Chapter 88.1

Raynard stared at the chessboard as if he intended to break it apart. Yurina looked at him, frowning, and laughed.

“That’s enough for you. No matter how much you will look at it, the figures won’t change because of that.”

He didn’t even laugh at Yurina’s joke. Originally, she should have limited the time to think about it, but she waited for him leisurely as she drank lukewarm tea.

It wasn’t urgent anyway, and Reynard’s expression was funny. Seeing all the changes on his face was even more fun than playing chess.

By the time Yurina finished her tea, Raynard, who was still sitting like a statue, moved his hand and ate the black horse with the white elephant. He gently waved the black horse and smiled with a triumphant expression.

“Look now what will happen. I may be slow thinking, but I plan for sure. The problem is that you play without thinking too much.”

To anyone who heard this, it would seem that Yurina lost to Reynard every time. However, in reality, Yurina’s playing skills were much higher than Reynard’s.

Already three games were behind, and Yurina came out the winner of them all. And also Yurina won all four games yesterday.

Now, in the fourth game, Yurina was even more dominant.

Snorting once, Yurina glanced at the chessboard and, without thinking twice, moved the black rook. The white queen, hit by Yurina’s black rook, fell behind the chessboard. Reynard’s triumphant face darkened instantly.

Yurina smiled as she waved his white queen in front of him, just like Reynard did a moment ago.

“Am I playing without thinking too much?”

“Oh, I thought I could win this time.”

Raynard ruffled his hair convulsively and looked back at the chessboard. Betsy, who came in with snacks, swallowed her laughter and put the three-tiered tray on the table. There were sandwiches and buns, as well as sweet biscuits and cakes.

“How many rounds are you playing?” asked Betsy, pouring out steaming tea.

She watched Yurina win the second round and headed to the kitchen to prepare her snacks.

“The fourth one is coming to an end.”

“Not the third? Then who won the third round?”

When Yurina silently smiled, Betsy shook her head as if she knew it.

“My lady has won.”

“Huh. And I think I will win this round too.”

Raynard said nothing, perhaps because he was too focused to hear it. Yurina glanced at him and shrugged.

“Come to think of it, even when you were very young, my lady always won.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Since the lady has no one to play with, her skills should be the same, so why is Reynard-sama still the same?”

“I know.”

Yurina was a bit taken aback by such a statement, which she had never thought of before. She thought that Reynard was the same as her, but it was a little strange when she thought about it.

When he was a student, didn’t he play with his friends every day? Was he just learning magic and swinging a sword?

“Ray.”

“Hm?”

He replied languidly, still looking at the chessboard and thinking. Although he couldn’t hear Yurina and Betsy’s conversation, it was a bit strange that she immediately recognized Yurina calling her.

“Didn’t you play at the academy? Aiden would surely propose to you at least once?”

At the word ‘Aiden’, Raynard softened and smiled.

“You’ve only seen Aiden a couple of times. How would you know?”

“His personality is so obvious that it was enough for me to know this.”

Yurina smiled as she remembered the Aiden she saw two years ago. If Reynard was like a cat who was afraid of people, then Aiden Tessie was more like a dog that wags its tail and approaches strangers in a friendly way.

Although their personalities were opposite, was it because these two were able to get closer because they were diametrically opposed?

“Well, it’s not like that.”

Reynard moved the chess piece and leaned back on the sofa.

“I didn’t play much chess in the Crohn Kingdom.”

“Then what?”

“I mainly played card games. To be honest, I didn’t really like them either. But when Aiden was bored, I just had no choice.”

“But you don’t even know how to play cards.”

Reynard immediately objected.

“What are you talking about? I beat Aiden every time.”

“You always lost to me.”

Yurina still remembered the day Reynard came in the middle of the night to play cards with her like it was yesterday.

‘It was very difficult back then.’

It was difficult for him to take defeat, and he insisted on a new fight until he won. In addition, he didn’t even go back to his room afterward, and fidgeted in Yurina’s bed.

It didn’t seem funny to her at that time, but now, looking back, it was all her precious memories. Whether Reynard remembered the same thing or not, he now smiled happily.

“I’m tired of chess. Let’s play cards.”

Yurina took the cards out of the box, skillfully shuffled them, and smiled at him.

“Now you will see what I have learned since then.”

“Oh, whatever.”

This time, the two decided to play poker, which was a bit more difficult than the game they played as children. Reynard was sure that he had learn a lot at the academy, but soon lost the first game to Yurina.