Cherish the time

"Hehehehe..." Kuwahara glanced at him sideways, "Then I won't be polite." Then he picked up the chess box and started to play.

His hands are fast and steady, and his memory is quite outstanding. He quickly restored a corner on the chessboard, and tapped the black stone in the center with his thin fingers, "Why did you... choose to play here?" ?”

"Intuition." Shinto replied generously.

Kuwahara laughed, and restored the battle situation in a corner, "So what about here?"

"Intuition." Shinto repeated his answer without hesitation for a second.

Kuwahara raised his eyebrows, "It's amazing... little guy!" After finishing speaking, he simply restored the entire board, and his cloudy eyes firmly locked on Shinto's face, "Could it be that after the whole game, you can't Are you playing chess with intuition?"

"...Yes." Shindo pondered for a while, and gave an affirmative answer.

Kuwahara's eyes froze, and the atmosphere on the field suddenly became tense.

Shinto met Kuwahara's eyes frankly, and there was no intention of dodging in his clear brown eyes.

The two stared straight at each other for a few seconds, and Kuwahara Jin suddenly laughed twice.

"You really are an interesting little guy!" He patted Jinteng on the shoulder, and after saying this, he turned and walked away.

A group of unidentified college students and professional chess players were left behind to watch his back.

Seiji Ogata coughed, "Mitsumi Shinto, you played well."

Shinto:?

Then Ogata also left.

Shinto: ...

Shirakawa smiled at him, made a "great" gesture, and left in the opposite direction to Ogata.

The rest of the chess players looked at me and I looked at you, and found that the most powerful chess players had left. They probably couldn't expect to get much inspiration from the words of the remaining players, so they touched their heads in twos and threes spread out.

With a wry smile on his face, Shinto started to pack up the chessboard restored by Kuwahara, and asked again, "Are you going to take the subway or wait for Miss Ichikawa to pick you up?"

Taya didn't want to talk to him at first, but the education he had received all along made it impossible for him to do such a childish behavior of ignoring his friend's question, "...Miss Ichikawa is here to pick me up." Then he picked up the chessboard again chess pieces.

"Oh," Shinto nodded, "Then when will she arrive?"

"It's probably still an hour," Ta Yaliang suppressed the unexplained anxiety in his heart, and replied honestly, "I told my father before going out that it would end around nine o'clock."

"Oh..." Shindo pondered for a while, "How about... let's continue playing Pokemon?" Then he took out GB from his pocket again.

"Little light! Zuowei frowned and said, "You must have played too much." 』

"Obviously I like to play too..." Shindo muttered in his heart.

As a result, Taya on the opposite side frowned very synchronously, "...it's still the same today, forget it."——he is really not in the mood to play games now.

"Hey..." Shinto made a reluctant voice with some confusion, but still put GB back into his suit pocket kindly, "Okay then..."

After the two looked at each other speechlessly for three seconds, Shindo felt something was wrong, "What's wrong? He kept staring at me." He touched his face with his hands, "Did something get on it? —— Didn't you tell me earlier?!"

Taya just shook his head, the shallow creases between his childish brows that hadn't disappeared looked very eye-catching.

Seeing that his deliberate trickery did not get a positive response from Taya, Shinto asked with some concern, "Are you all right?"

——He just wanted to let this little guy feel the feeling of being frustrated, not to mention making people cry, what's going on with this reaction now?

Taya Ryo thought, how could it be all right.

But this kind of self-loathing feeling of grievance and resentment and feeling that he is making trouble for no reason is... what is it?

He clearly wanted to ask Shinto.

Ask him if he regards himself as an opponent and if he takes himself seriously.

But another voice said...

- that's not right.

——It shouldn’t be like this.

This kind of coquettish and sarcastic questioning shouldn't be something "Taya Ryo" would do!

He still remembered what he had said to his father before.

'I want to be a chess player like my father! '

——That is the goal he has been pursuing all along!

...

When encountering a strong enemy, do not question, demand, envy, or panic.

Fight with all your power, if you feel unwilling after failure, just increase your strength and wait for another battle in the future.

Don't be disturbed by the attitude of the other party, whether it is mean, provocative, flattering, or belittling, treat it with a normal mind.

...

This is a passage that his father said to him a long time ago, after he was praised by his father, which caused him to lose the standard of the game that day.

For a long time, he has kept this passage in his heart, so he can always maintain a normal mind when playing games with others.

——But after playing today's game of chess, he has already lost the most basic sense of normalcy.

There seemed to be a fire in his heart, and he tried his best to launch an attack, only to disintegrate Shinto's chess shape or make him mess up so that he could take advantage of it.

Although this seemed to be an inevitable choice under such circumstances, only he himself knew that it was just a subconscious action he made when he was dazzled by an inexplicable anger!

So where does this anger... come from?

Taya froze for a moment, realizing that he hadn't thought of this question until now.

——Why does he feel...angry?

Is it because Xiaoguang hides his strength?

Is it because my progress is not as great as expected?

Or is it because...he felt that Xiaoguang didn't see himself at all in Xiaoguang's eyes?

Shinto Hikari supported his chin with one hand, and waved the other hand at Taya Ryo, "Little Ryo?"

"Ah?" Ta Yaliang replied blankly, but his thoughts still didn't seem to fly back.

"It's like when you were in a daze with Xiaoguang! Zuowei clapped his hands and laughed childishly, "I didn't respond to other people's actions at all!" 』

"Yeah? 』Shinto raised his eyebrows, gestured to Taya not to care, subconsciously reached into his pocket with his free right hand.

"Small!Light! 』This is Zuowei's loud reminder.

"Ah...sorry..." This was Shinto's apology without remorse.

Taya, who was interrupted by him, didn't return to his own thoughts as it seemed on the surface, but watched Shinto seriously and began to place pieces on the chessboard.

Taya originally thought that he wanted to replay the game or make scores, but after staring blankly for a while, he realized that what the other party was playing was not Go at all.

He looked at it for a while, and was dumbfounded to find that Shinto seemed to be trying to make a Doraemon out of Go pieces—but due to the low artistic quality of the executor, the placing process seemed very difficult.

But Shinto is still posing with great interest, and stops to appreciate and adjust from time to time.

He looked at it for a while, and a thought popped into his mind belatedly.

——Could it be that playing chess with yourself... For Shinto, it is the same as arranging patterns with chess pieces... It's just a pastime to concentrate on?

The thought came so suddenly and undisguisedly, it went straight to the bottom of his heart.

Taya Ryo thought, oh, this is the reason.