Cherish the time

Facing the girl who is most likely to help him at the moment, Niko narrates what happened after meeting Xiaoguang without thinking about it.

While he was talking, he saw that the girl's expression became more and more serious, and her eyes became more and more strange.

When he talked about the incident of testing Shinto with a laptop this morning, Tsukino, who could no longer bear it, finally broke out.

"{You are so rude}!"

The girl slammed the table, stood up from her seat, and walked away angrily.

Nicole was taken aback by her sudden movement, and it took two beats before he thought of chasing her.

As a result, as soon as he stood up, Yue Ye hurried back with a serious face, and grabbed the lunch box on the table.

Before leaving, he gave Nico who was standing there dumbfounded a hard look.

Seeing her leaving back angrily, Nico smiled wryly, packed his things very quickly and followed.

Tsukino walked quickly, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became.

——Shinto-kun...would he hate himself?

After thinking about it, she felt inexplicably wronged, but felt that this kind of grievance was too strange and unreasonable.

And usually when a girl encounters this kind of situation...

—It's all Nicole's fault!

Tsukino angrily made a conclusion.

Just at the moment when she was furious, the voice of the foreigner gradually approaching came from behind her, "—{Hey}!"

Tsukino subconsciously accelerated his walking speed.

"{Wait for me}! {My lovely black-haired angel}!"

Nico shouted at the top of his voice, and the lines he spoke made Tsukino blush.

In order to prevent Nico from uttering more nasty lines inadvertently, Yue Ye stopped and turned around, staring at Nico who was chasing after him, "{What are you going to do}?"

"...{I'm sorry}." Nico stopped in front of her and said sincerely, "{I'm really sorry}...{It's weird to say}, {as if I've been saying it since I came to Japan like this word}."

Tsukino was amused by his last words, but still closed his mouth tightly, with a sullen face, staring at Nico with those red eyes.

"{I'm really sorry...for both of you}..." Nicole sighed, "{But I can explain my behavior}...{Can you please give me a moment to tell you A corny story}?"

--not good!

Tsukino thought he would definitely refuse like this.

but…

"…{good}."

The promise sounded softly.

Tsukino has no idea why he made such a decision.

Just at such a moment, listening to his words, watching his expression...

This promise popped out of his throat like a ghost.

……

As Nico said, it's a clichéd story indeed.

A young man who lost his way on the road of Go saw a game on the Internet that touched him deeply, and then joined one of the chess players and became his apprentice.

After that, his master couldn't play another game against his opponent at that time.

But now, the health of the young master is deteriorating, and the hospital has issued an ultimatum that he will not survive for three years.

In a chess game between the youth and the master, the master casually stated his greatest wish, which was to play a game face to face with his opponent at that time.

So the young man prepared for nearly a year, and finally took advantage of the Dongfeng held by the International Amateur Go Tournament, stepped on his bags and came to Japan.

Just to find that online chess player named Sakou.

……

"{I know my behavior is very disrespectful}..." Nicole held the computer with his arms, clasped his hands and placed them on his lap, his fingers unconsciously circling each other, "{but I don't have much time}..."

"..." Yue Ye silently looked at his profile, and suddenly sighed.

"...{If you have a well-intentioned idea, but your method of realizing it is wrong, then the final result may not be as good as you originally expected}." Tsukino said softly, from across from him Standing up from the chair, "{This is my favorite passage, and I will forward it to you now}."

"...{Thank you}." Nico pondered for a moment, then sighed a little decadently, "{You are right}."

"{Obviously Iris has already advised me...but I still want to try}..." He buried his whole face in his hands, and the voice that came out became muffled and indistinct.

Seeing his gloomy and gloomy appearance, Tsukino suddenly smiled, "...{I...I will try to follow up with Fuji-kun again}."

Nico raised his head abruptly, his blue eyes filled with unbelievable light.

"{But it's not for you}," Tsukino continued, his voice gradually getting weaker, as if he was explaining something to someone, "{I just...to prevent Shindo-kun from feeling sad about his choice in the future}. "

Seeing the girl's downcast expression, Niko, who had a rare enlightenment, seemed to suddenly understand something, dragged the stool a step closer, and asked in a mysteriously low voice, "{You... like him, don't you}?"

Not to mention how Tsukino got rid of the gossiping Niko, but before the end of the lunch break, Tsukino found Shindo who was buying coffee at the canteen on the first floor.

She stood beside Shinto hesitantly, not knowing how to speak.

"Hi," Shinto opened the mouth quite naturally, "I'm really sorry just now... I wasn't in a good mood."

"No..." Tsukino clutched at his sleeves, "I'm the one who should apologize...I'm so sorry."

"It's okay...you are also kind." He opened the tab of the coffee can while talking, and continued after taking a big sip of coffee, "How was the game today?"

"Probably...you can win." Tsukino smiled, then summoned up his courage and said, "I have something to tell you, Shinto-kun."

……

After relaying the reason Niko said to Shinto, Tsukino bowed to him, then turned and trotted away.

Shinto thought, so that's the case.

He could understand Nicole's behavior, and he could explain why that was the case, but that was all.

Looking at his silent profile, Zuo Wei thought for a while and said in a low voice.

"Tell him...it's okay. 』

"…No. 』

However, the boy just sighed, and then drank the coffee in the can in one gulp.

After the game ended that afternoon, Iris, in formal attire, replaced Nico and appeared at the gate of the Chess Academy.

As soon as she saw Shinto appear, the tall and beautiful blond woman bowed deeply to him, and sincerely apologized: "I'm really... very sorry."

Shinto quickly waved his hand to express that it was okay and signaled the other party to get up quickly - after hearing what Tsukino relayed, he no longer felt much about this matter.

Iris straightened up and said with a wry smile, "... I drank a little too much last night, so I gave Nico a rash suggestion... I'm really sorry for causing you trouble."

"Although...his behavior did cause me trouble..." Shinto thought for a while, and said very frankly, "but...if I were to stand in his position...maybe I would make the same choice. "

Iris was a little surprised by his answer, "Did that idiot... tell me about my father?"

"Although I didn't tell me directly...but as a result, I did know about your father's situation." Shinto made a gesture, signaling her to go out with him, "I'm sorry about your father's physical condition..."

"It doesn't matter... We have accepted this result, and my father is happy every day... Only Nico has always insisted on letting his father play a game with Sakou face to face." Iris sighed, "Actually, at the beginning, I Let him directly confess his purpose, but he insisted that his father does not want people to play against him because of sympathy for his illness." She subconsciously pulled her hair, adjusted her tone a little unnaturally, "It's really...! One or two are always so stubborn in such a strange place!"

Shindo could hear the choking in her tone, and didn't answer.

Iris calmed down, looked at the distant street and whispered, "...Even now, I still can't understand these men who play Go..."

"How important is something like Go..."

——Where is the importance... Where is it?

Shinto heard this sentence, and Saoi also heard it.

However, this person and one ghost, who are already at the pinnacle of chess, did not open their mouths to answer this seemingly simple question.