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Chapter 4 - One Move At A Time

Within the Next Day;

It's break time, and everyone went to the School Canteen to buy some snacks. The menu for that day was Omurice, Dumplings, Karaage, and Ramen.

Kentarou and his friends Satoshi, Yuki, , and Takeshi decided to go to the canteen together. They quickly rushed through the canteen to avoid being last in queue.

Kentarou's classroom was near the stairs in the other end of the building, they usually go through there since it was near unlike the stairs on the other end.

He then told everyone to go through the other stairs instead on which everyone suspiciously agreed.

While he and his friends were heading to the stairs on the other side of the building, Kentarou immediately went to take a peek thru Haruka's classroom. In there, he saw Kaito at the back row taking a nap. Meanwhile, Haruka was sitting in the front near the door and can be seen easily. Beside her seat, is her close friend Akari, and Hana.

They immediately noticed Kentarou and she proceeds to tell it to Haruka. He then walked quickly through the stairs behind his friends to avoid being spotted.

Everyone chose to ate Ramen for the break time, when suddenly Satoshi asked everyone;

"Does any of you knows how to play chess?" He asked.

"Yes, ezpz". Everyone replied instantly including Kentarou.

"Inoue-San, let me challenge you". Yuki said.

"Okay, but after we finish our meal". Kentarou answered.

Kentarou and his friends continues to eat their meal.

A few minutes later....

When everyone was finished eating, Kentarou and Yuki proceeds to play a match;

Kentarou gets the White Piece.

While Yuki gets the Black Pieces.

Thus, the match started;

Kentarou plays E4, countered by Yuki's E5.

Followed by Satoshi's Knight to F3 (Nf3) and Yuki's Knight to C6 (Nc6).

Then, White's Pawn to D4 and Black's Pawn to D6.

The next move for Kentarou was White's Knight to C3 (Nc3), and Yuki's Black's Knight to F6 (Nf6).

Kentarou then proceeds to threaten Yuki's Knight by moving the Bishop to B5 (Bb5).

Yuki then protects his Knight by moving the Bishop to B7 (Bb7).

Then, Kentarou decided to castle to the King's side thus protecting the King (O-O).

Followed by Yuki's Bishop to E7 (Be7).

Satoshi kept watching and continued to observe the two as the battle was intensifying.

Kentarou moved his Rook to E1 (Re1), and Yuki chose to take the pawn to D4 (exd4).

White then takes the Pawn by moving the Knight to D4 (Nxd4), and Black proceeds to take the Knight by moving his Knight to D4 (Nxd4).

Kentarou then take Yuki's Knight by moving the Queen to D4 (Qxd4).

Followed by Yuki's Bishop to move his Bishop by taking Satoshi's Bishop at B5 (Bxb5).

White then takes the Black's Bishop by moving his Knight forward to B5 (Nxb5), and ultimately followed by Yuki's castling to King's side (O-O).

Kentarou moves his Queen to C3 (Qc3), and Yuki moves his Pawn forward to C6.

It was immediately followed by Satoshi's Knight to D4 (Nd4), and Yuki's Knight to D7 (Nd7).

Satoshi then moved his Knight again to F5 (Nf5), and this time Yuko moved his Bishop to F6 (Bf6).

As Kentarou thinks of a better move, Yuki then suddenly noticed that he's sweating a lot because of his nervousness as the battle was becoming intense.

Kentarou then decided to move his Queen sideways to G3 (Qg3), followed by Yuki's Knight to E5 (Ne5).

White moved his Bishop to B4, and Black moved his Queen forward to C7 (Qc7).

Kentarou then moved his Rook to D1 (Rad1), and Yuki then moved his Rook too to D8 (Rad8).

He then took the Pawn by moving his Rook to D6 (Rxd6), thus sacrificing it.

Yuki then took Kentarou's Rook by taking his Rook forward to D6 (Rxd6).

White then took the Black's Knight by moving his Bishop to E5.

Black moved his Rook to D1 (Rd1).

Kentarou moved his Rook again by taking Yuki's Rook to D1 (Rxd1).

Yuki then takes Kentarou's Bishop by moving his Bishop to E5 (Bxe5).

Kentarou then checks the King by moving his Knight to H6 (Nh6+)

Yuki then forcibly moved his King to H8 for safety (Kh8).

White then proceeds to take Black's Bishop by moving his Queen to E5 (Qxe5).

Black then immediately took White's Queen by moving his Queen to E5. (Qxe5).

Finally, Kentarou then moved his Knight to take F7 (Nxf7), brilliantly forking the Queen and the King, thus forcing Yuki to resign from the match.

"Phew, that was intense". Kentarou then shook hands to Yuki.

"I have no idea that you're also good at playing chess Inoue-San!" Yuki sarcastically praised Kentarou.

"No I'm not, maybe Satoshi is the best". Kentarou then pointed Satoshi.

It was a game that the friends won't forget.