Chess Game

"Then please excuse me." She reach forward for the piece on her side.

Arisu, playing the white pieces, opened with a daring pawn advance, signaling her intent to control the center. Arima responded with the Sicilian Defense, maneuvering his pieces with calculated precision, forming an intricate web of defense around his king.

The game unfolded with the laid back tempo of Arima showing, after finishing his development on the board. seeing that Arima has no intention of playing aggresive Arisu's took this chance to move her bishops across the board, aiming at Arima's vulnerable points, while Arima's knights defended the position, creating a labyrinth of tactical possibilities. Each move was a calculated with the help of Mind Palace, making the people in the room to notice the intricate defense made by Arima.

Both of them went back and forth against each other finally, Arisu launched a relentless assault, sacrificing a knight to open up Arima's defenses. The tension in the room palpably surged as Arima contemplated his response. With a calculated calmness, Arima counterattacked, sacrificing his own bishop to gain a critical positional advantage.

The spectators held their breath as Arisu pondered her next move. Her hand hovered over the board, contemplating the consequence of each potential move. She made her choice, sacrificing her queen to set up an intricate checkmate pattern.

Arima's eyes narrowed, recognizing the danger. He analyzed the board with the help of mind Palce making him started to sweat since using it will use a large amount of energy, mapping out the large number of possibilities. With a series of precise and lightning-fast moves, Arima led Arisu into a trap, forcing her king into a corner from which there was no escape.

In the final move, Arima delivered checkmate, the game was very interesting as they played a back and forth. This cause some Atsuomi and Narumori to become shocked not because of me winning but because I was always on the defensive side, showing that I never made a move to press Arisu, this prove that I was not serious playing against her.

"It seems Arima is very powerful in the game of chess, did you learn from someone Arima?" Arisu asked me.

"Arisu, Arima never played a game of chess before, this is the first time he ever played it, at most he only know the basic rule and game strategy from reading a book." Dad answer the question for me, making me become the focus of Atsuomi.

"Issei-san is that true?, it is impossible since we can see that he mastered the game very easily and was holding back from start to finish." Arisu Father was surprised hearing that

"It is true since he spent most of his time playing with his brother outside or just spend it reading manga and novel and playing video games, if he played chess I would hear it from my wife."

"After all we love to record everything about our kids."

"Arima-kun I've become more interested in you." Atsuomi started to smile towards me and looking at me like good experiment subject. "How about it, are you interested in playing with Ayanokoji."

Hearing his Father words Ayanokoji also look interested to his proposition to playing a game with me.

"No, I am tired from playing with Arisu, she is very difficult to beat." Ayanokoji then return back to his blank expression after hearing my words.

"But you never really attack her, you won because she opened up a weakness, that move usually won't be notice since it was 5 move ahead from her initial move with the cost of sacrificing most of your high-value piece leaving a rook and queen at most."

Well it is true but that was really easy for me to find since I have a very powerful Ai lodge inside my brain.

"No risk no return, like I said she is a powerful opponent, I only know the basic rule, if I was aggresive I won't be able to win against her, so I adopt a defending strategy to hope making her slip up." I tried to down play it since I don't want to have a emotionless machine called Kiyotaka Ayanokoji to became interested in me and chasing me around to be used as a study material.

I also tried to remind my self that the reason I can do all this was because of the System itself giving OP skills.

"Arima are you okay, you look very pale?"

"I am fine, I just need to eat something sweet since it is very tiring using my brain." I took another slice of cake from the huge cake, good thing it was a chocolate cake since it is very good for replenishing energy.

When I was about to pick up my fork, my hand started to become numb and dropped the fork, it seems I force my self, it is not good to force my body since I am still in my development stage, my physical strength maybe strengthen but to use Mind Palace on high mode is very tiring.

"Let me help you." Arisu pick up the fork and cut a small piece of the cake in my plate and try to feed me.

"No need, I just use too much energy to think." I took the fork back and eat the cake on my own.

"Arisu are you interested in Arima?" her father asked her with a smile on his face.

"Yes, after all he beat me even with holding back, Arima you don't know how to play chess but you analyze every possible outcome the move I made right?, that's why you are very tired."

"Yes that's right as long you want to win you will need to aim at my king and to do that I just change the game where it force you to attack me as hard as you can or we will end in a draw."

"Then I am very interested in playing with you in a serious match."

"No thank you, I don't want to play with you in a game of chess."

while both of us were talking on our own the 3 adult were talking about on a separate matter, it seems Atsuomi want to have the help of Dad subordinate Tatsu and Torajirou as combat instructor for the White Room as well additional funding, he also promise to help him with some stuff in the Goverment of Japan.

Dad reject the part where he send two of his capable subordinate, since both of them are backbone of the clan beside Ryu, but it seems he also willing in providing additional fund for Atsuomi, since it was a win-win situation where he can gain support from a politician, after all having someone in the politics world is very profitable for this kind of business.

"Arima-san I want to ask you something?" suddenly Ayanokoji started to speak, I then replied "What is it?"

"What is normal?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"you say a genius is someone that cannot be put in a category made by normal people, then what is a normal people?"

"Someone with an emotion, in a certain sense ambition or hope and dreams." after saying that I was waiting for his response but he suddenly become quite and stop talking, this continue until the end of the meeting of the 3 adult, Arisu said her goodbye to me while Ayanokoji nodded at me before he continue walking beside his father.

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