Cherish the time

Chapter 36

It can be seen that the old man really likes Toya Yukio.

So he took Xiao Guang to the store, made him a cup of tea, and then started chatting with him.

While chatting, the old man began to tell his own story.

From when he was very young, he was exposed to Go under the influence of his father, until he was old.

Hikari Shinto has been listening carefully with a cup of tea in his hand, occasionally echoing a sentence or two.

Zuo Wei also sat quietly and listened carefully to the old man telling his story.

During the whole process of telling the story, the old man was very engrossed, as if he really returned to those times in his memory.

"...Oh! It's so late," finally, the old man seemed to have returned to the current generation from those distant memories, and sighed belatedly, "It's just a story about a bad old man... Please listen to it It's been so long, I'm sorry."

"No," Shindo Hikaru drank the cold tea in one gulp, "It was a very interesting experience...Thank you."

"Haha - you are a little interesting, kid. You said before... you like Go very much?"

"Yes." Shinto Hikaru paused, and added as if chewing something, "I like it very much."

Those heavy pronunciations seemed to indicate the infinite power contained in his words.

"It's good to like Go... Come here often in the future, we can also learn from each other." The old man patted him on the shoulder, "It's getting late, if you don't go back, the family will worry."

"Then I'll take my leave." Shindo Hikaru put the teacup back on the table as good as he could, and bowed seriously, "See you next time, old man."

"The next time we meet——, just tell me your name." The old man picked up his teacup, sat on his seat, and watched him leave the shop.

On the way home, Zuo Wei sighed softly, "This old man is very strong." 』

"Yeah." Shindo Hikari held his head in his hands, looked at the bloody sky with the setting sun, and didn't make a sound.

In the story of the old man, his life was not smooth. He was betrayed by his lover, betrayed by his friends, cheated, beaten, almost died of death several times, and now he is still suffering from diseases. A stable destination, with a small go shop and a sensible son.

Despite the ups and downs in his life, he never gave up hope or gave up life.

Similarly, I have never given up on Go.

Shinto Hikaru could not imagine what kind of tenacious soul is in the old man's thin body, supporting this ill-fated sufferer, so that the dying old man still exudes the enthusiasm of life from the inside out. brilliant.

Shinto Hikaru suddenly discovered that he seemed to have walked into a dead end before.

He always felt that the time of rebirth was stolen by himself, and it should be used to repay the mistakes he made and make up for the regrets he had in the past.

So he let Zuowei play chess as much as possible, wanted to help Xiaoliang as much as possible, and wanted to play against more and more powerful chess players as much as possible, so that he could pursue the ultimate "God's Hand" realm—— —!

—but he was wrong.

He cared too much about those things that happened in the past, and took those things that haven't happened in this world as his "sins" on his back.

—but it is wrong!

—This must be wrong!

Shinto Hikaru stopped in his tracks, staring fixedly at the bloody sky above his head.

He—sees himself as an outsider.

No sense of integration into this world.

He does not have such a sense that he is "alive"!

--yes!

--yes!

He was so eager to pursue the so-called compensation and repayment that he lost his proper "intention"!

He keeps telling himself that he likes Go—and he does.

It's just that this love for Go comes after the so-called "atonement".

Just like when he was crying in the reference room——

——In order to atone for his sins, in order to get Zuo Wei back, he would rather give up Go, and would rather never play Go!

——This is how he feels now!

But... it shouldn't be like this at all!

Zuo handed over the fan to him...!

Zuo Wei has been living in his Go...!

Zuowei never blamed him!I never hoped that he would atone for his sins in this way!

All the experiences between them are gifts from the gods, not reasons for punishment!

... Zuo Wei hopes that he... can love Go like him for thousands of years.

- That's right!That's it!

Shinto Hikaru felt his heart beating violently, and the blood all over his body began to concentrate to his head.

He felt like a blazing fire that was about to burst in the next second.

——What he is experiencing now is a second life.

Rather than watching a play starring someone else.

"Xiaoguang? 』Zuowei pressed his chest in discomfort.

The emotions between them are reciprocal, Zuowei only feels that there seems to be a very fierce battle in the heart of Hikari Shinto, so intense that he can hardly breathe-how ridiculous, he obviously didn't breathed out.

"...I'm fine. 』Shinto Hikari paused for half a second, then smiled with the corners of his mouth raised.

Yes, he's fine.

Since his rebirth, he has not been more sober than today.

This is...his life.

——It took him so long to wake up to such a simple matter.

——In the world other than professional chess players, there are still so many people who have such a persistent and above all enthusiasm for Go.

——Then he, who aspires to become a chess god, has any reason...

——Can’t compare to their enthusiasm?

"Want to play chess?Zuowei. 』

"Eh? Zuowei was taken aback for a moment, and then replied excitedly, "Of course!" 』

"Then...let's go back and play chess!" Shinto Hikaru chuckled, took a step forward, and started to run——"This time, I won't release any more water!" 』

"Then let the horse come here!" 』Zuo Wei was also affected by his emotions, took a step, and ran after him!

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In addition, the number of paragraphs in the previous chapter Ogata was wrong... Please automatically make up four paragraphs into seven paragraphs...!