Editing No Game No Life:Volume 5 Bagian 4 (section)

===Part 5===

“Hahaha, to think we would go that far. She’s probably furious - is that enough? Shiro?”

“...Mm, Nii...Omega good job.”

The brother nodded in satisfaction, while the sister raised her thumb at him.

- Meanwhile, within the hall of the Empress, a thunder-like torrent of clapping began to resound from the Seirenes who were watching the show.

Almost in comparison, their friends, who were led by Steph, merely rolled their eyes in silence.

Sora and Shiro had made the Empress go through a horrible nightmare, and then left the game behind without even any words of comfort.

In that situation where no one seemed to know what they were trying to do - only one person...

“Phew~ that was entertaining...if I tell this to them (the Flügel), they would definitely be so jealous...”

Jibril, who had caused extreme havoc within the Empress’ dream and returned to reality, spoke.

Her skin appeared to be radiating a faint glow, which probably wasn’t their imagination.

But - with Steph at the head, everyone else who didn’t seem to understand what they were doing had the same questions in their eyes.

- So what were they intending to do? - Sora laughed heartily at their confused glances.

He then said - I don’t know either!

Sora had merely acted according to Shiro’s orders - which meant...

“...Nii, just do it...like you normally would.”

Only one sentence.

“...Use every possible way you can think of...taunt her, and taunt her again, make her incredibly angry...just continue taunting her.”

- Just that.

Although, Sora did feel rather sad at the fact that his sister said that those were his normal actions.

Since Shiro said so, he needed to be confident himself, as that was the way to conquer her route, which meant he had to follow her orders to the end without question - without a single doubt.

- Suddenly, cracking sounds were heard.

The Empress’ ice block had cracked slightly.

“- Huh?”

Ignoring the speechless crowd - Sora and Shiro excluded, the crack merely began expanding.

At the same instant as the transparent, crystalline ice began cracking all over, its surface and emitting a bright glow ...

Stardust-like seeds floated from it and splintered.

Within the reflective, cracking, moving splinters of ice - the Empress slowly opened her eyes.

Everyone could only stare speechless at that.

“Hey! Hey! Over here! You can’t hit me due to the 「Ten Pledges」 anyway! Hahaha!!!”

Aside from Sora who was still following her sister’s orders to 「Aggravate the opponent」.

“...S-so strong...to think that Imanity could be this annoying!?”

Even Steph couldn’t help but begin to respect Sora, while the Empress slowly stood up from her throne.

“...Nii..you can stop now.”

“Huh, really? And I was having fun too -”

The Empress flapped her tailfin elegantly once - and approached Sora slowly, trailing light behind her.

Within this dreamlike turn of events - the Empress, who was approaching Sora, had her face dyed blood-red in anger -

No - as she slowly swam before Sora, the Empress - suddenly...

“I’ve been waiting for you all this while...my prince ♥”

Falling before Sora’s feet, with heart shapes appearing in her eyes - she said this.

--...

-------......

-------------...........Huh?

While everyone else was shocked speechless, only Sora remained on guard.

“...Hey, hey. Shiro, what’s going on? Is this some sort of trap?”

Sora asked Shiro nervously.

Suddenly, Sora recalled something.

- Once when he was playing an online game he cheated too much and therefore won too much as well, so his opponents managed to find his address to look him up, causing the siblings to move to another house in a hurry. It was a bitter memory - one from their old world.

Sora was afraid that he had went too far due to this emotional trauma, while Shiro beside him said nonchalantly:

“...Nope...now you can...「Beat the game」...”

“...Ah, so that’s what’s going on.”

Steph, Plum, Jibril and Amira finally realized what was happening as Shiro explained it.

The Empress - Leila continued:

“Ah, my beloved emperor...please scold me more ♥”

“- H, hey, does this guy have some mental problem?"

Sora asked while pointing at Leila who was at his feet, but Steph instead recalled a discussion they had before the game started.

The thing they had found in the Late King’s library - 「The Treasure of the Proud Princess」.

Cross-referencing to the 「Ending」 of the book - she finally understood Shiro’s intentions.

“...I see, so that’s what’s happening.”

A beautiful princess.

A fairy tale about a princess who had everything, beauty, riches, love, simply everything..

She wanted more - her desires surpassed all, as the Princess wanted everything.

Those desires were ground to a halt due to a certain man.

The Princess had acquired everything in the world from different men.

But her desires were still unfulfilled, and her wish -

- By a 「Dagger」-wielding man...

- The princess let her desires for this curiously beautiful unknown (treasure)...

- End along with her death.

- Yes, that fairy tale was a story about a princess who was exterminated as desires plagued her.

But, the Empress feared -

“So Grandpa found the fairy tale that caused the Empress to hibernate, and after some observations...because she has everything, what the Empress wants is something unknown - probably an unachievable love...but...”

But, the late King’s - her grandfather’s explanation was rather poetic, Steph thought as she sighed.

After that she turned to Shiro - the one who had orchestrated the entire game.

“...I see...the Empress...that everyone loved, she couldn’t understand the value of things just because she had everything...which is why she pursues...”

Ino appeared to be undergoing some sort of revelation, and he continued emotionally:

“I see...which means, what she is looking for is someone that even if she falls in love with - that person won’t love her in return.”

To be frank - according to Shiro’s explanation, it meant -

Essentially, she is in love for the sake of love...she wants an 「Unobtainable Love」.

No, to be even more honest - it meant...

“...She wants to be bullied...yes, just like Steph.”

“- Huh?”

Steph cried out in shock, while Jibril clapped her hands as she realized in the same instant.

“I get it now. According to that fairy tale, the man who killed the princess wasn’t after her love - so that man, and that man alone, was the only man the princess couldn’t get.”

“- Huh? Is she frozen there or something?”

Sora cried out, because that basically meant -

She wanted someone else’s property - which meant she would repeatedly become that someone’s slave.

- Wasn’t that a perfect example of an incorrigible woman?

“So you’re telling me that even if I fall in love with her she’ll immediately get turned off since she actually got my love? What an annoying bitch.”

“Yessss ♥ I’m an annoying bitch~ I’m sorry ♥”

The Empress who was receiving a brutal scolding (Leila) smiled blissfully while twisting her body from side to side.

- 「I will offer everything I have」 -

Everyone should pay more attention to the meaning behind that sentence, and Shiro appeared to be the only one who noticed, so she said:

“...Nii has all the rights...of that person...”

“- Huh? Oh, right...”

“Ahahaaa ♥ P-please be more forceful with me ♥”

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- Plum and the Dhampirs were speechless all the way up until then.

“...So just for something like this...she hibernated for eight hundred years and nearly caused us to go extinct...?”

Even though she wasn’t exactly clear of the details herself, Plum sighed a huge sigh as though she was going to puff out her soul itself after that explanation.

After that, the Empress cried out in apparent surprise at Plum and the Dhampirs’ reactions:

“...Huh? Did I really sleep for eight hundred years!?”

- She then continued:

“This game - as long as you don’t fall in love with me and kick me to the side or something you win. Are you all idiots?”

“You’re the idiot here! We can’t do something like that due to the 「Ten Pledges」! You sponge-brained dumbass!”

“Aahahahhhahh ♥ yes! I’m an idiot! I’m a sponge~~!!”

- Also not counting the 「Ten Pledges」...

She had a irresistibly powerful hypnotizing ability that even Jibril or Miko couldn’t resist...

There was a possibility that it was an all-powerful magic, so not falling in love with Leila in that state would be directly impossible.

It was something that neither the Dhampirs, the Seirenes nor anyone else could consider doing.

Which meant - to give her a hard punch in the face. Who would have guessed that she would have thought of such a strategy?

“...Now do you understand why the Seirenes are so happy? Ino-san.”

“...Yeah, this...what should I say...”

“Hehe~ ☆ So-chan, you put on quite a show earlier, but could you please on Amira’s behalf beat up that ●●● as hard as you can~? Mm! It’s OK even if you cause permanent brain damage in the process ☆”

“Ah, I beg of you, husband - please beat me ♥ hit me~ ♥”

Amira was smiling - but at the same time, her look at Sora was unbelievably murderous.

As well as Leila who asked for the same thing, but instead looked at Sora in expectation.

“...Hey, Jibril - what exactly is love?”

Sora looked up at the ceiling and asked, while Jibril smiled and replied:

“Isn’t it exactly what Plum said? As long as one confirms the presence of love, it’s love -”

Slightly further away, Ino was conversing emotionally with Izuna.

“There really are many types of love...hmm, it appears I am not matured enough either.”

“...Grandpa...Izuna still doesn’t understand it, des.”

“Don’t worry, Izuna. You will one day.”

Sora sighed and thought - will that day ever come?

“...I don’t think I will ever know.”

- Just like that, except for the Empress - Leila, under conditions that no one could approve of...

That stupid game was over for the moment -