CHAPTER 37: CHAPTER 37: DON’T CORRUPT THE CHILDREN!

The duel has started?

The duel is over!

"Wooo~!"

Feeling the hostile gazes from the audience around, Shen Sui placed the sorted deck back into the dueling device.

Okay, I didn’t really mean to make her cry.

Looking at Tang Lili squatting on the ground and crying, Shen Sui felt misunderstood.

"Why is your deck so underworld?" Tang Lili pointed at Shen Sui, bitterly complaining through tears.

"Mostly because your deck is weak, right?" As a man, Shen Sui admired this cute catgirl, but as a card player, he mercilessly remarked, "How did this deck of yours reach the semifinals? By acting cute?"

Tang Lili bristled again.

Wow, this personality is like a cat too.

Shen Sui thought.

"Alright, I shouldn’t bully little kids." Shen Sui rubbed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache.

"Who are you calling a kid! I’m eighteen! Eighteen years old!" Tang Lili shouted in discontent, "You know the dueling device is only for those eighteen and above, right?"

Uh...

Shen Sui remembered that the Life Card Association indeed had such a rule, to prevent minors from being exposed to the Soul Card World too early, affecting their minds.

But...

"You call this eighteen?" Shen Sui compared to Tang Lili’s height of 1.4 meters.

"If you laugh at me again, I’ll bite you!" Tang Lili glared viciously at Shen Sui.

"Okay, okay." Shen Sui raised his hands in surrender.

"But your deck is really weak." On this point, Shen Sui wouldn’t back down.

"What can I do." Tang Lili said, "The twenty-first Soul Card World is similar to our world; it’s just an ordinary world without extraordinary powers, so the followers from there naturally can’t compare to those from other powerful Soul Card Worlds."

"That’s not necessarily true." Shen Sui said, "Aren’t you using an idol card set?"

"Idols are ordinary people too, you know." Tang Lili said with her hands on her hips.

"But that’s different. Idols still have charisma, right?" Shen Sui stroked his chin, offering advice to Tang Lili, "Since you’re already an idol, organizing a fan support club would be normal, right?"

"My Soul Card already has a fan support club." Tang Lili didn’t find it unusual.

"Since there’s a fan support club, organizing fans to vote should be normal too, right?" Shen Sui said, "So, could you draw a voting spell card, allowing the opponents to gift the followers on your field? Like paying Life Value or Soul Points?"

Tang Lili’s eyes widened instantly.

"Um, also, when someone upsets your Soul Card, couldn’t you guide the fans to cyber bully them? This would allow you to draw a spell card to destroy the opponent’s followers on the field, right?"

Tang Lili was greatly shocked.

"I’m telling you, I’ve dealt with many fan circles. I’m quite experienced in managing one. Do you want to..."

"Shut up!" Tang Lili exploded in anger, jumping up and pointing at Shen Sui’s nose, "I get it! Your deck being so underworld has nothing to do with the cards; it’s you who’s the problem!"

"How can your thoughts be so underworld!"

"An idol! Is a profession that brings joy and smiles to the audience and fans! It’s positive and uplifting!"

"Yeah, these cards can also bring smiles to the opponents, right?" Shen Sui spread his hands.

"Aaaaaaah! You’re driving me crazy!" Tang Lili stomped twice on the spot, angrily turned away, and refused to look at Shen Sui again.

Did I say something wrong?

Shen Sui pondered for a long time.

I thought my advice was reasonable.

"Hey, don’t corrupt the kids." A strange voice came from behind Shen Sui.

No way, why do you all like to suddenly appear and talk to me from behind?

Shen Sui grumbled silently in his heart.

Turning around, it was someone he knew.

Of course, whether the other person knew him was uncertain.

Yuan Youxin.

Known as the Amateur Duel King, also called the Bonus Hunter.

A person who dominated amateur competitions with professional-level skills.

"She’s eighteen, not a kid anymore." Shen Sui said, "Besides, I offered reasonable advice. To become an accomplished Life Card Master, your deck can’t be too weak, or you can’t achieve anything."

"What you said makes sense. Life Card Duel after all, is strength-based." Yuan Youxin sighed and extended his hand to Shen Sui, "Looks like you’re my next opponent. Hi, I’m Yuan Youxin, please guide me."

"I’ve heard of your reputation." Shen Sui shook his hand, "Shen Sui, Tianyi Academy student."

"So you’re Shen Sui, I’ve heard of you." Yuan Youxin said.

The Life Card Master’s circle is large, but the top tier circle isn’t too big. Each year, there are only so many Life Card Masters who achieve results.

"Many online compare you with Xue." Yuan Youxin laughed, "I’ve dueled with Xue a few times, and I admit I’m not as good. But I’m not sure about your level. This makes me look forward to tonight’s finals even more. I hope you can bring me a different experience, since I haven’t lost in such competitions in a long time."

After many years in amateur competitions, Yuan Youxin was a bit numb. In these competitions, he rarely encountered worthy opponents, and the few were usually from the Duel Academy, testing their decks, easily defeated by him.

Yuan Youxin’s reputation in the circle wasn’t great.

The amateur circle resents him for having professional skills but staying in amateur competitions to hunt for prizes.

The professional circle disdains such behavior.

However, Yuan Youxin never paid attention to these rumors.

Making money, after all, isn’t shameful.

"Of course, if it’s only the level shown in that video, that’s far from enough."

Shen Sui didn’t particularly like the tone of this person’s speech, smiled widely: "I’m also looking forward to tonight’s duel. I hope to surprise you."

As they spoke, the Chosen Cup staff came over, ushered them out.

At the same time, a group of people carried equipment into the venue to set it up as a live broadcast dueling arena.

The Tianyi Life Card Theme Park is hosting the Chosen Cup to promote their theme park. If it isn’t broadcasted, wouldn’t it be wasted promotion?

Along with broadcasting the finals, the recordings of the quarterfinals and semifinals were also released.

A recording of an amateur competition usually wouldn’t attract much attention, but when someone mentioned Shen Sui was in the competition, a bunch of busybodies flocked in.

[Is this the person comparable to my Xue? I don’t think so. Not as good as Yuan Youxin.]

[This deck, damn underworld, who taught him to play like this?]

[Wow! Such a cute catgirl!]

[Damn! Shen Sui, you have no heart! How could you go after such a cute catgirl? You made her cry.]

[Catgirl hug!]

[Get lost, those in front! Everyone’s here to watch the duel, if you want to see girls, go to the dance section next door.]

[Catgirl? Where’s the catgirl? Damn! You tricked me, thought there was a new catgirl Life Card, but she’s a real person, boring, not as good as a Maneki-neko puppet.]