Hakai no Miko

"Ho. It's packed."

When Solon placed the Chancellor's pawn in front of the king's pawn, Muthos honestly admitted to losing, "I'm here," he said.

"Ha ha. It was a mistake to put the king's protection behind him when he couldn't wait to take the general."

"No, you're right. I was blinded by the attack of tanks and archers, and I didn't expect the Chancellor to cut in from here."

To Solon's point, Mutos grinned bitterly with his hands on his forehead just to say he was ashamed.

"Okay, one more inning"

"Next time, you won't lose."

That's what Solon and Mutos began to line each other's pawns.

Five days had already passed since we started playing chess this way.

In the meantime, Solon hasn't spoken of the battle, rather than saying a word that would encourage him to surrender. For this reason, it seems that Mutos also enjoys chess purely again.

Adomius, who had to be present on this occasion out of his duties, was beginning to wonder why he had to watch chess rivalries.

It is true, however, that he enjoyed chess, but Mutos did not forget his position either. He was desperately trying to decipher whether the messenger was trying to convey something through this chess.

But there was still no sign of that, just pointing to chess.

When that happens, instead, Mutos becomes concerned.

The more time passes, the more disadvantaged are the rebel slaves. And yet, is it good to spend time like this for no reason? Who the hell is it that commands rebel slaves, and what do they think, that allows this to happen?

Mutos is therefore starting to wonder about a man named Soma Kisaki, son of destruction, who is leading a rebel slave.

But keep saying, "What kind of person is Soma Kisaki? The question is," I feel like the other person's thoughts are right, and I shudder.

So Mutos grabbed the chess and asked:

"Is it good chess, too, by the name of Soma?

And Adomius said, "Was this what you were after!" and nervous.

It's hard to convince someone to take a hard (hard) attitude. Because no matter how much reason you preach, no matter how much damage you show, you will be cast out by your emotions.

But rejection by emotion doesn't mean we don't care what kind of enemy commander we are relative to.

This old man waited until such curiosity crossed his stubborn emotions.

And this old man will come all the way here to preach how great a man the Son of Destruction is to surrender.

He was so wary of Adomius, but he himself is so wary of General Darius, wondering what kind of man the Son of Destruction took himself by the hand, and nodding his ears without pinching a good mouth.

But Solon said something unexpected.

"No, no. Master Soma, you suck at chess. I've never won before."

The words of this solon are true.

Originally he was a pale horse who tried to play chess in appreciation of developments he saw in movies and comics, "If you point to chess and subdue enemy generals, it would be cool," but he also lost a series of fights to Shemr, who was learning all about solons together. No matter who else you do it with, you can't win it at all. Finally, the Ethereal Horse didn't have such a talent for chess that he even lost to Jaharngil, which was the last line of favor, and gave up chess early.

By the way, the only one such a pale horse could win was Eladia. But none of that Eladia could have won as one, including Solon, except the Ethereal Horse.

"Well, that's surprising."

Chess is also recognized by the warlords as one of the military exercises in this world. A rare schemer who left Darius, the nation's best general, and now kicked it all the way to the most powerful army and the famous "Black Wall," could not easily believe that chess was bad.

Solon says to such muttos.

"There was also chess in Master Soma's homeland. This is a little different. Maybe it's because of that."

To chess lover Mutos, that's a curious story. Ask how the hell it's different.

"There are naturally different types of pawns and the number of eyes on the board, but the biggest difference would be that you can use the other pawn you took as your pawn"

That's funny, Mutos thought.

That is the end of the pawn, which was also taken in this world's chess as well as chess. But if you can use the other person's pawn you took, the strategy on that board will be terribly complex and wide-ranging.

"Would you like to give it a try? I am the way of Soma's homeland, and Lord Mutos is the way of Holmea."

"Oh, you won't have that!

If the opponent can use the pawn he took from this one, but this one can't, it won't be a great battle.

Solon then makes another suggestion.

"On the contrary, then, Lord Mutos is the fluent of Master Soma's homeland. How about I be the fashion of the Holmeer country?

Mutos was also dismayed by this.

If we do it anyway, we should do it on the same terms as each other. It is humiliating to dare to say that you are better off under such unfavourable conditions. If I had only repeated this opposite station, I would have understood that Solon was a better finger for many, but I don't think there's that much difference.

"So let's take it," Mutos replied with a face that just said not to lose and scratch the bark.

Thus, when I tried to begin.

Suddenly Solon removed the pawn of the great general and the prince from his pawn on the board. All of the pawns are important pawns equivalent to flying horns and golden generals in the common chess of modern Japan.

In front of Mutos, who was surprised by it, Solon moved the pawn "first hand" with his uneaten face.

It is the king's pawn.

Besides, he suddenly moved toward the enemy line about what he was thinking.

Suddenly proceed to the enemy formation the king, who is not supposed to be taken, nor to consolidate his protection. It was a hand that seemed pointless but only bad for Mutos.

Solon says to Muthos, who wonders what this means.

"Ha? There was no general or prince, and I thought it was the Holmeer style for the king to move without thinking about it later, didn't you?

Plus all the mutos, Adomius got stuck in words a lot too.

In chess, Solon showed the current state of the Holmeer country.

Darius, who was a grand general, bought discomfort and is still cautious. And Prince Alexius shoots an arrow at the surrendering soldier and then pulls it back into the prepared chamber, and thus does not intend to show his face at once, even when the messenger visits.

And King Walius, who, above all, twitches as emotions without thinking ahead.

It is too painful irony.

But that's why I didn't want to argue, and Mutos just had to shut up and point to chess.

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"Hmm. I have no more hands. This is stuffing."

Solon admitted to losing, dropping the pawn in his hand into pieces on the board.

The opposing station was, after all, a win for Mutos.

Mutos, who had significantly lacked concentration without being able to argue with Solon's painful irony, had made several initial mistakes during the opposing station, causing a series of bad hands.

But still, Solon did not have an important pawn: the Grand General and the Prince, and Mutos' advantage, which could use the other pawn he took, was not covered, and Solon lost.

But Mutos couldn't be happier with this win.

This is as if I have proven to myself that in the Holmeer Country today I cannot win no matter how much I give to the Son of Destruction.

Mutos, who was hit by the winning chess, went on to lose his willingness to oppose the station, and opened today because the yang leaned west again.

"Speaking of which, I forgot to say one thing"

On the way home, towards Mutos and Adomius, who came to drop him off, Solon added as he remembered.

"Sure, Master Soma sucks at chess. But that's because it's tied to a board called chess."

When Mutos and Adomius frown on what he meant, Solon makes Nikah laugh.

"The strength of that one was outside the board. This one, when I wanted to play against the station, the battle was already on. No, if you take it from them, it's not a hoarding thing. - You know Mitsuhito very well."

So it was Adomius that Solon turned his gaze.

And Adomius was thrilled.

The battle at the crossing, where the battlefield that went to battle with certainty of victory was already a dead place, with twice as many troops as the enemy, is still new to memory.

Solon walked away laughing with a hardening admiral on his ass.