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Espa Roba is a young Duelist who entered [[Battle City]] to uphold his reputation and protect his younger brothers. He is was first shown defeating [[Rex Raptor]] and taking "[[Serpent Night Dragon]]". Rex advises advised [[Joey Wheeler]] not to [[Duel]] Espa Roba on the grounds that his psychic abilities allow allowed him to read all the cards in his hand. With an air of self-confidence, Joey accepts accepted the Duel and begins.

Although Espa Roba initially gains gained an advantage due to the fact he knows knew what cards are were in Joey's hand and on his [[Playing Field|field]], Joey infers inferred what is was happening and attempts attempted to confuse his watchers from above by putting the cards "[[Skull Dice]]" and "[[Graceful Dice]]" close to each other in order to confuse Espa Roba.

[[Mokuba Kaiba]] eventually discovers discovered the source of Espa Roba's "psychic" abilities, ; his brothers spied upon Joey's hand from upon a high rise building. However, the brothers plead pleaded with Mokuba to let Espa Roba continue with the Duel, stating that he is was a strong duelist Duelist despite his cheating ways.

The psychic front was to build an impression of an unbeatable duelist and thus deflect deflected any abuse that was usually heaped upon Espa Roba and his brothers, they were heavily bullied due to being carnival folk before. To Mokuba, this situation paralleled his brotherly relationship with his older brother, [[Seto Kaiba|Seto]] and he let Espa Roba continue the duel. Due to this, Espa Roba's psychic reputation is was tarnished, but he continues continued his duel with Joey nevertheless.

Espa Roba eventually [[Summon]]s ed "[[Jinzo]]", who severely crippled Joey's overall strategy. Finally, Joey [[activate]]d "[[Roulette Spider]]" which forced "Jinzo" to [[attack]] a random card on the field, "Jinzo" attacked "[[Reflect Bounder]]", who then reflected the assault back on "Jinzo", [[destroy]]ing them both and , causing Espa Roba loses to lose the Duel.

Due to the Battle City regulations, Espa Roba forfeited his rarest card, "Jinzo", to Joey upon his defeat and commented that he was ready to stand up for his brothers without cheating.

He is was later seen observing the semifinal match between Yugi and Kaiba in Domino City amongst other duelists.

He makes Espa made a cameo in the Japanese epilogue, appearing to challenge [[Mako Tsunami]] to a Duel.

===Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's===In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', a parody of him named [[Esper Rouba ]] is listed as one the duelists defeated by [[Hunter Pace]]. <ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|01|ref}}</ref>