The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

One month after Liang won the right to challenge the Celebrity Tournament, the first round of the 30th Celebrity Tournament officially started in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture.

The celebrity title battle is a seven-game chess game. Each game takes two days, and each side has 8 hours of chess time.

Due to work, although Hikari was unable to watch the match on the first day of the match, as soon as work was over that night, he immediately took the JR line to the hotel where Ryo was staying.

The taxi carrying Guang was driving towards the destination like a dragon.Through the car window, you can already see the neon LOGO of the hotel where Liang stayed not far away.

Hikari wanted to follow his usual style and make a surprise attack.

However, when the car reached the crossroads, Hikari's body, which had been trapped in the back seat, suddenly straightened up—he almost forgot that this time, Hikari was participating in what is known as "one of the three major title games in Japanese Go". celebrity battle.Whether it is heavyweight or attention, it is incomparable to the one-day challenge Handai held in Hyogo Prefecture before.Every year, the celebrity Qiban chess game will attract dozens of periodicals and magazines in the chess world to report. What's more, this chess game is not only a competition between Taya's disciples, but also the first time Taya Ryo, the son of Taya's former celebrity, entered the celebrity title battle.As each round is a two-day chess game, for the sake of continuity of reports, the Go journal reporters who came today are likely to stay at Liang's hotel or a nearby hotel at the moment!

Thinking about it carefully, I felt a layer of cold sweat on my back, and my heart seemed to be contracting sharply under the emotion of opening and closing.

The red signal light ahead flickered a few times, and after a while, it turned into a green light.

The driver restarted the vehicle, and the taxi made a sharp turn and drove onto the main road on the left.But just 800 meters away from the hotel, Guang suddenly stopped the taxi, got out of the car, and walked straight into a hotel on the street.

The incoming ringtone of the light is brightened for a special setting.

As soon as the phone rang, the other end of the phone was connected: "Light?"

I don't know why, the speeches that have been organized with great difficulty all disappeared as if they had grown wings the moment they heard Liang's voice.

"Well, Liang, I'm delayed by something today, so I won't come." Guang said more and more quietly, knowing that Liang couldn't see, he still lowered his head unconsciously, "However, I will definitely be there tomorrow morning! I promise!"

But the other end of the phone still unexpectedly quieted down, leaving a large gap in Guang's ear.

A few seconds later, the man's voice finally came through the phone.

It was calm, and there seemed to be some pleasant nasal voices mixed in the radio waves: "Well, it's okay."

But listening to Liang's answer, instead of relaxing, Guang felt that the air in the room became stagnant.He couldn't help walking to the window and opening it.

Looking at the dots of light reflected from the window of the hotel where Liang stayed, imagining that maybe that person was standing behind a certain window, Guang gradually became uneasy: "Are you... angry?"

"How could it be..." At the entrance of the hotel, a street lamp pulled out a slanted shadow from Liang's figure.Duplicity and waiting for a long while facing the road that must pass through the hotel, Liangcai seemed to finally give up, lowering his eyes slightly, "I heard that you won the first round of the chess holy war preliminaries today. Are you tired? It's too late to come here tomorrow morning." Hurry up, or...forget it."

Under the slightly cool night, the bright dark green long hair hung down smoothly as he lowered his head, covering two-thirds of his side face.The originally gentle and handsome face seemed to be covered with a layer of loneliness like frost.

Before meeting the light, he seldom considered such things as "hope".In his view, "hope" itself is completely meaningless.It exists only for you to realize it yourself.If you try your best and still can't achieve it, it just means that you haven't worked hard enough.

But at this moment, he suddenly laughed at himself - before today, Guang never told him that he would come tonight.Then when did my subconscious mind unilaterally produce such unfounded ideas like "the light will come at night", and even allow it to continue to exist unreasonably.

This is completely contrary to my own logic.

As if to convince himself, Liang repeated: "Really, it doesn't matter if you don't come tomorrow. It's the same when I come back to review."

Just saying that, the expectations that were suddenly dashed in my heart seemed to be really relieved, and I didn't care so much.

He walked slowly towards the hotel, but at the moment Liang was about to enter the lobby, he suddenly turned his head and looked towards the bell tower not far away where ten bells were ringing: "Guang, where are you now?"

"Ah, Liang, that, I, I—" Hearing Liang's question at first, Guang's heart almost stopped beating in fright, and he quickly closed the window tightly.God knows why there is a clock tower next to the hotel where he is staying!God knows that the vitality of that old antique can be so tenacious!

However, after a short period of IQ offline, Guang suddenly thought of something: "So, Liang, are you outside?"

——Are you...waiting for me?

"..." The moment he was exposed, Liang was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't find a suitable reason in his mind.

This situation, to use an inappropriate metaphor, is like O. Henry's famous novel [1].

It's just that the stage of the story has moved from the West to Japan.As for the two "Maggies" in the story, one lived elsewhere in order to take into account the situation of his lover, and the other lied in order not to make his lover feel guilty.They all told white lies for each other, but in the middle of the bell, they accidentally exposed their secrets.

That person is right outside the hotel right now!

That person was foolishly waiting for him in the night breeze! !

But that person said to himself so gently, it doesn't matter...

How could it be okay!Just felt like my heart was about to be squeezed tightly.He almost blurted out and asked Liang, where is your room, I'll come and find you right away.He had already pressed his hand on the doorknob of the room, but he gave up after all.

"Liang, listen to me." Worried that Liang might misunderstand something, after taking a few deep breaths, Guang said patiently, "The celebrity game is a two-day chess game. Now there may be reporters staying in the hotel. If I What if I come here in the middle of the night and get caught by a reporter? Of course I don't care what the reporter thinks, but now is the most critical time for you, and I don't want to cause you any problems because of my recklessness. "

"I didn't tell you before, but I just didn't want to worry you. Since you already know, there's nothing to hide." Guang paused, "Liang, I'm here. I'm here. I will definitely go to the venue tomorrow morning .So, go to bed early, okay?"

What exactly is the "farthest distance"?

It seems that different groups of people can always give different answers.And for the bright light at this moment, the "farthest distance" is, I miss you very much, I am by your side, but I can only look at you from a distance.

But as it turns out, the light was right.

After hanging up the phone, as soon as Liang returned to the hotel, he met Morinaga, a reporter from "New Go" magazine, in the lobby.

Xu was a little angry, although there was a professional smile on Liang Liang's lips, there was no smile in his eyes.

Morinaga shivered subconsciously, and subconsciously attributed Ryo's reaction to the bad situation of the sunspots when the chess was sealed today.I felt that one more glance would shorten my life, so after meeting each other, I immediately lowered my head and fled to the elevator beside me.

There are two passenger elevators in the hotel.

For this chess match, both Liang and Ogata lived on the seventh floor of the hotel.

Walking into the elevator, reaching out to press the button for the seventh floor, Liang then leaned to the left side of the car.

When the elevator went to the fourth floor, Ogata Seiji walked in from the outside in a white suit, bringing in a strong smell of alcohol.

Liang frowned almost immediately, and leaned to one side imperceptibly.

The car was extremely quiet, and for a while, the only thing to be heard was the rumbling sound coming from overhead as the car went up.

It wasn't until seeing that the seventh floor had been pressed, that Ogata Seiji seemed to have just discovered Ryo, and a narrow smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Little Ryo, did you come back so late?"

The slightly provocative words stabbed Liang's sensitive nerves impartially.He exhaled lightly, and said in a calm manner: "Walking helps the brain to think, thinking about how to win Shirahoshi from Mr. Ogata tomorrow."

Ogata smiled, and a cold light came out of the lens: "There is a chessboard in the room, but you went for a walk outside the hotel. Xiao Liang, I don't know, I thought you were waiting for someone."

Liang's temples twitched a few times, and he said with a half-smile, "I don't bother you about my affairs. But Mr. Ogata, he doesn't forget to have a drink at such a late hour. Those who don't know may think that you are borrowing a drink." Soothe your sorrows."

Liang and Ogata took turns "shushing about the cold and asking about the warmth".

Just when sparks were about to be wiped out, the elevator finally reached the seventh floor.

As soon as the elevator door opened, the two walked to their respective rooms, one left and one right, like strangers.

Fearing that he would fall asleep, Guang specially set the alarm to a lazy mode that reminds him every 5 minutes.

But after really experiencing it, I discovered that human plasticity is extremely strong.Especially when things are on your mind.

Throughout the night, just sleep and wake up several times.I checked my phone a few times during the period, afraid that I forgot to turn on the alarm clock, that the alarm clock was set to the wrong time, and that... I missed Liang's game.

The state of falling asleep and waking lasted until 6:[-] in the morning, when Hikari finally gave up completely.

Maybe I was abused by someone for too long a while ago, sitting on the bed with the head of the chicken shed on my head, and the only thought in my mind is "it's better to run in the morning".

Dressed neatly, he ran straight along the side of the hotel.When he was about to miss the hotel where Ryo was, Hikari's feet turned a corner involuntarily.

I just think that my luck has never been very good, and I only won the encouragement prize once when I bought a lottery ticket.But when he saw a very familiar figure running towards him, he felt as if he had already monopolized hundreds of millions of yen, and his whole heart was so excited that it was about to explode.

ten meters.five meters.

Closer, it seems that every step that person takes is broken down into several frames.

The appearance of that person's clothes can already be seen clearly - a black and white casual sportswear, and the long dark green hair is tied loosely behind his head.There is a very pale dark circle under his eyes.Did you not sleep well last night?

Light swallowed nervously.

And the person who was running towards him slowed down as if he couldn't believe it the moment he saw the light.

Just when the two were about to pass each other, Hikari stretched out his left palm behind him.

Liang paused, and looked at the hand that was offered to him.

Perhaps it was too late to wait for Ryo's delivery, and Ryo's outstretched hand dangled in the air.

Liang hesitantly patted Guang's palm, and before he could withdraw, he was grabbed by Guang quickly and firmly.

As soon as Guang exerted force, Liang was pulled directly to turn around.

"I've caught you!" Guang turned around while running, "Sure enough, good things will happen when you get up early!"

At that time, the sky was already getting brighter, and the whole city was softly sprinkled like tulle.

Looking at the lover who was smiling brightly at him against the light, Liang seemed to have finally confirmed it, and the steps under his feet were getting bigger and bigger and faster under the traction of the light, until they were parallel to the light.

"Good morning, Light."

"Morning, bright."

The two of them bathed in the morning sun, apart from the occasional bumping of arms, there was no other more intimate behavior.In the eyes of others, it seems that they met inadvertently. After running side by side, they separated so naturally at the fork and returned to their respective hotels.

Before parting, they said to each other, "See you later."

Everything is so flowing, secretive, but so beautiful.

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Note [1]: The novel is "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.

Continue today (5.28).However, the update will still be late, so there is still no need to wait~

The content of this chapter may be a bit dull, and the pace will be faster tomorrow~~