While crafting arrows, Sunny picked one up with a shadow hand and used it to draw a grid in the ash.
Seven rows of seven squares each… forty-nine in total.
Then, he marked some of the squares with various runes.
Sunny had not paid a lot of attention to the placement of the figures on the jade board, but he could still recall it flawlessly. There were also five squares marked by special carvings — one at the very center of the board, and one at the middle squares of each outer row.
Eventually, he pointed to the grid and spoke.
"This is what the game board looked like in the Toy Room. As you can see, the Ash Domain is on the verge of losing. We only have three squares left, occupied by the Ash Tyrant — that is me — and two Ash Beasts. That is you and Slayer."
He pointed to the three squares in the lowest row of the grid. Since one of them was the middle square of an outer row, it was marked with a special rune.
