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+Despite the bravado,\\
+The princess had never touched chess.\\
+The defeat made her study in earnest, acknowledging the other as a teacher...
+First she learned the knights, bishops, rooks, and queen.\\
+Then how to defend, attack, capture, and checkmate.
+//<color #993333>"I have learned all there is to learn."</color>//\\
+Barely out of childhood,\\
+The princess raced into games of chess.\\
+Those who looked down on her faced many losses.\\
+Those who glorified themselves forfeited in a mess.\\
+At her prime, none could rival her at all.
+But she still recalled what the stranger said:\\
+"... My origins bring dark omens,\\
+So never tell others where your <color #993333>teacher</color> is from."[(Spoken by the teacher.)]
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+Then the waves of the Chrysos War,\\
+Washed over the world...
+The Okhemans welcomed a ruler.\\
+She was deemed Imperator, and loved to play chess with herself.\\
+She regarded all things as "<color #993333>pieces</color>,"\\
+Whether Chrysos Heirs or Titans magnificent.
+Before every god-slaying campaign,\\
+She thought of the stranger from her childhood,\\
+As if that woman had always lived in her mind.
+//<color #993333>"Isn't it lonely to play chess against yourself?"</color>//\\
+The princess did not understand at the time.
+But now,\\
+She who bore the crown finally realized,\\
+The Flame-Chase's beginning was like fuel being tossed onto the fire,\\
+And in the unending road of marching banners and war cries,\\
+She finally had the time to meditate.
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+There were often jesters behind the king,\\
+Curious about her past in the old city lost to time.
+One claimed the Imperator was cruel,\\
+Executing her own teacher.\\
+Another stated the Imperator was biased,\\
+Learning from an enemy hostage.
+Many such rumors abounded, with no origin found.
+//<color #993333>"No matter. That was indeed the criminal sentence I read out."</color>//
+The Imperator stated evenly,
+//<color #993333>"My teacher was an enemy hostage whom my elders had imprisoned."</color>//
+[(Read by Cerydra.)]"Her state betrayed our alliance\\
+And must be executed according to Law."
+"But she taught me chess,\\
+So why can't I chisel the word <color #993333>"teacher"</color>\\
+On her tombstone now?"
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+When the princess personally cleaned up the possessions of the dead,\\
+She caught sight of an incomplete game on the ground.
+The stranger's hoarse chuckle\\
+Still echoed in her ear...\\
+Laughing at the eternal fate of imprisonment,\\
+And at how the one facing her was the princess of the enemy.
+//<color #993333>"Is this your final game for me, my teacher?"</color>//
+The princess imagined the endgame\\
+Over and over.\\
+Even when she took the imperial crown,\\
+She still dreamt of the black-and-white board.
+The concealed truths\\
+Suddenly dawned on her\\
+During a more difficult contest in the future...\\
+An unfinished game\\
+Might be the opponent's lifelong barrier.