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

"They are more talented than you, and even work harder than you, but they have never stopped striving!"

"What right do you have to give up so easily? What face do you have to say you're not playing Go anymore and want to be replaced in place of Hirosue!"

His words were a wake-up call, and everyone fell silent.

Seto Seiichi looked towards the positions of the last two chess pieces. Su Ran stood opposite Hirosue Naruto and Gouda Takeshi and gently placed his piece.

"Moreover, Hirosue will definitely lose."

"Really?"

Seto Seiichi nodded silently, and said against his will, "Really."

……

Chapter 80: The Familiar Demon! He looks exactly like Akira Touya!

In fact.

With just a glance at the chessboard pattern, Seto Seiichi knew exactly what it was.

In this game, Hirosue Naruto is destined to lose.

Right now, the only hope for these students is that student who didn't even join the Go club and once beat Akira Touya by half a point while repeating a grade.

Takeshi Gouda.

Su Ran quietly placed her pieces, and with each move, Hirosue Naruto's face grew paler.

"How is this possible..."

Naruto Hirosue murmured to himself, staring at the chessboard in front of him, his hands almost too heavy to hold the pieces.

"Do you... want to continue?"

Su Ran looked at the chessboard on the table. Even with his own chess skills, he could easily defeat a chess player like Hirosue Naruto, whose talent was only average.

now.

The large black group has been completely cornered by the white pieces it owns.

Once this minor move is made, all that awaits the Black team is a complete and utter defeat!

Naruto Hirosue took a deep breath, lowered his head, and said, "I lost."

He stared intently at the chessboard. Indeed, there was nowhere left for the black pieces to move. The white pieces were like a giant python, tightly coiled around the black pieces.

If the black piece makes the slightest move, the white piece will pounce and devour it completely.

No matter how fiercely he struggles at the end, he can't turn the tide.

"I lost again..."

Naruto Hirosue lowered his head.

Beside them, the defeated members of the Go club clenched their hands, silently watching this scene.

The members of the Go club suffered a complete defeat. Currently, only Takeshi Goda, who is not a member of the Go club, seems to be struggling to keep going.

“Hirosue-senpai…” Yada began hesitantly.

Naruto Hirosue pushed back his chair, stood up, and gave a slight smile.

"This guy is really strong. He can replace me in the Go league. I acknowledge him."

"Even those bastards from Neptune High School are no match for him. He's too strong."

Upon hearing Naruto Hirosue's words, Koji Yada lowered his head in disappointment.

……

"What's wrong with this guy?"

Takeshi Gouda slammed each of his pieces onto the board with boundless rage.

In stark contrast, Su Ran calmly and methodically made each move.

The hand descends from a great height, gently placing the chess piece down with a soft clattering sound.

Before each move, Su Ran would think for herself, then retrieve tens of thousands of simulated games stored in her mind for reference, and finally make a careful move.

He grew rapidly through such competition.

"This guy, he looks so calm, just like that brat Akira Touya, damn it!"

Takeshi Gouda slammed the black ball down hard again.

Snapped!

The chess piece landed on the chessboard, and due to the excessive force, even the other pieces on the board were shaken.

"Clearly, he used that big move and fell into my trap, so why, why, no matter how I attack, I can't break through!"

"Even my own camp is on the verge of falling under his heavy pressure."

"And... the way this kid seizes opportunities is simply unbelievable..."

"I only made one wrong move in the middle game, and he has been relentlessly attacking me ever since... This feeling is exactly the same as when I faced Akira Touya many years ago!"

"Damn it!"

Across from him, Su Ran calmly gazed at the chessboard before him.

"The next move might be difficult to jump away, but continuing to attack the corners is a piece of cake... But why does the cosmic star chart show the position of the 2nd column and 17th row after activating the super chess sense? What will happen if I play here?"

Since her super chess sense awakened two months ago, Su Ran has been intentionally training herself to control it.

Often, halfway through a game, I suddenly have an incredible feel for the game.

He wanted to use this to make his exceptional chess sense more compatible with his own, somewhat similar to how Kakarot frequently maintained a Super Series routine to improve himself.

The benefits of doing this are obvious: after two months of continuous practice...

He has been able to extend the duration of his exceptional chess sense from a few minutes initially to about twenty minutes currently.

However, it is not without its drawbacks.

With his exceptional chess sense, the strategies suggested by the cosmic star chart are often incomprehensible to him.

Take this hand, for example.

Logically speaking, if White continues to pursue Black's large group of stones and makes a strong cut, it can directly block Black's escape route.

Remove this entire patch of black stones.

But rather.

At this moment, his exceptional chess sense led him to make a seemingly inexplicable move at the 17th row of the second column.

To be honest, Su Ran didn't quite understand the significance of this move.

"Forget it, let's make our moves first."

After thinking for a moment, Su Ran made his move.

Two columns and seventeen rows, Dafei.

Upon seeing this move, Takeshi Gouda's eyes lit up slightly!

"They can escape! These black spots can escape!"

Seto Seiichi stood behind Su Ran, silently watching this move.

"2.7, Dafei... Why didn't he continue the previous offensive? This move slowed down the pace of the whole game. What was he thinking? What exactly...?"

"Now, the black pieces have a chance to escape from the encirclement of the white pieces."

Takeshi Gouda swiftly placed a stone.

Su Ran followed closely behind, not wanting to be outdone.

A moment later.

"Okay, now I just need to make an eye in the three columns and fourteenth row, and the whole game will be alive. I can win!"

Takeshi Gouda clenched his fist excitedly, his eyes fixed on the points on the chessboard.

"That's where my life lies!"

Takeshi Gouda picked up a Go piece and slammed it down with his right hand.

Three columns and fourteen rows!

"Did it escape...? That black ball..."

Standing behind Su Ran, Seto Seiichi was lost in thought when he suddenly froze, his eyes widening as he exclaimed, "No, this...this is...Shirako's...tiger's mouth!"

Takeshi Gouda placed the chess piece in the third column and fourteenth row!

Suddenly, Takeshi Gouda stared at the chessboard, seemingly realizing something. His fingers began to tremble slightly, and his pupils gradually contracted.

"How is this possible..."

His hand involuntarily retracted, as if trying to move the chess piece back.

"Once a move is made, there's no going back."

Su Ran looked calmly at Gouda Takeshi and spoke.

Gouda Takeshi stared in disbelief at the spot where he had placed his piece, exclaiming, "How is this possible... When...!"

"You lost."

Su Ran pushed back her chair and stood up.

The room fell silent.

No one spoke; everyone stared at Su Ran, their eyes filled with complex and inexplicable emotions.

Su Ran slowly exhaled, walked to the door, and pushed it open.

"Since you all want him to be the commander-in-chief, then I'll be the third commander."

After saying that, Su Ran left the Go club's Go room.

Naoki Sugishita, looking completely bewildered, pointed at himself and asked, "Me? Why me?"