020: Silvio

“Well, I think it’s nap time!” Al

Today is a great day for a nap. If you opened the wooden window, you would be able to enjoy the beautiful weather.

While humming, I climb the stairs and open the door to my room.

“Zzz… Zzz…” Eleanora

A force of nature between me and my bed, I won’t be able to nap in it.

“Why is Eleanora sleeping in my bed? What is she doing here?” Al

Perhaps I should look more into this… Eleanora is sleeping a normal, regular sleep. I would say that Eleanora is my older sister with a cute face. She’s gotten the cuteness recently, with a bit of dignity. I wonder if that dignity came from her sword skills.

Occasionally, she’ll do something immature that would make one ask “Is she really the older sibling?”, but that just happens with most siblings. To be honest, I’m mentally older, so it’s just cute to me. By the way, I don’t have a technique to wake Eleanora up. Even if I had one, waking her up is an invitation to a battle. That should be avoided.

Though I’m in my room, I’m thinking desperately. I don’t want to wake the princess, I’m not suited for that story. I wonder if I should go to her room…

Wait! That’s it! I can just transfer her to her own room! That’s such a good idea, it solves my problem.

Wait, this is the first time I’ll transfer someone other than myself. That bug doesn’t count, it was just a small insect. I should make sure I’m not about to make mistake, so I’ll inspect her room to make sure her own bed is clear. Silvio’s bedroom is across the hall from mine, and Eleanora’s bedroom is beside Silvio’s.

So I enter Eleanora’s room, it smells refreshing, like some perfume was added. It’s a faint soft scent. She has a bed and chair that are a bit bigger than mine, essentially, the room is just the same as Silvio’s and mine. The carpet may be a little better, it seems a bit thicker.

Ok, the room looks nice, except for the clothes that were left on the ground and the underpants on the bed. I’ll ignore those, I don’t want to care about them, I’ll just pretend I didn’t see them. I carefully take in the room and the bed so I can transfer Eleanora there. Ok, I think I’m ready to do the transfer, let’s get back to my room.

Good, Eleanora is still sleeping peacefully.

“Ok, Eleanora. Time to transfer to you own bed.” Al

I have to touch anything I want to transfer, so I put a hand on Eleanora’s shoulder to apply the magic.

“Ahnn…” Eleanora

Right before I use my magic, Eleanora lets out a weird sigh. I don’t want to hear something like this from my sister. Well, I’m just a six-year-old without any thoughts in that direction, I’ll just push past and transfer Eleanora. Eleanora vacates my bed in a quick flash… and shows up in her own bed, still sleeping.

Looks to be successful.

That being said, transferring a human other than myself seems to increase the magic energy needed beyond the normal weight requirements. This time, I transferred her sleeping body so I don’t know if that would affect anything. At some point, I’d like to look into transferring an awake person.

After I woke up from my nap, I felt quite refreshed. Perhaps it would be good to read a book this afternoon, so I walked over to the study.

When I entered the study, I noticed the middle sibling, my brother Silvio. He wasn’t reading though.

“Are you playing Shogi alone?” Al

“Ah, Al. I was playing with Dad a little while ago, but something came up for him, so it’s just me now.” Silvio

“So that’s how your game was interrupted.” Al

“Say now, would you want to play a game or two? Al has some skill in this game, right? We can also do Reversi if you’re not feeling like Shogi.” Silvio

“Sounds good, you’ve already got Shogi out, so let’s play that.” Al

We start setting up the board by putting the pieces in the start positions. Once all the pieces are in place, I’ll be the starting player, so let’s advance a pawn forward.

If you could move it without having to hold the piece, that would be a really cool thing. I should look into how to make a Shogi board that can respond to magic in the future.

“Is that how you’re starting?” Silvio

“Will my pawn hold up to your attack?” Al

“Well, it’s in an awkward place for me, so I’ll take it.” Silvio

My pawn has been taken by a knight.

“Ah! My pawn! The infantry I trained has been taken down by my brother’s knight!” Al

“Al, where did that come from?” Silvio

Silvio seems amused at my monologue, after all, good-looking guys have to have a sense of humor. After that, more of my pawns are taken by by knights, it feels like a real battlefield. But that was all a decoy move! My goal is to build up my knights at the corner while throwing my pawns at the enemy’s lines.

“Go Mr. Knight” Al

“Oh, before I realized it, you’ve built a trap.” Silvio

Silvio has another piece moved to block my knight, but one of my lances starts to take his pawns.

“Oh, that’s dangerous. If you took a pawn there, that corner would be lost.” Silvio

“Did you anticipate that?” Al

“That was my strategy.” Silvio

“Hmm, will I get my knight out of danger.” Al

“Ah” Silvio

My knight was caught out in Silvio’s corner. He was taken. My horsey boy! What a cruel world! Be taken down, be taken again. What a shame…

After that, the game goes into a fierce competition, but I was able to pull out a win by hunting down Silvio’s king.

“Do you want to play again?” Silvio

“No, Silvio is a strong opponent.” Al

“Oh, I thought I almost had you this time.” Silvio

As expected, Silvio is courteous even in defeat. If it was Eleanora, she wouldn’t let you get away without another few games.

“Hello, is anyone in here?” Eleanora

Sounds like Eleanora has woken up.

“What are you guys doing?” Eleanora

The phrase from Eleanora unintentionally worries us, not that she’s done anything yet.

“Why are you scared? I’m not going to do anything.” Eleanora

“Sure…” Al

“Let’s play again, since we haven’t played in a while. Have you gotten stronger since then?” Eleanora

“Eh? We haven’t played since you don’t want to stop once you start.” Al

“Not a good enough reason, I need to get a revenge match in.” Eleanora

“How about defeating Silvio first?” Al

“I feel like Al would be the better opponent.” Eleanora

What is this mood? Why me?

Eleanora pulls out the Reversi board and tries to get me to sit opposite her. I jump behind Silvio for the moment.

“Let’s play Al” Al

“Hey, Al. You’ve been picked by Eleanora” Silvio

“What about you, Silvio?” Al

“Silvio doesn’t need to worry” Eleanora

“I don’t need to worry…” Silvio

Eleanora is taking control of the conversation, Silvio is a little despondent now.

“How about I give you a silver coin and a Libra fruit to play with Silvio” Al

“I don’t need those” Eleanora

“Eleanora is a tyrant.” Al

“Al and Eleanora are both tyrannical” Silvio

Silvio is getting worried with our conversation.

“I’ll just play with Al now!” Eleanora

Eleanora steps toward me with a sword fighting stance.

“Augh! Silvio Barrier!” Al

“What?” Silvio

Unconsciously, I made Silvio into a sacrifice. I’m sorry Silvio! It was a spur of the moment reaction that I wouldn’t normally make.

“You’re in the way!” Eleanora

“Ugh!” Silvio

“No! Silvio Barrier?” Al

“What do you mean by Silvio Barrier…” Eleanora

There’s no barrier left, I will have to play Reversi with Eleanora. She loves it, is she a massive Bro-con? Or do you just like messing with me?

Later, I intentionally lost to Eleanora 15 times. Silvio was dejected for a while, looks like the Silvio Barrier is disabled for the immediate future.

Translation

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