Disclaimer: No Game No Life and Fate Stay Night belong to their respective owner / author.
Reminder that you should not take this story seriously. I am just writing for fun and trying to polish my writing skill.
Warning! This chapter and the next will contain spoilers from No Game No Life Light Novel volume 4 and 5, which was not covered in the anime first season.
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Liar Game / CHEATER
Ding! You have won a game against Jibril. You have gained 399.000 EXP.
You leveled up! x 23
You gained the title [Angel Slayer].
You have gained Elchea National Library and everything inside it.
You have gained three favors from Jibril.
You used one favor to make Jibril kept your magic secret.
An event flag triggered! The relationship with The Flugels -500
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Avant Heim
A floating land where inside of it was another different world. Its true identity was one of the second rank Exceed, Phantasma. It was where the Flugels resided.
Inside, there was a huge library. With a dream-like structure incomprehensible to Imanity, and pillars as high as ten stories building. The pillars were actually bookshelves, housing innumerable books that the Flugels had collected for millennia.
At the center of this place, a single Flugel had appeared instantly, causing a small whirlwind. Large amount of books were caught by the strong wind and danced spirally in the air. The one who caused this, Jibril, didn't bat an eye to the chaos that she brought.
"Aaaah! My books! The books that I haven't read!" Another Flugel appeared, catching the floating books. She was an extraordinarily beautiful young girl, with one horn on her head and a shining halo. She was flying here and there to catch all the flapping books with an expression as if she was about to cry.
After she had finished gathering all the books, she spoke to Jibril with panted breath. "Ugh Jii-chan you are mean ~nyan. You finally came home and the first thing you do is pranking me ~nyan. Is this how you show your love ~nyan?" Aww~ Jii-chan I haven't seen you in so long~~ nyaaaaa!?"
Jibril brilliantly teleported away in order to dodge her flying lunge towards her.
The Flugel who was now half buried in pile of books was Azrael. She was the head of [Council of Eighteen Wings, the body which was 「Full Representative of the Winged」 that has the right to make the final decisions regarding the country's affairs.
She was the First Unit of Flugel created by the War God Artosh.
"Azrael Senpai. I am here on serious business." Jibril said to Azrael who was still motionless.
Azrael instantly teleported and hugged Jibril, rubbing her cheeks to Jibril's. "Nyan~ Jii-chan is so mean~ I haven't seen you for so long, but you're still as cold as ever~~~~ but! That's fine too!"
"Azrael-senpai is as annoying as ever as well. As I said, I have serious thing to talk to you..." Jibril said with a smile.
"Nyan! I will not hear you if you don't call me Nee-san. Neeeee-san!" Azrael flew about in the air, drawing a figure-eight around Jibril.
"... Nee-san." Jibril said the words in serious tone.
Azrael stopped flying around and looked at Jibril with serious face. "Nyan? Jii-chan really call me Nee-san? What is this thing that you want to talk about nyan~?"
"I have been defeated and lost my temporary shelter. Ugh, and all my books." Jibril said, looking down.
"What? Who is it nyan? They must have won by pure luck ~nyan! There is no way Jibril can lost nyan?"
"It was the new queen of Imanity." Jibril said, remembering her defeat. "And she didn't win by luck. More importantly, she might have the [Answer]."
The [Answer] referred to the reason why the Flugels were collecting knowledge. When their master Artosh died, the Flugels lost their purpose in the new world of Ten Oaths. They dedicated their life to search for the [UNKNOWN, something that might explain why Artosh was defeated. Something that the [weak] could understand. A reason for Flugel to exist, even when their original purpose was lost.
Jibril then described about Akasha, the source of all knowledge, where they could find any answer for their question. And that Jibril had seen strong proofs of its existence. The Imanity Queen knew how to access it.
"What a crime nyan~~! To monopolize such a wonderful thing nyaan~~!" Azrael exclaimed. With that Akasha in her hand, she wouldn't have any difficulty finding the [Answer].
And then Jibril delivered Illya's challenge, word per word.
"Nyaaaan? Overgrown chickennnyaaaannn?" Azrael shouted angrily.
Jibril smiled wryly and took out a newspaper. "They told me to take this with me. As a threat."
Azrael read the newspaper and got angry. She cursed One Sole God Tet, for not including slander in the Ten Oaths. "Nyaaaan ~~! I will call upon full council meeting nyaaan~~! We need to attack them nyaan~! If we ignore them they will continue spreading this rumors nyaaaan~!"
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Elchea Daily
The Flugels true origin revealed?
by Sita Reektar
An official press release from the palace today revealed that our glorious Queen has won back The National Library from a stray Flugel that stole it from us five years ago.
Yesterday, after hearing that the Flugel thief had stolen our national library and the thief also refused to pay property tax, Queen Illyasviel went to the library herself to challenge the tax-evader. In just one game, Our genius Queen defeated the feathered woman, ending five years of unrighteous occupation by an illegal immigrant.
When this reporter asked about the game and her strategy, the Queen replied thus, "There is no strategy at all. We were just playing a game of word chain, so the one with more knowledge will win the game. You see, it turns out that those Flugels are stupid."
Her statement raised doubt about our former King. Was he so stupid that he would lose to a Flugel? Or was it that our current Queen was truly a genius, towering high among others?
Prime Minister Saber commented that it was the lack of education to blame, and she had also taken this opportunity to announce a new government project called "Printhing Mazzhine", though the details about the project remained sparse. The Prime Minister commented that this Printhing Mazzhine, "Would solve the problem of illiteracy in this country." We will keep our readers informed on this project development.
But the most interesting part of the press conference was in the last part, where Queen Illyasviel revealed her hypothesis on the origin of the Flugel race. She speculated that they were not created by Old Deus, but modified instead. A living organism was used as a base and then changed, became sentient, and gained soul.
Quoted directly from the Queen herself, "I speculated, from the evidence we have, that the organism used is a chicken. And it must be a fat, overgrown one. That's why even if they are an intelligent life, they are not intelligent at all! Only the mermaids are more stupid."
However, The Queen told us that the hypothesis was still in early stage, and she only had one sample of the Flugel race for her research. The Queen said, "I need more sample to be interviewed. Sadly, The Flugel that stayed at the library went home, so I can't continue my research. But I told her to send message to her Flugel friends, and hopefully they will come here. I planned to write a book about the origin of the Flugel race!"
This reporter looked forward to our Queen next endeavor! Remember, citizens of Elchea, that we are on our way to greatness, as long as Queen Illyasviel is with us. Glory to the Queen!
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Eastern Union Embassy in Elchea. A skyscraper building with a red torii in front of it.
A horse-drawn coach came from Elchea's direction and stopped in front of it.
A black haired girl wearing black clothing and black veil draped over her face got off from the horse-drawn coach. She strode off purposefully to the entrance.
"Tell your boss, Kurami Zell is here. I made appointment earlier." She said to one of the entrance guard, a cat eared girl wearing kimono. When the guard didn't move, Kurami said in condescending tone. "What? Can't you animal read letters? Or you can't understand human speech?"
"Shut up you hairless monkey!" The guard shouted. "Tch. Follow me, Izuna-sama is expecting you." The cat eared girl led Kurami inside.
After that Kurami walked some more, enter a strange moving box, walk again, and finally she entered a meeting room. It was luxurious room made entirely from marble. Inside, two wolf eared Werebeast were already waiting for her.
"Welcome, Kurami Zell. I am in charge of foreign affairs here in Elchea for the Eastern Union. Hatsuse Ino, Vice Ambassador." The older one said. He was old white haired Werebeast wearing hakama.
He gestured to the one beside him. "And this is Hatsuse Izuna, Ambassador for the Eastern Union in Elchea."
Hatsuse Izuna was a little wolf eared girl with big ears and big fluffy tail. She had bob hair and wearing a kimono with big ribbon. She open her mouth, "Nice to meet you, bastard, des."
"..." Kurami was surprised for a moment, but she replied calmly. "Nice to meet you too, Hatsuse Izuna."
Hatsuse Ino then took over the discussion. "I am sorry, but my granddaughter has only been here for a year and she hasn't learn Imanity language that well."
Kurami smiled and said, "I am sure she learned that language from you."
Hatsuse Ino signalled Kurami to take a seat, and she did so. He asked, "I am curious about how your letter arrived on my desk without anyone delivering it. Why didn't you use proper channel?"
Kurami explained in bored tone. "Why, it's because all of Elchea's letter were disposed of by your subordinates without your knowledge. Elchea had sent a lot of letters over the years and all of them were ignored."
Hatsuse Ino were surprised to hear it and he promised to punish the one who did it.
Ino realized that Kurami didn't answer on how did she deliver the letter. But it was obvious that Kurami had connection with an elf, and that elf was seen in Elchea royal palace. There was no need to answer.
But that raised another question.
"Are you really representing Elchea government?"
"I am. You can check to the royal palace." Kurami said.
"What is your relationship with the Elchea new queen? Are you working under her?" Or are you controlling her, was the unsaid question.
Kurami just smiled and said, "You just need to know that my will is her will, and my word is her word."
"Then why is there an elf seen in the royal palace?"
"That is none of your business, right?"
"Then, let's hear why you are here today." Ino said.
"My purpose eh? Why don't you just read my mind?"
"This is a diplomatic meeting, a place where verbal and written agreements are exchanged, are you monkeys too stupid to understand that?" Hatsuse Ino said.
"Heh. Then, I have three matters to discuss with you." Kurami took out a paper document. "Our country wish to buy some food from Eastern Union. This is our trade proposal. Why don't you deliver it to the one in charge of economy or trade."
Ino took the document and examined it briefly. Everything seemed to be normal, he couldn't see any tricks. He looked at Kurami who had a thin smile on her face. "Well, you are not trying to trick us with some unfair clause, right?"
"Of course not, that is just a proper, normal, fair trade agreement. If anything, we offer too much." Kurami replied to the question.
Hatsuse Ino listened to the sound of Kurami's heartbeat, trying to detect any lies. There was none. Kurami's heart was beating regularly without any deviation.
Wait a minute. In fact, her heartbeat was always flat, from the time she entered the building until now. Which is impossible, given that heartbeat would increase when walking and slow down when sitting down.
'What is going on?' Hatsuse Ino thought.
When Hatsuse Ino was thinking about Kurami's heartbeat, a group of people were watching the meeting.
Inside Elchea's royal palace, Illya and her Servants were sitting in a circle, watching the screen on the wall. Caster had enchanted the screen to project the room inside Eastern Union Embassy. Accompanying them were also the core staff, Stephanie Dora, Fiel Nirvalen, and Kurami Zell.
Yes, the real Kurami Zell was inside the meeting room in Elchea's royal palace.
The one who went to Eastern Union Embassy was a fake, a golem created by Caster. The golem was created with 80% organic material, almost like making a meat doll. Someone without sharp magic perception couldn't detect that it was fake.
The golem perfectly simulated respiratory system and blood circulation system. This was done to take account of Werebeast extraordinary sharp senses. It even had sweat and blinking eyelids.
Kurami was sitting with her eyes closed. She and the golem was connected, sharing all five senses. She also controlled the golem's movement and speech. The golem had working vocal chord.
"The golem passed Werebeast inspection." Saber said. "Even though it was said that they could detect magic."
"Of course." Caster said proudly. "It was my perfect creation. I took steps to camouflage the magic. Even that elf over there said she had difficulty in seeing the magic trace. So a lowly race like Werebeast would be helpless."
"Is it really necessary to send a fake?" Stephanie Dora asked. She had seen the time consumed by Caster in making the golem. "It's easier to just go there."
"We can't take a risk." Saber said, taking a golden key from her pocket and spinning it between her fingers. "It was said that Werebeast can read mind. We know now that it might be false, but we can't take the chance."
The golden key was the key that the previous king gave to Stephanie. It was a key to his secret study, where he stored his lifetime research, including the secret of Eastern Union virtual reality game. Stephanie gave it to Saber after she found out about the secret room.
The fact that they already knew about Eastern Union's game was a secret. They couldn't take a risk that secret got leaked through mind-reading.
Could Hatsuse Ino or Izuna read Kurami's mind through the golem? Caster was constantly monitoring the magical connection, but they still needed to consider the possibility. Well, if he refused the trade proposal because he found out that Imanity planned an economic attack...
The Hatsuse Ino on the screen talked. "Very well, I will forward this to related ministry. Anything else?"
Illya jumped out from the chair and danced merrily. "Yay! Yay! The stupid grandpa wolf can't read mind!"
The fake Kurami took out another document and said, "Well, I have in here a list of merchants. They would like to trade within your country, so could you give permit for doing a business in Eastern Union?"
Hatsuse Ino looked at the document again. There was nothing unusual. "I can forward this to my government, but to pass the border they would need different kind of permit. Otherwise the border guard would not let them pass."
"Oh, I will send the document for that in later date." fake Kurami said. "Please process that permit first."
"I trust that these merchants will not doing anything shady?" Hatsuse Ino said.
"Of course, they will only do business honestly. Buying things and so on." fake Kurami said.
Again, Hatsuse Ino tried to detect lies, but her heartbeat remained stable. Even her pupils remained the same. "Very well... then the third matter is?"
"The third matter is..." fake Kurami looked over to Izuna. "I want to invite Izuna as a judge."
"A judge?"
"Yes, we will hold a game with other race, and we need impartial judge. Izuna is not Imanity and that other race, so she will be neutral." fake Kurami said.
"You assholes want Izuna, des?" Izuna said.
"Specifically, we invite the ambassador from Eastern Union." fake Kurami said, maintaining her calm. This was only possible because the golem was not her own body. The real body was clenching her palm in anger.
"Troublesome, des." Izuna said, reluctant to go.
"If you come, there will be delicious food." Kurami said.
"Come! Izuna will come, des!" Izuna suddenly sit straight and pushed her palm on the table.
Hatsuse Ino sighed and said, "understood, we will come. When will the game be played?"
"Wait a minute, you misunderstand something." fake Kurami said. "We only invite one person, the Ambassador. You are not needed."
"WHAAAAATTT! NO! Izuna will not go anywhere without me!" Ino shouted passionately.
Other than his love for his granddaughter, it was a chance to gather information. Ino would like to see Imanity playing against another race.
Saber whispered to real Kurami's ears, instructing her. And then the fake Kurami said to Izuna, "If your grandpa come, your share of food will decrease."
"Grandpa, stay at home, des. Izuna will go alone, des." Izuna said
"NOOOOOOO!" Ino was half shouting and half crying.
"Well then, that conclude my business here. I will send the date of the game later and the horse-drawn carriage on the morning before the game. Goodbye." fake Kurami stood up and left. Ino didn't say goodbye because he was still trying to persuade Izuna.
Back in Elchea royal palace, the people watching let out sigh of relief when the golem safely made it back to the horse-drawn carriage.
"With this, we sealed their mind reading, whether it was true or not." Archer said. "Next, investigating and collecting more information. Then..."
Kurami opened her eyes. "Then we corner Eastern Union."
The mood in the room changed into an excited one, and they were speaking with each other in relaxed attitude. But Caster suddenly hissed, "Sssshhh. Quiet. The old guy is contacting someone."
Yes, the screen hadn't been turned off. Caster's ability to spy on enemy undetected was truly marvelous. They could even observe the enemy far away without him knowing, despite the boast that Werebeast could detect magic.
They watched as the old wolf eared grandpa spoke with someone over a communication device. Was that video call? The Eastern Union had technology more advanced than the rest of the world, it seemed.
And then Hatsuse Ino said, "No, I couldn't see any lies. Her heartbeat remained calm. Her pupils stay normal, and there was no other bodily sign I could see that indicated that she was lying."
"So that's how he did it." Lancer said. "It's not mind reading, it's detecting lies through body language!"
"He said something about listening to heartbeat though." Rider said. "He must have very good ears."
"Good thing we sent the golem. That thing gave no detailed signal like that." Caster said. "Well, certainly I could made something that can simulate heartbeat and other bodily signals, but that would take long time and rare materials. The user would lost all sensory connection to his original body and controlling the golem in full. That would make the magical connection more difficult to hide."
"Why would you want something that can expose us? The one we already have is fine!" Illya said to Caster.
"Actually, I didn't lie at all. I just don't say our true goal." Kurami said.
Saber grinned and clapped her hands, drawing attention from everyone. "Alright everyone, back to work. Now that we know these Werebeast can't read mind, we can accelerate our plan. Team A, I want Eastern Union cornered in two months. Team B, prepare for the game against Flugels. Get everything you need."
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AN
I have an idea for the game with flugel.
But I am open to suggestions. What game that Illya . can play to win against flugel?