After twelve o'clock.

Songning Tingzi, as in the past, conducted a round of investigation of Taohuazhai after the lights went out.

Today, everyone is there, and no one suddenly disappears from the dormitory.

It was a quiet and peaceful night, as if it was all over.

In the past, when she found that a student was gone, she knew that it was that person who ran out to play chess again, and then Song Ning would sigh helplessly, and then change into normal travel clothes and go to those places where he might haunt to find him.

He was born with the ability to sense Song Ning's approach, and once he sensed her approaching, he would run away, regardless of whether he finished his game.

He would run back here, taking advantage of the time difference between Songning going out and not returning, and hurried back to his room to sleep.

This is the relationship between him and Songning, very delicate.

After checking around, Songning passed by the entrance to the atrium, and she suddenly stopped for a moment, looking sideways at the peach tree in the center of the courtyard.

She looked down and sighed, as if she had the courage to move forward.

Pushing open the door of the floor-to-ceiling window, I came to the atrium, where the clogs rustled on the gravel path.

"Student Ke, it's so late, are you planning to stay here for the night?" Songning Ting came to the peach blossom tree, and the dark clouds retreated at the right time, allowing the bright moonlight to pour here.

She had already had a premonition that Ke Zhiguang would choose a time to come with a sword, as if Yasuhiro Yamaoka was extremely sure that he would come today.

Like a curtain of darkness rising, a blue feather weave appeared in her field of vision.

Ke Zhiguang was lying on a peach tree, carrying a folding fan, humming an unknown tune.

Seeing that Songning Ting was coming, he also landed naturally, and Haori flew romantically.

This is the clothes he took the time to go to Shang Xixing people today to get, and it is indeed the spirit of a martial artist.

Tonight's skin is the Shinsengumi, a super-popular organization that once stood on the opposite side of the historical trend more than a hundred years ago, but its romance and tragedy have made countless later people excited.

The essence of romanticism is nostalgia and turning back on history.

"Sure enough, strange things don't appear until after 12 o'clock, and if I had known, I should have rested a little more." Ke Zhiguang looked at the other party and said, not showing too much hostility, he knew that today's enemy was not a bad person, just need to give it a ride gently.

"Is this solemn dress intended to purge me as the one who fell at the end of the Edo period?" Shoning said that he didn't mess up in the face of the katana-like folding fan at all, and didn't care how the other party sneaked here.

"Of course not, I ..... It's here to kill ghosts, or rather, to exorcise ghosts. Ke Zhiguang said, "Your brother, Shanmu Dingjiu, it's time to hit the road." ”

"Looks like you've already done all your research."

"It's not difficult to check, go to the chess academy and flip through the roster, you can know that he used to be the same as you, and his surname was Songning, and the really difficult thing to check was the "Daily Practice" at the door." Ke Zhiguang said, "You once told me that those questions were the daily game practice scores of the students, but I later found the same chess game in the past games of Sugi Dingjiu. ”

"It's too close." A wry smile appeared in Song Ning's mouth, "That man's chess game, is it really worth reading like this?" ”

"Of course it's worth it, it's like evaluating a director, you can't separate his work from his people, and to evaluate a chess player, of course, you have to know his chess..... I also forgot which celebrity said it, Go, 7 points for competition, 3 points for art, of course, the game is equivalent to the work to some extent. ”

He continued: "Did you put those games on the announcement to help him settle some regrets? ”

Song Ning did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Then what do you know about him after watching his chess?" ”

He ...... is a very kind and gentle person, very tenacious, maybe a little imagination, maybe a little strength, but you can see his dedication to winning and losing. ”

"That's right...... That's a pretty accurate description. Shoning Tingzi's eyebrows lowered, "But I will add one more word, clumsy, clumsy to the point of challenging Harushima over and over again, wanting to bloom cherry blossoms under the peach blossoms." ”

"Did he sow the seeds of these cherry blossom trees?"

"Yes, it stands to reason that these seeds will rot quickly, but he sowed them more than ten years ago, and they are still here more than ten years later, as if they were blessed by magic, as if they could really bloom one day." Matsunei Tingzi looked around and said, as if she was already in the rain of cherry blossoms.

"The biggest regret in his life is that he couldn't win against Harushima Isshin?"

"No, I didn't get the last game of my life with him before I died....... So Mr. Ghost Slayer, are you willing to replace Haruma Isshin and accompany him to finish this half-life chess game? Songning Tingzi smoothed the folds of his hind legs, sat on a stone bench under the peach blossom tree, and stretched out his slim jade fingers, as if playing chess.

"Of course, that's what I'm here for." Ke Zhiguang also sat across from her, and also made a gesture to hold chess.

Invisible chess pieces fall on the lines of the halo, and the peach blossoms seem to begin to glow with life.

The four corners of the small order, the star position, the small order, and the small order are staggered on the chessboard of the spectrum, like the combination of the Middle and the Japanese Go on the same chessboard.

Worry-free corner, big flying corner, small tip, five or six flying attack, two different fields of nouns blended.

Time goes back and forth, Ke Zhiguang can suddenly see the past, a long time ago, there were two men sitting here in the game, one unruly, the other obedient, showing a smile like a friend of life and death between each other.

Behind Song Ning Tingzi, there seems to be a pair of warm and kind hands, guiding her to fall into the house.

The night suddenly became cheerful, like Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro", the place where the wind blew was full of life, and the music in the background seemed to change to the rhyme of Hisaishi.

The unthinkable finally happened, the peach tree sprouted, grown, glowed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and flourished along with the surrounding grass, and the cheerful notes flowed through the dining room, in front of the steps, and on the desk.

There was silence in the Peach Blossom Restaurant, everyone was asleep, no one noticed the glowing wonder outside the window, and certainly no one heard these wonderful sounds.

With the fall of the chess pieces, the peach blossoms also flew into the exquisite game, shattering into a cluster of brilliant and moving pink on the chessboard.

When a peach blossom touches the seed of the cherry blossom, the cherry blossom also ushers in a throbbing growth.

Finally, cherry blossoms bloom under the peach blossom tree, and the entire chessboard is in the pink trend.

The last chess piece fell, cutting off the last cherry blossom and peach, and the person behind Songning Tingzi also turned away with a smile.

"That's it." Ke Zhiguang put the folding fan in his hand.

"yes, it's over." Song Ning Tingzi sighed at the light and shadow that gradually dissipated.