A/N: If you like No Game No Life, then you'll enjoy this fic.

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Chapter 1

A Club for the Smartest

"No More War," spoke a maiden, before mythical yellow light engulfed everything.

That was how this bizarre world was created, or what the legends say anyways. Not many people truly care how the world got the way it is, they're all too busy indulging themselves in the surrealness of it all and seeing what they can get out of it. Who can blame them? To them, there's no reason to pursue any answers when one can just enjoy their current reality.

This is a world where any conflict can be solved with a game.

Working hard at his desk was the UA University Principal Nezu, a strange combination of several different animals molded into one singular fluffy body. He was currently getting everything prepared for a school event that was going to take place in a few days and of course, that meant mountains of paperwork had to be done if it wasn't for the satisfaction that came at the end of it all then he would've quit his job years ago. He just wished that the process beforehand wasn't so boring, having the gates of hell randomly break open was starting to become something he wished would happen.

Thankfully something came along that could pique his interest.

"Principal Nezu, that boy is here to see you," said a feminine voice over his intercom.

The principal quickly went to answer. "Thank you Nemuri, send him in."

Setting down his pen, the white critter did a quick stretch. Usually, these types of situations are just some students having a petty problem that could've been solved on their own but instead decided to get outside interventions. This case was going to be a little different but just as redundant.

'Oh well, a little break from all this planning will be nice. I might even get to have a little fun myself.'

A few minutes after the quick call, the door to the office opened, and in walked a green-haired teen. Judging from his body, he was between the ages of eighteen and twenty years old. Nezu could instantly tell he wasn't a student here, not only because he memorized the face of every student, faculty member, and staff in the school but also because the boy wasn't wearing a school uniform. Everyone who is a part of this school knows the rules, especially if they're planning on approaching him.

"Welcome Midoriya," greeted Nezu from behind his desk, "Come sit, maybe I can get you some coffee or tea?"

As Izuku approached the chair across from Nezu, he told him, "I'm fine, thank you for meeting with me on such short notice."

"Of course, it's not every day that someone makes a request as odd as your own. Sending it by spray painting and trashing school property was quite risky. I'm surprised you manage to do that while leaving behind no prints."

"Sorry about that, I was afraid if I sent an email or letter it'd be ignored and I wanted to make sure it got your attention."

"Well, my attention is now yours. What can I do for you?"

"I know it's a bit sudden but I would like to get right to my request."

"Ah yes, your request. You want to be admitted to this university far past the acceptance date. You could've just applied next year if you were so eager and avoided all this trouble."

"I would've missed my goal if I applied next year."

"If you don't mind me asking, what could you be after that made you go this far?" Nezu asked him, taking a sip from his coffee. They've had cases before where someone had issues with the acceptance date but it's usually them finding some excuse as to why he couldn't finish everything they had to before the final day. Usually, if they're lucky to have gotten most of the requirements done and depending on how they play their cards, the university might make an exception since the semester hasn't started yet making it easier for a last-minute addition. This guy is asking to get in a few weeks after the semester already started and has none of the requirements done.

Calmly Izuku answered him, "Overall, I just want to rule this school."

Nezu stayed silent for a moment, he blinked blankly as he waited for Izuku to continue speaking. He withheld saying anything as he wanted to give the boy time to fully explain himself, maybe he misspoke or there was more to his statement that he was letting on. The dead serious look on Izuku told him that he meant what he said.

As if he was being told a grand joke, Nezu burst out laughing in a maniacal tone.

"That's it!? All this trouble because you want to control a school!? Here I thought you had some grand goal that you needed to do but instead, it's just some youth's attempt of a power fantasy."

After calling himself down a bit, Nezu continued, "That's one of the worst reasons I've heard someone say when they're asking us to accept them late."

A confident smile appeared on Izuku's face as he states, "I thought as much, it's a good thing I wasn't asking to get in right? I remembered I requested a challenge."

Setting down his coffee cup, Nezu would tell him, "You know, you're not even close to being the first person who attempted to get into this school like this through a Game. You know what'll happen if you lose?"

"Of course. If I lose, I'll confess my crime and the school can take full legal action against me for everything I vandalized. But if I win, you'll allow me in the school, simple," Izuku answered, he knew of the risk the second he came up with this crazy plan to get a meeting like this with Nezu, "We've already agreed to the terms, picked the game, and set the win condition. I would like to skip all the unnecessary talking and get right to it please."

This comment got Nezu grinning wide as he replied, "You're pretty eager. Okay, I'll play with you for a bit."

"Game Set!"

In this world, there's no need for violence, there's no need for weapons, and there's no need to throw a punch. Why would humanity need any of that, when any problem can be solved by playing a game? Nearly anything can be obtained if one knows the right games to play. At least, that's how the world should be.

...

"I lost."

The disbelieving words Momo said, looking down at the Go board in front of her. For a moment she stared out the window of their upper story room to see if this was actually happening, seeing as nothing was out of place, that meant it really did.

"Hey, don't feel too bad," her opponent Setsuna told her, she had a toothy grin on from her victory but she wasn't going to shove it in her friend's face, "It's extremely difficult finding a game you don't eclipse me in and even then you were really pushing me in the beginning, too bad you fell at the end."

A small groan came from the raven-haired girl before she grumbled, "That was because Saiko kept distracting me with her very biased narration of our match."

Momo then snapped her attention toward the girl sitting at a table away from them with pale lavender hair, she was busy tending to her nails.

"Such shameful slander!" Saiko called out, not taking her eyes off her nails, "You're the ever-brilliant Yaoyorozu Momo, it'll be redundant to narrate your moves. I was simply commenting out loud all of your excellent plays. Well... until you loss anyways."

"Liiiiiiiiiiiiar," stated Setsuna, "You were being passive-aggressive because someone complimented Momo as being our best player."

"...Wait, wasn't that you?" Momo pointed out, quickly puzzling it all together, "Di-did you taunt her on purpose so she'd bother me till I start messing up?"

"I plead the fifth," replied the lizardy girl, her grin growing even wider gave it away.

"You did, didn't you!"

"Hey, it's not my fault her jealousy is triggered by a mere compliment."

As Momo lectured Setsuna about the actions she was trying to deny doing, Saiko was off mumbling to herself.

"As if I'd be envious of anyone, I'm the smartest one here."

SNAP!

There it was, that sound they've been hearing periodically all day, it made the girls stop for a moment.

"Please tell me you sent the complaint to the staff?" Saiko asked the two other girls.

"I made sure they got it this afternoon, they said they'll send someone to check it out tomorrow morning."

"Good, for such a prestigious university I'm appalled that they let their rooms for a club be so unmaintained. I've been complaining for months that this place feels like it might fall apart at anything."

"Relax Sai-Sai, you say that over every minor thing. It's probably not that." Setsuna stated.

"One, don't ever call me that stupid nickname again," Saiko quickly snapped, holding up a finger as she counted, "Two, I don't say that over every minor thing and three, what do you suppose it is?"

"I don't know, a rat."

"A RAT!" exclaimed the two other girls.

While Momo squirmed from the shiver she felt down her spine, Saiko let out a grunt of disgust.

"That's your guess, I expected better from you. Hell would freeze over before they let a rodent roam the school for this long, excluding the principal."

Setsuna nonchalantly shrugged before turning to the squirming Momo, "Back to the task at hand, you lost! You know what that means!"

"T-that's not fair, you played underhandedly using an outside person," Momo said, trying to create a case for her loss.

"Don't matter, nothing I did was against the rules and so the results are the results. You lost," the greenette stated, giving her a smile that showed off her sharp teeth, "I'll take melon juice and curry bread."

"Golden oolong tea and those chocolate biscuits you always get me," Saiko added in, going back to the tender care of her nails.

"You mean the ones I buy for myself that you eat anyway?" Momo replied, giving an annoyed look.

"Yeah, those of course," Saiko scoffed, humored as she thought Momo wanted to specify which kind she wanted, "They're the only kind I can eat. I don't know where you go to find mine but all the other kinds I find are usually revolting."

Setsuna gave a snarky remark, "I guess she should buy you her favorite extravagant cheese as well and maybe some nail polish while she's at it?"

"No, I'm feeling nice today so I'll hold back on my demands," Saiko answered, blowing on her nails to clean them off and admiring her own handy work, "Thank you though."

...

Momo tried to speak up, "Saiko, I don't think she-"

"Can you get going already? I'm getting quite hungry and I don't want to feel faint because you wanted to discuss something trivial!"

"A-... fine." Momo sighed, she had a little pout as she got up. The store was quite a walk away for her and would be a bit tiring for anyone after a long day, thus sparking the Game Setsuna abruptly challenged her to. Regardless of her feelings, she lost and so she was the one that had to go, "I'll be right back."

Before she left the room, the door opened.

Standing there was Izuku Midoriya, looking around the room he saw the three girls and the more preppy style of the room. If he's correct, this should be the room he's looking for, so he asked them.

"Excuse me, is this the Killer Queens' club room?"

The three girls stared at him like he was some mutated monster that stumbled into their room, it made the boy feel a bit uneasy with the sudden attention. In hindsight, their reaction shouldn't have been surprising as the club was named the way it was for a reason. They didn't usually get male guests, especially ones that seem to not be a part of the school judging by the lack of a school uniform.

"Yes," Momo answered, carefully confronting the boy first, "Can we help you?"

"My name is Izuku Midoriya and I want to join your club!" he proudly states, giving them a friendly smile.

The eyes of all three girls widened at this, Setsuna was the first one out of them to speak.

"If Saiko was drinking tea right now she would've broken her dignified image to spit it out."

"I would never," Saiko quickly told her, "Though, if any of us were drinking something a variety of comedic hijinks would've ensued. Too bad we weren't BECAUSE SOMEONE IS TAKING SO LONG TO GET THEM!"

Poor Momo looked around completely confused at first, wondering why the lavender haired girl was staring at her with such impatience.

"Why are you yelling at me?" Momo bewilderedly asked, gesturing a hand to their guest, "He's the one who stopped me from leaving."

"No offense," she continued, turning toward Izuku and apologetically holding up a hand, "I'm not throwing the fault of her attitude on you, she's often like this."

"Hey!"

'It...feels like I stumbled into the middle of something,' thought the boy, feeling a bit awkward. It was going to make things worse if he bailed out now, so he continued, "It's fine. Anyways about me entering your club-"

"You're not joining," Saiko cut in, putting on her glove.

"Harsh but she's right," Setsuna adds on.

"Stop it," Hushed Momo, disappointed in her rudeness. Turning back to the boy with a smile and telling him, "Sorry about them. Anyways, I'm afraid we can't let you join. Since you're not a student and also we kinda have this silly rule about no boys being allowed to keep the theme of us being… well queens."

"Oh I am a student," Izuku tells them, pulling out from his pocket a golden badge coated with UA's school colors. It was something provided to all students to have to prove they're a student there, essentially their ID for the school.

That was the third big surprise the group of girls got within a span of five minutes. Momo was stunned silent as she was stuck between curious and surprised, Saiko was getting aggravated with the constant surprises, and Setsuna was getting real interested.

"See, I just got in today and principal Nezu said all students are required to be in one of these clubs if I want to be a part of the school's event so I decided on this one," Izuku continued.

Make that the fourth one.

That was the last straw for Saiko, taking up the mantle for Momo she told him, "Okay, listen closely cause I don't enjoy repeating myself to strangers. I don't know how you managed to get that badge or if it's even real, but we already stated we won't accept you. IF you are a student here, it doesn't matter. We said no boys and unless you have some surprises tucked away, you are one. Since you're new I'll be nice and say, please respect me and my friend's rank here. You can't just walk in here, asking nicely to get things from us. Trust me, we may not be the biggest club in this school but we're not to be messed with."

Though the others didn't speak, the look on their faces told them that they agreed with her.

That last bit of information made Izuku smile, 'They're all got strong resolve, this is perfect!'

"That's why I came here, I heard that this place has some of the smartest people and best Game players in the school. Why join a club with three dozen meh players when you can join one with three top-class ones."

A very flattering statement, it even made the confrontational Saiko stop for a moment.

Reaching into his back pocket Izuku continued, "Look, I know you all seem steadfast about not letting me join because I'm a guy who entered today. Which is why I wasn't asking, I was challenging."

Make that five...ish. It wasn't the first time someone tried to get in through a Game, it was mostly the recent turn of events that made it shocking. They were prepared for this sort of thing.

"Oh, right that'll be your answer for this," Momo mumbled under her breath with a sigh of relief, she was just happy this dusty haired guy wasn't some creep that stumbled into the school to cause issues.

Saiko groaned as she said, "Another one? I already did four of them today, Momo please take care of him. Don't hesitate to beat the dirt out the hair of this rude newcomer, metaphorically of course."

"Oh, oh, let me do it!" Setsuna exclaimed, jumping to her feet so hard that the floor creaked, "He'll be fun to play with."

That was when Izuku delivered their sixth surprise, "Actually I want to challenge all three of you at once… in a single game as I don't want to waste you girls' time."

"A-are you sure about this?" Momo asked him, not sure if he was crazy or just overconfident.

Izuku nodded his head, "Since it is obviously stacked against me, you won't mind if I pick the game right?"

"What kind of game?"

"A simple one, no tricks or anything just this coin," Izuku stated, bringing out a dusty yen coin. Seeing their confused look, he told them the game they were going to play, "I'm going to flip this coin up to the ceiling, whoever catches it first wins."

…

Seven, this guy is just filled with surprises today.

"Alright, what's the catch," Saiko called out, "That's obviously a trap for something you got up your sleeve. Let me guess, the coin is rigged to give you an advantage, you got something in your pocket that'll stun us, or maybe your quirk is something that'll drag the coin to your hand?"

"No catch," Izuku told her, tossing her the coin, "It's a regular coin, if you want you can toss it yourself. I got nothing in my pocket and promised not to bring out anything during the game and I'm quirkless."

"You're...quirkless," she repeated.

"Yup, I got the official certificate and everything."

Saiko was about to question his intelligence but then went against it, he's probably lying through his teeth to catch them off guard. It doesn't matter, whatever he brings out they'll be prepared for. It'll save them all the brain cells if they just play and make him leave right after.

"Fine, let's just get this over with. I'm not waiting a moment later for my treats."

"Game Set!"

In the principal's office, Nezu was working on the papers he had since that morning but this time he had a happy smile on his face. When Nemuri enters the office with another stack of papers and sees him, she comments on it.

"You've been in a good mood since this morning, what did you play with that kid?"

"A simple game of chess," Nezu answered, not looking away from his work.

"Chess!?" Nemuri repeated, she looked almost pitying that they played that game, "poor boy, you must've toyed with him like you always do in that game. What did you do with this one? Give up your queen early so you have a challenge? Only use half your board to win?"

"I was going easy on him at first but then I decided to go all out on him."

"Why do you have to be so cruel? No wonder you're so happy, you must've utterly defeated him."

"I lost the Game."

"...What?"

"Hm?"

"You just said...that you lost? Sorry I didn't hear you correctly."

"Yeah I lost the Game. Izuku Midoriya was his name; he's a student now, just as we agreed."

Nemuri dropped the paper in her hands as hard as her jaw dropped.

"I'm not cleaning that up you know, I picked up enough things off the floor today," Nezu tells her as he looked at the mess she made.

"How!?"

"How what?"

"How did you lose!? I-it was chess, that was one of your specialties."

Nezu chuckled to himself as he thought back and told the story.

A few moves have gone in the game, while Izuku made a move after spending nearly a minute thinking over each move, Nezu being as skilled as he was made his moves almost as soon as it was his own. Despite the difference, they both still had on a calm face, essential for a battle of minds that was chess.

"The rumors were true, you're outstanding at this game it's almost suffocating," Izuku states, his breath becoming ragged as the game went on.

"There's a reason why of all candidates I was chosen to be the principal of this university," Nezu explains, "Tens of thousands of people try to extort others through games every day, this school is no exception. You need a player whose status seems high class if not near unbeatable if you want to drive most of these people away before they even think of challenging you and the skills to back it up for those with a similar status."

"Never losing a game of chess is quite the status to have."

"Everyone has a game they're the expert in, at least anyone smart would. The ending of this match was decided the moment you made it a game of chess."

"You never know, I might surprise you."

"Maybe in another game, but not this one. I recognized and went against every probable strategy in this game. Every move, every decision, and every mindset, I have a counter to them. There's nothing you can do I haven't seen before."

"You want to bet on it?"

"You're that confident you have something up your sleeve to beat me?"

"I haven't failed yet. A Game isn't over until it's over, might as well keep trying until the end. So what do you say?"

Nezu's smile continued to grow, taking another sip from his coffee before replying, "Now you have me interested. Okay, I'll accept, you win if one move you do surprises me."

"Then I guess it's time we both play for real," declared Izuku, making his move in only ten seconds, a dramatically quicker time than before.

"What happened after that?" Nemuri asked, she was on the ground picking up all the papers she dropped but she was emotionally on the edge of her seat.

"We played for real," Nezu answered, "Well, at least he was actually playing with all he had. I treated it like a real game but without it being too much of a challenge I could be completely serious."

"That means you were winning?"

"I was winning, but then-"

"But then!"

…

"You don't need to repeat what I just said."

"S-sorry, continue."

"Have you regretted challenging me yet Izuku?" Nezu had asked.

"There's no way I can regret something like this, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity I'm playing in."

"You seem pretty happy to be losing, don't forget what happens if you lose. I will applaud that it's impressive you survived this long with no records. I don't know why you couldn't just apply to the school regularly, but whatever it is, I don't mind helping you bypass it when you apply next year," Nezu assured him, 'All I have to do is wait for his king to take the bait of my knight that I'm forcing him into and it's game over.'

"I haven't forgotten what'll happen and I don't intend to lose. I have to ask, how did you get this good?"

"I knew how to play the game."

"Which is? A secret like that would be nice to know."

"It's not much of a secret, in a world like this, pure physical might means nothing. Some will say the key to winning a game is how good of a player you are, others will say it's how smart you are since all games have some sort of strategy to them. The truth is, it's just how smart you play the Game."

"I completely agree, you're utterly outsmarting me here."

"Don't feel too bad, knowledge comes with age and experience,"

"But I do disagree with one thing."

"Really now, what?"

"As much as I would like it to be true, it's unfortunate that I have to say that pure strength in this world isn't completely meaningless."

"..."

"..."

"And then what happened!?" Nemuri shouted, mad that he just suddenly stopped.

Nezu snapped out of the quick daydream he fell into, saying, "Oh he flipped the board."

"What!?"

Without warning, when it looked like Izuku was going to reach for his rook, his hands changed direction and grabbed the board. Flipping it into the air. While the pieces were flying wildly in the air, while Nezu looked wide-eyed at the spectacle, Izuku calmly reached up.

"Doesn't that mean he lost?" Nemuri asks.

"Flipping the board is only considered a loss because the person is usually left in a rage or no longer wants to play. During a Game, that doesn't end it unless the person has admitted defeat or that they have lost. Pieces in a chess game, especially during a Game, can easily be picked up and continued. That was how he won."

"I'm… so confused. What?"

"He won when the board landed."

"King takes the knight," Izuku declared.

This confused Nezu at first until he looked at the board that had landed back on his desk, his eyes widened when he saw where Izuku's king was. While everything else was scattered across the room, only the King was standing upright on the board. He remembered the exact positions of the entire board and it was a legal move to make.

"You were able to make a move like that!" said a flabbergasted Nezu. That moment lasted for a second before he realized what had happened.

"Sorry but this was a trick that could only work on you once."

"And that's how I lost the Game. Because he had made that move I could've checkmated him in a single turn but he got me by using my own attention to detail to make a move I saw coming to seem surprising," Nezu explained.

"Because he got you to change the win condition from something that would be impossible to do, to something probable," Nemuri mumbled.

"Not probable, something he could do. A smart player never plays a Game they have no chance of winning and an even smarter one tries to play as many Games as they can where they're certain to win. I have no idea what his actual goal is at this school but we certainly got a promising new student. He'll make a great addition to our collection."

Back at the Killer Queen's club room, Izuku was still at the door facing against the three girls who were standing barely over a feet away from him. He positioned his coin as he prepared to flip it.

"Ready-"

Everyone's body tensed up, each of the girls already had an idea of what they'll do against the boy.

"He was right about it being a thing he can do against me once." Nezu said, "I was careless not really playing from the beginning."

"I don't think you playing seriously at the beginning would've stopped him from flipping the board."

"No, I didn't mean the beginning of the chess game. I lost because of one thing and one thing alone."

"GO!"

On queue, Izuku flipped the coin high just as he said and in that moment all three of them began to move.

"I lost because I only started playing the Game when the Game started."

CRACK!

"He was playing the game, way before it even started."

When you get on a scale, you ever notice how when you get off it, for a split second the weight it displays spikes before decreasing. That's because you use force against the scale to push off of it to take a step off, increasing the weight the scale felt like it had. Now think about how high it would spike when you bend your knee to jump off of it, that's a lot of force going against the scale. If it was a living being, for that quick second it'll think you dropped a more obese version of yourself before the weight was lifted.

At the same time, three young adults with admirable strength all pushed off the ground to do something and that was when it happened.

Everything has a breaking point.

Suddenly the floor beneath them collapsed and all three fell down.

Like clockwork, the coin flew into the air before falling back in Izuku's hand undisturbed.

"Game Over!" he says with a huge smile on his face.

He bends over the hole in the floor to look inside. There the three girls had fallen over each other and were now entangled. They seemed to have landed on top of what looked like pillows.

"Seems like I won," Izuku calls out to them.

"What happened!?" Momo groaned from the fall, they were all trying to get untangled.

"Oh, this? After I got admitted I spent the entire day setting this up," Izuku explained, "I had to work slowly so I wouldn't draw too much attention and the flooring was pretty thick around this part of the building. Also, I saw a rat crawling around so we should probably tell the school about that before they have babies."

"Told ya," Setsuna grunted, still giving a smug grin despite her pain.

"Shut the fuck up!" shouted Saiko, not sure whether she was more pissed about losing to a person that actually quirkless in a game or that she was wrong about something.

"Sorry about fall though, I hope the pillows did their job. How about I make it up to you all by buying us snacks?" Izuku called down, giving them all a sweet smile of friendship.

"Thanks," Momo said, finally managing to get herself and the others free, "At least he's nice."

"I'm starting to really like him," said Setsuna, licking the edge of her sharp teeth.

"I completely hate him," grunted Saiko.

The results weren't favorable to everyone and things that should have not happened became possible. That's just the way things are in a world where anything can be settled in a Game.

Izuku called out one last to them, "Please treat me kindly, let's all be friends. We are a part of the same club after all."

TO BE CONTINUED

Next Time Teaser: So the group of only queens now have a boy there, they're obviously not going to accept it easily.

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