[Comprehensive] Natsume Reiko's trip

[Taya Yukihiro conceded defeat after playing against Sai, Shinto Hikari visited Toya Yukihiro from the Central Musashi Hospital, was surrounded by Ogata Seiji, and asked to play against Sai after. ]

"Phew, it's so dangerous!" Shindo Hikaru fled on the street, sighing constantly, "Why does even Mr. Ogata know about Sai, his identity was almost exposed!"

"If this goes on like this, I will be exposed about my chess playing on the Internet. I will definitely be in trouble at that time. I can't agree to the fact that Mr. Taya and Mr. Ogata want to play chess with you. At least Wait until the limelight has passed. You can wait, Zuo Wei? Anyway, you have plenty of time."

Hearing this, Zuo Wei silently squeezed the fan in his hand, showing an unspeakable expression.

Xiaoguang, you don't understand, fate is always inviolable.He accepted the favor of Reiko and Seimei and forcibly stayed in this world, but it didn't mean that his time really stopped.

He could feel that the power was gradually withdrawn from his body, and the time that belonged to him was like the grains of sand constantly falling in an hourglass, and there was not much left.

"What's that look on your face, Zuo Wei! You obviously played chess yesterday, didn't you? Don't push yourself too far!" Xiao Guang showed an unhappy expression on his face.

Zuo Wei didn't answer, just looked up at the sunshine in the sky.The sun passed through his body and shone warmly on the world, but Zuo Wei couldn't feel any temperature.

He's a ghost that shouldn't exist, but even so, he doesn't want to disappear.Because—he still wants to play chess!Play more, more chess.

Xiao Guang, who didn't wait for Zuo Wei's answer, unilaterally thought that Zuo Wei was having a temper with him, and his mood became even worse.

"Let's go, really, I must be too used to you."

Zuo Wei followed Xiao Guang to a crossroads, where the red traffic light was standing prominently on the side.On the opposite side of the road, there is a boy who is two or three years older than Xiaoguang, with a suspicious civet cat nestled on his shoulder.

Zuo Wei blinked, for some reason, he always felt that the boy looked familiar.And I don't know if it was his illusion, but the boy's eyes seemed to fall on him—yes, what the boy looked at was not Xiaoguang, but him who no one could see.

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Natsume, who was asked by Aunt Toko to go to the city to buy some things, was looking at the delinquent boy across the road with bangs dyed gold in distress.

I always feel that there seems to be a very strange aura about that bad boy, like a monster, but it doesn't seem to be a monster.

"Mr. Cat, is there something strange about that child on the other side?" Natsume, who was undecided, finally decided to ask the "cat" on his shoulder for help.

Madara squinted her half-moon-shaped eyes, and glanced at the child opposite: "I didn't see anything, and...don't meddle in my own business, Natsume! Hurry up and buy me water yokan, water yokan , did you hear that!"

"Don't move around, Mr. Kitty, you are very heavy!" Before Natsume could breathe a sigh of relief, he was staggered by Madara who kept waving his paws on his shoulder, "Stop making trouble, teacher, I'll go buy it right away!"

Madara, who got Natsume's promise, settled down.

The red signal light began to jump, and it was fixed at the green position, and the stagnant flow of people stepped forward one after another, walking towards the opposite side of the road.

Natsume and Xiaoguang each have their own secrets, and they get closer and closer face to face.

At the moment when they were about to pass by each other, Natsume suddenly felt a strong premonition—if he just left like this, he would definitely regret it for the rest of his life!

Indistinctly, a strand of long purple hair drifted past Natsume's eyes.

"What's the matter with you?"

When Natsume came back to his senses, his right hand was already on the opponent's shoulder, and the child with the golden bangs looked at him suspiciously.

Natsume took his hand away in embarrassment when he heard the words: "Hold, I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person."

"Oh." Xiaoguang didn't take it seriously, and turned and left directly.

Natsume looked at Xiaoguang's back with nothing, and rubbed his eyes—probably, the purple hair just now was his hallucination.

"Why are you still in a daze, idiot Natsume!" Madara urged impatiently.

"Don't talk in public, Mr. Kitty!" Natsume noticed the strange eyes of the people around him, quickly covered Madara's mouth, and left as if fleeing.

At night, Natsume, as always, glanced at Mr. Cat who was sleeping peacefully on the mat beside him, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Only this night, he dreamed of an unexpected person.

This is a very classical courtyard.

The leaves of a huge cherry blossom tree have turned yellow, and there is a wooden chessboard under the tree, surrounded by many monsters that he has never seen before.

There are girls and boys with wings, a fox with two tails, a cat that turns into a human, and a girl with a scary big knife...

The most amazing thing is Grandma Reiko, who is wearing a blue kimono and sitting on the edge of the chessboard with her head on her head.

A handsome man in a white safari suit with long purple hair was holding a fan and constantly pointing on the chessboard.

"Reiko, the nine black dots on the board are called 'stars', and the dot next to the 'star' is called a 'small eye'... Reiko, Reiko? Are you listening?"

"Ah? What are you talking about?" Reiko looked around as if suddenly awake, and then fixed her eyes on Zuowei again, "Sorry, I seem to have fallen asleep just now, can you say it again?"

Zuo Wei showed a very helpless expression: "I have said it the fifth time."

"That can't be helped, who makes Go so boring?"

"Go is not boring!" Zuo Wei's face suddenly became like a bun.

Where is that courtyard?Who is that purple-haired man teaching Grandma Reiko how to play Go?Who do these memories that keep flowing over belong to?

"Reiko, don't bully him, or you will cry again in a while." Qingming walked up to Reiko, and tapped Reiko's forehead with a fan.

Reiko snatched the fan over, then sat on the ground and raised her head, looking at Qingming's face from bottom to top: "Recently you seem to like to hit me on the head, Qingming."

"It's just a slippery hand." Seimei replied without changing his expression, and the surrounding shikigami covered their mouths one after another, pretending to want to laugh but not daring to laugh.

Reiko showed a very dangerous expression: "I also want to slip, what should I do?"

Qingming replied meaningfully: "Brother Baoxian will come to visit tomorrow."

"Pfft!" The girl finally couldn't hold back her laughter, "I didn't hear anything! Master Qingming, Master Reiko, please continue!"

Even so, the virgin's laughter seemed to turn on some switch, and the laughter of the shikigami came one after another.

Reiko was also infected by the atmosphere in the courtyard, showing a happy smile.

Yes, that is a smile from the heart, not the kind of extremely lonely smile.

That's great, Grandma Reiko, have you found your own warmth?

A ray of sunlight came in from the window, and Natsume opened his eyes.

I don't know if it was because of a dream all night, Natsume felt a strong exhaustion.

Looking at the thick dark circles under Natsume's eyes and his pale face as if he had suffered a serious illness, Madara looked a little serious: "Natsume, did you provoke something strange yesterday?"

"Eh? It's really strange to say so." Suddenly dreaming something like this is usually when you have something to do with a monster.

Natsume took out a mirror and looked at his haggard face: "If Aunt Tako sees this, she will worry about me again."

However, apart from my own face, I always feel that the scene in the mirror is a bit inconsistent.Under normal circumstances, what is reflected in the mirror should be the scene in the room. Why does it seem that there is a white hunting suit behind him now?

Wait, a white safari? !

"Wow wow!" Natsume threw away the mirror with a livid face, and then looked back - a purple-haired man in a safari suit sat behind him, his translucent body looming.

Startled by the sudden cry, Madara looked at Natsume dissatisfied: "What are you doing, idiot!"

"Cat, teacher cat! Yes, yes..." Natsume pointed at the purple-haired man with trembling fingertips, not knowing what word to use to describe it.

"Is there anything over there?" Madara looked strangely at the empty direction, not understanding why Natsume made such a fuss.

"Eh? Teacher...can't you see it?"

"Yes, except for some special existences, even monsters can't see me." Zuowei looked at Natsume apologetically, "I didn't understand why I suddenly possessed you, but since that The civet cat calls you 'Natsume', so you must be a descendant of Reiko."

"Do you know Grandma Lingzi?" Natsume was surprised when he heard this, and then thought of the strange dream last night.

Since it's related to grandma, it shouldn't be something bad, right?

"Wait, you call Reiko... grandma? But Reiko is clearly from a thousand years ago!" Zuo Wei was very surprised.

"Huh huh?!"

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After seeing Natsume's face, Aunt Toko insisted on asking for leave for Natsume and let him rest at home.

When Toko went out to buy vegetables, Natsume and Zuowei probably finished the basic exchange.

Natsume has never really met Reiko, his impression of Reiko is either from a few words between relatives, or from the memories on the account of friends.

In Natsume's mind, Grandma Reiko is always the lonely girl in sailor uniform who forces monsters to compete with her.Then, due to unknown reasons, she was unmarried and gave birth to a mother, and finally died under a tree in her early twenties.

This is the short life of Grandma Reiko.

But in Zuowei's narration, Natsume seemed to see a different Reiko.

Reiko in Zuowei's memory was wearing a blue kimono, surrounded by all kinds of shikigami, and everyone got along well.

In another time and space, Reiko is no longer lonely, and she is constantly learning to become a qualified onmyoji every day.She is careless and impatient, but in order to help Zuo Wei, she has the patience to learn Go, which she doesn't like at all-of course, this makes Zuo Wei sad and grateful.

Compared with the Reiko in Natsume's mouth, the Reiko in Zuowei's impression is much happier.But no matter how different Reiko's experience is in the two mouths, Reiko's tenderness has never changed.

"I heard that Onmyoji's abilities are very mysterious and unpredictable, and Qingming just likes Reiko, do you think Reiko's wonderful experience has something to do with Qingming!" Zuo Wei gossips enthusiastically.

The famous onmyoji in history likes Grandma Reiko!

Could it be that his grandfather is Seimei Abe?Natsume felt terrified thinking about it.

But this doesn't make sense anywhere, Natsume can be sure that Grandma Reiko is definitely a human being, and she definitely didn't look like she was more than 1000 years old when she was in high school.

However, the Reiko that Zuowei remembered was indeed his grandmother. Why?

Every time Natsume thinks he knows Reiko better, the mystery of Reiko keeps growing.Grandma Reiko is like a treasure that cannot be dug out to the end, full of surprises and mysteries.

"Could you have made a mistake? In fact, I am not the descendant of Reiko you said?" Natsume retorted weakly.

"This is impossible. Even thousands of years ago, only Reiko could see me. Now I understand why Seimei couldn't wait to send me away. He was probably worried that I would be attached to Reiko. "

Zuowei said, looking at Natsume with guilt on his face: "When you came into contact with Xiaoguang, I felt a very comfortable atmosphere, and I couldn't help but followed you back here, and even instinctively began to absorb it. Your spiritual power. If I hadn’t absorbed your power, I’m afraid I’d disappear soon, the desire to survive made me unable to control myself at all, I’m really sorry.”

Natsume inherited Reiko's physique, but his ability is a little worse than Reiko's.So Reiko was able to see Sakai from the beginning, but Natsume could only vaguely feel Sakai's existence, and could not see it clearly until Sakai possessed him.

"It's okay, I can save Grandma Reiko's friend after being weak for two days, I'm really happy!"

"Don't just agree to some strange things again!" Madara stretched out her paw dissatisfied, it hated the feeling of being excluded, as if something that belonged to it had been snatched away, "You are mine. Food, Natsume!"

Natsume gently hugged Madara and scratched its chin: "Yes, don't be angry, Mr. Kitty, I will buy you Nanatsujiya steamed buns at that time. You must also want to know about Grandma Reiko ?”

"Who wants to know?" Madara hummed dissatisfiedly, closing his eyes to cover up the complex emotions in them.

Tsk tsk, Reiko, that woman is not happy to live even after she dies.

To die so easily is as willful as ever, Reiko.

"I have another unfeeling request. When you recover, can you take me to Xiaoguang?" Zuo Wei showed a worried expression, "Just disappear without saying a word, Xiaoguang must would be very worried."

Yes, even though Hikari Shinto was still a child, and always looked impatient with him, Zuowei knew that Hikari actually cared about him very, very much.

Great, Xiaoguang, it seems that he doesn't have to disappear for a while.

In this way, you can continue playing chess and spend more time with you.

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Shinto Hikaru lay on the bed in a daze, his eyes were bloodshot looking at the blood-stained chessboard he brought from his grandfather's house.

Since the blood on the chessboard has not disappeared, does that mean Zuo Wei is still alive somewhere in this world?

Why didn't he find out what was wrong with Zuo Wei earlier?

After he crossed the road that day, he kept complaining about Zuo Wei's waywardness, but Zuo Wei never replied.Xiao Guang only thought that Zuo Wei was angry with him, so he planned to let Zuo Wei hang out.

Anyway, Zuo Wei can only be attached to him, can't he?

However, Zuo Wei's was indeed gone.

At first, Xiao Guang thought that Zuo Wei was hiding and was joking with him, but it wasn't until he sat on the edge of the chessboard and started playing chess, but Zuo Wei still didn't show up, that he really felt scared.

Zuo Wei, Zuo Wei?Where are you?

Don't be angry, he will let you play chess.Be it Ogata Seiji or Taya Yukihiro, whoever you want to play with, he will help you.

Xiao Guang followed the route from the hospital, calling Zuo Wei's name all the way, and walked back, but Zuo Wei was nowhere to be seen.

Exhausted, Xiao Guang returned home, threw himself on the bed, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

He didn't dare to think about the possibility of never seeing Zuo Wei again, maybe when he opened his eyes tomorrow, Zuo Wei would squat in the corner with an aggrieved face, pestering himself to take him to play chess.

Yes, it must be so.

Zuowei, how could he disappear for no reason?

That night, Xiaoguang also had a dream.

He dreamed that... he could never find Zoe again.

"Xiao Guang, I'm about to disappear." In the dream, Zuo Wei looked at him with an extremely sad expression, hoping that he could continue to play chess with him.

But how did you answer it yourself?

"Do you think that you can win sympathy by saying this, and I will let you do whatever you want? You have become more and more presumptuous recently, Zuo Wei!"

How would Zoe feel at that time?Xiao Guang didn't know, because the self in the dream didn't even look at Zuo Wei after saying this sentence.

Xiaoguang in the dream ignored Zuo Wei's mood as always, he lived his own life, played his own chess, and constantly complained about Zuo Wei's more and more willful behavior.

What, you have lived for thousands of years, anyway, you have plenty of time, why bother him to play chess?

One day when Xiao Guang came home and was drowsy, Zuo Wei still let him play chess with him willfully.

The sleepy Xiaoguang could only sit opposite Zuo Wei in a very perfunctory manner, and dropped chess pieces one after another.

If he knew that it was Zuo Wei's last game, if he knew...

Thank you, Xiaoguang, I am very happy these days.

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Shinto Hikaru sat up from the bed suddenly, he threw himself on the chessboard next to the bed, stretched out his hand to touch the bloodstain that was still clear on it, and then heaved a deep sigh of relief.

In the dream, the bloodstain on the chessboard disappeared with Zuo Wei, but luckily the bloodstain was still there in reality.

Xiaoguang hugged the old chessboard tightly, like the most precious treasure in the world.

Zuo Wei, as long as you come back, as long as you come back, I will never compete with you to play chess again.

Like Toranojiro, I will dedicate all my life to you, you can play as long as you want!

as long as you come back...

"Ding dong", "Ding dong".

Along with the faint ringing of the doorbell, came the mother's voice: "Xiaoguang, come down quickly, there are guests!"

"No see!" Xiao Guang roared, now, he didn't want to see anyone except Zuo Wei.

"I'm really sorry, Xiaoguang is not in good health recently. If it's convenient, you can leave your name...Fujiwara Sakai? Okay, I'll tell him..."

Fujiwara...Sawei?

Zuowei, it's Zuowei!

"boom"!

Xiao Guang immediately pushed open the door and ran downstairs as fast as he could in his life: "Zuo Wei? Is that you, Zuo Wei? You bastard, you ran away without saying a word, do you know how worried I am? "

Appearing at the door was an embarrassed boy with a cat, and Zuo Wei who was standing behind the boy and kept waving at him.

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After coming to Xiaoguang's room, Zuowei looked at the special chessboard beside the bed with some surprise.

Seeing that his cheeks turned red suddenly, Xiaoguang turned his head uncomfortably: "Don't get me wrong, I just want to see if you will return to the chessboard."

Zuowei smiled understandingly, detached from Natsume's body, and reattached to Xiaoguang's body.The feeling of being full of spiritual power began to disappear, and the spiritual power in the body began to overflow to the surroundings at a slow speed.

"Sure enough, it's more comfortable to be attached to Guizhi." Zuo Wei couldn't help but sigh with emotion, but after seeing Xiaoguang staring at him closely, he quickly changed his words, "Of course, I won't leave Xiaoguang Yes, after all, you can continue to play Go with Xiaoguang."

When it came to Go, Xiao Guang bit his lip, then looked at Zuo Wei, with a bit of pleading in his tone: "Zuo Wei, I will never compete with you to play chess again, how long do you want to play? Either way! I just beg you not to disappear, okay?"

It was the first time Zuo Wei saw Xiaoguang like this, and he couldn't help softening his expression, stretched out his hand, and patted Xiaoguang's head vaguely: "You don't have to do this, Xiaoguang."

"If it is said that Toranojiro exists for me, then I exist for Xiaoguang. I hope Xiaoguang can continue to play chess, and then continue to become stronger. I am waiting for the day Xiaoguang you finally beat me. "

"But you will still disappear, right?" Xiaoguang stared at Zuowei stubbornly, "You are not allowed to disappear! If you dare to disappear, I will never play chess again!"

Zuo Wei was helpless, every day passed, his spiritual power would overflow, and one day, he would disappear, this is an irreversible fate.

"If attaching to me can replenish Zuowei's spiritual power, you can come to me at any time." Natsume, who had been ignored all this time, said suddenly.

"Stupid Natsume! You are willing to be possessed by a ghost!" Madara showed his claws and teeth unbearably, "It is better to be eaten by me than to take advantage of that ghost!"

Natsume directly suppressed Madara with a punch, and finally couldn't bear to look at Madara with a depressed face: "Don't worry about me, Mr. Kitty, I'll be weak for at most two days. Well, don't be angry, you don't like this place Water yokan? I'll buy it later."

The cat actually talked!

Xiaoguang looked at the oversized fat cat in horror, and then began to comfort himself: Since there are even ghosts in this world, a talking cat is no big deal... right?

Wait, that person said just now that he could supplement Zuo Wei's spiritual power? !

Xiaoguang used the fastest speed to find out his piggy bank and held it in front of Natsume: "As long as you can help Zuowei, I can give you all my pocket money. If it is not enough, professional chess players will lose money every game. I have income, I am now a professional, and I can give all the money I earn to you in the future!"

"No, that's not what I meant..." Natsume took a step back, not knowing how to explain.

Madara's eyes have turned into money, and it seems to have seen countless delicious food falling from the sky: "No problem at all! Natsume will leave it to you in the future!"

"Wait, teacher, you are my bodyguard!"

"What's the matter? You also said that you will be weak for at most two days, don't you?"

"That's what I said, but you absolutely can't ask for money!"

"Are you going to do white work for others again?"

Xiaoguang looked at the noisy cat and person, and suddenly wanted to cry for some reason.

"Zuowei, do you want to play chess?"

"Do you want to play chess with me?" Zuo Wei's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

"As long as you want to, I will always be with you. Now you really won't disappear, right?"

Zuo Wei put his fan under his lips, showing an extremely gentle smile: "Well, no."

He, Fujiwara Sato, can meet Zhuyin, Seimei, Reiko, Toranojiro, Xiaoguang, Takashi... so many people who are willing to help him.

Gradually, the surroundings became quiet, and the only sound in the whole room was the constant falling of children.

Natsume sat on the edge of the chessboard, watching one person and one soul playing chess seriously, and recalled the scene in the dream where Zuo Wei taught Grandma Reiko how to play chess.

He had a very strong feeling that Grandma Reiko seemed to have never died, and she was always living in this world in a way that no one knew about.

So, is there a day when he can really meet his grandmother?

Natsume was looking forward to it.