Cherish the time

The number of participants in this year's Wakashi Battle is 32 - including 16 from Nihon Ki-in, nine new chess players in the past three years, and seven from other Ki-in.

The total duration of the Ruoshi Battle is one and a half days, with a total of five games, three games the day before yesterday, and two games the next day—the semi-finals and finals respectively, all of which enjoy the treatment of TV broadcast.

This game between Shinto and Taya was the last game on the first day of the competition. Since the Wakashi match is an elimination system, since Taya bowed his head and conceded here, the next game has nothing to do with him.

As for tonight's game, Hikari Shinto and Ryo Toya fought with all their strength. Even though the situation was very one-sided, it could still be called a very exciting match.

When he was in that trance state, Shinto Hikaru didn't feel anything, but now that he thought about it carefully, Taya had several moves that were enough to slow down his attack in a normal state.

But now, he was no longer surprised by Taya's strength.

——Or it should be said that he would be surprised if Taya Ryo did not have this level of strength.

But aside from these, what Shinto Hikari cares most about is that in this game of chess, he was able to see the shadow of himself and Sakai in many of Taya's responses.

The moment he realized this situation, Shinto's eyes, which had just recovered, had a tendency to turn red again, but it was no longer because of a feverish head, it was simply... that his eyes were astringent.

At this moment, his fearful and restless heart, which was floating in the clouds because of thinking east and west, suddenly calmed down as if it had something to support it, and fell firmly into the heart as if it was supported by something. The whole person is settled again.

He wanted to laugh a little, so he raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

——This is...connecting the distant past and the distant future...

Taya on the opposite side saw him smile, feeling a little angry for no reason.

'What laughing? 'He wanted to ask this question, but he felt that he had no confidence—he couldn't even make people laugh if he lost a game, right?

He felt a little depressed, so he started to tidy up the chessboard without saying a word, and seeing that he started to move, Shinto stretched out his hand to pick up the pieces on the chessboard.

As the two tidied up in a tacit understanding, the onlookers seemed to come to life, and began to discuss with a "buzz".

Perhaps because he felt that this group of young people was too noisy, Kuwahara raised his eyebrows and said "cough!", and after everyone was silent and looked at him, he grinned and showed his big jagged yellow teeth , "Throat is a bit itchy - just clear it." After finishing speaking, he coughed twice.

Shinto said "Old Fox" in his heart, but Sato glared at him, "Little Hikari!To respect the elderly! 』

Shinto was noncommittal.

"He is an elder!" ’ Zuo Weiyi taught sternly, then paused, and immediately changed into a look that was about to cry, “And it’s Honinbo…”

Entering Fuji music, the arc of the corner of his mouth rose a little, and he even hummed a song vaguely.

——It's really embarrassing for his tone-deaf broken voice.

Taya Ryo's pupils moved, and for the first time a cloud of mist appeared in the pupils which were so clear.

——He wanted to get straight to the point and ask Shindo Hikari what he meant.

Did he not intend to show his true skills from the very beginning?

Did she always take care of his self-esteem and play chess with him?

Did he never... Never treat him as an opponent.

These questions rolled back and forth in his throat, every word was torn apart, chewed, digested and could not be more thoroughly——

But he still couldn't ask.

Not because of the current occasion, nor because of the consideration of the audience next to him, but because of fear.

I'm afraid that once these words are asked, Shinto will simply give an affirmative answer, and then... there will be no more.

——He didn't want to go back to the years when he didn't enter Tengguang at all.

No brothers, no rivals, no noise, no fun...

He lives the monotonous life of a top student every day, listens to his parents, does what he should do, plays chess with his opponents, and steadily moves forward with his father as his goal.

No one will fight with him in the bathroom, no one will take him to the school festival with takoyaki, no one will take him to catch goldfish out of season, no one will teach him how to do it in the home economics class cookie...

Taya Ryo never told Shinto Hikari how important he was to him.

With the gradual growth of age, more and more times, Toya Ryo looked indifferent and expressionless, even a little impatient.

But only he himself knows how precious the time spent with Hikari Shinto is to him.

He attaches great importance to Hikari Shindo, which is only inferior to his parents.

——It is precisely because of the attention that I can't wait to surpass.

Men always have an inexplicable desire to win—and this inexplicable desire to win is especially obvious when the men are still in the second year of middle school.

But now, Ta Yaliang couldn't surpass it.

Not only was he unable to overtake, but Hikaru Shinto, who was sitting across from him, kept smiling and cleared the entire chessboard happily, which made him even more elusive about Shinto's intentions, and he became more and more panicked.

Shinto Hikari did not understand the unreliable assumptions in Toya Ryo's heart at all.

He just saw Ta Yaliang's eyes sinking slightly, and his eyes dodged, and connected with the fact that this guy had cried before, he came to the conclusion that 'the child is so thin-skinned that he is embarrassed'. After clearing the chess pieces, he was very considerate He didn't talk about Go, but asked about his way home, "How are you going back later? Is Miss Shihe coming to pick you up?"

Shinto just asked casually, but in Taya Ryo's ears, there was an illusion that Shinto was chasing people in disguise.

So Taya's expression froze, "Let's review the chess game."

"No... are you in a hurry?" Shindo was stunned for a moment, and looked around at the chess players who were still whispering, "I think there are quite a lot of people exchanging opinions..."

Taya also followed his line of sight to look around, and saw that the people who had gathered around in twos and threes had either formed a small circle to discuss quietly, or stood aside and meditated alone - the most obvious of this type of people The only ones are Kuwahara who is currently touching his nose and Ogata who is unconsciously touching his chin.

Taya was full of fire in his heart and had no place to vent and couldn't prove it, but seeing that Shinto didn't plan to leave immediately, the expression on his face was a little better, and he put the chessboard and chess pieces back to their original places.

"Hahahahahaha—why, are you ready to leave?" Kuwahara stood behind Shinto and tried to squeeze him with words, "The old man hasn't even understood yet."

The old God Shinto Kokichi replied on the ground, "Please continue."

——After getting along with him in his previous life, he has gotten used to this old fox's mystification.

I also summed up my own set of plans, that is - push.

Go with the flow, who wouldn't!

The author has something to say:

Xiaoliang's character is really not good! (I think

Refer to Ochi-kun's impression of Xiaoliang... Actually, I always think Ochi is quite pitiful... OTL also has the official who has been mentioned many times for the 4-party draw

I think he has a really good temper 23333

And I really like Go _(:з"∠)_

Be more bureaucratic

I think you didn’t discuss it when you encountered such an explicit demonstration (← Note that the secretary of the official Sang also said it

Xiaoliang later apologized

He was really angry so he did too much

that is really provocative w

In this era where you may be killed if you don’t greet people...the possibility of enmity is still very high ＿(:з」∠)＿

And the description I used in the last chapter seems to be "the undisguised malice of some villains", so w should know that the other party is also very bad-tempered_(:з"∠)_

It's not too strange to be refrigerated /w