

Riku proposes to Schwi, despite the differences in their races and the latter having previously destroyed the former's last home. They plan to break into the core of the planet and take the Suniaster for their own. They then devise a plan to manipulate the stronger races of the world into fighting and using their strongest weapons against each other by utilising the power generated from the spirit circuit of all the races, and using Schwi's machinery to shift its direction. Through working together, the two realize that they make an incredible team. While this causes a quarrel between them, it helps her gain a deeper understanding of Riku and helps him face his trauma. Soon after, Schwi accidentally forces Riku to confront the number of people whose deaths he has caused.
#NO GAME NO LIFE CODE#
Since she has only a long, droning designation code assigned to her, Riku, hearing the word "Schwarzer" (German for "black") in her title, names her Schwi after the color of her hair. Initially hesitant to help her, Riku eagerly accepts when she challenges him to a game of chess, despite knowing the frightening processing power the Ex-Machina possess predictably, he loses, and they agree to cooperate with each other, allowing him to take advantage of her logical prowess and letting her stay with him to learn more about the human heart. The colony he leads finds itself on the verge of annihilation, with their leader unstable, their numbers dropping, and the battles that endanger their lives around the area becoming more frequent and drawing ever closer.ĭelving into a ruined Elvish hideout the next day to investigate, Riku stumbles upon an Ex-Machina that has been severed from its race's hive-mind for its efforts to understand the human heart, a concept that defies its machine logic and thus could not be calculated by the hive-mind. Riku, the leader of humanity's last colony along with his sister Corounne, allows another one of his companions die in a Demonia attack while sourcing for information the death, along with all the others that have come before, plague him with nightmares and guilt. To that end, the Old Deus and the other races have effectively destroyed the world, and have driven humankind, the only race unable to use the world's magic, to the brink of extinction. The tale begins 6000 years in the past, during the Great War, a worldwide conflict that pitted the sentient races of the world against each other as the Old Deus fought for control of the Suniaster, a conceptual device which would only reveal itself to the strongest being on the planet and make the holder the One True God.

As they begin their next game, Tet decides to tell her the story of how the world came to be in its current state. In the present, Izuna and Tet play a game of chess on which they have wagered food.
