Dance of the edgelords

Back at the Japan vs Estonia match, things were heating up as Iori and Õnne began moving pieces in a mad flurry. F6, e captures d6, bishop e5, bishop f4, bishop captures f4, and rook captures f4, yet despite Iori's overwhelming advantage, mate was still nowhere in sight. And by the looks of it, mate would be the only way of scoring a win as Õnne was in no mood to resign no matter how dire things got. The dance resumed with king f8, followed by king d2. But it was not yet time for the full dance of kings as there were still plenty of pieces left on the board.

G6, rook e1, king g7, f-rook e4, f5, and then...

"Hey look, it's check number 2! Wonder how big my combo meter's gonna be by the end of this," Iori snickered as she moved her rook to e7.

Õnne silently glared and flashed a "zero" sign with her hand before capturing the rook at e7 with her knight.

"OH FUCK, MY ROOK! ... PSYCH! CHECK NUMBER 3!" Iori laughed as she slammed her queen down on d4.

Õnne gritted her teeth in furry and moved her king to f7, but the check combo wasn't over just yet.

"Ch- Ch- Ch- Ch- CHECK! BITCH!" Iori grinned as she captured the knight at e7 with her rook.

Unless a quick mate was what Õnne desired, her only viable move in this scenario was to capture the rook at e7 with her queen, which would naturally lead to Iori capturing said queen with her d-pawn. But survival was what Õnne sought as while slim, the chances of at least avoiding a loss still existed. Thus, she forsook her queen, and once it had been claimed by Iori, she moved her rook to e8. Now it was king, queen, and 6 pawns vs king, rook, and 6 pawns.

"Hmm, how long until the combo meter starts up again... I'd give it... ONE MORE MOVE!" Iori maniacally thought as she let loose a sadistic grin while slamming her queen down on a4.

Õnne was less than amused, and promptly moved her pawn to a5. She'd need to hope she had some high quality beauty cream and hair dye, for Iori was about to give her some more wrinkles and gray hairs starting with...

"Check number 5! Too bad these aint the money checks, otherwise you'd be richer than you claim that pixel fuck of a sex toy is!" Iori taunted as she moved her queen to b3.

Õnne had had it, yet she maintained just enough composure to keep herself from letting loose a vocal outburst as she captured the pawn at e7 with her king. It seemed like this was the end of the "checks" for now, as Iori captured the pawn at b6 with her queen, but after Õnne moved her pawn to a4...

"666, that's the devil's CHECK!" Iori snickered as she moved her queen to b4.

This time, Õnne changed strategies and took a deep breath, forcing a pleasant smile before moving her king to f6. She was still furious, but showing that would only increase Iori's power high, thus she put up a happy act, hoping it would have the effect of agitating Iori to the point where she blundered away the game. That was wishful thinking, as not only was Iori unphased, she was also calculating a more devious way to make Õnne explode into fury.

"Next check, assuming we don't head straight to mate, I hit her with the secret weapon Oki-kun gave me," she thought as she moved her queen to b5.

Now at move 38, the game was set to reach the time control, and after rook e7, a4, h5, a5, and king f6, time was added to both Iori's and Õnne's clocks. Yet despite that, no more than 30 minutes had passed since the round had began. And with that in mind, Iori decided it was time to end things soon, assuming Õnne wouldn't be a bitch and wait out her entire clock.

Returning from her walk around the playing hall and noticing the team had won the match despite Iori's game still going on, Mimoko headed over to Daria, who had simply been sitting nearby. She silently smiled at her, however, Daria quickly got up and walked away, shielding her face with her fan.

"Okaa-chan? Hmm, she's been acting weird today... I wonder what came up."

After taking a glance at the state of Iori's game, and deciding it would be better for her stress levels not to stay and witness the stripshow that was sure to take place after the game's conclusion, Mimoko headed off en route to the spectator area.