Japan's beautiful SPCMs

Mimoko nervously backed towards the wall as the delinquent cornered her. As she began to panic, three women suddenly emerged from the back. One was a petite girl with short white hair that was constantly clinging to a girl with long black hair that obscured her face. The third girl Mimoko recognized as the dark-skinned girl that had appeared alongside Mizuse the day before.

However, the three women simply ignored the delinquent and went to sit down on the couch, much to Mimoko's angst.

"The hell you snivelin' up for? We'll settle this outside," the delinquent snarled as she cracked her knuckles.

"I'll challenge you in chess!"

"Not interested. You got no noteworthy feats."

"How good do I need to be to play you then!?"

"I said I wasn't interested, now beat it! We got business to discuss."

"Then how about I call someone over to play you then?" Mimoko glared as she pulled out her WWCF card and showed the delinquent Okisato's profile.

The delinquent was unimpressed, prompting Mimoko to go with plan b and pull up Peter's profile. However, that seemed to anger the delinquent even more.

"Don't mention him. I HATE HIM! FUCKING BASTARD SAYS I'M UNWORTHY!? I'M THE BULLET DEMON OF KYOTO DAMMIT!"

"'Bullet demon of Kyoto'? Wait, so are you an underground chess player not with the WWCF!?"

The delinquent turned and shot Mimoko a murderous glare, causing her to shut her eyes in terror as she began to shrivel up. But suddenly, the woman stopped and stared in shock at Peter's match data.

"You... BEAT Peter!?"

"Yes, a few days ago at the blitz tournament,” Mimoko trembled.

The delinquent scowled for a bit before suddenly pulling out a red WWCF card and pulling up Mimoko's profile. "Well, seems there's more here then I thought. Says in the notes for your first game against Peter, ya drew but played the game so fast, the officials couldn't keep up. Guess you do have some skill, you're off the hook I guess," the delinquent grumbled as she put away her WWCF card.

However, that one action had completely erased all of Mimoko's fears, as she had been able to get a good look at the delinquent's WWCF card.

"I know who you are now. You're SPCM Himitsusan, aka Safumi Bouzi, a 2550 rated player, and grandmaster.

I assume I can't look up SPCMs normally, which is why that error message popped up," Mimoko smirked as she turned to Michiko.

Michiko happily confirmed her theory and confirmed that in order to view the profiles of SPCMs, she would need to do it via the badges she'd get from beating them. Prompting M

Mimoko nodded and mischievously turned to face Safumi.

"What? YES, I manage a secret puzzle cafe. Though just cuz ya met me doesn't me ya can just challenge me. Ya gotta find my place first."

"Not exactly. Since you're currently in a secret puzzle cafe, I can challenge you," Mimoko smirked as she opened up her point menu to confirm the fact.

"THE HELL!? MICHIKO YOU BITCH! IS THIS WHY YA CALLED US HERE!?"

"Called "us"? Wait! Does that mean all those women are also SPCMs!?" Mimoko gasped.

Michiko went pale as the women that had previously been sitting peacefully suddenly shot her and Safumi death glares. "Damn you, Safumi."

"Well, guess she probably figured I was an SPCM," the dark-skinned woman sighed as she got up.

She introduced herself as SPCM Himitsukun, Doraaki Soten, of Hokkaido. The two remaining women reluctantly introduced themselves as Tenju and Taira, Himitsutan and Himitsue, respectively. It turned out they were also identical twin sisters, and that Taira was only challangable after beating all the other SPCMs.

"Why's that?"

"Because Taira's a bit shy, and Maestro Himitsu didn't want her getting overwhelmed. She was actually supposed to manage a separate secret puzzle cafe, but the maestro pulled some strings in order to keep us together," Tenju explained.

That meant there were actually only 6 secret puzzle cafes located in Japan as Tenju and Taira both stayed at the one in Nagisaki.

"Though is it really a big deal? SPCMs can teleport to any secret puzzle cafe in the world, so why couldn't you just-"

Before Safumi could finish, Doraaki approached her and told her to knock it off. Safumi retorted that she had the freedom to say what she wanted and began to head to the room in the back.

Mimoko attempted to challenge her, but realized she didn't have enough points, causing Safumi to gloat in her face before heading into the back room. However, it would ultimately be Mimoko that would get the last laugh, as Michiko decided to tell her the hotel in which Safumi's secret puzzle cafe was located.

Mimoko giddily sent the info to Okisato before turning her attention to a new reward that appeared in her points menu.

"'Beautiful chess girls 34'? What's this?"

All the SPCMs began to go red in the face, as Michiko begrudgingly revealed it was something stupid the maestro made them do.

Curious, Mimoko exchanged her points for it, and was immediately shown a video. In it, all the female SPCMs were nude and had their bodies painted white while wearing corresponding headgear to the pieces they were posing as. Doraaki was the pawn, Michiko was the knight, Tenju was the bishop, Safumi was the rook, Mizuse was the queen, and Taira was the king.

"Chess girl 34, LONDON SYSTEM!" the girls shouted as they began posing.

Mimoko trembled and quickly closed the video, her face almost as red as the SPCMs'.

“Well, surprise. Looks like you just got to witness our worst secret,” Michiko sighed.

“I- It wasn’t that bad. Besides, we all agreed to do it, so no use complaining,” Doraaki huffed.

“You’re lucky Safumi left. Otherwise she’d tease you about how girly you were acting.”

“That bitch just hates me because my boobs are bigger than hers.”

“Um, could we not talk about breast size?” Tenju glared.

Mimoko quickly realized things were going south, and decided to attempt a terminology quiz in hopes of diffusing the situation. As she did, Mizuse arrived.

“Ara, I didn’t expect to see Taira here. Would you care to come see the Maestro with me?”

“Why can’t she just come here?” Tenju asked.

Mizuse happily explained that Maestro Himitsu wished to have dinner with them in one of the hotel rooms.