Professor Chronos starts the triple attacks of 3 Antique Gear Golems to destroy E-Hero Sparkman, E-Hero Wildman, and E-Hero Clayman at once. Antique Gear Golem has the special effect of inflict damage equal to differences to the opponent even though a monster is in defense position. When E-Hero Clayman is destroyed, Judai's LP decreases to 3000 (4000+2000-3000). When E-Hero Wildman is destroyed, his LP further decreases to 1600 (3000+1600-3000). After E-Hero Sparkman is destroyed, Judai's LP goes down to 200 (1600+1600-3000). Judai falls onto his knee after such intense triple attacks. Setting a face-down card, Professor Chronos ends his turn.

Judai stands up as admiring Professor Chronos as the top teacher who showed him such a great combo for the gratitude duel. Professor Chronos' eyes turn big. He begins to dance around and says, "Shut up! For just a moment, you said gratitude! gratitude! That positive sarcasm, I hate it!". He seems to hate Judai's positive attitude very much.

The turn is now with Judai. He draws a card, playing spell card [Take Over Five - Spell: Send 5 cards from the top of your deck to the Cemetery. If this card is in your Cemetery during your next Standby Phase, by selecting a card with the same name as this card's from your deck, hand, or Cemetery and removing it from the game, you can draw 1 card from your deck. When this card is in your Cemetery, negate effects that send cards from your deck to the Cemetery by way of your own card's effect].

Due to its effect, Judai has to send 5 cards (E-Hero Necro Darkman, E-Hero Neos, N-Flare Scarab, Necro Guardna, and Hero Signal) on the top of his deck into the graveyard. Next, he plays [Miracle Contact - Spell: Return to your deck, from your side of the field or your Graveyard, monsters that are listed on a Fusion Monster Card that uses E-Hero Neos as Fusion Material, and Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster with E-Hero Neos in its name, which uses E-Hero Neos as Fusion Material, from your Fusion Deck. (This Special Summon is treated as a Fusion Summon)].

Take Over Five Spell Card	Antique Gear Ultimate Golem Monster Card

This spell card allows him to fuse E-Hero Neos and N-Flare Scarab in the graveyard, by sending them back to the deck, into [E-Hero Flare Neos - 7/2500/2000: This card cannot be Special Summoned except by returning the above cards on your side of the field to your Deck; then you can Special Summon this card from your Fusion Deck (You do not use Polymerization). This card gains 400 ATK for each Spell and Trap Card on the field. This card returns to the Fusion Deck during the End Phase].

Judai next equips [Instant Neospace - Equipment Spell: Equip only to a Fusion Monster that lists E-Hero Neos as a Fusion Material. The Fusion Monster equipped with this card doesn't have to activate its effect that returns it to the Fusion Deck during the End Phase. When the equipped monster is removed from the field, you can Special Summon 1 E-Hero Neos from your hand, Deck or Graveyard] with E-Hero Flare Neos.

The special effect of E-Hero Flare Neos can increase its attack points by 400 for each spell/trap card on both sides. There are trap card, Unfinished Time Box, and a face-down on Professor Chronos' field and Instant Neospace equipped with E-Hero Flare neos on Judai's field. This results in 3 spell/trap cards in total on both fields. Thus, the attack points of E-Hero Flare Neos become 3700 (2500+400*3).

At this moment, Judai declares the attack of E-Hero Flare Neos to destroy 1 Antique Gear Golem. This strike reduces Professor Chronos' LP to 2000 (2700+3000-3700), making Professor Chronos fall onto his knees. Judai explains the effect of Instant Neospace that as long as it is equipped with N-Flare Neos, N-Flare Neos doesn't have to return to the deck at his end phase as a result of its own special effect. He then ends his turn at this point.

Professor Chronos holds his hand tightly as his body begins to shake. Judai asks with concern whether his teacher is okey. Shortly, Professor Chronos faces up, cries heavily, and says that he doesn't want to be apart from his students. His act surprises Judai and all students in the arena very much. Professor Chronos reveals his true feeling that he looked at the graduation album. To think that he has to be separate from his students, he is afraid that he is unable to bear loneliness. He has just felt this by the first time.

Judai smiles after hearing the truly positive feeling from his teacher. People begin to understand Professor Chronos' feeling and why he has to do this. Anyway, Asuka notes that their time can't return. Manjoume is uncertain that this may be a trouble. Meanwhile, the other students begin to be on Professor Chronos' side and cheer him. Kenzan expresses his feeling that he doesn't want to be separate from Judai and his seniors, either. Rei agrees and says that she wants to stay with them as always. Even Principal Samejima and Tome agree with Kenzan and Rei, cheering Professor Chronos loudly.

Manjoume and Sho think that people should be kidding. The students begin to cheer Professor Chronos and support the result that Judai and his friends can't graduate. Asuka tells Judai not to lose since this duel is bet by everyone's graduation. Many students still support Judai and cheer him up. Judai understands it well, turning to his friends and telling them to leave this on him. Professor Chronos thanks many students around who support him and says that he will do his best before turning back to Judai. Judai hopes Professor Chronos is done as calling for his teacher's turn. Professor Chronos wipes out his tears as claiming that he definitely won't let this be a gratitude duel as Judai wishes.

The turn moves to Professor Chronos. Drawing a card, he plays spell card [Antique Gear Garage - Spell: Add 1 Antique Gear monster from your Graveyard to your hand1] from his hand. This card allows him to add Antique Gear Golem in the graveyard onto his hand. Next, he plays Polymerization to fuse 2 Antique Gear Golems on the field and 1 Antique Gear Golem on his hand into [Antique Gear Ultimate Golem - 10/4400/3400: When this card attacks a monster in defense mode with lower defense power than this card's attack power, inflict damage on your opponent equal to the difference. If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate Magic or Trap cards until the end of the Damage Step. When this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon 1 Antique Gear Golem from your Cemetery, regardless of Summoning Requirements].

Antique Gear Garage Spell Card	Miracle Contact Spell Card

Judai is very amazed and impressed by such a great monster from the triple fusion of Antique Gear Golems. Professor Chronos tells Judai to be prepared, declaring the attack of Antique Gear Ultimate Golem towards N-Flare Neos. At this timing, Judai activates the special effect of [Necro Guardna - 3/600/1300: By removing this card in your Graveyard from play, negate 1 attack of an opponent's monster] previously sent to the cemetery by Take Over Five.

Desperate Battle Trap Card

Removing Necro Guardna in the cemetery from play, Judai can negate the attack of Antique Gear Ultimate Golem. At this moment, Professor Chronos opens his face-down trap card [Desperate Battle - Trap: You can activate this card only during your turn's Battle Phase. Decrease the attack power of 1 monster on your side of the field by 1000 points until the end of the Battle Phase. The targeted monster, on this turn, can attack twice]. According to its effect, the attack points of Antique Gear Ultimate Golem can decrease by 1000 to do the second strike in this battle phase.

Thus, its attack points decrease to 3400 (4400-1000). Professor Chronos hopes a dropout boy like Judai can understand the current state well. When the activated trap card is destroyed, the attack points of N-Flare Scarab decreases to 3300 (2500+400*2). In other words, N-Flare Scarab can gain attack points now only from Unfinished Time Box on Professor Chronos' field and Instant Neospace equipped with N-Flare Scarab.

Professor Chronos declares the second attack of Antique Gear Ultimate Golem to destroy N-Flare Scarab. This attack reduces Judai's LP to 100 (200+3300-3400). Judai activates the effect of Instant Neospace at this timing. When the equipped monster's destroyed and sent to the cemetery, [E-Hero Neos - 7/2500/25000] can be special summoned from the deck onto the field in attack position. At the end phase, the attack points of Antique Gear Golem return to its 4400 original points, and Professor Chronos ends his turn.

The students now cheer both of them loudly. They don't care anymore whether who will win, cheering both of them to keep up. Professor Chronos sees that Judai has only 100 LP left and he has no card on hand. It's very obvious that Judai has disadvantage. Nevertheless, by some reasons, Professor Chronos is worried and feels that this game hasn't been finished yet. Judai tells his teacher that he will make compilation of everything he has had for 3 years in his next turn. Rather, Professor Chronos wants to see how Judai can change the situation.

In the last turn of Judai, he draws a card and gets The Final Land. He then activates the effect of Take Over Five in the cemetery by removing it from play in order to draw a card from his deck. Judai draws, gets [Hope of Fifth - Spell: Select 5 E-Hero Neos monsters from your Graveyard, add them to your Deck, then shuffle it. After that, draw 2 cards from your Deck. When this card is activated when there are no card on your field and you have no card in your hand, draw 3 cards instead], and activates it at once.

According to the effect of Hope of Fifth, 5 cards from the cemetery (E-Hero Featherman, E-Hero Burst Lady, E-Hero Sparkman, and E-Hero Clayman) are returned to his deck, and Judai has to shuffle it and draw 2 cards. The cards he got are N-Air Hummingbird and Cyclone Wing.

Judai normal summons [N-Air Hummingbird - 3/800/600: Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can gain 500 Life Points for each card in your opponent's hand] onto the field in attack position and immediately makes fusion contact between N-Air Hummingbird and E-Hero Neos on the field into [E-Hero Air Neos - 7/2500/2000: This card cannot be Special Summoned except by returning the above cards on your side of the field to your Deck; then you can Special Summon this card from your Fusion Deck (You do not use Polymerization). If your Life Points are lower than that of your opponent's, increase this card's ATK equal to the difference in Life Points. This card returns to the Deck at the End Phase].

Due to the special effect of E-Hero Air Neos, when Judai has lower attack points than Professor Chronos', E-Hero Air Neos' attack points can increase by the difference. Therefore, the attack points of E-Hero Air Neos go up to 4400 (2500+2000-100: Judai's LP=100, Professor Chronos' LP=2000).

Next, Judai equips [Cyclone Wing - Equipment Spell: When the monster equipped with this card attacks, you can destroy 1 Magic or Trap card on your opponent's side of the field] with E-Hero Air Neos. With its effect, when E-Hero Air Neos equipped with it attacks, 1 spell/trap card on Professor Chronos' field must be destroyed. Judai activates this effect once he declares the attack of E-Hero Air Neos towards Antique Gear Ultimate Golem.

Judai certainly selects to destroy the permanent trap card, Unfinished Time Box, asking Professor Chronos return his E-Hero Flame Wingman. E-Hero Air Neos strikes Antique Gear Ultimate Golem. Because both monsters have the same 4000 attack points, they are killed each other. Anyway, E-Hero Flame Wingman is released from Unfinished Time Box onto Judai's field.

Professor Chronos activates the special effect of Antique Gear Ultimate Golem at this moment that when it's destroyed and sent to the cemetery, Antique Gear Golem can be special summoned from the graveyard onto the field in attack position. Seeing E-Hero Flame Wingman confronting Antique Gear Golem, Judai reminds himself of his first duel with Professor Chronos (episode 1).

Judai next plays spell card [The Final Land ~ Shuuen No Ji - Quick Play Spell: You can only activate this card when a monster is Special Summoned on your opponent's side of the field. You can select a Field Magic card from your deck and activate it]. This spell can be played only when Professor Chronos special summoned a monster.

Cyclone Wing Spell Card	The Final Land Spell Card

The Final Land allows Judai to play a field spell card from his deck. Judai reminds himself of what he used to say to Professor Chronos in their first duel. At that time, he said that his hero needs its own battle stage. The card Judai is going to activate now is the same field spell he did in that duel, [Skyscraper - Field Spell: When a monster that includes E-Hero in its card name attacks, if its ATK is lower than the ATK of the attack target, increase the ATK of the attacking monster by 1000 points during damage calculation only].

As Judai used to say, Skyscraper is the best battle stage for his hero monsters. Many skyscrapers then emerge from the ground and surround the fields. Professor Chronos smiles. Of course, this is 1 stupid memory (One memory of Judai's stupid Hero monster) that he used to experience in his first duel with Judai. Professor Chronos thinks, "At last, I have already understood. The bitter to be separate from everyone, I myself as a teacher have learned many things from them". He is smiling as the pictures of Judai, Asuka, and Sho are pouring into his head.

The effect of Skyscraper increases the attack points of E-Hero Flame Wingman by 1000 when its original attack points are lower than the attack points of the opponent's monster. E-Hero Flame Wingman has 2100 ATK while Antique Gear Golem has 3000 ATK, so the attack points of E-Hero Flame Wingman can increase to 3100 (2100+1000). Now, Professor Chronos' eyes are full of tears while he is thinking, "I strike in this 3 year period. As a teacher, I must keep taking a new step".

Judai eventually declares the attack of E-Hero Flame Wingman to destroy Antique Gear Golem. As E-Hero Flame Wingman attacks, Professor Chronos is closing his eyes as if he has already accepted this destiny. After his Antique Gear Golem is destroyed, his LP decreases to 1900 (2000+3000-3100). Judai claims the special effect of E-Hero Flame Wingman to inflict additional damage equal to Antique Gear Golem's attack points to Professor Chronos. Thus, Professor Chronos' LP decreases to 0 (1900-3000). He sees the picture of Judai now the same as the kid he used to see in the entrance exam.

The game is over by the defeat of Professor Chronos. As he's falling onto his knee, Judai walks closer to him. Judai shows his victory sign to Professor Chronos. At the same time, all students in the duel arena stand up and show the same victory sign to their teacher. They all say together, "Gotcha!" (I win: It's the way they give respect to their teacher). Judai thanks Professor Chronos for receiving the gratitude duel. Professor Chronos can't stop his tears, standing up and crying. As a teacher, he won't forget his problem kid or dropout boy Judai. The students meanwhile applaud, call, and cheer his teacher up.

At the following day, Judai is working hard with a lot of assignment Professor Chronos gives him, asking for forgiveness. Professor Chronos says that he just keeps the promise to give a lesson to his student, so he gives Judai a lot of work. Rei and Kenzan are watching both of them behind, seeing that both Judai and Professor Chronos have already returned. Judai seems in the verge of failing, so he has to try so hard now. He feels regret that he should have taken classes properly so that he didn't have to work hard like this.

to be continued...

Sho	Big Brother, no matter how poor study is, to skip a class isn't good~
Judai	Ah~ Only this time, I feel so deeply.
Sho	Is that true?
Judai	What is with those eyes? And the deck for the graduation duel hasn't been adjusted~!?
Sho	Not at all. Next, [The Graduation Duel Starts! Neos VS Horus the Black Flame Dragon]!
Judai	[Sorano], the ace of the second-grade Blue!? I am looking forward to have fun with him!

[Antique Gear Ultimate Golem]
Star/Atk/Def| 10/4400/3400
Type/Family | Earth/Machine-Fusion/Effect
Anime Effect | [Antique Gear Golem] + 2 [Antique monsters]

This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Fusion Summon. When this card attacks a monster in defense mode with lower defense power than this card's attack power, inflict damage on your opponent equal to the difference. If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate Magic or Trap cards until the end of the Damage Step. When this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon 1 [Antique Gear Golem] from your Cemetery, regardless of Summoning Requirements.

Eng OCG Code | N/A
JP OCG Code | [LODT-JP043]

[Chronos' Deck List]
New cards played | Antique Gear Ultimate Golem (M), Unfinished Time Box (T), Desperate Battle (T), Crazy Summon Gear (S), Magic Gear (S), Antique Gear Garage (S), Polymerization (S)

M=monster, S=Spell, T=Trap

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