[Soul of Chess] What if

The atmosphere in the car was quite dull along the way.

Although Ms. Shihe tried to break this strange atmosphere during the period, she reluctantly gave up in the end.

Ah Guang secretly glanced at Taya beside him, seeing that unusually serious expression, he couldn't help but sighed secretly. -_-||

Although he didn't know why the celebrity wanted to go home by himself, and he didn't know what kind of situation he was going to face, but Ah Guang knew that he couldn't escape this time no matter what.

The matter has come to this point, no matter how distressed it is, it will only increase the troubles, and it will not help at all, so Ah Guang completely thought about it.Under the joy of suffering, he began to wonder what Taya's family looked like.

Although based on the unusual temperament of Taya, Aguang has a preliminary guess about Taya's family background.However, after seeing the true face of Taya's family with his own eyes, Ah Guang still couldn't help but gasped.

The first thing you see when you get out of the car is a wooden fence about ten meters long, surrounded by green and tall trees.

Just from the high-grade fence outside the house, it can be known that the scale and structure of the buildings in the courtyard are absolutely extraordinary.

Perhaps because of other urgent matters, after delivering them to their destination, Miss Shihe started the car again and left.

Of course, she asked Taya to bring greetings for her.

Under the leadership of Taya, stepping on the path paved with cobblestones and passing through the well-structured courtyard, a traditional house with a large area came into view.

"I didn't expect to see such a quaint building now~! ≥﹏≤" Zuo Wei sighed, looking around with great interest.

Ah Guang followed behind Taya a little uneasy.

After all, this was the first time he had visited such a wealthy family, and Ah Guang couldn't help but worry that he might say something inappropriate.So in the process of marching, he can almost be regarded as not squinting.

"I'm back.:)"

When the entrance door opened, Taya who had been silent all this time finally spoke.

However, he was speaking to the people in the house.

When saying this sentence, Taya's originally cold voice subconsciously softened a lot.Presumably the meaning of family to him is different.

After changing the indoor shoes, Taya led Aguang into the house.Then, they saw a busy figure in the kitchen.

"A Liang, you're back? ^_^"

After hearing the sound, the woman turned around.Because of this, Ah Guang could see her face clearly.

It was a dignified and beautiful woman.

Although she was doing housework, she felt like she was performing some kind of ritual, and her every move was so pleasing to the eye.

This person should be Taya's mother... Aguang silently guessed the identity of the other party.

When she saw Ah Guang, the woman was stunned for a moment, and then asked softly, "Is this... is Ah Liang's friend?"

Although she was asking Taya, her gaze stayed on Aguang.

I and Taya should be regarded as friends... Aguang is not sure what the relationship between himself and Taya is now.

Facing the expectant eyes of the other party, he reluctantly replied: "Uh...um."

Although Ah Guang sounded a little hesitant, after receiving an affirmative answer, the smile on the other party's face became more gentle: "Ah Liang has never brought friends to the house."

"Please don't be restrained, I'll bring you black tea and cake later." She said to Ah Guang with a smile.

Seeing this, Ah Guang responded somewhat awkwardly: "I'm sorry to trouble you..."

"Is Dad in the room?"

After their conversation came to an end, Taya spoke up.

Hearing Taya's inquiry, the woman seemed a little puzzled, but she still answered Taya's question: "Yes...but he should be arranging the chess records now."

"Then I'll go to Dad's room." Taya said, then turned and walked into the house.

After Ah Guang bowed to the woman, he also followed.

Seeing the back of the two leaving, a trace of worry crept up Ming Zi's eyebrows.

Mingzi sometimes does not know whether it is the right thing to bring Ah Liang into the world of Go.

After all, it is a world without a trace of warmth.

In the world of Go, everything is simply determined by the word "win or lose": if you win, honor, status, and wealth will follow one after another; if you fail, everything will roll away.

This is the law of this world.So easy to understand and yet so ruthless.

Akiko understands the cruelty of the Go world better than anyone else.

Because, she is also a professional chess player.

Toya Akiko, whose real name is Otake Akiko, is the daughter of the late Otake Jiudan, who is well-known in the Go world. She is also a professional Go player of the sixth dan.

Although Akiko has gradually faded out of the Go world, more than ten years ago, because she won the only women's chess game at that time-the "Women's Championship" (now called the Women's Honinbo Tournament) six times within ten years. Laurel, so in that era, she was the well-deserved No.1 among female chess players.

Akiko's Go was taught by her father, and the person she most admires is also her father.

Akiko's father, Otake Mino, was born on January 7, 1918, in an ordinary family in Mizuki-dori, Kobe City.

At the age of 8, under the enlightenment of his mentor, Mr. Torii Nabejiro, while showing extraordinary talent in Go, his father also developed a strong interest in Go.

Soon, my father began to accept the guidance of Mr. Kohara Masahiro, and later, through someone's introduction, he worshiped under the seventh dan of Kubo Matsukatsu Kiyo, a Kansai master.

But, not long after, my father's grandfather passed away.

Before he died, his grandfather's last words that he wanted him to become a chess player strengthened his father's determination to become a professional chess player.Since then, my father has worked harder to learn Go.

Later, because he was deeply aware of the harsh conditions for learning chess in Kansai, Master Kubomatsu reluctantly sent his beloved apprentice to Tokyo for the better development of his disciples.

In this year, the 12-year-old father became an ordinary disciple of Suzuki Fujiro Kudan, who is famous for compiling the shoji dictionary.The following year, he became Mr. Suzuki's inner disciple.His father spent 8 years living as an inner disciple there, and he did not live independently until he was promoted to the fifth dan at the age of 21.

At the age of 15, my father was successfully promoted to Duan.Two years later, he won ten games in a row in the "Xinjin Fighting Qiqi Battle", and his father became famous because of this battle, and was also called "Weird Boy Maru".

At the age of 24, his father and his friends created a "new layout" together. This pioneering work made the two known as the "double jade in the chess world".It was also in this year that his father accepted his first disciple, Wu Jiu Shishi, which opened the prelude to his more than 40 years of Go education career.

At the age of 28, when his father's business was booming, he moved from Tokyo to Hiratsuka and opened Otake Dojo.In order to discover talented disciples, my father began to travel frequently across the country.His footsteps have covered almost every inch of land, and he has even traveled abroad many times to find gifted children.

At the age of 29, his father became the challenger of Shuya's celebrity retirement match, so his reputation in the chess world became bigger and bigger.

However, in the juban chess contest with his friend in the second year, his father was demoted, and the position of the game was demoted from mutual precedence to precedence.

In December of the following year, my father's father, Akiko's grandfather, also passed away.

After that, my father became the challenger of the Honinbo battle three times, but each time he ended in defeat.

Akiko was born when his father's career fell into a trough.

Although his career has not improved at all, his father has always loved his disciples very much.

In order to allow the disciples to concentrate on learning chess, the father arranged the food and lodging for them and Mingzi brothers and sisters together.

Although the inner disciples' families send living expenses every month, because they are in a long-term health period, the expenses are also high, and those expenses are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.What's more, his father has always been addicted to talent, as long as he finds a child with chess talent, he will definitely take it under his family.As a result, the number of disciples in the family reached 26 at the time.

Of course, the father's bonuses and game fees cannot afford all the expenses of such a large family.So he began to raise goats near his house, and he also reclaimed several hundred square meters of yards as arable land, which made the ashram barely maintain.

Not only did his father do his best to teach his students chess skills, but he also gave them the greatest help in life, and sometimes he didn't hesitate to protect their shortcomings.

However, because there are so many disciples, it is inevitable that there will be very few guys who not only do not study chess seriously, but also cause trouble everywhere.

In Akiko's memory, his father was busy writing letters of guarantee and going to the police station to collect people many times.Although he was exhausted every time, when other disciples proposed to expel him from the sect, his father always kept his eyes closed and remained silent.

Then one day, one of the most troublesome disciples caused a big mess.

Although his father's social popularity is very high, his father still spent a lot of effort to solve that disaster.He went to the police station early in the morning to negotiate, and he didn't come back with a tired face until evening.

Because the disturbance was too great, after the father came back, the disciples strongly demanded that the troublemaker be expelled from the school.

My father closed his eyes and thought for a while, before slowly speaking: "There is no way, he is my disciple after all..."

The father's answer silenced all the disciples present.They didn't mention the matter of being expelled from the sect, but returned to their room with complicated expressions.

At first, Akiko couldn't understand why his father was so keen on cultivating rookies.

When she asked her father her question, his father replied: "I have received the favor of many teachers to get to where I am today. Cultivating disciples is to repay the gratitude to the teachers."

There are four mentors of my father. They are Mr. Torii Nabejiro, Mr. Kohara Masahiro, Mr. Kubo Matsukatsu Kiyo, and Mr. Suzuki Yuijiro.

Until now, whenever he mentions his mentor, his father's attitude is still extremely respectful.

Hearing his father's answer, Akiko recalled that when he was young, he had an impression that an old man would come to his father's dojo every year.

It was an old man with a huge physique, but his complexion looked rather bad. Presumably his health was not very good.Every time he will stay here for half a month or a month.

According to my mother, Miharu, that person was my father's mentor when he was young, and his name was Torii Nabejiro.

Although Mr. Torii is not a real professional shogi player, he is the initiator of his father's career as a shogi player.Therefore, whenever the old man came, the father and mother received the old man respectfully, and took care of the food and daily life in every possible way.

During this period, Mr. Torii was stricter than his father when dealing with those disciples.Akiko saw several times when his parents left the room for a while, he loudly reprimanded those disciples who had slackened in their practice.

"You bastard, listen! Aren't you here to succeed in Go?! If you didn't play Go well and become famous, how would you repay your teacher?!"

The way the old man sternly reprimanded him is still impressive to Ming Zi.

When Akiko was 17 years old, her father moved the dojo to Sanei Town in Yotsuya, Tokyo.

It was a two-story building.However, only the second floor is used as a dojo.

The layout of the dojo is simple.A room of about 20 square meters is the usual training room for the disciples, a room of about 16 square meters is a storage room for collecting chess sets, and three rooms of more than ten square meters are used for the daily life of the disciples.The rooms of Akiko's parents and the rooms for temporary residence of ordinary disciples are also distributed on the second floor.

There is a 32-square-meter room on the first floor, which is used as a living room, kitchen, dining room and living room at the same time.The rooms of Akiko and the other siblings are also on the first floor.

This is the general layout of the dojo.

When Akiko was 10 years old, her father collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage.After two years of recuperation, his father's condition improved.

Just when they thought their father would be healthy and healthy, they didn't expect him to fall down again.

It was the third year of opening at the dojo in Yotsuya.

Every year, my father leads his disciples to tour the country in order to meet young prodigy Go players.This year, my father brought his disciples to Hokkaido again.

That is, during this cruise, my father met Taya Yukihiro.

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Character archetype:

Dazhu Ninth Duan: Kigumi

Akiko Taya: Reiko Kiya

Age has been adjusted to fit the plot.