Vol 6 Prologue (1/2)

Prlogue

––– In ht that the world was a very

simple existence

Every competition could be won by some means, and just

putting in effort would reap its oards Everything was

possible

This was the ignorant and stupid thinking of a child

Looking at the world with such pure and innocent eyes… is

this wrong?

…… Of course it is wrong……

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In a narrow roo

a chess piece Only that boy was in the room

But the boy was looking towards the depths of the darkness,

seriously thinking if there was some person there

–––– What a game… From my final analysis, this is just some

prank that some kids pulled here

The boy was alone in the rooest

absolute move, he placed the piece on the chessboard

His way of thinking was as fixed as that of an infant who had

just became sentient

The outside of the room was filled with horror and anxiety…

Desperation was generated from the uncertainty of tomorrow,

which also hts even colder

Only inside the room was it like a different world Contrary to

the nore temperature

The boy was holding onto the piece while deep in thought

––– Once anyone becomes an adult, he will naturally alienate

hiames

Why is that so? Did they become obsolete?

Or is it that the world is so siames?

Whatever the reason, once anyone becomes an adult, he will

naturally alienate hiames

But the boy never considered such a thing before

He put the pieces back on the board again only after careful

consideration

––– Alone by hi

games

Even if the people around hie

eyes as he grew up, the boy continued to play

This was because the boy did not understand the

behind those strange eyes

And also because [his opponent] would appear in the dark as

long as he closed his eyes

[He] was ale as the boy, and wore similar

clothes… a fearless smile floated on his face

––– ‘[He] is very strong’ hat the boy thought

[He] was always better than the boy in the next move, and then

the outcome would always be determined ––– as a definite

loss

The boy had expected this as a matter of course It looked as if

he had never won a single time from the start

This ––– battling against [him] ––– made the boy

incomparably happy

The people in his surroundings would see that the boy was

always by himself, but in the boy’s eyes, there were actually

two people, and nothing more

In the dark depths, he ordless and silent

He was only craving to make his next move superior to his last

––– A more correct move… More excellent tactics! More indepth

strategies!!

[He] was happily shouting while he faced the boy in the depths

of darkness The boy cast a likewise fearless smile

…… The boy felt there was nothing wrong, even if he was

alone in the eyes of other people

The world was pure and simple If you don’t win, you lose

Otherwise, it’s a tie and nothing more

Then, regardless of the outcome ––– even if it was always a

loss ––– the boy would be thinking of how to achieve his next

victory

This was [the boy’s world]

But the [world] washis [individual

world]

… Suddenly, the dark rooht The boy

looked to the

It should have been a scarlet sight, but the dark night sky was

now sealed off by bright lights

The boy shouted towards his parents, who had just rushed into

the room, and pulled him into their embrace In his complete

and utter confusion, he saw [that]

It was like heaven and earth was being connected by that pillar

of light

Looking to a blue face, while his parents were holding him and

shouting to ask as going on, the boy reached out his

hand all of a sudden

––– A winner has yet to be announced

––– The boy hugged the board he used to battle in that

instant… and then…

When he looked up again, so which looked exactly like

a burning retina was about to collide head-on against him

–––––––…………

––– I see, the world never indeed had a game so simple

The boy woke up upon s an extremely terrible odor

Then, the boy finally understood the truth

The boy’s arm was scorched Unable to climb out of his

s…

His five senses were unreasonably violated within the scene of

[his oorld]

…

His mouth was full of fresh blood His nose detected the smell

of charred flesh His ears heard a silent abyss His skin was

feeling a searing heat

Then, his eyes saw that the world had changed dramatically

He could not even find traces of the existence of life

Rubble extended to the endless horizons, and dust floated over

the upturned ground The boy then looked up at the sky

The crimson sky looked as if it were about to fall Its

‘destroyed’ state hts intertwine

It looked to be a selfish war between Gods who did not place

others in their eyes

This could not be counted as just a ‘falling out’

Not only was the little world within the boy’s house wiped out

without a trace, so was everyone else’s worlds

… So this is what’s happening Indeed, there is no simpler

game in the world

Because there were no rules to follow… Because there was no

jurisdiction, there was nothing that sanctioned violators of

others’ rights

But, up to this point––––

Suddenly, standing in front of the boy through a tear of smoke

was a figure that

had landed at the top of the rubble

The figure did not care for the boy… inadvertently

The figure had truly and only inadvertently noticed the other’s

gaze

––– The boy stared at the destroyers who took away his

everything, and thought,

Yeah, humanity isn’t even considered as ‘players’ in [their]

eyes

His own… Humanity’s world was just so easily destroyed into

nothing but dust

Though it was through the explosions of flames and dust…

Though the figure could barely be recognized under such

circumstances… “…………––––––––”

After confir that their eyes had met, the boy turned his

back on her, and took his first step

Ignoring the feeling that his back was being watched, he

advanced far away––– far away to an eternally distant location,

in order to live on

The boy was gripping his board with so much force that it

ht have snapped On that day, the boy became an [adult]

This world was chaotic, and there were no necessities in it But,

it was full of opportunities

There is no reason, and no plan, so it less

To create a room, that does not exist anywhere else, for a child

to play around in

–––

The long-lasting ”war” tore the sky and earth asunder and

obliterated the stars

Arisen from the battle was the [position of the Sole God] –––

the absolute right to dominate over the world It was over six

thousand years ago…

In this world, the God ithout fighting ––– Tet, had

set [Ten Oaths]

Violence is forbidden, all conflicts are to be determined by

games ––– in Disboard, a board atop the world

In a city on the Ruushi+a continent, a continent in such a world,

Elchea, capital of the Elchea ”Provisional Federation”,

Just a few o, the city was in desperation, with the

claws of ruin hounding at it

This was the last city for Imanity, the sixteenth ranked of the