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## **Chapter 14: "Love is a Strategy Game: Veldora vs Kaguya"**
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### **\[Scene: Student Council Room – Morning]**
The room is as elegant and refined as ever. Kaguya is sipping tea, reading over student reports. Ishigami is half-asleep. Miyuki is pacing with anxiety. Iino is organizing files. Rimuru is seated cross-legged on a beanbag chair that *somehow* appeared since yesterday.
**Veldora (bursting through the doors):**
"Behold, mortals! I, Veldora Tempest, challenge you all to a *contest of cunning, love, and strategy*! Especially you, Kaguya Shinomiya!"
**Kaguya (raising an eyebrow):**
"…Excuse me?"
**Chika (cheerfully appearing behind him):**
"He's serious! He read your love war transcripts last night. Now he wants to duel you in a 'romantic mind game.'"
**Miyuki (internally panicking):**
> "Please no. This dragon will destroy the school before I even confess properly."
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### **\[Setup: Romantic Strategy Match]**
**Game Objective:** Make the other party confess to *liking you* without doing it yourself.
**Arena:** A staged "date simulation" in the school courtyard.
**Judges:** Chika and Milim (this will go well, clearly).
**Referee:** Rimuru (reluctantly).
**Rimuru (deadpan):**
"Okay. So, I'm overseeing a love war between a galactic-class tsundere genius and a 10,000-year-old dragon with the mental maturity of a YouTube streamer... Ciel, please take over."
**Ciel (calmly):**
> "Acceptable. Initiating judgment protocols: 'Simulated Romantic Tactics Analysis.'"
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### **\[Date Simulation Begins]**
**Kaguya (monologue):**
> "He's unpredictable. Boisterous. But not without charisma. I must feint. Subtle smiles. Polite laughter. Pretend indifference."
**Veldora (wearing a flashy, fake tuxedo):**
"Your eyes sparkle brighter than my Flame Breath! Your elegance would even humble Milim!"
**Kaguya (blushing slightly):**
> "...He's direct. A brute in the art of subtlety. He must be baiting me."
**She responds with a flawless flip of her hair and the faintest smirk.**
**Milim (cheering):**
"YEAH! Go, sparkly dragon man! Destroy her emotionally!"
**Chika:**
"Wait, which side are we on?"
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### **\[Tension Rises]**
**Veldora (grinning):**
"Kaguya-dono, would you consider a date on the dragon continent? I shall build you a palace in the skies!"
**Kaguya (thinking quickly):**
> "A palace? Wait, no. Focus. Emotional control. This is no time to blush!"
She counters with a cool expression and responds, "How quaint. I already have suitors with real estate on Mars."
**Veldora (stunned):**
"She's strong…"
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### **\[Meanwhile… in the School Kitchen]**
**Milim & Chika (covertly raiding the snack cabinet):**
"I'll trade you two pudding cups for those strawberry mochi," says Milim.
Chika: "Deal! But don't tell Iino!"
They fist-bump like seasoned criminals.
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### **\[Final Round – Accidental Victory]**
**Veldora (dramatically kneeling):**
"Kaguya, you are a worthy opponent. If you were to be my consort, I would—"
**Kaguya (interrupting, instinctively shouting):**
"I-I'm not your consort!! Don't get the wrong idea!!"
**Chika (blowing the whistle):**
"Kaguya confessed! Veldora wins!!"
**Kaguya (face red):**
"THAT WASN'T A CONFESSION—!!"
**Miyuki (gently dying inside):**
"…She's going to self-destruct."
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### **\[Aftermath – Rooftop at Sunset]**
**Rimuru and Veldora look over the school courtyard.**
**Rimuru:**
"You realize you traumatized the most powerful girl in the school, right?"
**Veldora (proudly):**
"Yes! I nearly made her confess! My victory is complete!"
**Ciel:**
> "Incorrect. You lost the moment you considered it a 'love war.' Emotional manipulation is not your strong suit."
**Veldora (pouting):**
"You're just jealous I got a near-confession!"
**Milim (crashing in with snacks):**
"WHO'S READY FOR THE NEXT WORLD?!"
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## **End of Chapter 14: "Love is a Strategy Game: Veldora vs. Kaguya"**
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