The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

More than two months have passed since the Beidou Cup ended.

The enthusiasm for the Beidou Cup and Go from all walks of life in society seems to have faded.There are only a small number of so-called insiders who are still interested in talking about the competition.

On this day, in a Go club called "Daoxuanzaka".

Suddenly, there was an unusual moment of silence in the air that was once filled with the sound of rattles.

Hehe was the first to notice Hikari standing at the door, and after a few steps, he circled Hikari's neck and ravaged his hair: "Good boy, I finally know how to come! How long has it been since the end of the Big Dipper Cup! explain--"

Sensing a commotion in the surroundings, he looked behind Guang and couldn't help swallowing: "Ta, Ta Yaliang?!"

--What?Taya third stage?

——Taya Ryo, the son of famous person Taya?

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In the huge clubhouse, when Jing Hehe roared, everyone who had been concentrating on the game looked sideways, and then gathered towards the door.

Knowing that he is a frequent visitor here, Taya's arrival completely had the opposite effect of overwhelming the guests.

Facing a crowd of onlookers and swarming around, Guang felt a little cramped for no reason, and his body stiffened even if he didn't feel it.Compared with his uneasiness, Liang who was brought to the club by him seemed to be used to it, calm and calm, with a polite and distant smile still on his face.

"My name is Taya Ryo. Please give me your advice."

It turned out that this was the Go club where he often came to before entering the rattan.

After the hand match match this afternoon, he suddenly heard Jin Teng say that he was going to take him to a place. Liang also guessed a thing or two.He even wondered if Shinto was planning to mention Sai to him.When he really stood at the door of the unfamiliar clubhouse, after a brief moment of surprise, the corners of his lips raised silently.

Playing cards not according to common sense is indeed Shindo's style.

After the Beidou Cup battle with Gao Yongxia, Shinto really entered the sight of more people as he thought, and his strength was recognized by more people.

However, after the Beidou Cup, he did not have the joy of being recognized by his rival.Apart from feeling the footsteps behind him getting closer and closer, he also seemed to feel that the first stage of Shinto in his mouth seemed a little distant and strange.

It was at such a time that my friends and rivals actually brought him here, allowing me to set foot in his world...

"That, Taya..." While preventing everyone from approaching too much, he turned his head to look at Taya, and Guang couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

"It's okay." Concentrating his thoughts, as if seeing through Guang's thoughts, Liang slightly nodded at him, "Since you're here, let's play chess."

As soon as this remark came out, there was a scramble for the first place again.

Even Hehe is no exception.

It is clear that the other party is a 15-year-old boy who is much younger than himself, but at this moment everyone in the club reacts as if they have become loyal fans of the boy in seconds, almost bowing their heads to worship...

In this situation, Guang couldn't help touching his forehead and sighing, he really shouldn't have brought him here.The person in front of me, he is too eye-catching in the world of Go...

During the quarrel, I don't know who it is, suddenly said: "It's rare to enter the rattan chess player, it's not bad to be able to play against him."

The meaning of taking the second best in the words immediately annoyed Guang: "Yes, I am only the first stage, how can I compare with Taya's third stage!" Next time, I will definitely, definitely, definitely not bring that guy Taya here!

Guang pretended to be angry and left, but his neck was tightly wrapped around his neck: "You boy, you have a big temper!"

After Kawai said this, Hikari didn't tense up for a moment, and rubbed his nose embarrassedly.

After clearing the table, Liang and Guang sat back to back, each playing chess with three players at the same time.

Glancing at the three people in front of him, Guang Guang said without shame: "Uncle, let me let you go as you please. Let it go as much as you want!"

"Although we are professional chess players, don't underestimate us!"

"It's you who say you want to put as much as you want! If you lose at that time, don't regret it!"

Guang's words immediately aroused the uncle's dissatisfaction.

"I haven't seen you in a few months, you bastard is still so outspoken!" Behind him, He He, who had already sat down, slapped his hands on the table and stood up abruptly.

"Mr. Hehe, you should be more worried about yourself now than me! Don't surrender after a few minutes!" Still confronting each other.

"What did you say, brat?! After this set is over, we will have another set alone!"

"Down! I won't lose!"

It seems that where there is a vine, there must be a "dispute"?

Liang didn't feel disgusted by this level of quarrel, but found it very interesting.

Holding the chess box on the chessboard in front of him, he said flatly, "Let's start."

……

The sun was setting, and when all the chess games were over, it was already sunset outside the window.

Just when the two were about to leave the clubhouse, Kawai suddenly called out to Hikaru: "That's right! Later I heard that there are still several places in Tokyo related to Honinbo. If you want to go, I can accompany you another day!"

Honinbo?

Liang's footsteps faltered slightly, and he looked up at the light.

Hikaru opened his eyes slightly, then smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Hehe. However, there is no need for it anymore!"

"Eh? No need?" Kawai was a little surprised, "What does 'no need' mean? Then why did you go to Hiroshima before?"

"Now I have this!"

"Huh?" Seeing the folding fan in Hikaru's hand, Hehe was even more confused. What's the relationship between Xiu Ce and the folding fan? "Hey, don't go, boy, tell me clearly! Hey!"

No matter how He He yelled, as soon as the door of the clubhouse was opened and closed, the two had already walked out.

When he came outside, Guang stretched his waist, showing a satisfied expression: "How is it, is this place not bad?"

Under the setting sun, the boy's golden bangs were smudged with an orange-yellow luster.On the increasingly angular face, the amber eyes shone brightly like stars.

"Hmm. It's not bad. I feel that the atmosphere here is more active." Liang thought for a while and expressed his opinion seriously.

Hearing Taya's sincere evaluation, Guang suddenly felt playful: "That's right! However, you should take advantage of it to recollect it now! Because today is the first and last time! I will never bring you here again! "After finishing speaking, he raised his head and walked forward.

Liang, who was thinking to himself, suddenly heard what Guang said, raised his head suddenly, and chased after him: "Jin Teng!"

"Why! It's not like you didn't see it today. As soon as you came in, everyone surrounded you, which troubled me a lot!"

"That being said..."

"So, whether it's for your own good or mine, I can't bring you here again next time! Otherwise, you will be asked to play guiding chess with those uncles every time you come, right?"

The two walked side by side.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Taya seemed to be troubled by something, and Hikari finally couldn't hold back his laughter: "Taya, I was joking, but you actually took it seriously!"

"Eh?"

"I thought about bringing you over someday. I just didn't expect that you are so popular."

Childish behavior and childish words made Liang Yi unable to speak for a while.

After walking for a while, Guang suddenly yelled: "Ah!"

"What, what's wrong?"

"It's so late, we haven't eaten yet!" Looking sideways at Liang, he was more serious than ever, "Are you going home for dinner today? It's already late, right?"

"It's all right. I live alone now."

"Again?" He didn't hide his surprise, "Ms. Taya hasn't come back yet?"

"Father and mother came back last week, but they went to Beijing again this week."

"They are really relieved," Guang said with an expression of "losing to you", "Then what do you do with your meals these days? Do you cook alone? Can you eat it?"

Thinking of the meals that Taya personally made during the days before the Beidou Cup.The taste is surprisingly good, but I still can't help complaining.

"Well, make it yourself. Ms. Ichikawa and Mr. Awara sometimes bring some meals over."

"Ah~~~" let out a noncommittal sound, just in time to see a ramen shop in front of him, on a whim, "How about, let's have ramen for dinner today! Ramen~ramen!" After finishing speaking, he accelerated towards the ramen shop.

Almost without looking at the menu, I just ordered a large bowl of beef ramen, with hot spring eggs and tempura.

After ordering, I found that Taya was still browsing the menu, so I just grabbed it and said to the waiter directly: "He can come just like me."

The waiter looked at Liang inquiringly, and went to place the order seeing that he did not refute.

But it's not so much that he didn't refute, it's better to say that Liang didn't realize what happened at that time.

When he came back to his senses, everything was a foregone conclusion.Although there is no way to change anything, I still feel a little worried: "Shinto, I..."

"I understand, I understand~" Guang intercepted the opponent's words clearly, "But I really admire you. From the afternoon to now, I have consumed so much energy, but I don't feel hungry."

"I've never been particularly interested in food..."

"So, how have you lived these years? Don't tell me, every day is Go, Go."

"I……"

Light's words once again made Liang unable to refute.

In my memory of the past few years, or even more than ten years, everything seems to be really only related to Go.For my young self at that time, Go was just a toy.Playing Go is all entertainment.The chess players who came to visit the mansion were his playmates.Becoming a top chess player like his father is his whole goal.

While chatting, the ramen was soon on the table.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Liang was still a little tired when he saw a big bowl full of food in front of him.

"Taya, why don't you eat it? Come on, chopsticks! And a spoon!" While eating the noodles, he suddenly saw that Taya was still staring at the ramen, and couldn't bear to look at it, "If I remember correctly, Don’t you still have the challenge of the battle for the throne? How about eating more! Here! Here!” As he said, he put a piece of crab meat tempura and a group of vegetable tempura into the taya bowl with his chopsticks inside. "I guess, only people with your personality would be interested in going home to cook after playing chess." Guang thought for a while and said again.

"My personality?"

"That's right. Stubborn, serious, love to get into a dead end." There are also neurotic, go its own way!Of course, the latter will never say anything.

Trying to swallow the food in his mouth, Guang continued: "If you don't mind, next time you don't want to cook, you can come to my house to eat... It's okay to keep full."

"Uh-huh……"

Responding ambiguously, for a few minutes, Ryo just held the spoon in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, staring blankly at the boy at the opposite table who was rapidly eating away the ramen.

Unsolved questions could not help but resurface in his mind.

He and Shindo were originally two parallel lines that had no intersection.Why on earth did you appear in front of me?Why do I keep looking for you again and again?

Two people with completely different life trajectories, because of the fetters of Go, have come to the present step by step...

There was an answer vaguely forming in Taya's mind.But there seemed to be some clues missing, which made him unable to figure it out.

"Hey, Taya, do you want to eat it or not? I'll eat it if I don't!" The tone was full of blame.

Seeing that Shinto was about to reach out to take away the bowl in front of him, Ryo finally took his first bite of dinner tonight.

"I'm back! I've already had dinner outside!"

He took off his shoes at the entrance, and just said something in the direction of the kitchen on the first floor, before preparing to go upstairs.

"Ah Guang?" Mitsuko heard the voice, wiped her hands quickly, and came out of the kitchen, "A boy named He Gu called you just now!"

"He Gu?" Guang Guang, who was about to go upstairs, retreated again, said "Thank you", and called He Gu.

"Hey?"

"He Gu, I'm Shinto."

"Oh, Shinto. Everyone has time this Saturday. Let's continue the round-robin match at my house before this week!"

"Still the old time and the same place?"

"Correct!"

"No problem! If I remember correctly, I have won 3 consecutive victories now! This time I must win all!"

"You bastard! Wait for me!"

"Absolutely accompany!"

He Gu's phone call made Guang instantly refreshed, hung up the phone, went into the room and threw away his schoolbag, and started typing music by himself.

He Gu's words reminded himself.

What I need to pay attention to is not only Taya, but also his companions of the same period, such as Kazuya, Ochi, and Ikaku.Now I have stagnated due to dozens of defeats without a fight in the early stage. Only by making continuous progress can I have the opportunity to play against more high-level chess players!

"Pa——" a white piece landed crisply and firmly on the thirteenth of four positions.

"Hmm..." Shindo has improved again...but...

He Gu stared at the chessboard, his brain running fast.In the current situation, Shindo occupies about four plots of land, while he owns three plots.Although the current situation is slightly unfavorable to me, but the sunspot in the lower left corner still has a way to survive, and the central territory has not yet been substantively owned, so I still have a chance!

He Gu took a glance, and decisively bet the sunspot on 2-[-].

——The 4th round-robin match held at Watani House on Saturday, according to the battle table, Shinto vs. Watani, Kadowaki vs. Ochi, Ikaku vs. Honda, Saegi vs. Nakayama.Each side has 3 hours.Sticker: 5 mesh.

In the middle of the game, the situation became more and more chaotic.In the territory on the left, the fighting has not stopped yet, Heizi from Hegu suddenly broke into the center, trying to take the first step to occupy the central area...

Damn, is it still 3 and a half eyes short?

He Gu bit his lower lip subconsciously, and finally lowered his head: "I lost."

"Thank you for your advice." As he said this, Guang couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, "It's a good chance to win today! If you don't use 'break' here, but use 'stick', maybe the sunspot on my side There is no other way!"

"And this side. I think I'm a little too hasty here," He Gu said, raising his head to look at the light, "By the way, you and Taya have gotten quite close recently, right?"

"Huh?" Guang stopped arranging the chess pieces.

"Someone said that I saw you frequently going in and out of the Go salon at Taya's house recently..."

"Ah, sometimes I go for a while occasionally. Haha, haha." Guang scratched the back of his head like a cover-up.Is there really a lot of frequency recently?

"I don't care, but it's best not to let Morishita-sensei know. It's not like you don't know that Morishita-sensei has always regarded Toyamonshita as a strong enemy."

When it comes to Morishita Kudan, both Kazuya and Hikari imagined the scene where Morishita gritted his teeth and said that he wanted to defeat Taya Monshita in Kazutani and Hikari's minds.

Including the previous few times, I have come to the rental house in Hegu at least seven or eight times.

Although it is a little bit of a family, but without the troubles of my parents, I really feel a lot more relaxed.

"He Gu, didn't your parents say anything when you moved out?"

"What can they say? They did object at first, but after all, I rented the apartment with the money I earned, and in the end they had no reason to object. It's just that my mother would come over occasionally to help pack the clothes and take them home. wash."

"What, you are living in a serviced apartment at all!"

"Isn't that the point? Why, you want to move out too?"

"Not at all. Just asking casually." Guang said, bowing his head guiltily.

Somehow, my mother, who had never been interested in Go, suddenly seemed to care about Go after the Beidou Cup, and even took the initiative to ask about winning or losing.Going home several times, I vaguely heard my mother and father discussing Go in the living room, but when I saw myself coming back, I immediately fell silent.

This feeling...is uncomfortable.

Should I still move out?

Taya's figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

Although he lives in his own home, he is already able to live independently at the same age as him.But going back alone every day, facing the empty house, wouldn't that guy feel lonely?Based on my understanding of him, I guess he is either in the Go club at the moment, or he is playing at home alone...

If it hadn't been for the consideration that Kazuya seems to have always had a prejudice against Taya, he would have brought that guy long ago...

No... What if there is another riot like yesterday at the Go Club...

Ahhh, what the hell are I thinking!

Guang shook his head, forcing himself to concentrate on reviewing the chess game with He Gu.

When everyone's chess game was over, He Gu suddenly said while chatting: "In a few weeks, it will be the Ghost Festival. In the week of vacation, I may ask for a few more days off from He Qi Academy to be with Yi Jiao Go to China to study."

Some sudden news, Guang was a little surprised: "China?"

"Well. Compared with today's Japan, China's young chess players are more talented. I want to see how foreign chess players play Go. I have played against several Chinese chess players on the Internet before, and they are all very good. And, "Speaking of this, He Gu suddenly laughed "hehe", "I also want to meet the little Leping that Yijiao has been talking about."

"Xiao Leping?"

"It's a kid I met when I was studying at the Chinese Chess Academy." Yijiao explained, "He looks very similar to Hegu, he's just a shrunken version of Hegu."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone couldn't help but become curious.

Honda and Saeki also proposed the idea of ​​going together.

"What about you, Shinto? If we go together, maybe we can organize a small Chinese-Japanese team competition."

"Me?" Guang didn't expect the topic to turn to himself, "Let me think about it..."

Are you going to China?

Light never thought about it.There is no reason to go to China.By the way, Taya seems to be learning Chinese all the time, right?I don't know if it's hard to learn... No, why did I think of that guy again? !retreat!Hurry up and disperse!

At this time, his rival who was being nagged by Guang, just as he expected, was playing music alone in his room.Hearing a strange noise from the entrance, he hurried out of the house to check.

Walking to the entrance, Liang couldn't help being surprised to see his parents, whom he hadn't seen for nearly two weeks, came back.

"Father, mother, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back." Seeing Ogata Seiji behind his father who was helping to carry the luggage, Ryo nodded slightly out of politeness, "Mr. Ogata."

Ogata moved the luggage into the house, and when his eyes met Ryo's in the air, he only nodded symbolically, bowed to Taya's family, and left.

Presumably it was to prepare for the title battle with Kuwamoto Inbo again next week.

The home, which was originally quite deserted, suddenly seemed to be alive with the sound of parents' footsteps, voices, and luggage pulleys.

After hesitating for a moment, Liang went into his parents' room to see if there was anything he could help.

Seeing this, Ming Zi, who was packing her luggage, smiled and beckoned Liang to come to her, and then handed over a box from the suitcase.

"Mother, this is?"

"Bring the phone. I discussed it with your father. We may not be at home often in the future. I will leave you a phone number. If there is anything, it will be easier to contact." Mingzi said, took out the phone from the box and handed it to Liang. "Look, my number and your father's number are already stored in it. When you go out in the future, take it with you."

"Well, good." Picking up the phone, Liang Liang nodded, the expression on his face still indifferent.Although I am not used to using these electronic devices after all, but...

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