[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

"Ah Guang?" Mitsuko knocked on the door twice outside. "It's already noon, do you still want to get up? If you don't get up, the food will be cold."

"Ah, just come." Shindo Hikaru woke up from his daze when Mitsuko shouted, hurriedly lifted the quilt, put on a T-shirt and trousers casually, and ran to the bathroom to wash up. In less than 2 minutes, he finished brushing his teeth, took a shower, and rinsed his face with cold water.

Mitsuko got angry when she saw his virtue, and almost smashed it down with the spatula in her hand. "Shinto Hikari! Do you want to spoil it in such a hot day? Go back and wash it again!"

"I'm in a hurry." Hikari Shinto hurriedly ran down the second floor, opened the refrigerator, randomly took two slices of bread, put it in his mouth, and waved at Mitsuko who followed. "Mom, I'm going out for a while! I won't have lunch!"

"Ah Hikaru!" Mitsuko shouted hastily, but Shinto Hikari didn't give her any room to speak, put on his sneakers, opened the door and ran out. "This child..." She also had no choice but to put down the spatula, "The bigger he is, the more disobedient he gets. Get out with an umbrella."

Sitting at the dining table, wearing presbyopic glasses and reading the newspaper, Grandpa Shindo Hikari laughed a few times, and said slowly: "Let him take care of the child's affairs, we adults don't need to worry about it. "

"Yes," Mitsuko stepped forward with a smirk, and took the newspaper from her father's arms. "Then dad, tell me, shouldn't we juniors take care of adults' affairs?"

"This... Mitsuko, you also know..."

"Dad! Since you have already quit politics, don't worry about these big and small troubles above! Those guys whose IQ is not as high as a pig don't care what they are doing!"

"Mi, Mitsuko, don't be angry..."

[He Mao, his name is unknown.He is the adopted son of Master He Mao of the current dynasty. He has been gifted with extraordinary spiritual power since he was a child. It is said that he can see the soul of a person from birth. He has a pair of "pure" eyes praised by Master He Mao.At the age of fifteen, he already ranked first among the Onmyoji divisions and became His Royal Highness He Mao who sits in the imperial city.

Qingming appeared in front of the Six-Tails Thunder Beast that day. At this time, the Onmyoji headed by Ka Mo was fighting with the Six-Tails Thunder Beast. this crisis.It can also be said that it was Abe Seimei who rescued Kamo under the attack of the six-tailed thunder beast and got rid of the monster.

He Mao has always been very talented, before he was weak, there was no one in the imperial city who was his opponent. Occasionally, he saw someone who was even more powerful in spells than him. When the strong met the strong, he thought of competing with him.

Qingming admired the demeanor in his eyes and agreed. 】

The sound of the waterfall.

"Zuowei... your fan pendant has the ability to transcend time and space..." Konoe Hikaru lowered his head and murmured, "It is because of this that you have wandered for thousands of years in later generations. You were breathless when I rescued you ashore , It was Ming who forcibly pulled back your soul... Your copper coin fan pendant is engraved with a spell that even Ming does not know. This spell can travel through time and space because of the powerful ability of the caster, and it will be immortal for thousands of years... You have one, and Ming also has one. Combining the two into one is the meaning of the five elements..."

"Light……"

Sato Fujiwara stared at Hikaru Konoe, with a worried look on his clear face under the moonlight.

Konoe Hikaru suddenly clenched the Imperial Sword to his chest, sobbing and shedding tears.

"I thought—I thought—that he did so much so that he could compete with Seimei Abe one day!" Tears streamed down the face that was originally full of smiles. "But he - it's all for me!"

"Light?"

Hikaru Konoe looked up at Guanyinzuo, tears flowed down his temples, he closed his eyes in pain, and said intermittently: "That day... the overwhelming hatred and jealousy in my heart broke the seal on the Imperial Sword …The sword spirit, who was sealed in the knife, took this opportunity to escape from the shackles... Tomorrow, I will see it on that day..."

"... If the sword spirit is not retracted, the sword will gradually lose its spirituality. This is not terrible, at most it is just an extra piece of broken copper... But, in a fight two years ago, I accidentally fought with The sword has concluded a contract. If the Yushen Sword loses the protection of the sword spirit, it will absorb my energy to make up for the loss of the spirit energy, and it will never die..."

"Ming must have thought about it at that time, so he tried so hard to go through the obstacles of time and space, and find the sword spirit to avoid my death. But me, but I misunderstood him!"

"I was blinded by jealousy and hatred! Everything is my fault! But I blamed all the faults on him! That day I went to the roof to steal the fan pendant. If he hadn't released the water, I would have died." I just died under the claws of the spirit beast guarding the altar, but I still blame him for designing me! If I hadn’t wanted someone to possess him, I wouldn’t have been shaken, and I wouldn’t have untied the top of the Imperial Knife The seal! Everything...is all my fault!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Konoe Hikaru's painful cry echoed in the empty temple, and the tears that burst out were glittering and translucent in the moonlight.

Fujiwara Sawei quietly looked at the young man venting his pain in front of him, without saying a word.

Konoe Hikaru's hand was tightly gripping the Imperial Knife, and the blade even trembled audibly.

"I'm really useless... I have harmed many people, Shinichi can no longer recover his previous spiritual power, the Imperial Sword is also destroyed, and even Ming is also harmed!"

"Why was I born into this world? My birth was a mistake to this world! It would be fine if I died when I was six years old. If I die, there won't be so many things."

"Light--"

"If I were to die, Ming wouldn't have met me, wouldn't have been so badly injured to protect me two years ago, and the Imperial Sword wouldn't have been handed over to me. Sword spirit..."

"Light!"

"If I hadn't been tricked by a traitor that year, my sister wouldn't have lost a child and nearly died. If it wasn't for my recklessness, Shinichi wouldn't have been so seriously injured or even hurt his foundation! It's all my fault, It's my fault—!"

"Light!"

Sawei Fujiwara pulled his shoulders hard, looked straight into his eyes, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Look at me, Hikari! Look at me, I should have died in that river throwing, But you and His Highness Kamo saved me! Even if His Highness Kamo wanted to save me because he saw the white eagle, I did survive! If I was wrong, then I was wrong too! If it wasn’t for my obsession with Go It’s too deep, how can you roam the world for thousands of years? So that when you died, the white eagle flew by and was seen by His Royal Highness He Mao? If there is a mistake, we all have it! You said that His Highness He Mao was already studying the law of time and space before I threw myself into the river, Then he must also have the desire to compete with Master Qingming!"

"If it weren't for His Highness He Mao's study of the law of time and space, your affection for him and your jealousy for Master Seimei, my suicide and my unwavering obsession with Go, this incident would not have happened."

Sato Fujiwara said word by word:

"The three of us, none of us can escape the responsibility! It's not your fault alone, Guang!"

Konoe stared at him blankly, tears crisscrossed his face.

"Zuowei..."

"Guang, you have to believe that everyone's birth has a meaning." Fujiwara Saori softened his expression and adopted a different attitude from the previous one. "Why don't you think about it, your birth...is to meet His Highness Ka Mao?"

[The author has no way of verifying the result of the duel thousands of years ago.Including He Mao, there is little ink in the history books.

The reason why this story was not included in "Qingming Shixin" is also because of this consideration. A story without an ending does not seem to be a good story.

This is the end of the story that the author heard from that passenger, without follow-up or following.

But this story has been lingering in the author's mind, and in the end, it prompted me to write such an article with no beginning and no end.

Whether it is true or not, believe it or not, is entirely up to you to decide.

However, when the author checked the history books again, I found such a passage in the library of Kiyomizu Temple. 】

It is already the third day of the typhoon in the precarious Kyoto.

At nine o'clock in the evening tonight, the typhoon will move north and will no longer ravage this ancient city.

But even so, it was still raining heavily in Kyoto at [-]:[-] noon, and there was no one on the road.

Shinto Hikaru ran fast in the rain, his heart beating violently.

Taya...

"To...meet him?"

Hikaru Konoe murmured in surprise.

"Yes." Fujiwara Sawei nodded affirmatively, his expression was undeniably firm. "I believe—His Highness He Mao, he never blamed you. He has been working hard to find the sword spirit for you and save you until now. Guang, you have to trust him!"

Konoe Hikaru trembled in disbelief: "He...does he really not blame me?"

"No, no! He must be blaming me!" He shook his head suddenly again, and broke away from Fujiwara Saori's hands that were holding his shoulders. "I've done so many wrong things—how did he—how did he—"

"—I don't blame you either."

At the entrance of the main hall, a person suddenly stepped in.

After seeing the person coming, Konoe Hikaru screamed.

"Shinichi?!"

"It's me." Yuan Zhenyi walked into the hall with his usual chic smile, "Why, you look like you saw a ghost?"

"It's not... you—"

"You want to ask about my injury? Good morning." Yuan Zhenyi stretched his arms, "I was scared to death before, thinking that I would never be able to use Yin Yang in this life."

"...I'm sorry, it's all me—"

"Hey, hey, don't apologize." The young man in his early twenties stretched out his hand, stopping Konoe Hikaru's words of apology that were about to come out. "His Royal Highness He Mao cast a curse on me before, which sealed all the spiritual power flowing in my body. It really scared me to death. I thought something was wrong. Fortunately, it was untied now, and it's gone again." Can cast spells."

"You mean, Ming didn't destroy your spiritual power?!" Konoe was startled.

"Yes," Yuan Shinichi's tone was mixed with admiration and envy, "His Highness He Mo is the number one onmyoji in the imperial city, how could he ruin an onmyoji just because of this? Now—"

He pointed to the folding fan in Fujiwara Saori's hand, "Let's help His Highness Kamo!"

"Send this fan pendant to those who need it!"

Because of the three-day torrential rain, Kyoto's underground drainage system is not perfect, and this ancient city once again experienced what happened a month ago - the landscape of land and sea.

Walking to the sunken road in the center, Shinto Hikari's calf was no longer in the muddy water, but it was summer, so he didn't feel so cold.

He hurriedly found a parking spot for citizens' bicycles. The guard didn't come to work, and the guard room was tightly closed.But this does not prevent him from borrowing a bicycle, all bicycles are locked on the roadside outside.

Swipe the card, push the cart, and ride away.The movements that have been repeated countless times in the past few days are extremely smooth, and Hikari Shinto rode his bicycle and rushed into the sea of ​​rain outside.

In fact, it is not too far from here to Kiyomizu Temple, and it only takes more than an hour to ride a bicycle, and there are basically no cars on the road on heavy rainy days, so he can run through the traffic lights, which saves a lot of time.Today, he was wearing a light T-shirt and trousers again. Even if it was raining heavily, he didn't have to feel uncomfortable all over his body. Hikari Shinto rode to Kiyomizu Road in one go.

About 100 meters in front of Qingshui Road, he went to the nearby bicycle station to return the bicycle, probably because of the scenic spot, there was still a person on duty in the guard room of Qingshui Road, and he saw his clothes soaked by the rain He looked terrified, and kindly asked him if he wanted a cup of hot chocolate.

One and a half of the two slices of bread for lunch were consumed during the ride, and the other half was accidentally bitten too hard and hit the ground by the rain.Shinto Hikari is tired and hungry now, and he is not polite. He drank two cups of hot chocolate milk and declined the kind suggestion of another pack of biscuits from the security uncle. rushed into the rain.

They were all soaked anyway, and the poncho was a hindrance at this time.

Turning right from here is originally a direct avenue into Kiyomizu Temple, but he will miraculously turn back to the platform of Kiyomizu Road, and it will start again and again.Even if he enters from the side path, he will be sent back around here, but he cannot reach the temple.

This kind of experience like a ghost hitting a wall made him mad and helpless. It was useless to take a lot of talismans that grandma asked for in the shrine, and he circled around every time.

But today was different, since he saw that story, his heart was beating violently.His intuition told him that today would be very different.

Sure enough, after turning right, it is not the entrance of Qingshui Road subway station——

It's the original street!

At a glance, you can see the main entrance of Kiyomizu Temple!

An excited smile appeared on Shinto Hikaru's face, and he couldn't wait to run forward.

—he hit an invisible wall and was bounced back.

How is this going? !

Run again, hit again, bounce back again.

Hit again, bounce again.

After repeating this several times, he was finally ejected more than ten meters away by the increasing force of the barrier, leaving a long trail of mud on the ground.

The rain kept falling, washing the ground.

Shinto Hikaru shook his fist in pain, tears streaming down the rain.

why? !

Why is it still not working? !

Taya - Taya - Taya -

"Little Light!"

A pair of dews hung down first, and the man in white hunting clothes walked slowly in front of Shinto Hikari.

Hikari Shinto's whole body trembled, he raised his face mottled with sewage, and looked up.

The handsome man with long hair was looking at him with a smile.

"—— Zuo Wei!"

"It's me, Xiaoguang." The person in front of him seemed to have a thousand words to say, but he squatted down and handed something in his hand to Shinto Hikaru. "Take it quickly."

"This, this is..."

"What you need now." The person in front of him was so illusory that he seemed to dissipate with the wind at any time, Shindo Hikaru couldn't help stretching out his hands, wanting to touch his hands.

Just when his hand touched the fan pendant in Fujiwara Sawei's palm, Fujiwara Sawei shook it twice, and his figure gradually faded away.

"Sawei? Sawei!" Shindo Hikari shouted in panic, "Don't go!"

"I won't leave..." Zuowei's sighing voice came from the wind, "Take this pendant, go quickly..."

go?where to go

...By the way, he has more important things to do now.

Taya!

Shinto Hikaru slowly clenched the fan pendant in his hand.

He got up with support, rubbed his burning knees, took a deep breath, and walked forward step by step.

The fan pendant in his hand gradually became hot from his pinching.

Step by step, he approached the place where he was bounced back, stopped, and took a step.

There is no enchantment.

He passed.

Fujiwara Sawei opened his eyes, and Konoe Hikaru, who was protecting the law, hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How? Did it succeed?"

Yuan Zhen nodded.

"Great!" Konoe Hikaru finally had some joy on his face, and he hesitated. "Then...then what are we going to do now?"

"Let's pray, Hikari." Finally seeing Hikari Shinto again, Fujiwara Sakai felt mixed feelings in his heart, but it seemed like he had let go of a heavy burden.

He smiled at Hikaru Konoe, "Pray for His Highness Kamo with our hearts."

Konoe looked at him intently, tears glistening in his eyes.Finally, he nodded vigorously.

"it is good!"

【That is an ancient book written with the word "He Mao" in the era a hundred years before Qingming.

It is said that when His Highness He Mao was not yet in seclusion, he was on good terms with Lord Konoe in the palace.Lord Jinwei is brave and good at martial arts, and has been through life and death with His Royal Highness He Mao many times, slaying demons and demons.The sword in his arms is the God's Long Sword bestowed by His Royal Highness He Mao. 】

Shinto Hikari ran up the long temple steps, bypassed the main hall, and ran to the backyard he had entered by mistake.

There, a world-shattering yin-yang fight happened to end.

He Maoming half-kneeled on the ground, and Abe Seimei stood on the gurgling water, step by step, and walked ashore.

"You..." Abe Seimei was about to say something, when suddenly the fan of the underground palace turned and said with a slight smile. "It seems that someone has found it."

He Maoming moved slightly.

"He Mao!" Someone shouted and ran over.

Looking at the familiar figure in front of him, Shinto Hikaru tried his best to restrain the urge to rush up and hug him tightly, stood still, put his hands on his knees, and panted heavily.

"I—knew your name!"

"You, are you—"

He walked forward step by step, his eyes bright and sharp.

[Master Konoe was born with a different eye color, and was called a ghost by people.On the sixth day of the year, he fell into the water with a high fever and was haunted by ghosts. His Royal Highness He Mao treated his illness and became friends with him.There are many rumors about the deeds of the two of them, and it is said that they fell in love with each other, and they were over thirty years old, and they lived in seclusion together.

The name of His Highness Kamo is unknown to the people, but Konoe-sama is well-known throughout the country as a young general, and he is the eldest son of Konoe Dai Nayan.The birth coincided with the first dew of the three-year drought. The emperor was overjoyed and bestowed the name. 】

"—— Kamo——Akira!"

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