Full-time cartoonist - #43 - Chapter 43 The difficulty of becoming a professional chess player

“The Soul of the Chess” is a juvenile comic. Is this a comic serialized by my brother?

Higashino Mei looked at Fujiwara Sawei, feeling very curious.

She opened the comic and listened to the explanation of her good sisters while reading.

“The one who is as beautiful as a girl is Ryo Taya. Ever since he lost to Shindo Hikaru, he has always been grudged against him. Moreover, he has developed a bond with his peers who have defeated him as rivals. He yearns for attachment. In the body of Shindo Hikaru, Fujiwara Sawei’s chess skills.”

Higashino Mei gradually understood the cause and effect.

He looked at Shindo Hikaru. After visiting the Go tournament, he felt envious because there were children younger than him who were playing chess seriously.

This made Ta Yaliang very curious. How does the Go genius in front of him view Go?

In the cartoon, the clouds are overcast and it’s about to rain heavily.

“Are you planning to become a professional chess player?” Tayali asked.

Shindo Hikari had never thought about this. He only started to know Go when he accompanied Fujiwara Sawei.

“how about you?”

Faced with Shindo Hikari’s rhetorical question, Tayashi nodded very seriously, “Yes.”

Seeing his determined look, Shindo Hikari was stunned.

I was just having fun and had never considered such a serious matter in the future.

Ta Yaliang is so mature and has clear goals.

Shindo Hikaru was speechless for a moment, and then asked about the shogi player’s income.

Seeing Taya Ryo’s reply, Higashino Mei yelled “Hey!” She didn’t expect that Go players could make so much money.

Basic salary and other benefits are not taken into account.

Counting only the title match, winning the celebrity match is 36 million yen, and the chess holy war is 42 million yen.

There are a total of eight title battles, and the total winning amount is 180 million yen.

It was simply ridiculously high. After Hibiki Higashino learned about these trends, he realized that one of the reasons for the decline of Japanese Go in the later world was also related to the huge amount of money in domestic competitions.

As long as you compete domestically, you will have enough food and clothing, and there is no need to compete with China and South Korea.

Knowing that the amount was so large, Shindo Hikaru burst into laughter, and he was joking with Fujiwara Sawei in his heart.

“Zuowei, with your strength, it will be easy to win the celebrity battle, right?”

Zuo Wei was speechless: “You actually play chess just to make money…”

Shindo Hikaru: “I was just thinking about it.”

His words were heard by Ta Yaliang, who asked curiously: “Just thinking about it?”

“Well,” Shindo Hikaru said sheepishly, “I just want to be a professional chess player, and it would be nice to get one or two titles casually.”

Ta Yaliang suspected that he heard wrongly, “Just want to be a professional chess player? And then get one or two titles?”

“Are you kidding! What you said is simply insulting professional chess players!”

Ta Yaliang roared at the top of his lungs, anger radiating from his brows.

“Uh, I…” Shinto Hikaru took two steps back, not understanding why Tayashi was so angry.

Taiya Ryo regards Go as his own life. The players he knows, as well as himself, who is called a genius, are all pure and want to achieve the state of “God’s Hand”.

Because of his love for Go, he was extremely angry.

“You don’t deserve to be a chess player at all!”

“As a chess player! How can you say such vulgar words!”

There was lightning and thunder in the sky, and heavy rain poured down.

Ta Yaliang’s words, accompanied by the rain, were particularly shocking.

“Just want to be a professional chess player? Do you know how high the peak of chess players is?”

“After patience, hard work, hardship, hard work, even after overcoming the pain of despair, some people still cannot reach that height!”

“I keep seeing such chess players around my father, but not you!”

Shindo Hikaru looked at him blankly.

Ta Yaliang continued to confess, “I have been struggling with this kind of consciousness. I have been like this since I was a child. I play chess for countless hours every day. No matter how hard it is, I persevere.”

Despite the rain falling on his body, Ta Yaliang gritted his teeth and felt extremely unwilling.

“Why would I lose to this kind of person?”

Higashino Mei felt that she had been educated a lot.

She slacked off during the voice actor training because she was praised by the teacher.

Ryo Taya in the comics, his purity and determination moved Mei Higashino.

“Is this what Big Brother thinks? Is this the reason for serialization? I want to learn from him.”

…

In the Go Club, Xiaochun looked at the comics and was stunned.

He felt the same and couldn’t help but shed tears.

Tayaliang said that the person who overcame negative emotions and still failed to become a professional chess player was Koharu.

I love Go and started learning it when I was a child.

I came to a foreign country and spent countless hard years, constantly carrying chess records and playing chess with my peers.

Work hard, work hard, and never slack off.

One stage race, two times, three times…

Being surpassed by the juniors behind him, sadness and unwillingness eroded his heart.

After eight attempts, still no success.

I can only embark on a career away from Go.

Even so, he will participate in the fixed-stage competition every year.

Hold the belief that you must succeed!

“Tori Akino, you painted so well…this little brat!” Wiping away his tears, he began to look forward to this year’s fixed stage competition.

…

“Yoshiharaso”, Hibiki Higashino is entertaining guests.

Sitting at the other end of the Go board is Yamazaki Akira, who was sent by the Go Academy to assist in the serialization of “Go Soul”.

She covered her mouth with a folding fan and looked at the chess game with pride.

The other party is hopeless and there is no room for recovery.

“What? The writer whose comics made me cry has only this level of Go.”

Higashikata lowered his head and looked at the chess game seriously.

Three minutes later, he put down the chess piece dejectedly, “I lost.”

From the beginning to the middle of the game, he was already cornered by the second-level players.

It’s true that there are specialties in the art. As an amateur, I shouldn’t have the idea of ​​winning.

“Teacher Yamazaki, there is such a big gap in our chess skills,” Hibiki complained, “You should be playing instructional chess.”

“Humph, you didn’t pay for it,” Akira Yamazaki gathered the chess pieces. “Just be satisfied that there are professional chess players playing chess with you.”

Higashino Hibiki is reluctant to pay a lot of money to play chess, and the happiest thing is to have sex for free.

I don’t care about the experience anymore.

“Teacher Yamazaki,” Hibiki Higashino said casually, “I heard that in the latest competition, you only defeated an old man and a child, and lost the rest of the competition. Is that true?”

“Eh?” Yamazaki Akira’s hand paused, and he answered after a long while, “It’s all because I played too much chess with you, a rotten chess player!”

“Yeah,” Hibiki nodded, “So you can only bully a kid like me.”

He ignored Yamazaki Akira’s gritted teeth, looked at the time, and took out his cell phone.

Sure enough, not long after, Sasaki made a phone call.

“Tori Akino-sensei, the quick result is third place!”