The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

By the time the three of them walked back to the chess academy, the lunch break was coming to an end.

Still no chance to speak alone with Taya.

The chess match in the afternoon went smoothly.After tidying up the chessboard, he glanced behind him, and Taya was still playing with his opponent.Perhaps because the opponent was still stubbornly resisting, Taya's expression was a little frighteningly indifferent.

Hey, can you relax?

Guang unconsciously raised the corners of his lips. After leaving the game room, he habitually wanted to send a message to Taya, took out his mobile phone, and stuffed it back into his pocket with a grin.

What to send to Taya?I went home first?I'm waiting for you at the clubhouse?

It's just that Taya's "roommate" himself, whether reporting his whereabouts or taking the initiative to invite him, seems inappropriate.

Light stood there in a daze.

It is true that we were so close once, and those memories of being together are also real and cannot be erased. Perhaps it is because Taya has brought too many feelings to me, so I have to return to the simple "opponent", " "Roommate" relationship, it is so confusing.

It seems that everything is wrong.No matter what you do, you can't get rid of the awkward feeling in your heart.

Guang suddenly didn't know where he should go next after playing chess.

When the elevator came up, He Gu just came out of the game room.Seeing the light, he gave him a "victory" gesture.

Walking out of the chess academy together, Guang suddenly asked: "Hegu, can I go to your rented apartment later?"

He Gu was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the crutches under his armpits.

"Isn't it convenient?" Light asked.

"That's not true..." He Gu didn't know what to think, so he didn't say any more, and instead pointed to Hikaru's right foot, "However, there is no barrier-free elevator at the subway exit near my apartment, can you?"

Guang laughed: "No problem!"

The two returned to Hegu's rental house together.

He poured a glass of orange juice for Hikari, and Kazuya thought that Shinto wanted to chat with him about something, but he didn't expect that as soon as Hikari arrived at his house, he would occupy his computer and start playing Go online.

Borrow Hegu's account to log in to the system, and someone invites you as soon as it goes online.Seeing the other party's ID account, Guang was stunned for a moment, and then his heart burst into flames.

After sitting for 10 minutes, Hegu finally couldn't take it anymore: "Shinto, why are you here?"

Before waiting for a reply, Hegu got up and walked to the table, glanced at the computer screen, and a few drops of cold sweat dripped from his forehead: "I said Shinto, you can't..."

It's just online Go, but a good game of Go has been torn to pieces by Shinto.The opponent is also true, black has no way out, and is still desperately trying to survive.

Kazuya glanced curiously at the other party's ID: Akira, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry: "Shinto, you won't just..."

"So what? You are so weak in chess, and you're still embarrassing yourself with that guy's name. I'm so mad!" Without raising his bald head, he just clicked the mouse and blocked the last breath of the black chess piece. .

He Gu remembers that during the summer vacation a few years ago, there was a mysterious chess player who swept away all the masters on the Internet.

He once doubted the relationship between Shinto and that chess player, but because Shinto was too weak at that time, he quickly dismissed the idea.

At this time, looking at Shinto who is proficient in operating the mouse in front of the computer, Kazuya unconsciously connected him with the mysterious chess player again.

By accident, he blurted out and asked, "Shinto, do you know Sai?"

The hand that operated the mouse paused.

This detail did not escape He Gu's eyes.

For a while, neither of them spoke again.

He Gu stared at the back of Hikari's head, only the crisp sound of wind chimes remained in the room.

Just when he thought the topic would be covered, Hikari finally ended the game and turned his seat to face him: "Because my Go style is very similar to Sai?"

He Gu said without hesitation: "Yes."

He had watched more than a dozen games of Sai playing against different players before. Although he dismissed the idea that Shinto was Sai at the time, in recent years when he played against Shinto, he could often see it in Shinto's Go games. Sai's shadow...

Guang silently looked at He Gu.This was the first time he took the initiative to talk about Sai with someone other than Taya.Although He Gu doesn't seem to be considered "others".

He thought for a while and organized his words: "Someone once said that there is another person in my Go game, and that person is Sai."

He Gu looked at the light in surprise, and quickly realized: "It's that guy?"

"Ah, that guy." Light laughed.

He Gu: "So, you and Sai..."

Guang interrupted him: "You can understand it this way, without Sai, there would be no me now."

He Gu pondered for a while, and then asked, "Who the hell is Sai?"

Guang put away his smile, and asked half-truthfully, "If I say that he is a thousand-year-old chess soul, would you believe me?"

He Gu opened his eyes wide, remained silent for a moment, and looked at Guang with complicated eyes: "You don't want to tell me that Sai, a thousand-year-old chess spirit, has attached to you, and then..."

This was originally just a whimsical idea of ​​Hegu, but the more he talked, the more he felt that it seemed to be the case. At the end, he couldn't help but shivered, and shut his mouth first.

He suddenly realized that it is meaningless to pursue who Sai is now.

He sat back at the low table again, with his hands resting on his folded legs: "Speaking of which, Shinto, how did you know Taya?"

The details of the encounter between the two quickly flashed through Guang's mind, and he said with a smile, "Because of Sai."

Hegu stretched his neck in wonder: "It's Sai again?"

Light didn't answer.He straightened his face slightly, and looked at his friend: "Hey, He Gu, why are you always... so hostile to Taya?"

I can detect it, but I still can't understand why so many people of the same age, even the elders, whenever they mention or see Taya, they are so... afraid of him?

He Gu froze for a moment, then fell silent.

After a while, he said: "The year that guy took the professional chess player exam, I also took it. He finally passed the professional exam with a single defeat. Do you know why he lost that game?"

Light looked at him quietly.

"Because he lost without fighting. On the first day of the pro exam, he chose to play against Sai online and completely forgot about the pro exam. Can you understand that feeling, Shindo? When everyone is fighting for that When the few who passed the quota were desperate and tried their best, he handed over Bai Xing so easily, as if playing a professional exam. Although I admit that his chess strength is indeed very strong, but compared to what we have paid Work hard, he really has occupied too many unique resources, and it is too easy for him to get them..."

In the end, even Kazuya himself couldn't tell whether his hostility towards Taya was due to envy or jealousy.Or, perhaps, a touch of awe.

After saying this, he grabbed the paper cup on the low table and downed the whole drink in one go.

The feeling that Hegu said is understandable, but still can't empathize with him.

He was silent for a moment, sat back opposite Hegu, and said slowly: "Hegu, Taya has been playing Go since he was 2 years old."

He Gu looked at Guang, startled.

"I asked him before, what did he play when he was a child. Except for Go, he can hardly answer. Those temple fairs, games, and comics we are talking about seem to be far away from him." Guang looked at He Gu, He said in a low voice, "For Taya, Go is the whole of his life."

He Gu lowered his head as if in deep thought.

"Have you heard about Taya joining the school's Go club?" Hikari asked.

He Gu: "I've heard of it. That's why I said he was too self-contained..."

Guang lowered his head and twirled the paper cup in his hand: "I heard from that guy's senior sister that after he joined the Go club, he was once squeezed out by the club members."

"Isn't this a normal thing? When a person like him joins the Go club, the minister's deputy minister can step down." He Gu complained disdainfully.

Guang smiled: "Maybe you don't believe it. At that time, I refused to play chess with him. He strongly asked to join the Go club just to play against me in the middle school Go conference."

He Gu suddenly raised his head, his mouth opened wide: "He, he..."

"Hmm. Besides, the three generals..."

He Gu felt like his jaw was about to drop.He has completely given up on getting to the bottom of what kind of relationship Shinto had with that guy.

He closed his mouth with great difficulty, and changed the topic: "Forget it, let's not talk about this. You came to my house today, you don't just want to play a few games of online Go, and then tell me about the past, right? "

He glanced at his friend and said nothing.

He Gu tentatively asked: "You and...uh, what happened to Taya? Is there a family crisis?"

Guang just wanted to quibble at first, but then his whole expression collapsed, and he roughly told his friend about the process of turning himself to death.

He Gu stammered again: "Shito, you, you, you..."

"Yes, I'm here." Light sighed.

He Gu was stunned for a few seconds, first he pursed his lips and snickered, and then he couldn't hold back his laughter so much that he almost knocked on the table.

"He Gu!!" Guang roared out of embarrassment.If eyesight could kill, it is estimated that the Hegu chess player would have been riddled with holes and fell to the ground.

Kazuya patted the low table and laughed for a while, after laughing, he sat up straight and said seriously: "Shinto, you really have confidence in Taya."

Light bowed his head and fell silent.

He Gu continued: "That guy, he really likes you. If someone tells me that, I guess—"

The words are not finished, but the light can also guess the following.

At this moment, at this minute, at this second, he suddenly misses Taya very much, wants to see him and hear his voice immediately.

Guang suddenly stood up: "I remembered one thing—"

He Gu also stood up, and sent the light to the door with an "I understand" expression on his face.

When Guang pushed the door to leave, He Gu called him to stop behind him.

Light turned around.

"That..." Kazuya scratched his head, "If possible in the future, can you invite Taya to participate in our seminar?"

Guang froze for a moment, then gave Hegu a thumbs up: "No problem!"

In the chess club.

From the corner of the eye, Bei Dao glanced at Liang who was writing scores at the next table, and Bei Dao couldn't help asking Hirose, "What's the matter, little teacher?"

Hirose shook his head.

Maybe it was because Shinto and the little teacher went in and out at the same time, maybe it was because he felt something unusual about Liang, no one knew what happened, but they could all feel that something was wrong.

The little teacher is still the same little teacher, but he has changed back to the way he was before Shindo came.

A man was typing music on his seat.silently.lonely.

Hirose Gan was the first person to eat crabs.

He smiled and asked Liang: "Speaking of which, the little teacher is going to confront Shinto again soon, right?"

The battle table for the seven titles will be updated regularly on the official website of the Chess Academy.

The Throne War is different from the highest standard Honinbo War, Celebrity War and Chess War, and there is no loop.All chess players, regardless of rank, need to compete for the final right to challenge through rounds of hand-to-hand challenges.

And next Tuesday, Liang's opponent in the final qualifiers will be Guang.

Liang paused for a moment, and responded with a smile.

If Hirose looked carefully, he would find that what Ryo was holding in his hand was a copy of "Show Strategy Book".The corners of the pages are curled up due to too many pages.

This has almost become a habit of Liang.

Before feeling uneasy or playing chess with the light, I would take it out to have a look and write a few chess records.

Liang glanced at the empty seat opposite him calmly, then lowered his head and continued to play music.

While walking towards the predetermined destination, Guang sent a message to He Gu.

——Next time there will be an excursion, you call Shang Yijiao, I call Kami Taya, and we will go together.

The message came back quickly——OK!

Guang put away his phone and walked forward quickly.

"Welcome..." The door of the club opened, and when he saw someone coming, Shihe cried out, "Jin Teng?"

When everyone heard the words, they all looked towards the door in surprise.

Kitajima and Hirose looked at each other even more, communicating with their eyes.

Bei Dao——So, the two didn't quarrel?

Hirose shrugged—who knew?

After entering the door, Guang greeted Miss Shihe, and then walked straight towards Liang.

Ever since Liang heard that the light came in, his eyes had been on him without moving away.Seeing Guang walking towards him step by step, Liang felt that his breathing was a little stagnant, and his hands were just placed in the chess box, as if he had forgotten what he was doing just a second ago.

"In... Vine?" Ryo blinked.Guangming is so real standing in front of him, he still feels like he is dreaming.

"Yo, Taya." Seeing Ryo's confused expression, Hikari's smile became even brighter.This effect is what I want!

Just as Bei Dao was about to speak, he was interrupted by the light.

He looked at Liang on the seat, and asked with a smile, "It's getting late, do you want to go back?"

It's a very common sentence, but the translation is: I'll take you home.

Hirose and Bei Dao didn't know about their co-renting, they stared blankly for a while, and then looked at Hikari at the same time.

Liang also froze for a moment, and then, like a child who has done something wrong, he slightly lowered his eyes, and subconsciously shrank his hand holding "Xiu Ce Pu".

He suddenly didn't know what Guang wanted to do.People who say that within a month, they are just "opponents" and "roommates" are not light?

As if seeing through Liang's thoughts, Guang lied casually: "I didn't bring the key."

Hirose and Bei Dao on the side couldn't keep up with the pace of developments, and their brains were completely down.

Seeing that Liang was still in a daze, Guang directly grabbed the chess book from his hand and began to organize the chess pieces on the board.

"Leave me here." Liang stretched out his hand to straighten the chess pieces, and accidentally touched Guang's with his fingertips in a panic.

"It's better to deal with the two of you." Guang also seemed to touch Liang's hand intentionally or unintentionally, but he didn't stop arranging the chess pieces.

After a while, the little teacher with reddish cheeks was led away by Guang in full view of everyone.

On the way home, neither of them spoke much.

Although Liang had doubts in his heart, he didn't mention a word.

After dinner in the evening, Liang brought a fruit plate in front of Guang.On a white porcelain plate, there is a mango flower that has been evenly cut into small squares.

"I brought it back from home the other day. It's already ripe."

He just stared at the mango flowers in the porcelain plate, stared at them for a long while, and then clasped the edge of the porcelain plate tightly: "Yeah. It looks delicious."

He moved the plate to the side, Liang hesitated for a few seconds, and finally sat down beside him.

After sitting down, neither of them spoke first.

This feeling is very strange, it's only been two days, and then they sit side by side, but they seem to be strangers.But the occasional touch of arms, even through the material of the clothes, can also arouse a feeling of thumping.

It's like, I'm falling in love with the people around me little by little.

Liang watched Guang eat the mango in a somewhat inelegant way, trying to wipe off the pulp from the corner of his mouth, but retracted his outstretched hand.

"Huh?" Guang looked sideways at Liang.

Liang shook his head: "Eat slowly, no one will compete with you."

Guang still looked at Liang: "Taya, do you... have something to say to me?"

Liang looked away, and clasped his hands on his lap: "I will go to Kyushu in the next three days, you are alone...be careful."

Guang was stunned for a moment, and almost jumped up: "So suddenly? When did you decide?"

As soon as the words came out, I found that my reaction was not right, so I had to change my sitting position, cleared my throat and said, "Well... you are going to Kyushu? I haven't heard you say it before."

After Guang finished eating the mango, he just wanted to get a tissue, Liang took a few and put them in his hand.

Liang's fingertips were very warm, even a little hot, touching Guang's slightly cold skin, it was like being gently brushed by a feather, and ripples suddenly appeared in Guang's heart.

Guang calmed down, and asked again: "Going to Kyushu...do you have a job?"

Highlights nodded: "There are some Go promotional activities, and the Chess Institute wants to try to start with some primary and secondary schools."

Guang said "Oh" and continued to ask: "Why did you choose Kyushu? Who else will go? Where will they go?"

Liang avoided the seriousness and replied lightly: "Mainly Fukuoka and Beppu."

Light responded again.

Liang thought for a while and said, "When I'm not around, remember to take the key with you when you go out."

"Ah."

"Remember to check the front and back of the clothes."

"Ah."

"Don't fall asleep on the subway, listen carefully to the station."

"Ah."

"The right foot has not recovered yet, try to use as little force as possible."

"it is good."

"After taking a shower, remember to turn off the water heater."

"it is good."

"Remember to go to bed early at night."

"it is good."

"and also……"

Guang couldn't help it anymore: "Is there anything else? Why don't you just write "One Hundred Points to Consider When Living Alone at Home"."

Liang smiled embarrassedly: "Am I..."

Guang interrupted him: "What else? Let's finish it at once."

Bright eyes are curved, evoking Guang's urge to hug him: "Also, remember to set the alarm clock."

Guang also bent the corners of his eyes: "Okay."

I watched Taya pack her luggage before.

His belongings have always been few, just some replacement clothes and an unshakable chess record.

But I don't know why, when watching Taya packing his luggage that night, Hikari suddenly felt uncomfortable like scratching his heart and lungs.

Sniffing, Guang looked at Liang's back and said, "When you get there, remember to report your safety."

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