[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

After drinking two bottles of iced Coke along the way, Shinto Hikari felt the high temperature baking in the crowded Kiyomizu Temple, and then realized that it was time for the school to go on summer vacation.

He is out of touch with society!

This recognition gave him a momentary shock. You must know that he was a delinquent boy who wanted to follow the trend of everything in elementary school.Don't you see that the two yellow hairs on his forehead were dyed by him with the money to buy stationery at the beginning of school, and he was almost beaten to death by Masao Shinto.

He entered Tengguang, and he was out of touch with society!

Amitabha is guilty of sin, so go and buy a takoyaki to suppress the shock.

After buying two boxes of takoyaki, Shinto Hikaru played around the stalls in Kiyomizu Temple for a while before he remembered what he was here for.

Taya Ryo's cell phone was still saying that it was shutting down, which annoyed him to death.

How dare you not answer his phone!

Hikari Shindo, who vowed to kill him ten times when he was found later, was squeezed by the crowd, and couldn't stand the crowding, so he fled to the backyard of the temple.

After all, this place is still a holy land of Buddhism. Most people consciously don’t disturb the cleanliness, but this doesn’t mean that Shinto Hikaru, a junior high school graduate, professional chess player, who doesn’t hear things outside the window, has this kind of common sense. Anyway, he just thinks this place is clean. , which manages so much.

It was also his luck that he took a few breaths in the cool backyard with a small bridge and flowing water, and met the person he had been looking for for nearly two hours under the sun.

Hikaru Shinto was overjoyed, and was about to step forward when he found Ryo Toya talking to a young man.

He was far away, so he couldn't hear what the two of them were talking about, but the young man in sky blue kimono looked indifferent, while Ta Yaliang looked anxious and spoke quickly.The conversation between the two parties seemed to be fruitless, the young man shook his head with indifference and indifference as if he was outside the world of mortals, then turned and left, only Ta Yaliang was left standing silently in the courtyard.

Shinto Hikari went in without knowing it, but he was annoyed when he saw that young man's attitude towards Ryo Taya. Why did he treat that guy like this?That guy is he—

Just as he was about to step forward, he saw Ta Yaliang suddenly waved his right hand, and a huge object suddenly appeared from midair, fell to the ground and shrank into a ball.

Shinto Hikari opened his eyes wide.

The thing that was constantly struggling on the ground let out a terrifying low growl, but Taya Ryo stood upright on the spot as if he didn't hear it.

A cold, angry voice reached Shinto Hikaru's ears: "You still want to swallow my spiritual power at your level?"

After a busy day of activities and work, Ryo Toya waited tiredly in the hotel lobby for the elevator to come down.

Today's work seems to be very tiring, it's just an ordinary guiding chess, but his body is as exhausted as if he had fought a big fight. The force that has been filling his body recently seems to be exhausted, circulating dryly in his body flow.

what happened to him……

The elevator moved slowly, Taya Ryo rubbed his temples, walked out of the elevator after a ding sound, and found his room.As soon as his hand touched the handle and before he swiped his card, the door was pushed open by him.

anyone?

What happened in the past month made him more vigilant in an instant. He squeezed the formula with his right hand and gently pushed open the hotel door with his breath held.

The ceiling crystal light in this hotel can change five colors, and the color will change every time you press the switch. Now the light in the room is a gloomy and enchanting purple, which looks weird and magical under the illumination of the other small lights.

Hikari Shinto sat in front of the chessboard, with his head down and motionless.

Taya Ryo breathed a sigh of relief, "Shinto?" He opened the door and walked in. The strange purple light in the room made him feel a little dizzy.

He frowned, and turned on the switch of the crystal lamp repeatedly, and the light turned into bright colors of yellow and white.

The room without the weird colors became brighter and warmer, but the person kneeling in front of the chessboard still looked the same. His long golden bangs covered most of his face, and his expression could not be seen clearly.

Ta Yaliang noticed Shinto Hikaru's abnormal silence, his heart was worried and at the same time increased a little vigilance-it's not that there is something that confuses him by turning into a familiar person, it's just that his eyesight has improved recently, even the milky white soul on the human body You can see it clearly.The Shindo Hikaru in front of him was real, but he wasn't sure if he was possessed by something.

"Shinto? What's the matter?" He walked across to Shinto Hikari, and as a professional chess player, his keen sense of Go made him subconsciously glance at the board.

At this glance, most of the doubts turned into annoyance.

On the board is the recent game between him and Hikari Shinto. He doesn't think it was a good game, but it's not too bad either.There are countless games between him and Hikari Shinto, such an ordinary game may be difficult for others to remember, but for him and Hikari Shinto, every game between the two of them should and must be remembered .

And the current game on the chessboard is scattered and chaotic, and there are even some mistakes in several places. This should not be a mistake that a professional chess player should make at all!

"Shinto, you—"

"Taya," Shinto Hikari said suddenly, "You remember this round, right?"

Shinto's voice was a bit strange.

Taya Ryo immediately noticed Shinto Hikaru's mood swings.

But he didn't know why Shinto asked this question suddenly, so after hesitating for a while, he replied: "...um."

"When was it, which day, which hour, and how long did it fall?" Shinto Hikari continued almost immediately after Taya Ryo's answer, with a slight tremor in his voice.

Taya Ryo was a little impatient, he was already tired today, and now he had to deal with Shinto Hikari's strange mood and a bunch of meaningless questions.

"Why do you ask me this?" His physical exhaustion and spiritual dryness made him look unhappy, "Shinto, I also want to ask you about the chess game you arranged. Would you mind if you arranged it like this?"

Shinto Hikari took a deep breath.

Then, he put down the white piece that he had been holding for a long time, and let it fall into the chess box with a hollow sound.

He raised his head, his golden-green pupils shone with inexplicable brilliance, and looked at the green-eyed youth standing in front of him. "As for the Taya Ryo I know, his chess style is stable, every step is steady, but he hides his murderous intentions. He can patiently wait for the opponent to step into the trap he has set, and then strangle the prey in an instant. But he—— is absolutely It is impossible to make light and elegant chess moves."

Ryo Taya was a little confused, Hikari Shindo was very strange today.

"What are you talking about, Shinto, I have been playing chess with you for so long, so what if you have one or two moves of your own style. Could it be that you still need to charge patent fees?" As if thinking of something funny, he He smiled and said the next sentence.

Shinto Hikari didn't smile, he just kept staring at him.

With a strange look.

"Taya," he said in a rare calm tone, "my style of chess is inherited from Zuowei. Although it is agile but not elegant, the most important thing in Xiuce style is not the changeable chess moves, but the practical and practical moves. Pressing. It’s not the kind of ethereal, ethereal, overlooking the overall situation.”

Taya Ryo's smile faded away slowly, and the dark green eyes became darker.

Shinto Hikaru picked up the folding fan and stood up, looking directly at the short-haired boy opposite him.

"I didn't tell Taya Ryo about her grandmother's illness, but you told me yesterday morning that since her grandmother's illness has stabilized, it doesn't matter to go to her house later. However, I have made it clear to Taya They mentioned that grandma’s disease was taboo, so I didn’t seek medical treatment, and you asked me to persuade grandma, but you don’t remember. Why?”

The young man with short hair and ears had deep eyes, staring at Hikari Shindo, without speaking.

"Also—" Hikari Shinto took a deep breath, pinching the folding fan tightly with his fingers, almost breaking it.

The golden-green pupils suddenly met the pair of deep pupils.

"If you were Taya Ryo, you would never turn a blind eye to the 'Sawei' I mentioned."

"I saw everything about you in Kiyomizu Temple this afternoon."

"who are you?"

There was a long silence.

The room fell into a deathly silence after Shinto Hikaru finished his last word.

Shinto Hikaru stared straight at the person in front of him, biting his lower lip tightly, showing a stubborn look.

The boy opposite him suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, with an indifferent smile on his face.

"Really, he undid the spell I cast."

"You're not Taya!" Shinto Hikaru's back was already sweaty from tension and fear, but he still shouted loudly: "Give me back Taya!"

The person in front of him seemed to have not heard it at all, and continued talking on his own, even showing a distressed look: "Should I say that I am indeed worthy of being the number one onmyoji in ancient and modern Japan? I will give you the solution easily." The spell under..."

He sighed, rolling his eyes.

"It seems that if you want to win him, you will have to go through a hard fight."

"You've already gone through a hard fight." Shindo Hikaru tried to make his voice firmer, but the slightly trembling ending still betrayed his state of mind at the moment. "Isn't it? In Kiyomizu Temple."

Shinto Hikari felt that he would never forget that afternoon at Kiyomizu Temple for the rest of his life.

Kiyomizu Temple, who originally went to look for Ryo Toya, saw scenes there that he had never dared to imagine before.

His best friend, the boy named Taya Ryo, just waved his hand in the air, and something appeared inexplicably and fell to the ground.

The body had already reacted before the brain could think - Shinto Hikaru tightly covered his mouth to prevent it from making any sound, and at the same time quietly retracted his whole body behind the tall pillar.

Ta Yaliang's indifferent tone and a strange roar behind him made his hair stand on end. He accidentally glanced at the thing that Ta Yaliang swept to the ground just now - a mass of carrion covered in scarlet blood, constantly struggling on the ground. Slowly overflowing blue-black juice.It was like the color of a rotting corpse that was stirred into mud after it was rotten and stinky, slowly vomited out from the mouth of the rotten flesh.

If it weren't for his strong self-control, he would have watched so many bloody and violent horror movies, and he would have vomited so faintly by now.

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