"Looks like the first piece will be moving soon." "Question:" "Do you desire the destruction of the Imanity?" "Or have you finally decided to act?" "spying on people isn't a very commendable hobby..." "Question: an event fluctuation was detected just before the new king of Imanity was crowned." "We assume this heralds your intent to join the battle: yes/no?" "You guys are so boring." "The fallen gods... the Old Deus." "I'm not on anybody's side." "You guys can just keep playing your idle games." "They're coming." "They're coming all the way up here." "There was a time when I thought that those two could save Elkia." "But now... they've given all the work to me and they spend every day playing games." "ask Steph." "Today's the day..." "Sora and Shiro's House" "Today's the day I'm putting a stop to this!" "Hi—" "Hi-yah!" "My eyes!" "My eyes!" "you two." "420)}Weak Square" "It's time for you to do your job as kings." "out of the morning sunlight!" "It's already afternoon." "It's 36:00." "The middle of the night." "What kind of clock do you follow?" "!" "You've got those valuable books scattered everywhere..." "Take them back to your grandpa's room." "That room is yours now." "That's been the king's room for generations." "You can't just move out!" "though." "It's hard to sleep in." "Futons are the best." "Why are you going back to sleep?" "It's embarrassing to think that you're the king who controls the destinies of three million Imanity!" "Embarrassing?" "that's fine." "That's just how you see things." "will Blank ever do any work!" "Don't underestimate humanity!" "Humanity then it's better off dying out!" "My patience has finally run out!" "Sora!" "I challenge you!" "You want to play a game with me?" "Th-That's right." "450)}Five:" "The challenged party has the right to decide the rules of the game." "Pledge five:" "The challenged party has the right to decide the rules of the game." "Are you serious?" "Yes..." "B-But there's no way the best gamer in human history would choose a game where right?" "Fine." "I'll let you pick whatever game you like." "So what are we betting?" "you will become a decent person!" "1)}Decent Person" "U-Um..." "I see... then they can grant wishes like that!" "Then... make me a fulfilled one!" "Fulfilled?" "Being fulfilled is far better than being decent." "Let's do it right now!" "I'll do everything I can to lose!" "you're not allowed to lose to anybody but Shiro!" "would you stand between your brother and fulfillment?" "!" "Blank is not allowed to lose." "No!" "It's impossible for me to lose to Steph in an honest game." "Hey!" "Steph!" "Y-Yes?" "!" "the chance that can only that you'll win!" "Now you've gone and said it." "The game we'll play is..." "Blackjack." "I suppose." "A sigh filled with despair!" "And she's not even interested anymore!" "blackjack is 100% a game of chance!" "Your cheating and little tricks won't help you!" "Now get ready!" "Aschente!" "Aschente!" "You fell for it." "A game of chance?" "That's not how I'm going to play!" "That's right." "You can cheat as long as your opponent doesn't find out." "and I'll use it to knock you down a peg!" "the weak must use their wisdom to defeat the strong." "That is the hope of humanity." "Humanity... humanity... which my grandfather believed in and Sora showed me!" "Hit." "Stand." "21." "19." "I'm just getting started." "it's time for the last round." "though." "Blackjack is one of the rare games where the player has an advantage." "What of it?" "Dealer Player so he has a high chance of going bust." "But you haven't had that happen even once." "Pretty impressive luck." "Stand." "Has he just given up?" "He didn't even look at the cards." "Looks like the game's over." "it's over." "you get back 2.5 times what you bet." "I win." "No..." "The potential of humanity... my granddaughter..." "Grandfather!" "you're just screwed." "Screwed." "Screwed." "Wha— Grandfather?" "!" "Grandfather!" "What a hollow victory..." "Fulfilled people are just an urban legend anyway." "I refuse to accept this!" "How did I lose?" "Huh?" "Wasn't blackjack a game of pure chance?" "Card counting." "Card coun— What?" "You turn the cards into numbers and count them. and seven through nine are 0." "You count the numbers of cards that have been played to mathematically find a numerical probability for what will played next." "250)}Scales Scales" "So you use math in a game?" "I didn't know that was possible... isn't that cheating?" "Cheating refers to things like the forced shuffle you were doing." "You noticed?" "It made counting much easier." "He used my own cheat to beat me?" "where are you going?" "Work." "Remember those policies you proposed yesterday?" "I have to meet with the nobles who oppose them now." "That took longer than I thought." "then." "I'll get you for this!" "Don't think you can get away with such tyranny against nobles!" "Former nobles." "holdings..." "You lost it all." "a quick reformation like this meant people like them were sure to show up." "I'm honestly surprised it took this long." "the way you did it was just mean." "I'd worked so hard to keep them under control peacefully..." "Huh?" "Keep them under control?" "I used the data from the large-scale experiments we'd conducted on the lands belonging to the royal family to distribute the commercial rights to the major noble factions that back my family. and quietly split off the smaller groups to slowly whittle down power of the opposition. we could've had a complete and bloodless victory over the entire opposition!" "is something wrong?" "but Steph..." "are you actually... not an idiot?" "What did you think I was until now?" "right?" "or am I imagining it?" "Am I imagining it?" "!" "Steph." "You're just a Steph." "That is possibly the most unfair insult in history! and I have connections with every major family through my former classmates." "She graduated high school and has lots of friends... she's a princess and has a lot of money..." "And she has big boobs..." "S-Sora?" "Shiro?" "did we?" "Steph." "No mercy." "W-Wait—" "No!" "Th-Th-There are t-t-too many people!" "no matter what!" "brother!" "Sora." "What's going on?" "We've got something we need to do." "is everyone looking at us funny?" "That's because..." "I'm dressed like this!" "Of course they're looking!" "Woof." "Couldn't you have come up with a better demand than this?" "paw." "Woof!" "I can't disobey!" "That's the rule." "you're our dog for the day." "She's a Dog for a Day your outfit is weird... but they seem scared." "It's because the king of Elkia is walking around woof!" "Wait." "You're dressed like a warbeast?" "Exceed rank 14." "the Eastern Federation. as well as a sixth sense that allows them to read minds!" "the Eastern Federation... is an Eden composed entirely of hot girls with animal ears?" "!" "too..." "Okay!" "That's it!" "That Arcadia is mine!" "We're going after the animal girls!" "Right... now!" "Wait!" "They're one of the three biggest countries in the world!" "Conquer the animal girl kingdom." "Now." "Silence!" "You and your false ears shall not stand between me and the real ones!" "The animal girl kingdom is waiting for me." "first... that's right." "sister." "Indeed." "Wait a sec—" "You're leaving me here?" "We didn't find a thing." "This country is weird." "Yeah." "This isn't that good." "There's a shortage of goods like sugar." "So Steph's cookies were good because she was able to make the best of what she had." "I found you!" "Steph." "Where did you go?" "Oh"?" "You left me in the middle of town dressed like this and then you just forgot me?" "!" "forgive me." "Sit." "You make me sit and tell me to forgive you?" "That's basically brute force!" "This is no good." "I need to do something about these two. where math doesn't play a part." "Then..." "Sora!" "One more match!" "Beg." "Seriously?" "What are we betting now?" "Beg. and make you a fulfilled human!" "I believed in y—" "I will accept on behalf of Blank." "you must do one thing I tell you to." "No... my sister!" "That's fine." "We'll compete to see whether the next person to go down that alley is a man or a woman!" "Best out of ten." "Aschente!" "Aschente!" "1)}vs" "This doesn't make sense!" "Do you really think the people who go down that alley have no goal in mind at all? and employment rate for this area to the general trends I observed." "V." "Do you always take these things so seriously?" "That's a silly question." "When it comes to games..." "We're always serious." "I'm taking your panties." "aren't I?" "Shiro." "This is actually depressing to watch." "I'm just 11 years old." "so I don't understand." "You seem like you're in a bad mood." "You're being pretty brutal on Steph." "I am not." "I'm just getting started!" "I haven't shown my true strength yet!" "you're showing everything right now." "Here I go!" "Aschente!" "Aschente!" "Ghost Leg" "What she bet..." "Shawl" "Super-Spicy Russian Takoyaki Roulette" "What she bet" "Shoes" "The Game of Life" "What she bet" "Bra" "Rock-Paper-Scissors" "What she bet" "Glasses" "Glasses Steph with Animal Ears" "One more... one more match!" "You don't have much left to lose." "if it leads to ultimate victory!" "I'm starting to understand why Elkia ended up in such a bad state." "100% chance!" "How many seconds before those birds take off?" "I'll let you bet first." "Aschente." "How many seconds?" "30 seconds!" "Then I'll take... three seconds!" "Hey!" "That's against the rules!" "did you?" "give it up." "Why?" "Why can't I win?" "for Imanity..." "Why can't I even win once by chance?" "Steph..." "There is no such thing as luck in this world." "psychological states..." "There are any number of invisible factors that combine to produce an unpredictable but inevitable result." "The victor of a game is decided before it even begins." "There is no chance. what's the probability of drawing the ace of spades from a deck with no jokers?" "right?" "yes." "250)}Brand New" "But what if it's a brand new deck?" "The positions of the cards in a new deck are generally always the same." "If you take out the jokers and draw the very bottom card..." "It's the ace of spades almost 100% of the time." "B-But..." "That's right." "I didn't say a word about it being a new deck." "right?" "That knowledge turns the probability from 1.92% to 100%." "the person with that knowledge is the inevitable victor. and the reason we're at a loss for what to do." "At a loss?" "We don't have enough information. we've gotta deal with the fact that we don't know their weakness." "All we know is that they've got a sharp sixth sense." "They can read minds." "bluffs and strategy are useless." "It's not even a game. and there's not a single bookstore or library in this town." "Does this nation even care?" "Has he been looking for information about this world ever since he was coronated?" "Only an idiot starts a fight he can't win." "But we have to do something or we'll get nowhere!" "we need to do what we can for Elkia right away..." "One screw-up and we're finished." "This country and the Imanity are in just that bad a state." "Don't forget that." "They weren't just playing around without thinking." "They took the fate of three million Imanity on their shoulders... and I didn't even realize it." "Steph." "I was wondering why there was so little resistance to our reforms." "I guess you were keeping it in check." "Steph." "That seriously helped us." "Thanks." "Sora!" "Shiro!" "you know..." "Steph." "woof! and we lack the key to the one door out that I can see." "What?" "It got dark..." "Wow." "Laputa really exists!" "That's Avant Heim..." "One of the Phantasma." "The second ranked Exceed?" "Phantasma:" "Exceed Rank 2" "How the hell am I supposed to play a game with that?" "look up there." "the best thing would be to bring those Flugel in that flying city around to our side..." "But how do we get there?" "Ba*se!" "It didn't fall." "The servers here are better than in our world." "there's one near here." "it showed up in the National Elkia Library." "It beat my grandfather in a game and won the library and everything in it." "you had a library?" "You bet your knowledge?" "Are you an idiot?" "!" "That's humanity's only weapon!" "sit." "Wait." "please!" "People are watching!" "The Flugel." "Exceed rank six." "Created during the ancient war as a front-line weapon to kill gods." "I can't believe there was one so close." "are you really going to challenge a monster like that?" "The knowledge about this world that this god-killer has is the only way we can get anywhere." "you can stay." "I-I'll go!" "right?" "according to records..." "That's fine." "Time to then." "Wow." "where's our angel?" "That's not even close to an angel." "That's death itself." "you people?" "What do you want in my library?" "Oh..." "That ruined it." "Interesting" "Steph."