There he was. Sitting in the cold jail cell that had been his refuge for a week. He was clothed in a golden robe and bedroom slippers, unsuited to the grim jail cell.

He had blond hair with 2 tails flowing at either side of his forehead. His expression could be described as a cross between madness and happiness.

This was a place under the castle of Elysidia, known as the rotting kingdom.

Footsteps echoed around the hall.

He looked up and saw a blond haired guy with full spiked back hair observing him.

The newcomer smiled and said "Comfy in there, Evan?"

Evan smirked. It could give terror to the the person seeing it but he didn't mind. He produced a chessboard. A guard came and opened the lock of the cell. The blond haired person came in and the guard locked the door behind him.

He put down the board with a smack. "Play me" he ordered.

Evan replied "You sure, Dem, pretty sure the count is 199-0", He added "You never played with me since then. "

"Shut up, I can see your smile." Dem said. "I know you the best. You aren't one to back up from a challenge."

Evan's mouth curled. "Hahaha"

He moved his pawn.

Twenty minutes past in what seemed to be a second. The prisoner looked at the chessboard in front of him. His enemy's queen, both knights, one bishop and one rook had been eliminated.

Dem took the other rook and thought. He used it eliminate Evan's queen. Evan moved a pawn forward. Dem used the enemy bishop to eliminate his rook. His pawn moved another step. Dem moved the rook to eliminate a knight. Checkmate.

"I Win! You sure have gotten Clumsy Evan..."

Evan laughed. He moved the pawn diagonally eating another pawn. Dem's king was in check! His pawn was protected by a bishop and kings exit points were blocked by two rooks.

Dem murmured clearly annoyed, "Hmmm?..."

Evan mouthed "D-E-A-T-H-M-A-T-C-H"

Dem looked at him "Shameless as always, huh".

Dem picked his rook and struck out the enemy King.

Evan used the pawn and struck Dem's king and said "Hahaha, you're still naive nee-san". He took out the pawn and put a queen at his place.

Dem said "WHAT?! You... Yoou... Ahhhhn".

Then what happened could be called a one sided slaughter. Evan won eliminating all the enemy pieces. This was hardly unbelievable as Evan could be considered a super genius since he was young. He could've finished the game in third of the moves but he chose to not go all out and went with 'Deathmatch' which he knew his brother was an expert in.

Chess could theoretically be always won by a person who memorized its three billion configurations. But Evan had never lost any chess game in his life and was rumored to have intelligence and memories rivaling the best chess masters of Elysidia. So maybe he did remember the 3 billion chess configurations.

But who knew what a giant chessboard the world would become for Evan as he journeyed his way to the top of the heavens.