Hikaru no Go: I taught you Go, and you made the Kisei cry?

Hikaru Shindo picked up a Go stone from the ground and looked at Akira Touya with a puzzled expression.

"Touya... why are you here?"

Akira Touya's chest heaved violently as he charged into Hikaru Fujihiro, roaring furiously.

"Shindo! What are you doing!?"

Are you playing chess?

Upon hearing this, Hikaru Shindo's gaze flickered slightly, and he lowered his eyes.

"You, your strength is more than that, isn't it? You, Shindo, show me your true strength!"

"Shindo!"

Hikaru Shindo turned his head slightly, making it impossible to see the expression on his face.

"Shindo, this is definitely not your true strength, you can't possibly..."

"impossible……"

Akira Touya's voice trembled, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Hikaru Shindo stammered, "Touya, but I..."

"What do you take Go for? A toy?"

Akira Touya stared straight at Hikaru Shindo: "You have such great strength. In any game, no matter who you play against, no Go player would allow themselves to play like this!"

"This is not an insult to myself, but an insult to Go!"

Hikaru Shindo's face gradually darkened; he didn't know how to explain.

"Taya?"

Those around him were shocked to hear Hikaru Shindo's address and turned to look at each other.

"Could this young man be Akira Touya, the son of Touya Meijin, a once-in-a-century genius in the Go world?"

"Really? What's Akira Touya doing here?"

"Does Akira Touya know the three generals of Hase?"

"Yase Sansho, what's so special about you? In the game just now, I only felt that the white stones were stronger. What did the black stones play...?"

"Yeah, Akira Touya said that the three generals of Hase are very strong?"

On the referee's stand, the middle-aged referee stood up, interrupting the crowd's discussion, and angrily rebuked, "Shut up! Young man! This is a competition, what are you doing?"

Upon hearing this, Akira Touya clenched his fists in frustration and turned away.

"Shindo! If you don't show your true strength soon, you'll suffer a crushing defeat before you even reach the middle game!"

Having said all he could say, Akira Touya clenched his fist and fell silent.

The game continues.

……

This move is absolutely not the choice a chess player should make! Forge your own path in chess.

Hikaru Shindo sat in the chair, his hand reaching into the Go box, but he hesitated to pick up a Go piece.

"Sai".

Hikaru called out to Sai, and Sai gently bent down and whispered, "Hikaru, I'm here."

"You...you come down here."

Hikaru Shindo lowered his head, his hands gripping the Go stones tightly in the box, the cold stones seeping through his skin and chilling his palms.

"me……"

"I...can't do it."

Sai stared at the chessboard in front of him for a long time, then looked up at Su Ran, who was sitting quietly opposite him.

"You must be very unwilling, Xiaoguang, to win the game on your own."

"It's okay, Xiaoguang, I believe in you."

"You will definitely become a great chess player in the near future."

“I saw the game just now, I saw the light in your eyes, Xiaoguang, that was the light of Go.”

"It's like the black and white pieces falling on the chessboard, shining in the afterglow of the setting sun."

Hikaru Shindo choked up silently.

"I really... really, really took it seriously. I even... only made about twenty moves. Why, why did Touya say I was about to lose... Sai?"

"No, you played it very well."

Sai gazed gently at the black stone that Hikaru had placed earlier: "Hikaru, every single one of your moves was excellent, every single move shone with brilliance. You didn't lose, you were only at a very slight disadvantage, you could still play."

“Sai…”

Hikaru Shindo burst into tears.

"Really, really, it's a very slight disadvantage."

Sai said in a low voice.

"Sai, you can step down now..."

After a long while, Hikaru Shindo clenched his fist and said, "Sai, I know that I am still far from being a match for Su Ran, but in the future, I will definitely catch up with him."

"Sai, you'll win, right?"

Upon hearing this, Sai stared at the chessboard for a long time before slowly nodding.

"I will win, I definitely will."

So, wipe away your tears.

"Xiao Guang".

“Look carefully at each move I make. Don’t be like a puppet. Feel each move with your heart.”

"Xiao Guang, I can feel that you are also slowly awakening."

Time ticked away, one tick at a time.

Sai stared at the Go board on the table, lost in a long period of contemplation.

He closed his folding fan and stared intently at the chessboard.

"There's almost a difference of twenty marks..."

"The player in the upper right corner has been forced to his death."

"How difficult it is," Akira Touya said, "that was actually a very tactful way of putting it."

"He's waiting for Xiaoguang... no, for me to make a move."

"Moreover, this young man named Su Ran on the other side is no ordinary person like those in the Go club."

"To be honest, he might be a formidable opponent who can compete with me until the very end, fighting to the very last half point."

"He is not an ordinary child."

"Even I find it hard to believe that this child is only twelve years old."

Before his eyes, the two previous matches between Touya Akira and Su Ran flashed by like a revolving lantern.

His expression grew increasingly serious.

"In a normal game of chess, there is absolutely no way to turn defeat into victory."

"We must, we must guide the game into the most complex and intense offensive battles and look for opportunities."

“The white piece is the lion.”

"And the black one is a hyena."

"Not a single moment of slack is allowed..."

"We must bite through the white lion's throat with the ferocity of a tiger, at top speed, and with the sharpest claws!"

"We cannot give the lion even the slightest chance to react."

"We must act with overwhelming force."

Sai gripped the fan handle tightly, searching the various points on the chessboard with his eyes.

"In this game, it's either you or me who dies!"

Time passed by, second by second.

Sai is still searching for that key point that can turn the tide of victory!

……

"It's been...it's been ten minutes..."

Everyone stared silently at the chessboard. Some impatient people glanced at their watches, looking rather irritated.

"What kind of chess game can you think about for ten minutes?"

"What is this child thinking?"

"Hei Zi, is there any hope for him?"

Everyone had different thoughts as they looked at the chessboard on the table, pondering what they would do if they were the black pieces.

This time, the black pieces took far too long to think. Even though there was overtime in the final, each player had an extra twenty minutes to make their move.

But this move, which took ten minutes of deliberation, was something no one could have predicted.

The atmosphere gradually became tense, and there was an immense, unspoken pressure in the air.

Before anyone knew it, Kato Masao and Otake Hideo had silently appeared behind Shindo Hikaru.

Even Su Ran didn't notice the arrival of the two senior figures.

"Your apprentice seems very dedicated."