In mid-to-late March, the cherry blossom pink tide swept across Japan, and the sapling steps stepped on the cherry blossoms on the stairs to enter the gate of the chess garden.

"The members of the team over there have decided, it's actually this!"

The scouts who arrived hurriedly slapped the newspaper on the table, attracting the attention of the crowd.

By this point in time, almost all the teams have decided on their members, and each team will appear in the industry newspaper.

Just last night, Ke Zhiguang's team was officially announced.

"What? In addition to the lieutenant general limited to female players, there are two other female players? ”

"I guessed early on that this guy wouldn't honestly team up with a group of male chess players, but I didn't expect to find two of them!"

"Damn! actually invited Inoue Xing to marry, and brought his sister with him, this guy is here to provoke, right? Can you play like this with the sister package? ”

"Brothers, the Reopening of the Combat Research Association must be held to death!"

In this regard, Yamaoka only sighed silently: "It's really his style......"

Today's chess academy is still full of vitality, and everyone is competing with their lives in a state of extreme involution.

Starting from the cherry blossoms, a more magnificent banquet kicked off again.

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Ke Zhiguang's team has also begun formal preparation and training, and the location will continue to be in the chess hall they used to frequent, and this will be their training base until the official start of the competition.

Opposite the chessboard in the center of the room, Xing Ran sat upright, her long hair hanging down on the tatami mat.

Harishima sat across from her with her small teeth bared, barking viciously from time to time, as if she was dissatisfied with the encroachment on her territory.

Xing Yao calmly took a sip of tea: "Come on, let's start our training today." ”

"So, that's how you really became our teammate......" Harushima deer beeped with a black face.

Although he promised Ke Zhiguang before and agreed to marry Xing into the team, he ...... But when the other party actually appears in front of me, I always feel so uncomfortable.

"What's the matter, you see, you voted in favor of Xingcai's joining, and it should be easier for me to accept it for me who is higher in chess."

But Xing Yao turned his voice around, leaned on the side of his face like a toothache, blinked his eyes, and said, "Or are you against me joining for some other reason?" Like what..... I threaten your special status? Dragons? ”

The focused eyes of the two began to discharge, with a vicious expression on one side and a dark smile on the other.

On the other side of this game room is the game room of Ke Zhiguang and Bamboo Knife Forging.

Ke Zhiguang faintly felt the harsh sound of electric sparks from the next room, and his aura was particularly powerful, as if the two of them would bump into each other's heads in the next moment, fighting with double dumb hair and double ponytails.

Not...... Sure enough, once girls with similar strength and status get along in the same room, it is easy to fight, like a girls' dormitory.

Let's hope they can compete with each other.

And next door to the room, there is a small stove opened by Shi Quan alone for Xingcai.

Xingcai sat in a restrained posture and watched the amiable young man in front of him slowly sip tea like an old man.

Again, the person is very good, but it's a pity that he is bald.

"Miss Constellation." Shi Quan read lightly.

"Yes!" Xingcai straightened up.

"Ha, don't be so nervous, just relax." Shi Quan smiled and waved his hand, but then he said, "Miss Xingcai, your target is only Ling Zun, Mr. Jiangmen." ”

"Yes, that's what motivates me." Constellation nodded.

"Well, I appreciate the clear idea of beating a specific target more than a specific result, at least in our time...... Without further ado, let's get started. ”

With a deep breath, Shi Quan straightened his back.

Looks, gestures, and an indescribable momentum emanated from him.

A chess piece drips down, and a cosmic sense of vacuum envelops everything.

Everyone entered a state of preoccupied play, and their pupils continued to retract, flowing through the changing charts.

At the same time, in Kojimitsu's room, the small short knife that had been placed on the display case as a trophy lit up with a burst of knife sounds without anyone watching.

[General's Talent] takes effect, and the training efficiency of all teammates increases, but how much it can be increased varies from person to person.

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At night, neon revives and the evening breeze rises in a loud and bustling manner.

Billboards for the Battle of the Dragons are lit up in prominent places on the streets, as if inviting a grand gamble.

Countdown, there is still a month and a half.

After Saito finished today's training, he walked home in the moonlight and the shadows of the city.

A cigar was smoked all the way to the door, and there was still half of it left, but he didn't want to bring these things into the house, so he simply extinguished them nearby, and then blew out the smell of smoke on his body by the way.

Then I entered the house, a high-rise apartment house in the central area of Chiyoda, ordinary and expensive.

"Dad, you're back?" Saito's son stepped forward to say hello.

"Grandpa, welcome home!" A cheerful girl figure rubbed up, with a healthy wheat complexion and an energetic ponytail.

The virtuous daughter-in-law is cooking in the kitchen, and the housekeeping aunt is also with her.

Saito grabbed his hand at his granddaughter's head, looked at her granddaughter's white teeth, and handed the trench coat to his son to hang on a hanger beside him.

If the camera is cut horizontally, Saito has a solemn look on his face before entering the door, smoking a cigar while thinking about the questions he had about the previous chess game.

But after entering the door, the slaughter and compactness were gone, and he walked from one end of the window to the other, with one less trench coat on his body, transitioning layer by layer, unarming one by one, and finally sitting on the sofa in the living room, becoming an ordinary old man enjoying his family.

"It's been a great job, how are you preparing for the competition?" The son asked.

"So-so, take a day off at home today for the time being, and I won't be able to rest for the rest of the year." Saito said as he picked up today's chess newspaper.

Then at a glance, I saw the official announcement information of Ke Zhiguang's lineup.

"Hmph, this kid can always give me some new tricks." Saito couldn't hold back the corners of his mouth and smiled.

"Grandpa, grandpa, brother Ke Zhiguang or you, which one is more powerful?" The granddaughter came up to the side.

"Of course it's grandpa, but when you grow up, you'll be the most powerful." Saito rolled his eyes at her.

After dealing with his granddaughter, he said to his son, "Hey, help me find the scarf your mother knitted for me, and I'm going to take it away." ”

"That scarf is already so torn, do you want to continue to take it out and use it?" The son asked.

"That's a lucky thing your mother left me, no matter how long it takes, if I face a big game, it always has to be by my side."

The son had no choice but to nod his head in agreement, and went to the old storage room to turn out the handmade red scarf that had a history of nearly 40 years.

It was such a thin and light scarf, but it was extremely heavy in his hand, and it reminded him of many things.

When he pulled out his scarf and went to the living room, he found his father looking up at the night sky outside the window.

"Dad, you're looking at the stars again, are you still thinking about the universe you talked about?" The son asked with a smile, he was no longer surprised by this.

"yes, this may be the last time I'll ever see it again, and when I'm done with this dragon throne fight, I'll retire and promise not to worry you anymore." Saito took the scarf and stared back at the red memory.

"Don't say that, if you do, you really won't be able to come back." The son said with a wry smile.

Saito was also stunned, and nodded with a smile: "Also, this kind of thing can't be said casually." ”

The granddaughter tilted her head to the side, not knowing what the two adults were talking about.

While the family was enjoying themselves, the moonlight outside the window began to collapse, and black clouds rolled in.

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In mid-to-late April, the torrential downpour had been going on for several days, and the cherry blossoms were beaten away, leaving only the remnants of the cherry blossoms floating alone above the puddles.

The drastic changes in the climate have already begun, and it stands to reason that this is the time of day, and the rain should be mild.

However, the reality is that it is as if a dragon is drawing the sea from the clouds and dumping 10,000 tons of seawater.

A normal El Niño is either heavy rainfall or drought.

Everything is a mysterious force from the Oriental Pacific.

In the game room, the bamboo knife forging is ready to fight.

Today is the assessment period of Xingcai, and the examiner is naturally responsible for him, and let others take the responsibility, so it is inevitable that there will be suspicion of releasing water.

In order to break the curse that he can't play a woman, he deliberately put a KFC paper bag on his head to block his vision and focus on the chessboard.

There is a saying that putting a KFC paper bag on the head is a bit of an off-the-plate trick, using a funny comedy effect to interfere with the other party's thinking.

However, constellation is not very disturbed.

Lowered his gaze, flattened his breath, and seriously displayed what he had learned and thought over the past month on the chessboard.

That's it, smoothly falling.

The first round is basically over.

Bamboo Dao Forging frowned at the end of the chess game and thought deeply.

Although this game was his victory, the strength shown by the opponent seemed to be ..... Seems to be okay?

Shi Quan asked confidently on the side, "How is it, Mr. Bamboo Knife?" ”

"Unexpectedly, unexpectedly not bad." There was no reason for the bamboo knife forging to criticize, and Xingcai was much more relieved after hearing it.

But soon, Zhu Dao Forging's gaze turned to Shi Quan in astonishment: "How did you teach her during this time?" Got her medicine? ”

Shi Quan waved his hand kindly: "I just did a show of effort, mainly because Miss Xingcai has just broken through the bottleneck recently, and she has a good upward speed." ”

At the same time as the assessment of the bamboo knife forging for Xingcai was carried out, in the next room, Ke Zhiguang was also training against Harushima Deer.

Now that we're a month away from race day, it's time to use up the ×2 on Harushima Deer.

After the calculation, a step of "unreasonable hands" was slapped in his hands!

Syllable!

- Huh?

Qingdao Lu's eyebrows moved, and he always felt as if he had been provoked, so he angrily backhanded the second slap to punish the other party's "unreasonable hand".

Now is the time!

Ke Zhiguang hit back at a faster speed and continued to snap!

So it snapped, and the Harishima deer was snapped off this game.

"Uh, no, no, no, there's a place in this game that I haven't thought about, so this game doesn't count!" Harushima deer immediately rolled the chessboard with her face, and the two ponytails were spinning like helicopters.

The effect of ×2 took effect, and it is expected that his table has been filled with a large number of small chess games at this moment.

However, after the use of this ×2 font, it only fell into a permanent gray color.

And there is no sudden refresh of a new number of points.

Not..... In other words, the points of Harushima deer are displayed as a permanent mystery?

Ke Zhiguang thought for a moment.

I always feel that if there is really a god in an unreachable high place for everyone to set up, then it can't help but love the Qingdao deer too much, the mystery of the lock dragon pillar, and the mystery of points.

The more mysteries there are, the more you can't help but want people to explore.

"What's wrong?" After being stared at by Ke Zhiguang for so long, Harushima Deer retreated with a little red face.

"Uh, it's okay, it's okay, you go on, you go on."

This continuation refers to the fact that you can continue to shake the double ponytail or something, and the visual effect looks weird.

"Keep up the hammer!"

Ke Zhiguang suddenly thought of something and said: "By the way, are you interested in soaking in the cool spring?" ”

"What's that?"

"Forget it, you shouldn't ask that...... Are you interested in vodka? Ke Zhiguang suddenly understood the correct posture of asking questions.

“？” Harushima deer played slowly.

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In early May, on a night of thunder and lightning, the cruise ship restlessly rises and falls with the waves.

A glass of fresh red wine swayed in the light, and the ice cubes in the wine reflected Xuanyu's thoughtful expression.

His opponent in this game is Tatsuki Koshikawa.

At this moment, Koshikawa Ryuji was sitting sideways on the chair, his posture looked strange and chic, and he still had the strength to take two sips of wine.

In terms of training, Tatsumi Koshikawa did not break his promise, and just two months before leaving the competition, he launched a training plan.

During this time, most of his chess was played against Xuan Yuzhi.

For Xuanyu, only after actually fighting will he understand the strength of the man in front of him.

Monster.

This man is a monster in the truest sense of the word.

Sure enough, it was right to get on this ship, and only by being in the company of monsters could you improve your strength.

"Zhishang, you did a good job in this game, but there are still a few problems that need to be pointed out." Koshikawa Ryuji began to seriously review the situation.

After removing those neurotic words, the most simple Go terminology, the most straightforward way of talking about chess, only at this time, Xuan Yu Zhishang will realize the identity of the other party's human being, not a monster returning from the deep sea.

At the end of the review, Koshikawa Ryuji also got up with his muscles and bones, and came to the deck with brisk tapping steps, admiring the terrifying dark night and deep sea.

Xuanyu Zhishang came with ceremonial accompaniment.

This is not Odaiba, and the sea is dotted with shell-like artificial floating islands.

There is only the sea of night in the purest sense here, and in the first few days of boarding the ship, Xuanyu is still interested in looking at the night sea from afar and feeling the excitement of the numbness of the scalp.

But after a long time, only the most primitive creatures are left to fear.

And Koshikawa Ryuji often looks there, and his expression is quite sincere, like a lonely beautiful man who misses his wife from afar.

Especially since tonight is still a thunderstorm night, and the sea is even more restless.

At this moment, the electric light swept through the sky, illuminating the sea in the distance, and also illuminating the shadow of Koshikawa Ryuji dragging on the deck.

One...... Huge monstrous monsters, the only thing clear is the dragon's wings.

Xuan Yuzhi gave a cold war.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Zhishang, forget what you just saw." Koshikawa Ryuji turned around and smiled funny, his slender figure on the deck like a cross.

Strange, conspiratorial, powerful, evil, as well as justice and light, all the contradictory fates unfold in the continuous rain.

Finally, on May 28, everyone gathered under the banner of the Dragon Throne Battle.