Full-time cartoonist - #47 - Chapter 47 School starts

A quarter of an hour later, Xiaochun breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. He had not played such a wonderful chess game for a long time.

“I lost.” Dongye Xiang lowered his head, feeling very disappointed.

“That’s great, Brother Higashino,” Xiaochun praised: “At the end of September last year, you were just a beginner at Go, right? Now you have almost reached the level required by the college students.”

Higashino Hibiki was surprised, it was the first time he knew his own strength.

After all, after he had learned Go for a period of time, the people who had played Go had a high level of professional second-level skills and a low level of rookies.

In Xiaochun’s words, the level of karma is much higher than what he thinks.

When people around him heard this, they nodded in appreciation: “As expected of a cartoonist, he is indeed very talented.”

“If you focus on Go,” an old man asked Xiaoharu out of curiosity, “can Mr. Tori Akino become a professional Go player before he is twenty years old?”

Xiaochun pondered, no one understood the gap between amateur and professional better than him. He spent the first half of his life trying to find a way to bridge it, but unfortunately he didn’t have the talent.

“Brother Dongye, how long do you play Go every day?”

“I would have three or four hours a week,” Hibiki Higashino recalled, “occasionally I would read chess records and think about using them in “Soul of the Game”.”

“Such a short time…”

Xiaochun’s pupils were shocked. When he was a child, he spent 10 hours every day playing and studying chess. He couldn’t figure out how the gap between humans and humans could be so big.

“If it’s true, then…” Koharu smiled bitterly, “It’s not impossible to become a Honinbo or a celebrity.”

“real!”

“Amazing!”

“Will we be able to produce a national player?”

Neither the onlookers nor Hibiki Higashino expected that Koharu’s evaluation was so high.

Higashino Hibiki himself suffered a lot at the hands of Yamazaki on weekdays.

Could it be that that guy was envious of his talent? Is that why he is ruthless?

“Thank you,” Hibiki Higashi stood up, “However, I don’t plan to go any further in Go.”

“I have found the path I want to take, and I don’t have time or energy to spend it elsewhere. It’s okay to have fun occasionally. Sorry! I failed everyone’s expectations.”

Two hours later, Hibiki Higashino didn’t lose a single game of chess with the others and went home happily.

Koharu looked at Higashino Hibiki’s leaving figure, a trace of complexity and jealousy flashed in his eyes.

“If only I had his talent.”

When I was concentrating on Go, I was not able to become a professional player. Now I have work to distract myself from, and I am getting older, so it is even more impossible to become a professional player.

The thing he had dreamed of was abandoned.

“Alas.” He sighed.

After patting his cheek and concentrating, he looked at the latest chess records.

…

On April 5th, the cherry blossoms bloomed, full of youth, and it has been four days since students returned to school.

In the school auditorium, the graduation ceremony of the senior high school students was ushered in.

Higashino Hibiki was sitting in Class A of the third-grade art department, waiting for the graduates’ speech.

“Now I would like to invite the graduates to give a speech. Representative of the graduates, Hiroshi Nakai.”

Higashino Hibiki thought it would be Takagi-senpai, after all, she was admitted to Tokyo University.

I didn’t expect Nakai to be better than Takagi.

Higashino Hibiki watched Nakai Hiroshi walk to the microphone with his head held high and looked around the school.

“On this beautiful spring day, we successfully welcomed the graduation ceremony. Three years, in just a blink of an eye, I have benefited a lot.

I will always remember the help from teachers and classmates.

At Yanyan High School, I achieved excellent results, and I also actively carried out club activities and found my inner support.

I established a Go club, and everyone studied Go together, which was the happiest time of my three years in high school. Although the society was almost destroyed. “

The students burst out laughing, and Higashino Hibiki saw that although Nishimura was also smiling, his eyes were full of nostalgia and reluctance.

Nakai looked around and finally focused on Nishimura, “Nishimura-kun, thank you for joining the Go club at the last moment, saving the crumbling club and allowing me to leave with peace of mind. Thank you!”

He bowed 90°.

“Naka…Nakai-senpai…” Nishimura’s tears welled up in his eyes. He couldn’t hold it back any longer, lowered his head and sobbed.

“Leave the Go club to you, Nishimura!”

“Yes!” Nishimura stood up and bowed in response, tears falling to the ground.

“Well, my speech is over, thank you all.”

…

After the graduation ceremony, Nishimura has been very moved. His senior entrusted him with the future of the Go club. This kind of plot seems to be in an anime.

This sense of excitement, the pillar of the community, or indispensable, did not end until school was over in the afternoon.

Nishimura reacted and was very confused. He didn’t know what to do with the Go club. What was Senior Nakai’s request?

Where does he want the Go club to reach? Not to abolish the society? Participate in the competition? Still number one in Tokyo!

“It can’t be the best in Japan!”

He went crazy in front of Hibiki Higashikata, “I’m sorry, I can’t do it, Hibiki!”

“If you can’t do it, then…” Higashikata pursed his lips and stopped.

He looked at Nakai Hiroichi walking over with a heavy face, looking very worried.

So he pushed Nishimura up, who was about to hide behind him, and watched the excitement by himself.

“I’ve thought about it carefully, Nishimura,” Nakai said: “Even if the Go club can be saved for a while, you are all seniors in high school. I’m afraid it will disappear in a year. My requirements were too strict just now. Don’t take it to heart.”

He patted Nishimura on the shoulder and sighed.

Nishimura had a strange expression on his face, “So, Nakai-senpai just hopes that the Go club will not be abolished? Is that all?”

“That’s it?” Nakai was dissatisfied and scolded: “Nishimura, don’t say it so easily. Although there is still another year, Go is just a niche sport! This is in the mood that not a single newcomer has had in this year.”

“Nakai-senpai attended the graduation ceremony, so you haven’t been to the activity room yet.” Nishimura did not defend himself, but took the lead, grabbing Hibiki Hibiki and walking towards the activity room.

Nakai followed behind to see what kind of medicine he was selling in his throat.

Dong Yexiang was speechless, “…Why are you pulling me?”

“Hehe,” Nishimura smiled, “Let you see my scenery.”

When we arrived at the Go activity room, we heard the sound of chess playing.

“Da da da” connected together, very lively.

Nishimura opened the club door, and there were actually 10 tables in the 50-square-meter space inside. More than 20 people were playing chess, and some were watching.

“How about it! See it! My results!”

He said proudly to the stunned Nakai.

“How is it possible? How can there be so many members? Nishimura, how did you do it!”

“Of course it’s my unique charm,” Nishimura put his hands on his hips, “I’m joking, I fell in love with Go because I watched “The Soul of the Game”.”