[Soul of Chess] Shugui

After finally sending away the woman who had been holding on to her all this time, Taya tidied up the tea sets she had used when entertaining guests in an orderly manner, but her heart was in a mess.

That guy Shinto, where did he go?

No matter how sad you are, you can't stay out all night!

Don't know if anyone is worried?

Taya, who was in a hurry, suddenly came back to his senses. Last night, he also didn't return all night...

Because Ogata-senpai...

The movement of tidying up slowly slowed down, Taya unconsciously looked at the door of Shinto's room.

Will I enter the vine, I came back last night...

Just now, go out again?

In this case, it is possible to just miss it...

Missed it, missed it... It's not necessarily bad.

At least, not yet...

Now, there is no way...

From Brother Ogata...to Father...

"Open the door! Taya Ryo, open the door! Hurry up! Someone... Shinto Mitsuhikari..."

Taya, who was deep in thought, was woken up by an unfamiliar female voice.

It's Miss Suzumiya.

Is she back again?

Moreover, it also mentioned 'Shinto'...

Shinto? !

Taya hurried to the door, almost knocking it open.

I saw a mess at the door.

Suzumiya Kiko desperately dragged Shinto's arm, knocked on the door and shouted, the whole person was out of breath.

Shinto closed his eyes tightly, his face pale.

The two of them were so embarrassed that they almost sat paralyzed on the ground.

Shocked, Taya directly reached out to hug Shinto, but stopped when Kankan touched him.

He reached out to hold Shinto's shoulder, and worked with Suzumiya Kiko to move Shinto into the room.

"What's the matter? What happened to Shinto?"

While moving people, Taya still asked vaguely, each sound became more urgent and lower than the other, like a demon.

The two finally put Shinto on the bed, and Taya grabbed Suzumiya's arms violently, and asked repeatedly: "Shinto...where did you see him? Was he awake or already asleep when you saw him? Is this the case? Didn’t you just go out? Why didn’t we see him when we came up? Shindo, what the hell…”

"Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute! Let go of me first!" Suzumiya who was grabbed by the arm frowned. She struggled twice and found that she couldn't break free, so she had to remind her, "The point now is not me—how? -What-fa-found-Jinto-kun, but what happened to Shinto-kun? Even if you keep grabbing me like this, I don’t know exactly what happened, and Shinto-kun won’t wake up and answer you right away! Tower Yaliang, calm down!!"

"Sorry!" Kiko Suzumiya shouted, and Taya finally let go of her hand.He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, he was calm and self-possessed as usual.

"I'll call an ambulance, Miss Suzumiya, please take care of Shinto." Taya left the room in a hurry.

Suzumiya rubbed his arm that hurt from being scratched, looked at Taya's leaving back expressionlessly, and snorted lightly: "It's really ugly to run away in despair."

The ambulance arrived soon, and Taya followed him into the car.Ms. Suzumiya left long ago.

Sitting in the family seat, Taya pursed her lips tightly, her eyes fixed on the person lying on the bed.

Before, he could still hold this person's hand and stick it into his arms, but now he can only watch him, acting like a good friend.

It was clearly right in front of my eyes, but it seemed like an abyss separated me.

His eyes gradually became empty, and what appeared in his mind was Mr. Ogata's calm and dignified expression.

It's not that I don't understand, but that I don't want to let go.

Taya closed her eyes.

Even though it was in the airtight compartment, Taya felt a gust of wind blowing up from the bottom of the long and narrow cliff. It sneered and waved, and put its cold and powerful fingertips on the skin of the cockroach, gently caress.

Like the closest lover, wrapping the other half who can't let go with a surging chill.

Let the helpless, unknown, empty love dissipate in the wind.

Let the pure, passionate, violent hatred spread in my heart.

The cold wind turned day into night.

Taya has already made sufficient preparations for the place Ogata Seiji will take him to.

It's just that people didn't expect that it would be such a romantic place.

"Why, Xiaoliang's expression seems to be saying——how did senior brother Ogata come to such a high-end club?" Ogata took off his suit jacket, put it in the waiter's hand, and followed the waiter's guidance, walked to the pre-booked location.

Taya put away her inappropriate expression and lowered her head slightly: "No, I'm just a little surprised."

Ogata suddenly stretched out his arms, holding Taya by his side: "Xiao Liang will also come into contact with it in the future, let's get used to it in advance." He said and patted Taya on the back.

"I see." Taya moved uncomfortably, but found that she couldn't move, so she had to follow Ogata resignedly.

"Xiao Liang, you are too serious." Ogata let go of his hand, walked to his seat and sat down, then put his elbows on the table, resting his chin on the back of his hands, watching his little brother with a slumped face take a seat.

"It's senior brother..." Taya just wanted to continue, but felt disrespectful, so she stopped.

Ogata laughed, shook his head and ordered some food.

It wasn't until the waiter around him left that he helped Fu Xiao's crooked glasses: "I really can't figure it out, such a little junior will also have a day in love~"

"!" Taya suddenly looked at Ogata, but saw Ogata's expression of 'it really is like this'.

cheated...

"Hehe, Xiaoliang, don't look at me like this~" Ogata smiled softly and harmlessly, his eyes on the bridge of his nose reflected lightly, "I just said that casually, you can just listen to it casually. after all--"

Ogata turned sideways to let the waiter serve the dishes, with a slight smile on his lips.

Taya withdrew his gaze, looked down at the table, and clenched his hands beside him into fists.

"After all—we are also fellow apprentices."

The waiter withdrew quietly.

Ogata leaned forward and supported his head on the back of his hand with his elbows, looking like a fox like a "good brother with business and quantity".

Taya spoke with difficulty: "Mr. Ogata, have you misunderstood something?"

"Yo~ Is it really good to get rid of the relationship so quickly?" Ogata smiled nonchalantly, "It really is the existence of explosives, some people."

"No..." Taya was about to speak, but was cut off by Ogata's hand.

"Eat first, eat first." Ogata tidied up the tableware in front of him a little, "I haven't eaten all night, I must be hungry."

Taya closed her mouth and bowed her head angrily, but suddenly found that all the dishes in front of her were her favorite dishes.

Even my mother doesn't know what she likes to eat...

Why would Mr. Ogata...

Ogata looked at the young man in front of him, first shocked, then puzzled, then his face turned pale, and he looked at himself strangely, he couldn't help it, and laughed again.

Hearing this laughter, Taya knew that she was thinking too much.

The face that was originally weird turned red, reflecting the shame and apology in his eyes.

"I'm starting." Taya said in a subdued manner, picking up the cutlery.

Ogata was not idle either, he also picked up chopsticks and ate.

A belated silent dinner.

And, some unexpected and expected reminders, or warnings.

When Taya came back to his senses, he realized that all the trivial matters had been completed, including the doctor's diagnosis of the patient.

"...Tired, hungry, cold, and a little fever, that's why the patient fainted." The doctor explained, "Ma'am, don't worry, add glucose and normal saline first, and feed some after the patient wakes up." Liquid food....Young people are in good health, so there won't be any serious problems."

Taya stood aside, looking at Shindo's mother who had just arrived, her eyebrows were frowned, and the corners of her mouth were drawn into a straight line.

It wasn't until the doctor left the ward that he walked up to Mrs. Shinto.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault." Bowing ninety degrees full of apology, the originally high-spirited young man lowered his head, and his short dark green hair fell down, blocking the young man's pale face and the smear of blackness under his eyes, "Yes I'm sorry for not taking good care of Shinto."

"Ah, it's okay." Shindo's mother took a step forward, trying to help the boy in front of her.

Before coming to the hospital, Mitsuko had already learned from Grandpa Xiaoguang that Xiaoguang disappeared all night because he lost a very important game.

Shindo's mother, who knows her son's temper well, said that she can fully understand why Xiaoguang put herself in the hospital bed after only one night.What does this have to do with the smart, sensible and capable Taya chess player?It must have been done by Ah Guang himself.

But at the same time, Mitsuko couldn't understand that it was just a Go game. It's not like Xiaoguang had never lost before, so why this game?

Or, the kid Xiaoguang...

But it can only be this one, right?

Taya swayed her body, avoiding the hand extended by Shinto's mother, and slowly straightened up.

"Then, please allow me to excuse me first." The hand on the side tightened again: "I am really sorry about Shinto's current situation. I'm sorry."

"Ah, then..." Mitsuko frowned slightly, and said in embarrassment, "If, if Chess Taya doesn't mind, can you take care of Hikaru for me, I have urgent matters today, maybe I can't—er, if Chess Taya If there is still a chess match today, uh, I don’t know much about it—then, then, I’ll cause you trouble today.”

"No, I don't have a chess match today." Taya quickly glanced at the person on the hospital bed, "It's just that if I didn't notice Shinto and find him in time, this situation wouldn't have happened."

Mitsuko didn't care about Taya's last words at all: "Then, I will leave this child to you. I thank you for taking care of him all the time. I really have something to do today, otherwise, I won't bother you either."

Taya looked at Mrs. Shinto with a look of worry and anxiety - that is the concern that all mothers in this world share and can only show cautiously, and said clearly: "You are too polite. Shinto, there is no need I took too much care. Instead, I didn't do anything well."

"Then, since Taya chess player agrees, I will leave first." Mitsuko didn't stay too long, she walked to the hospital bed, tucked the quilt for her son, straightened the messy golden bangs, and left in a hurry .

The moment the door of the ward was closed, Taya, who was originally calm, became quiet in an instant.

That kind of complete silence, it seems that there is no breathing, no heartbeat, no temperature, just a wooden pillar with no signs of life, standing silently.

The air in the ward suddenly became stagnant, and the unstable high-amplitude fluctuations were slow and continuous, flowing in a stillness that was too thick to dissolve.

No one noticed, or noticed long ago, that the moment the door of the ward was closed, the eyes of the person on the bed opened.

He stared at the pillar quietly, but a sarcasm slipped through his heart.It directly pierces the calm chest, like a ghost exposed to the sun, it is as crazy and restrained.

There was an obvious wave in the air, or a gap, and some things, nameless and intangible, floated up quickly.

The pillar finally moved.

"Shinto, I want to talk to you."

Just a wave.

Immediately afterwards, the next one, another one, one after another, a series of movements with a certain heavy rhythm, Ta Yaliang walked slowly to the hospital bed.

He lowered his head slightly, just in time to meet the man's calm gaze.

Yes, calm, like never before.

The calm before the storm.

But that's not what I, we, Ryo and Shindo wanted.

"Talk?" Hoarse and low, trembling, "I don't think there is anything to talk about."

"Do you understand what I'm going to talk about?" They were obviously the same pair of eyes, dark green eyes glowing with water, why did they become so strange at this moment.

Shinto closed his eyes, "If it happened last night, I apologize."

Never before, so simply.

Taya was stunned, and before he could speak, he heard the hoarse voice again, there was a slight trill at first, but slowly, it became calm and emotionless.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you in time. My phone is out of battery, I have no money on me, I don't know the direction, and..." Something was blurred, but the speaker didn't stop, "I just found a place to rest After one night, I made myself sick, this is my problem, not your fault."

So you don't need to, apologies to my mom.

but……

"I'm too self-willed and only care about myself. It's my fault that I always trouble you. So, maybe I'm not suitable for moving out of the house. After all, if I keep causing trouble to my roommate, my roommate will also have a lot of trouble." .”

The air seems to be a bit insufficient, otherwise why would there be a feeling of lack of oxygen?

Shinto licked his chapped lips due to not eating for a long time, "I have seriously thought about it, I have disturbed you for the past few months. I think, I'd better move back home."

As the last sound disappeared into the air, the feeling of suffocation became more and more obvious.

"Shinto, open your eyes." It was the same hoarse voice, but the difference was that this voice came from complete suppression and restraint, "Look at me, and repeat what you just said."

commanding tone.

Why bother.

Shinto opened his eyes.

"Sorry, Taya Ryo, I think it would be more convenient for me to move back home. It's been so long..."

Before he could finish the rest of the sentence, he was blocked back.

Lips and tongues entangled.

Obviously the closest distance.

It was fine before.

Obviously the most reluctant to let go...

How can you deny all this so easily?

how dare you……

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, and the violent and cold fluctuations broke the previous stagnation.

boom!

The almost transparent infusion bag was slammed against the wall, and the cold liquid slowly flowed down the wall.

There was also the green-haired boy who was pushed away.

"Taya Ryo, you're crazy!" Shinto wiped the corner of his mouth fiercely, but found a bloodstain on the back of his hand, which was left by the needle that was forced out due to struggle with a grinning grin.

"Yes, I'm crazy!" Taya simply sat on the ground, leaning against the wall that was dripping with water.

He looked up at Hikari who sat up in anger.

"You, you..." Shinto stared at the rascal Taya Ryo, speechless for a while.

"I'm crazy." Taya repeated in a murmur, then seemed to understand something, opened her eyes wide, and said viciously, "Why? It must be Honinbo, not Honinbo!"

Shinto was stunned.

"Why, it must be Honinbo? Why, Shinto Hikaru?" Taya stood up slowly, "You said you would tell me one day, everything about Honinbo, or Sai, so I have been waiting. I don't mind how long I wait, or if I get it. But I see now, it's not going to work. Hikar, you're not alone."

"You are not alone."

Shinto found that there was something in Taya's eyes that he couldn't understand, which was attracting him, tempting him, and giving him an urge to tell everything.

But at the moment when he was about to speak, Shinto suddenly woke up.

He shook his head slowly but firmly, meeting Taya's longing gaze.

Taya was furious.

"Sai is gone, he's gone, he won't appear again, don't you understand? No matter how much you evade, no matter how much you shrink back, if you're gone, you're gone.

"You are obsessed with Honinbo because of him, but you have also locked your own chess because of him! If you go for Honinbo just to remember, it is meaningless. Even if you get it, so what, even if you get it, he will not It will happen again, won't it?"

Taya took a deep breath, "Even if he shows up, he knows that you have made this appearance because of Honinbo, if, if he is still happy because of this, he doesn't deserve your respect and admiration at all!"

"you shut up!"

Shinto blushed, "This is just your guess, so malicious! Toya Ryo, I never knew that the noble son in the Go world is such a person who wantonly speculates and smears others!

"How can you... You don't know him at all! He is gone, how can you... You are the one who puts your own thoughts on others, and you are not worthy of respect and admiration!"

"Then you tell me! You tell me! Hikar, you tell me about Sai, and I will share it for you." Taya didn't look irritated at all, "Hikar, you are not alone. You still With me, I've always been by your side. I really don't want to see this happen to you again. "

Just once in Honinbo, Shindo put himself on the hospital bed, so what if there is another failure in the future?

For the victory in Go, besides strength, there are many other factors restricting it.

Only with a truly strong strength and a will to win that will not be shaken by other factors can you face challenges with confidence!

But now, even if he is as proud as Taya, he is not sure that he will win every game.

Taya Ryo couldn't even imagine what Shinto would do to himself if there was another Honinbo defeat...

He has no choice, he can't wait for that unlimited promise, he doesn't want to see Shinto take on these things alone, he can only do this, only do this, directly and forcibly ask, persecute, and even discredit himself.

To get the answer he wants.

The atmosphere in the ward froze again.

Taya clenched her fists, waiting for Shinto's eruption.

Willing, unwilling; say, don't say.

Two choices.

Typical either A or B.

But he didn't expect that what he got was another kind of negation.

The author has something to say: every two months, a certain K said that he was very calm... The essence of cheating has been perfectly presented~ But this chapter is actually very good, the first time it is so thick and long~ So——

Please don't abandon me QAQ I will try my best to fill in the hole

August 2017, 10 First revision [K]

Pierce:

That's right!It's finally finished!

It will be a new chapter starting tomorrow, no need to fake it anymore!

I'm so flustered...

Dear cuties, have you persisted until here... [crying]