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

"Hey! What are you scribbling about over there!?"

Hearing the sound.

Su Ran turned around and saw a long-haired man with glasses glaring angrily at her as he jogged over.

Su Ran pointed to herself, puzzled: "Me?"

"Nonsense! This is a game record from our Go club's recruitment process. What are you scribbling on it for?"

The bespectacled man was furious:

"Do you know how troublesome it is to draw these chess notation records?"

"I stayed up until 2 a.m. last night and finally got all this done. I'd only been pasting it up for a few minutes and you'd already smudged it..."

"I don't care, you have to pay me back!"

As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed Su Ran's collar.

Judging from their expressions, they were clearly preparing to take him to the disciplinary office to have a teacher reason with him.

"Ah, I'm sorry..."

Su then stepped back, easily dodging the bespectacled man's "attack." Although he looked like a child, his reaction speed and strength were at the level of a normal adult.

Subduing this middle school student would be a piece of cake.

However, considering that she was in the wrong first, Su Ran was still very polite and did not retaliate. She simply dodged the attack with her agility.

Seeing how agile Su Ran was, the bespectacled man couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation of surprise and looked Su Ran up and down for a while.

Slightly lacking confidence, she took two steps back: "You... are you a member of the Taekwondo club?"

Su Ran smiled and said, "No, I'm just a first-year student and haven't joined any clubs yet."

Oh, I see...

The bespectacled man scratched his head, then suddenly seemed to understand something, and said in realization:

"So, you were trying to join our Go club, that's why you were solving that endgame puzzle?"

As he spoke, the bespectacled man turned his gaze to the bulletin board on the side.

He turned his head and said:

"This kind of endgame is still quite difficult for you freshmen... But it's okay, as long as you are willing to learn, our chess club will not look down on you."

After he finished speaking, his gaze finally fell on the chessboard.

next moment.

The bespectacled man frowned.

"Huh, did you solve all three of these yourself?"

"It seems he knows some of the basic rules of Go, but..."

At this point, the bespectacled man pushed up his glasses: "The solution is completely wrong, and it's totally different from what Professor Seto explained a couple of days ago."

Uh……

Su Ran was speechless, unsure of what to say, when the bespectacled man changed the subject himself:

"Here's what we'll do. You can leave me your class and name first. I'll take this chess score to Mr. Seto. If he thinks you can still improve, then it won't matter too much if your foundation is a bit weak. You can just learn more from us in the future."

As he spoke, he took out paper and pen from his shirt pocket and handed them to Su Ran.

He couldn't help but complain with some frustration:

"It's a pity that I have to redraw the poster. I should have listened to Mr. Seto and printed more copies in advance."

Su Ran found it amusing, thinking that the bespectacled man wasn't a bad person, just a bit reckless, but quite warm and responsible.

"Here, senior, I've filled it out."

Su Ran handed the pen and paper to the man with glasses and apologized again, saying, "I'm so sorry, I've made you stay up all night again."

Hi, it's nothing!

The bespectacled man waved his hand casually: "Class is about to start, you can go back to the classroom now. If you have any questions about Go in the future, feel free to ask me anytime!"

After saying that, he carefully put away the chess score that Su Ran had solved, and waved his hand at him, saying:

"I'm going to see Mr. Seto now, see you later!"

Wait a moment.

Su Ran called out to the bespectacled man, feeling embarrassed:

"Excuse me, senior... where is Class 2 of the first year? I've been looking for it for ages..."

Oh, you mean Class Two?

The bespectacled man casually pointed in a direction: "It's over there. You'd better hurry up and register. I see a lot of new students have already started picking up their books!"

Done.

The bespectacled man left in a hurry; clearly, besides being a warm-hearted person, he was also an impatient one.

……

Kawaji Middle School Go Club.

An ordinary-looking young man walked side by side with the department head, chatting as they went.

"Seto, 5th Dan, as a top student of Kobayashi, 8th Dan, it is truly an honor for us to have such a master as you to be in charge at our Kawaogi Middle School!"

The department head smiled and said to the young man.

Seto 5-dan shook his head and said, "Director, you're too kind. It's my honor to be the instructor of the Go club at your esteemed school."

"As you know, Seto 5-dan, our school's results in the annual Go team competition are not very good. We recently expanded the Go club in junior high school, but not many children have signed up."

At this point, the department head sighed: "The principal has talked to me about this several times already. From now on, I'll have to rely on you to help with the Go club!"

"Don't worry, Director, I will do my best."

Seto, a 5-dan player, paused for a moment, then said with a bitter expression, "However, I just played a few games with those kids at the Go club, and their basic skills are really..."

"That's why we have to rely on you, Seto 5-dan."

The department head interrupted Seto 5-dan, smiling as he said, "The next Go team tournament will start in a few weeks. There's definitely not enough time to train any top players. So, I hope that you, Seto 5-dan, can train the players for the tournament after that. That would be enough."

"The one after that..."

Seto, a fifth-dan player, couldn't help but sigh.

He would never have taken the job if the pay wasn't so high!

The members of the Go club at Kawage Junior High School have ridiculously poor basic skills; many of them have only barely grasped the basic rules of Go.

The only one who could be considered a beginner was always careless when playing chess and had an extremely impatient temper, making him far from being a serious player.

So yesterday, he set up a few simple Go puzzles and had the only kid he could play take charge of recruiting new players, and then posted the puzzles on the bulletin board.

I thought some kid would figure it out.

To this day, no one has been able to provide a solution!

Even more outrageous is that the kid in charge of recruitment is a weirdo who can only learn by being taught and is extremely rigid and inflexible.

He clearly told the child that there were at least two solutions to this kind of endgame, but the child was just stubborn.

After learning one solution method, I can never learn a second one... It's so frustrating!

Given such a harsh environment, even if given a year, it would be difficult to train a decent player.

"By the way, Seto 5-dan, I just heard you say that two months ago a boy from China beat Mr. Kobayashi online, is that true?"

The department head suddenly remembered this and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, my teacher told me about this himself. That kid... is amazing. Although online Go isn't a formal competition, I suspect that even if my teacher and he met in a formal match, the teacher might not be able to win."

Seto, a 5-dan player, nodded, recalling the game his teacher had reviewed with him two months ago.

"It's unbelievable. I never thought that Mr. Kobayashi would lose to a child who is only twelve or thirteen years old. Although it wasn't a formal match, given time, that child will probably become a remarkable person like Touya Meijin, right?"

The department head remarked with considerable emotion, "It's a pity that such a Go prodigy isn't at our school. If he were one of our students, we would probably have a sure win in the Go team competition."

"That way, the principal probably won't always yell at me when he's drunk..."

……

The chess tournament is just around the corner! His solution... is a million times better than mine!

Kawagi Middle School, Hayase Middle School, and Kaiwang Middle School.

These three schools are all renowned middle schools in Kyoto and have always been competing with each other.

However, every year in the Go team competition, Kawaji Junior High School ranks at the bottom, becoming a laughing stock.

As for Haiwang Middle School, thanks to the presence of Akira Touya, the school has a strong Go atmosphere and often wins first place, enjoying great success.

This situation deeply troubled the principal of Chuandi Middle School.

In order to surpass Neptune Middle School.

This year, the alcoholic principal spent a lot of money and went through various channels to invite Seto 5-dan to guide the members of the Go club.

"Haha, but Go team competition is a team competition. If only one person is good, it is not possible to turn the tide."

Seto 5-dan smiled and shook his head, saying...

"That makes sense," the department head nodded.

In a Go team tournament, there are three participants. Each player will play three games and needs to win two games to advance.

and so.

Even if one person wins, but the other two drag the team down and lose, the final result is still that they cannot advance.

"However, with such a genius, the chances of advancing will definitely increase significantly. As for the remaining two, we only need one of them to win."

The department head continued with a smile, "After all, anyone who can defeat Mr. Kobayashi online could probably sweep through the middle school Go tournament with their eyes closed, just like that kid from the Touya Meijin family. Once he participates in the middle school Go tournament, it becomes a one-sided massacre."

"I don't know if there are any teenagers who can beat their teachers in real life. After all, information on the internet can't be trusted. It could be a prank by a famous expert, or it could be the legendary artificial intelligence."