"I hate baths..." "Shiro!" "I can't wash you if you're moving around like that!" "No!" "sister." "so I don't like it." "Then why not use this shampoo?" "Jibril?" "This is the Flugel's special Spiritwater Blend shampoo." "Give your hair an elegant finish with this high-quality shampoo." "It maintains luster without damaging your hair." "{\cH000000}Recommended by Flugel everywhere!" "Spiritwater Blend Shampoo silky-smooth finish." "Masters." "The bodies of beings from another world..." "Shiro!" "18+" "Her very existence is 18-and-up only!" "stay." "Huh?" "Jibril." "No!" "I can't see anything in the steam!" "No fair!" "She already has complete control of Jibril as her master." "1)}Your brother {\cH273BDC}is very {\cH3877E8}impressed!" "{\cH1D9BDD}I wanna be like you!" "Shiro-san." "Absolutely awesome." "I hate the fact that I'm starting to get used to this." "Wh-What is this?" "420)}Sacrifice" "A kitchen I prepared for my masters." "Um..." "Speph-san?" "It's Steph!" "Stephanie Dola! so I'll call you Dola-chan!" "D-Dola?" "I've got a message for you from my masters." "I'm Stephanie!" "I'm Stephanie! they said." "Really?" "I could make all kinds of sweets... that means they're indirectly telling me to make them something!" "They're always taking advantage of me... we would've lost." "Thanks." "really now!" "I see." "So this is how the Imanity experience love." "Love?" "it's not!" "not "stay in love." "So why do you still seem to be affected?" "There's no end to the interesting things going on around my masters." "Kurami." "Do you want information?" "Food?" "Or... me?" "I think." "It tastes better than before." "I heard that things are getting better since the granddaughter of the previous king started putting the new king's policies into effect." "I see." "huh?" "A puppet of a puppet." "She's as shameless as her grandfather was foolish. is really cute!" "How did you know that?" "don't you have any information?" "Let me see... and that he's interested in the Eastern Federation." "What did you say?" "I got a little too into it..." "B-But this will benefit Imanity in the long term." "It's definitely not love or anything!" "Jibril-kun. this animal girl paradise I'm about to conquer." "isn't it?" "As you wish." "The various clans of Warbeasts were in a state of civil war due to their physical differences." "An individual known as the Shrine Priestess ended the war uniting the many clans into a massive naval empire and the third biggest country in the world:" "the Eastern Federation. and they're all going to be mine!" "we'll attack and overthrow them immediately." "we need the knowledge that you've spent millennia building!" "that's impossible." "I'm afraid that even you may not be able to defeat the Eastern Federation." "are you saying that "Blank" will lose? because I once challenged the Eastern Federation and lost." "That settles it." "are backing Elkia now." "How can you be sure?" "Fi? and lost each time." "but yes. and how they beat me when I had an elf's help. they could easily be using some trick that even an elf can't see through." "Kurami..." "Of course that's it." "Imanity could never beat a higher race alone." "Don't underestimate humanity." "He mocked me... let alone a Flugel?" "What kind of game did you play?" "Their bet is that the loser will have their memories of the game wiped out." "Now do you understand?" "I see." "No way to beat that." "What do you mean?" "Game:" "Rock-Paper-Scissors" "Eyes filled with pity no records of what happened" "Memories either." "You can't make a plan to beat them." "they can supposedly read minds." "How do you beat that?" "1)}Information" "We just told you that information is important." "I guess you really are a Steph." "wait." "That doesn't make sense." "What doesn't? then people would stop challenging them." "It'd be easier not to. even though you're smarter than me." "Grr." "They've got something that lets them beat the elves and the Flugel. and then took their territory." "But..." "Your play style is obnoxious." "Brother shock!" "it's strange." "There's no way they could expand their country this much in a half century." "Right?" "right?" "Master!" "Explain it?" "What do you mean?" "It was in the book." "only one country challenged the Eastern Federation." "What idiotic country did that?" "It would be faster to show you." "Dola-chan will come with us." "Masters." "please excuse me." "Wh-What's going on?" "It's nice and clear today." "W-Wait!" "What did you just do?" "I teleported us." "Oh." "aren't we?" "How far can you go with that? or anywhere I've been once." "That's a "zoom" spell." "How did the Imanity survive the ancient war against these guys?" "That's considered the greatest mystery in human history." "I remember the ancient war! or 200 of us taking on a god and losing!" "What wonderful memories!" "But forget that." "Look over there." "Okay..." "What's that skyscraper doing messing up the Elkian landscape?" "It's huge." "It's the Eastern Federation's Elkian Embassy." "That's quite a building." "and the Eastern Federation rebuilt it." "Oh... right?" "Does that mean..." "Master?" "The only country to challenge the Eastern Federation over the past ten years..." "You're not telling me... it was Elkia." "Brother?" "Shiro." "Despair that's all." "Eastern Federation Modern Elkia Old Territory and Elkia challenged them eight times and lost half their territory?" "Maybe the old king really was an idiot!" "What?" "You said before that he was right!" "He threw away half the country's territory for no reason!" "How am I supposed to defend that?" "Do you have any idea how much agriculture and industry we could build if we had that territory?" "isn't he? What She Bet he'd win eventually? but he wasn't crazy enough to gamble with the lives of three million Imanity for no reason!" "unlike you two!" "sane man? I'll stay nuts." "he may be a good king for a people that does nothing but complain when it's their own lives on the line." "seriously." "Every last one of them. but don't insult my grandfather or the things he believed in!" "Hey!" "Steph!" "that was going too far." "what was I supposed to do?" "Delicious." "Damn." "It really is." "what is this key for?" "It's the key to where I keep something very important." "I know about that!" "I heard men collect books they can't show to other people!" "that's another key... no!" "This is a key of hope." "Hope?" "I'll give this to you." "Really?" "Yes." "when you meet someone give it to them." "I'm not giving it to that man!" "May I have a word?" "Wh-Wh-What are you doing?" "!" "I would recommend you return to the library immediately." "That's trespassing!" "Immediately?" "and acted on my own." "You may do as you like." "Wait!" "D-Don't be ridiculous!" "Why would I... for crying out loud! I don't think you'll find anything to justify the former king's actions." "That's not what I'm doing." "I just realized something felt off." "You mean you were thinking about it for Dola-chan's sake." "I was just going back over it so" "I know what not to do when I challenge the animal girl kingdom!" "anyway?" "A sane man in charge of the lives of three million people wouldn't just rush into defeat that many times." "This is the place the previous king bet the first time." "An Armatite mine. so it's worthless. the fourth..." "And the eighth. the king didn't bet a single thing of value." "There has to be some reason." "Master?" "Why does the Eastern Federation wipe players' memories when that only hurts them?" "Why did Elven Garde challenge them four times?" "Why did the previous king... wait!" "Did he stop after eight times because he'd achieved his goal?" "but what if he didn't lose his memories?" "Master... but not all the Imanity act with the same level of thought that you do." "But some of them do." "they're misunderstood." "It's my duty to try and understand them." "You can say what you're thinking." "How can you believe in a lesser life form like humanity?" "I wasn't..." "The answer is simple." "I don't believe in humanity." "stupid creatures." "Every single one of them." "Including me." "They're all crap." "that hasn't changed a bit." "I knew it." "I can't let that man..." "But I believe in the potential of humanity." "I {\cH4D5DEE}♥ {\cH47538C}Humanity" "She's my proof." "Some of them are the real thing... the fantasies all inside one tiny little body." "The first day I met Shiro..." "It was eight years ago." "She was just three years old." "what do you think her first response was?" "You really are empty. and insulted me with that double meaning." "huh?" "It made my heart pound." "I was so excited." "The real thing actually existed! I wanted to be like her." "humans could fly through the sky and travel among the stars." "I can't believe that." "thought that." "But somebody did it." "made it there." "It's our job as normal people to ensure that the potential of those misunderstood ones is realized." "too." "Sora..." "I want to give you something." "I'm sure of it." "It's his porn stash!" "I knew it." "My life was a mistake." "Master?" "You hide your porn in your own room." "That would be this room." "we found it a long time ago." "V." "Remember when I said this bed was tilted and hard to sleep on?" "That was the start of the puzzle." "Then you just fiddle with some things... and there's your secret room!" "This is just a failure on so many levels... but the one that will restore them." "I am not a wise king." "I expect that I will be remembered as one of the most foolish." "But I take up my pen for the king who will restore our glory." "hopeless struggles will aid you." "I knew it." "The old king didn't lose his memories." "lower life forms like the Imanity were nothing but easy prey to the Warbeasts." "They didn't erase his memories because they wanted him to keep trying." "They wanted to lure him in and beat him?" "They deliberately went easy on him to make him believe he could beat them next time. hoping to find out how their game worked." "He deliberately gave them useless land in order to eventually take it back." "Then why didn't he tell the secret of the game to anyone?" "He was probably forced to pledge that he'd never tell anyone as long as he lived." "But then what was the point?" "But... that doesn't apply after he's dead. and entrusted it to a king that would restore humanity..." "To humanity's greatest gambler." "That was why he held a gambling tournament to determine the next king?" "He made a bet would appear who could defeat the other races." "The possibility is so ever close to zero... but it isn't zero." "Steph. and devoted himself to finding his opponent's secrets." "This is his trust in humanity." "the previous king..." "He really was your grandfather." "Grandfather..." "Grandfather..." "That's a heavy thing he's given us." "It's okay." "You and I can do it." "Jibril?" "There are humans like this." "I {\cH4D5DEE}♥ {\cH47538C}Humanity isn't it?" "Perhaps so." "Fake End your head would look good on the end of a pole!"