Andre had his book out and was writing notes down scribbling while ignoring any of the teacher's comments about the effects synchro's had on children and teenagers especially since they were released. He himself had never had that problem with synchros and none of his brothers who both had at least one synchro in their decks...though Ben did hate Laudsallyn with a passion. The card embodied everything he DESPISED about the tale of Arthur. The seduction of a man's wife, the betrayal of one's king, and the fall to power. Ben was such a poet that he had sometimes refused to bring out Laudsallyn at times. What an idiot. If Laudsallyn could win him a duel why not use that black knight's power? Who cared what he stood for? Was Artorgius so special that he needed the spotlight over everyone and everything else? He himself had been considering about buying more synchros. Maybe trying out some stuff with plague spreader to top deck some cards. Maybe he'd get lucky and get about that one masked chameleon  card he had heard was used a lot. Who knew what class would hold for Andre in the future? He was truly intrigued by the aspects of synchros and their diversity. Xyz had a similar quality though in the end they were simply so standard. Two or more cards mixed together to form one big monster. Sometimes monsters didn't need to be still on the field, sometimes they served better in a graveyard. With his deck his graveyard was all important after all. Fodder for his Emperor, fodder for his necrofear, and even more so maybe he could more cards to increase his special summoning powers. His normal summons were great with sinister yoshirio but he needed to make his strength more...palpable...to his enemies.

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Ben tried to pay attention, he honestly did, but when he heard the kids talking trash about Tsukiko he couldn't help but get a bit frustrated. He wasn't above interrupting a lesson but he saw that another boy had already handled the ordeal for him. Henry sat next to him along side another boy from Team Awesome and he told them to make specific notes about cards they had for synchros. Numbers were everything as the teacher had said and he know understood why Andre had been so intent on synchros. It was right up his alley but for Ben himself? The whole god damn thing made him feel a bit uneasy. His main monster synchro was a literal monster. The man who betrayed his king...such a thing...it's not something so easily done but too almost kill his king and seduce him wife? That was a whole different level of crap. Laudsallyn...the mere fact that he had him in his deck made him ill. He'd take him out if the man himself wasn't so useful in the right situations. In the opening duel...against Angelo...he'd gotten lucky. And that made Ben sick. His cards failed him but came back at the last second. If he had been forced to bring out the dark knight of Avalon he would've...but he wouldn't have wanted it to end that way. He just hoped he wouldn't need to use him. The last time...wasn't so pleasant for Ben. Bad memories aside he was sincerely thankful this lady cared about her students to mention the side effects synchros had on some people. He just hoped they would listen no one deserved to suffer. No one deserved to get hurt in this world. The world....was beautiful. Everyone just failed to see it through the smog of hate...but maybe...just maybe Ben could get through too some people and reach out past that smog. He had a chance right now but the school year was just starting and Ben...well he figured that it was too soon to make big moves so it was all in biding his time at the moment.