[bright] time

(light side)

A whole row of cherry trees are planted on the road leading to Nihon Ki-in.The white petals and red flower cores are very naturally blended into a light pink. When the spring breeze comes, the black and slender branches sway a few times with the traction, and the flower pieces spread out like mist. The blue sky is filled with the breath of spring.

The afternoon hand match was going on in the game room, and sitting across from Mashiba's third dan was Shindo Hikari, who had just been promoted to third dan this Chinese New Year.His right hand is holding his favorite *bat fan against his mouth, which is his signature move when playing chess.The left hand, which had always been on the knee, was uncharacteristically soaked in a red bucket today, with a few ice cubes that had almost melted floating in it.

It took [-] minutes to think, so I put down the fan in my hand, grabbed the chess pieces in the chess jar and dropped them on the chessboard.This move will undoubtedly become a key move for Guang to win the game.In the face of games with a higher chance of winning, Guang mostly adopts this mode.

Mashiba also knows that there is a [-]% chance that the move after Shinto Mikasa will be the key move, and now he is squeezing his head to find out the intention of this move.It's just that the more I think about it, the more flustered I become, thinking about the passing of time, and it's hard for Zhenchai to convince himself to make a move, but the light side suddenly changed the rhythm and played fast chess, almost before Zhenchai left the chessboard. At the same moment, put the chess piece on the board.

Under the psychological pressure of "being calculated" in every move, Mashiba bit his lip and reluctantly made the move when he came to the middle game.

"Thank you for your advice. Do you want to review it?" With one hand picking up the chess pieces, the serious expression on his face and the intimidating aura of the chess match had dissipated, and he asked Zhen Chaichong, who was three years older than himself.

"Hmph, no need." Machai glanced at Guang's left hand, covered the chess jar, put it back on the chessboard, and left the game room.

Guang turned his head to look at his left hand placed in the bucket, and moved his wrist with a tiny movement, only one centimeter, and Guang couldn't help twisting his brows.

It hurts, it swelled up even after applying ice packs, this is troublesome.I'm going to Taya's house today.

I don't know if Ah Fu bought it, but now I can only count on him.

Guang took out his hands soaked in the bucket, wiped the water from his hands on his clothes, picked up the bucket and walked to the sink.After disposing of the bucket of water, Fukui happened to run towards him carrying the things he bought from the convenience store.

"Shinto! I bought it! Ice packs and bandages for fever you asked for."

"[-]Q! I'm saved. Ah Fu! I'm sorry, but I'm bothering you after you finished your handshake this morning."

"No way! Everyone has known each other for so long!" Fukui is a friend who has known him since he was a college student. He just passed the exam this year and is two years younger than himself. He always squints his eyes and giggles.Good at rapid chess, he was He Gu's number one natural enemy when he was a student in the academy.

After taking the things, Hikari and Fukui walked into the elevator.While chatting, Hikari treated his sprained wrist.Tear off the ice pack and apply it to the swollen left wrist, and then wrap the bandage tightly, fixing the wrist while covering the bruise under the bandage as much as possible.The remaining ice packs and bandages are stored in the side pack.

"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet on becoming a chess player! Great, I can compete again in the future. Playing rapid chess with you before was really addictive."

"I also want to have a look at the current Shinto match. I heard Nase-san say that you will change your face when you get to the official match! Isn't it so scary?"

"Every chess player is the same. But your face, which is always smirking all day long, might have the effect of deceiving the enemy! Hehe~" Hikari squeezed Fukui's round face jokingly.The touch reminded him of his own face before.

"Hahaha, my selling point!" Fukui still smiled foolishly.

The elevator came to the first floor, and Hikari pressed the "Open" button to let Fukui get out of the elevator first. At this moment, Fukui suddenly stopped, froze his smiling face, and Hikari, who was surprised by Fukui's reaction, walked out and looked into the lobby.

Meijin Ogata and Tengen Kurata were sitting on chairs in the lobby without saying a word, both facing the gate.One person was looking at the Yomiuri Shimbun with his legs crossed, while the other was flipping through the weekly magazine on the table.

The usually bustling hall is now like a haunted empty city because of the presence of these two heavyweights at the same time. Except for the two of them, there is no one in the whole hall.A deadly silence filled the entire space.

Rumors spread so fast.With an exclamation in his heart, Hikaru said to Fukui:

"Ah Fu, I forgot to take something, you go first. Break up."

"Oh, then I'll go first. Be careful next time you ride a bicycle, even if it's a bicycle, you will die if you fall."

"Understood, thank you."

After Fukui left, Hikaru turned around and found a chair with his back to the door facing the two of them and sat down.

***

Because the opponent made a bet early in the middle game, the time for Guang to end the game was earlier than everyone else.The game is still going on upstairs, and no one should come down for at least [-] minutes.

Since the current game is the last game of the day, and the two big figures are sitting here as goalkeepers, it is almost certain that no one outside will want to step into this hall.

There is no doubt that in this space and this time, there will be no one else except these three for the time being.

Foretells that a conversation that cannot be made public is about to begin.

Putting down the Acer Weekly in his hand, it was Kurata who broke the silence first,

"The left hand is the life of a chess player, I think I will teach you to write a hundred more."

"Forgive me, Mr. Kurata. This way I will lose my right hand." I am right-handed, what life is not life?I want to find a bunch of reasons to force me to go to some calligraphy classroom.

"Then learn how to use your feet to catch ziluo." Ogata shook the newspaper and said leisurely.

"I didn't expect Mr. Ogata to know such a difficult technique. Then I really have to learn. Please let me know when the next class is about to start. The brake failed, and the cut surface is still flat."

Facing Ogata's pastime, Hikaru chatted about it, not to be outdone.Then without a trace, he said the truth that the two big men wanted to know the most because they were sitting here today.

Yes, the cause of the crash was brake failure, and the cause of brake failure was someone cut the brake line.

I haven't told anyone about this, because this kind of "man-made incident" is taboo for the nearest Nippon Kiin.

"Speaking of which, which one am I?"

"Last September, Mr. Serizawa's favorite writing brush was cut. This is the first one."

After Kurata finished speaking, Hikari snapped a finger.

Ogata lit a cigarette, sat aside and blew smoke, saying, "A writing brush with a market price of [-] yen, hmph, I don't know what kind of hair it uses."

"Last October, Mr. Kuwahara's carp pond was filled by bastards, and two fish died. This is the second one."

Hikari continued, before snapping off his second finger.

Kurata propped his chin and looked at it: "The two fish are worth [-] yen, what kind of fish?"

Ogata took another puff of smoke and said, "Happy, that day is the happiest day in my life!"

It was Kurata who spoke next, and he said in a very sad and indignant voice:

"December last year, the day before the year-end party. I ate a drugged bento, which caused me to spend a whole day, and I missed the annual year-end party where I can eat meat and drink!! This is the third thing.

This revenge is not revenge, am I still called Cangtian! ! ! "

Facing Kurata, whose imposing manner was almost that of the Ghost Crying God, Hikari could only silently fold off his third finger.

The so-called resentment towards food is great, does it refer to people like Mr. Kurata?

Then came the more terrifying ones to speak.Ogata said with a voice from the nineteenth floor of hell:

"Last December, on the day of the year-end party... my favorite red sports car was spray painted into the most hated color in my life - fluorescent pink!! It was the fourth piece.

How dare a dead bastard engrave such an indelible shame in my head, I will never let him go... After I catch him, I will let him leave an unforgettable terrifying memory! "

Guang still could only fold his fourth finger silently, not daring to say a word.

He actually said "Lao Tzu"... Teacher Ogata was already mad.

It turned out that Mr. Ogata's car was also damaged when we were forced to hold the continuation of the year-end party.Is this called the present report?

Of course I dare not say such words.He still wants to die.

The two people in front of me are still immersed in the flames of revenge, and Hikari is the only one who continues to trace back the incident:

"Then in February this year, I came to Nihon Kiin to participate in the Hokuto Cup preliminaries. When I left, I found that my beloved devil shoes had been cut off with the Nike logo. I cried for three days and three nights. This is the fifth item.

In March of this year, all the flowers and plants planted in Taya's family yard were uprooted and thrown all over the ground. The [-]-year-old pine tree was even scraped off a layer of bark.For the sixth piece. "

Finally calming down, Kurata folded his arms and said:

"So you are the seventh. The brakes were cut, and you are lucky to have a sprained hand."

"Luck..."

When I found out that the brakes failed, I was heading straight from the downhill section to the railway level crossing. I was really scared and sweated all over my body. Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and chose to jump off the train, otherwise I would have seen King Yama.Not to mention sitting here and counting how many victims I am.

Ogata put out the cigarette in his hand, pushed his glasses and said:

"Four of the title holders were killed. The rest of Morishita Throne and Zama Kisho have not reported any misfortune yet."

"The three brats who participated in the Beidou Cup will all suffer."

"Will the pranksters be different? Recently, they seem to be targeting the Hokuto Cup."

"A prank? Shindo, don't think that you can lighten the matter by sitting here alive and kicking. If you die under the train wheel today, we can still sue that guy for premeditated murder! Besides! My "stomach 』Being given laxatives! This is not a simple joke that can forgive the other party!!"

"Shinto, my "car"...does that kind of thing, do you really think it's just a prank?" Pushing his eyes, Ogata-sensei's eyes shone with a sharp light.very scary….

"I'm sorry. I said the wrong thing. Please forgive me." It's never smart to make these two angry.

"It's good to know. In terms of media exposure, the three of you are qualified to be targets."

"Brother Ogata is right, think about the grand occasion of Valentine's Day this year. Tsk! Good-looking people are popular! You can receive a bunch of chocolates."

Bring this up again.

"Mr. Kurata, didn't all my chocolate end up in your stomach? Don't be angry."

"Is my size so small? By the way, when was your bicycle cut?"

"Recently, I parked near the apartment, and then rode to Kiin. It must have been at that time?"

"Therefore, as previously inferred, the prisoner is likely to be someone from the Kiin." Ogata said.

Facing Mr. Ogata's deduction, Mr. Kurata also nodded in agreement.

Mr. Serizawa’s writing brush, Mr. Kuwahara’s carp, Mr. Kurata’s stomach, Mr. Ogata’s car, the club’s devil shoes, the garden of Toya’s house, my mountain bike... etc. The prisoners all picked our most important things start.Obviously, he has investigated the affairs of the Chess Academy and our living habits quite clearly.It is impossible for outsiders to grasp so much information.

"It's really troublesome." Ogata touched his pocket and lit another cigarette.

"It's troublesome." Kurata also scratched his hair.

These are all habitual actions they make when they feel irritable.

It's really troublesome. It's a different matter if the prisoner is a foreigner, but it's troublesome if he's one of his own.If, as Ogata-sensei said, the shogi players who are targeted are either title holders or people with high media exposure, then there is undoubtedly only one reason why the other party did these pranks──,

When I heard that Taya was bullied by members of the club and forced him to play chess, Zuo said this to me:

"Guang, do you know what is the worst negative psychology in human beings?" 』

"Hmm... Desire, right? I seem to have heard of it somewhere."

『There is also such a saying, but I think it is something else. 』

"what?"

"──It's jealousy.Jealousy is often deeper than desire, stronger than hate than love.Jealousy is the cause of many quarrels and, at times, even the motive force of slander, injury and madness. 』

Zuowei's sacred and powerful voice sounded in my mind again...

People have a lot of expectations for people who inherit traditional culture. They are calmer than ordinary people, more open-minded than ordinary people, have higher moral values ​​than ordinary people, and are expected to become existences beyond ordinary people.

Our lives and personalities are being examined with a magnifying glass.

It's my fourth year as a chess player, this is the feeling I got recently.

Between shogi players and shogi players, caused by jealousy---the ugly fight.

After such an incident spreads, it will definitely be enlarged, distorted, and then become the focus of the media.How much harm will it do to the Chess Academy?No one can tell.

This is one of the reasons why there has been no reporting to the police until now.

"Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee is very cunning, things are not big enough to let him survive to this day. 』Last week, the teacher said this when he was playing at the teacher’s home in Kuwahara.

Whether it is a carp or a car, the victims are only external objects, and they are limited to the level of "prank".but,

Having said that, Mr. Kuwahara, who suffered the most losses, is too open-minded, right? [-], I can even buy a heavy machine!The Sixth Honinbo is different, with a dull sense of money....

"Tsk, it's useless, Shinto! What did you do for jumping off the car so early? If you were seriously injured, you can call the police now." Ogata waved the cigarette in his hand and scolded him.

"Carrying my coffin? I sprained one hand, and the bicycle was completely destroyed. Isn't that enough?" Anyway, Mr. Ogata thinks that the people who died were not those who died under Taya's sect. up.There is no need to explain to Mr. Taya.

"Throne Morishita and Zama Chess Master, I'll contact them later to have a look. Tell them to be careful."

"Morishita-sensei's words should be the wine in his collection, Zama-sensei is a favorite *hinoki fan, right?"

"Remind them to install closed-circuit cameras, it's hard to let go of not catching that dead son of a bitch."

"I agree, I will definitely beat him up when I catch him." Kurata held his fist the size of a steamed bun,

"Hmph, Kurata Tengen really has a big stomach. I want him to live, not die." Ogata crushed the cigarette butt into the ashtray forcefully.

Two people who are ready to go, imagining how to use private behavior.

It's really scary, the person who was caught must die a hundred times, wouldn't it be enough?Guang smiled helplessly, thinking so in his heart.

***

Seeing Ogata-sensei and Kurata-san so angry, I began to feel that I was a little abnormal.

The feeling of almost dying is really horrifying; it is also shocking to see the moment when your beloved mountain bike is hit by a speeding tram and falls to the ground in ruins; it is even more irritating when you find out that the brake line has been cut.

However, in this negative emotion, there is actually a sense of relief and peace lurking.

An incomprehensible sense of settlement...,

For saving a life?

Because it was just the mountain bike that broke?

Because I don't have to worry anymore. Someone is going to hurt my most important thing?

Because what the other party destroyed...wasn't what I always thought it was?

There are various reasons, and the more you think about it, the more difficult it is to clarify.Only that sense of security fell firmly in my heart.

I can finally sleep well,

After the company's shoes were pranked, and the garden of Taya's house was damaged, there was hardly a day of peace of mind.

Just today, I can finally sleep well.

＊The fan Zuowei used to hold was the bat fan (summer fan).The fan shape after unfolding is very similar to the wings of a bat, so it is named after it.Invented in the Heian period, there are a total of five fan bones, and the fan bones can only be seen on the other side of the paper on one side.

＊Hinoki fan (winter fan), this kind of fan is often seen in Taiwan. The biggest difference from the bat fan is that the fan bone and fan surface are integrally formed. (The explanation is very unclear and there is no picture. Sorry... I have no love for Zama-sensei...)