Cherish the time

"I know you don't want to lose..." Shinto tried to reassure him, "but beating him here seems a bit much. 』

"It's you who went too far, Hikari. Zuowei looked a little annoyed, "This is my game, but you asked me to give him water... What are you thinking, Xiaoguang?" 』

"I just think..." Shinto sighed, "For Mr. Ogata to lose in front of so many people... Is it too disrespectful to him. 』

"You've known him longer than I do, so you should know his temperament better than I do!" Zuo Wei didn't listen to his excuses, "If Ogata finds out that we are deliberately releasing water, he will definitely get angry with you!" 』

"Little light!What the hell are you thinking? Zuowei asked again, "Didn't you agree not to hide your strength anymore?"Why are you talking about releasing water now! 』

"...uh..." Shinto looked a little embarrassed.

"Ah..." Zuo Wei seemed to understand something, "You are not worried about Ogata's failure after losing chess...you just don't want him to pester you anymore...! 』

Shinto suddenly became speechless, "I, I never said that..."

"I didn't say it, but that's the truth. Zuowei sighed, "Actually, I also think that Mr. Ogata is annoying... But I can't drive him away just because he is annoying. 』

Shinto sighed, "...why not? 』

"Huh? 』Zuo Wei froze for a moment.

"He just thinks my strength is amazing, so he wants me to compete with him at a real level," Shinto pinched the base of his nose, "Last time I took advantage of a loophole and didn't let him see it. If I really show him, I guess he is really going to keep an eye on me...』

"Then I will do the same. 』 Zuo Wei cut off his words.

"Um? 』

"Just let him not see my strength. ’ Zuo Wei said very firmly, ‘I’ll do it like this! 』

This sentence was like a mantra, and suddenly awakened the memory buried deep in Shinto.

...

"I'll do it like this!" 』

"I thought there was a gap of fifteen goals from the beginning! 』

In the mysterious room, the soul in black crown and white suit stands against the light, and the words he speaks convey a moving determination.

...

That scene was like a painting that suddenly appeared in Shinto's mind.

Shinto couldn't help being slightly moved.

——He felt that he hadn't been evoked such a concrete memory for a long, long time.

So he swallowed back what he was going to say, and made a concession that Ling Zuowei said three times.

"You are right... this is a game between you and him, I shouldn't let you let go. 』

"It's up to you to decide what to do. 』

After a short 15-minute consultation, both sides selected three players.

After a brief self-introduction, the six people consciously formed two teams beside the host.

The white side—that is, the successful rescue camp—selected Shinto Hikari, Taya Ryo, and the grandfather named Saito; the black side selected Ogata Seiji and two Kansai Kiin students.

"Not much to say, please take your seats, chess players."

"Please help to confirm that the countdown counter has been reset, and start guessing. The game will officially start in 1 minute."

Shinto Hikaru sat in the position of the commander, and Taya Ryo sat next to him.

When he first started learning Go, he had dreamed of such a scene more than once - let Sawei and Taya Ryo fight side by side, and kill all the other middle school students to shit...

It was only after the end of the war that he himself had the desire to play chess, and Ta Yaliang's attitude towards him was really indifferent, so he locked the dream of killing the Quartet into a box called regret.

——Until the start of the Beidou Cup.

Shinto Hikari shook his head, pulling himself out of the memory.

"Please advise, Mr. Ogata." He bowed and saluted.

"Please give me more advice, Hikari Shinto." Ogata returned a salute, and then said softly in a very low volume, "This time... I won't let you fool me anymore."

Shinto Hikaru smiled and said nothing.

"Please give me some advice," Sato sat obliquely behind Shinto, with the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, "Whether you can fool me...is not up to you. 』

The result of the guess was that Shindo would go first with black, and it was decided that the remaining two would be Taya with white and Saito with black.

After the host announced the start, Zuo Wei not only didn't say a word, but closed his eyes gently.

Shinto trusted Sawei's strength very much, so he didn't make a sound to urge him.

But he has the bottom line in his heart, which doesn't mean that other people are the same.

1 minute passed, Shinto did not move.

5 minute passed, Shinto did not move.

10 minutes passed, and the next two games had already passed a dozen or so moves, but the chessboard in front of Kazuo Shinto was still empty.

Ogata pushed his glasses, looking at Shinto's expression with deep eyes.

After 15 minutes passed, Shinto breathed a sigh of relief and raised his right hand on his knee.

Everyone thought that he had finally come up with a magical move, and they all stared at his movements with great anticipation.

But his right hand turned in mid-air, instead of touching the chess box, he scratched the back of his head.

The audience is absolutely devastated.

Shinto smiled at the audience and Ogata with some embarrassment, and put his hand into the chess box.

"...the small eye in the upper right corner. 』Zuo Wei also just opened his eyes at this moment, and the long-awaited battle started!

Ogata Seiji actually didn't understand why he was so obsessed with a little boy.

From the first time he heard a celebrity talk about a child who could defeat Xiaoliang, he became interested in Shindo Hikari.

Later, when I saw this person's real body at a celebrity's home and confirmed that he was really the same age as Xiao Liang, this interest became even stronger.

Later, Shinto Hikaru persuaded Toya Ryo to be admitted to a professional chess player together, and became the well-deserved No.25 that year with a score of 0 wins and 1 losses.

He felt that he should check this person carefully.

But the result of the investigation made him unbelievable.

In the ten years before meeting Xiaoliang, Shindo Hikari had always been a very ordinary little boy with mediocre grades, no bright spots except for a golden bang, and a very ordinary boy who had no relationship with Go.

The progress of Go requires a lot of games and practice. The average chess player has to play for at least four hours a day, while he and Xiaoliang play for more than six hours a day!

——No matter how good Shinto Hikaru's Go talent is, it is impossible to have such a strength beyond common sense!

So he naturally thought of the answer of cheating.

But the game with Shinto in the chess club shook his guess again.

In that game of chess, Shinto Hikari obviously used his character to set him up, so even though he lost the game, he still couldn't say what Shinto's strength was.

——But this "cannot be asserted" itself is a novel experience for Seiji Ogata.

Plus what Shindo said after the game ended.

...

"The only thing you need to know is... I am indeed an opponent worthy of your expectation."

...

So Ogata Seiji, as he said, truly regarded him as an... opponent worth looking forward to.