[Soul of Chess] Xia Lei

Unexpectedly, facing the emotional Toya Ryo, Shinto Hikari withdrew his nostalgic look, and impatiently tapped on the table with a folding fan. "Didn't I say I'll tell you one day, why worry?"

"You said the same thing three years ago."

"So what's the matter? I didn't say I'll tell you within three years." Shinto Hikari propped his chin with one hand, closed his eyes and seemed dissatisfied. "I'll let you know when I feel the right atmosphere and impulse again."

"Shinto Hikaru!"

Shinto Hikari picked up his chopsticks again and started eating, turning a deaf ear to his calls.

Seeing his appearance, Taya knew that no matter how much he asked, it would be impossible to get an answer from SAI today, so he could only slowly sit back on the tatami.Looking at the exquisite pasta in the food box, I was stunned for a long time before picking up a piece of sushi with my chopsticks.

After lunch, the two played chess again until five o'clock in the evening.Shinto Hikaru stood up and stretched, "Let's stop here today, I'll go back first..." He had just walked to the corridor outside the chess room, when a gust of wind blew by, and a severe rainstorm drenched him all over.

"Shinto!" Taya Ryo was taken aback, and hurried over to pull Shinto Hikari back from the torment of the storm.But it was too late, Shinto Hikari was soaked from head to toe, and a small puddle formed on the floor with a tick.

The two stared at each other for a few seconds, Shinto Hikaru smiled awkwardly, "Taya, I don't think I should go back today, it's raining too much outside."

Toya thought for a while, then nodded. "That's good, your home is quite far from mine, and there are traffic jams everywhere now."

Shinto Hikari became excited, "That's it, I'll call my mother first." He said and ran out of the corridor.

"Shinto! It's raining heavily outside—"

"It's okay, my cell phone is out of battery, I'll borrow your phone!" Shinto Hikari's voice came from afar from the rain curtain.

Ta Yaliang has nothing to do with him, for a smiling and thick-skinned person like Fujimitsu Kamimitsu, he can't always show the same humility towards others.

Now that they have decided to stay overnight, this game of chess can naturally be continued at night.Ta Yaliang took out the chess box that had just been packed, laid out the chess game that he and Shinto Hikari had played just now, and thought carefully about the next move.

Ten minutes later, Shindo Hikaru walked in from the door. "It's done! Taya, let's eat ramen tonight, hehe~ I've already ordered a takeaway, so don't miss it."

It turned out that he went out for so long because of this, and he started to play the trick of cutting first and playing later.

Ta Yaliang was helpless: "Shinto, do you feel uncomfortable if you don't eat ramen for a day?"

"Of course! Ramen is the best food in the world!"

"It's not nutritious to eat ramen all the time. Be careful of leukemia in the future."

"It doesn't matter." Shindo Hikari said with a chuckle, "Anyway, I just like to eat."

"It's raining so heavily outside, shouldn't the ramen restaurant not deliver it?" Ta Yaliang recalled the several takeout calls made by Hikari Shinto at noon today, "Where did you order it from?"

"It's the restaurant at noon today. I wrote down the delivery phone number on the lunch box." Shinto Mitsuko raised his phone, "Oh, the food here is really expensive. Two bowls of ramen cost me a week's worth. pin."

But that being said, his expression didn't look like he regretted it at all.Taya Ryo thought to himself, it really was for his favorite ramen.

It rained heavily for three consecutive days, and since Shinto Hikaru's clothes were drenched by the rain on the second day, he had to borrow Toya Ryo's clothes to wear on the third day.Resolutely refusing to wear a suit, he found a whole set of casual clothes in Taya Ryo's room, which was exactly the set of gray plaid three-quarter-sleeve shirts Taya Ryo usually wore.

Unexpectedly, the clothes that were originally brilliant on Ryo Taya changed when they were on Hikari Shinto. Not only did the pants have long sleeves and long hem, but Ryo Taya wore them like a star on a red carpet. Scruffy vagrants.

Ta Yaliang watched for a while, and finally groped his chin thoughtfully: "Is it really the difference in height..."

"...Shut up!"

In the end, Shinto Hikaru put on Taya Ryo's Kaiwang Middle School uniform from his second year of junior high school, and it barely fit, so he was depressed for a while.

The heavy rain that had been falling for three consecutive days finally stopped in the evening of the third day. The eaves made intermittent dripping sounds, and the wind chimes occasionally vibrated and made a sound.

The weather is finally starting to improve.

Shinto Hikari picked up the sunny doll he made last night and hung it next to the wind chime, and said to Taya Ryo: "Look, I said this thing is useful! The rain finally stopped today, and this is all thanks to my sunny doll." .”

Ta Yaliang supported the chair below, with a smile on his lips that he didn't realize: "Yes, it's your credit."

"...Although I was praised by you, why do you feel so uncomfortable?"

"It's just an illusion. Come down after hanging up. Let's continue playing chess."

"Okay... OK! Finished!"

The figures of the two disappeared at the corner of the corridor, and the sunny doll swayed in the wind with a smile drawn on it by a marker.

When the downpour turned into drizzle and lasted for more than an hour, Shinto Hikari checked the weather forecast and decided to give it a try.He took the wet clothes and took the subway home in the uniform of Haiwang Middle School.

There was an episode on the subway, a few students who looked like they were in the graduating class of elementary school whispered to him, to the effect that the school rules of Haiwang Middle School were very strict, why this person dyed his hair yellow, he must be a student The top student in the top school is allowed to dye hair and so on by the principal.

Even later, it began to debate whether Shinto Hikari's yellow hair was dyed or natural. It is said that the lack of vitamin B will cause this effect.

Hikari Shinto listened to the sixth graders arguing about a topic that he didn't even understand after a junior high school graduate, and a drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

Only then did he realize that although he can be called a genius in Go, he is a scum in various aspects of study and life.

On the other hand, Taya Ryo didn't see anything strange until he went to bed on the third night, except that he experienced a night of ecstasy on the first night of his stay at Hikari Shinto, and saw a "good brother" the next morning.

Just when he thought it was just his hallucination, on the fourth day, with the first rainstorm, the postponed game of the Chess Academy also started today.When he got all dressed up and went to work, his walk was... wonderful.

There were not many people on the road washed by the heavy rain just now, and there was no one at the intersection from home to the front.

But he saw something floating on the road.

There was only one, the "good brother" he saw two mornings ago, trying to get into his house.

A... thing with only one head.

At this moment, the thing was walking beside him, following his footsteps, Taya Ryo resisted the urge to run away and maintained a normal walking speed.But when the thing gurgled and rolled in front of him, and his next foot was about to step on it, he could no longer keep calm, and stepped over it dangerously, not stepping on it.

But the thing went berserk because of it, and it started screaming, "You can see me!"

It said loudly, rolling its head around his feet: "You can see me!"

"You can see me!"

It kept screaming, and the hysterical sound made Taya Ryo feel that his eardrums were about to be pierced.

He raged before he was deafened by the thing's yelling.

"shut up!"

It was like pressing the pause button on the TV remote control, and the sound of the head stopped abruptly. It still opened and closed its bleeding lips, but there was no more scream.

Ta Yaliang took advantage of this gap and hurried forward.

The thing started to move again, and this time it bit the leg of his trousers, and the seaweed hair wrapped around his calf and began to climb inch by inch.

Before Ta Yaliang realized what he was thinking, a blue flame ignited on its body, staggered and rolled down from his legs, and disappeared little by little in the drizzle.

Taya thought, he might... have the potential to become an Onmyoji.

Because just now, what he was thinking in his mind was: It would be great if he could burn this thing with a fire!

On the way to the chess academy, he experienced a completely different style than usual.

The little girl on the side of the road playing football in a heavy down jacket worn only in winter, the young woman hanging in the willow tree swinging in the wind, even while waiting for the subway, he saw a middle-aged man lying on the subway tracks There, the face kept facing right, groaning in pain.

Really... wonderful.

After arriving at the Chess Academy, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I've never heard of any homicide in Qiyuan, so I probably won't see it here.

He stood in front of the elevator door, waiting for the elevator to arrive.

"Xiao Liang." Ogata's voice came from behind, Taya Ryo turned around and greeted Ogata with a smile.

"Mr. Ogata."

Ogata threw the cigarette butts in his hand into the trash can beside him, "It has been raining heavily for the past few days, and Shihe said that you haven't been to the chess club, so you're fine at home."

"Well, it's okay." Taya Ryo replied casually, staring at the chest of Ogata's white suit. "Shinto has been living with me for the past few days, so he didn't go to the club anymore."

Ogata paused while smoking a cigarette, "Shinto? Live with you?"

"Just a few days." Ta Ya Ryo replied casually, his eyes still resting on the chest of Ogata's white suit.

Seeing that he was a little absent-minded, Ogata followed his gaze to look at his chest, and asked a little teasingly, "Why is Xiaoliang staring at me? Is there something on my chest?"

Ta Yaliang stretched out his hand, picked up the black thread on Ogata's chest that was constantly trying to drill into it, watched the black thread disappear into nothingness in his hands, and replied somewhat vaguely: "No..."

"Ok?"

"Mr. Ogata, Toya-kun!" The elevator descended to the first floor, and Reporter Amano just came out of it. Seeing the two people waiting for the elevator at the door, he immediately shouted with a smile. "Just right, I was still looking for you just now. There is an interview with chess players on the eleventh floor tonight. Mr. Ogata, Taya-kun, I want to write a special topic under the Taya gate. Do you have time tonight?"

Ogata shook his head: "I'm afraid it won't work. I've been feeling a little sick for the past few days. I'm going to the hospital for a check-up tonight."

"Ah, Mr. Ogata must take care of your health." Mr. Amano felt a little regretful, and turned to look at Ryo Toya. "Taya-kun?"

"Ah... um." Ta Yaliang came back to his senses now, and smiled at Reporter Amano. "I'm fine tonight."

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