The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

In a quiet room.

A figure walked to the window and opened the curtains with a "crash", and suddenly the sunlight seeped in from the outside, lighting up the whole room.The figure was hidden in the sunlight, and it seemed to have wings on its back, shining brightly.

"Good morning, Taya." He heard the figure call his name heartily.

He stretched out his hand subconsciously, but the moment he was about to touch that figure, it suddenly turned into countless light spots and spread out through the slightly opened window!He tried his best to keep those light spots, but those light spots passed through his palm, between his fingers, and finally disappeared together with the figure he regarded as a treasure...

"Light--!!!"

Waking up suddenly, and realizing that it was just a dream, Liang couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.The left hand subconsciously reached out to the side, and when it touched the cold and empty bed beside him, the remaining trace of drowsiness immediately receded like a tide.

"Light!!!"

Pushing open the door almost like a rush, when he found his lover who was baking toast in the kitchen, Liang paused slightly, then walked behind him, and pulled him into his arms.Smelling the familiar breath from Guang's body, feeling the warmth from his body, until this moment, it seemed that the dream and reality were finally separated completely.

Guang was bound by Liang's arms, and he couldn't help complaining softly: "Taya, you hug me too tightly, I can't even move my hands."

Ryo buried his head into Hikari's shoulder, and didn't intend to let go.

Sensing the abnormality of his lover, Guang stretched out his hand and scratched Liang's hair with some difficulty: "What's wrong?"

Liang didn't want to be aware of the uneasiness in his heart, so he relaxed a little, and changed the subject: "Why did you get up so early today?" If I remember correctly, neither of them should have a chess match today.

Guang smiled and faced him, with a sly look in his eyes: "It's rare to rest today, let's go on a date!"

Hearing the word "date", Liang's eyes suddenly widened a little, looking at his lover in disbelief.

Guang didn't intend to reveal half a minute, and urged Jiang Liang to push out of the kitchen: "Hurry up and wash up, I'll make your breakfast right away!"

The steps that were about to leave the kitchen were taken back again.

In the past, not to mention making breakfast for others, even the number of times I made breakfast myself was very stable and maintained a "0" all-clear record. What is it today...

However, he couldn't ask a question, and was half pushed and half invited out of the kitchen by Guang.

After breakfast, I went out with Hikari after all.

Bathed in sunlight, Guang had already made plans.It is rare to come out, and absolutely do not go to any place related to Go.Firstly, the guy next to him is too dazzling and hurts his self-esteem; secondly, once he goes to a club or something, [-]% will be dragged to play guiding chess.

As for why it took such a lot of trouble to get up early and have a hearty breakfast, he just hoped that after the heart-to-heart talk a few days ago, Taya could really feel...he was liked by him, needed.

Before noon this day, they went to the comic book store together, watched the newly released movie together, and tasted seasonal limited dishes together.If before this, Liang's understanding of "dating" was only in the abstract sense, then under the guidance of the light, he gradually saw the concrete content of this word - like a dream that is entangled by countless silk-like memories. The formed sphere is within reach.

Leaving the restaurant, Liang followed Guang into a video game store.

In the corner of the store, several machines surrounded by crowds immediately attracted Guang's attention.Seeing clearly that it was a trick similar to simulating his own appearance seven years later, Guang sneered at it at first, and after pulling Liang to play all the entertainment facilities in the store, he turned his attention to those machines again.

Just now, the scene where there were still a lot of people in the city was replaced by a cold and cold face in the blink of an eye.

Guang's sympathy overflows, and he decides to join hands with Liang.

Standing in the curtain of the test machine, after putting in 2 game coins, Guang stared at the camera above the machine and pressed the "confirm" button, and the machine transmitted the image captured by the lens to the screen.After a while, the machine fed back the analyzed light appearance seven years later on the screen.It looks similar to now, except that the last bit of baby fat on the face has also faded away, and the contours of the face appear more distinct and resolute.

It was Liang's turn to take the test, and while waiting for the results, he went to the convenience store next to the store and bought two bottles of hot drinks.

Standing in the curtain again, when Liang handed the water to Guang, he was staring at the screen of the testing machine intently, as if possessed by a demon.

"What did you see?" Liang unscrewed the drink bottle and handed it into Guang's hand.

"Oh, I just saw it..." Guang raised his head and took a sip of his drink, then pointed at the screen, "A beauty~"

Liang looked at the screen suspiciously, and was slightly taken aback when he saw the output result.

He didn't know what the principle of this test machine was.I saw on the screen, seven years later, I still had neat bangs, but my sister's head turned into long hair.There seemed to be a gentle beauty on the resolute and indifferent face.

"So, the 'beauty' you mentioned just now is..."

"En. That's right." Guang's eyes were shining, and he quickly pecked at the corner of Liang's lips like provocatively.

Liang didn't react for a while, and was still in a daze: "Shinto, you... like it?"

"I didn't say that." Guang pursed his mouth and turned his head unnaturally.

Having known each other for so long, Liang has already been familiar with some small movements of light.When the words are poor or unreasonable, they will raise the volume bluffing; when they are uneasy or overwhelmed, they will lose their temper; when they feel embarrassed or guilty, they will subconsciously look away.At this moment, even if he doesn't say anything, his little habit has already betrayed him completely.

As a return gift just now, Liang lifted Guang's chin under the cover of the curtain, and kissed his somewhat cold lips.Said in a deceptively low voice: "Information, received."

When I left the shop, the sun was setting in the sky quickly.

While discussing where to go for dinner, Mitsuko's phone call came unexpectedly.On the phone, the mother who said "at least go home for a meal on the last day of the year" finally succeeded in persuading her son.And before she knew it, her son had also successfully persuaded his boyfriend.So at Jinteng's house in the evening, there was an illusion of a family of four happily sitting around the table eating hot pot.

I don't know which switch was touched. When Mitsuko put the beef into the light bowl, she complained without warning: "There should be fewer female players among Go players, right? Hikari is really good. He knows Go all day long." , I’ve never heard you mention any girl.” After a pause, he turned to Ryo again, “Where’s Taya-kun? Is there a girl you like?”

When Mitsuko asked, Hikaru was holding a beef ball.

Hearing Mitsuko's words, the beef balls just picked up fell back into the pot with a "plop" like the light's heart suddenly sinking.

Liang glanced at him, reached under the table and squeezed his left hand lightly, then politely but ambiguously replied: "Not yet."

Compared with Taya's calm reaction, Guang was obviously a little excited: "Mom! You ate well, why are you saying this all of a sudden!"

Mitsuko didn't take it seriously: "I suddenly thought of it and asked a question. Is it okay for mom to ask? The temper is so bad, Taya-kun is lucky that you can bear him!"

Guang still wanted to refute, but Liang put the meatballs he hadn't picked up earlier into his bowl: "Eat it, be careful not to burn it."

He just looked at Taya, then at the meatballs in the bowl, and remained silent.

The dinner, which was originally quite sumptuous, became a little lackluster because of Mitsuko's unintentional words, as if sitting on pins and needles.

After dinner, Guang wanted to leave on the grounds that he still had something to do.Mitsuko may also feel the unhappiness caused by herself in the second half of the meal, so she didn't stay strong.

Along the way, Hikari kept his head down and remained silent, even unaware that Taya was behind him.

Although he knew that what his mother said just now was just unintentional, Guang's heart was still blocked as if some kind of rejection filler was forcibly inserted.And this kind of resentment is not to the mother, but to the cowardly self.As long as I don't say it clearly for a day, things like today will continue to repeat themselves.

I have never been so eager to be with Taya in an upright manner, at least in front of my parents, I don’t have to pretend, I can introduce to them frankly, he is my lover, he is as important to me as air excellent people.

With things in mind, blocking out all the sounds around him, Guang walked faster and faster, like a marching soldier in a hurry.Suddenly, a frightened "Jinto!!!" came from beside his ear, and Guang suddenly turned his head, and was pulled back into his arms by a force.

And at this moment, a car passed by him, almost driving past the position where he was standing just now.

"What were you thinking just now? Did you die?!" Liang seemed to shake the light awake, clasping his shoulders and shaking back and forth.

Guang raised his head and glanced at Liang, but quickly lowered his eyes as if being burned by the pity in Liang's eyes, and said in a low voice: "Taya, I'm sorry."

Liang Xin knew what Guang's apology was for, but this apology only made his heart hurt even more.

"I'm fine." Knowing that he was on the street, but couldn't take care of that much anymore, Liang pressed Guang into his arms distressedly, "Really, Guang, I'm fine."

You think it's okay, but I do! !I don't want you to be hurt by unintentional words, and I don't want you to blindly forbear and give in for me! !

Guang gently broke away from Liang's embrace, and looked straight into his eyes: "Taya, I think..."

"Don't say it." Startled, Liang interrupted him decisively, "Guang, I didn't feel embarrassed or unhappy, really. So, don't say a word until you think about how to deal with it. Once you say something Tell me what you are going to smash, I think you know better than me."

——Sometimes, even if we have considered the worst situation, we have to admit again and again that the reality is often more than we imagined.It is like a god looking down on all living beings from a high altitude, playing with you and applauding you, and slapping you with big waves one after another.You have been crushed several times and can't straighten up, but only by making yourself stronger can you let it turn upside down.

The cold wind at night blew his bare skin, quietly taking away the temperature from his body, but it also instantly cleared up his messy thoughts.

Quickly cleared up his emotions, and said, "Taya, let's go to Meiji Shrine."

Liang froze for a moment, and as his thoughts flowed, he understood the meaning of Guang's choice of "date" today.

Get off at Harajuku Station, and you can already see that the passengers leaving the station gradually gather into a small stream of people, flocking to the Meiji Shrine not far away.

When we walked to the front of the shrine, the crowd who came to the first attainment [1] had already formed a sea of ​​people.Among them, there are many young men and women who look like lovers.Halfway through the walk, the girl probably loosened her shoelaces and was bending over to tie them. The boy in school uniform had already bent down and tied her shoelaces for her.After the boy tied his shoelaces, the girl put her arms around his waist, kissed his lips, and the two walked into the gate of the shrine together, clinging to each other.

Guang looked a little lost in thought, when he heard Taya calling his name, he looked away calmly, and said, "Let's go in."

Liang didn't move.He stretched out his hand to gather the loose scarf around his neck, and then said: "Let's go."

Entering the shrine, the space for walking suddenly piled up.Just feeling someone holding his hand, looking sideways at his wrist and looking up, he saw bright eyes staring at him like the Milky Way.

His left hand was wrapped by Ryo and stuffed into his coat pocket.Warm, but like the whole body.

Amidst the crowds, there was a stretch of the road where Liang held Guang's hand tightly like this.Those few minutes gave Guang an illusion that they were ordinary lovers no different from ordinary people, and they also had the right to hold hands and hug each other in front of others.

In front of the main hall, the police maintaining order stood in a row like a fortified wall.From time to time, coins thrown by worshipers pass through the sky above their heads and fall into the main hall, praying for a smooth coming year.

Standing in front of the main hall, Guang pulled the copper bell hanging on the beam, clapped his hands together, and closed his eyes silently.

Time flies, and the countless "firsts" that happened this year flashed before Guang's eyes one by one like a long stretch.

——It was the first time to participate in the men's and women's mixed doubles.Entered the Honinbo Round Robin for the first time.The first time I touched the borderline of life and death.For the first time, he delivered the secrets in his heart to others.With the first and last lovers of all these years.

What should I wish for?The whole family is safe and happy?May all go well with you?God Amaterasu is so busy, he may not be able to cover everything.What's more, his previous attitude towards gods and the like can be regarded as indifference, indifference.

But this time, he sincerely prayed to the gods, hoping that he could be strong enough to be able to live up to anyone he valued.Including parents, including Taya.

Opening his eyes, he met his lover who was also looking at him.The shape of the eyes is long and narrow, the tails of the eyes are slightly upturned, and the fundus of the eyes seems to contain profound power.

The last minute of 16 is passing by quickly.

ten.Nine.eight.seven.six.five.Four.three.two.one!

Amidst the crowd's countdown, the light suddenly brightened and boldly touched his lips.

Liang was taken aback for a moment, his right hand inadvertently touched Guang's left hand hanging by his side.

Realizing that the light didn't flinch, he followed the original distance and touched the light's left hand again.Guang still looked straight ahead, but his left hand was clasped tightly with Liang's right hand.

In the New Year's bell.

Guang said: "It's a new year, please give me more advice." Putting a small object into Liang's hand, "That, that, an amulet." .

Liang did not know when the light was ready.Only relying on the touch of the fingertips, he traced the shape of the circular ring in his palm little by little, as if he wanted to engrave some kind of oath on the ring.

Looking ahead, he also said, "Well, please give me your advice."

as lovers.

as an opponent.

Note:

[1]初诣：是指一年中第一次去神社或寺院参拜，祈求平安。因为日本的正月是每年的一月一日，所以初诣通常在12月31号(大晦日)晚上或1月1号早上。

The author has something to say:

Sorry, I wanted to save a little more.But there are a lot of things added temporarily, and there is no time to write a manuscript, so I can only update so much.

I'm so sorry.

The update is finished today, and the next update will be on February 2.

Here, I would like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous Year of the Rooster in advance!