"What? All the '02 expansion packs here are sold out?"
Yugi Mutou was a loyal Yu-Gi-Oh! player.
Yes, that was his name, Yugi Mutou, and it was precisely because he shared the same name as the protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! that he immediately paid attention and became fascinated with the game as soon as it was released, becoming a loyal fan.
At the same time, Yugi Mutou was a Yu-Gi-Oh! card collector. He didn't play the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards very often, mainly because he frequently lost. However, he had collected many Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. For example, he owned a rare first edition Blue-Eyes White Dragon that many in the circle raved about. Yugi Mutou possessed one, which was essentially a family heirloom to be passed down.
However, this had also cost Yugi Mutou a lot of money. Initially, he could use his savings to buy cards in large quantities, but now his savings were depleted. Yugi Mutou could no longer afford to buy cards in bulk for random draws. Instead, he had to save up a little money before purchasing cards.
Thus, Yugi Mutou saved 20,000 yen and specially traveled to Akihabara, a place with a large quantity of goods, intending to buy a few boxes of Yu-Gi-Oh! expansion packs from 2002. When he was about to see if he could draw a few rare cards, he received shocking news from the store clerk: all the '02 expansion packs were sold out.
Although the '02 expansion packs had been discontinued, because they were generally distributed, there was still a large market surplus, especially at the Akihabara main store, where it was almost unheard of for expansion packs to be sold out.
Yet today, the clerk informed him that all expansion packs were sold out. This made Yugi Mutou's heart sink and filled him with surprise. Who had the ability to buy all the expansion packs?
Then the clerk glanced towards a place where a crowd had gathered. Yugi Mutou discovered a large group of people, dozens, even hundreds, surrounding a table, layered three and four deep. They occasionally let out exclamations, creating a din that shook the entire building.
In fact, Yugi Mutou had noticed that group earlier, but he disliked crowds, so he hadn't paid attention. He never expected that this group would have bought all the expansion packs he wanted.
Therefore, unable to contain his curiosity, Yugi Mutou joined the crowd and managed to find a spot where he could clearly see the situation. It took him more than ten minutes to figure out what was happening.
At the center of everyone's attention were two men and two women.
The two men were as they were, but the two women were breathtakingly beautiful.
The younger one was a girl in her early twenties, with an angelic face, pure and alluring. Her face was brimming with an excited smile, freely displaying the beauty of youth. Yugi Mutou felt that 90% of the female stars in Fusang couldn't compare to this girl's looks, and when she smiled, it was enough to melt one's heart.
"She's a fellow fan!" Seeing the girl's smile as she looked at the cards in her hand, Yugi Mutou's heart beat even faster. After all, although there were many players in the Yu-Gi-Oh! circle, female players were very rare, and a fellow fan as beautiful as this girl was as rare and precious as a diamond.
"Hmm, I wonder if she'll debut as an independent artist in the future. If she does, I'll definitely buy everything..." Yugi Mutou had such a thought.
Although this thought was a bit perverted, for many men in Fusang, it was a rather normal idea. After all, a famous idol from a certain "48" group could later debut as an independent artist, so nothing was impossible in this world.
Looking at the other woman sitting opposite the girl, who was dressed more maturely, her allure was even more captivating. If that girl was like a young, imaginative fruit,
Then this woman was like a ripe peach, so ripe that one couldn't wait to bite into it and taste the juice. Especially when combined with her cold demeanor, Yugi Mutou involuntarily imagined himself being stepped on by her high heels.
Cough, cough, these were normal thoughts for Fusang people, so don't be surprised.
"Hmm, I wonder if she can debut as an independent artist in the future..."
Despite the strange fantasies in his mind, Yugi Mutou quickly shifted his attention back to the pile of cards on their table.
Although Yugi Mutou had collected over 2,000 Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, if all of them were placed on this table, they would only fill about a quarter of the surface area and reach about the height of a water glass.
However, at this moment, the cards in these people's hands not only filled the entire table but also there were some empty boxes filled with cards, stacked under the table, several layers deep.
At the same time, there were boxes upon boxes, all opened, piled on the ground. Preliminary estimates suggested that there were at least a hundred empty boxes.
"A booster pack contains 10 cards, and a box contains 30 booster packs, totaling 300 cards, costing 4,500 yen. For 100 boxes, that's 450,000 yen!" Yugi Mutou calculated and then gasped.
However, his expression soon changed again, as he noticed that these boxes were not all of the same type. Besides the '02 boxes he was interested in, there were also boxes from '01, '00, and even the first edition from '99.
There were also various special edition expansion packs, all of which had stopped general sales, with each opened box being the last of its kind.
Furthermore, the price of a first edition box had already risen to 10,000 yen per box, and the '02 cards were 5,000 yen.
At the same time, Yugi Mutou also noticed that at another table not far away, several security guards were nervously guarding several tall stacks of boxes. Those were all new, unopened boxes, potentially thousands of boxes in total, and all of them were out-of-print products.
Then this would not be a matter of 450,000 yen but at least tens of millions of yen worth of boxes.
"Damn dog!" Yugi Mutou swallowed and then focused his attention on the booster packs being opened one by one. He saw many rare cards being pulled out, only to be casually discarded by the owner. According to other onlookers, they had already pulled out several such rare cards.
"Sigh, I thought I could complete the more than 200 cards I'm missing, but now I've only completed a few dozen! And not a single extremely rare one!" Leng Zhimeng sighed.
"What do you mean by extremely rare?" Huang He asked with a smile.
"Well, at least something on the level of Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Leng Zhimeng said.
"Let's open these things when we get home. It's too crowded here, and it's not safe!" Boss Huang said somewhat cautiously. Although the quality of Fusang people was said to be high, that was just hearsay. Don't forget, Fusang was also one of the few countries in the world that had legalized yakuza organizations. Who knows what might happen.
"Alright!" Leng Zhimeng nodded. The large crowd around them was also making her a little scared, so she nodded and decided to head back early.
However, before leaving, Leng Zhimeng sent someone to the store clerk to buy all the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards in stock, about five thousand boxes, and had them delivered directly to her company's address. The store clerk could only nod mechanically.
Not only that, but since the store also sold Pokémon cards, several thousand boxes of Pokémon cards were also purchased.
"Back at the company, have all the employees work overtime to open the packs!" Hu Jing said faintly to Ito Makoto, who could only nod with a wry smile, and began to suspect his boss.
To suddenly purchase tens of millions of yen worth of game cards and have all company members help her open them, did such a boss have a future?
And the chairman of the head office was happily opening packs with him. Should he start preparing to change companies?
"Do you want to buy anything else? We've only spent tens of millions of yen today!" Huang He said lightly. Ito Makoto's eyebrows twitched.
Only spent tens of millions... That's right, tens of millions of yen was only a few hundred thousand US dollars. For his boss, it wasn't a very expensive figure, but this was giving money to Bandai!
Ito Makoto grumbled inwardly about his boss, while the crowd, seeing Huang He and the others preparing to pack up and leave, reluctantly dispersed. Such a scene was rarely seen on a normal day, which was a shame, as they could have watched it all day.
"Are you leaving?" Yugi Mutou also felt a bit disappointed. Then, his gaze swept across the cards on the table, and he saw a card with a blue background. His breathing suddenly became very rapid.
"GB Special Edition of Dark Magician Girl!" Yugi Mutou shouted inwardly. In 1999, when the Yu-Gi-Oh! GB game was released, a set of GB Special Edition expansion packs was also released.
This expansion pack itself wasn't particularly rare, as the cards inside could also be pulled from normal boosters. However, among these cards was one called Dark Magician Girl.
Because this card was originally supposed to have a green background, it was mistakenly printed with a blue background. Later, Bandai discovered the error and corrected it, but a batch of misprints still entered the market.
The number of these misprints was extremely small, reportedly only over 400. Consequently, they were fiercely sought after by players. Now, a blue-background Dark Magician Girl card was priced at over a million yen per card, and it was scarce, a treasure coveted by countless collectors. He never expected to see one pulled.