Wednesday, April 23, 2014

No Game No Life - ep03


It was a bit unexpected for Sora to just directly challenge Kurami for the kingship of Elkia. Last time in seem like the dress was going to play a part. That Sora was going to trick Kurami like he did Steph by deceiving her on the terms of the game being for the dress while in reality it was for the Kingship. However things end up taking a more direct route with them holding the crowning ceremony like a wedding which allows anyone present to object the crown and challenge them for the right to be kinged. Although because Sora is the challenger he doesn't get to pick the rules of the game, but before anything gets started he call Kurami out on her cheating.

This cause a lot of problems because she cheated by receiving aid of an elf. This seems to implies that Kurami will only be a puppet ruler that with her crowning for all purpose the true owners will be the elfs, that is likely that the Inamity will be degrade to second class citizen in their own country. Although with exposing the elf for what she has done Sora has prevent her direct interference but doesn't mean that she isn't going to try a cheat by magic again. Which is exactly what Kurami does when she prepares her game of chess by having the elf cast an enchantment on her king piece.

However before the game began Kurami tries to get Sora to concede defeat by pleading with him to see reason that this is the only why to save the Inamity. That they have no way of fighting the other race so their only hope is to receive the protection from one of them. Although there is nothing for Sora to loss even if he is defeated other than rights to the crown but there is everything to gain for winning. On top of that there is also the issue that Sora and Shiro have never lost at anything.


Things become interesting when they get down to the game itself being played out on a massive chess board with human size pieces. Shiro takes command of the game at first until it is reveal that the chess piece have will of their own which means that will not sacrifice themselves for victory which is the very bases of chess. Although Sora takes over when he see the true nature of the game it is only chess in appearance but in reality it is more of an RTS where you are moving groups of soldiers and his first steps to victory is rallying his troops. Then he follows this up by ignoring the rule of turns since it has voided the rules of chess. Things turn against him when Kurami starts cheating again by using her king to give her pieces the ability to convert the enemy pieces. However Sora turn this against her by converting her queen when it was about to kill his king. Now with the queen converted any black piece that attack her will be turned white. Then in the end Sora will have converted every piece but the king by refusing to fight. The question is can you cause a checkmate when there is only a king left, it might be possible since a king without an army isn't a king and there is also the fact that it was never chess to began with. This doesn't mean that thing are over yet because Kurami could try and find another way to cheat. Although it was very interesting seeing how they perverted the game of chess it will be interesting to see if they continue this trend.

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