At 7 p.m., Tokyo is once again full of people, and the streets are bustling with people on weekends.

The cold rain of March hit again, and the pedestrians on the streets held up various umbrellas like flowing rainbows.

After dinner, Xingcai walked down the bustling street with an umbrella, looking at the dazzling shop windows around her, on which her own face was reflected.

Before I knew it, I was on my way to and from work, or to school.

Life is often like this, obviously wanting to take a different path, but in the end it always inexplicably goes back to the old way.

Now that you've come here, I just went to buy a matcha latte that I usually buy.

However, in front of the drink shop

"Yo, what a coincidence, we met here."

A familiar voice came from in front of him.

Under the eaves, Ke Zhiguang was leaning against the door of the beverage shop, squinting at the hot strawberry milk, and deliberately hissing deliciously.

"It's not a coincidence at all, it's obvious that you deliberately waited for me here, pretending to be a coincidence." Star Constellation is unmoved.

"Oh? And what about the evidence? Ke Zhiguang said calmly.

"You didn't have an umbrella, obviously it wasn't raining when you first went out, and you weren't wet, which means you've been here for a long time, and you know that this is a store I often come to, so I have enough reason to suspect that you're here to squat me." Xingcai spoke a little nervously, thinking that she had completed a good wave of reasoning.

A cup of matcha latte started, and she leaned aside and muttered.

It's a pity that it's not the middle of winter, and the warm latte lacks a bit of charm.

"Then senior, what are you looking for me, today you and Harushima-senpai have been on the phone all day, and you can't wait to chat with another girl at night?" Xingcai's eyes picked, revealing a "staring" look.

Indeed, as she said, the phone call this morning was inexplicably made for a day.

But this is also a common thing, and I chatted all day for some reason, and when I recalled it carefully, it didn't seem to talk about anything.

But I had lunch anyway, and I was next to the landline, holding the earpiece while picking up the rice.

After a full day of testing, this handsome talent is indeed quite useful, maybe next time she can trick Harushima Deer into cooking, so that she realizes that she has a full level of cooking talent.

Now, it's time to use this with constellation.

Although this ability can only be used on teammates, it ...... It doesn't have a hard and fast rule, you have to be a teammate in this team battle to be considered a teammate.

Broadly speaking, anyone who is considered a friend by oneself can be classified as a teammate.

Just think for yourself.

So now, the command skill is activated.......

"Inoue, you have an enemy you want to defeat, right?" Kezhiguang spoke deeply, as if asking a question to the night sky.

Xingcai's heart quietly moved.

"I can feel your strong obsession in your chess, and if it weren't for a particularly strong vision and a desperate desire to defeat someone, you wouldn't have had such a thorny determination." Ke Zhiguang spoke with a straight gaze.

"So, can you tell me, your desperate opponent...... No matter who it is, whether it's Ling Zun, or Ling Tang, or even your sister..... Even if it's me, I'll help you figure it out. The moment Ke Zhiguang spoke, the sound of rain suddenly became noisy, like the white noise of some films.

The psychological suggestion effect visible to the naked eye directly changes the weather effect.

And the star also reacted.

Her lips seemed to open twice, and then she lowered her eyebrows and said, "The opponent I want to defeat...... It's me. ”

"Can you be specific?" Ke Zhiguang asked, not surprised by this unusual answer.

"Specifically, it's a strange curse that my father put on me." Xingcai said.

"Cursed? So ruthless? Ke Zhiguang was stunned.

Xingcai shook her head: "It can't be said to be a curse, in his opinion, this can even be said to be his kindness, just treat it as a strange spell....... When I say that, do you feel a little detached from the worldview? ”

"Not at all, I'm used to it." Ke Zhiguang nodded indifferently, "It's worthy of a witch family, but there should be this kind of supernatural link." ”

Not...... It's weird to say that.,It's as if the other party's father was also a witch.。

"Our Inoue family, since the Edo period, has been one of the doors of Go, and it is also the only family that has survived to this day, if you have enough experience in your predecessors, you should be able to understand the danger of antiquities, right?"

"I understand, long story short, jump when I need to." Ke Zhiguang nodded.

To be honest, this kind of topic involving secrets should be talked about secretly by two people in a small room, rather than talking like ordinary chatter on this noisy street.

"In general, in the past ten years, our family's fortune has declined, and the business situation is not as good as before, as one of the inherited bloodlines, I am simply an ordinary person, whether it is the ability to communicate with God, or the simple talent of Go, I am not qualified." Xingcai said blandly, occasionally reaching out to catch the rain from the eaves.

"I haven't seen ordinary people who can still achieve success in work, school, and chess." Ke Zhiguang said.

Xingcai shook his head before nodding: "You're right, compared to ordinary people, I am indeed a winner in life, but most of them are the achievements that my family has helped me to achieve...... But my family didn't like me much, especially my father, who didn't like me, a daughter who had no talent for a shrine maiden. ”

"I can understand that a father hates a mediocre son, but he hates a mediocre daughter...... To be honest, it's my first time. ”

Xingcai's eyebrows suddenly raised: "Oh? I know that you have countless ghosts and beasts, and it turns out that your daughter is also within your scope......."

"Stop, I just said a normal phenomenon in the current society, daughters are slaves everywhere, and a good young man like me who respects gender equality has always been treated equally by sons and daughters." Ke Zhiguang spoke with full of justice.

"It turns out that you don't even let go of your son." Xingcai's staring expression deepened a little, and his steps retreated, as if he was distancing himself from his group friends during a group chat, "I seriously doubt that Brother Xun has been ...... by you."

"Okay, crooked or you're in business, I surrender...... Go on, I'm not going to interrupt this time. Ke Zhiguang compared a French military salute.

It is worthy of Xingcai, if it was Qingdao Deer, it would have been choked into the ditch by Ke Zhiguang.

"In such an environment, I naturally receive much less love in the family than my sister, although I have a good relationship with my sister, and some of her sensory connections are with me."

"Sensory connection?" Ke Zhiguang heard the new setting again.

"It's the sharing of the five senses, for example, when I eat something delicious, my sister can eat a similar delicacy, and when I watch a good movie, my sister's visual effects will also be connected, and I can watch it together, and we can also have a direct dialogue between us."

I see, no wonder when she chatted with Xing Marry yesterday, she knew no less about modern culture than an ordinary female high school student.

It turns out that she has always been in this state of integration with Xingcai.

"That'..... Are the two of you still connected? Ke Zhiguang asked, if he was answered "yes", it would be a bit weird.

"No, she hasn't had much time lately...... Sometimes I wonder if it's because of my incompetence that my sister has been working so hard. She muttered under her breath, her slightly gloomy gaze at the neon lights in the rain.

"And then you're on a rebellious journey away from home?" Ke Zhiguang asked.

"Yes, it happened to be after the end of the team battle, I had an obvious overwhelming advantage before the game, and I was actually picked up by the former president of Bai Meng's horse in the final heads-up, and then my father was angry again, as the daughter of the Inoue family, I was just an ordinary female high school student, and he angrily kicked me out of the house directly, and asked me to come to Tokyo to develop by myself, at most, he helped me go through the transfer procedures..... After all, it's all thanks to you, senior? "The last senior, Xingcai's voice was unexpectedly sweet.

It was so sweet that it seemed that the next moment he would smile and pull out a bloodstained firewood knife from under his skirt.

"This ...... No, no, no, it's none of my business, it's Bai Meng's power, it's Bai Meng's power. Ke Zhiguang hurriedly shook the pot.

"If it weren't for you, the former president of Bai Meng wouldn't have erupted at the last moment, and you did it yourself to save the huge difference from the deputy general battle all the way to the main general battle?"

"Well, although I may have a pot of 99, then don't Bai Meng have 1?"

The atmosphere under the eaves was as cheerful as a mystery, and it was clear that the two of them were talking about something that made people feel unfortunate, but the rain was ticking into a cheerful note.

Maybe that's the funeral.

Thinking about it this way, Xing was hammered off by Harushima Deer in the women's cup, and this incident may have dealt a big blow to Inoue Shomon, winning two runners-up in a row, who can stand this?

And considering the relationship between Harushima Deer and himself, this ..... Maybe Inoue has already seen himself as a thorn in his side.

No wonder I met each other at Xuanyu's house some time ago and didn't get any good faces.

Although it may not be a good thing for Inoue to win two runners-up in a row, maybe Xingcai is secretly laughing happily and slipping two knees in the living room.

"The topic is back to the original point, the spell that my father applied to me is to monitor me, he can monitor my movements anytime and anywhere, don't look at him who doesn't seem to want me to appear in front of him, there should be a lot less control, and it can also be called to prevent me from meeting bad people, how good?" Rainbow spread her shoulders and mocked nonchalantly.

This is the same as Ke Zhiguang thought.

At that time, the phrase "they are looking at her" burst out from Xingcai, and it really meant this.

"Actually, my father said that he wanted to kick me out of the house, I was quite happy, I wanted to move out for a long time, but who would have thought that he backhanded me and put a monitor on me...... I don't know if he wants me out of his sight or if I can stay in his sight, I don't know, I really don't know. Xingcai muttered.

This touches on the blind spot of Kezhiguang's knowledge.

"Then you say that the opponent you want to defeat is yourself, how do you interpret this sentence?" Ke Zhiguang asked.

"This is the method of breaking this spell, and it requires me to defeat myself in my perfect state." Xingcai said.

Ke Zhiguang was stunned.

There is almost no solution.

If you're playing against someone else, at least you can catch up slowly.

But this opponent has been replaced by himself, or himself in a perfect state, is there a new buff that can surpass the perfect self?

It's like a strong man can't lift himself.

"Well, doesn't it sound hopeless? It's stupid that I think of challenging my perfect self as an opponent, right? Xingcai said.

Actually, it's quite remarkable, if Ke Zhiguang encounters this kind of problem, his first reaction is that the question is wrong, and he starts to look for loopholes in the question.

The second reaction is to pick out the words, looking for a way beyond perfection, and it is not until the third reaction that you decide to go into battle yourself and crash into this insurmountable wall with all your might.

"Then does this have anything to do with my second son?" Ke Zhiguang asked.

"Actually, there is no hard relationship, the main thing is that if I can't even pass the second son level of your predecessor, I will definitely not be able to win against myself in a perfect state...... If I win, I'll go and officially challenge this lock. ”

"How to challenge?"

"The person who controls this lock is my mother, because of the dragon throne battle, he will accompany my father on the ship, she is there in the port now, if it is usual, I may not have time to look for her, but now that she is in Tokyo, this is my best chance." Xingcai said.

Hearing this, Ke Zhiguang glanced to the east from afar, the direction where the cruise ship was at the moment.

The threads of fate eventually pointed to that ship.

Although Ke Zhiguang came to Xingcai with the idea of pulling stars to marry into the team, when I heard this story, I felt that the significance of Xingcai's side even went beyond the chess battle itself.

After the story was told, the two of them quietly quieted down in unison, looking at the rain scene and Mimi drinks.

Xingcai's matcha latte was drunk, and the sound of air movement was sucked out of the tube, but he was too lazy to throw it away, and Ke Zhiguang calmly bought another glass of strawberry milk here.

The strawberry milk is so delicious, and the hot chocolate can go away with peace of mind.

After a long silence, Ke Zhiguang continued: "If I'm not mistaken, you seem to have an interview, saying that you have no resistance to cute things, and what do you want a young brother? ”

"Well, when I was interviewed, my sister was connecting with my senses, and she said that it would be nice if you were a boy, so I took the opportunity to say that I wanted a younger brother." Xingcai naturally replied, "Yes, if I were a boy, I would probably be much better off than I am now, whether it is strong or courageous, maybe even my grandparents who don't like girls will like me a little." ”

But she quickly changed her words, and coughed with a red face: "But one thing to say, Smoke is really good, and after I was attacked by you with a combination of Zhengtai Cat for the first time I met you, I also began to understand that this aspect is good." ”

"Well, okay, I guarantee that the next time you meet him, he has lost the purity he had when he first saw you."

"Hara, so you really want to do this?" Xingcai tensed and shrank back smartly.

"Lie to you."

Xingcai choked slightly.

"Okay, this wave was scored by you, senior."

"That'..... One last question, what do you think about your father, Mr. Inoue Shomon, right now? Ke Zhiguang asked, and the sound of rain became noisy again.

This is a question that Ke Zhiguang really wants to know.

At this point, the topic no longer has any purpose of using her as a breakthrough, just to understand the other party's thoughts.

The mood has arrived.

Xingcai's iris fluctuated, as if it had been poked in the soft spot of her heart.

"I don't know, I've worked so hard, studied, and learned chess, is it because I've been watched by him all the time, and I want to be recognized by him......." Xingcai's voice was lowered a lot, and the empty drink bottle was crumpled by the force of his fingers.

"I think there should be, if nothing else, at least..... At least after proving to your parents that you are powerful, it is also a kind of pleasure of slapping your face. ”

Of course, this slap in the face is cool on both sides, and the child can prove himself to his parents who have not been very optimistic about him, of course, there is a kind of pleasure of quitting the marriage.

And the parents are not to mention, the children have proved themselves, and the face matter is forgotten.

"yes, there should be an idea for that...... But ah, but, I want to ..... A punch to him in the face! ”

With this sonorous declaration, Xingcai used all her strength to throw the crumpled drinking bottle into the rain.

But alas, it didn't hit the trash can, but was bounced aside.

However, her move did not end.

"Senior, please let me ..... Join your team, I want to play against Daddy on the board of the big event in the Dragon Throne Battle, and beat him, please! ”

She suddenly bowed ninety degrees to Kezhiguang, her hands folded tightly between her legs.

This...... Kezhiguang was shocked.

An unexpected unfolding appeared.

It may be that this psychological suggestion is so efficient that the other person's actions may be a bit high-end.

Although it is top-notch, it also feels quite sincere.

Especially this father, suddenly changed from father to father.

Let Ke Zhiguang think of that conversation with Harushima Deer, and for a moment, her address to Harujima Yixin was changed from dad to dad.

It makes people move for no reason.

In their eyes, the two seemed to be chatting well, but suddenly they smashed the bottle without saying a word, and bowed deeply.

Is this a breakup scene or a confession scene?

Fortunately, it was late enough, and the rain also interfered with the vision, and the onlookers did not recognize Ke Zhiguang for the time being, otherwise this scene could be used as material again.

It's still the material for the emotional weekly next door.

After Starlight cooled down a little, she realized that she had done something too hot-headed.

It's even more humiliating than confessing on the playground.

Although there are a large number of people watching, it is a test of shame, but there is still a certain chance of being accepted if you confess on the playground, and the probability of being accepted when you apply for joining the team here is zero.

In the end, she didn't even pass the other party's second sub level, and according to the division of one grade of chess, the second sub was about 14 grades worse.

"I'm sorry, I was impulsive just now, forget about my ...... just now" Xingcai said with her head down, and under the eyes of the people around her, the shame was a little broken through the lower limit.

"I can't forget such sincere words from the heart." Ke Zhiguang exhaled lightly, calmly walked into the rain curtain, and helped Xingcai re-throw the drink bottle that didn't hit the trash can into the trash just now.

"Huh? So I didn't just throw it in? Xingcai covered her face, and her shame slipped further.

After throwing the bottle, Ko Zhiguang faced the rain, looked at the end of the street, and spoke with his back: "Let's go, let's go to the chess hall." ”

"Go to the chess hall, this is ......" Xingcai didn't react too much to the other party's intentions.

"What you said is that if there is anything you want to say for a chess player, it should be done on the chessboard in the form of hand talks."

A..... Granted my request to join the team...... Is it? Xingcai's eyes widened, and to be honest, she was a little reluctant, hoping to retract what she had just said.

"Not really, but at least I can help you replay the last game you had with me, and I said you were only close to winning..... No, strictly speaking, you've already won, and I'm going to show you what that game looks like right now. ”