Aiba Asagi POV
I was playing a little game of chess against some random person on the internet who wanted to challenge me, it was convenient to me since I needed something to distract me with due to me having to attend to my part time job at the Manmade Island Management Corporation in a few hours and it wouldn't really be worth it to go home because I would have to have to leave right away again.
To my disappointment however my challenger, while not being particularly bad wasn't exactly up to my standards so it was rather easy to drive him into a corner and checkmate his king.
As I was about to restart the game so I could at least play against the computer I noticed someone from behind me approach me. Turning around I noticed that it was the new transfer student that just moved here from overseas, his name was Akatsuki Kojou if I recall correctly. There wasn't exactly anything outstanding about him, sure he looked somewhat good and had an air of confidence around him but other than that he looked just like any other normal high school student. The only thing that stood out were his eyes, they looked a lot older than he was, not in the sense of being old and tired but more in the sense of containing vast knowledge and experiences.
As he reached my desk he stopped and shortly looked at the chessboard on my desk and then back to me when he said "Would you care for a game of chess, seeing that you are obviously waiting for someone or something and by the looks of it your previous opponent, though I'm not sure if it was a human or machine didn't seem to match up to your expectations."
I just looked at him for a few moments contemplating if he would even be somewhat of a challenge, don't get me wrong he certainly didn't seem stupid it was just the fact that I had met many people before that were sure of their skills at chess just to be utterly disappointed in their lack of a fight later on.
Seeing as I had nothing better to do and it wouldn't hurt to see how skilled the new transfer was I decided to, instead of replying simply resetting the board and adjusting it for a player vs player setting. Noticing this the transfer simply moved across my desk, grabbed a random chair and sat down across my desk looking at me expectantly to make the first move.
Without saying a word, I moved my pawn forward and starting our little game of chess.
Time Skip roughly 1 hour Kojou POV
"Checkmate!" I sat there for a couple of seconds not blinking, still trying to process what just happened. When I first challenged her she seemed like someone with decent skills in chess, however over the course of the game it became increasingly clear that she wasn't just any normal chess player, heck she could probably beat many of the champions in the game. Though that doesn't mean that I didn't put up a fight, I'm a very good chess player myself and I even managed to beat some of the masters in the game but this girl, this 16 year old girl just beat me, a thousand of years old primogenitor and the strongest vampire in the world who outsmarted many great commanders and generals across history in a game of wits and logic.
"I have to say I'm rather impressed with your skills at chess, where did you learn to play so well?"
I asked her.
"Same goes for you, you are probably the most skilled chess player I have met so far, and for your second question I simply learned from playing a couple of games from time to time whenever I was bored" she replied.
I stared at her for a few seconds before replying "You have to forgive me but I have my doubts that someone could reach your level of skill simply by playing a few games of chess here and there, I like to think of myself as a very good chess player and you will have to excuse me but I'm having a hard time believing that someone playing a couple of games here and there could beat me" I told her "Thought to be fair I myself only play a few games of chess here and there but you still can't compare someone playing a few games of chess within the timespan of 16years to someone who has played a few over the course of a few thousand years not to mention someone who has actually experience with tactics and war."
She seemed to shrug at that before replying "Not to brag but I have always seemed to have superior intelligence to most and I also work at the Manmade Island Management Corporation part-time as a simple programmer so I have a lot of experience with logic based processes.
Seeing as I wouldn't get a better answer out of her I dismissed it for the time, though I still wasn't convinced that this was the whole truth.
Seeing as we have come to a standstill in our conversations I decided to direct my attention to the part-time job she mentioned. "You said you work part-time as a programmer, with someone of your skill I don't see how you would end up as a "simple" programmer.
She seemed to contemplate about something, probably what to tell me before replaying "Well, while I don't think it is anything that important some group of people among the programming community have given me the nickname Cyber Empress and I'm in control of one of the MIMCs supercomputers.
I just stared at here again, something that seems to have become a habit with this girl.
To clarify, the Cyber Empress is the name of a rather well know hacker that is known to work for the MIMC and has appeared a couple of years ago, to think that… that a girl who was around 13 at the time was recognized as a genius in programming… and she herself thinks NOTHING of it.
By now I looked at her with a mix between shock, confusion and utter disbelief.
"So you are telling me that one of the most talented and respected programmers around the world is a high schooler that, by the time she started wasn't older than 13 and thinks of herself of nothing special currently beat me in a game of chess and for some reason no one in the MIMC or inside the programmer community felt it weird that there is a 16 year old girl that is outperforming most powerhouses in the programming industry." She seemed to look for a reply but before she could open her mouth in replied again "From where I come from people like that are known as one thing, protégés, you Aiba Asagi are a genius who is famous in the programming community and at your age no less, you are way to humble about this, you should be proud of yourself.
She seemed a bit taken back by my praising but quickly recollected herself before replying "While I'm thankful for your praise I am by far not as grand as people say I am and I still have a lot of things to learn".
"Well, regardless of your views on your gift, I believe it is time for me to leave, it was fun playing against you and I hope I can convince you to a rematch in the future."
With that I turned around to leave the classroom but not before turning back to look straight at her "While being arrogant and thinking yourself superior is not something one should do you should still try and be more proud of yourself, I have met many people in my time and you are one of the most talented ones I have met so far, try and be a bit more sure of yourself, it doesn't suit one with your amount of talent to think of themselves as nothing special, it could actually be seen as an insult to others" and with that I left the classroom to head home.
And that would be it for the second chapter, I know I didn't get much done but I wanted to get this piece finished, I also noticed that my first chapter was kind of rushed and there weren't that many details so I tried to slow myself down a bit.
Anyways please tell me what you think and what I can do to improve my writing.
Till next time
