# 16 - Dawn of Nippon
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**[00:06] ---**
I'm sorry about yesterday.
**[00:09] ---**
Be grateful.
**[00:12] ---**
Sorry but this will be over in an instant.
**[00:15] ---**
Be destroyed now!
**[00:19] ---**
You're only standing here because I won.
**[00:26] ---**
*Last year's winner, Kazumi Onimaru...*
**[00:30] ---**
*I never imagined he'd be so strong!*
**[00:33] ---**
Welcome...Shion Kiba.
**[00:37] ---**
*That image was...immense.*
**[00:41] ---**
*I hate to admit it but I had no chance.*
**[00:45] ---**
*He was above me in all aspects.*
**[00:50] ---**
*I won't come against him again in this stage.*
**[00:54] ---**
*But if I keep winning,
I will surely fight him again.*
**[00:59] ---**
*He will be the biggest obstacle
to us winning the championship.*
**[01:07] ---**
Sorry about yesterday.
**[01:09] ---**
But I'll win loads today to make up for it!
**[01:13] ---**
As expected of Tokoha! You're so reliable!
**[01:16] ---**
Leave it to me!
**[01:19] ---**
*Please back up Tokoha during the championship.*
**[01:23] ---**
Anjou? Why?
**[01:25] ---**
Well...She's acting different to usual.
I'm a bit concerned.
**[01:30] ---**
...She is?
**[01:33] ---**
I'm counting on you, Sato-run-run!
**[01:35] ---**
Wait, wouldn't Okazaki be better for thi-
**[01:38] ---**
Mask Wing!
**[01:40] ---**
Now! Let's fight today too!
**[01:42] ---**
Jamie Flower's maidens!
**[01:50] ---**
Now then, it's the start of the
first stage's second day!
**[03:30] ---**
*Yesterday, during the first day
after the opening ceremony,*
**[03:34] ---**
*Team Diffrider advanced to the
next stage astonishingly quickly!*
**[03:39] ---**
The other two members of TRY3
weren't anything special either.
**[03:44] ---**
But they were rescued by their friends
yesterday and rejoined the competition.
**[03:48] ---**
The worthy will remain,
and the unworthy will fall.
**[03:53] ---**
That's all it means.
**[03:56] ---**
People are such fragile creatures.
**[04:06] ---**
He was supposed to be here by now though.
**[04:09] ---**
It's a shame.
**[04:11] ---**
What are you talking about?
Am I not good enough for you?
**[04:19] ---**
I'll work perfectly well in his place.
***SIGN*** Turn 16 Dawn of Nippon
**[04:35] ---**
*Damn!*
**[04:37] ---**
*Knowing that his team has advanced*
**[04:40] ---**
*relieves me a little.*
**[04:43] ---**
*The fact that they've advanced means at least*
**[04:46] ---**
*we won't meet them at this stage.*
**[04:50] ---**
*Pathetic! That doesn't matter!
Don't get caught up by it!*
**[04:55] ---**
*Whether he's there or not, we'll win
our way to the next stage for sure!*
**[05:09] ---**
You're in Team Striders...
**[05:12] ---**
I don't think I've done anything big
enough for you to know my name.
**[05:16] ---**
I'm Kazuma Shouji.
**[05:17] ---**
I'm Team New Nippon's Makoto Asada,
user of the night shadow army.
**[05:24] ---**
Stand Up! Vanguard!
**[05:28] ---**
Stealth Demon of Crow Feathers, Fugen!
**[05:30] ---**
Dragprince, Rute!
**[05:34] ---**
- A Shadow Paladin, huh?
- Murakumo...
**[05:37] ---**
Ride!
**[05:38] ---**
Stealth Dragon, Onibayashi!
**[05:40] ---**
Our Arata was sent to the
Drop Zone by your leader.
**[05:44] ---**
Sorry, but I'll be winning this one.
**[05:48] ---**
I'm sorry too. I don't feel like losing either.
**[05:51] ---**
Ride! Dragwizard, Knies!
**[05:54] ---**
I also Call two Knies!
**[05:57] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Knies!
**[06:00] ---**
We have invited Kagero's clan leader,
Mamoru Anjou to commentate today.
**[06:05] ---**
Hello.
**[06:07] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Meteokaiser, Victor!
**[06:11] ---**
This is the end!
**[06:14] ---**
Kamui Katsuragi!
**[06:15] ---**
He already has two wins today
with his overpowering strength!
**[06:19] ---**
He really is strong!
**[06:21] ---**
Were you watching, Emi?
**[06:22] ---**
I knew you'd do it, Kamui!
**[06:24] ---**
Cut it out, Nagisa!
**[06:26] ---**
They're really close, aren't they?
**[06:29] ---**
Alright! Attack!
**[06:30] ---**
Ahh! Emi!
**[06:33] ---**
Serious fights are unfolding all over the stage.
**[06:37] ---**
You can't look away for even a second.
**[06:40] ---**
You're too strong!
**[06:51] ---**
Oh! Here's another fight to watch
between two strong teams!
**[06:54] ---**
Ride!
**[06:56] ---**
Stealth Rogue of the Trial, Yasuie!
**[06:58] ---**
Call!
**[07:00] ---**
Attack!
**[07:02] ---**
New Nippon's Makoto Asada launches
an attack on Striders' Kazuma Shouji!
**[07:07] ---**
Attack Vanguard!
**[07:12] ---**
Attack Vanguard!
**[07:14] ---**
Guard!
**[07:18] ---**
The fifth turn has ended and their
damage is three vs three!
**[07:22] ---**
It's getting interesting!
**[07:25] ---**
Ride!
**[07:27] ---**
Dragheart, Luard!
**[07:30] ---**
Release Generation Zone!
**[07:32] ---**
Stride Generation!
**[07:39] ---**
Dark Dragon, Carnivore Dragon!
**[07:42] ---**
Stride Skill! Retreat Rute!
**[07:45] ---**
Superior Call Grade one Swordbreaker
and Abyssal Owl from my deck!
**[07:50] ---**
Rute's Skill! Add 5000 Power to Knies!
**[07:53] ---**
I draw one card with Black-winged
Swordbreaker's Skill!
**[07:57] ---**
Activate Carnivore Dragon's Skill!
**[07:59] ---**
Retreat Abyssal Owl!
**[08:01] ---**
And choose two of the opponent's
Rear-guards to retreat!
**[08:04] ---**
Two...?
**[08:06] ---**
I retreat Yasuie and Fugen.
**[08:09] ---**
Abyssal Owl's Ritual! One Counter Charge!
**[08:12] ---**
Move the right-hand Knies to the rear!
**[08:14] ---**
And Call Dragwizard, Morfessa!
**[08:19] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Black-winged Swordbreaker!
**[08:24] ---**
Guard!
**[08:25] ---**
The left-hand Knies' Skill!
**[08:27] ---**
Retreat Black-winged Swordbreaker
and Draw one card!
**[08:31] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Carnivore Dragon!
**[08:36] ---**
Attack with Morfessa!
**[08:38] ---**
Add 5000 Power with her Ritual!
**[08:44] ---**
Morfessa's Skill!
**[08:46] ---**
Superior Call Grade one Abyssal Owl!
**[08:49] ---**
Turn End.
**[08:52] ---**
Achieving Rituals...
**[08:54] ---**
Gradually deploying Rear-guards
and powering them up...
**[08:57] ---**
Forcing your opponent to retreat and
also not forgetting to replenish your hand.
**[09:02] ---**
As expected of Rive Shindou's son,
Chrono Shindou's teammate.
**[09:07] ---**
Son?
**[09:08] ---**
You don't know?
**[09:10] ---**
You don't know of Team Nippon, which
once stood at the top of this country?
**[09:15] ---**
They dominated the national championships and
could have taken the world championship...
**[09:20] ---**
The legendary team that suddenly disappeared.
**[09:25] ---**
Rive Shindou was an amazing fighter!
**[09:28] ---**
He was truly a conqueror!
**[09:31] ---**
But what I'm aiming for is Team Nippon's brain,
**[09:35] ---**
the Murakumo-user Shin Nitta!
**[09:38] ---**
His way of fighting, with its calculations
that leave no room for error
**[09:41] ---**
is my dream!
**[09:44] ---**
And I'll use that dream for my team's sake!
**[09:53] ---**
*Arata, wait for me!*
**[10:01] ---**
Excuse me, would you fight me?
**[10:05] ---**
I don't mind...
**[10:07] ---**
Alright! Thank you!
**[10:13] ---**
Stand Up! Vanguard!
**[10:16] ---**
Murakumo!
**[10:18] ---**
It suits me better than loudly attacking head on.
**[10:22] ---**
Yeah! Murakumo is cool!
**[10:36] ---**
Damn!
**[10:40] ---**
*This guy is strong!*
**[10:42] ---**
*I won thanks to my lucky draws,
but it was close.*
**[10:47] ---**
Hey!
**[10:48] ---**
W-What?
**[10:50] ---**
Please! Please make a team with me!
**[10:54] ---**
Eh?
**[11:07] ---**
Wait! My destined teammate!
**[11:12] ---**
I want to make an amazing team like Team Nippon!
**[11:16] ---**
I don't know any such team.
**[11:18] ---**
I didn't think you would.
**[11:20] ---**
They won the nationals when I was still young.
**[11:23] ---**
But they really are amazing!
**[11:27] ---**
*I turned him down many times after that,*
**[11:29] ---**
*but Arata kept asking me to join his team.*
**[11:34] ---**
You only have to read these
things about Team Nippon!
**[11:37] ---**
You'll understand what kind
of team I want to create!
**[11:41] ---**
Yeah. I'll look at them later.
**[11:45] ---**
They certainly were a strong team.
**[11:49] ---**
They might even be-
***SIGN*** "We'll talk to this year's star Murakumo-user."
**[11:54] ---**
Murakumo!
**[12:00] ---**
I understand! This is the last time I'll ask!
**[12:03] ---**
But I want you to tell me why!
**[12:06] ---**
Why can't you?
**[12:11] ---**
What you want isn't me,
it's a Murakumo-user, isn't it?!
**[12:16] ---**
Team Nippon was made up of
Tachikaze, Murakumo and Nubatama.
**[12:20] ---**
That's why you invited me to join your team!
**[12:24] ---**
Don't you care who you invite
as long as they use Murakumo?!
**[12:31] ---**
Why are you laughing?!
**[12:32] ---**
Because I never imagined you'd be
sulking about something like that!
**[12:36] ---**
W-Who's sulking!?
**[12:38] ---**
It was a coincidence that you use Murakumo.
**[12:42] ---**
You're always pretending to be calm
but you're actually really passionate!
**[12:47] ---**
Huh? What are you-
**[12:49] ---**
How can you know something like that?
**[12:51] ---**
I know!
**[12:52] ---**
If we fight, I know.
**[12:58] ---**
You love Vanguard, and you study lots and
practice lots, but you can't show anyone that.
**[13:04] ---**
They're all things I can't do.
**[13:07] ---**
That's why I respect you.
**[13:10] ---**
You always come at me head on like that.
**[13:15] ---**
How can you do that?!
**[13:17] ---**
Makoto Asada, I've fallen for you!
**[13:21] ---**
Let's achieve the dream of being the best
in the world that Team Nippon never could!
**[13:32] ---**
In order to do that, we'd first have
to become the best in Japan,
**[13:35] ---**
right?
**[13:38] ---**
Alright! Thank you, Makoto!
**[13:41] ---**
My destined teammate!
**[13:44] ---**
- Let go of me!
- It's fine!
**[13:47] ---**
We need one more member to enter the U20.
**[13:51] ---**
Yeah!
**[13:52] ---**
Team Nippon was also three members.
**[13:55] ---**
Hey, hey!
**[13:57] ---**
Will you fight me?
**[13:59] ---**
*The person we met then was Noa.*
**[14:03] ---**
Stand Up! Vanguard!
**[14:16] ---**
Such intense concentration!
**[14:18] ---**
Alright! I win!
**[14:22] ---**
Noa Hoshizaki! I've fallen for you!
**[14:24] ---**
Let's become the best in the world together!
**[14:27] ---**
Are you sure? He doesn't use Numabata.
**[14:31] ---**
I told you, I don't care about that.
**[14:33] ---**
But if we're going to...
**[14:35] ---**
I'll join your team.
**[14:38] ---**
But I'd rather be best in the universe.
**[14:46] ---**
Why did you call us this late?
**[14:48] ---**
It's perfect for officially forming our team!
**[14:54] ---**
Vega, Altair, Deneb!
**[14:59] ---**
We are Team New Nippon!
**[15:01] ---**
It's our destiny to be the best
in the world - in the universe!
**[15:12] ---**
The Summer Triangle!
**[15:15] ---**
*The two hands I held then
were warm and friendly.*
**[15:20] ---**
*I felt like we could do anything.*
**[15:27] ---**
You're different when you're
playing Vanguard, Asada.
**[15:32] ---**
Apparently, they beat the preliminaries
and are going to the Tokyo competition!
**[15:41] ---**
*If I'm with them, I...*
**[15:53] ---**
I can fight until the end without giving in!
**[15:56] ---**
This is troublesome.
**[15:58] ---**
*It doesn't matter if it's a brawl or whatever,
guys like this just don't give up.*
**[16:03] ---**
*This is bad.*
**[16:05] ---**
*But I've thinned his ranks. What will he do?*
**[16:09] ---**
Release Generation Zone!
**[16:11] ---**
Stride Generation!
**[16:13] ---**
Rogue Deity of the Third Realm,
**[16:18] ---**
Yasuie Gouma!
**[16:21] ---**
Stride Skill!
**[16:23] ---**
Choose a unit and Superior Call
one of the same unit from my deck!
**[16:32] ---**
Activate Yasuie Gouma's Skill!
**[16:34] ---**
Choose up to two face up
Yasuie Gouma cards from the G-Zone
**[16:38] ---**
and Superior Call them!
**[16:41] ---**
Yasuie Transcendent Clones!
**[16:44] ---**
Shadow Dance!
**[16:48] ---**
He Superior Called G-Units?!
**[16:50] ---**
Call Stealth Rogue of Envy, Ikyuu!
**[16:52] ---**
It's Skill adds 2000 Power for
each unit with Yasuie in its name!
**[16:57] ---**
Attack Vanguard with my Vanguard, Yasuie Gouma!
**[17:01] ---**
No Guard!
**[17:03] ---**
Triple Drive!
**[17:04] ---**
Heal Trigger!
**[17:06] ---**
The Power goes to the left-hand Charcoal Fox!
**[17:09] ---**
Recover one damage!
**[17:15] ---**
A Perfect Guard?
**[17:17] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Ikyuu!
**[17:20] ---**
Attack Vanguard with my
Rear-guard, Yasuie Gouma!
**[17:23] ---**
Guard!
**[17:26] ---**
At the end of my turn, I place all of
my G-Units face-up in my G-Zone.
**[17:31] ---**
Turn End.
**[17:34] ---**
*Our damage is five vs four.*
**[17:36] ---**
*So even if I reduce the number of
his Rear-guards, he'll use clones?*
**[17:39] ---**
*In that case!*
**[17:41] ---**
Dragheart, Luard's Ritual!
**[17:44] ---**
Send two Normal Units from
the Drop Zone to my deck!
**[17:47] ---**
And I can Stride without paying a cost!
**[17:50] ---**
Stride Generation!
**[17:55] ---**
Draganger, Ogma!
**[17:58] ---**
Stride Skill!
**[18:00] ---**
Superior Call Swordbreaker and
Abyssal Owl from my deck!
**[18:05] ---**
*I'll finish it in this turn!*
**[18:10] ---**
Draganger, Ogma's Ritual 5!
**[18:15] ---**
Choose any number of Grade one
Rear-guards and Retreat them!
**[18:18] ---**
The opponent sends the same number of Rear-guards
or cards from their hand to the Drop Zone!
**[18:23] ---**
Four cards?!
**[18:25] ---**
Not just my Rear-guards, but also my hand?
**[18:30] ---**
Retreat two Charcoals!
**[18:34] ---**
And two cards from my hand!
**[18:35] ---**
That's four cards.
**[18:38] ---**
Call! Dragwizard, Uscias!
**[18:42] ---**
Uscias' Ritual!
**[18:44] ---**
Send a Grade one Unit from the
Drop Zone to the bottom of my deck!
**[18:48] ---**
I add Abyssal Owl's 7000 Power to Uscias!
**[18:53] ---**
I also Call Abyssal Owl and Swordbreaker!
**[18:56] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Draganger, Ogma!
**[19:00] ---**
No Guard!
**[19:02] ---**
Triple Drive!
**[19:06] ---**
Draw Trigger! Draw one card!
**[19:09] ---**
The Power goes to Uscias!
**[19:13] ---**
Go! Uscias!
**[19:16] ---**
Generation Guard!
**[19:17] ---**
Ambush Demon Stealth Rogue, Shishiyuzuki!
**[19:20] ---**
Also, Intercept!
**[19:26] ---**
Attack Vanguard with Morfessa!
**[19:29] ---**
Add 5000 Power with her Ritual!
**[19:32] ---**
Guard! Loveholic Stealth Rogue, Tamanoi!
**[19:36] ---**
Quintet Wall!
**[19:40] ---**
I Call five five cards from the top
of my deck to the Guardian Circle!
**[19:44] ---**
If there is a Unit with Shadowstitch in its
name, add 5000 Power to the Shield!
**[19:52] ---**
The Unit with Shadowstitch in its name
goes to the bottom of my deck!
**[19:58] ---**
Turn End.
**[20:00] ---**
*He survived with just two cards...However...*
**[20:03] ---**
*I have no cards in my hand or on the field.*
**[20:05] ---**
*I can't pay the Stride cost
or clone a Rear-guard.*
**[20:08] ---**
*I have six cards in my hand.*
**[20:10] ---**
*If I can hold out for this turn, I can win!*
**[20:13] ---**
Even though things are this tough, I believe.
Even though it's lame.
**[20:20] ---**
We are a team! Destined teammates!
**[20:27] ---**
Draw!
**[20:32] ---**
He drew it!
**[20:34] ---**
Release Generation Zone!
**[20:37] ---**
Stride Generation!
**[20:40] ---**
Once more, it's Yasuie Gouma!
**[20:44] ---**
Activate Yasuie Gouma's Skill!
**[20:47] ---**
Yasuie Transcendent Clones!
**[20:50] ---**
Shadow Dance!
**[20:54] ---**
Attack Vanguard!
**[20:57] ---**
Guard!
**[21:00] ---**
*My Shield is 31,000!*
**[21:02] ---**
*Power 26,000!*
**[21:04] ---**
*- It's all up to whether he get's a Trigger!
- It's all up to whether I get a Trigger!*
**[21:07] ---**
Triple Drive!
**[21:09] ---**
First Check! Second Check!
**[21:12] ---**
Third Check!
**[21:13] ---**
Critical Trigger!
**[21:15] ---**
All of its effects go to my
Vanguard, Yasuie Gouma!
**[21:20] ---**
I will protect our team!
**[21:21] ---**
So you just go straight ahead! Arata!
**[21:25] ---**
Strike down all in your path!
**[21:35] ---**
I won!
**[21:41] ---**
Makoto!
**[21:43] ---**
Arata...
**[21:47] ---**
It's not over, you know.
**[21:51] ---**
*Sorry. It's up to you.*
**[22:03] ---**
No way! Kazuma was sent to the Drop Zone?!
**[22:07] ---**
I have to help him, quickly!
**[22:15] ---**
Tokoha!
**[22:21] ---**
Taiyou...
**[23:57] ---**
Thank you, Makoto! You saved me!
**[23:59] ---**
Don't lose anymore!
**[24:00] ---**
Yeah! I'm sorry for worrying you too, Noa!
**[24:03] ---**
I'm so glad!
**[24:05] ---**
I was worried you both might lose!
**[24:08] ---**
If you did, I'd have to join you in the Drop Zone!
**[24:11] ---**
You'd lose on purpose?! You can't do that!
**[24:14] ---**
Eh? But we're destined teammates, right?
**[24:18] ---**
I've fallen for you both all over again!
***SIGN*** TURN 17 Signpost of Light