Shizune - Exactly As Planned

Hisao is a challenge, my first in a long time.

I look intently at the board, the pawn walls. Hisao is good at chess, I can tell. He deliberates. Then, with a decisive action, he takes his queen's knight and places it to thwart my best move... four turns away.

I smile.

With my ring and middle fingers, I take the king's castle. I leave my index, pinky, and thumb out, signing "I love you" to Hisao as I make my move, though he cannot know that. And castle.

He smiles.

I will checkmate him in five moves.