Title: Eternal White Rose.

Chapter two: Ruler - King Chess

Author: Yuiko Himeki

Disclaimer: I do not own No Game No Life! All content of No Game No Life belongs to it's rightful owners. This is only for my benefit, as I want to express my idea's and practice my writing skills for the future.

Summary: Antenoya challenges Kiruko for the thrown. Stephen hopes for her victory and a savior of Elkia

Warnings: (Male) Stephanie & (Male) Kurumi.

Author's Note (A/N): I rushed a bit… sorry.. Still not as descriptive as I wanted and I gotta work on that… I wanted to explain some things about the chapter but I forgot what it was so I'll explain next chapter xD

I promise I wont rush anymore.

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Antenoya stepped into the castle with ease, if anything, she thought the castle would be heavily guarded. It was mainly more empty than anything else. She tapped at her phone screen, not looking up from it, and proceeded through the castle until she found Stephan Dola. The teen locked her screen and stepped over to him.

He turned to her with slight surprise. "Who.. Are you?"

"Antenoya." She paused. "You don't want Kiruko to take the thrown, do you?" She stared down at the clothing on the floor that he was down on his knee's next to.

"Wha-.. What's this, all of a sudden-?"

"Just answer the question."

"… In honesty, no.."

"Would you mind if I challenged her? Since you totally suck and can't do it yourself." Antenoya asked. She was pretty sure Tet brought her here for a reason. It would be boring if she didn't try to take something over.

Stephen got up and glared at her. "I do not suck!"

"Then stop acting like you do, If that even is an act," Antenoya bent down and picked up the clothes, reaching her hand out to hand them to him. "And stand up, Dola." He stared at her in shock. Stephen took the clothes from her and held them to his chest. A weird feeling swarmed his head. Who was this girl?

"But… How do you plan on facing Kiruko? He's the best in the kingdom!" Stephen stated.

She stared at him as if he was stupid. Not that he's not.. "How can you declare who's the best if you haven't seen everyone's skill?" She paused. "Now, I need something from you."

[…..]

"Attention everyone. Kiruko has come out at the top of the tournament. He awaits his next opponent, is there anyone else to rise up to the challenge?" Someone announced from a few rooms down from where Antenoya was walking in the huge castle. She walked over to the room and saw the Stephan guy standing outside the door.

"You're serious about challenging her..?" Stephan paused. "You really think that you can do it?"

"Its time for a new ruler. One as amazing as me. One that actually knows what their doing." Antenoya said clearly enough for him, pushing opening the doors to the coronation. Everyone stared at her as she walked down the aisle. "I object!" Stephan stared at her along with them. Antenoya was wearing a high neck knee length dress with a crop jacket. The sleeveless dress was black with a white rose pattern on the tie from her waist to her hips. There was also a pattern of white leaves starting from the bottom of her dress and ending at her thighs. The crop jacket was black and had a white line going across the bottom. The sleeves were white, starting from her elbows and on down, flowing out at the end. It also had a queen crown symbol on the left side. Though, she was still wearing black and white tennis shoes.

"Now I need something from you." Antenoya said.

"Wh-What is it?" Stephan asked.

"I don't think.." She scratched her cheek nervously. "It would be right for me to walk in and challenge Kiruko in plain clothing.." …. "Also I want every book you have about Elkia and every other race."

"You wish to challenge Kiruko?" The man in charge of the coronation asked.

"I do." The ash blue hair teen replied.

The purple haired guy was not happy. "You're so desperate to win that you're sending you're servant after me?" He asked, question aimed to Stephan. The guy started to cower back at Kiruko's statement. "In case you haven't noticed, this isn't a playground."

"Yeah, and this also isn't a place to be giving the thrown to an idiot who needs help from another race just to win." Antenoya spoke up. Everyone gasped in shock at the sudden news to them. She looked at her phone before looking around. She's still here, and it's only one.

"Just what do you mean by that?"

"Wouldn't this race easily fall if you were secretly working with another race?" Antenoya turned towards the crowd.

"So you're accusing me of cheating?" Kiruko asked.

"I never said that you were, but since you mentioned it.. Are you?" The ash blue haired girl smirked.

"Fine, since you've made you're objection," He lifted his arm dramatically. "I'll just have to humor you with a game."

"One thing though," Antenoya announced, turning to where Stephan was standing in the crowd and snapped her finger. At that moment, Stephan pulled off someone's hood in the crowd and everyone jumped back at seeing that she was an elf. "Tell you're little friend to leave."

"I get it," Kiruko quickly defended. "So you teamed up with some random elf to make me out to be a threat to Imanity?" He smirked as if he had nothing to hide. Kiruko warned the elf and told her to leave at once and the elf obliged. "There, are you satisfied? Ready to play now?"

Antenoya nodded, narrowing her eyes. "As stated by the pledges, you decide the contents of the game."

"Don't worry, ill choose a game where cheating is impossible. We'll hold the game somewhere else. I'll call for you once it's prepared."

[….]

"So what, you're saying is that she used magic to beat me!?" Steph yelled at Antenoya.

"Okay first of all stop yelling." Antenoya sighed. "Second, I was there at the tavern during you're match with him. That same elf was in the back…" If she can change cards when their face down it can never be proven that she's cheating. I don't think there would be a way to beat her. I knew it would have been pointless to challenge her. He's no more than a puppet. More than likely, he probably thinks i'm getting help from another race.

"-Right!?" Stephan smiled widely. She looked up at him.

"Sorry, were you talking to me?" She asked.

"So you're not even listening to me!?"

"They'll set up game that looks fair so it doesn't look completely useless, but they won't use magic directly. It's obvious." Antenoya thought out loud, ignoring Stephan. "Steph is useless anyway, he couldn't have figured anything out."

"I'm right here," Stephan pouted. "And crush my courage why don't you!?" He paused and stared at her. "Steph?"

"Yeah," She tapped at her phone. "You don't mind, right?"

He scratched the back if his head. "No, I guess not…"

[….]

"The only reason I made a deal with the elves was to secure a place for Imanity to live, once I won the tournament." Kiruko paused. "Once we've acquired a fair amount territory, I'll cut ties with the elves for good."

"You're more stupid than you look." Antenoya muttered.

"The only way for us to survive is to live under the protection of another nation. Give up on games, and close off our borders. There's no other choice. Right little prince?" He turned to Stephan. "You should know better than anyone." Stephan looked as if he wanted to answer but only looked away.

"I see, it's a good idea.."

"Right? That's why should withdraw-"

"Woah," Antenoya cut her off. "Now you're asking too much. Why in Imanity would I surrender, let alone lose to the likes of you."

Kiruko's smile faded. "Fine. It's you're funeral."

[….]

"Her plan just now… It makes sense considering the desperate situation we're in right now. "Stephan sparked as he walked along side Antenoya.

"You're way too much for me little prince." Antenoya stopped walking, but didn't turn to face him. "Don't trust it, there is so many things wrong with what she said." Either Kiruko is too confident or too stupid. "So many things that can go wrong."

"Well, can you explain to me?"

"Nope." She said before continuing walking off. The ash blue haired teen opened the doors to where there match was being held. She walked towards the railing and looked down. Statues of chess pieces could be seen. They looked more like statues of people in chess piece costumes than actual chess pieces. Purple was on Kiruko's side, and white was on Antenoya's.

"This isn't you're normal game of chess. Each piece has a will of it's own. Give them orders and they'll move. Think of it as you're own person army." Kiruko told them."

"I swear by the pledges."

"I swear by the pledges."

Aschente

"G1 to F3" Antenoya leaned forward and called. The statue of the Knight suddenly moved to the F3 place on the board.

"Woah! It moved by itself!" Steph looked down curiously.

"D1 advance." Kiruko smirked.

Shit. Antenoya thought. She watched as the piece moved ahead on it's own without being told a positon to go to. "B1 to C3"

"C2 advance."

"C2 to C4."

"G1 Advance."

"G1 take the enemy's pawn." Antenoya bit her thumb when the piece didn't move.

"It won't move!" Steph pointed out.

Of course… Antenoya thought. "G1…" It thinks in the action it'll be the piece that's taken instead of it being the piece that's taking another. "G1…. G…1.."

If that's the way it works.. Then I can't sacrifice any pieces!... This may be harder than I thought… Possible moves an outcomes plagued her mind but none of them gave her a solution.