No Game, No Life: Les ailes des wissens
Under no circumstances I own No Game, No Life as my own. In the event there is a rumor of me, Sir Trollface, claiming ownership of No Game, No Life, please rest assured that I will never own it in any means. The only ones that I have rights of ownership of is this fan fiction, Suzu and Naozumi.
The following fan fiction is focused on Jibril along with a new character that I will introduce, Naozumi and Suzu. Please be gentle with me, my first fan fiction and Naozumi in the overall duration.
Note:
The time-line is started by the time that Jibril wins the National Library of Elchea from the King.
King refers to Stephanie's late Grandfather, not Sora and Shiro.
Brackets: [ ] means: Important dialogue from a third person (announcer);
~~~~~~ means: change perspective
Introduction:
After defeating the King of Elchea (Stephanie's Grandfather) in a game, Jibril gets the right to own it as her own and decides to stay there since she won't come back to Avant Heim, her original hometown due to its new Book-Sharing Law.
Chapter 1: Watching by
Elchea.
The last city of Imanity shrunk all the way into its capital from its very large, original size since the implementation of the 10 Pledges.
Looking from afar, you may say that its a good, large city. Upon closer inspection, you could see that it is very barren for such a large city.
Most of the shops have limited supply, there are no blacksmiths available, even land is limited to its residents.
This is the King City of the last place of Exceed, Imanity.
Being pushed to their roots just because of one after another loss in games, no wonder such a situation may occur.
Why the mention of games? Because this is a world where games have absolute power.
With games, even the life of a God can be slaved by a lowly being.
With games, everything can be decided, no matter what it is, even if it is territories, one's properties, lives, memories, actions, can be all controlled absolutely by the winner.
The sole god, Tet, assigned 16 intelligent races as the members of Exceed and gave a chess piece to a race representative of each one of its members. These chess pieces were called "Race Piece" by Tet, saying that those pieces are what constitutes a race of their rights as an intelligent race to be treated as such.
After assigning a race piece, he declared 10 absolute pledges to be applied to all Exceed, namely;
[1] All murder, war and robbery is forbidden in this world.
[2] All conflict in this world will be solved through games.
[3] In games, each player will bet something they agree is on equal value.
[4] As long as it doesn't violate the third pledge, anything may be bet, and any game may be played.
[5] The challenged party has the right to decide the rules of the game.
[6] Any bets made in the accordance of the pledges must be upheld.
[7] Conflicts within groups will be conducted by representatives with absolute authority.
[8] Being caught cheating during a game is ground for an instant lost.
[9] In the name of God, the previous rules may never be changed.
[10] Let's all have fun and play together!
With these pledges set in stone, the previous Great war was stopped and all the Exceed were not sure how to act with this sudden change. Some decided to remain idle, some decided to use these rules for themselves, some used the fact that games can be used for benefits, and some suffered a terrible fate.
Meanwhile, at the King's castle courtyard, a small, disappointed crowd was gathered circling around a large table where an old guy and a young looking female with wings was sitting in front of each other.
-Correction, an old guy and a Flügel is sitting in front of each other.
"It seems its my win, Imanity's King"
"Well, there is nothing to be done about it, Jibril.
It's obvious from the start that you would win"
"It's good that you understand where you stand now, human... Guhehehe~
Now, about my rewards... Guhehehe~"
"Yeah, yeah..."
[The challenger, Jibril, wins the match. In accordance to the oaths, the wager of the King will be transferred rightfully to the winner of the match, the Flügel, Jibril]
As the announcer shouted these words, the game was concluded with the King's lost.
'It's his lost again, that foolish king...'
'If he keeps this up, we may be gone before we know it'
'How come he is Imanity's representative?'
As the whispers kept swarming around him, the King paid no attention to it.
Amongst the crowd, a young man emerges out of it wearing a long, hooded, plain, black coat.
His name is Naozumi.
Son of Prime Minister of the Minister of Economy.
Amongst all the people here in the King City of Elchea, he was among the bare 10% literate people that can read and write.
He could be considered lucky since even amongst the other people who can afford to get schooling, he acquired that chance to study.
As he walked away from the castle courtyard, he went through the Elchea City Market.
Since there wasn't any bountiful harvest due to the lack of land, there were quite a limited supply for each store here and there.
If there were no absolute oaths, riots and forced looting would have occurred everyday.
Naozumi didn't pay attention to itas he walked briskly through the town as he headed towards his destination, his home.
After a few more minutes, he arrived at the edge of the market and a house two floors high appeared in his vision.
Even though his home are two stories high, its land isn't something large. The walls are dyed light green and the fence, door and terrace are made out of wood.
*Knock, knock*
After knocking in the door a couple times, the sound of someone hurrying to the door is heard.
"-Ah, young master Naozumi, welcome back."
"Thank you for taking care of the house while the members are gone, Suzu"
"My pleasure"
"Oh, I almost forgot, here is the bell that you asked me take. Though I don't know when will the time come if I need to use it"
"Don't worry young master, you'll never know when would the time come you'll need help for emergencies, so please keep it as much as possible when you're outside."
"All right, all right. Oh yeah, where are my parents at?"
"Thank you young master, but your parents is in Elchea Castle right now."
"Hmm, must be work. I'll be reading my books in my room for now"
The butler, Suzu, is a long-time servant of Naozumi's family.
Having a fairly toned skin, well-combed hair, gentle face with sharp eyes; he is a butler that makes you think of him as a gentle person at the start but sooner or later, you will think of him as a person with sharp senses for serving his master.
As Naozumi climbs upstairs, he went into his room and looked for his books that he borrowed from the library.
Inside his room... It was pretty ordinary, it has a bed, window, closet and a carpet at the center.
-If it weren't for a study at the corner of the room piled with around 20 thick books or more...
"Where is that card? Ah, here it is!"
After coming to the small study in the corner of his room, he finds a white card on one of the books slipped out.
A library book card. These cards are used on books by a library to let its borrower know when to return the book.
"I'll have to return these by today... Maybe I'll go just as the sun sinks"
Seeing that it is still midday, he grabbed one of the books and lied down on his bed.
He asked himself "What did that foolish king bet for that game again? ...Whatever".
He went back into his own world by reading once more.