Yugioh Card Summoner

CH.44 Trying out Card Summoner

“So this is your unique skill.” I heard Lucia say quietly. 

“It’s a part of the system?” Trystan seemed to question.

“Yeah,” I said in a voice so that everyone could hear. “With ‘pack opener’, I can open some packs every day, and from the packs I get cards that can be summoned.” I told everyone. “I’ll demonstrate now how it works.” And open the two packs I didn’t open in the morning while at it. I’ll just open some Legend of Blue Eyes. I want a toploader Pot. Or you know, just a Blue-Eyes White Dragon would be nice as well. And even if I get nothing good, they will act as decent summoning fodder for everyone.

As always, yes.

Nothing good here. But that’s to be expected.

I hear the students, more like observers mutter things like “so that’s where he gets them” and “I see”. I don’t want to explain this part, so no questions on it. 

Let’s just quickly open up the other one so we can get to the good stuff.

Another one with just basic stuff. The equips I’ll probably use as sleeve fodder and the monsters we’ll use as test subjects.

“So that’s how I get these cards. I won’t answer any questions about this part, so don’t ask.” I told everyone. Not that I would even know the answers to the questions. I don’t know how my skill really works. It just does, OK. 

“I have a question.” Christina said. I said no questions. “What are those symbols on the cards?” 

“Symbols?” What does she mean? “What symbols?” I asked her.

“Could you take a card out and I’ll show you.” She said.

“Sure.” I pulled out the Lesser Dragon, from the latest pack. Even with the window further away from me, I could do it just fine.

“Here,” She pointed at the top of the card. “Some strange symbols. And here as well.” She moved her finger to the effect text box. Well Lesser Dragon is a normal monster, so more like to the lore spot. But what does she mean by strange symbols? That’s just normal text.

“This is where the monster’s name is written.” I told her. “And this is where some information about it is written.” 

“But, it’s all just symbols.” She said. Alice didn’t react this way yesterday. What gives?

“Alice,” I asked her. “Can you read this?”

“The ‘lesser dragon’ part?” She read it perfectly. “Or the bottom part?”

“Yes, that. Well more like both.” I said to her. “So you can but your mother can’t.”

“How is this possible?” Christina wondered. “I should be able to read all the languages that Alice knows.”

“Does anyone else see symbols instead of readable text?” I asked.

“I can read it.” Lucia said.

“So can I.” Alex continued. The knights were also nodding.

“I can’t.” Trystan admitted. 

“I can’t either.” Jenna came out of nowhere and said so. I guess she was just standing off to the side.

“I see…” I guess some just can’t.

(Master, have you forgotten, without ‘Card summoner’ it is impossible to read the text on the cards.) Laura reminded me. Thank you Laura. And yeah, it does match. Christina, Trystan and Jenna weren’t with us, so they don’t have Card summoner.

“I know now why.” I said to them. “You can’t read it without the ‘Card summoner’ skill.” I told them.

“I’ve never heard of such a skill.” Trystan said.

“Well, it is an extra skill, so that’s to be expected.” I told him

“Extra skill? How wonderful. And yours was a unique skill. I’m so happy to be alive to witness this.” Trystan seemed ecstatic. 

“Does that mean I can’t use these cards?” Christina asked.

“No, I think you can still use them.” I told her. “You just need someone else to tell you the name of the monster beforehand.”

“I see.”

It’s actually good to have someone without ‘Card summoner’ here, as we will be able to confirm the effects of that skill.

—

“Well now that we know that, who wants to start?” I asked.

“I will, I will.” Alice came onto me.

“I think someone more calm should be the first one.” I told Alice.

“I could.” Trystan offered.

“Someone with ‘Card summoner’ would be better for the first try. Alex, how about you? Or one of the knights?” I asked. The three of them looked at each other and then quickly played some sort of rock-paper-scissors game. Alex got out on the first try and after another two, one of the knights became our test subject.

“What should I do?” He asked.

“Here.” I gave him the Lesser Dragon card. “Just hold it in your hand and call out its name.” I told him. “Everyone else, back up a little so there is enough space.”

We all took a little distance and positioned ourselves behind him.

“Okay, whenever you are ready.” I said to him.

“Sure. Lesser Dragon.” He said out loud.

Just like when I do it, a card appears on the ground. From it a little over two meters tall lizard appeared. So it works just like mine.

“It, it really did come out.” The knight seemed impressed.

“Yeah, it appears to have been successful summoning.” I told him. “Try giving it a command.”

“What should I command it to do?” He asked.

“I actually have no idea.” I admitted. Well, I guess one thing we could do is. “You” I look at the other knight. “Why don’t you summon this one and you can have the two of them fight.” I told him as I handed him ‘Tyhone’. Tyhone and Lesser Dragon both have 1200 attack, so the might just destroy each other, but then again Tyrone has more defense.

“They can’t fight here, they’ll destroy the house.” Christina objected.

“Well then we just have to summon them and let them go.” I told her. “It would be a little more boring, but I guess that might be the best choice.”

“Couldn’t you summon Mana and have her protect the house?” Alice asked.

“I don’t think I can do it this soon after the last summon.” I told her.

(You can, Master. As long as an equal amount of time the monster stayed summoned has passed, it can be summoned again. If it is in a toploader.) Thank you Laura.

“Well, Laura did just tell me I can, so …” I said and looked at Christina.

“If you can promise there will be no damage to the house, I’ll let you do it.” She gave permission.

“I think Mana by herself might not be enough to guarantee it.” I said my thoughts out loud. “But…” I pull out both Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. “The two of them can definitely do it.”

“Brian, let me summon Mana.” Alice begged. Well that should be fine.

“Sure, that’s fine.” I told her and gave her Dark Magician Girl.

“You are summoning that magician from morning?” Christina asked.

“Yes, and her teacher.” I told her. I pulled up the sleeve of my hoodie and activated the combat mode of my terminal.

“I summon Dark Magician.” I said as I placed the card onto my DiaDhank. A card appeared vertically this time, and from it, out stepped a tall man in a purple robe. 

“Hello, Master.” He greeted me.

“Hi. I need you to protect the house, while we play around with summoning.” I told him. “Sorry to give you such a boring job.”

“It’s fine, Master.” Dark Magician answered. “I will do anything you ask.”

“Thank you.” I look over at Alice. She hasn’t summoned Dark Magician Girl yet. She also seems like she is going to cry. “What’s wrong Alice?”

“I’m calling out Mana, but she doesn’t appear. Does she not like me?” Alice asked on the verge of tears.

(Laura? Did you lie to me?) 

(Of course not, Master. She is doing it wrong.)

(Wrong how?)

(She is calling out the wrong name.) 

Ahh, I see. She is trying to summon Mana, not Dark Magician Girl.

“It’s not that Alice.” I told her. “You need to say the name on the card.”

“The one on the card? So I can’t just call out Mana.” She seemed to realize the problem. “Dark Magician Girl.” 

A card appeared in the air above her and from it down came the excited magician. 

“Ahh, I’m back. And summoned by my adorable pupil.” She said as she hugged Alice.

“Mana!” Alice greeted her by returning the hug. “I thought you hated me, when you didn’t appear as I was calling your name.”

“I’m sorry.” She said. “But I can only come if you call the name on the card.” She explained.

“Well, now that the protection squad is here, we can continue.” I said. “Go ahead and summon it when ready.” I said to the knight with Tyhone. 

“Tyhone.” He said and from a card, a weird looking winged head thing appeared.

“Good.” I said to him. “Now try to order them to fight each other.” I told the knights.