Cherish the time

Chapter 129

A few days later, the Tokyo Junior High School Go Tournament was held in Neptune. Haze won the No. 2 tournament with Kurosawa as the first player, Mitani as the second player, and Tsutsui as the last player.

After announcing the result, Tsutsui's eyes were red with excitement, he took off his glasses and hid in the toilet for a long time, refusing to come out.

Shinto and Taya also went to the scene to watch the game on this day, and felt very sorry for Haze's final defeat by Aquaman.

If Kurosawa hadn't made an obvious mistake in the game, they could have won the first place with two wins and one loss, ending Aquaman's winning streak in one fell swoop.

After the whole game, Kishimoto came over to shake hands with the three contestants of Haze very gracefully.

At that time, Shinto and Taya were standing in Haze's group in casual clothes. After greeting the contestants for a while, Kishimoto lowered his head and whispered in his ear, "...Is this your personal reason?"

Facing this disguised questioning, Shinto nodded very calmly.

On the same day, this year's professional chess player examination officially came to an end.

Three chess players, Wada, Suzuki and Tsukino, stood out and became the lucky ones this year.

After finishing the last game, Hegu immediately cheered and ran to the barbecue restaurant where everyone had already made an appointment to celebrate, and informed them of the good news.

As a result, he paid for the meal.

Time passed unhurriedly, and more than half of the progress of Jinto's celebrity and Honinbo title strategy had passed.

The first round of qualifiers for the Tianyuan Tournament has also come to an end, and it is about to enter the second round.

During the days when Shindo was so busy that he couldn't keep his feet on the ground, the only thing that made him feel relieved was that his voice-changing period had finally passed, and he could speak with a normal voice.

"Finally, I don't have to listen to myself and want to beat myself up." On the first day when his voice recovered, he said to Zuo Wei with great emotion.

But there is such a coincidence in the world, when he came to the chess academy to say hello to Taya in a good mood, he heard the familiar male duck voice again.

Only this time... the voice came from Taya Ryo's throat.

A few days after New Year's Day, He Gu received a notice from the Chess Academy, which stated that his opponent in the new first stage routine game was... Kuwamoto Inbo.

If it was a year ago, he would still be very happy to ask the old man who has been holding on to his title for a few hands.

But ever since he saw how cunning this old guy was when he watched the vine competition in the broadcast room... He hadn't expected much about it.

It is taken for granted that his reluctance will not have any impact on the final decision.

Shinto originally wanted to go to the broadcast room to watch his game, but he couldn't arrange the time, so he had to regret it.

Taya Ryo spared no time to show his support.

It's a pity that He Gu still couldn't withstand the double pressure from Kuwahara's spirit and strength, and had to admit defeat in the middle game.

Shinto, who was unable to be present that day, defeated Nishio Kudan from Kansai in the fourth round of his Honinbo round-robin match, and officially advanced to the second half of the two major round-robin matches, one step closer to winning the title.

The new year is approaching, but Shinto's busy situation has not improved at all.

He originally planned to set aside a few days to go out for a walk during the Chinese New Year, but now it seems that he is too naive.

At the same time, in the online world that he neglected, another major event centered on him happened.

Since entering the information age, the global information technology has been rapidly updated, the popularity of computers and the Internet has become higher and higher, and more and more people use Internet Go to play chess.

"Sakou", a legendary account that exists on the world's online Go platform, has attracted the attention of countless latecomers with a legendary winning rate of 100%.

During the period when Shindo had to ignore Two-dimensional due to the busyness of the three-dimensional, a large number of people asked about Sakou's movements every day.

So, a chess player with the online name Mercy.W took the opportunity to launch a campaign to find Sakou in Japan.

He claimed to be the representative player of the Netherlands in this World Amateur Go Championship. He wanted to take the opportunity to go to Japan to see Sakou's true face, and sincerely invited players who might go to Japan during the game to accompany him.

Within a day of the event being proposed, the number of responders exceeded 100, and the number of people who responded increased by about [-] people every day after that.

It was not until seven days after the event was launched that He Gu, who hadn't been online for a long time like him, notified him of the news.

"Now more than 200 people have expressed their willingness to participate in this event," he said gloatingly, "and some Japanese amateur chess players have expressed that they can help solve the accommodation problem for some of them."

Shindo never knew that just playing Go online would cause such a big impact, and he didn't think of a good solution for a while, so he could only log in to his account and leave a message with that Mercy.W, expressing that he didn't want to be so concerned .

...But considering his poor English, he didn't know whether he could convey his meaning to the other party accurately.

After the New Year, it is necessary to participate in the first session.

After breakfast, Shinto put on a kimono that was rarely worn once a year, and went to a nearby shrine with Fujisaki, Mitani, Wada, Toya, and Yamazaki who also wore kimonos.

Then very devoutly wrote his wish on the wishing board.

— Cherish every inch of time.

Seeing his old-fashioned and staggering desire, Yamazaki grabbed his wooden board, added the words "Celebrity · Honinbo title GET!" on the side, and handed it to Akira Fujisaki who was standing aside.

The black-haired girl hesitated for a moment, took the wooden board and added a line of "healthy~" delicately.

So this board was passed down all the way.

When it finally returned to Shinto, the small board was already filled with words of various sizes and shapes.

In March, the first Youth Go Challenge Competition and the No.19 Ruoshi Battle kicked off successively.

Shinto's already packed itinerary has added a promotional work and a series of game arrangements.

Fortunately, he is the first challenger and not a seeded player. There will only be a match arrangement in the second half of this year, otherwise the situation will be even worse than it is now.

Seeing him busy like this, Shinto Mitsuko was very worried, and Shinto Heihachi even joked with him whether he should hire an agent to arrange work for him.

Fortunately, he was busy, but he has been trying his best to maintain a healthy living habit, so that he was not dragged down by the long period of heavy work.