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

No.20 four times

After hearing Natsume finish the whole thing, Mr. Cat said "I'll go out and look for it, Natsume, you stay here" and jumped out of the window.

In fact, Natsume was not worried.Is it because of Teacher Cat?Light and Mr. Cat always bring him a sense of peace of mind.

At this time, hurried footsteps came from the corridor.Xia Mu was shocked.Could it be light?

However, the sound of footsteps stopped abruptly close at hand, as if hesitating for a while.Natsume held his breath.

The knock on the door still rang.But two, light and elegant.

If it's not light, who could it be?Confused, Natsume opened the door.

The visitor was a boy as old as him.Dark green short hair, emerald green eyes.The suit jacket was in his hand, and the white shirt was stained with sweat.He was still panting slightly, his tie was a little messy, as if he was running here desperately.

He holds a pinwheel in his hand.

The boy didn't greet Natsume politely, but wandered around the ward eagerly.Seeing the emptiness around him, the anxiety in his eyes dimmed little by little.

"Excuse me..." Natsume asked in confusion.

As if waking up from a dream, the boy looked at Natsume.The gaffe just now was replaced by proper etiquette.He bowed to Natsume, "I'm sorry to bother you."

Then, he reached out his hand to Natsume, "I am Toya Ryo."

So he is Taya-kun?Natsume was stunned in surprise.Taya-kun is not what he imagined.Every time Hikari mentioned Ryo, he always had a passionate expression, yelling "I will definitely defeat him", making Natsume think that Taya Ryo is the kind of person who is unsmiling and arrogant.But Taya-kun in front of him, no matter how he looks at it, is just a gentle and handsome young man.At first glance, even flattering.

Natsume shook hands with him: "I'm Takashi Natsume. Is Taya-kun here to find Shinto-kun?"

Liang was taken aback for a moment, obviously he didn't expect Natsume to say his intention so directly.He nodded in embarrassment. "I'm worried about him" Liang couldn't utter the words, so he reluctantly found an excuse: "There are many interviews waiting for him in the Chess Academy." And don't think about it, why didn't he also skip the interviews and come out to find light?

"Shinto-kun didn't come here." Natsume said, "But I already have a friend who went to look for him."

So, Natsume already knew the result of this round?Just answered Natsume's call?Liang was stunned again when he heard the words, and a feeling of not knowing what kind of feeling surged in his heart.

The person who won chess today is Taya-kun, but why is his face so ugly?Natsume felt confused, so when he saw Ryo's sweaty back, he looked at the paper pinwheel in his hand, and said, "Taya-kun, come in and sit down."

"I'm sorry, I'm going downstairs to buy things now." Liang was even more embarrassed.He had rarely been so embarrassed in his life.

"No, no, I'm leaving the hospital soon." Natsume said quickly, "Taya-kun, come in and sit down."

This Natsume-kun seems to have a calming power... Ryo has never played chess so much.After the chess game ended, he ran away without a trace, and refused to answer the phone. All kinds of irresponsible behaviors wore out Liang's patience.In short, Liang just wanted to pull out Guang and punch him, yelling "what the hell are you doing" at him.The anger and disappointment he had held back for several hours made him cross half of the city to the Tokyo Hospital. When he got to the nurse's desk, he immediately asked, "Which room Natsume-kun lives in?"

However, at this moment in front of Natsume, Ryo's anger calmed down for some reason.Rather than calming down, it would be better to say that he became powerless because he had nowhere to vent.Liang walked into the ward awkwardly, regretful in his heart.See, you are impulsive when you encounter Hikari Shinto, and this disturbs Natsume-kun, let's see how you end up.

At this time, a strong wind blew outside the window.The paper pinwheel in the boy's hand spun loudly.

"Natori left this to me." Seeing Natsume staring at the windmill, Ryo said smoothly.

"Huh... Mr. Natori knows how to do this stuff." Natsume was curious.Liang saw that he seemed interested, so he handed the pinwheel to him.

"I heard that Natsume-kun and cousin are old acquaintances."

"Yes," Natsume nodded, looking at the paper pinwheel spinning happily in his hand, "I've met him several times before."

"That's it." Liang was glad that he had found a good topic, "Where did Natsume-kun and cousin meet?"

Where did we meet?Natsume snapped her fingers in her heart.Yahara, hot springs, villages, caves, Obashira's house... I have all met Mr. Natori.If you count carefully, the frequency is still quite high.Natsume had no choice but to say something that sounded silly: "I've met him in many places."

Luckily Liang did not doubt that he was there: "My cousin is always filming in various places, but he seldom comes to Tokyo."

"Come to Tokyo less?" Natsume repeated.Mr. Natori, as a celebrity, should be in and out of Tokyo frequently, "Why?"

Liang looked away for a while.Natori left overnight, but Ryo really hoped that he could stay.There is an important chess game tomorrow, and my parents are in China. Although there are Ogata, Awara, and Shihe, the feelings of relatives are different after all.

Thinking of Natori at this time, and the round of Hikari just now, many, many thoughts surged up in an instant.The first snow in winter, the spinning paper pinwheel... Liang suddenly sighed: "Maybe... it's because of me."

"Because...you?" Natsume was puzzled.He didn't know why Ta Yaliang said such a sentence to a stranger like him.But if Taya-kun wants to talk, he's willing to listen.

The paper pinwheel spins leisurely. The names in "Friends' Book" flew up and down gently.Taya Ryo saw himself in his childhood in the sound of crashing papers all over the sky.Whenever he thinks back to that time, he seems to hear the sound of the paper pinwheel spinning, and see that lonely little boy like a doll, holding a paper pinwheel on the street where the snow has fallen.

"Why did I lose to you again! Xiao Liang!" The boy in his memory sighed in frustration, exhaled white mist, and lay down on his back on the tatami behind the chessboard.At that time, not long after Ryo entered elementary school, Natori was already a high school student.

In Ryo's impression, Natori is a "sociable" person (after hearing it, he would laugh at him as a "chess idiot" who lacks words, but Ryo thinks this is really the most appropriate word).Natori is very good at reading words and expressions, and can always say what adults want to hear, especially women.Both his mother and Miss Shihe seem to like him very much.

However, Ryo felt that Natori had been... perfunctory.He earnestly interacts with others, but at the same time withdraws.Only on the chessboard did he feel that he had seen the real Natori: sharp, decisive, with intriguing maneuvers at every turn.

The actor who is good at dancing with long sleeves and smiles at others, and the fast player on the chessboard, which one is the real Natori?Or, neither?

"Xiao Liang, your eyes are so scary when you play chess." One day, Natori suddenly said this.Ryo was taken aback, seeing Natori looking down at his hand with a disgusted expression, as if something was crawling in his skin.This kind of expression is not unfamiliar, Liang has seen it on the face of the red-haired boy in the Go class.

Ryo had conceded defeat to Natori at the time.

"For a long time, I didn't communicate with him other than playing chess." Liang paused, his eyelashes cast a faint shadow on his face, "I thought my cousin hated me."

"Of course not." Natsume said without hesitation.There is a lizard monster living in Natori's skin, Ryo-kun obviously misunderstood.But, how should he explain to Liang?

"I know not." Liang smiled lightly, "Because he gave me a paper pinwheel."

Returning home one day, Ryo heard faint voices outside Natori's room.He heard fragments of "monsters", "monsters", "guaji", "it's inconvenient in Tokyo", "clean it up for me", etc.Suddenly, the door opened by itself inexplicably.As the cold wind blows past, Ryo suddenly meets Natori in the room.The ground is snow-white, filled with paper dolls cut out of temporary washi paper.

Natori's face changed drastically: "Have you been here for a long time?"

Liang was stunned for a moment: "...I don't understand what you're saying." However, there was a little unwillingness in his heart, and Liang asked in a murmur, "Why do you want to be a puppet?"

After a long time, when Liang recalled this scene, he always felt that he had bumped into a great secret.He had never seen Natori like that.Panicked, yet vulnerable and helpless at the same time.But it was too late to catch everything, and Natori returned to his previous appearance, with a casual smile in his crimson eyes forever.

He picked up a few white paper figurines and tied them into the shape of a windmill at an incredible speed.He quickly fetched glue and a long slender bamboo strip.After a few minutes, a delicate paper pinwheel is done.Liang was dumbfounded.

"Here, here it is for you." Natori handed him the pinwheel and smiled, "Didn't you just win the first prize in the children's Go competition?"

"Ah? Oh...thank you." Liang took it flattered.He lowered his head: "I thought... I thought you hated me. "

"Hate Xiao Liang? How come! I admire Xiao Liang very much. Everyone says Xiao Liang is a genius!"

I don't want to be a genius.At that time, Liang whispered in his heart.

——I just want to be an ordinary chess player with many friends.

However, that inner voice only appeared when Liang was a child, and later, he gradually learned not to care.There will always be something to lose, but these are not worth mentioning in front of Go.

It turns out that Natori doesn't hate herself!Liang smiled comfortably, and happily twirled the pinwheel with his hands.The sun shines brightly on the windmill.

Natori was stunned: "I said you...do you really like it that much?"

"Yeah!" Liang nodded vigorously, his eyes crooked with a smile, "No one has ever given me a gift because I won chess." Everyone took it for granted.

Natori stared blankly at the boy who was obsessed with paper pinwheels, and suddenly smiled: "Xiao Liang, if you win chess in an important event, I will give you one of these paper pinwheels. See how many you can collect in your life."

"Okay!"

After the end of the new first stage league, Liang left Yuxuanjian and found a paper pinwheel in his shoe cabinet.He heard the familiar sound of the wind when the door opened by itself again, as if an invisible shadow brushed past him.

Isn't my cousin filming in a small town?Liang felt strange, but didn't think much about it.The paper pinwheel is an agreement that only he and Natori know about.On the back of the pinwheel he saw a line: - "Congratulations on passing your vocational exam. Monday"

Liang smiled slightly, and walked into the first snow in early winter with a paper pinwheel.The vocational exam has been over for several months, did Natori only know about himself now?

My cousin and I really have gone farther and farther.

——"Don't care about things you shouldn't care about."

For a while, Natori wanted to beat him so badly, like the red-haired boy in the Go class.Ryo's father, Taya Yukihiro, said such a sentence to Natori.Since then, Natori seems to have given up on Go.He laughed at himself: "It's impossible for me to defeat Xiao Liang anyway, so it's better to do other things."

No, not like that.Liang wanted to refute, but couldn't find the right words.Why should every kid aim to beat him?Is their purpose of playing Go just to defeat him?

Then I will lose to you.As long as you don't give up Go, it's fine for me to lose a hundred games.

Liang walked in the snow, and the snowflakes fell on his shoulders.The pinwheels whirled and danced in the snow, emitting a faint blue light of sadness.

Now, he found Natori's paper pinwheel in the shoe cabinet.However, Guang pushed him away and rushed out of the crowd like fleeing.When the light ran away from him, there was a gust of golden wind, and the windmill made of paper dolls spun along with it.Liang wanted to grab him, but what he grabbed was nothing but the sound of the wind.

It turns out that every paper pinwheel is an irreversible time.