[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

In two weeks, Tokyo.

"...In the end, I still couldn't catch up with the qualifiers," Shinto Hikari sighed bitterly with his head drooping. "Obviously the typhoon is over, and the Shinkansen reopened at [-] o'clock that night. Mr. Fujimoto bought the tickets for us...how is it so unlucky!"

"You still have the face to tell me you're unlucky?!" He Gu stared, and the Coke can in his hand slammed into Shinto's bald head. "I haven't blamed you for skipping the game! You are playing against a chess player who was newly qualified last year. His chess moves are very stable. He won all the way. I hurriedly finished the game and wanted to go Let's see how you fight, and you actually gave me an undefeated battle! I thought you had a brain twitch and didn't want to play chess again!"

"I regret it too, okay? Who knew it would give me a typhoon, and all transportation was stopped. What do you want me to do?"

"You won't come back sooner?! The typhoon hasn't come yet on Monday?!"

"I want... I want to visit Kyoto with Taya!"

"With Taya?! Visit Kyoto together?!" He Gu let out a weird cry, seeing that his anger was about to soar to the highest level, Yijiao at the side quickly tugged on his sleeve, acting as a peacemaker.

"Okay, Hegu, do you regret not seeing Teng? Besides, it's just that I didn't catch up with the LG Cup this year, and I still have a chance next year."

"Tch, I think even if he catches up with the qualifiers, he may not be able to qualify. That's the LG Cup, the LG Cup, and there are only five places in Japan. Do you think it's the Youth Hokuto Cup? Mr. Ogata alone decides There is a quota!"

"What are you talking about?! Damn it, it's hard to say whether someone can become the Japanese representative of this year's Beidou Cup!"

"You bastard! I must kill you today!"

"OK OK……"

"not good!"

"not good!"

The two turned their heads at the same time, glared angrily at Yi Jiao, who persuaded him to make peace, and roared in unison.

Yijiao: "...You guys are busy, I have something to do, so let's go first."

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the three of Shindo Hikari walked into the game room one after another.At ten o'clock sharp, the bell rang to start the game.

He Gu surrendered in the 127th move. "You win."

"Thank you for your advice." Shindo Hikaru quickly packed the chess pieces, and without even waiting for Kazuya to call him from behind, he hurriedly put Shirahoshi on the list and left the game room.

He Gu looked at him with a wolf chasing behind him and shook his head in puzzlement, what happened to this guy recently, he was always elusive like this.

Recalling last Thursday, when most of the young chess players gathered in the observation room after the game, waiting for the LG Cup qualifier between Ryo Taya and Mitsu Shinto, they waited an hour after the game started The two running out of breath.

At that time, the two of them were considered undefeated, and their achievements were stamped.No matter how the two of them explained and apologized, the other two chess players who played against them also asked to fight again at another day, but Dean Tanaka refused to approve the application. It seemed that they had made up their minds to teach these two players a good lesson on the eve of the typhoon People who also go to other cities to wander around.

This incident was a sensation in the Chess Academy. Some people gloated, some regretted it, and some were puzzled.

In fact, He Gu Yigao also wondered why the dean did not agree to their request to postpone the game. Logically speaking, in such a big international event as the LG Cup, the Chess Academy would not be so narrow-minded.There are only those few people in the older generation. If Ryo Toya and Hikari Shinto don't play again this year, he can't bear to see the lineup for the LG Cup.

Forget it, what are you thinking about so much, it's just right that Shindo doesn't have a replay with him today, he also has something to do.

Oh, what a hassle!Why are there so many festivals recently? After Valentine’s Day and White Valentine’s Day, there is even a popular “Qixi Festival” now. This is clearly a crime for men’s wallets!

I just hope that Maozi will not buy too many things today, he just paid last month's rent...

On the other side, Hikari Shinto, who left the chess academy in a hurry, declined chocolate love letters from one girl after another on the way—well, although I was in a hurry because I was in a hurry, it was still a polite refusal—and trotted all the way to the entrance of the subway station, Just in time to catch a subway that just arrived.

There were a lot of people on the subway, and the advertisements in the train were also filled with pink chocolate advertisements. The number of people in pairs around them was obviously more than doubled than usual.Shinto Hikaru loosened the backpack strap on his shoulder uncomfortably, took out his mobile phone and browsed the web casually.

But now he was so confused that he didn't look into it at all.

After a long 15 minutes, the name of the platform he wanted to hear was finally announced in the carriage. He held back his joy and walked out with the flow of people like an ordinary person as much as possible.

Walking to the door of Taya's house, the joyful mood turned into apprehension, Shinto Hikaru wandered back and forth at the door of Taya's house for half an hour, until Taya Ryo, who was returning home, saw him at the intersection and shouted, Only then did he stop his meaningless circling behavior.

"Shinto?"

"Ah? Ah! Taya!" Shinto Hikari was startled, and quickly stood still, looking at the person in front of him in a dark blue striped knee-length jacket, feeling his face burn. "That, that, why are you here?" He managed to find his voice.

"It's time for me to ask you." Ta Yaliang raised the corners of his lips slightly, "I saw you wandering around my door when I came all the way. Today my game ended a bit late, so I kept you waiting for a long time. Feel sorry."

"Ah...that...no, it doesn't matter."

Hikaru Shinto stammered, and at the same time slapped himself hard in the heart.

Hikari Shinto!You have a better future!Why don't you just confess, why is my heart shaking like chaff!

But, what if he refuses?

It's always played like this on TV. If the confession fails, the two parties will not even be able to be friends!

This... this, this, this... He'd better not confess, well, that guy likes to watch people play the most, and it must be nothing good for her to encourage him to confess on this day.

right!That's it, I can't believe what I said clearly!He just came to Taya for a review today, that's all!

"Shinto?"

"Ah?" Taya Ryo's suspicious call called Shindo Hikaru back to God, only to find that Taya Ryo had opened the door at some point, and was very close to himself standing at the door. "Well……"

"Come in." Ta Yaliang smiled, and pushed the door open first.

Hikaru Shinto stood there for a long while, his face turning red like a tomato.

No, no more...

On special days, young people will always feel that the other person's every move is a little different from usual when facing the person they like, especially for some young people who are in a crush.The frowns and smiles of the person they like may be the same as usual, but it will always make them fantasize.

Shindo Hikaru is one of them.

He kept telling himself that the things Ta Yaliang was doing now were very ordinary, such as pouring him tea and serving snacks, and inviting himself to the chess room to play a replay of chess after he finished eating with him. It's all what he usually does, and it's no different from today.

But even so, when he saw Taya Ryo's nearby face a few times, his ears turned red.

Since that incident, he has become so extraordinarily sensitive.

During the few days when He Maoming used Taya Ryo's body to leave, Hikari Shinto's life was like death. Although he looked normal on the surface, he should eat and sleep, but the remorse, guilt, anxiety, and despair in his heart were almost on the verge of death. devoured by itself.If Ryo Taya couldn't come back like Zuowei, it's hard to guarantee that he wouldn't collapse.

Fortunately, everything is back on track.

After he uttered those three words, white lights suddenly ignited on He Maoming's body, which scared him into thinking that Ta Ya had just soared in daylight.When the white light dissipated, there was only Ta Yaliang lying limp on the ground, and the courtyard was clean without a single person.

He was stunned for a while, and then hurried forward to help Ta Yaliang, and anxiously called his name.

"Taya! Taya!...Wake up! Don't scare me! Taya!"

The rain gradually stopped.

Shinto Hikari shook Taya Ryo lightly, the joy in his heart gradually turned into anxiety. "Taya!"

A gust of summer wind blew by, and the dark clouds were slowly blown away by the wind, turning into a thin layer of clouds.

For the first time in three days, the sun shone fiercely on the land of Kyoto.

"Taya?"

Ta Yaliang in his arms frowned slightly, he moaned softly, and slowly opened his eyes.

The emerald eyes were stained with Chuqing's rain at that moment, and were almost transparent like glass.

Shinto Hikari's heart skipped a beat.

I never thought that Taya Ryo would be so beautiful when she opened her eyes...

It's a pity that the current situation does not allow him to have extra thoughts, he helped Ta Yaliang up, and swallowed nervously.

"...Taya?"

The pronunciation of two bytes brought an imperceptible tremor.

Ta Yaliang looked at him and responded suspiciously. "Shinto?"

It's him!

Taya Ryo is back!

Hikaru Shinto breathed a sigh of relief, his lips trembling as he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

He stepped forward to hug Taya Ryo, and patted on the back twice heavily.

"--Welcome back!"

He closed his eyes and said loudly with a smile.

The flash in the corner of the eye drifts away with the wind.

"..." Shocked by his sudden hug, Taya Ryo just froze for a few seconds, then smiled faintly, and hugged the blond boy back. "I'm back."

into the vine.

The author has something to say:

☆, finale

Finally calmed down from the excitement, while the security guards of the temple hadn't found the courtyard where the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves, Shinto Hikari hurriedly dragged Toya Ryo and ran away.The two dripping teenagers went to a small shop beside Qingshui Road to buy a big bucket of ice cream. Shinto Hikari scooped them up with a spoon and ate them, which aroused Ryo Taya's dissatisfaction: "If you continue to eat like this, Watch out for stomach bleeding."

"It doesn't matter! I've been looking for you these days and I'm going crazy. I haven't eaten a few meals, and I'm already starving to death."

"you--"

"For the sake of looking for you so desperately, please spare me this time!"

"..."

"By the way," Shinto Hikaru suddenly asked after eating a large spoonful of mango ice cream: "Taya, don't you think it's strange? You came to Kiyomizu Temple from the hotel all of a sudden."

In fact, Ta Yaliang already knew everything in his heart, but he didn't say it, but shook his head: "Isn't this just waiting for you to tell me?"

Hikari Shinto smiled and scratched his head, and then talked about what happened in the past few days in a storytelling tone. At the end, he said: "It's like filming a TV series, right? Taya, you don't know how much Wonderful!"

Ta Yaliang smiled slightly, "Yes."

I deliberately made this matter like a legend, so that he would not be burdened...

I also want to know how much pressure and despair Shindo Hikaru endured during the few days when he disappeared.

……This guy.

"...Taya."

"what?"

Shinto Hikari threw the empty plastic box and spoon into the trash can, turned sideways, and said with a serious expression, "Can I hug you again?"

I want to be sure, I want to make sure that you really exist, not my imagination or dream.

With the breeze blowing, Taya Ryo twisted her hair from her ears back and smiled lightly.

"...If you want to hug, just come."

"...that's great!" Shinto Hikari's eyes lit up, and he hugged the person next to him tightly again. "Taya!"

The body temperature of the two was fused together through the soaked clothes, and Hikari Shinto felt his heart beating faster and faster.

Just as he embraced Taya Ryo emotionally (unilaterally), the cell phone on the other side rang.

It was Seiji Ogata's voice that was as cold as absolute zero. "Shinto-kun?"

"...Mr. Ogata?" Taya Ryo asked hesitantly.

After realizing that it was Taya Ryo on the other end of the phone, Ogata Seiji immediately thawed out his attitude, and told them in an unbelievably gentle tone that Fujimoto had booked their tickets for them, and they had to go back to Tokyo as soon as possible to participate in the qualifiers.

"I always feel that Mr. Ogata found something," Shinto Hikaru said thoughtfully after Taya Ryo hung up the phone. "He hasn't called me in the past few days. It seems that Mr. Ashihara is the only one who believes that reason."

"That's not because your reason is so lame."

"Hey! Taya Ryo, is this how you treat your savior?!"

"Then please let the savior let me go, it's summer now, and I'm going to die of heat being hugged by you."

"..."

"Loose so fast? What the hell?"

"...You, you don't have a good word to say! If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have saved you!"

"Shinto."

"What's the matter? Master Taya."

"...Thank you, really, thank you very much. You didn't leave me alone at that time."

"..."

"Are you blushing?"

"You talk so much nonsense! Let's go, go back and take a shower! If you get wet all over, you will definitely be scolded by your mother, really."

"...Taya."

"Ok?"

"...I...I want to tell you, no matter what happens to you, I...I will be by your side, and I won't leave you alone!——Why are you laughing!"

"Ah, no, I just didn't expect Shinto-kun to say such gentle words~"

"What are you talking about! I said these words seriously!"

"Well... I know, I know everything."

"...Then, that's good...Why are you walking so slowly? Go home quickly! Mom will be worried if you've been away for so long, and you'll have to talk about it again. I'll go first!"

"Shinto—!"

"What's wrong--?"

"Front……"

boom!

"Wow ah-"

"...It's a street lamp..."

Thinking of what happened before, Hikari Shindo started to run away.

ah!It's abominable!Why did he activate the blushing factor in his body just by saving this guy once?From that day on, whenever he was alone with this guy, there was never a time when he didn't feel hot in the face.

What the hell is this!

Shinto Hikari poked the floor with his folding fan.

Obviously that girl actually said that I have awakened EQ, is my EQ so worrying?Didn't she acquiesce to the fact that "I like Taya" under the nagging of her old man, why is she still acting like she found it?

Really...!

"If you keep knocking like this, the fan pendant will break." Seeing Shinto Hikari knocking on the floor with the folding fan uninterruptedly, Taya Ryo kindly reminded him.

Now the folding fan of Jin Tengguang is worth tens of millions. If he breaks it, the group of people in the cultural relics bureau will cry to death.

That day, because He Maoming got what he wanted, Shinto Hikaru just read his name, so he took the fan pendant on him back to his time.And the fan pendant that Fujiwara Sawei gave to Shinto Hikari was left to Shinto Hikaru, and it has never appeared since then.

Come to think of it, the two of them had a good life in the Heian era, together with that... boy who was similar to Shinto Hikari.

fair enough.

On the first night back in Tokyo, Hikari Shinto told Ryo Taya everything about Zuo, including the origin of his fan pendant.

The fan pendant on Taya Ryo was taken away when He Moming left, so there was only one of Shinto Hikari. In memory of Saoi, Shinto Hikari put it on the folding fan, with a nostalgic but not sentimental smile .

"In this way, I know that Sakai has really existed. The things he used are being passed down from generation to generation through my hands. Even if no one knows, no one has heard of Fujiwara Sakai, it doesn't matter. . Fujiwara Sakai, it really did exist! Just thinking about it like this makes my heart full of happiness."

The sun was just right at that time, and Shinto Hikari's face was filled with a happy smile.

The fan pendant hanging on the folding fan swayed gently with the breeze, and the soft sound of wind chimes came from the door, everything was just right.

Originally everything was beautiful, but both of them forgot that with Fujiwara Zuo's talent and strength that has been experienced for thousands of years, no matter which time and space he is in, as long as he exists, his chess is bound to cause a sensation in the chess world .

So the two of them heard about the initial situation in the country starting from the Heian period, and now, seven and a half years later, before recovering from the shock, they were seen by Kurata Atsugi who was yelling at Hikari Shinto's folding fan. I was taken aback.

The reason Kurata Atsushi shouted was simple, there was an extra fan pendant on Shinto Hikari's folding fan.

One of the fan pendants belonging to the chess god of the Heian period in Japan, Fujiwara Sakai.

Shinto Hikaru was in the dark about this, but after hearing the price of this pendant, he was startled, his hand trembled and almost fell to the ground, which scared the elders of the chess academy next to him.

"Fuji, Fujiwara Sakai?!"

"Yeah, the No.1 in the history of Japanese Go... Shindo, you don't even know this, do you?"

Shinto Hikaru's lack of common sense is a well-known thing in kiin, so Atsushi Kurata spontaneously explained Shinto Hikaru's surprise, and very enthusiastically explained the life story of the chess god Fujiwara Sakai.

After talking about it, the saliva was flying everywhere, and several young chess players and students joined in, arguing about which of the deeds of the chess god Zuowei is true and which is false.

Facing the chess players in the chess academy who were more familiar with Zuo Wei's life than him, Shinto Hikari fell silent...

After a moment of silence, he giggled again.

Atsushi Kurata understood this as he was crazy about this windfall, but Ryo Taya understood that Hikari Shinto was happy for Zuowei's passing on forever.

That person is finally no longer the only one who knows. His chess and his life have been passed down from generation to generation. In Shinto Hikaru's heart, this is the happy life that belongs to Fujiwara Sakumi.

But it didn't take long to be happy, and after the chess game, Shinto Hikari couldn't be happy.

There are seven and a half eyes, one more than before, what a gap!

Moreover, the simplification of the layout has been advanced by more than 1000 years through the fixed-style layout practiced by Zuowei in modern times.Although the pace of life of the ancients was too slow at that time and most people did not adopt the fast-paced method of play, since the [-]th century, the layout of Fujiwara Sato has been researched over and over again, so that the layout of Go is now more advanced than Go. What Fujimitsu knew was much simplified.

He and Ryo Toya are at the center of the incident. Sato Fujiwara has changed the history of Japanese Go, but the memories of the two of them are still the same as before, and the consequence of this is...

He and Toya Ryo were both cut off by their opponents in the first game of their return, and Shinto Hikari missed the Honinbo circle because of this.

Thinking about it now, fortunately there was no qualifier for the LG Cup, otherwise it would have been ugly to lose.

The big change of modern Go made Toya Ryo and Shindo Hikaru a little troubled, but these two are one in ten million Go geniuses, and their talents are not ordinary.After the first chess game, the two sides met at Taya Ryo's house in a very tacit understanding, took out the dusty Go tutorial in Taya Ryo's room, and flipped through the rules page by page that were different from those in memory , absorbing new layouts and tricks, and playing countless games.

A week later, the two got out of the predicament smoothly and continued the bloody battle in circles.

Thinking of all kinds of things in the past half month, Shinto Mitsu is really entangled and happy, and he has everything, and he has all kinds of tastes.Even in retrospect, his face was still red and white for a while, he didn't hear Taya Ryo's reminder at all, he just hummed and continued to knock on the floor.

"..." Taya Ryo paused, "Shinto, what are you worrying about?"

"Um……"

"What... can you tell me?"

"Um……"

"..."

"..."

"Shinto?"

"Um……"

"Shinto Hikaru!" Taya Ryo slapped the table angrily.

Hikari Shinto shivered, raised his head and yelled at Ryo Kamitaya's angry expression. "Wow! Taya, what are you doing, you look so scary!"

"What the hell are you thinking! I asked you several times and you didn't hear?!"

"Asshole, I'm thinking about whether to confess to you! Why did you interrupt my train of thought! Uh—"

Taya Ryo was taken aback. "……What did you say?"

Shinto Hikaru shook his head vigorously, covered his mouth, his face was so red that it could burn. "No! Nothing!"

My mother, why did you just say that!

At this moment, Shindo Hikaru regretted so much that his intestines were green, calling you cheap, calling you cheap!

Ryo Taya sat down slowly, and before Hikari Shinto had time to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the person on the opposite side say in a very calm tone: "I heard it, you said you were struggling whether to confess to me or not."

"No!!!"

"Yes." Ta Yaliang frowned, "I heard."

"You heard wrong!"

"you like me."

"!!!I do not like you!!!"

"you like me!"

"do not like!"

"like!"

"do not like!!!"

"..."

"..."

"You really don't like me? I'll ask for the last time. If you don't like me, forget it. I'll pretend I didn't hear it."

"..."

"..."

The two stared at each other.

"..." To be heard such unmanly words by the person he likes, Hikari Shinto felt ashamed for the rest of his life, and finally he simply closed his eyes and admitted it.

"Okay, I like you, okay?"

Ta Yaliang was silent for a while.

"Oh."

This time it was Shinto's turn to be furious. "Oh, what do you mean?!"

"That's what it means."

"...You tell me clearly! I'm so shameless, why are you pretending to be reserved! Tell me 'I like you too'!"

"..."

"... Silent?"

"..."

"not talking?"

"...Let's play chess."

"Don't change the subject for me, Taya Ryo!"

"Guess first."

"Wait, wait! Well, if I win this round, you just agree to my confession!"

"Think beautifully!"

The sound of chess pieces.

"Hmph, I guessed it right!"

"Tiemu is seven and a half."

"... Zuowei! Why are you trying to kill me?!"

—FIN—

The author has something to say: It's over, I hope everyone can smile knowingly when you see this, that is the greatest encouragement to the author XDD

Some details about Kamo and Konoe will be written in the side story, after all, this article is still about the light, although the light will take the lead in the later stage...

The purpose of writing this article is to express the force majeure of fate and the fact that there are no accidents but only inevitability in the world pretending to be X. It seems that many fantasy animations in Japanese comics like to use this sentence. The tall point is the law of cause and effect

In short, I am very grateful to everyone who read this article, and I also sincerely wish Guangguang and Hemeimei, that Guangguang will be able to counterattack one day!