[Soul of Chess] Shugui

Jingle Bell!Jingle Bell!

"Hi, hello, this is Shindo's house."

"Hello, Auntie! Is Hikari Shinto at home?"

"Well, he's here. May I ask who you are?"

"I'm an amateur shogi player. Mr. Taya Yukihiro introduced me to Shinto shogi player. I want to play chess with him."

"Ah, then I'll call Xiaoguang. Please wait a moment."

"Ok."

Shinto Mitsuko covered the microphone tightly with her hands:

"Xiaoguang, call!"

Whoa~~ bang!Boom boom boom...

A series of voices came down from upstairs.After a while, the sound of messy footsteps shifted to the stairs.Mitsuko looked up and saw her son was wearing a crumpled white shirt, loose trousers, and a belt that was not fastened. He looked dazed.

"Is it Taya?"

"No, it's an amateur chess player. He said that Mr. Taya introduced him and wanted to play chess with you."

Introduced by Mr. Taya?Shouldn't he play chess with Ta Ya Ryo?How did you find me here?

Shinto scratched his head, a little unconcerned, could it be a lie?

"Xiaoguang, come here and answer the phone! The stove is still on!" The housewife who got up early in the morning to cook glared at her dawdling brat, and Shinto quickly took the phone.

"Hi, hello. I'm Hikari Shinto."

"Hi, I'm a chess player, and I want to play a game of chess with Shinto Sandan, is that okay?"

The girl's clear and clean voice came from the microphone, and Shinto froze for a moment, feeling a strange premonition.

"Well, but, I don't know you."

"You must know me when you see me."

Shinto wondered, where does this female chess player have the confidence, why should I know people when I see them.

However, is it that person?

A thought suddenly flashed in his mind, Shinto decided to trust his intuition, and silently compromised.

The two discussed the time to play chess and ended the call.

"Mom, that chess player will come home to play chess later, call me when she arrives." As soon as he put down the phone, Shindo wanted to go back to sleep again.

"What?" Mitsuko leaned out of the kitchen and saw Shinto walking upstairs with half-closed eyes, "Little Hikari, don't sleep anymore! Go take a shower quickly, I'll clean up your room."

"Ah, no need. Anyway, just play chess." Shinto said indifferently.

Mitsuko was helpless: "No, go take a shower. I will put the clothes outside the bathroom later. Go!"

"Yes, yes." Shindo protested ineffectively.

Mitsuko’s mother expressed great concern: her stupid son became a professional chess player, and it has been two or three years since he entered the society. He still behaves like a child and doesn’t know how to take care of himself.What can I do in the future?It would be fine if half of the Toya family's children were sensible.well……

Putting Mitsuko's worries aside, Shinto? The melancholy boy? Hikari walked into the bathroom and plunged into the warm water curtain, trying to clear his mind, but couldn't stop thinking about what happened during these days.

If Ryo Toya just brushed up the dungeon of "Take the Girl to Visit the Chess Academy" instead of continuing to update the daily task of "Walking in the Rain with the Girl", Shinto would not have looked gloomy.

But Taya took these two things as epic tasks so diligently and attentively, and even appeared in front of Shinto repeatedly, which made Shinto care even more.

A bunch of question marks swirled in his mind, causing Shinto to suffer from insomnia again.He thought of his abnormal reaction from Taya's "peach blossom" in full bloom, and then analyzed it from the three perspectives of friends, opponents, and peers, and combined with the interpersonal relationship analysis and processing system that he hardly had, finally came to the conclusion that "I am jealous" A final proposition.

But here comes the problem again.Jealousy, this is the most undesirable emotion.

Shinto felt that he was thinking too much, and the magical proposition of "envying Taya, who has known him for four years, to have a girlfriend" is impossible to hold.Well, I don't know that girl, and it's impossible for a 2VS1 situation to happen. It's impossible for me to like Taya, and the appearance of that girl makes me feel jealous...

Shinto suddenly opened his eyes, but in the warm water curtain, he broke out in a cold sweat.

impossible!Absolutely!right!No!Can!able!Bar……

"I'm going out." Taya put on her shoes and said goodbye to her mother at the entrance.

"When will you be back today?" Taya? I'm Taya's mother? Akiko handed over the bag in her hand.

"I'll be back before dinner." Taya took the bag and turned to open the door.

"Wait a minute, I'm going out too. Let's go together." A girl ran out from the room.

"Xiaodi, slow down, your body has just recovered. Don't be so flustered, you are not a child anymore, you..."

"Okay, okay, I know, godmother~" the girl said coquettishly, "I will be back before lunch, don't worry."

"Sister Di, where are you going?" Taya asked.

This Chinese girl named "Zidi" came to Japan with her parents, except for playing scores with her father in the chess room, she only went out twice.However, Sister Di seemed to have made a phone call just now, maybe it was a friend here.Ta Ya felt that he was too gossip, so he quickly took in the character who ran away from home.

"I won't tell you!" Zidi smiled slyly, "You don't even want to introduce your opponent to me, hum!"

Taya was silent.What happened yesterday was indeed his problem.

"Okay, I'll forgive you this time." Seeing Taya's gloomy expression, Zi Di seemed to think of something, "Let's go together."

"Ah."

Taya Akiko looked at the backs of the two leaving and sighed.

These two children are too deep in their thoughts, and they don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse.

After Taya and Zidi parted ways, Zidi watched Taya go to the chess club, and laughed secretly: This is called caring and chaos!What a pity, what a pity, the person you want to meet today has already been reserved by this lady.

"Xiaoguang, I'm going out to buy vegetables. The chess players will come later, remember to bring out the snacks and tea in the kitchen." Mitsuko asked worriedly.

"I see." Shinto replied in a low voice, "Be careful on the road."

Mitsuko glanced at Shinto, who was obviously depressed, and wanted to say something, but finally gave up.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Shindo slumped on the sofa as if exhausted, and raised his arms to cover his eyes.Before he could figure it out, the doorbell rang.

It's the chess player.But now, I have no idea of ​​playing chess at all.

It's better to apologize to him and let him go back first, and make an appointment another day.Because of a bad mood, playing chess that does not match your own strength is not only disrespectful to your opponent, but also an insult to Go!How could I forget what Zuo Wei taught me.Zuo Wei, it would be great if you were here; if you were here, I would definitely be able to...

Shinto shuffled to the door and opened it.

Outside the door, stood a pale girl.

……Uh?

"Hello Jinto Sandan, I'm Zidi." The girl smiled brightly.

"Please advise!"

"Please... teach me a lot!"

……

Snapped!

Snapped!

Snapped!

Snapped!

The messy thoughts gradually cleared up, and the familiar rhythm made Shindo regain the feeling of playing chess.

But, who is she, why is she with Taya, and why is she introduced by Teacher Taya, and her chess skills... are so strong.

The defense in the upper left corner could not be broken, and the trap set in the abdomen was bypassed. Although the lower right corner was still insisting, the move she made now consolidated the territory in the abdomen and began to declare war on the lower right corner.next...

Jin Teng picks up a son, just to win some more territory.

"Shinto-kun's chess moves are really similar to Sai!"

Shinto suddenly raised his head, looking at Zidi's pale face, his heart was full of turmoil.

"Everyone, everyone thinks so..." Shinto avoided the important and ignored it.

"Is it just everyone? Don't you also think that Sai exists in your chess game?" Zidi's voice was full of indescribable loneliness and regret.Although the tone was rhetorical, it gave people the illusion of knowing everything.

"But, it may be that I often play Xiu Ce's chess records." As soon as the words fell, Shinto himself was taken aback.

Me, this, Xiu Ce and Sai...

Cold sweat broke out all of a sudden.

"Hmm, it seems like I've slipped my tongue." Zidi pursed her lips, as if joking, "Jinto-kun's expression now."

Jinto hastily lowered his head, not daring to look at Zidi again.

Snapped!

Heizi was firmly knocked on the chessboard, and a lingering momentum rushed towards him.Calm and mysterious, sharp and atmospheric.With this move, she directly avoided my demonstration. No, not only this move, she forced every step of the previous temptations to pass.She was indifferent to my offense, just kept... No!She is not indifferent, but...

Shinto stared blankly at the chess board, and finally realized: So, she was playing guide chess.

Damn, I'm so unwilling!

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

Started to prepare the ground, but, the difference between the two eyes, it still counts after sticking the eyes...

While putting the chess pieces back into the chess box, Shinto thought angrily: Who is she?

"Do you want to replay?" Zidi felt very happy when she saw Shinto's depressed face.

"Well, okay." Although she was very unwilling, it was undeniable that her chess skills were really strong, and even as a chess guide, she benefited a lot.

"Here, I was too anxious. I thought you would be tripped..."

"The trap here is easy to be caught, but even if I set it here, I may not necessarily..."

"But if I play like this, I won't..."

"But the premise is that there is no exchange here, and I am caught in a trap. But in fact..."

"Well, in that case, the attack in the lower right corner..."

Jin Teng's voice was high and low, as if he was on the verge of getting angry every time, but was extinguished by Zidi's few words.It won't be like this when replaying with Taya, that guy will definitely go too far.

While replaying, Shindo was thinking about what would happen if it was a replay with Taya.

Zi Di watched from the side, but didn't pierce it.It's just my body, I can't hold it anymore.

After finally finishing the replay, Shindo found that Zidi's complexion was uglier than before, her lips were purple, and she looked extremely weak.

"Hey, that..."

"Just call me Zidi, or, I'm older than you, you can call me Sister Di."

"Uh, flute...sister, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's an old problem." Zidi waved her hand nonchalantly, "Shindo-kun, I really want to go to Innoshima to pay homage to Honinbo Shusaku, but I don't know the place well, so I don't know if you would like to be my guide?"

Xiu Ce's tomb...?

Shindo's eyes dimmed, and when he remembered the conversation just now, he couldn't help raising some expectations: "You, do you know that Sai and Xiu Ce..."

The author has something to say: The first revision of the article on August 2014, 8 [K]

On September 2017, 9, the second revision [K]

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