Chapter 60: Aisha, Breaking the Limit 4/10
"Anyone else not performed their summon yet? Class is about to end, no waiting after the bell."
Sitting on the podium, frequently tapping her toes, it wasn't hard to see that Teacher Aileen, having held back all morning, was already impatient to go for a smoke break after class.
"Mmm, what's bound to come will always come."
If asked who hadn't performed their summoning test yet, it would inevitably be our exceptionally popular student Aisha today.
As the 「Destined Rival」 fiercely contested by Kevin and Luca, this summoning class made Aisha feel an inexplicable pressure.
The former summoned a Ritual Monster that synergized with Red-Eyes Black Dragon , the [Paladin of Dark Dragon] with nearly top-tier 4-star attack power.
The latter was even more exaggerated, summoning a Level 7 boss monster like [Splendid Rose Queen] in a weekly summoning class.
Sandwiched between two 'destined rivals' with perfect scores, her own pitiful summoning ability was truly not presentable.
"Maybe I should just give up..."
"Idiot, how can you give up a summoning opportunity."
The moment Aisha's mind produced the thought of escape, You Ling captured it and sternly reprimanded her.
"For your worthless bit of face, wasting a monster summoning opportunity! Aisha Carlos, where is your pride as a Duelist?"
"QvQ Wuwuwu, so mean, what do you mean worthless bit of face. Then Mr. You Ling, you go in my place."
"No, too embarrassing, I'm not going."
After all, You Ling judged that his face was probably slightly more important than Aisha's.
Actually, You Ling hadn't been without trying to summon Duel Monsters in Aisha's place before.
He originally thought that monster summoning, determined by the Duelist's mentality and potential, might change somewhat after he and Aisha exchanged souls.
As a result, reality dealt a heavy blow to You Ling's naivety.
When You Ling stood in the magic power amplification ritual, staring eye-to-eye with the Level 1 [Skull Servant], the way the surrounding classmates held back their laughter made You Ling feel the greatest humiliation of his life.
Since then, You Ling realized that as long as he was using Aisha's body, even exchanging souls to perform monster summoning was useless... it wouldn't work no matter who did it.
But intuition told You Ling that this time would definitely be different.
After experiencing the battle with the Pharaoh, Aisha Yuna Carlos, as a Duelist who forced out a god, had grown to a certain extent in both mentality and realm.
"It's time to prove yourself, Aisha! A person can't be unlucky forever."
"O-okay, Mr. You Ling!"
Not particularly confident, but after You Ling's reprimand and encouragement, which was like a slap followed by a sweet date, Aisha resolutely embarked on the path of summoning.
"Oh, student Aisha is still left, go ahead."
Teacher Aileen's eyes were dull, her expectation value infinitely close to 0.
Rather, Teacher Aileen had already written a large 0 next to Aisha's name on the scoreboard in advance.
Of course, it wasn't because she looked down on Aisha, but simply because Teacher Aileen had developed muscle memory for grading Aisha's summoning class.
In the entire classroom, perhaps only Luca Slint, who had just transferred today, held a sliver of expectation for Aisha's monster summon.
"I wonder what kind of monster student Aisha will summon. As a Duelist who counterattacked Kevin, student Aisha's summon must be very powerful, right?"
Resting her elbows on the table, Luca cupped her chin with both hands in a very cute posture, her large blinking eyes filled with innocent expectation.
So innocent that if such expectant eyes were let down, one would even feel a deep sense of guilt.
"Student Luca, I advise you to lower your expectations a bit." Yilin gave Luca a heads-up in advance.
"Why?"
"Although Xiao Ai has been quite formidable in duels recently, she has always been weak in summoning."
"Very formidable in duels, but always weak in monster summoning?"
Luca's eyes changed to look puzzled, looking blankly at Yilin beside her.
"Isn't that self-contradictory? If you can't summon powerful monsters, how can you possibly be formidable in duels?"
Kevin answered in her stead: "Because Aisha has her own way of fighting, a possibility that transcends the limits of monster power itself."
"Ah, this..." Kevin's answer surprised even Yilin, "Kevin, when did you become such a good flatterer of Aisha?"
"I'm just telling the truth. If she didn't have that level of strength, she wouldn't be qualified to be my destined rival. Transfer student, you'll know when the time comes; Aisha in a duel is like a completely different person from usual."
Fusion Academy's number one Aisha flatterer, no, perhaps it should be said, the number one You Ling flatterer, was probably the current Kevin Set.
"Completely different in duels from usual, huh."
For Luca, Kevin's description sounded like it had hidden meanings. Looking at Aisha's aqua-blue eyes, a few unusual fluctuations spread through her pupils.
"Oh~ Maybe she's a Duelist of the same type as me, how interesting."
Stepping onto the magic power-filled amplification ritual, Aisha clasped her ten fingers together, praying silently.
"Gathered elven wishes, please respond to my soul's call!——Monster Summon!"
The summoning magic power condensed, looking very weak, no different in essence from Aisha's usual monster summons.
Looking at it this way, this monster summon should also be trash, no doubt.
However, just as the weak monster's volume was gradually materializing and about to take shape, a subtle change occurred.
The Elven Eye twinkling on Aisha's arm, although not very obvious, genuinely shot some kind of energy into the summoning effect.
This represented that the Elven Eye had defined the holder's 「growth」.
Finally, a monster of a brand new form leaped out of the summoning ritual's effect.
[Relinkuriboh ★ DARK][Fiend-Type/Effect ATK: 300 DEF: 200] ( Sacrificial Kuriboh / Relinkuriboh)
A furry, grayish spherical monster扑ed into Aisha's arms; although it was a DARK Fiend-Type, it could still be considered within the realm of cute.
"It's actually a trash monster."
Luca, cupping her chin, seemed to have already foreseen this scene after being given a heads-up by Yilin.
"Holy crap!"
"Th-th-this?"
"Is this really that Aisha's summon?"
However, the surrounding classmates' excited reactions to Aisha's summon this time were completely different from what Luca imagined.
"What's going on, isn't this just a bona fide trash monster?"
"So you still don't understand Aisha Carlos, transfer student." Kevin, winning back a point in a strange area, said smugly: "This is already a monster summon that surpasses her limits."
"Huh? This kind of monster can also be considered surpassing limits?"
If this was the truth, Luca couldn't even imagine how weak Aisha's previous summons must have been.
"Full marks!"
Teacher Aileen, with a flourish of her pen, directly added a "1" in front of the "0" she had written on the scoreboard next to Aisha's name in advance, changing it to 10 points.
"(ﾟ△ﾟ;ﾉ)ﾉ Eeeh? This also gets full marks, is it really not an inside job?"
Patting Luca's shoulder, Yilin explained in her stead.
"After all, this is a historic major breakthrough, no wonder everyone is so excited."
"Historic major breakthrough? You're kidding me."
"Really, Xiao Ai, this is the first time she's summoned an Effect Monster."
"Actually, the first time summoning an Effect Monster... So just how weak were the monsters student Aisha summoned before?"
Such a person, how on earth did she defeat Kevin Set.
No, perhaps it should be said, how did she win against Dark Duelists?
Luca felt like she had been played.
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