Cherish the time

Taya Ryo sat at the edge of the chessboard with no opponent.

Just like his father used to be.

Father is waiting for SAI.

So who is he waiting for?

Almost in the next instant, Shinto Hikaru's name appeared in his mind.

Takaya was silent for a while.

Hikari Shinto?

But Shinto Hikaru was dead.

Died in a hospital bed.

He went to attend Shinto's funeral, and as one of the representatives of relatives and friends, he went up to speak.

——Haha, representative of relatives and friends.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the things in the world were really wonderful. The two of them got along so tensely all the way, quarreling over trivial matters all day long, and once they won the chess game, they would be proud for several days—that's it. Can two people be regarded as relatives and friends by others?

Ta Yaliang wanted to laugh a little bit, but he was more unhappy.

——He hasn't competed with this person yet, and hasn't really reached the hand of God, but the other person has left this world so gracefully.

As he thought about it, his brows became tangled, and he squeezed out a deep Sichuan character, showing his dissatisfaction from the bottom of his heart.

So he stood up irritably, stepped on the slightly cool floor, and returned to his room.

He turned off the light and lay on the bed, looking aimlessly into the darkness in front of him with his eyes, telling himself in his heart to rest early, there would be a game tomorrow morning.

——He hasn't slept very well these days, tossing and turning for a long time without talking, even if he squints in a daze for a while, a little wind and grass outside the house will wake him up immediately.

He knew that this was probably due to the uneasy relationship in his heart.

So he breathed a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and tried to empty his mind.

……

...

...

Taya Ryo had a dream.

Knowing so clearly that he is in a dream, one can't help but look forward to what will happen in the dream.

Just as he was thinking like this, a childish and familiar voice rang in his ears.

"...Xiao Liang? What are you thinking about?"

He looked aside subconsciously, and saw the twelve or thirteen-year-old Hikari Shinto sitting on one side of the chess table, smilingly putting down the pieces in his hand, "General!"

--Eh?

Ta Yaliang was startled by this sentence, only then realized that a young self was sitting on the other side of the chess table, and in front of the two of them... was actually a shogi board.

"You lost again." The young Shindo Hikari said happily, taking a sip of the orange juice that was on hand.

Before Ta Yaliang could figure out what was going on, he heard his young self say annoyedly, "I won't do this."

"Okay then." Xiao Jin Tengguang nodded, and began to pack the chess pieces, "Then what do you want to play?"

"...Can't you play Go?" Xiaota Yaliang frowned puzzled, "I don't like shogi."

"...but isn't your homework learning a new game?"

"Oh... that's right." Xiaota Yaliang pursed his mouth a little unwillingly, thought for a while and asked again, "Then let's play a game of Go first, and then play shogi."

Taya Ryo is very sure that there has never been such a memory between him and Shinto Hikaru.

But the interaction between the two children was too natural, everything he saw was too vivid, and the pain of his best friend's new bereavement lay before him, which made him feel a little-"It would be great if this was the case"...

With this thought in his mind, he wanted to step forward and take a closer look.

But as soon as he took a step, the scene in front of him changed.

The time changed from day to night, and the scene changed from the Go clubhouse to Taya Ryo's bedroom.

Two white and tender children were wrapped in a quilt and slept back to back on the same bed, their soft hair folded together, exuding an indescribable intimacy.

Taya immediately frowned uncomfortably—he imagined the scene in his memory where Shinto and himself were sleeping intimately on the same bed, and suddenly felt uncomfortable all over, and it could be said that his whole body was not well.

Then he saw that the small Taya also moved as if he felt uncomfortable, and then turned over slowly, touched all over with one hand unconsciously, and finally put it on the entrance with satisfaction. On the rattan's waist... um, no, the child doesn't have a waist yet... then it should be called the belly...

Taya Ryo: ...

He couldn't explain what he was feeling in his heart at the moment, he was aggrieved and happy at the same time, as if two villains were fighting in his mind, but neither could beat the other.

So he simply didn't try to figure it out.

——Left and right are just a dream.

Even if the relationship between the two children is so close that it is annoying, he should be content to see the life of the old man again.

With this thought in his mind, the scene in front of him changed again. Xiao Jindeng was half lying on the bed with a blushing face, and Xiao Taya was sitting on the edge of the bed and looked at him with a straight face.

At this time, the two of them had grown up a bit compared to before. Not only did their hairstyle and head shape change, but their stature also increased a little.

Taya was a little puzzled, not knowing what was going on.

Then I saw Xiao Taya stretched out...a finger expressionlessly, and poked the opponent's red cheek.

Taya Ryo: ...

Xu was stimulated by the coolness, Xiao Jinteng frowned and hid to the side, wrapping the quilt tighter.

Looking at the other person's expression, little Taya frowned, and gently climbed up the gully between his brows with his fingers, following the direction of the brows little by little, smoothing the uncomfortable creases for him, and at the end he even smiled mischievously. Separate two fingers and press down on each other's two eyebrows to prevent them from coming together again.

Even the right to frown was deprived, and the object to be played with finally opened his eyes in a daze, "...ア..."

—… ra.

This voice is so weak, with a bit of hoarseness characteristic of high fever.

It was clearly not similar to that person's smiling and intermittent tone of voice.

But it's not worth it... It's the same person.

Taya's chest tightened, and he remembered everything that happened in the ward that day.

An indescribable resentment rose up in his heart—it was a mixture of many emotions that had been suppressed in his heart for so many days, until today, it finally took shape and had a suitable way to explode.

——Who wants your congratulations!Who the hell wants Honinbo!

Go is clearly played by two people!

This kind of thing... you should be the one who understands best...!

This anger came fiercely, occupying all his thoughts at once.

The scene in front of him also seemed to understand his thoughts, and suddenly changed again.

A night where the stars hang high.

In the courtyard at midsummer time.

Two teenagers were sitting opposite each other across the chessboard.

They were playing chess, and judging from the board, it seemed that the chess game had just started.

Taya Ryo didn't want to continue watching at first—he was still angry, looking at the ten-year-old Shinto Hikaru, he just wanted to punch him a few times, so that he could no longer say those stupid stupid things.

But the sound of cicadas in the yard, the sound of water, the sound of beating bamboo, the sound of chess falling... All kinds of quiet sounds that can soothe worries linger in his ears, gradually soothing the anger in his heart, and finally allowing him to watch quietly.

This look made him see something was wrong.

——The Shinto Hikari in front of him is only fifteen or sixteen years old, how can he have such great ability!

This exquisite style of chess and sharp methods are obviously stronger than the 56-year-old him!

He was attracted by Shinto's various means of lifting weights lightly, so he put aside the anger in his heart for the time being, and watched the game with a sinking heart.

Then it became more and more strange.

In fact, there was nothing particularly strange about the little Taya who was on Baizi's side, but it was obviously better than him at the time in terms of calculation.

But the performance of the trumpet Shindo...it was really...so that he didn't know how to describe it.

He originally thought it was SAI—that is, the ghost named "Fujiwara Sakai" that Shintokou was helping him play chess.

But the more I look at it, the more I feel...

Look at this chess style... It is clearly more like Shinto Hikaru himself.

Could it be... who has possessed this trumpet Hikari Shinto again?

As soon as this thought came out, Taya Ryo seemed to understand something suddenly.

But it seemed like he didn't understand anything.

A voice in his heart whispered to him:

— This is a dream.

In a dream, what is impossible to achieve?

Ta Yaliang repeated this sentence over and over again in his heart.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief.

He suddenly lost interest in watching.

——This is a match between the two little guys, whether he sees it or not...it won't affect anything.

Thinking of this, he turned around and walked back.

All the scenery around him gradually faded away, turning into a grotesque space.

He glanced back at the location of the two for the last time—there were only a few blurred blocks of color left, and the outlines of the two teenagers could not be distinguished at all.

Takashi woke up.

The sun shines on his chest through the window.

Looking at the bright sunshine in front of him and the dust floating in the air, Taya Ryo suddenly let out a long, long, sigh of relief.

—his opponent is gone.

But if it was the two people in the dream, there should be... no need to worry about such problems.

They still have a lot of time, which is enviable enough.

It's just being young and frivolous and squandering part of it...

It is also enough for them to go on together.

Walk for a long time.

The author has something to say: the main text is over.

The remaining two CP episodes of Guangguang and Xuguang do not belong to the scope of the main text.

But if you insist on taking them as the ending, you won’t be able to stop them if you heal the nest~hmm.