[Go Soul Natsume's Book of Friends] Guang Xia

.I picked up the teacup next to the chessboard, drank it down, and made another cup for myself.

Hot and quiet.

Until Zuo Wei gradually raised his head.

The expression on his face was still gentle, but the eyes that looked at me showed a piercing sharpness.I saw it in my eyes, and my spirit was shocked.I saw Zuo Wei's beautiful lips slightly raised:

"Guang, do you know that I have been waiting for you for so many years?"

I'm stunned!

Zuo Wei's tone was casual, as if he was talking about other people's affairs—however, I felt that my soul was pushed by a profound and mysterious force and fell into the torrent!

The hot air surged up in my chest, my heart beat violently, I stood up suddenly, the teacup next to the chessboard shook with a bang, the green tea was splashed on the bamboo mat, and hot smoke came out.I heard my voice hoarse: "... Zuo Wei... you said—"

Suddenly calmed down, I smiled slightly: "So you always knew."

The longing in my heart, it turns out that you have always known it.You have always known that since you came back, the meaning of my desperate chess is no longer to catch up with Ryo Taya, nor to look for you, but - one day, to catch up with you and become your opponent!

Zuo Wei raised his eyes to look at me, and said in a cold voice, "There are still three rounds, isn't it?"

I nodded slightly.

In the final of the Fujiwara Juban chess challenger selection contest, there are three games left before the challenger can be selected!

The ascending and descending juban chess game is a challenge to the supreme one.Challengers enjoy the supreme honor and generous bonuses, but they have to face unprecedentedly harsh competitions and bear the risk of being knocked down.The commentator Ernst & Young said "Even exile is not so bitter", which is to describe the juban chess game.

Correspondingly, the influence of Jubanki on the world Go is extremely far-reaching.According to You Lizi's replay, this year's Siege, China's imitation of Zuowei is flourishing, and nine out of ten sets use the Xiuce style layout.

I stared deeply at Zuowei: "The only one who can stop me is Taya Ryo."

That's why I suffered so much when I lost to him in the celebrity match... I was afraid that Taya would block my long-cherished path to the Fujiwara Juban chess match!

"Light," Zuo Wei spit out succinctly, "Let's go to the next game."

Guess, start.

When I dropped the first ball, I had the illusion that I was standing on the crystal blue nineteenth road city.Zuo Wei stood directly opposite me, staring at me with the reflection of Xinghai in his eyes.

"Zheng!" He drew his sword and aimed it straight at me.

Time went back at that time, and I seemed to return to my childhood.At that time, I didn't know how powerful Zuo Wei was. I only thought that when he played chess, his eyes were sharp, like a warrior on the battlefield.The sword was bright, and I rushed forward without fear.

12 years have passed.The empty nineteenth road city was dark and silent, only the crystal blue light below illuminated our faces.I walked alone through a mess of wind and smoke, and saw Zuo Wei still waiting there, passing through the millennium, he raised his sword and stared at me.

He said, light, I have been waiting for you.

My hands trembled slightly, and I could barely hold the sword that he had passed on to me.Faintly seeing the young and ignorant me in front of Zuowei, he asked, Hikari Shinto, do you still have the courage to chase after 12 years?

Courage, unwillingness, and fear!

There is a voice in the bottom of my heart saying: to face bravely...to chase!It's like chasing Ryo Taya when you were 12 years old!

Perhaps, in my life, I will not be able to catch up with Zuo Wei who has wandered for thousands of years, but this does not affect my desire to fight Zuo Wei.Like a cheetah on the prairie.Chasing and conquering is the nature of leopards!

With a flash of cold light, I drew my sword out of its sheath.

<<

In the middle of the night, the sound of my heartbeat was still violent, and I couldn't fall asleep for a long time.The longing in my heart is longing, but Zuo Wei said it himself, it is different after all.He said with that look in his eyes that he has been waiting for me... that feeling is like the afternoon!

Zuo Wei, I will not disappoint your waiting!

Outside the window, the thunder stopped and the rain stopped, and a round of the moon hung high in the sky, clean and sacred and untouchable.I raised my arm, as if at that moment, I could illusion that I was picking up the stars.Facing the moonlight, I slowly clenched my fists.Surrounded by the viscous sound of cicadas, I saw my knuckles turning white.

But I saw a slender figure cast on the paper door, like a clear tree shadow, hazy and so familiar.

I was a little surprised.It's two o'clock in the middle of the night, is Natsume going home now?Lifting the quilt, I got up and opened the paper door.

Natsume was tiptoeing through the hall, she didn't seem to expect me to poke her head out, and suddenly her whole body was shaken, something long and thin in her hand fell to the ground with a clatter. "Guang...you scared me to death!" He stroked his chest in shock.

"Why are you only going home now?" I stepped forward and picked up what Natsume had dropped - after seeing it clearly, my expression changed!

It turned out to be a genuine samurai wooden sword!

My hand was holding the cylindrical handle at this moment, and I stared at the wooden knife in disbelief, unable to utter a word.Natsume glanced at me, with a nervous expression on his face: "...It's just that Hiiragi left it with me."

Saying that, Natsume grabbed the wooden blade and wanted to take it from me.However, he failed.

Because, I squeezed the handle of the knife hard and didn't let go.

"Light?" Natsume raised his head, his eyes dim.

"It's so late, where have you been?" I stared at Natsume's brown eyes, word by word.

"At Mr. Natori's place." Natsume looked at me and said frankly.However, he also grasped the blade as hard as I did, "This is what Hiiragi said to put it here first." He repeated.

There was a sudden silence between us.There was an indescribable tension in this moment of silence.I never knew that the silence between me and Natsume could be so unpredictable.

I suddenly let go.Unprepared, Natsume staggered back a few steps holding the wooden knife.I smiled: "I thought you were looking for monsters again."

I think there must be no smile in my eyes.Natsume turned away, avoiding my eyes.I had a premonition in my heart, and I panicked, so I blurted out and asked, "Natsume, you won't leave, will you?"

Natsume opened his mouth, and before he could answer, I smiled and interrupted him: "Look at me... I'm so incoherent in playing chess, this house is your parents' home, where else will you go?"

"Light……"

"There's a chess game tomorrow, I'll go to bed first, and you can rest too." After speaking vaguely, I went back to the room and closed the paper door.The old wooden door frame cracked and cracked, just like the sound from my heart.

And the clear figure cast on the paper door, just like this hazy moonlit night, has not left for a long time.

☆, Twin Cities Nine is afraid of losing

Twin Cities Nine afraid of losing

As for the competition with Mr. Morishita, I acted as the scorer.Walking out of the room early in the morning, Zuo Wei was already sitting in front of the tea table in a gorgeous sea-blue cloud pattern summer dress, looking as majestic as a jade mountain from a distance.

Whenever there is a big chess game, Zuo Wei dresses well to show respect.Sitting in the chess room, it is an impeccable Ukiyo-e.Gradually, I didn't dare to be careless, and I also put on a suit, and then I was ridiculed by everyone.

"Shito, you are 24 years old, but when you wear a suit, you always look like a college student pretending to be an office worker." Yijiao said with a smile.

He Gu was even more venomous: "Hurry up and get back to your Nike sportswear." He added, "Following Mr. Fujiwara, like a little bee."

By the way, Hegu.Today is Sensei Morishita's chess match, so you must be able to meet Kazuya.I thought with my tie on.There have been many chess matches recently, and we haven't seen each other for a long time.

During breakfast, I told Zuo Wei what happened at midnight. "Mr. Natori's shikigami, will you leave the wooden sword with Kishi?"

I thought Zuo Wei would be very surprised, but he was unmoved: "Asaka also left the piano in Guizhi's room. I think it means trusting Guizhi."

I am dubious. "I thought... Guizhi was going to become a demon extermination." I said hesitantly.

Zuo Wei actually laughed: "Hwang, based on what you know about Takashi, do you think this is possible?"

I shook my head.

"That's it, what are you worried about?"

"Ha, if he decides to become a demon extermination, I won't worry about it."

He Zuowei walked to the entrance, and I glanced at Natsume's room.The paper door is closed tightly, and there are a few faint tree shadows.

Zuo Wei opened the entrance door, and the aroma of wisteria and fruit rushed towards him.The clothes and shirts on the hangers are like light-colored flowers flying.The yard is covered with tiny loquat leaves, and there is a slight rustling sound when stepping on them.

The mornings in Daizhen are always so beautiful.This is Natsume's hometown. "Is he reluctant to leave?" I murmured.

At this time, Zuo Wei was carefully watching his footsteps to prevent Luo Ying from accidentally stepping on the ground, his expression was extremely innocent.Hearing this, he turned his head and smiled: "Guang, what's wrong with you?"

I close the door. "Zuowei, do you think Guizhi regards this place as his home?"

"Of course. Guizhi told me many times that he could live with you in the house of his childhood and live a normal life, something he never dared to think about before."

Natsume must have told Saito a lot about me.But that guy never said anything to my face, except for the graduation song.

"Guizhi's feelings for you are very deep." Zuo Wei said kindly.

"Me too. Kishi... well, I never thought I could care so much about someone."

"Guang," Zuo Wei touched my shoulder, "That's because you are afraid of losing."

I don't ring.

"Guizhi has given you everything he can, but everyone has their own persistence." Zuo Wei told me.

When I drove to Kiin, I was still thinking about Natsume.The reporter who was in charge of taking pictures and Mr. Morishita were waiting downstairs, and there were also many chess fans waiting for the on-site commentary.

"Every time I take pictures of Mr. Fujiwara, it's like shooting a pictorial!" The reporter looked at Zuowei's costumes and was amazed. "When "Go Weekly" published Mr. Fujiwara's photos and game records, the sales volume increased several times!"

I bow to Morishita-sensei.Everyone exchanged pleasantries in a pleasant atmosphere. "I'll go to the lounge first." I said to Zuo Wei.Zuowei nodded with a smile, but the silver-haired Morishita-sensei remained silent, with his lips pursed tightly.

Facing Zuo Wei, no one can take it easy.

The elevator was crowded with people.Everyone came to see Zuo Wei play chess.I can't help but be thankful that I'm the nearest scorer to Zuo Wei, and I don't have to be crowded with them in the observation room.

Decided to take the stairs.The corridor was empty, and I ran up in three words and two steps.

At first, I ran very fast, but gradually, I slowed down.I heard my footsteps, step by step, the sound echoed in the narrow space, as if chasing from the distant past and disappearing in the distant future.

Suddenly, there was a brief absence.

Up above, what is waiting for me?

At some point, the force of the wind lifted me up.When I stood on the top of the waves and looked down, I saw the sea of ​​stars as I wished, and at the same time, I also discovered my own insignificance.

I saw a familiar figure replaying in the lounge. "Taya!" I yelled.

Taya obviously didn't expect that I would make a sound suddenly, and his body shook.I leaned over to watch the chess game, Taya raised her hand and disturbed the pieces, her expression changed embarrassingly.

"Why don't you show it to me?" I sat down opposite him, "Isn't it you and your father—"

etc!Taya's father!Taya celebrity!

The chess game that defeated me so badly... I was shocked!He stared blankly at Taya, but he was not surprised in his heart.

Seeing the change in my expression, Taya knew that I understood, and said softly: "I'm afraid, that's the end of it."

The celebrity battle has reached the round of Zuowei and Morishita, which is already the penultimate round-the next round, Taya will meet Zuowei!

I solemnly said: "Master Taya must have seen your efforts."

Taya glanced at me with the familiar sharpness. When he swept across my face, he forced cold sweat on my forehead: "Mitsumi Shinto, next week, we should meet again on the field."

I reacted immediately: "Have you got the schedule for the juban chess selection contest? Show me—"

Taya handed me a form.I read: "Taya VS Sha, I VS Katani, Kurata VS Ochi...what the hell! This arrangement!" I laughed, "Isn't there no suspense at all! Recently, Kurata's results are not as good as you and me , let alone Kazuya, Ochi and the others! Taya, you and I will definitely meet—"

"Shinto!" Taya interrupted me, looking behind me.

I turn around.He Gu stood at the door of the lounge, looking at me coldly, with all the strangeness and hostility in his eyes.

☆、Two Cities Ten Lonely Hearts

Twin Cities Ten Lonely Hearts

"Hegu—" A drop of cold sweat fell from my forehead, and before I could say anything, Hegu walked away.

"It's over, Hegu must have heard me talking about him." I said to Taya angrily.

"So what?" Taya looked indifferent.

"Huh?" I stared at him.

"Even if you don't say it, who doesn't think so?" Taya said, let alone Hegu with that indifferent expression, even I felt very arrogant, "Winners and losers, this is Go."

"You say that because you've always been strong," I said.

Toya looked at me in surprise.

"Those weak chess players, how many times have they been 'defeated' before they bleed and fight to the position of 'become king'. Especially those who have been around the master for a long time-how frustrated they are, How painful it is, how much effort it takes to suppress one's pride, these, Taya, do you know?"

"Why are you angry?" Taya asked inexplicably.

"I'm not angry, I'm talking about concepts!" I slapped the chess table, and the chess pieces rattled, "Taya, has anyone ever said that your concepts hurt people?!"

"It was you who said Hegu was the one just now." Taya pointed out, "If you are angry with yourself, don't take it out on others."

"Don't act like you know me well, bastard!"

<<

After Zuo Wei and Morishita finished taking pictures, they came to the chess room.I have notation paper ready.Kazuya came in after Morishita without even looking at me.I wanted to call him, but I didn't know what to say, so I could only watch He Gu pour tea for the two of them and left the chess room.

Zuowei and Morishita sat in front of the chessboard, still chatting freely: "...I can't believe it, he is the kid in my seminar who doesn't even know what 'big hands are'."

Isn't that talking about me?I immediately turned my head, and the two famous chess players smiled knowingly when they saw this.

"I always feel that Shinto is still the little devil in the past, and he can get into trouble with Hegu at any time, which makes people headache."

The staff next to them laughed.I blushed a little and couldn't help coughing: "Mr. Morishita, that was ten years ago."

Mr. Morishita ignored me, and sighed to Zuowei: "In the blink of an eye, the former teenagers have become the backbone of the chess world."

Morishita-sensei and I have played chess many times, winning and losing.However, due to some schedule arrangements, Zuowei always shoulders the wrong shoulders with Mr. Morishita.Today is the first time they have officially met in a chess game.

Morishita said slowly: "Mr. Fujiwara, after this game with you, I'm afraid I'm going to start preparing for my retirement."

"This is a joke!" I blurted out.Both Zuowei and Morishita stared at me, and I realized that I forgot to use honorifics, "I'm sorry," I said hastily, "but Morishita-sensei, are you just saying you're retiring?"

Zuo Wei also changed his face: "Mr. Morishita, you must not retire because of a game of chess."

Morishita waved his hand calmly: "Don't worry, this decision is naturally not due to a game of chess." After a pause, "Fujiwara, since you appeared, the world of chess has been handed over to others. Fujiwara , Juban chess surpasses the former sages, needless to say your status; the celebrities of Kuwamoto Inbo and Taya have stood up to this day, but they are waiting for the chess players headed by Taya and Shinto to completely defeat them-I don’t have such effort, just I want to follow the trend.”

Mr. Morishita's words are plain and sober but desolate, and they reveal the earnest expectations for the younger generation, which moved me unceasingly.Looking at Zuo Wei again, he was also touched with infinite emotion, his blue-purple eyes sparkled.

Chess game will start.

I unfolded the notation paper and looked intently at the chessboard.

At dusk, Morishita conceded defeat.The blood-red sunset fell on his silver hair and furrowed wrinkles, refracting sharp light.

"This is really a beautiful game." Morishita-sensei bowed to the bottom with his hunched figure, his voice was old, "Mr. Fujiwara, I have been waiting for this game for a long time, thank you."

I felt heat in my eyes.Morishita-sensei is my mentor.Zuo Wei also returned the salute, and the sea-blue flowing cloud pattern sleeves flew up with his movements, fluttered in the wind, and then fell slowly and peacefully.

It's like a chess player's life.

<<

Morishita-sensei is really going to retire.It's not the same as the uproar in Taya Meiren's time, everyone thinks it's a natural thing.

"Mr. Morishita is not young after all." Yijiao said pertinently.Ah Fu and Honda have the same opinion.

I moved awkwardly in the match room.Yijiao saw it in his eyes: "Shinto, are you still minding what happened a few days ago?"

A few days ago, I said sorry to He Gu, and He Gu only said one sentence: "What's the point of apologizing after hurting others?" His voice was inaudible.

Yijiao made me understand Hegu's mood. "Shinto, Kazuya worked hard, but you still managed to throw him far away without any effort." Yijiao sighed when he said this.

The whole person fell silent.

When He Gu came to the game room, his eyes were still cold.When he took the chess box, Hegu's hands were shaking.The lid fell off with a dull thud.I looked at him in shock.He took a deep breath and gradually calmed down.

——It turns out that the feeling of being feared by friends is so deep and lonely!

After the endgame, I raised my head and met Taya's calm eyes.On the opposite side, He Gu stared blankly at the chess game, tears streaming down one after another, splashing on the black and white chess pieces.I watched all this helplessly, unable to say a word.Yijiao slowly stretched out his hand, wrapping around Hegu's shoulder.

Looking around, except for Taya, there are no exceptions, all eyes are in awe.

"He Gu, I'm sorry, I—" I wanted to say something, but He Gu waved his hand and stopped me, "Shinto, let me be quiet for a while."

After the resumption, I went to register the results of the game.Everyone left one after another, only Taya stayed behind.

"It will definitely be lonely." He said lightly, and then said, "Actually, it's better this way, and you can focus more."

Taya is probably concerned about me.I turned my head: "Thank you, Taya."

"Huh? Why thank me?" Taya was surprised.

"because……"

I smiled.Taya looked at me with a strange expression.

"Because you will always be my opponent."

How fortunate, I am not you before the age of 12. I can only play chess day by day, and I don’t know when my opponent will appear.

"Also, because you always turn around and give me a hand, I can grow up like this."

Then, thank you for not giving up after knowing the truth about Zuo Wei.For so many years, stay by my side.

☆、Twin Cities Eleven Natsume Decision

Twin Cities Eleven Natsume Decision

Summer is approaching the hottest time, and the sound of cicadas is getting louder and louder.After a heavy rain, the loquat trees shed tiny fallen leaves all over the ground, spreading them on the ground like a natural green carpet.Several wisterias were also in full bloom, and the numerous light purple buds bent the branches, hanging down to the ground like clouds and mist.When chess players came to visit Zuo Wei, they couldn't help admiring the scenery.

In the afternoon, I went home with a bag of steaming steamed buns, and saw Natsume and Zuowei struggling to move a piano into the house.The whole body of the piano is crystal silver, with five strings on the rosewood handle, and the curve of the piano body is graceful like ginkgo leaves.

There was a cardboard box on the porch, and they were struggling to get around the box while carrying the piano, so I hurriedly pulled the cardboard box aside to let them in.

Finally put the qin on the table, Zuo Wei's loving eyes still lingered on the qin for a long time. "This is the mother-of-pearl and red sandalwood banjo. It was the most famous musical instrument in the early Heian period. When the actors played "Qinghai Wave", it was like pearls falling on a jade plate." Zuo Wei said with longing, "If it is paired with the sound of the flute, it will be like a blue sea. Chaosheng..."

Early Heian period?My scalp is numb, could it be another cultural relic...

Natsume's face was frightened: "It's because of him—! He actually ran to Kamakura Buddhist Temple and begged for this violin! I couldn't pull it no matter what!"

It really is a cultural relic!

"Is this... this... expensive?" I asked dumbfounded.One piece of cultural relics offered in Kamakura Buddhist temples is enough to make us bankrupt!

Zuo Wei's face showed the kind of triumphant expression that I always want to hit him with a chess box.Natsume explained helplessly: "Zuowei played chess with several abbots and eminent monks for a day, and finally managed to get this piano."

"The monk let you go!" I made a face at Zuowei.

Zuo Wei shouted angrily: "It was the abbot who told me that it is inconvenient to play silk and bamboo orchestral music in the quiet place of Buddhism, and it is not appropriate to keep this qin in the temple!"

"It's impossible," please, cultural relics from thousands of years ago, "Those monks must not be able to stand your pleading eyes, so they can barely find an explanation."

"Woooooooo, Guang, you are too much!"

I pretended to be disgusted and said: "Restrain yourself, Natsume's house is not a storage room for cultural relics! Guizhi, please persuade Zuowei quickly, this is your home!"

Natsume was in a daze as if thinking about something.

"Guizhi?" I wondered.

Only then did Natsume raise his head, as if waking up from a big dream, "Light?"

"I'm daydreaming." I said amusedly.

It felt like something was sinking in my heart.why is that?

"By the way, Uncle Fujiwara will take you back to Yayuan for the weekend." I handed him the steaming steamed buns in my hand, "This is for you, take it to Mr. Cat and the monsters to eat."

Natsume didn't reach out to pick it up, but looked at the bag of steamed buns in my hand, hesitating, his eyes wandering.

Zuo Wei suddenly sighed: "Guizhi, tell me about it with Guang—sooner or later you have to say it, don't you?"

"What are you going to say to me?" I said half-jokingly.The bamboo curtains hanging in the chess room sang softly in the wind, cooling the room.However, a thin layer of sweat broke out on my back.

Natsume took a slow breath.

"Guang, I'm going back to Yayuan's house."

Natsume's words are extremely light, like bamboo leaves falling, and like the most gentle whispers when a friend talks heart-to-heart.But I clearly felt the determination and reluctance behind his words, so I stared blankly at him until the steamed buns in my hand rolled onto the bamboo mat.

"Go back to Yayuan's house for the weekend!" I hurriedly squatted down to pick up the steamed buns, trying to smile easily, "I...I know! Uncle Fujiwara will drive here later, no, I Hurry up and buy steamed buns for Mr. Cat! I—"

"No, Light."

Natsume also knelt down and looked directly into my eyes.His brown eyes were filled with apology, but he didn't hesitate.

I was suddenly nervous, so nervous that I couldn't breathe.The steamed bun I just picked up fell out of my hand again, and rolled around on the bamboo mat in a funny way.This time, I didn't pick it up.

"I'm going to move back to Yahara's house - I'm really going to go back." Natsume said softly.

I looked at him in disbelief.The wind blows through the snow-white curtain, and the time seems to be stretched extremely long.Sato looked at me worriedly, then at Natsume.He obviously knew that this scene would happen, and he just waited for Natsume to tell me himself.

"Moving back...to Yahara's house?" I repeated with difficulty, "Why?"

Although I had a premonition in my heart before, I believe that Natsume will not go back-do you think you have not been tortured enough by monsters?

—He is not alone now, he has me by his side, isn't he?

Natsume won't be willing to leave me, that's what I thought.

Thinking is just thinking after all.

"Guizhi, are you unhappy with me?" I asked more and more difficultly.

"Of course not!" As if hearing the grievance in my words, Natsume immediately raised his head, "Hikari, listen to me—"

"I see." I stood up and said slowly and softly, "You chose them."

These words did not go through the brain, and after saying it, even I felt unreasonable.Sure enough, both Zuowei and Natsume changed their faces: "Light?"

I didn't tell them that many years ago, ever since I dreamed of an igloo, I had a faint feeling that there was a mysterious and inexplicable force depriving me of the fate of that world, and I couldn't see monsters, cat teachers, Yuriko... Just like the thousand paper cranes fluttering lightly on the branches, the signature of "friends are separated from each other" says:

——Isolation by surprise, and living alone.

I desperately wanted to keep something, so I left my name in "Friends Book".My name left in "Friends Book" is not only my feelings for Natsume, but also the secret fear and unwillingness in my heart.

"Guang, don't think about it by yourself." Zuo Wei pulled my arm, and his wide sleeves brushed against my body, his eyes were stern, "Listen to what Takashi has to say."

"There's nothing to say about that." I twitched the corners of my mouth in self-deprecating manner, and shook off Zuowei's hand, pretending not to see the panic in Natsume's eyes, "He chose Yahara's monster, that's it. No matter how much it is, it is still not as good as Mr. Cat and those monsters who tortured him."

"That's not the case!" Natsume stood up, "Hikari, you misunderstood—"

I had no patience to hear him finish. "If standing in front of you were your parents and I was your real older brother, would you go?"

Natsume was at a loss for words immediately: "I...I..."

"If I were your real family, you wouldn't leave." I said on Natsume's behalf, my heart was cold, "You leave as soon as you say, in the final analysis, it's because you don't regard this place as your home."

Eight years, Natsume and I have known each other for eight years, and lived together for four years.Although I am busy with my own work, most of my energy is also on the chess game, but I sincerely like and appreciate Natsume Takashi, and envy the eccentric world in his eyes.

I really want to give Natsume a home.I want to give him the stable family of three that Natsume never had, and I give everything for this wish.

——It turns out that I still can't afford it after all.

"Guizhi, tell me what you said to me!" Seeing that my expression was not right, Zuowei said hastily.

Natsume explained earnestly: "Hikari, you told me that you want to be a tree and become a force to support us... I also want to be like you, protecting the monsters I care about, instead of waiting for the cat teacher and Natori Mister came to save me... So, I'm going to ask Hiiragi and Doko, and ask them to teach me some spells—"

"But, I don't want to be a grass under your shelter. I want to be another tree beside you.

"I want to go back to Yayuan and use my innate powerful demon power to become a force that friends and monsters can rely on.

"That is the mission and meaning of my existence—Natsume Takashi—."

I kept a straight face and said nothing.Natsume stomped: "You didn't listen...you didn't listen!" He turned to Zuowei anxiously, "Zuowei, I knew it would be like this, so I couldn't tell him for a long time!"

I sneered: "Let people who care about you worry about you every day, what kind of great mission and significance is this?"

"I was asking Natori-san, Hiiragi, and Doko for advice!" Natsume yelled angrily.It was the first time we yelled like this.

"Come on." I laughed back angrily, "With your weak personality, it's not bad that you chew until there are no bones left after you are not used by monsters!"

"How can you say that about Takashi?! Do you know how much Takashi struggled to make this decision?!" Zuowei scolded me sharply, and I was about to retort, but I found Natsume staring at me with sad eyes.

As soon as my heart softened, I immediately regretted it, and I only heard Natsume's trembling voice softly said: "Guang, so I am such a useless person in your heart?"

"I didn't!" I was extremely wronged, "Kizhi, I just... I just..."

I just don't want you to move away!

Natsume probably felt that I had insulted him, and was disheartened, and the brilliance in his eyes sank.At this time, a car horn sounded outside the door, and Uncle Fujiwara Shigeru arrived.Natsume didn't even look at me, picked up the backpack, bent down to pick up the cardboard box with sundries on the entrance, and walked to the yard.

Two seconds later, I chased it out.

I enter Tengguang, as long as I make up my mind to do something, I will never give up until I die!

I must not let Natsume move back to Yahara!

The wind chimes in the yard made a few chimes, and I rushed to Natsume and grabbed the cardboard box from his hand.Natsume obviously didn't expect me to jump out suddenly, and was caught off guard: "Hikari, what are you doing!"

"I won't let you go!" I said arrogantly, and walked into the house with the cardboard box in my arms.

Natsume tugged at my arm: "I didn't say move now! It's after you finish the chess game—"

"You are not allowed to leave after we finish the game!" I pushed him.

"Shindo Hikaru!" Natsume was in a state of desperation, trying to snatch the cardboard box back from my arms, "You give me back, it's something from a monster!"

"Let them stay here!" I almost dropped this sentence with a smash.

"Light, don't be so unreasonable—" Natsume pulled my body hard.His strength seems to be stronger than mine, I was forced to turn around, and half of the cardboard box was dragged away by him, and I rushed to grab it violently—as a result, the cardboard box overturned, and the contents inside were smashed It all fell out with a clatter, and all kinds of small items of monsters, books, and yellowed paper were scattered all over the floor.Blown by the wind, it flies around lightly.

Seeing this, Zuo Wei, who rushed to the entrance, squatted down to pick up things without caring to stop us.

"Light! Do you know how important the things inside are?!" Natsume was really angry, glaring at me with sharp eyes.When it comes to monsters, his whole demeanor is different.

Not to be outdone, I said, "I will never let you move back to Yayuan."

"I've already made a decision." Xia Mu frowned slightly.

That's even more unforgivable. "Tell me the result after you have made a decision. Are you sick?!" I yelled.

"No, it's because I told you that I'm afraid I can't make up my mind!"

"Guizhi." Zuo Wei called out from behind, softly and strangely, like flowers falling into dust.We didn't pay attention, and we were still angrily confronting each other.

"Mr. Cat is not your bodyguard anymore! I will worry about you!"

"You don't believe I have the ability to protect myself!"

"This kind of thing is something that I believe can protect your life from danger?!"

……

"Guizhi!" Zuo Wei spoke again, with a strange and mournful tone.This time, both Natsume and I turned our heads away.I saw Zuo Wei half-kneeling under the wisteria in the courtyard, holding a book "Diary of Murasaki Shikibu" in his hand, and a stack of yellowed loose-leaf papers that fell out of the book.

☆、Twelve Cities and Twelve Souls come back, you are heartbroken

Two cities and twelve souls come back

Natsume looked at Zuowei, his expression changed drastically.

I was still about to yell at him, so he ran to Zuowei and snatched "Purasaki Shikibu Diary" and the stack of loose-leaf papers from Zuowei's hand.The movement range was so great that only a few clicks were heard, and the edges and corners of the loose-leaf paper were torn to shreds.

I've never seen Natsume so irritable, so I couldn't help being a little surprised - what's more interesting is Zuowei.

I don't know what Zuowei saw just now, he stared at the book and paper in Natsume's hand, as if he was about to ooze blood.I was startled and hurried over, "Zuowei?"

In the bright sunlight, Zuo Wei's face was as pale as ashes.I saw a shock, and I shuddered alive.His expression was only there when he predicted that his time would be numbered a long time ago, no, it was even sadder than that time.I suddenly turned my head to look at Natsume.

The loose-leaf paper in his hand was crumpled, Natsume bit his lower lip, and said with difficulty: "Zuowei, what... what did you see?"

There was almost broken despair in Zuo Wei's eyes.He opened his lips: "All."

Xia Mu's face also turned pale at this moment, as if all the strength in his body had been drained, he stepped back a few steps, and unconsciously let go of his hands, the yellowed paper was scattered in the wind, chaotic like butterflies.

A familiar letter landed lightly at my feet.I picked it up, looked at it, and stood there in a daze.

——"Out of its east gate, we parted in the rain, never to return for a thousand years