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

No.20 Second round

Footsteps stepped on the stairs and made a "squeak" and "squeak" sound. Natori saw an older middle-aged woman in a kimono with short white hair on the top floor of the attic.

"Miss Nanase, look who is here." The field said inexplicably.

Nanase pushed her glasses and smiled, "I was wondering when I would meet you, Natori Monday."

The black-haired youth stood in front of the chessboard on the attic floor.Natori saw a dark red liquid on it, which glowed silver in the skylight.With just one glance, he recognized that it was a bloodstain with powerful spiritual power, and it had been a certain age.

"This is... a monster?" Natori looked around, but couldn't detect the breath of a monster.

"It's not a monster. It's just a ghost obsessed with obsession." The black-haired young man said calmly, squatting down, and took out the spell paper and put it on the chessboard.Blood stained it, bright red, spreading like life.Soon, the entire spell paper was soaked in blood, and even the winding writing on it could not be seen clearly.

The blood on the chessboard maintained the life of that ghost!Natori suddenly felt palpitations, but he didn't know where the palpitations came from.Maybe it's because the static blood on the chessboard is bubbling on the talisman paper; maybe it's because of the strange expression of malice and pleasure on his face when the talisman paper is full of blood.

"Stop!" Seeing Chang took out more talisman papers, the black breath bursting from him at that moment made Natori hold him back, "What are you doing!"

"The master is exorcising demons." Natori asked, but it was Nanase who answered, "You don't want to obstruct it, Natori."

"You can get rid of demons by enclosing the chessboard with arrays, so why use such weird sorcery!" Natori said disgustedly.

The field pointed to the blood on the chessboard, "Don't you think this is very interesting? I want to study it."

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"I remembered." Mr. Cat said suddenly, "It seems that the saying of using blood with powerful spiritual power to perform sorcery began to spread two years ago."

"It started with Sai." Natori made a helpless gesture, "I was really disgusted by them at that time." That's why he cared so much about Mado's whereabouts afterwards.

"Shinto-kun said that before Sai disappeared, the blood on the chessboard showed signs of fading," Natsume remembered, "So it was because the field used talisman paper to take away the blood?"

Natori nodded: "This is a deal between us."

"trade?"

"If the field hadn't been involved, maybe I wouldn't have bothered about sai. Once they use this kind of dirty magic, I feel uncomfortable." Natori said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "I thought at that time: I must What to do, for Go and my cousin."

Like Ryo, Natori has quite a cleanliness in Go.He couldn't stand a chess player as strong as Taya Yukihiro being associated with these dirty things.Natori walked to the chessboard calmly, protecting the blood on the chessboard behind him.

"What do you want to do?" Nanase was a little annoyed, but still maintained proper etiquette, "We discovered this first, please step aside, Natori."

"I know this ghost. He is as strong as Honinbo Shusaku and Taya Yukihiro." Natori did not back down, "If he disappears like this, it will be a great loss to the Japanese chess world."

Dechang looked at him, not knowing what kind of expression he had in his eyes.After a while, he said slowly: "For a greater existence."

"I will seal him into the chessboard." Natori said, "I will be responsible for bringing the chessboard he is on to places like Innoshima and Yahara."

Dechang didn't speak for a long time.It was Nanase who was in a hurry: "Master, this precedent cannot be set!"

"This is just a compromise." Natori said in a deep voice, taking out a string of paper dolls in his arms, "If you want to move this chessboard, you must defeat me first!"

"Master!" Gua Ji and Empress Sasa said at the same time.

"Oh, interesting." Unexpectedly, Zhichang laughed mockingly, "Is this ghost so important to you? In my eyes, it is useless at all."

"Whatever you want," Natori said firmly.

"The iron law cannot be broken, that ghost must disappear." Chang said casually, "As for when he will disappear... the blood on the chessboard seems to be useful."

Surprised.He understood the meaning of the field.He can extend the time the ghost exists, but at the same time, he wants the blood on the chessboard!However, the disappearance of blood stains is equivalent to the death of ghosts!

And he can't just watch Sai die!

"As you and Kitty guessed, I buried the paper doll under the floor of the attic. It looks very similar to the demon array, but it is actually slightly different. It is an array that seals demon power. I didn't I intend to make sai disappear, but temporarily seal part of sai's demonic power into the paper doll. Sai gradually loses enough demonic power, and will return to the chessboard and continue to sleep. At that time, I can talk to Shinto and move the chessboard Go to places like Innoshima and Yahara. At that time, Sai will no longer have to be hunted down by demon exorcists for no reason."

Natsume let out a sigh of relief.Natori did not make Sai disappear, on the contrary, he protected him everywhere.

"Why didn't you just seal Sai back into the chessboard at that time?" Teacher Cat asked.

"I can't do this. On the one hand, I haven't studied blood-related black arts. After sealing sai back, the field will take away the blood on the chessboard. I don't know if sai will disappear with it; on the other hand What about Shinto? Sai has already played against my cousin as Shinto, and my cousin has been watching Shinto. It’s hard for him to have a peer who cares. Besides, if I seal him back, then Didn’t you make it clear that you want to go against Tokyo’s iron law? As the field said, Sai must disappear.”

"..." Natsume was speechless.In fact, Mr. Natori, you are mainly partial to Ryo-kun...

"After I tore off the array, blood stains appeared on the chessboard for a short time. Is it because of the overflowing power of Sai in the paper doll?" Natori nodded, and Mr. Cat asked, "Why did the blood disappear again later?"

Natori laughed shortly: "I don't know either. Willpower is far stronger than external monster power. I can only explain that if a person has the will to go, what is the use of external things?"

"The sai who returned to the chessboard is the one who wants to leave?" Natsume asked.

"The yellow-haired boy wakes up crying almost every morning." Mr. Cat said, Natsume and Mr. Natori were both stunned by these words, "I'm afraid Sai didn't want to leave by himself."

"I can't figure it out either." Natori said, sighing again, "But it's useless to pursue these now."

Natori is shocked when Guaji says that there is no ghost on the chessboard.The paper figurine array completed the transfer of part of Sai's monster power on May [-]th, and it has been exactly one month now, so Zuo Wei should have quietly returned to the chessboard without any surprises.He suspected that Jichang or someone else had noticed his little trick, so he took a trip to Tokyo.

He saw his cousin at the Young Lions Competition of the Chess Academy.The boy punched the wall, and his demeanor was completely lost.Only then did Natori know that Shindo Mitsu had never been defeated since Sakai disappeared.Natori knew the reason for Hikari's defeat, but he had no less doubts about Sakai's disappearance than Hikari.Not long after, Natori met Natsume.The bond between Ban Xia made him gradually understand many things, especially the subtle emotions between humans and monsters.

From the beginning to the end, it was Natori's thought of an outsider. Perhaps, he didn't need to delve into the reason for Zuowei's disappearance.

"Natori-san..." Natsume felt sad.Natori is putting it lightly, but Natsume did not encounter a single youkai in Tokyo.Natori maintained Sakui's existence in this forbidden city. Needless to say, Natsume also knew how much pressure he had suffered from the outside world and himself.He doesn't argue, he does enough superficial work, but he refuses to cooperate in his heart.At the beginning, the owner of the warehouse entrusted him to get rid of Hiiragi, and he ruthlessly agreed. Even Natsume thought he really wanted to kill Hiiragi, and was very chilled.Later, the truth came to light: Natori just wanted to use the power of the thunder formation to break the rope around Hiiragi's neck.

Isn't Mr. Natori such a person?There is a kind of softness and toughness in his character, he behaves exquisitely in the world, but never gives up the kindness in his heart.

"I don't know what's wrong with you." Cat teacher restrained his playful look, "Natori Monday, you have always hated our 'inhumans'. You saved Hiiragi because you had feelings for it when you were young. What about Sai? Shinto and him don't even know who you are."

"Of course Shindo knows who I am, I'm a big star that everyone loves." Natori did not forget to show the smile surrounded by flowers at this moment.

Natsume and Mr. Kitty rolled their eyes at the same time.Only then did Natori put away his smile, and said, "I don't know why."

In Natori's cognition, non-self races like monsters and ghosts should draw a clear line from human beings, just like the mantra of the field-"things that are not human, return to dust".Why on earth did he want to protect Sai back then?

Natsume saw the famous name, and there was an answer in his heart that was ready to come out.After getting acquainted with Hikaru Shinto, there are some things that Natsume can understand even though he has never experienced them.

"Because Natori-san loves Go." Natsume said, "Just like Shinto-kun and Taya-kun."

"I gave up being a professional chess player and chose acting." Natori said mockingly, but his voice was filled with a certain loneliness, as if he was asking Natsume, or himself, "...how much can I love Go? "

"You love the same thing, but express it in different ways." Natsume said, "Shindo-kun and Taya-kun pass on Go through the game, and Mr. Natori expresses it by protecting the players."

The feelings are the same, just expressed differently.Obviously the same loneliness, Reiko is enthusiastic, and Takashi is quiet.Blood relationship is a mirror, and Natsume Takashi and Natsume Reiko are the two sides of the mirror, which contradict but inherit each other.Natori Monday and Taya Ryo, why not?

Natori was speechless for a long time, and felt a heat flowing in his chest.The long-standing doubts were finally answered, and he shouldn't deceive himself anymore.He loves Go, knowing that he may never be able to catch up with Liang's footsteps, and he will never be able to make Liang's eyes turn to him, but he still loves Go.He knew that sai was teaching Go, so he didn't want to seal sai back directly.He expected Liang to have a comparable opponent.Light finally came to Ryo's side, but Sai left by himself.If he had directly sealed Sai back then... would everything be different?

"Sai disappeared in the end." Cat teacher pointed out this point mercilessly, "Natori, what you have done for so many years is useless."

"Yes." Natori looked at "Hikari" and smiled, but Natsume felt that the smile was full of anxiety, "Whether it's Go or Sai, it's useless."