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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