Chapter 10

Slap!

Slap!

Slap!

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As Chen Anya and Ichirou Shimasuke exchanged moves, the game had already reached the middle stage, and the situation was becoming increasingly complex.

This complex situation was not only beyond the understanding of the Go club members watching the game, but even Miki Sugi, who was participating in this match, gradually found it difficult to follow the game.

Even Ichirou Shimasuke himself began to lose track of the game.

This was extremely fatal for one of the players in the match.

Because, not being able to understand the game meant that the game was already beginning to slip out of his control.

Ichirou Shimasuke was very clear that once the game completely slipped out of his control, he was very likely to lose.

This was something Ichirou Shimasuke could not tolerate.

Finally, Ichirou Shimasuke entered the first long think of this game.

A long think in Go is a prolonged period of thought about the next move.

Ichirou Shimasuke wanted to use the long think to calm his agitated mind and to see the game clearly.

As Ichirou Shimasuke entered the long think, the people watching the game on the side could clearly feel the atmosphere becoming heavy.

Although they could not understand the game, they could see that Ichirou Shimasuke had entered a long think.

At the same time, they also understood that the long think meant that Ichirou Shimasuke was in a difficult situation and had to think long and hard to find a way out.

Thinking about this, they all turned their eyes to Chen Anya, the young boy about the same age as Ichirou Shimasuke, their faces showing shock.

Although Ichirou Shimasuke's personality was not likable, his Go skills were recognized as the absolute best in the entire Go club, and no one could challenge him.

Some people had even heard the Go club's instructor, Sakamoto Kei, say in person that Ichirou Shimasuke's skills were close to professional level.

Such skills, even in the talent-rich Go Institute of the island nation, could make him stand out.

And Chen Anya was able to put Ichirou Shimasuke in a difficult situation.

Then, Chen Anya's skills...

Thinking about this, their hearts could not calm down for a long time.

They never expected that in the private Kaiou Elementary School, there was such a person who could put Ichirou Shimasuke in a difficult situation.

Moreover, they were all curious about Chen Anya's identity and were secretly speculating in their hearts.

"Who is he?"

"He looks about my age, I wonder how old he really is..."

"At this age, to have such skills, he must be from a Go family like Ichirou..."

"Is he the descendant or disciple of a famous Go player today?"

"Could he be the son of the legendary Go player, Hikaru no Go?"

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Chen Anya did not know the shock he had caused.

Because now, Chen Anya was completely focused on the game in front of him.

He knew himself best.

Chen Anya knew that the reason he could bring the game to this point and put Ichirou Shimasuke in a difficult situation was not because of his strong skills, but because there was a voice in his mind teaching him how to play.

Not only that, Chen Anya felt that when the voice in his mind sounded, some information seemed to remain in his mind.

This information was vague and indistinct, and Chen Anya could only touch the tip of the iceberg now.

This tip of the iceberg seemed to give Chen Anya a glimpse of the great principles of Go, as if explaining to him why the stones should be placed there.

Perhaps, this information left in his mind was the purest principles of Go.

It was not clear whether it was due to the influence of these principles or the play of Chen Anya's imagination.

In Chen Anya's eyes, the game in front of him seemed to transform into an infinite universe.

The black and white stones on the board seemed to turn into vast stars.

Among them, the white stones turned into white stars, like suns, occupying the territory and standing firm, radiating intense light.

The black stones turned into planets.

Although they orbited around the suns, their trajectories were unpredictable, like the horns of a gazelle.

Although they did not emit light themselves, they continuously stole the light from the suns.

This situation seemed to be trying to devour all the light from the suns, plunging them into complete darkness.

At the same time, this strange and magnificent cosmic spectacle involuntarily attracted Chen Anya, drawing his mind into it, unwilling to miss any detail.

Miki Sugi, like Chen Anya, saw a spectacle that ordinary people could not see.

But unlike Chen Anya, in Miki Sugi's eyes, Ichirou Shimasuke's white stones seemed to turn into white land on the board.

And Chen Anya's black stones turned into the natural world growing on the land, relying on the white land but greedily drawing nutrients from it.

In another world, Go Saint Sugi Soji sat straight before the board, like a green pine, waiting for Ichirou Shimasuke's long think while also observing the game, studying the principles of Go within it.

These principles, although shown by Sugi Soji, were different.

Because the opening of this game was played by Chen Anya.

Although Chen Anya was a beginner, his seemingly chaotic and disorderly opening, like a cosmic river, touched Sugi Soji, as if he saw a vague but grand path of Go principles.

After taking over the game, Sugi Soji desperately tried to approach and touch this vague but grand path of Go principles.

But Sugi Soji never succeeded.

However, in the process, Sugi Soji was influenced by the unattainable path of Go principles, and his own principles gradually aligned with it, gradually changing.

In Sugi Soji's eyes, these changing principles seemed to materialize, like the flow of cosmic rivers or the growth of the natural world.

Gradually, Sugi Soji also immersed himself in these changing principles, and his Go skills, which had already reached a bottleneck, showed signs of loosening.

It could be said that this game had a significant impact on Sugi Soji as well.

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Time continued to pass, and the match between Chen Anya and Ichirou Shimasuke continued.

However, the current situation was completely different from the opening of the game.

At the beginning of the game, Ichirou Shimasuke's white stones were like a fierce beast out of the cage, driven by hunger after many days, constantly attacking and continuously devouring the black stones and black territory.

But as the game progressed, the fierce beast out of the cage had turned into a sick beast with a bad stomach, no longer fierce, and could only be led by the black stones or be passively defending in a corner, resisting the invasion of the black stones.

Unconsciously, the game entered the endgame.

Chen Anya held a black stone in his hand and placed it on the central star position of the board, the celestial point, as the final move.

Slap!

After the sound of the stone falling, a voice filled with loneliness and unwillingness echoed, "I... lost..."

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