Queen's Gambit

Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS series.

Summary:

Now Queen answers for her crime.


Profit. Turnover. The shareholders. The bottom line.

These were the affairs that SOL Technologies' top had on her mind. Her cruel, plotting mind – swimming with brazen business plans and beauty-drowned boasts.

You entered into her room? Her palace?

What are you after? To stir up some waves on the net?

Dark Ignis, you've come…declaring a crime?

Absurd!

Stupid!

She is the Queen. Her authority is airtight, her force, and her right.

Murder and manipulation are no delicate dance.

Ethics which concern ordinary citizens, no taxing barrier to a woman at her level.

If the Queen demands something, it is hers. Society's infrastructure will cater to her whims.

Position meant power.

She fielded the decisions, and the pawns moved, fulfilling her moves.

The human cost meant nothing to her, so why would the existence of an AI – not even human – mean anything more?

Ai pointed to the center of her head, punishment already in the cards.

Her end, the starting settlement. His smallest gratification.

A ripple effect due to her shadiness.

From where Ai stood, there was a bottom line.

But as he'd shown Roboppi, there was no bottom for the guilty party.

Queen had prioritized her war chest and cut Earth to pieces. If there ever was a human deserving of Lightning's flawed but correct judgment, Queen was she.

The one who made the rules, to whom the rules to this moment hadn't applied.

Her untouchable overconfidence, golden allure, and limitless resources.

Skill, an underhanded honey trap cheat.

"Honey, you're trapped. You weren't seriously going to win."

The impossibility is shocking, Ai knows.

Ai know. Ai know.

He knocks Queen off her high horse with his high horse and two additional direct attacks.