Chapter 40: Fathers

"Mr. Luo, why did you come to me, tell me directly."

Mu Guhe, who was over a hundred years old, looked at Luo Yin, who was contemplating on the other side, and shook his head helplessly. This young man is really bad.

"Although Go in Japan is now in decline, the chess academy has not degenerated enough to admit students at your level."

Luo Yin, who was killed by the old man and lost his armor, simply put it up when he heard this, and threw himself in defeat. After taking off his glasses, Kazuzu Kitani saw the true face of this young man. He is really not a chess player, and the posture just now is all pretending.

Before Luo Yin came, it took him half a day to quickly become the foundation of Go, understand the basic rules, and use glass beads to memorize the Go formula plus some classic chess games. He originally thought that this old man was more than 100 years old, maybe he was already semi-senile, but he didn't expect that his chess strength was still amazing.

"I'm here to inquire about a student you've taught, the most honorable of all. Hideo Uesugi is the name. ”

On Wang Jiang's notes, Luo Yin has learned that the three S-level siblings are all test-tube babies. As for their paternal genetic origin, Luo Yin could only get the surname Uesugi.

Tracing back to his roots, he got the name Hideo Uesugi, the last recorded heir of the Uesugi family before Eri appeared. Subsequent records have shown strange disconnects, possibly unexpectedly.

Hideo Uesugi himself has an unknown life and the cause of death is unknown. A more reliable record is that he has won several local Go championships, and is called the "Little Chess Saint" by his fellow chess peers. And his Go teacher is the now gray-haired Kitani He, a ghost who has survived from that era to the present.

"No comment." The old man spread his hands.

Hideo was his most admired student, but he died without dignity because of his own fate. After Hideo's death, he stopped teaching his students and was no longer obsessed with competing for those shiny titles.

He used the money he had saved to build a temple in the mountains, away from the struggles that made him sick, and Kazuya Kitani was a spectator in the war that spread around the world.

Boss Luo, who had recovered his true face, snapped his fingers, and the entourage behind him opened the suitcase on the chessboard.

"Ten million yen, buy a dead man's message. The money can be used to repair the temple and find some young people to take care of it, and those in their 100s should retire obediently. ”

Muya was so angry that his beard stood on end, and he was so depraved that he betrayed his miserable student life to a stranger for a little money.

"Add more money."

The old man just wanted to drive people away, but an old woman grabbed his ear. Sayuri Sakurai is still over 90 years old, but her strength to lift her ears is not small at all.

"You don't want money, aren't they short of Xiaoguang? Do you know how hard it is for young people to work in Tokyo? ”

Sayuri put an old photo album on the table, and the old man who had just been full of momentum coaxed himself in front of his wife.

"Big deal, I sold the chessboard or something......"

Luo Yin flipped through the photo album. Looks like a handsome and modest man.,Uesugi Hideo, who is the head of the three families, doesn't have the temperament of an underworld boss.。

In most of the photos, the man's face is written with indistinct hesitation. The lines of his face are somewhat similar to those of Gen Zhisheng, but they lack that masculinity.

It is only in the photo with Kazuzu Kitani, in front of the chessboard, that Hideo Uesugi shows a confident demeanor. The most eye-catching thing is the photo at the end of the album. The banner reads a Japanese-French Go exchange match, and the man calmly drops a sunspot, his eyes shining with concentration and confidence. The opponent seems to be a mixed-race beauty with very good-looking eyes. She looked a little distressed, peeking at Hideo Uesugi while the man stared only at the chessboard.

"Hideo is a very talented man, he was almost twenty years old when he came into contact with Go, but in a year or two he became a master in the dojo.

I don't know what family he came from, but they were clearly thugs, war fanatics. ”

"Who is this girl?" Luo Yin pointed to the female chess player in the album.

"They are a couple of lovers. But people in the Hideo family disagreed. At that time, Hideo was depressed every day, and I had never seen him drink so much, and he hadn't touched a chess piece for more than a month.

Finally, one day, he said that he was going to elope with the girl surnamed Chen and go to France. He only told me about it, and Hideo said that the only thing he regretted was that he couldn't find someone to play chess with him in France. ”

"And then?"

The old man held out his left hand. Disability of the little finger and ring finger.

"The gangsters pressed me about Hideo's whereabouts and broke my fingers. I still have a scar on my chest. I didn't tell them. ”

Mutani paused.

But Hideo was still captured, and he didn't get to spend his life in a small French town.

That was the last time I saw him and played the last game of chess. It was raining heavily, and we listened to the sound of the rain in the chess room. Hideo won me the first time, but begged me to kill him. ”

"Then Hideo died, I don't know when he died, and I can't mourn my students. No one posted his obituary, and he left no children.

But Hideo once told me that the French woman surnamed Chen, his only true love, was pregnant with his child. He named the boy Uesugi Koshi, and Hideo hoped that his son would not be like him and would be able to climb all the mountains in the world.

That's all the story of my old man, is Mr. Luo still satisfied? ”

Luo Yin nodded and returned the album to the old couple. He closed the box with the money, turned and left.

"Such a touching story, it's too hurtful to talk about money."

Kazuzu Kitani:?

"Just kidding. I don't know what happened to Hideo's son, but his grandchildren are doing well. ”

"Mr. Luo, in fact, you have a lot of talent for Go! Do you want to learn chess? ”

"This chessboard is a little smaller."

Luo Yin stepped out of the temple.

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"If Hideo Uesugi sees this, he can put the chessboard on his head."

Rakuin and Ruri Kazama were eating barbecue at Yui Izakaya, observing the old man on the sofa.

He looks like he is in his fifties, with a headscarf like a ramen chef wrapped around his head, and an old man who still retains three points of handsomeness hugs Yui Sato, the proprietress of this shop. The elderly ramen shop owner and the izakaya proprietress have a second spring, and it sounds like a bloody TV series at eight o'clock.

What kind of strange thing is it that can shrink into a corner of Tokyo and eat rent, eat the tofu of the proprietress in an izakaya, and let all kinds of clowns stir up the wind and rain in Tokyo? S-class bloodline, the son of Hideo Uesugi, the last emperor to be born normally.

"Charter!"

Ruri Kazama inserts the long knife into the table, and the blade buzzes. The guests escape from the izakaya in a sudden burst of terror, and Uesugi Koeshi actually leaves the proprietress Yui behind, but Ruri Kazama has already locked the door.

It's a bit difficult to find Uesugi Koshi, but it's easy. Luo Yin checked the situation of various sites in Tokyo, and the security here is extremely good, and he does not have to pay protection fees every year.

Then searched along the ownership of this land, and found this non-existent emperor by touching the vine. Inuyamaga, who is in charge of this area, probably knows it, but has been helping to hide it.

"Mr. Uesugi Yue, you have two sons and a daughter, would you be interested in hearing from me?"

Rakuin sat leisurely in front of Uesugi and looked at the ramen chef with interest.

"A secret, a message for a person."

Uesugi Koshi, however, clearly didn't keep up with the rhythm here. "Yuyi, Yuyi, are you pregnant? Why didn't you tell me......"

A glass of sake was poured over Uesugi Koshi's head.

"Did you go out and fool around with other women?! Many cranes, rich branches? Chiyoko? ”

Ruri Kazama knocked out the frantic proprietress Yui. This father, maybe he doesn't recognize it.