Blue Angel and Baira's Duel

Blue Angel and Baira's Duel is the eleventh Duel of the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime, conducted between Blue Angel and Baira.

Prior events
Blue Angel had largely refrained from entering LINK VRAINS during the Deleted incident, but finally decided to log in after talking with Emma Bessho. She encountered Baira attempting to Delete Frog and Pigeon, and claiming to be in a bad mood, challenged her to a Duel. Baira, who knew Blue Angel's real identity, revealed that she had designed the Deleted virus and that Skye had been its test subject when she was infected after her Duel with Playmaker. Blue Angel furiously vowed to defeat Baira, and the two began a Speed Duel, with Baira conjuring a Data Gale.

The Duel
 Turn 1: Blue Angel 

Blue Angel activates the Field Spell "Trickstar Light Stage", adding a "Trickstar" monster from her Deck to her hand. She adds "Trickstar Lilybell". As "Lilybell" was added to Blue Angel's hand except by drawing it, she activates its effect, Special Summoning it (800/2000). Blue Angel Normal Summons "Trickstar Nightshade" (100/0). Blue Angel sets "Lilybell" and "Nightshade" in the Link Arrows to Link Summon "Trickstar Holly Angel" (2000/↙↘) to the Extra Monster Zone. As "Nightshade" was sent to the GY as Link Material for the Link Summon of a "Trickstar" monster, Blue Angel activates its effect, Special Summoning it. She Special Summons it (100/0) in Defense Position to the zone the bottom-left Link Arrow of "Holly Angel" points to. Each time a "Trickstar" monster is Normal or Special Summoned to a zone "Holly Angel" points to, its effect inflicts 200 damage to Baira (Baira: 4000 → 3800 LP). Each time a "Trickstar" monster Blue Angel controls inflicts battle or effect damage to Baira, the effect of "Light Stage" inflicts 200 damage to her (Baira: 3800 → 3600 LP). Blue Angel Sets a card.

 Turn 2: Baira 

As a card is in the Field Zone, Baira Special Summons "Dark Mummy Probe" from her hand, then destroys a card in the Field Zone by its own effect. She Special Summons it (700/0), then destroys "Light Stage". Baira Normal Summons "Probe" (700/0). Baira Sets a card. Baira activates the Continuous Spell "Temple of the Kings". The effect of "Temple of the Kings" allows Baira to activate one Trap the turn it was Set. Baira applies the effect of "Temple of the Kings", activating her face-down Trap "Current Corruption Virus" the turn it was Set, Tributing a DARK monster with 0 DEF, until Blue Angel's third End Phase after activation, Baira changes the ATK of all monsters Blue Angel controls with 2000 or less DEF to 0, they have their effects negated, also monsters in Blue Angel's hand cannot activate their effects. She Tributes "Probe" ("Nightshade": 100 → 0 ATK). Baira activates the Quick-Play Spell "Monster Restitch", Tributing a "Dark Mummy" monster to Special Summon three "Dark Mummy Tokens". She Tributes "Probe" and Special Summons three "Dark Mummy Tokens" (???/0). Baira sets three "Dark Mummy Tokens" in the Link Arrows to Link Summon "Dark Mummy Surgical Forceps" (2400/↙↑→) to the Extra Monster Zone. "Surgical Forceps" attacks "Holly Angel". Blue Angel activates the Continuous Trap "Trickstar Perennial" and activates its effect, targeting a "Trickstar" Link Monster she controls, then sending a monster it points to or "Perennial" to the GY to prevent it from being destroyed by battle this turn. She targets "Holly Angel" and sends "Nightshade" its bottom-left Link Arrow points to. The attack continues and "Holly Angel" is not destroyed (Blue Angel: 4000 → 3600 LP).

 Turn 3: Blue Angel 

Blue Angel's hand contains "Trickstar Candina" and "Trickstar Mandrake". Blue Angel Normal Sets a monster to the zone the bottom-left Link Arrow of "Holly Angel" points to. As a monster was Normal Summoned, Special Summoned, or Set to a zone Blue Angel's Link Monster points to, Baira activates the effect of "Surgical Forceps", destroying that monster. Blue Angel's face-down monster is destroyed.

 Turn 4: Baira 

Baira draws "Root Ransom Virus". As Baira drew a Trap, she activates the effect of "Surgical Cooper", revealing it to inflict 500 damage to Blue Angel (Blue Angel: 3600 → 3100 LP). Baira activates her Skill "Malevolent Malpractice", banishing two Level 2 or lower monsters with the same name from her GY to Special Summon two monsters from her Deck with the same name as each other and whose Levels are equal to the banished monsters'. She banishes two copies of the Level 1 "Probe" to Special Summon two copies of the Level 1 "Dark Mummy Infuser" (0/500), with one of them Special Summoned to the zone the bottom-left Link Arrow of "Surgical Forceps" points to. As "Infuser" is Normal or Special Summoned to a zone a Zombie Link Monster points to, Baira activates its effect, targeting that Zombie Link Monster, while "Infuser" is face-up in the Main Monster Zone, that monster is unaffected by Trap effects. She targets "Surgical Forceps" whose bottom-left Link Arrow points to "Infuser". The effect of "Surgical Forceps" increases its ATK by 600 for each monster it points to. It points to "Infuser" ("Surgical Forceps": 2400 → 3000 ATK). Baira Sets a card. Baira applies the effect of "Temple of the Kings", activating her face-down Trap "Root Ransom Virus" the turn it was Set, Tributing a DARK monster with 0 ATK to change the ATK of all Link Monsters on the field to 0, also they have their effects negated. She Tributes "Infuser" ("Holly Angel": 2000 → 0 ATK). "Surgical Forceps" attacks "Holly Angel". Blue Angel activates the effect of "Perennial", targeting a "Trickstar" Link Monster she controls, then sending a monster it points to or "Perennial" to the GY to prevent it from being destroyed by battle this turn. She targets "Holly Angel" and sends "Perennial". The attack continues and "Holly Angel" is not destroyed (Blue Angel: 3100 → 100 LP). During Baira's turn, Blue Angel activates her Skill "Trickstar Trick", discarding a "Trickstar" card to make Baira draw until she has three cards in her hand, and during the End Phase of this turn, Baira must banish a card from her hand for each "Trickstar" monster in Blue Angel's GY. She discards "Trickstar Mandrake" and makes Baira draw three cards ("Ekibyo Drakmord", "Giant Germ", and "Infected Mail"). As "Mandrake" was sent from the hand to the GY, Blue Angel activates its effect, Special Summoning it in Defense Position (0/1000). During the End Phase, Blue Angel has three "Trickstar" monsters in her GY ("Lilybell", "Nightshade", and "Candina"), so Baira banishes "Ekibyo Drakmord", "Giant Germ", and "Infected Mail".

 Turn 5: Blue Angel 

Blue Angel draws "Trickstar Narkissus" and subsequently Normal Summons it (1000 → 0/1800). Blue Angel sets "Narkissus", "Mandrake", and the Link-2 "Holly Angel" in the Link Arrows to Link Summon "Trickstar Bella Madonna" (2800/↑→↙↓) to the Extra Monster Zone. As a Link Monster is Link Summoned while "Root Ransom Virus" is in Baira's GY, its effect activates, changing the ATK of all Link Monsters on the field to 0, also they have their effects negated, but as "Mandrake" was sent to the GY as Link Material for the Link Summon of a "Trickstar" monster, Blue Angel activates its effect, targeting a monster Baira's Link Monster points to and destroying it. She targets and destroys "Infuser" the bottom-left Link Arrow of "Surgical Forceps" points to ("Surgical Forceps": 3000 → 2400 ATK). The effect of "Root Ransom Virus" resolves ("Surgical Forceps": 2400 → 0 ATK). While the Link Summoned "Bella Madonna" points to no monsters, its effect makes it unaffected by other cards' effects. As "Bella Madonna" points to no monsters, Blue Angel activates its effect, inflicting 200 damage to Baira for each different "Trickstar" monster in Blue Angel's GY. There are six different "Trickstar" monsters in Blue Angel's GY ("Lilybell", "Nightshade", "Candina", "Narkissus", "Mandrake", and "Holly Angel"), so Blue Angel inflicts 1200 damage to Baira (Baira: 3600 → 2400 LP). "Bella Madonna" attacks and destroys "Surgical Forceps" (Baira: 2400 → 0 LP).

Aftermath
Although Blue Angel hadn't asked Baira to release the Deleted prior to the Duel, she asked if she could do so. Baira revealed that she already had; having done so during the final attack. After encouraging Blue Angel to inspire others within LINK VRAINS as she had been to change her own heart, Baira vanished, having been purged by the Knights of Hanoi due to her loss.