Chrono Monochrome 46

Board 46: the game where you can face each other\\
1
side: what lies after he achieved victory in the game…?\\
kuro: this place is…\\
phil: it’s my house. You slept several days after the game,\\
phil: geez you really are…\\
2
kuro: r-rebe…?\\
reb: I lost 10 years of my life!\\ you were always in a pinch during the match, and siros also disappeared…\\
reb: I thought that…\\
reb: you disappeared as well…!!\\
phil: … she said everything I wanted to say…\\ they told me everything about you.\\
phil: thanks for saving france…\\
phil: and returning home alive.\\
kuro: master…!\\
near phil: master!? Did he just say master!? I’m not a shitty master anymore!!\\
kuro: … eh? Where is kempelen?\\
an: the master is sleeping now.\\
near an: you are in a mess\\
an: you collapsed after the match. And you didn’t open your eyes ever since.\\
3
inserted: is it just a simple game, or traces of the life of some great person…?\\
4
kem: … so you are awake.\\
kuro: sorry to make you worry.\\ … weren’t you able to sleep?\\
kem: I still haven’t fallen so low to be worried about a simple dog.\\ I didn’t have the time to sleep.\\
kem: I had to explain things to her majesty…\\ and do some adjustments with france…\\
kem: also Prussia is in disarray because siros has vanished.\\
kem: but with this…\\
5
kem: things about the monochrome will calm down from now on.\\
kuro: … eh?\\
kem: this time france won. Their reward is an high quantity of money.\\ for the time being Prussia doesn’t have any other choice than reduce its expenses in military.\\
kem: differently from the past, Russia became stronger and together with Prussia and Austria we are right now in a three way deadlock, therefore no one can move their armies recklessly.\\
kem: I don’t know until when this will continue, but…\\
kem: it seems that we have really reached true peace.\\
kem: therefore the turk will be sealed. Maybe I will make it go on tour just for entertainment.\\
kuro: siros disappeared, and there is an armistice for the monochrome…?\\
kuro: then why someone from the future like me is still here…?\\
kuro: could it be…\\
kuro: … would you like to play a game with me?\\
6
kem: we are still preparing the turk…\\
kuro: no… I don’t need the turk. Right now I…\\
kuro: feel like playing while facing my opponent!!\\
7
kem: … so?\\
kem: how does it feel to be able to face your opponent?\\
8
kuro: it’s the best…!!!\\
kuro: I cannot get enough of being just seated like this.\\
kem: that is what happens when people change… however, why did this suddenly happen?\\
kuro: I…\\
kuro: I think it is because I began to face my past.\\
9
kuro: I averted my eyes from the trauma, and forgot everything regarding siros.\\
kuro: his way of fighting and his bloodlust.\\
kuro: and also my own… bloodlust.\\
kuro: half of my heart was on the other side of a wall and the balance inside of myself crumbled.\\
kuro: and when I was fighting against siros…\\
kuro: I was able to overcome that wall…\\
kem: it’s your turn now.\\
kuro: ah, yes!\\
10
kuro: but… why did you involve yourself with the monochrome…?\\
kem: just like you, I had to face my past.\\
kem: … I had a wife.\\ she was the representative of the monochrome… and because of that she died…\\
kuro: … s-sorry…! Just forget about what I have asked…\\
kem: in the past I almost forgot about her…\\
kem: after I endured the war, there was peace, at least on the outside.\\
kem: for the time being I thought only about living, and I left my wife behind me.\\
kuro: …? Then why…?\\
kem: … I remarried a few years ago.\\
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kem: I also have a daughter… but when I had once again a family…\\ I wasn’t able to settle down once again…\\
kem: it is something mysterious. My past wounds began to hurt so much that I could not stand the pain anymore.\\
kem: I couldn’t neither fight with her nor die with her.\\
kem: … and then abruptly I immersed myself in the development of the turk.\\
kuro: … kempelen.\\
kem: I wanted to fight like she did\\ win and obtain the same dream and the future…\\
kem: that she saw .\\
12
kem: that’s my reason. well…\\ my twisted farewell gift.\\
kem: well then… let’s stop talking about the past…\\ now tell me about your future.\\
kuro: you never asked, so I thought you weren’t interested.\\
kem: I had my hands full with my past.\\ it is a topic I wanted to enjoy without any hindrance.\\
kuro: yes…!\\
13
kem: interesting… you platy chess with…\\ a computer…?\\
near kem: I’m also interested in electricity\\
kem: so machines can really think and act after all…!\\
kuro: but that’s also connected to the turk!\\
kuro: if you think about it, people began to consider that machines could think in the 18th century right?\\ I’m sure that the future chess comes from…\\
kuro: I see…\\
kuro: at that time…!\\
14
kuro: so that’s how it was…!!\\
kuro: … then saku-san said…\\
kem: saku?\\
kuro: it’s my aunt. The one who raised me…\\
kem: you said that you mother’s name was francisca, right?\\ what about her?\\
kuro: she died.\\ when I was little, together with my dad in an incident…\\
kuro: she was the one who taught me chess.\\
kuro she strangely behaved like a man…\\
kuro: she also said that a lot of people were hurt in the past because of her weakness,\\ and she had to become strong because of that…\\
kuro: … kempelen?\\
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kem: no… it is a really strange story.\\
kem: the name of my dead wife is also francisca.\\
kuro: eh…\\
kem: she was a chess idiot just like you,\\ what kind of person was you mother…\\
kem: francisca…?\\
16
kem: she always…\\
kem: played chess with a smile on her face…!!!\\
kem: … I see\\ then… it’s fine…\\
17
kem: that’s the pact seal given to the chess master representative… francisca always carried it with her.\\ … it’s you reward.\\
kuro: checkmate!!\\
kem: geez, another total defeat.\\
kuro: let’s take a break, do you want some tea?\\
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kuro: … I really enjoyed to play chess with you, kempelen!!|\
kem: … yeah.\\
kem: I really enjoyed to play the puppet theatre with you…\\
kem: kuromu…\\
inserted: the things that remained are… in the next issue the finale!!\\