slashes the tiny Kuriboh. It explodes into a brilliant white light. The light expands, consuming Armor Exile completely. Roku watches in disbelief as his 2400+ ATK monster disintegrates. The effect deals 2400 damage to Roku's remaining Life Points (1300 → 0).

He orders all tokens to attack in a suicide charge. Each token is destroyed by Armor Exile 's superior power, but because Armor Break can only negate one destruction per turn, the second Kuriboh token successfully rams into the armor, dealing 300 damage to Roku (Roku: 1300 LP).

Dark Magician Girl is absorbed into the armor, her eyes turning hollow. Roku then sacrifices her to pay the maintenance cost for , sending her to the Graveyard. Yugi is horrified—not just at losing his monster, but at the cruel, parasitic nature of his opponent. Part 2: Yugi's Counterattack Realizing direct attacks are useless, Yugi changes strategy. He uses Kuribabylon 's effect: by multiplying the Kuribohs, he creates a swarm of fluffballs. He then activates the Spell Multiply to split Kuribabylon into a legion of Kuriboh Tokens (each 300 ATK).

Roku, impatient, declares that swords cannot stop the flames of the tomb. He is about to attack through the swords using when Yugi reveals his combo.

He thanks Yugi for giving him a true duel that finally satisfied his spirit. The stone platform lowers, and the exit to the tomb opens. Yugi, Téa, Joey, and Tristan escape back to the Kame Game Shop's basement, where they find Grandpa (Sugoroku) safe and sound, having been knocked out earlier by the tomb's guardian.

Yugi’s plan is brute-force math: overwhelm the single-use trap with multiple weak attacks. Roku laughs. He reveals the true horror of Armor Exile . When it destroys a monster in battle, it can absorb that monster’s spirit, increasing its own ATK by half the destroyed monster's ATK. After absorbing a Kuriboh token (which has negligible ATK), the boost is small—but Roku then activates Burning Spear , a Spell that forces Yugi to send a monster from his hand to the Graveyard. Yugi discards Big Shield Gardna .

Yugi activates , which allows him to activate Spells without paying their costs (typically Life Points). He then plays Monster Reborn a second time (normally illegal in the anime, but the tomb's magic bends rules) to revive Kuriboh .

Part 6: Resolution and Departure As the flames of the tomb die down, the cursed armor crumbles to dust. The spirit of Roku Jūroku Ten—revealed to be a proud but lonely warrior who died in this very tomb 500 years ago, his soul trapped by his own battle lust—appears as a ghost.