Two against one, with no magic allowed-Su Er's fate needed no explanation. Defeat was inevitable.
After their laughing and roughhousing, Justin and Morn went off to find a corner of the common room and set up another chess game. Where did they get such an insatiable appetite for it?
When in doubt, play Wizard's Chess!
As Justin put it, didn't Wizard's Chess bring a wizard more joy than a girlfriend could?
Remarks like that were often heard in male university dorms...
All Su Er could say to that was, I hope I get your wedding invitation within my lifetime. The last person who had said that still hadn't sent him an invitation by the year Su Er came to this world. He wondered how that fellow and his gaming wife were doing, whether they were loving each other, and whether he was still freely shouting "Hasagi!" in the Rift.
That was getting off track. The past could no longer be reclaimed.
The question now was what to do with the two little badger figurines in front of him.
Su Er had already spent half an hour staring blankly at them. From Lisi's words, it wasn't actually hard to guess who that wizard was. The clues were practically laid out in plain sight.
Female, kind and loving, plus this badger, which was clearly an emblem-there was no one it could be besides Ms. Helga Hufflepuff.
That was also why Su Er had been willing to accept this trial called a gift.
But he remembered that the relic Ms. Helga Hufflepuff had left behind was Hufflepuff's Cup, wasn't it? Besides, it should already have become one of that noseless, bald socket monster's Horcruxes, lying in some pure-blood family's vault.
No, I'm getting too hung up on one detail. How could everything the