Destined to be Yours

Chapter 22: Underhanded Methods

Akia didn't pay him any attention yet again and drew two cards from her deck, according to her spell card's effect. This aggravated him even more, "hey! Don't ignore me you little bitch!"

His opponent looked at the cards she drew and pondered on what to do next, "I know what he's looking for is a reaction from me. If I don't give him any, he'll become agitated and frustrated. That can make him do a mistake in his card play. Now let's see here... I got it! Good."

"I set a card facedown in defense position. I will also set one card facedown," Akia said, "with that, I end my turn."

"You're going down, you little piece of shit. I draw!" Keith kept the insults flowing.

Akia smiled at how worked up Keith was getting.

"You won't have that smirk on your face after I do this!" The man reached for his facedown card, "I flip summon my monster! Say hello to Pendulum Machine (1750/2000)!"

A hologram of a machine-like monster materialized on Keith's side of the field.

"Such a powerful monster right from the start..." Yugi stated.

"I'm so worried about Akia... Keith is such a... brute!" Anzu expressed her concern.

"Akia said that she'll win, and I'm putting all my faith in her. She won't lose," Jounouchi declared with confidence.

"That's right. You guys haven't seen her duel that much. I've seen most of her duels on this island. When she's serious, nobody can ever stand in her way."

Akia was looking at Keith's monster, hoping for it to attack.

"Pendulum Machine, attack her puny facedown card!" Keith declared an attack with his Pendulum machine, revealing Akia's monster to be Banisher of the Light (100/2000). Due to its superior defense points compared to Pendulum machine's attack, Banisher of the Light wasn't destroyed and counterattacked with his light.

"Wait, what...?" Akia looked at Keith's Life Points, confused at what they displayed, "why didn't you lose any Life Points? According to my monster's superior defence, you should lose 250 points."

Keith chuckled, "did you really think I'd go down that easily? My machine monsters are all made of a special metal. They can't be destroyed by magic or non-physical attacks."

"I see..."

"Well, that means that normal attacks won't work. All of my monsters use magic attacks. Gren Maju Da Eiza, no matter how strong it gets, won't even scratch these things," Akia pondered on what to do.

"Haha! Giving up yet?" Keith scoffed at his opponent.

"Are you done with your turn?" Once more, Akia completely dismissed Keith's snarky remarks.

"Tch. Yeah, I am. Bitch."

"He keeps calling me bitch... That's when you know that he has nothing better to say," the red-eyed girl chuckled internally.

She then brought her hand to her deck, drawing her next card, "I will set a facedown and then I will activate my spell card: Card Destruction! This card requires that we both discard our entire hand and draw the same number of cards discarded. Since my Banisher of the Light is face up on the field, all of our discarded cards are removed from play."

"What...?!" Keith was getting worried, since his most powerful monster, Barrel Dragon (2600/2200) was now going to be removed from play for the entirety of the duel. His demeanour changed however, when he drew his new hand of six cards. It was even better than his last set of cards.