The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 16: The Devil's Board PT2

(Second Opening Theme: Sunday's Without God Opening-Birth Performed By Kitamura Eri)

    The crowd cheered as they watched the players or what the believed to be the accused breaking the pieces apart one by one, as Saorise and Hywel had been battling with wit and strategy; all the while Saorise had been keeping her friends/teammates alive, even with Prism being on the other end of the board. It had only been a few moments when they started the game, and already they were starting to lose more than half of their pieces.

    Neither Saorise nor Hywel seemed to have wanted to back out from this match. Though none of them seemed to have noticed a pair of Captains had already been close to the stage; along with them had been Addeline.

    "Damn it--" Yami said, "--We're running out of time. We need to figure out a way to stop this curse and fast!"

    Jack had said, "KEKE--No need to say it twice! That duck better know what she's doing or she'll become dinner!"

    "Quack! Quack!" Addeline shouted as she motioned them to be quiet.

    "We probably should have taken Sword Boy with us, since he's the only one that can understand her." Yami said before he shrugged, "Oh well."

    She soon rolled on her side towards the arena to get closer, avoiding the loose debris from the game above, as she could them move. She started to sniff around the board and even went as far as to lick it. Though it proved to be a bad idea when she had gotten electrified. Addeline coughed as she said "Quack.."

    Yami only facepalmed himself at this, "Why did you think that was a good idea?"

    Addeline only raised her feathery fist at him as she said, "Quack! Quack! Quack!"

    "KEKE--Maybe next time we take you along we take that sword brat." Jack said. "We can't understand a word you're saying!"

    Addeline only grumbled at this before she noticed something at the corner of her eyes. "Quack! Quack!" She exclaimed as she waddled over towards it.

    "Oh?" Yami said, "Looks like she's got something."

    They kept their heads low as they followed Addeline till they had reached what appeared to be a set of words written on the side of the board as the game continued. "Well, well, well--" Yami said while taking a puff, "--What do we have here?"

    He wiped away some of the dust as the words had been clear. "The Devil's Board has no end--" Yami read, "--But without the Kings, the curse will suspend."

"KEKE--" Jack said, "--Sounds like that's the way to break the curse."

"Kings--Kings--" Yami said, as he had been thinking, "--What the hell is this talking about?"

"Oh perfect--" A familiar voice soon said, "--It's that tomboy girl's babysitters." 

The trio looked to see it had been a set of familiar thieves; Erin, Blaise, and Dylan.

"And here I thought Arai's ki thing was a load of crap--" Blaise said, "--But it's pretty handy when you figure out the kinks of it. It's especially good for guys that hide their mana like you."

"Say, who's the duck?" Dylan asked.

"Wait a second...It's that Sword Bastard's!" Erin said before she had a smirk as she took out her grimoire. "Oh NOW he's gonna see how it feels to have his bird hurt."

"QUACK!" Addeline said as she took her stick as it glowed.

"Ooh, cute." Erin said with a nonchalant expression. "It even acts like him."