“Let’s play a game dear brother”.

“Why’d you have to say it like that, it sounds creepy as shit”.

“Brother Edward, now how does that sound?”

“Less creepy but still shitty, so what game are we going to even play, I’ll do it depending on the game”.

“A game of Chess my dear brother”.

“You can’t beat me, I showed you the game”.

This is the part where the main character plays a chess game that foreshadows events in the future because why not

“Then let’s start off with something simple, king’s pawn two steps forwards”.

“I love being black in chess, It’s easier for me to defend and counterattack than creating my own threat”.

“Dane, you’re playing better than I expected, have you been practicing?”

“Brother Edward, of course and I’m currently winning”.

“What makes you say that?”

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“You have more valuable pieces but I have the better position”.

“Oh is that so?”

“You have a queen but I have a rook and a bishop”.

“Is that so Dane? But what if you had to choose between your rook and your king? Which one would you choose?”

“The king of course”.

“So choose, either way you lose”.

“That was a terrible blunder of mine, there’s still a chance that you’ll lose everything”.

“Not a chance”.

“Dear brother I lost again, but I won’t be angry since I’ve learned from it”.

You’re going to use these tactics to beat me in a battle when we get older I just know it that’s usually how something like this goes. I’m so excited for this

I’m still surprised I haven’t gone to magic school or something like that yet that’s supposed to be the classic isekai trope anyways.

Maybe a little later I suppose

But which route will I choose

The very weak route or the strong route

I’ll just choose to be weak to not pinpoint me to being whatever vigilante I’ll be in the future.

But being a teacher at the school also sounds pretty fun.

I can’t choose god damnit

I’m so frustrated

“Brother Edward, what are you thinking about?”

“Nothing nothing”.

So how do I bring up school in a normal conversation?

I need to slowly build up to it or I might seem weird or asking things out of the blue.

School is related to educating people

“Dane, by the way I have a question when are we going to get taught magic?”

“Brother, don’t you already know how to use magic?”

“I know some magic but most of it is not magic, it’s part of nature”.

“What, like that green air you created was not magic?”

“It wasn’t, you’d think i’d have enough mana to enchant all of it?”

“It was so magical”.

Damn we’ve gone off track, how do O bring up the topic again?!

“So Dane, answer my question, when do I get taught magic?”

“When you reach twelve, you’ll be transported to a knight’s school for nobles”.

Just the answer I wanted from you

Well that was unnecessarily long

So a year left

Until the school arc happens

I have nothing to do