Episode 97

"The Noble Supreme Paladin" (気高き超魔導剣士 Kedakaki Chōmadōkenshi) is the ninety-seventh episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V series.

Synopsis
As the chaos in the City escalates, the leader of the Lancers, Reiji, finally makes his own move! At the same time, Jack easily fends off the Duel Chasers, and drives Yūya into a corner. On the other hand, Yūya uses his own Dueling in order to respond to Jack!! As their souls push the Duel to a new height, they both call upon new monsters…!!

Yūya Sakaki vs. Jack Atlas
Duel continues from the previous episode. Jack has 4000 LP remaining and 2 cards in his hand, and controls "Red Daemon's Dragon Scarlight" in Attack position and 1 face-down card. Yūya has 4000 LP remaining and 2 cards in his hand, and controls "Entermate Radish Horse" and "Timebreaker Magician" in Attack position. He also has "Entermate Rubber Mutton" and "Entermate Bubbulldog" in his Pendulum Zones. The five Duel Chasers all have 4000 LP remaining, and control 3 copies of "Goyo Emperor" each.

Turn 4: Jack

Jack just activated the effect of "Scarlight", letting him destroy all other Special Summoned monsters on the field with ATK less than or equal to its own and inflict damage to his opponents equal to the number of destroyed monsters times 500. 15 copies of "Goyo Emperor" from Security's field, and "Radish Horse" and "Timebreaker Magician" from Yūya's field are destroyed, inflicting 8500 damage to all opponents (Duel Chasers x5: 4000 → 0 LP). Yūya finds and activates the Action Card "Acceleration", reducing the effect damage to 0. "Scarlight" attacks Yūya directly (Yūya: 4000 → 1000 LP). Yūya finds and activates the Action Card "Damage Draw", allowing him to draw two cards since he took more than 2000 damage. Jack Sets a card.

Turn 5: Yūya

Yūya draws "Tuning Magician". Yūya Pendulum Summons "Timebreaker Magician" and "Radish Horse" from his Extra Deck in Attack Position. He Normal Summons "Tuning Magician". The effect of "Tuning Magician" activates, increasing Jack's LP by 400 and inflicting 400 damage to Yūya (Jack: 4000 → 4400 LP, Yūya 1000 → 600 LP). As Jack's LP increased, Yūya Special Summons "Entermate Life Swordsman" in Attack Position via its own effect; it gains ATK equal to the LP Jack gained ("Life Swordsman": 0 → 400 ATK). Yūya then activates the effect of "Radish Horse", which lets him decrease the ATK of a monster with 2500 or more ATK by 500 and increase the ATK of another by the same amount until the End Phase. He targets "Scarlight" and "Life Swordsman" ("Scarlight": 3000 → 2500 ATK, "Life Swordsman": 400 → 900 ATK). Yūya tunes the Level 4 "Radish Horse" and Level 3 "Timebreaker Magician" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "Tuning Magician" to Synchro Summon "Enlightenment Paladin" in Attack Position. The effect of "Enlightenment Paladin" activates as it was Synchro Summoned using a "Magician" monster, letting Yūya add a Magic Card from his Graveyard to his hand. Yūya retrieves "Smile World" from his Graveyard. Yūya activates the other effect of "Life Swordsman", Releasing it to increase the ATK of a monster he controls equal to the ATK of "Life Swordsman" until the End Phase. He targets "Enlightenment Paladin" ("Enlightenment Paladin": 2500 → 3400 ATK). "Enlightenment Paladin" attacks "Scarlight", but Jack activates his face-down "Red Crystal", preventing "Red" monsters from being destroyed this turn (Jack: 4400 → 3500 LP).

Turn 6: Jack

Jack activates the effect of "Scarlight", letting him destroy all other Special Summoned monsters on the field with ATK less than or equal to its own and inflict damage to his opponents equal to the number of destroyed monsters times 500. Yūya activates the Pendulum Effect of "Bubbulldog" in his Pendulum Zone, destroying itself to negate the destruction of "Enlightenment Paladin". "Scarlight" attacks "Enlightenment Paladin", but Yūya activates the Pendulum effect of "Rubber Mutton", negating the destuction of "Enlightenment Paladin" (Yūya: 600 → 100 LP). Jack sets a card.

Turn 7: Yūya

Yūya draws and subsequently places "Antithesis Magician" in his Pendulum Zones. Yūya Pendulum Summons "Entermate Cheermole". Yūya tunes the Pendulum Summoned "Cheermole" and "Enlightenment Paladin" to Synchro Summon "Nirvana High Paladin" in Attack Position. "Nirvana High" attacks "Scarlight", but Jack activates his face-down "King Scarlet", preventing the destruction of "Scarlight" and Special Summon it as a monster in Defense position (Jack: 3500 → 3200 LP).

Turn 8: Jack

Jack Normal Summons "Mirror Resonator". Jack double tunes the Level 8 "Scarlight" with the Level 1 Tuner monster "King Scarlet" and the level 1 Tuner monster "Mirror Resonator" to Synchro Summon "Red Daemon's Dragon Tyrant" in Attack Position. Jack activates its effect, destroying all other cards on the field. "Nirvana High", "Rubber Mutton" and "Antithesis" are destroyed. The effect of "Nirvana High" activates, placing itself in a Pendulum Zone since it was destroyed. "Tyrant" attacks directly, but Yūya finds and subsequently activates the Action Card "Evasion" to negate the attack. Jack activates the other effect of "Tyrant" to negate a Magic/Trap Card that was activated and destroy it, then gaining 500 ATK ("Tyrant": 3500 → 4000 ATK). As the effect of a Magic Card was negated, Yūya Special Summons "Acrobat Magician" from his hand in Defense Position. A replay occurs and "Tyrant" attacks and destroys "Acrobat". The effect of "Acrobat" activates, as it was destroyed, allowing Yūya to place it in his Pendulum Zone.

Turn 9: Yūya

Yūya draws "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon". Yūya Pendulum Summons "Bubbulldog", "Radish Horse", "Rubber Mutton", and "Timebreaker" from his Extra Deck, and "Odd-Eyes" from his hand, all in Attack Position.

Duel continues in the next episode.

List of Featured Cards
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * 1) Jack Atlas
 * 2) Duel Chasers
 * 3) Yūya Sakaki
 * 4) Melissa Claire
 * 5) Frank
 * 6) Amanda
 * 7) Sam
 * 8) Tanner
 * 9) Chojiro Tokumatsu
 * 10) Reira Akaba
 * 11) Reiji Akaba
 * 12) Shingo Sawatari
 * 13) Noboru Gongenzaka
 * 14) Shun Kurosaki
 * 15) Jean-Michel Roger
 * 16) Yūshō Sakaki (Flashback)
 * 17) Sora Shiun'in
 * 18) Tsukikage
 * 19) Arrest Corps
 * 20) Security
 * 21) Yuzu Hīragi
 * 22) Commons
 * 23) Shūzō Hīragi (Flashback)
 * 24) Tops
 * 25) Yōko Sakaki (Flashback)
 * 26) Crow Hogan
 * 27) Shinji Weber
 * 28) Tony Simmons
 * 29) Damon Lopez
 * 30) Mieru Hōchun (Flashback)
 * 31) Yūto (Flashback)