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At seven o'clock in the evening, according to the agreed time, I came to the gate of Taya's house.

In the past month, as long as there is no work in the place and no chess instruction, I have reported to his house almost every day.Even if there is work in the place and people can't get there, the phone will come.Sometimes I say I want to play chess, and sometimes I say I want to review.So far, only these two reasons have allowed me to pass without hindrance, and it's great that Taya is a Go idiot.

But today is different.A "passport" must also be attached.

Pushing open the door and walking in, pressing the electric bell next to the sliding door, just as Hikaru wanted to shout out "Taya, it's me!" as usual, the door opened with a rattle.

"Oh, so fast?" Hikari cracked his mouth and smiled.

He opened the door to the size that his arms could pass through, and through the crack of the door, Ryo's narrowed eyes stared at the bright face with his hair tied behind him. Actions.

What are you doing?Think I'll force my way?Am I so savage!Tsk.

Guang looked unhappy, and pulled out a piece of paper from his side backpack, which was a copy of an X-ray film.

"Take it. This way I can go in, right?"

Taking the paper in Guang's hand, Liang stood in the entrance and looked at it, while Guang pushed open the door and walked in.

"excuse me."

"What did the doctor say?" Following behind Light, Liang closed the door and walked into the house.

"It's just a sprain. It's not broken or cracked. A sprain of this degree can be seen just by looking at it. There is no need to take X-rays at all. In order to give you an explanation, I begged the doctor for a long time before he let me take one."

What do you mean don't come into my house without an X-ray?I won't simply not come, will I?

I have already crashed my car, but now I am not worried about being light!

"You wouldn't even want to go to the doctor if I didn't say that, would you?"

"..." Can't deny it.

Taya was right.

It's just a sprained ligament, nothing to make a fuss about.

According to past experience, after applying ice packs within [-] hours, heat packs should be applied to fix the joints to avoid irritation, and the joints will heal naturally after a few weeks.I really don't want to see a doctor if possible.

According to the family motto of the Shindo family, if you have a problem with your muscles and bones, you should go to a Chinese medicine doctor. I was raised in this way, and of course I also went to a Chinese medicine clinic this time.Acupuncture and electrotherapy are not the problem, the problem is the ointment on the affected area.The pungent herbal smell and what looked like some kind of vomit was sticking to my hands.

Alas~, it may be more pleasant to die.

“And it’s more reassuring to take a photo.

Mr. Ashihara said that your whole hand was swollen and you went to play. What if it was a fracture? "

"A broken bone is hundreds of times more painful than this one. Tsk, so it's Brother Ashihara."

This talkative Bao asked about the seniors.

I'm still wondering when Taya became so powerful.

When leaving the chess academy, he called Taya and planned to cancel his agreement to play chess tonight.Who knew that this guy would hammer me a nail before he spoke.

Finally, Hikari's no-matter attitude pissed Ryo off.Like a thunderstorm in spring, it pierced the sky, and there was a loud bang──,

"Shindo Hikari!! You are lucky that you don't have a broken bone!

I've told you many times, don't ride a bike so fast, it's not like exercising your muscles!

Rolled over a rock and nearly fell into a level crossing?I really want to run to the scene and clap my hands! "

"Speaking like this...you are very cruel!" Guang shrank his body and covered his right ear.

"Hmph, it's not as fierce as your racing!"

Taya was really annoyed.

His speech now is extremely ruthless, and his expression is also extremely terrifying.Back off.

"Okay, I'm sorry, little teacher Taya~. I won't dare next time." Hikari almost knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"I don't need this cheap apology."

Liang turned his head away from the light, and walked towards the living room.

Seeing that Liang was already willing to turn off the ignition and let him go, Guang followed behind and said:

"Hey Taya, I'm hungry. Let's eat first. How about I make a simple omurice?"

Come to Liang's house to play chess, Guang has always regarded cooking as his responsibility.Liang, who has no insistence on food, and uses all his patience on Go, has mediocre cooking skills, which cannot meet the requirements of gourmet Guang.

Under Liang's complaint one day, "You can't do it yourself if you ask for so much", Liang's kitchen became Guang's cooking laboratory, and Liang also became Guang's exclusive food taster as a matter of course.

"Don't bother. I'm doing it."

"ㄟ!?" Hikaru screamed in surprise,

"ㄟ What!? I'm pretty good at Japanese food!" Liang continued to walk towards the kitchen without looking back.

The smell of grilled bamboo fish came from the oven in the kitchen, and two or three types of freshly blanched vegetables were placed on the table.

Ryo standing in front of the counter was carefully cutting tofu.

Looking at Liang's back—a thin ponytail hanging from his slender and straight back, Guang couldn't help being dazed.

Teacher Taya and his wife have not been back for three months, and this seems to be the longest time so far.

In September last year, the teacher signed a one-year contract with the Chinese Chess Academy to participate in chess games as a contracted chess player at the Chinese Chess Academy. He was very active, and Japan often saw related news.

The last time I came back was during Chinese New Year in China, and I came back for ten days.It was around that time that Taya cut her hair for the last time.It's hard to believe, but Taya has never been to a barber shop, and when he grows so big, Aunt Akiko cuts his hair.It has been kept for three months, and the current length is about a little above the shoulder line, which is just the length that can be tied up.

Taya seems to tie up his hair only when he is at home, he said it is more convenient.Taya with her hair tied back can only be seen at such times.Exudes a different temperament than usual.

Looking at Liang Na's nape, which has been hidden under the straight black hair that has hardly been exposed to the sun, and the hair hanging on his cheeks, which rarely reveals his white and delicate ears, Guang feels a little dizzy.

"I cut neatly." Liang, who had been facing away from the light, suddenly said,

"what?"

"Aren't you here to monitor whether I have finished the cut?" Liang turned his face sideways, and his voice became very close.

Light realized that the distance between himself and Liang was only one step away.

"Uh, they're all about the same size, and they're beautifully cut." Guang took a step back without any trace.

Strange, did I just walk?Why are you so close to Taya all of a sudden?Are your feet moving without realizing it?

I was still wondering why my eyes suddenly shifted from Taya's back to his profile!Didn't even notice it at all?I'm screwed, trances have been happening more and more often lately.What the hell did I do?

"Perfunctory." Liang rolled his pitch-black eyeballs and took a glance.

"ㄟ?"

"Compared to the ones you cut before, the ones I cut are just neat and not beautiful at all. The corners are a bit crumbled, and there is no way to make each piece look square. I know it myself."

Ah, here it goes again, this perfectionist personality.Taya is strict with others, and even stricter with herself.

Basically, the only thing that can interest Taya is Go, but once he gets serious and plans to do something that has nothing to do with Go, this bad habit of nitpicking will appear.

Taya is smart, but also surprisingly clumsy.

Because of his cleverness, his mind can quickly figure out the most ideal state of all things and understand what is the most correct step.

Because of clumsiness, the nerves of the limbs that lack exercise often cannot make the absolute orders issued by the brain.Thinking about one thing and doing another, when the result is not what he expected, he will lose his temper with himself like now.

Hey, how can there be such a righteous person?

Thinking about it, Guang couldn't help but smile slightly.

"What are you laughing at?" Liang scooped up the cut tofu with a knife and slowly put it into the boiling miso soup.

Hikari said while paying attention to Ryo's movements:

"It's nothing. I said Taya, have you really never been to a barber shop? You haven't had a haircut for three months, but the ends of your hair are still abnormally neat? Have you never had a trim?"

Wouldn't it be the same as Taya's meticulous personality, and the growth rate of each hair is so consistent?

This is too amazing.

"I don't like people touching my hair." Turn on the faucet and wash the last shallots, and put them on the cutting board.

"That's right. That's why I've never been to a hairdresser."

People who don't like being touched on the nose, people who don't like being touched on the forehead, there are quite a lot of people who have this kind of persistence.It turns out that Taya is hair, I found out today.

ㄟ?But..., I seem to have touched his hair, when... um..., I can't think of it, I just can't think of it.

Hikaru, who was concentrating on thinking about it, saw Ryo's movement of cutting the onion, and laughed out loud "Puchi".

Liangzheng held a kitchen knife in his right hand and pressed the onion branch with his left hand. Using the tips of his four fingers as a measure, he tried his best to cut the onion into exactly the same length.

"What's so funny!? Who said my onions are so different in length!!"

"Fuhu...hehe...I said...hehehe..." Guang held up his right hand that was so soft from laughing, and tried his best to suppress the laughter in his stomach.

"Then why are you laughing!!"

"Hey, sorry! Sorry!"

It's weird, but Taya who is so dedicated to fighting with a green onion... I always think it's cute.

"Your apology is really cheap. No pride?"

Liang muttered to himself, threw the chopped green onions into the pot, turned off the gas, and the cooking time was over.

After eating and playing a few games of chess, it was eleven o'clock, and Hikari left Taya's house early, took the tram back to the apartment.

***

Today is the night of the new moon, and the faint moonlight makes the night even darker because the sky is covered with dark clouds.

After taking a shower, he changed into his sports clothes, threw himself back on the bed, and looked at the ceiling.

Taya's courtyard has already been planted with new flowers and plants, and it should be restored to its previous appearance in a few months, so Aunt Akiko can rest assured.Taya said that when his mother found out, she was quite sad, after all, she spent so much effort on cultivating...

As for the pine tree, I also asked the green fingers to look at it, and took some precautions to prevent the erosion of insects and ants. As long as the bark did not suffer from any disease before the bark grew, it should recover.Not even the tree is spared, it's too much...

According to Taya, the courtyard was designed and arranged by his grandfather himself. It is the pride of Teacher Taya, so it is also his pride.That guy is really very Electra, the longer we know each other, the more I feel so...

Just thinking about some things that are not there, the consciousness gradually drifts away until he sinks into a dream.

A dream where you can't see your fingers.

Suddenly, my index and middle fingers felt chess pieces, and my vision slowly returned to my body. I found myself sitting in front of the chessboard, playing a game.And now it's my turn to settle.

The one sitting on the other side of the chessboard should be Taya, right?Only Taya Ryo can play this kind of chess.Rigorous and full of offensive layout.

Chess comes here, how should I execute the next step?

Holding the bat fan in my left hand, I knocked on my thigh, and I thought, this is it!

Very satisfied, I am waiting for Taya's response.

However, it was too late to wait for the next move.

Looking up, Taya was no longer on the opposite side.Not in the position he's always been in.

"Taya! You want to escape!"

The chessboard disappeared, the chess pieces disappeared, and the surroundings became dark again.

"Taya!"

I became a little anxious, a little overwhelmed,

Because such a picture has appeared before, in the real world.

I knew very well that I was dreaming, a dream that I never wanted it to come true.

But I can't wake up, the dream is not over yet, I can't wake up.

"Taya!"

A door appeared, a very familiar door, which was the door leading to Taya's room.

Finally found it.Is he in there?

open the door,

Bloody floors, bloody quilts,

Lying on it is-

Bloody Taya.

bloody pajamas,

bloody face,

bloody hair,

Blood flowed continuously from the cut neck, and flowed to my feet...

nightmare.

Unforgivable... nightmare.

"Bastard------!!!!"

Exhausting all his strength and roaring loudly, Guang, sweating all over his body, finally woke up from his dream.

He reached out and grabbed the pillow on the bed, and threw it hard at the switch on the wall, and the room became brightly lit.

Holding the front hair with both hands and resting on the top of the head, with his mouth open, he breathed heavily, as if he wanted to suck all the air into his chest cavity, suppressing the fear that kept pouring out of his heart.

Exposure...the important stuff...

Teacher Taya...the garden...

The thoughts in my heart made me have nightmares,

The unprepared sense of loss crawled back into my head like a rewind.

The person who disappeared, Taya covered in blood.

Throwing off the quilt on her body, she just picked up the mobile phone next to the TV.

Select the first group of numbers in the call history and press the call button.Sitting on the ground, Hikari tapped the glass table with his left hand, which was his habitual action when he was impatient.

『The number you dialed is not on the hook, please try again later. 』The mechanical answer came with cold words.

Taya──!

After cutting off the phone, Guang dialed again, and his breathing...began to rush again.

『The number you dialed is not on the hook, please try again later. 』

"Horse---!!"

Rudely picked up the dark green coat hanging on the hanger, put it on casually, dragged the side backpack and put on the cloth shoes, Hikaru hurriedly set off for Taya's house.

I made several phone calls on the way, but the phone still didn't hang up.

The ominous premonition gradually expanded in my heart...

I sincerely pray that the uneasiness right now is just me thinking too much and it's just a meaningless dream.

On the way to Taya's house, I prayed like this.