[comprehensive] untouchable opponent

Until now, Hikari still wonders from time to time whether "that person" really existed, or whether she is just a product of his imagination.

Shindo Hikaru remembers very clearly that when he met "that person" on the chessboard, it was the same day, the second year after Sai disappeared.

After sai disappeared, Hikari Shindo was depressed for a long time, and even lost the confidence to continue to move forward as a professional player. It wasn't until the match against Ikaku-senpai that he discovered that sai had always existed in his Go.The only way to see Sai again is to keep playing chess.

Shinto Hikari regained his strength, and later he would go to his grandfather's house from time to time, to the warehouse where his grandfather kept old chessboards.Every time, he would carefully wipe the dusty chessboard spotless, and would talk to the board about some interesting stories about the game between him and Taya Ryo, or the tension in the promotion match, or some changes in the chess world .

Sai is a chess idiot, or when he hears this, he will run down from the sky with an itchy heart, and suddenly appear on the opposite side of the chessboard, coquettishly looking at him eagerly, "Xiaoguang Xiaoguang, let's play chess quickly !"

Although he knew that this was just his fantasy, Hikari Shindo insisted on it day after day until it became a habit.

But on that day, after cleaning the chessboard, he accidentally picked up a black stone and placed it on the chessboard. He was about to imitate Sai's move and land a white stone, but that move was taken away first.

——An extra white piece appeared on the chessboard out of thin air!

"Sai! sai—is that you? Are you back? Answer me! Sai—" Shindo Hikari stared at the extra white piece on the chessboard until he confirmed that it was not his hallucination. Stand up and shout into the air around you.

It was quiet all around, and no one answered him.

The grandfather who was drinking tea downstairs heard his shout and ran up, and asked worriedly, "Xiaoguang, what happened? Why are you crying?"

Shinto Hikari wiped his face, and sure enough, his hands were covered with water... He hadn't cried for a long time.

"Grandpa, can you please give me this chessboard?" Shinto Hikaru carefully put the pieces on the old chessboard back into the chess jar, unable to calm down at all.

Grandpa said long ago that he would give this chessboard to him, and of course he would not refuse at this moment, but he whispered a few words when he went downstairs, "Didn't you say no before? Why do you want it now? Children just don't know what to say." ..."

After taking the old chessboard home that day, he would place pieces on the chessboard whenever he was free. For many days, the chessboard was silent.Just when he thought that he had hallucinations that day and was very lost, Bai Zi appeared!

This time, Shindo Hikaru tried his best to suppress his excitement, and made another move after Bai Zi.After only a few moves, he realized that the person playing chess with him could not be Sai, because the style of chess is completely different!

Sai's chess is like an elegant aristocrat in the Heian era, with gentle step by step with overwhelming arrogance.And this person played chess with an ordinary start, often before the middle game, he would start to show his sword, killing him to the point of throwing away his helmet and armor!

One plate, two plates... the plate is like this!

You must know that Shinto Hikari hasn't been killed in such a mess for a long time since he entered the stage!He was very curious about the level of strength of the person playing chess with him. He once showed the chess record of a game to his friend Taya Ryo after he was silent. Taya recognized his chess style and kept asking who his opponent was.It is said that this person's strength is unfathomable. I am afraid that even his father, a celebrity, may not be able to please him.

Who is the opponent?He also wants to know!It's a pity that he doesn't even know whether his opponent is a human or a ghost!

Sometimes the more I can't get the answer, the more curious I feel, as if being pawed by a cat.Shindo Hikaru often guessed that this person should be an old man, right?No matter how bad he is, he is still an uncle!Or is it like Sai, a ghost who has lived for thousands of years?

Finally one day, he put a note on the chessboard on a whim, "Who are you? Are you a human or... a ghost?"

After a while, Hikari Shinto watched the note disappear from the chessboard.After waiting for a long time with anxiety, another note finally appeared on the chessboard, but it was written with neat and beautiful Chinese characters!

What is this written about?Shinto Hikari is blinded!

After much deliberation, Senior Yijiao seemed to understand Chinese, so he quickly took a photo and sent an email, and Senior Yijiao replied soon.

"You are the ghost!"

It's not a ghost, that's right, a ghost has no entity, how could it be possible to get the chess piece?

At first, I communicated with that person through the transfer station of Ikaku-senpai. Later, Shinto Hikari also started to learn Chinese.From the exchange, I learned that the man was Xia Jiaoyang, and he was Chinese.She refused to disclose her age, but judging from her usual tone of voice, she should not be an old lady.What surprised him the most was that she was not a professional chess player, but she often played chess with professional chess players in the Chinese Chess Academy.

Chinese Chess Academy, isn't that the place Senior Yijiao has been to before?Celebrity Taya is also there now.

Hikaru Shinto asked her enthusiastically if she knew the Japanese chess player Toyayuhiro who signed with the Kiin, but she got a negative answer.The man said that there was no Japanese chess player named Yukihiro Taya in the chess academy, and there was no Shinichiro Ikaku who came with the Japanese exchange group two years ago.

How is this going?Hikaru Shinto asked Senior Yijiao without giving up, and Senior Yijiao also told him that there was no female chess player named Xia Jiaoyang in the Chinese Chess Academy two years ago, and no one in the Chinese Chess Academy mentioned it.

Senior Yijiao even agreed to help him inquire about such a person from his friends in the Chinese Chess Academy, but he still found nothing.

Is she lying to him?But she has no reason to do this at all... Or maybe she and him live in different time and space?

This ancient and mysterious chessboard has carried Sai's soul, even if it can connect different time and space, it is not unimaginable.

Different time and space, an opponent that can never be touched.

Hikaru Kondo, who came to this conclusion, felt an indescribable loss in his heart. Before the budding flower had time to bloom, it was already doomed to wither.

He thought it was tragic enough, but he didn't expect that person to disappear suddenly without warning.

One day, two days... For half a month, he would put a black stone on the chessboard every day whenever he was free, but the white stone never appeared again.Maybe it was because she was delayed by something important in that world, Hikari Shinto thought so, but he couldn't help but panic in his heart.

It was the same with sai back then, it disappeared suddenly without making a sound, Xia Jiaoyang wouldn't also...

No, she is different from sai, she is not a ghost, she will not disappear and become a Buddha after completing her mission like sai.

It was very late, Shinto Hikari lowered his head and put the lone sunspot on the old chessboard into the jar and put it away, and the hair dyed golden yellow on his forehead could not hide the heavy loss in his eyes.

On the other side, Liyuan Qianxia, ​​who was lying on the bed, was palpitating.She suddenly remembered that Mrs. Kondo's son seemed to be called Xiaoguang today, Kondo...Kondo?I always feel that this name is a bit familiar, where have I heard it?