nothing you can gain from me?!

You've got nerve, sayin' that to a
guy who plays at the national level!

I know you're frustrated that you're no
match for us, but those are some sour grapes!

His coolness is second only to Kamui!

Darn that Kai! If he loses
after talking big like that...

I'll do this and this to
him and go like this...

Kai...

Draw.

I ride the Dragon Knight, Nehalem!

I move Iron Tail Dragon.

I call Chain-attack Sutherland
and Gattling Claw Dragon!

I activate the Iron Tail
Dragon's Counterblast twice!

The Dragon has +2000 power
until the end of this turn.

Then Iron Tail Dragon receives a
boost from Gattling Claw Dragon...

and attacks Captain Nightmist!

Next, Nehalem attacks, boosted by Conroe!

Check.



Boosted by Iron Tail Dragon...

Chain-attack Sutherland attacks!

Romario guard!

And then Ruin Shade intercepts!

Turn end.

Ka-boom!

It's a series of fast and furious attacks!

Ka-boom has successfully defended!

What are you gonna do next, Ka-boom,
now that it's down to the wire?!

Ka-boom! Now it rubbed off on me! Ka-boom!

"Successfully defended"? The
guy's skating on thin ice!

TI, yo!

A-At this rate, I'm up the creek!

Me, the guy who played at nationals...

Sea urchins!

Ka-boom!



Oh, woe is me, ka-boom!

Wait a sec... I scored 3 points
of damage on my first attack, too!

I'm gonna finish the
match this turn, ka-boom!

I ride Spirit Exceed, ka-boom!

I call Skeleton Lookout!

Captain Nightmist's Counterblast!

Resurrect, Nightmist!

With the Counterblast, he got to
take it out of the Drop Zone...

I know this move...

Ready?! It's Gouki's surefire
Infinite Resurrection Hell, ka-boom!

Nightmist, boosted by Samurai Spirit,
attacks your Nehalem, ka-boom!

The Embodiment of the Spear, Tahr, defends!

Next, I attack with Exceed!

No guard.

Why isn't he protecting himself?!

Why?!

Picture it.

Maybe Kai is trying to tell me something...

Picture it...

Kai...

Twin Drive!

Ka-boom! No trigger, huh?

But I still have one attack!

Go for it.

I will go for it, ka-boom!

With a boost from Romario...

Skeleton Lookout attacks!

No guard.

Kai!

Kai?!

Why didn't you protect yourself?!

It's not like you didn't protect yourself.

You knew you would win
without protecting yourself.

This makes us even, 5-5.

All I have to do is get through the next
turn, and victory will definitely be mine, ka-boom!

W-Why...?

The arrow fell short of the mark...?

Final turn!

F-Final turn, you say?!

Get real, ka-boom!

I'm gonna last through this turn and then
I'm gonna get my team to the nationals, ka-boom!

Draw!

I ride Blazing Flare Dragon!

I activate Gattling Claw
Dragon's Counterblast!

It retires one of my opponent's grade 0 rear-guard units from the field!

My Skeleton Lookout...

Gattling Claw moves to the Soul.

I activate Blazing Flare Dragon's skill.

When your opponent's card has
been moved to the Drop Zone,

the Dragon's power increases by
+3000 until the end of the turn.

What?!

On top of that, I activate
Sutherland's skill.

With this one, too, when your opponent's
card has been moved to the Drop Zone,

Sutherland's power increases by +3000.

And then I call Bahr!

I attack with Blazing
Flare, boosted by Conroe!

N-No! I can't defend myself!

Twin drive check.

First...

Second...

Got a double critical trigger!

Is he a demon?!

The demon's too strong!

The winner is Toshiki Kai!

The winner of the second match of the final
round of the regional championship tournament...

is Team Q4! A brilliant victory!

Overkill!

That kid was pretty amazing, y'know?

He saw through it all...

His opponent's ability...

Maybe right from the beginning...?

He really is incredible. I'm not
even close to being in his league.

But I wanna get strong like
you, and then fight you again!

And yet, here I was, thinking only
about losing or running away...

That doesn't do any good!

Ya know...

Weren't you overdoing it?

I bet you freaked out Aichi there even more.

Not quite.

So you're going last, huh?

Th-This time, I'm not gonna lose!

There you go!

Huh?

Aichi...

Brother...

Aichi! If you lose this, you'll be sorry!

That's not encouraging!

He's already under a lot of pressure...

But it's a good pressure.

All right, it's time for the
regional tournament final match!

Laugh or cry, this is it!

The last battle!

Stand up...

Vanguard!

Overkill, huh?

Well? Did you understand his message?

Huh? You knew, Misaki?

That Kai sent me a message...

Hooray for male bonding, right?

Right...

But the pressure keeps piling on...

Do your best. You're a boy, aren't you?

You too, Misaki?

My opponent is Gouki!

Next time: Rematch in the Final Match!

When I close my eyes, I picture
them right in front of me...

Zombies! The undead! Ghosts!