Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 153 Little Sun

"I really don't understand. Go is so much fun, but she doesn't want to play it seriously. Instead, she chooses to play music. Do you think she's not smart enough?"

Sitting on the lawn nearby, Ryuji Kuroki muttered to himself. In his opinion, Go was the most fun and wonderful game in the world, but Utaha Kuroki just wasn't interested in it.

How could anyone in this world not like playing Go?

And yet, she's the daughter of a Go-playing family who doesn't like playing Go. Seriously.

Yi Zheng calmly said, "To those who don't understand, our fondness for Go, a game with only black and white, is completely baffling."

The Go board has nineteen lines, but only black and white stones. People who don't understand it may find it incomprehensible and boring because they can't understand it at all.

But only by truly immersing yourself in it will you discover how addictive the fun is. Every move tugs at the heartstrings of the player, bringing joy with a brilliant move and sorrow with a blunder.

The pride of crushing your opponent, the joy of turning the tide in a desperate situation, the regret and sorrow of losing in one move—these are all part of the fun of Go.

"So music is the same. Everyone has different tastes. It's impossible for everyone in the world to play Go or love Go."

Yi Zheng takes it all in stride; his life is a journey through Go, but for most people, Go is just a part of their lives.

But the most important thing is that Go can make people happy.

Ryuji Kuroki lay down on the lawn and looked up at the sky: "That's what they say, but my dad and the others don't think so."

"It is impossible for people to understand each other, even those who are related by blood."

Listening to the music of the band practicing next to him, Kuroki Ryuji seemed to have found someone to confide in and kept talking to Yi Zheng about all sorts of things. Yi Zheng listened calmly, without showing any impatience.

Kuroki Shino's training session didn't seem to last very long. After greeting the other team members, she ran towards Yi Zheng and the others.

"Ryuji, you know how to explain what happened today, right? You don't want Father to find out that you broke his vase."

……

Yi Zheng felt that these words were somewhat familiar. If he thought about it, this was in Japan, it seemed like a very normal thing to say. But if a girl said this to a boy? It also seemed normal. He felt like he had seen similar scenes before.

Upon hearing this, Kuroki Ryuji blushed and immediately started arguing with Kuroki Shinoha. Even after getting into the car, the two were still fighting like elementary school students.

Yi Zheng could only sigh and say that the siblings had a really good relationship.

"My music is so good! I saw you were completely absorbed in it just now. Music is the most touching thing in the world!"

Kuroki Shiyo spared no effort in promoting her music as the best, and seemed to be trying to win over Yi Zheng's support.

Ryuji Kuroki said that his sister's playing was absolutely awful and was just making noise.

Yi Zheng looked at the guitar next to Kuroki Shiba, as if it had stirred up some ancient memories, and asked, "Can I touch it?"

"what?"

Kuroki Shino glanced at her long legs. Although they were long, white, and tender, it wasn't appropriate to ask that on their first meeting.

Kuroki Ryuji didn't stand on ceremony at all, directly picking up his sister's precious guitar and handing it to Yi Zheng. Watching Yi Zheng pick up the guitar and try playing it, Kuroki Shinoha's face flushed slightly; so it wasn't about her legs after all.

Yi Zheng tried it out briefly. When he was young, Yi Zheng initially studied music because his mother was a music training class teacher, and his mother also felt that Yi Zheng was very talented, especially in the piano.

However, by chance, Yi Zheng sneaked into the Go class next door and was introduced to Go for the first time.

Compared to music, which he initially studied, Yi Zheng is more immersed in the black and white world of Go.

But once I picked up the guitar, childhood memories resurfaced.

Yi Zheng strummed the zither slightly and hummed the little tune that Old Ke had hummed earlier: "If only all of this were a dream. I can still find your figure in my dreams. It's like returning home to retrieve something forgotten." (in Japanese)

Hearing Yi Zheng play the music and hum the tune, Kuroki Shiyo was completely stunned.

Yi Zheng had only played two phrases before he finished, which made Kuroki Shiyo anxious. She grabbed Yi Zheng's hand and asked, "What happened next? What's the name of this song? It's heavenly! Whose song is this? Would you be interested in being the lead singer in our band?"

Seeing Kuroki Shinobu tightly gripping Yi Zheng's hands, Kuroki Ryuji quickly pried them apart: "Sis! Yi Zheng is a professional Go player in China! And he's the only one who has the potential to become the number one Go player in China. What do you think about having him form a band with you?"

"But he sang it really well, and I've never heard this song before! It must be his original work!"

Upon hearing this, Yi Zheng waved his hand and said, "I only heard a friend of mine hum it, but that's all he sang. I don't know the rest."

The reason I didn't continue singing wasn't because I didn't want to, but because I didn't know how.

Old Ke paused for a moment, wondering why I was looking at him. He was already quite good at remembering fragments of the lyrics and melody of TV drama theme songs and humming them occasionally.

However, even Old Ke had to marvel at Yi Zheng's incredible memory; it was practically a super memory! He himself couldn't even remember when he had hummed it, yet Yi Zheng had managed to memorize it perfectly.

Old Ke felt that even after the emergence of artificial intelligence in this world, Yi Zheng's strength might improve faster than others.

The emergence of artificial intelligence places extremely high demands on the memory of professional Go players, leading to a dramatic increase in the amount of information that top players need to memorize.

It's not that it's purely about memorization, since memorizing without understanding has limited effect. However, memorizing related information does take a step up in importance, and top experts have to memorize a lot of things at the very beginning.

After dropping Kuroki Shiba off at home, Yi Zheng prepared to head straight back to his hotel. He had received a lot of favors today, and favors are the hardest things to repay.

It can be said that the favors owed now are so great that as long as Yi Zheng doesn't mention the matter of Yamagami Tetsuya, the Kuroki family will basically agree to any condition.

"See you next time, you little rascal."

After getting out of the car, Kuroki Shiyo waved to Yi Zheng and made a face. Ever since she learned in the car that Yi Zheng was half a year younger than her, Kuroki Shiyo had immediately started to act like the older sister.

Watching Kuroki Shiyo get out of the car, Yi Zheng took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket and tossed it to her: "I heard you tripped and fell when you climbed over the wall, so I had your bodyguard buy some medicine while you were training. Remember to apply it."

After saying that, Yi Zheng waved his hand and closed the car door.

Watching the car drive away, Kuroki Shiba stared blankly at the medicine in her hand for a long time before finally smiling and saying, "He's really kind. No wonder so many people like him. You little rascal, I wonder when we'll see each other again."

(End of this chapter)