Below is a chess-related spoiler. It will be revealed at the end of this chapter, anyway, but if you’re curious, or have read the whole chapter already, here is some background about it …

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Well, it’s not really a spoiler, since you might have noticed it already:
Eva is actually bluffing and Aeron fell for it. This isn’t checkmate at all …
When we were kids, my older sister always fell for it, too, and I actually believed it was checkmate, myself. But then, as I started to play chess against computers, and got the chance to use this move, I realised that it actually wasn’t checkmate at all!!!!!!!!1

Still, I used to be somewhat good at it (now I haven’t played for many years). In school, I especially enjoyed challenging stuck-up boys from chess club. I always made them lose. Mua hah haa …