Chapter 474 - My CO Stash #74 - My Teen Romantic Comedy has been Corrupted by Duel Monsters and Dark Magic by Ave Dominus Nox (Oregairu/Yugioh) (1/2)
-I always love it when authors try to do crossovers with Oregairu but this one I was kinda expecting already! Now, imagine 8man in WH! That'll be sick~
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Posted on: forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/my-teen-romantic-comedy-has-been-corrupted-by-duel-monsters-and-dark-magic-oregairu-yugioh.12738/ (Ave Dominus Nox)
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Chapter 1
Trends come and trends go, what is popular today, will not be popular tomorrow, that is just the rule of these things. Humans by nature, at least in this day and age are fickle creatures, always needing to be entertained. What will sate their appetite for a few days they will eventually grow bored and disillusioned with.
Or so I would have liked to believe.until a man named Pegasus J. Crawford, more commonly known as Maximillion Pegasus, the owner of Industrial Illusions came and brutally tore apart that part of reality with his creation of Duel Monsters.
If however you were to insist on me actually answering your question, then I would say it is a rather ingenious and exploitative way of making money off of your consumers. Yes, consumers, not just children, did you hear that? Even grown a_d_u_l_ts spend this game, spending their hard earned money on themselves and their children. Maximillion Pegasus struck gold, I can almost bet that the white haired bastard has pools of cash which he no doubt swims in, along with the pools of tears of the kids and a_d_u_l_ts who wasted money on pointless card booster packs and never got that one card they needed.
Duel Monsters have also gone beyond just being a card game, it has infected society itself, now people can be popular based on the amount and more specifically the type of Duel Monsters they have collected. Also, your prowess with Duel Monsters is able to affect how popular you are. Say if you were an average high school student, you had average all-round grades, nothing too special. With Duel Monsters, add in that you have a a few rare cards or an impressive card collection or just that you were a good duelist, then you could become popular with your peers.
This however is a double-edged sword, say you have an impressive collection of cards, this will also invoke the envy of those who don't have those cards, due to being unlucky or having parents like mine who rarely get them anything. Will these peers of theirs gawk and fawn over them? Well in my case I don't but in most cases they do. Which results in being given the attention that they d_e_s_i_r_e from people who secretly despise them. And that is just the best case scenario as many of your peers will d_e_s_i_r_e to take your rare cards, and collection from you.
You are good Duelist? Then people will constantly challenge you, to beat you and prove they are better, winning in this situation will only feed your ego and make your duelist complex even worse. And when you are eventually defeated the scorn and shame you will receive from your so-called friends will show you how fake they were to begin with. This will no doubt lead to an obsession with winning being developed, if that obsession was not already there in the first place.
Such obsessions are unhealthy as it will lead said person to do anything to win to regain or keep what they consider their 'glory' all over a card game.