Chapter 22: The Soul of Chess (4)

Because it is a joint effort between the two, and at the same time, Ken Obata himself has a considerable speed of painting, and more importantly, his diligence is over, so after changing the serialized work, in fact, the timing of the start of serialization of his new work is not much different from the previous arrangement of the Dream Eater. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

That is, the original street work was cut in half on time.,So the new work has to keep up with the progress.。

However, it wasn't too difficult to get Ken Obata to explode, and he was often able to produce 25 pages of original manuscripts a week when he was working on Chess Soul "originally", so it wasn't a big problem to prepare 50 pages of original manuscripts before starting a new series of Chess Soul in mid-February.

The fifty pages submitted on time are also the first words of the chess soul.

And the issue when the new work began to be serialized,ME's cover was naturally given to the chess soul.。

The cover depicts Hikaru Shinto's own room, with a chessboard in the middle of the floor, and he sits cross-legged behind the chessboard, holding a sunspot in a standard position with one hand and propping up his elbow on the board, his eyes falling on a book in his hand, with a confused look on his face.

Behind Hikari, he is dressed in a Heian period outfit, with a white costume, a black crown, a folding fan in his hand to block his chin and mouth, and his eyes are fixed on the situation on the chessboard.

ME readers are curious about a new serialization like Chess Soul, from the perspective of comics, some are curious, some are just a look, and some are not interested.

Some people can understand the game of Go, some people don't understand it at all, and some people don't understand it but are interested.

Hidege Kitani, a first-year junior high school student, is interested in Go but doesn't understand the rules and gameplay, in his school, there is actually a Go club, but although he is interested, he has always been worried that the rules of Go are too complicated and did not participate in it, after all, this kind of board game, he has only played Othello and backgammon before, obviously Go cannot be so simple.

Of course, I have to mention the manga when it comes to middle school students.,Muya is a reader of ME.,Now there's a serialization of Go-themed works on it.,He hopes it's a good story.,At the same time, I hope I can get a deeper understanding of Go.。

So he was very interested in the new work, and after the release of the current issue of ME, he bought it in the morning before school and brought the manga to school.

Although it is forbidden for some schools to bring comics into the classroom, it is clear that not all students will abide by this rule, and some students will not only bring comics, but they will also be eager to start reading them during the school day.

For example, this Hidege Kitani.

As a new serialized treatment, Chess Soul not only has the cover of this issue, but also the first place in the ranking of the works on the inner page.

So when he started to look through the official manga page, the first thing he saw was the chess soul.

The story begins in an old storage warehouse.

The sixth-year student of elementary school entered Fuji Guang, and his childhood friend Fujisaki Akira ran to his grandfather's house after school, the reason was that Xiaoguang's classmates lacked pocket money recently, for this, he ran to his grandfather's warehouse, and wanted to find something to sell to the second-hand store to exchange for some pocket money.

Then, after rummaging through it, he came to an old chessboard.

In terms of character, Hikaru Shinto is characterized by dyed yellow hair on his forehead, and the two authors Obata and Hotta use this image description, as well as the "theft" operation for pocket money, to indicate that the protagonist Hikaru Shinto was originally more lively...... Too lively to the point of being naughty.

In fact, he is the kind of student who can get excellent grades in physical education class, and all other courses are on the street.

It was precisely because of his average grades that he was deducted from his pocket money and fell into an economic crisis.

According to the performance of the work, it was a rainy day at this time, and it was hard to find something that looked like it could be worth some money, and Xiaoguang wiped the chessboard.

Then, he saw the blood stains present on the chessboard.

But strangely, his companion Akira Fujisaki said that there was nothing on the board.

Then he heard a call from the ghost...... Fujiwara Sawei, a ghost who possessed a Heian period chess player who was attached to the chessboard and could only be seen by Kohikatsu, appeared......

"Hey, is Abe clear?"

Zuo Wei's character design is very reminiscent of an onmyoji, because he is more like an onmyoji than a chess player, if you put it in a comic.

And in various comics, the image and appearance opportunities of the onmyoji are indeed much more than those of the chess player, especially the onmyoji like Abe Haruaki, so it is not surprising that Kitani has such an idea.

But Zuo Wei is an undoubted chess player.

Then, Xiaoguang fainted because he was possessed by Zuo Wei, and in his coma, Zuo Wei introduced his origin.

Originally, he was a chess player who taught Dajun Go in the Heian period, but he was slandered and framed by his opponent during a game, which led to an imbalance and defeat, and because he was suspected of having a character problem this time, he was kicked out of Miyagi after the game.

Because of his unwillingness and anger, Sawei, who left Miyagi, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water the next day.

But because of his love and pursuit of Go, although Zuo Wei's body has died, his soul remains in the present world and is possessed on a chessboard.

Koko is not the first person he possessed, a hundred years ago he once possessed a child named Torajiro, with the hand of this child continued to play chess, so Torajiro is a superb chess player, and later changed his name to Xiuce, and became the fourteenth Honinbo.

If you have some knowledge of Japanese-Honto Go, you will definitely know the name Honinbo Hidesaku, who was a Go player in the Edo period and is considered the greatest player in the golden age of Japanese-Hon-Go.

Chess Soul's treatment of Xiu Ce may cause dissatisfaction among some people, but for Zuo Wei Comics, this is actually a very good entry point, because it can well explain why Xiu Ce showed amazing Go strength at a very young age, entering the house at the age of seven, and shocking the emperor at the age of twelve, which is very in line with the setting of possession or crossing.

Because it is not Xiuce who plays chess, but Fujiwara Sawei, a thousand-year-old chess ghost.

But it's a pity that Kitani Hidege is obviously a layman, and he doesn't know much about the history of Go, and he doesn't know who Beninbo Hidege is, so he only looks at this paragraph as telling the sad history of Sawei's past.

But it's a pity that the naughty elementary school student Hikaru Shinto is obviously different from the previous Torajiro, and his kind of personality is a bit out of line with Go no matter what.