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"Hurry up," Leona drawls, yawning.
Idia makes some pathetic choking noise, staring at the checkered board with a horrified expression. "I- you- how am I supposed to-"
Leona snickers. "You're forgetting a move, idiot."
Idia slumps over on the table, whimpering. "I'm not an idiot...you're too OP... ..."
"You could just skip your turn, I'll be nice and allow that."
"Go ahead...I'm not going to win anyway... ..."
Leona springs back into action, grabs his rook, and knocks Idia's king over. "Checkmate, loser."
Idia knocks his head on the tabletop. Ugh...why does Leona have to be so OP? And- and look so cool while doing it!?
"Like I was saying," Leona continues, "you forgot about en passant."
Idia wracks his brain. En passant...en passant...he gasps dramatically, head still on the table. "The- the one where the pawn moves diagonally?"
"Yeah, you could've captured my rook."
"That's right..."
Leona raises an eyebrow. "Don't you play chess in board games club? What happened?"
Idia fidgets in his seat, cursing himself for forgetting such a crucial move. "Uh, we used to...but, ever since the chess board went missing long ago and we never found it, we've just been playing some other games."
Leona furrows his brows, as if remembering something. "...your club's chess board went missing?"
"Mhm," Idia nods. "We gave up on finding it pretty quickly, since Azul has some sort of Monopoly addiction, and I...well, I've been introducing him to gacha games. He's pretty intense when he plays those, so we've never really thought about chess again. It's not like it's our own property- ah, s-sorry, I'm rambling..."
Leona waves his hand dismissively, still clutching Idia's king. "Whatever. Let's play again."
Idia sighs. Not like I have anything better to do...
Idia's losing again.
Leona has this smug, cocky grin on his face again...dammit! Just because it looks cute on him doesn't mean it's not annoying!
"Come o~n, Idia," he titters, resting his head on his hand. Idia's had enough!
"A-ah, is that Rook? Heading towards us?"
Leona's ear twitches and irritation flashes across his face. He whips his head around, about to tell their uninvited guest off...
...but he sees no one. He turns back to the chess board, which looks different, then to Idia, whose mouth is suddenly full...
"BASTARD, DON'T EAT MY FUCKING BISHOP!"
Idia grins as wide as he can with a bishop in his mouth, and knocks over Leona's king with his fingers. He spits the bishop out and waves the king triumphantly. "Checkmate!"
"You jerkwad- you'll pay for that-!"
Leona lunges at Idia, who keeps the king effectively out of Leona's reach. Leona wrestles Idia to the ground and growls at him, Idia cackling evilly.
Finally, Leona manages to wrench the king out of Idia's grasp, but as soon as he does, Idia captures him instead and pets him on the head.
"Ugh..." Leona groans, collapsing on top of Idia. Idia chuckles and plays with his fluffy ears.
Normally Leona would snarl at him for the audacity, but...well, Idia won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Leona's tail swishes about as Idia runs his fingers through his hair.
"Mm...by the way, Idia," he begins, still clutching his king.
"Hm?"
"...that chess board isn't mine."
"...what?"