"The Second Brother" is an NPC in Arknights. He is the antagonist of Invitation to Wine.
Background[]
As his title suggests, the Second Brother is the older brother of Dusk, Ling, and Nian who ranks the second place of all the "siblings" of Sui. He wields the power of knowledge in which he can slowly learn everything to a point of forgery such as mimicking the caligraphic power of his sister Jie. So far, the Second Brother is the only known evil sibling who works together with the the imperial government of Yan, specifically the Ministry of Rites, to revive his "father."
The Second Brother has been acquainting with the current Grand Tutor of Yan for a long time. By the time the old Lung took his position, he declared a challenge with the brother to set him free through a go/weiqi match; if the brother is defeated, he must willingly imprison himself for a period of jiazi (甲子), or sixty years. In the beginning, the brother frequently lost the match to the Grand Tutor. After hundreds of years of practices and mimicry, the brother finally made his first victory in the most recent sixty years and was set free as promised by the Grand Tutor.
However, his unfettered freedom was marked with several disasters caused by him. Specifically, a mysterious conflict led to the "death" of his third sister Jie whom he trusts a lot, causing him to distrust humans forever. The tragedy forced the Grand Tutor to have another round of chess match with the brother and imprison him again after the former's victory. Little did he know that the brother quietly fragmented himself into 181 black go stones and scattered across Yan, which he declared to used them "to set up a game across the entire land."[1] His ultimate goal is to seek for the revival of Jie.[2]
Since then, the fragments of the Second Brother remain hidden across Yan. Some of them are noted to be merged with numerous relics such as the black goblet that would represent Sui's avatar. Recently, he even used his goblet to have a match with the famed chess master Xiang Ru inside a shrine which resulted in the latter's death by heart failure.[3]
Side Stories[]
Invitation to Wine[]
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