# E18 - A Terrible Trap! Zuo and Ko
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***SIGN*** Episode 18
A Terrible Trap! Zuo and Ko
**[01:44] Gu**
It's quiet.
**[01:47] Gu**
How long has it been since
I've had a chance to relax like this?
**[01:52] Gu**
I've been so busy doing my best
to prove I'm a genius.
**[01:58] Gu**
Oh, wow, that's quotable.
I should write it down.
**[02:03] Gu**
"How long has it..."
**[02:04] Gu**
What are you writing?
**[02:08] Gu**
Wh-Wh-What's your problem?
**[02:10] Gu**
I'm Silver Rank now.
I can't fight you. You're Bronze.
**[02:14] Gu**
That's fine, but...
**[02:16] Gu**
Actually, I have a problem.
**[02:18] Gu**
Wait!
**[02:20] Gu**
Listen!
**[02:21] Gu**
No.
**[02:22] Gu**
My phone...
**[02:24] Gu**
I don't care.
**[02:25] Gu**
A monkey took it.
**[02:26] Gu**
I don't care—
**[02:29] Gu**
Huh?
**[02:31] Gu**
I told you.
**[02:35] Gu**
First, a gorilla came after me.
**[02:55] (Flashback) Gu**
Wh-What?
**[03:05] (Flashback) Gu**
Hey!
**[03:06] (Flashback) Gu**
Hey! Give back my phone, y'know!
**[03:10] (Flashback) Gu**
Y'know!
**[03:11] (Flashback) Gu**
Y'know!
**[03:11] Gu**
So you can't battle and you've run all over the island,
chased by animals, looking for someone to help?
**[03:17] Gu**
Yup!
**[03:18] Gu**
I'm too shocked to speak.
**[03:21] Gu**
You just spoke.
**[03:26] Gu**
Scary!
**[03:28] Gu**
This is your phone's current location!
**[03:31] Gu**
It's close, y'know!
**[03:32] Gu**
Thank you, Kai!
You're the best friend in the world!
**[03:36] Gu**
We're not friends—
**[03:40] Gu**
He's gone!
**[03:46] Gu**
My quiet time has finally returned.
**[03:50] Gu**
I don't know about that!
**[03:57] Gu**
You're another Silver Rank, huh?
**[04:00] Gu**
I, Zuo, will defeat you!
**[04:04] Gu**
I'm lucky. I can get to Gold Rank
without having to move.
**[04:10] Gu**
Battle! Shadowverse!
**[04:12] Gu**
My turn! Draw!
**[04:21] Gu**
Not a bad hand.
**[04:23] Gu**
But I'll end my turn.
**[04:25] Gu**
My turn, then.
**[04:27] Gu**
I play the Spell Card Insight,
and draw a card from my deck.
**[04:32] Gu**
Runecraft?
**[04:34] Gu**
Nobody's got time for that lame Spellboost crap!
**[04:39] Gu**
Sometimes the slower method is the best one.
**[04:42] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[04:44] Gu**
You suck!
**[04:46] Gu**
Come out! Date Masamune!
**[04:48] Gu**
I end my turn!
**[04:49] Gu**
My turn.
**[04:51] Gu**
First, a baptism of the wind: Wind Blast!
**[04:54] Gu**
Spellboost gives it 1 additional damage.
**[04:59] Gu**
That's 2 damage to Date Masamune!
**[05:02] Gu**
Nice wind!
**[05:04] Gu**
A small wind to begin with,
**[05:05] Gu**
and then it's a hurricane.
**[05:07] Gu**
Every Spellboost makes Wind Blast more powerful.
**[05:11] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[05:13] Gu**
My turn!
**[05:14] Gu**
I play Sky Dragon Ethica!
**[05:17] Gu**
She's crazy once she evolves! So be careful!
**[05:21] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[05:22] Gu**
I see. Then I'll destroy her first.
**[05:27] Gu**
Spell Card: Rite of Exorcism.
**[05:29] Gu**
It destroys one follower
with a cost of 3 or less.
**[05:34] Gu**
Who's being hunted here?
**[05:36] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[05:41] Gu**
Don't get cocky.
**[05:43] Gu**
Come! Death Dragon!
**[05:46] Gu**
He's got 4 defense!
**[05:49] Gu**
I don't think the spells in your hand
can take him down easily, can they?
**[05:53] Gu**
Of course they can.
**[05:54] Gu**
My turn!
**[05:57] Gu**
* But I've got two Wind Blasts in my hand,*
* with only two Spellboosts.*
**[06:03] Gu**
*I have no choice. I'll...*
**[06:06] Gu**
I play two Wind Blasts!
**[06:10] Gu**
I do 3 and then 4 damage to Death Dragon!
**[06:15] Gu**
This is less like a hurricane
and more like a gentle breeze!
***SIGN*** Call of Cocytus
**[06:19] Gu**
* I have a spell in my hand*
* that can destroy enemy followers.*
**[06:22] Gu**
*There's no need to worry.*
**[06:24] ---**
I end my turn.
**[06:26] Gu**
Here I go!
**[06:27] Gu**
My turn!
**[06:34] Gu**
I play Noxious Dragon!
**[06:37] Gu**
If that's all you've got—
**[06:38] Gu**
You want to destroy it
with the spell in your hand, right?
**[06:41] Gu**
But you can't!
**[06:43] Gu**
I play Protection Barrier!
**[06:45] Gu**
One of my followers can no longer
be destroyed by Spell Cards!
**[06:49] Gu**
No!
**[06:50] Gu**
I end my turn!
**[06:54] Gu**
What's wrong?
**[06:55] Gu**
You look upset.
**[06:58] Gu**
* I can't believe he has a spell*
* that nullifies destruction.*
**[07:02] Gu**
*It's as though he knows what's in my hand.*
**[07:06] Gu**
*Wait!*
**[07:07] Gu**
"With the spell in your hand!"
"Destroy it with the spell in your hand!"
**[07:11] Gu**
"But you can't!"
**[07:11] Gu**
*He keeps talking about my hand.*
**[07:15] Gu**
* And he always does something strange*
* before he plays a card.*
**[07:19] Gu**
*That can mean only one thing!*
**[07:22] Gu**
You're there, right?
**[07:23] Gu**
Come on out!
**[07:37] Gu**
I knew it!
**[07:38] Gu**
He was looking at my hand!
**[07:40] Gu**
So what?
**[07:42] Gu**
I told you. This is a hunt!
**[07:45] Gu**
And there are no rules in a hunt!
**[07:47] Gu**
It's hunt or be hunted. That's all!
**[07:49] Gu**
You...
**[07:50] Gu**
Now it's your turn.
**[07:52] Gu**
Or do you not care if you run out of time?
**[07:57] Gu**
There you are!
**[07:59] Gu**
K-Kazuki Shindo!
**[08:00] Gu**
I found my phone!
**[08:03] Gu**
Thanks to you!
**[08:05] Gu**
So what's up? You're battling?
**[08:08] Gu**
Looks like you brought another one, huh?
**[08:10] Gu**
Hey, Ko, what's his rank?
**[08:13] Gu**
Bronze.
**[08:14] Gu**
Just like me.
**[08:15] Gu**
Perfect!
**[08:17] Gu**
Let's hunt them both! It's a tag battle!
**[08:20] Gu**
Let's do it! Let's do it! Let's do it!
**[08:22] Gu**
What is wrong with you?
**[08:24] Gu**
My first battle in the Shadow Grand Prix!
**[08:27] Gu**
I'm so excited!
**[08:31] Gu**
Just don't slow me down.
**[08:33] Gu**
Of course!
***SIGN*** New Entrant
**[08:37] Gu**
Battle! Shadowverse!
**[08:48] Gu**
You know!
**[08:50] Gu**
Spell Card: Fate's Hand!
**[08:53] Gu**
The spell's effect lets me draw two cards,
and I end my turn.
**[08:57] Gu**
I see. My turn.
**[09:00] Gu**
I play Lilith and Demonic Sniper.
**[09:03] Gu**
And attack your leader with Noxious Dragon.
**[09:08] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[09:10] Gu**
Be careful.
**[09:11] Gu**
They're experienced at tag battles.
**[09:14] Gu**
Leave it to me!
**[09:15] Gu**
It's my turn, you know?
**[09:17] Gu**
First, I play the Spell Card Whole-Souled Swing!
**[09:20] Gu**
I do 2 damage to Demonic Sniper!
**[09:24] Gu**
And then Whole-Souled Swing's
effect activates.
**[09:27] Gu**
If your opponent controls
more followers than you do,
**[09:31] Gu**
it creates a Knight!
**[09:33] Gu**
And then I evolve it!
**[09:35] Gu**
I attack the Noxious Dragon!
**[09:40] Gu**
And then I play Courageous Knight!
**[09:43] Gu**
His effect creates a Steelclad Knight!
**[09:47] Gu**
And now I end my turn!
**[09:49] Gu**
How about that?
**[09:51] Gu**
Not bad, for Kazuki Shindo.
**[09:54] Gu**
What do you mean by "not bad"?
**[09:56] Gu**
I mean, "not bad."
**[09:58] Gu**
Not enough, but it met
the bare minimum.
**[10:03] Gu**
Don't you know that?
**[10:04] Gu**
That's not what I meant!
**[10:06] Gu**
Of course I know what it means!
**[10:08] Gu**
"Not bad" means not bad!
**[10:10] Gu**
It's my turn!
**[10:12] Gu**
I use Lilith to attack Courageous Knight,
and her effect does 1 damage to both leaders!
**[10:19] Gu**
But both Lilith and Courageous Knight
will die, right?
**[10:24] Gu**
I like my prey lively!
**[10:27] Gu**
Spell Card: Dragon Counsel!
**[10:29] Gu**
I discard one card to draw three!
**[10:33] Gu**
Now I'll show you...
**[10:35] Gu**
I play the Amulet Card: Dragonsong Flute!
**[10:40] Gu**
And her Overflow ability activates!
**[10:47] Gu**
What was that?
**[10:49] Gu**
You don't know how tag battles work, do you?
**[10:52] Gu**
Tag battles are about working together!
**[10:55] Gu**
We'll show you hell!
**[10:58] Gu**
Right, Ko?
**[10:59] Gu**
Yup.
**[11:01] Gu**
My turn.
**[11:02] Gu**
First, I attack your leader
with Steelclad Knight!
**[11:06] Gu**
It's useless!
**[11:08] Gu**
My Steelclad Knight is helping!
**[11:11] Gu**
Right, Kai?
**[11:12] Gu**
And then!
**[11:13] Gu**
You're ignoring me?
**[11:14] Gu**
Spell Card: Sorcery Cache.
**[11:16] Gu**
It Spellboosts one Spell Card
in my hand twice.
**[11:19] Gu**
And I draw a card!
**[11:21] Gu**
Spell Card: Summon Snow!
**[11:23] Gu**
It creates a Snowman,
**[11:26] Gu**
and then creates one more
for every Spellboost!
**[11:31] Gu**
Look at the Snowmen!
**[11:32] Gu**
This is the power of Spellboosts.
**[11:34] Gu**
Do you get it?
**[11:39] Gu**
What's so funny?
**[11:41] Gu**
"Do you get it?" he says.
**[11:43] Gu**
Ko, tell him.
**[11:45] Gu**
Yeah, I don't get it at all.
**[11:49] Gu**
Again?
**[11:50] Gu**
Spell Card: Goblin Conscription.
**[11:53] Gu**
I add four Goblins to my hand.
**[11:56] Gu**
Goblins? Those weak followers that cost 1?
**[12:00] Gu**
What's he doing adding those to his hand
at this stage in the game?
**[12:03] Gu**
I told you!
**[12:04] Gu**
Tag battles are about working together.
**[12:07] Gu**
Dragonsong Flute's ability activates!
**[12:11] Gu**
Whenever a card with cost 3
or less is added to my hand,
**[12:14] Gu**
it transforms into a Hellflame Dragon.
**[12:18] Gu**
So that's what happened before?
**[12:20] Gu**
You finally noticed, huh?
**[12:22] Gu**
If you play it in Overflow,
**[12:26] Gu**
you can transform cards in your hand
with a cost of 3 or less into Hellflame Dragons!
**[12:31] Gu**
What the heck?
**[12:32] Gu**
I play three Hellflame Dragons.
**[12:36] Gu**
They cost 3, but they've got 4 attack!
**[12:39] Gu**
And they've got Rush!
**[12:42] Gu**
Now take this.
**[12:49] Gu**
No!
**[12:51] Gu**
This is Ko and my combined power!
***SIGN*** Sky Dragon Ethica
***SIGN*** Hellflame Dragon
**[13:11] Gu**
This time I have to win!
**[13:15] Gu**
So your story ends here!
**[13:18] Gu**
I attack your leader with Ivy King!
**[13:24] Gu**
*It's over! Shiro Kiriyama is now Gold!*
**[13:29] Gu**
He's our 50th Gold Ranker!
**[13:33] Gu**
Half of the players have
already left the island!
**[13:37] Gu**
How many will remain
to see their next battle?
**[13:43] Gu**
My turn, y'know!
**[13:44] Gu**
I play Sage Commander,
**[13:46] Gu**
and its effect raises
all my followers' attack and defense by 1!
**[13:52] Gu**
And then I play Assault Knight!
**[13:55] Gu**
When I have a commander card in play,
it gets Rush!
**[13:59] Gu**
I use it to attack a Hellflame Dragon!
**[14:02] Gu**
And then attack your leader
with the Snowmen!
**[14:05] Gu**
Kazuki Shindo, we need to take down
their followers, right?
**[14:10] Gu**
But we can't win unless we attack, you know?
**[14:12] Gu**
But—
**[14:13] Gu**
Shut up already!
**[14:14] Gu**
My turn!
**[14:16] Gu**
Dragonsong Flute's effect activates!
**[14:18] Gu**
Cards with 3 or less cost that get added
to my hand become Hellflame Dragons!
**[14:24] Gu**
I attack one Snowman with a Hellflame Dragon,
and then your leader with another one!
**[14:29] Gu**
Then I play three more, and evolve one!
**[14:33] Gu**
I attack your Sage Commander
with my evolved Hellflame Dragon,
**[14:37] Gu**
and then the unevolved one
attacks the Snowman!
**[14:39] Gu**
How many does he have?
**[14:41] Gu**
He filled the whole board!
**[14:42] Gu**
I'll hunt you to extinction!
**[14:44] Gu**
I end my turn!
**[14:46] Gu**
*I need to do something.*
**[14:48] Gu**
Draw.
**[14:49] Gu**
*I need to buy time.*
**[14:51] Gu**
I play Kaleidoscopic Glow and Angelic Snipe!
**[14:54] Gu**
One Hellflame Dragon goes back to your hand,
and then another takes 1 damage!
**[14:58] Gu**
It's useless.
**[15:00] Gu**
I play three Magic Missiles!
**[15:02] Gu**
Each of the three Dragons takes 1 damage!
**[15:06] Gu**
And then Magic Missile's effect
lets me draw a card!
**[15:10] Gu**
Nice, Kai!
**[15:11] Gu**
You defeated them all!
**[15:13] Gu**
It's no good.
**[15:14] Gu**
He's just going to play
more Hellflame Dragons!
**[15:16] Gu**
Look, Ko.
**[15:18] Gu**
They're panicking.
**[15:19] Gu**
It's futile.
**[15:21] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[15:22] Gu**
My turn.
**[15:25] Gu**
I play three Hellflame Dragons.
**[15:29] Gu**
I knew it.
**[15:30] Gu**
It doesn't matter how many you destroy.
**[15:33] Gu**
We'll just keep playing them!
**[15:40] Gu**
What's got you down?
**[15:43] Gu**
What? Don't you understand?
**[15:46] Gu**
There's no limit to how many
Hellflame Dragons they can play.
**[15:49] Gu**
I know that!
**[15:52] Gu**
But you know, Kai...
**[15:53] Gu**
We haven't lost yet, right?
**[15:55] Gu**
And that means we can still win, you know?
**[15:59] Gu**
Now let's show them our power!
**[16:04] Gu**
Victorious Blader!
**[16:07] Gu**
Victorious Blader's effect activates!
**[16:09] Gu**
Any damage dealt to him is reduced
by 3 until next turn!
**[16:15] Gu**
Then I play Veteran Lancer.
**[16:17] Gu**
Victorious Blader's other effect
**[16:20] Gu**
means that any followers on my side
get -3 to damage received!
**[16:25] Gu**
I evolve Veteran Lancer!
**[16:28] Gu**
And attack a Hellflame Dragon!
**[16:31] Gu**
Normally they'd both die, but...
**[16:34] Gu**
Kai, you're a genius, right?
**[16:36] Gu**
Then prove it in this battle!
**[16:40] Gu**
Shindo...
**[16:45] Gu**
Yes. Of course. That's the plan.
**[16:51] Gu**
"Genius"? Huh?
**[16:53] Gu**
My turn! Here I go!
**[16:55] Gu**
I play two Hellflame Dragons and evolve one!
**[16:59] Gu**
And then attack Veteran Lancer
and Victorious Blader!
**[17:05] Gu**
That won't be enough
to take out Victorious Blader!
**[17:08] Gu**
I don't know about that!
**[17:10] Gu**
I play Siegfried!
**[17:11] Gu**
It destroys one damaged follower!
**[17:16] Gu**
No way!
**[17:17] Gu**
And then...
**[17:18] Gu**
I attack your leader
with two Hellflame Dragons!
**[17:25] Gu**
Now, the hunt reaches its finale!
**[17:42] Gu**
K-Kazuki Shindo?
**[17:45] Gu**
It's fine. We haven't lost yet, y'know!
**[17:51] Gu**
Yes. That's right.
**[17:54] Gu**
We haven't lost yet.
Which means we can still win!
**[17:58] Gu**
Draw!
***SIGN*** Chrono Witch
**[18:00] Gu**
*It's here.*
**[18:00] Gu**
* But it hasn't been Spellboosted at all,*
* so its cost is still 13!*
**[18:05] Gu**
*I can't play it!*
**[18:08] Gu**
*No, wait!*
**[18:10] Gu**
*Geniuses don't think about losing.*
**[18:12] Gu**
*They just think about winning!*
**[18:15] Gu**
I play Sorcery Cache!
**[18:16] Gu**
It Spellboosts a card in my hand twice!
**[18:19] Gu**
Spellboosts? At this point in the game?
**[18:22] Gu**
Too late!
**[18:23] Gu**
No, I'm getting started now!
**[18:25] Gu**
Sorcery Cache reduces the cost
of Fiery Embrace to 0. I play three!
**[18:29] Gu**
I destroy three Hellflame Dragons!
**[18:31] Gu**
So what?
**[18:32] Gu**
I told you. I'm getting started.
**[18:35] Gu**
Sorcery Cache Spellboosted Fiery Embrace
a total of three times, making its cost 0.
**[18:42] Gu**
And then it was Spellboosted three more times.
**[18:44] Gu**
I made it in time.
**[18:46] Gu**
Now, come forth, Chrono Witch!
**[18:50] Gu**
Evolve! Turn back time!
**[18:56] Gu**
When Chrono Witch evolves,
**[18:58] Gu**
all my followers that were destroyed
the previous turn return to play.
**[19:01] Gu**
What?
**[19:02] Gu**
Impossible.
**[19:04] Gu**
It's possible.
**[19:05] Gu**
This is the chemistry created by my calculations
and Kazuki Shindo's unwavering heart!
**[19:10] Gu**
I attack Siegfried with Chrono Witch!
**[19:14] Gu**
Simulation complete.
**[19:16] Gu**
Impossible!
**[19:18] Gu**
This can't be!
**[19:19] Gu**
I declare that you will lose next turn.
**[19:28] Gu**
I play a Hellflame Dragon and Queen Vampire!
**[19:31] Gu**
Queen Vampire's effect creates
two Forest Bats with Ward!
**[19:37] Gu**
I end my turn.
**[19:39] Gu**
This is the last turn!
**[19:42] Gu**
I play Alexander!
**[19:43] Gu**
Alexander has Rush and can
attack fourteen times!
**[19:48] Gu**
F-Fourteen?!
**[19:51] Gu**
Alexander attacks the two Forest Bats!
**[19:55] Gu**
And then Veteran Lancer attacks your leader!
**[20:00] Gu**
*How can Ko and I...*
**[20:02] Gu**
*...lose?!*
**[20:04] Gu**
End it, Kai!
**[20:06] Gu**
I know, Kazuki Shindo!
**[20:11] Gu**
Chrono Witch and Victorious Blader
attack your leader!
**[20:33] Gu**
Yes. We won, somehow!
**[20:37] Gu**
Damn it!
**[20:40] Gu**
It seems you weren't our prey just yet.
**[20:45] Gu**
But don't forget!
**[20:46] Gu**
You will be someday!
**[20:48] Gu**
Bye!
**[20:52] Gu**
They were strong. That was close, you know.
**[20:55] Gu**
Yes.
**[20:56] Gu**
Wait, there's no time to be tired!
**[20:59] Gu**
I need to battle to make up for lost time!
**[21:02] Gu**
Bye, Kai!
**[21:04] Gu**
W-Wait.
**[21:06] Gu**
This time, um... Thank you.
**[21:11] Gu**
Without you, I never would've won, Kazuki.
**[21:16] Gu**
I was able to win because of you.
**[21:19] Gu**
That's the first time
you've just called me "Kazuki," you know!
**[21:38] Gu**
He's back! Run for it, Kai!
**[21:40] ---**
Huh?! What?!
**[21:44] Gu**
Wh-Why are they after me, too?
**[21:49] Gu**
I'm so sick of this!
**[23:24] Gu**
Shadowverse Card Showcase!
**[23:25] Gu**
Today's card is the Assault Knight!
***SIGN*** Assault Knight!
**[23:28] Gu**
A superior follower that has Rush
if a commander card is in play.
**[23:31] Gu**
Commander cards are
the most superlative part of Swordcraft!
**[23:34] Gu**
Kazuki used a big word!
Is it because I'm his commander?
**[23:38] Gu**
The sudden arrival of mysterious players
throws the Shadow Grand Prix into chaos!
***SIGN*** Next Time
**[23:43] Gu**
What's going on?
**[23:45] Gu**
Next time:
Bearers of Shadow!
**[23:47] Gu**
The helicopter carrying the emcee
went off somewhere!
***SIGN*** Episode 19 Bearers of Shadow!
**[23:50] Gu**
Battle! Shadowverse!