Cherish the time

The venue where the newly-entrant Duan chess players will be awarded the Duan certificate is located at the same place as the previous finals of the National Boys and Girls Go Competition, so Shinto can easily find the place he wants to go.

After entering the venue, Shinto subconsciously began to search for Taya Ryo.

"Yo." As a result, Ta Yaliang didn't see him, but saw a carefree Ashihara walking over with a wine glass.

"Good morning, Mr. Ashihara."

"Congratulations on becoming a professional chess player." Lu Yuansai gave him a glass of orange juice, "When we meet in the future, please be merciful."

"I just want to ask Mr. Ashihara to be merciful." Shinto smiled and toasted him, "What are you today...?"

"I'm promoted today," Lu Yuan tugged at his corsage on his left chest, "Actually, the main purpose of today's ceremony is to present awards to grandmasters, and we all come here to make up the numbers."

"Haha."

"Grandmaster? Sato became excited all of a sudden, "Then... will Taya Ryo's father come?" 』

"Why are you asking this all of a sudden? 』Shinto was a little strange, but he still asked, "Will Xiaoliang's father come?"

"Xiaoliang's father... Ah, you said a celebrity." Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, "Today is a celebrity thing... it's a game in Kyushu."

"Oh…"

"But it's really strange," Lu Yuan muttered, frowning, "With your relationship with Xiao Liang...why do you call the celebrity Xiao Liang's father?"

"Uh..." Shindo was immediately stopped by the question, "This..."

"Have you ever lived in Xiaoliang's house?" Lu Yuan took a sip of champagne and asked with a smile, "What are they called celebrities?"

"...Uncle Taya."

"That's right," Lu Yuan patted him on the shoulder, "Although the celebrity looks so serious on the face, he is actually a very good elder... If you alienate him so much, it will make him sad. "

Shindo Hikaru only felt that his three views were suddenly subverted.

Seeing the undisguised shock on his face, Lu Yuan couldn't help but smiled wryly, "Although he looks serious, he's actually a father who clumsily brags to us about Xiao Liang's progress."

As he spoke, he straightened his suit jacket, put on a poker face, and lowered his voice imitating Taya Yukihiro's voice, "Xiao Liang played a good game of chess with me today, let's take a look Bar."

Shinto Hikaru was amused by his lifelike performance, and asked, "Is it really like this?"

"Celebrities are very concerned about the people he approves." Lu Yuan blinked, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Ah, Xiao Liang is here."

Shinto turned his head in the direction he was looking, and saw a Ryo-kun in a suit frowning slightly looking around, looking for something.

Lu Yuan waved his hand at him from a distance, and made another gesture of pointing down.

Shinto also turned his head to look at him at the right time, and the eyes of the two met at once.

Taya's expression suddenly calmed down, without the calm and slightly anxious expression before.

Lu Yuan took a glass of orange juice from the waiter's tray and held it in his hand, "Good morning, Xiao Liang." He handed it to him as he said.

Xiao Liang took the glass with both hands, "Good morning, Lu Yuan."

"Good morning, Xiaoliang." Shinto touched him lightly with orange juice, "Congratulations on becoming a professional chess player."

"Good morning," Taya smiled slightly upon hearing this, "You too, congratulations on becoming a professional chess player."

"Ah," Lu Yuan sighed pretendingly, "Seeing you two kids, I think I'm really old..."

"Awara is not very big," Clinker Taya corrected with a serious face, "If you say we are children... I'm afraid it's not very qualified."

"What are you talking about here?" Ogata, who was wearing a white suit, stood behind Shinto at some point, holding a glass of mellow and rich red wine in his hand, "Congratulations, the two who have become professional chess players."

"Thank you, Mr. Ogata." Taya bowed slightly as a gesture.

"Thank you, Mr. Ogata." Shindo turned around and touched him generously, "However, minors are not allowed to drink alcohol, so you can just let it go."

"Heh." The corner of Ogata's mouth curved slightly, he shook the red wine in the glass, and then drank it down.

"Ah!" Lu Yuan complained, "Drink less, I will send you back when you get drunk."

"I won't get drunk." Ogata put the wine glass on the dining table beside him, and stood with his hands in his pockets, with a very chic and casual posture.

"Alas..." Lu Yuan slapped himself on the face with a face full of despair, expressing his extreme doubts about this sentence.

"Speaking of which, is Mr. Ogata going to be promoted to eighth dan today?" Shinto didn't care about their arrangements after the ceremony, and directly initiated another topic, "How is the tenth dan competition and the Honinbo competition now?"

"Haha, that's right! I'm going to call him Ogata Badan from today on."

"You will probably be eliminated in the [-]-dan competition." Ogata pushed his glasses, and spoke bluntly about his situation. "In the Honinbo competition, it seems that he can still fight for the challenger qualification."

"Haha, I really look forward to seeing you and Kuwahara-sensei playing chess in Yuxuan."

"Oh?" Ogata's gaze fixed on Shinto's without moving.

"I always feel that there will be a very exciting game, Xiaoliang, what do you think?" Shindo didn't care about his mental oppression, and turned his gaze very naturally.

"Of course." Taya commented without hesitation.

"It seems that if you don't work harder, it seems that you can't meet your expectations." Ogata narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a little bit of clear brown cold light in his narrow and long phoenix eyes.

"...cough cough, please pay attention to all the guests and chess players present, today's ceremony is about to begin," the master of ceremonies on the stage cleared his throat, and began to make a unified pre-ceremony arrangement, "Please follow the instructions you received when you entered the ceremony. Pamphlet, carefully confirm today's ceremony flow..."

The topic they were talking about was interrupted by the master of ceremonies, and the four of them had no intention of bringing it up again.

Shinto happened to see Shoji Wada standing alone, and signaled to Taya, and the two said goodbye to Ogata Ashihara, one after the other, went to greet the professional chess player of the same period with orange juice.

Lu Yuan looked at their backs and raised his eyebrows, "It's really...youthful."

"Are you lamenting what you don't have again?" Ogata pushed his glasses indifferently, and walked towards the place where the seniors of the professional chess world gathered together with Awara.

"Do you think you have it, Xu-Fang-Mr.-Sir."

"..."

"Hey, how many consecutive victories do you think they can get at most?"

"..."

"Talk, won't you be drunk?"

"..."

"Mr. Ogata?"

"To shut up."