[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

"According to reports, the No.13 typhoon 'Meranda' that landed along the coast of Japan recently arrived in Kyoto at 53:[-] p.m. yesterday evening. According to reports from the local meteorological station, the typhoon's central wind has greatly exceeded their estimates , All subways, high-speed rails, trains and airports passing through Kyoto are completely banned, and the short-wave communication of mobile phones has also been imaged to varying degrees. According to experts' estimates, there will be at least four days before normal communication can resume. Please have family members in Kyoto Don't worry too much about the audience, although this typhoon 'Meranda' is the biggest sea tornado in Japan in the past ten years, but all relevant facilities in Kyoto have been put in place, and no casualties have been found yet..."

NHK's female reporter wore a raincoat and dutifully reported on the spot in the stormy weather. The rain soaked her long hair that was exposed outside, making her look extremely embarrassed.

In the steady voice of the female reporter, the director turned the camera to the interviewee.

"Ah..." Lu Yuan put down his phone in frustration, lowered his head and sighed at the chess record on the table. "I still can't get through... If I had known, I would have asked which hotel the two of them were staying in, so I could call the hotel and ask."

Ogata Seiji took a deep puff on his cigarette, "Tomorrow is the LG Cup qualifier between the two of them, even if you come back by Shinkansen immediately, it will be too late." He put the cigarette butt on the ashtray and twisted it, "I'll go to the dean to see if I can adjust the game between the two of them. Lu Yuan."

"Ah? Yes!"

"You call Fujimoto and ask him to check the check-in records of Xiaoliang and Shinto in all the hotels in Kyoto, and book a Shinkansen ticket for me by the way."

"Huh? But, but now the route in Kyoto is completely closed."

"Then book a ticket for the re-start!" Ogata grabbed the white suit jacket and put it on, and strode out of the smoking room.

Under the gold-rimmed lenses, the eyes were cold.

"I hope my hunch...is just an illusion..."

The No.13 Typhoon "Meranda" made the ancient city of Kyoto in a stormy situation for a while. Those historic sites that have been precipitated for thousands of years are crumbling in the storm, but they give people a feeling of standing upright. .

Shinto Hikari took out the key and opened the gate of the yard. Just after entering the entrance, he heard Mitsuko's exclamation.

"You child...! How did you get drenched like this?" My son has been out of the house in the heavy rain since [-] o'clock in the morning, no matter how hard she tried to persuade her, it was useless, and she was worried at home all day long.Hearing the sound of the door opening, he hurried over to check it out. Unsurprisingly, he saw the drenched son. "Come in! Take off your clothes right away and go take a hot shower."

Pushed by Mitsuko into the bathroom, Shinto Hikari was stunned for a while, took off his clothes, turned on the shower and faucet in the bathroom, waited for a while, stepped into the bathtub, and sank into it.

The steaming water vapor made the bathroom foggy. It is indeed very comfortable to take a hot bath after returning from the heavy rain, but Hikari Shinto soaked in the warm and comfortable bathtub, and his thoughts drifted to Tokyo a month ago. It was the day when there was a three-day torrential rain that had not been seen in 50 years.

Because he didn't notice the slanting rain, he pulled open the sliding door of the chess room. As a result, he was covered by the pouring rain, and Taya Ryo behind him also got a little rainwater.

Originally, boys have carefree temperaments, and it’s a hot summer, even if it rains heavily, the temperature may not drop, so Shinto Hikari doesn’t care about being drenched in the rain, but feels cool all over his body, refreshing .

After he ordered the takeaway, he went back to the chess room, took out the chess box, and was about to play the unfinished game just now. Ta Ya Ryo, who was sitting opposite him, asked him in surprise: "Shinto, aren't you going to take a shower?" ?”

He waved his hand nonchalantly, "I'll wash it at night, play chess first."

Unexpectedly, Ta Yaliang, who always heard the word "play chess", would burst into fighting spirit, put the chess box back for the first time, and stared at him resolutely: "Go take a bath first."

At that time, Hikari Shinto was thinking about the episode just now, and he felt that it was nothing for a boy to get wet in the rain, and it was unmanly to go to the shower like a girl yelling.So with a big wave of his hand, he took a sunspot and made the first move. "It will be washed later, let's finish this game first."

But Ta Yaliang took the chess box at his hand, met his angry eyes because of being interrupted, and said with an unquestionable momentum: "You go take a bath! I'll review the game."

"Taya Ryo! You don't want to play chess anymore!"

"Is there a conflict between wanting to play chess and taking a shower?"

"I don't want to take a shower so early! I'll sweat a lot after arguing with you later, and then I'll wash it again. It's very troublesome, okay?"

"Who told you to quarrel with me!"

"Anyway, I just don't want to take a shower!"

"Shinto Hikari, act like an adult! It's no wonder you don't catch a cold after sitting wet for five or six hours. I don't want to take care of the sick! Go take a bath!"

"Don't go!"

"To take a bath!"

"Don't go—!!!"

Shinto Hikari roared in a loud voice that he was always proud of, shaking the chessboard three times by him.

Ta Ya Ryo put down the chess box, took a deep breath, and smiled——

Then, he stood up abruptly, went around behind Hikari Shinto, grabbed his clothes, and dragged him to the bathroom.

Open the door, push people in, close the door, lock the door.

All in one go.

The people inside were silent for a few seconds before they slammed on the bathroom door violently as if reacting. "Taya Ryo, you are going to die! Let me out!"

At this moment, Ryo Toya no longer had the anger just now, he calmly shook the keychain, and the keys made a crisp knocking sound. "Whenever you take a shower, I will let you out. Don't worry about the chess game, I will arrange it soon."

"asshole--!"

"Then, I'll go to the chess room first, take a good bath."

"Hey! Hey—! Give me a clean towel and a change of clothes—! Taya Ryo!"

Memories kept coming back, and Hikari Shinto's cheeks were a little red under the transpiration of the water vapor. He licked his hair with one hand, closed his eyes, and had an annoyed and helpless smile on his face.

"Ah... I really feel angry when I think about that guy. It's like I don't have the joy of living every day if I don't quarrel with him. Every time I quarrel with him, I feel that my voice must be hoarse... What an idiot..."

The water flooded out of the bathtub, Shinto Hikari sank his body a little further, bent his knees, and hugged him.

More water overflowed the bathtub.

"What a... idiot..."

"……where are you……"

Five days had passed since that guy named Kamo walked out of the hotel room.

The subway, bicycle, or even walking can't reach that Kiyomizu Temple, it will only go around in circles around it.

Asking Mitsuko on the sidelines if she wants to go to Kiyomizu Temple to thank the expert who treated her grandmother, and by the way, when she also brought him there, Mitsuko seemed to have completely forgotten about it, and said, Hikari, what are you talking about, The operation on grandma's disease was very successful, which is all thanks to the doctor.

After spending three days in the library, I searched almost all the relevant books in the Heian period, and searched hundreds of pages of information about Ka Mo on the Internet, but I still knew very little.

In addition to knowing a lot of things about Abe Seimei and Kamo's constitutional protection, there are not many books that mention the words "Kamo family".

When searching online, most of them are onmyoji cartoons that have become very popular recently. There are quite a lot of information about He Mao's constitutional protection, but there is nothing he is looking for.

But there was one thing that he found out through the library.

Such a sentence was mentioned in a book dedicated to recording the anecdotes of the Heian era.

A name is also a curse.

Among onmyojis, telling each other your "name" is a very reckless and dangerous thing, because as long as the other party knows your name, they can cast a curse on you through this name.Unless the opponent's method is weak and you are counterattacked by the spell, otherwise, this kind of mana that casts a curse secretly is very vicious.If the other party wants to kill you and then quickly, if the other party knows your name, it will lead to irreparable consequences.

——If one day, you know my name, maybe I will return him to you.

Five nights ago, when He Mao left the room, he once said such a sentence.

Does this mean that if he knew Kamo's full name, he would be able to endanger Kamo and return Taya Ryo to him?

Onmyojis probably don't want people to know their real names. It's said in several books. If a powerful onmyoji knows his real name, if the other party intends to kill him, it will be unreasonable.

Shinto Hikaru leaned his back against the smooth bathtub wall, his body gradually relaxed.

That Kamo looked like he really wanted to fight Abe Seimei.

If... Tell Abe Seimei his full name... No, no, he is not Abe Seimei's opponent at all...

No, the most important thing now is to find a way to know Ka Mao's full name, full name, full name... how do you know!

Who is he, what era is he, and how to find out!

There is no record of Kamo's world in the library at all, and there is only the period when Abe Seimei was active in the Heian era. How does he know which generation and name the modern Kamo family has passed down to?

Hikari Shindo slowly submerged in the water.

And... Zuo Wei's dream, what does it have to do with this matter?

Whether Taya Ryo has Sakai's fan pendant on his body is not important anymore.

Now he just wants to get Ta Yaliang back.

Zuowei, if you had known all this a long time ago, you met in the dream to help us in the first place... Then, please, meet me in the dream again...

I have so many things... I want to ask you...

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