Hikaru no Go: I taught you Go, and you made the Kisei cry?

Ogata Seiji remained silent.

He felt the same way, and he saw it even more clearly than Akira Touya.

The resilience shown by Black in this game is far greater than what was seen up to move 15.

In this game, Kato-senpai's white pieces were almost godlike.

So, in my opinion, the black piece controlled by the teacher in this game is that human being who dares to draw his sword against the gods and wants to stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods with a mortal body!

These bystanders, though they felt that it was impossible for humans to defeat the gods, still held onto a glimmer of hope, hoping to witness the epic feat of humans slaying gods on the Alps of Go!

The chess pieces keep falling!

Like a torrential downpour, each chess piece was like a large raindrop falling to the ground!

Before the quiet chessboard, Akira Touya and Seiji Ogata dared not breathe, each move of their pieces was thrilling!

"Heizi, are you about to give up?"

Akira Touya's face was covered in sweat, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Although the black pieces' defense was as solid as an impregnable fortress, under the constant attacks of the white pieces, it eventually showed signs of breaking through!

but.

Touya Kouhiro's expression remained unchanged as he calmly placed another black stone.

Hey.

Two columns and nine rows, please!

To Akira Touya and Seiji Ogata, this move was like the imminent fall of a city, with the black pieces letting out a final, unwilling roar!

The two fell silent.

Touya Kouhiro once again manipulated the white pieces to make their moves.

Three columns and eleven rows, continue!

With one move, the white pieces that were originally scattered on both sides instantly linked together.

The two onlookers knew that Bai Zi was going to press on and use his army to crush Hei Zi's city!

"We're going to lose..."

"However... this game was already quite exciting."

"As expected of a teacher!"

Both Akira and Touya had mixed feelings and their own thoughts.

In short, in their view, the outcome of this game was already decided.

Once the white piece connects, its momentum is unstoppable.

but.

Back to the game of chess.

Seeing that the white pieces were about to break through the city, Touya Kouyou's expression remained largely unchanged as he reached into the chess box.

The cold touch of the chess pieces traveled along my fingers, from my fingertips to the depths of my heart.

"So... what's next?"

Touya Kouhiro gazed at the chessboard, his eyes sparkling and shifting.

Did we lose?

Do not!

Based on his own analysis, Black had already won this game!

This is a sure-win situation, so why talk of resigning?

"From this piece, Black launches a counterattack..."

"here we go!"

Kouyou Touya picked up a black stone with his right hand, and then, under the watchful eyes of Akira Touya and Seiji Ogata, he brought his hand down from a great height!

"This is what it means for mortals to dare draw their swords against the gods—"

"Where courage lies!"

Snapped!

Upon hearing the sound of the chess piece being placed on the board, Akira Touya and Seiji Ogata were initially taken aback, but after realizing what was happening, their eyes widened in surprise!

Three columns and seventeen rows!

Rush!

……

Sixty-eight chess players of such extraordinary skill, and there's one more beside me!

"This……"

"This is……!"

Upon seeing this move, Ogata Seiji couldn't help but shrink his pupils slightly, and a look of emotion appeared on his face.

Meanwhile, Akira Touya, standing to the side, couldn't help but lean towards the chessboard, staring at it in utter shock.

This black stone, with a single move, gained the upper hand and fought its way out from the densely packed white stones!

With this move, Black's strategic passes in the center and left flank were miraculously breached!

White's original idea of ​​using its speed advantage to wipe out Black's large group of stones in one fell swoop was also thwarted by this unexpected move!

"Black has successfully maneuvered, and the large group of stones... is alive?"

Ogata Seiji stared in disbelief at the hand strike, muttering incoherently as if he were drunk:

"One move... Black actually turned the tide of the game with just one move, how... how did he do that?"

"An incredible move, truly incredible! If I were playing, this game would have been over twenty moves ago, with White's pressing move..."

"Hikaru Shindo's choice was not wrong. To deal with that pressing move, 'connecting' is the optimal solution for a normal player, but..."

At this point, Ogata Seiji looked at Touya Yukihiro in horror:

"However, when the person handling this chess position changes to the teacher, everything becomes different!"

"The teacher..."

Ogata Seiji swallowed hard, his gaze towards Touya Kouhiro filled with admiration, yet also a hint of unspeakable despair.

"His chess skills have far exceeded the limits that ordinary chess players can imagine... Even in a dead end like this, he can still find a way out of a dead end!"

"Perhaps there's a way to deal with that pressure other than 'sticking'..."

"This is...the biggest difference between me and my teacher!"

After letting out a heavy sigh, Ogata Seiji finally recovered from his initial shock.

Just as I was about to say something.

Sudden.

But another flash of lightning struck his mind!

"wrong!"

As if struck by a sudden thought, Ogata Seiji gripped the cigarette pack tightly in his hand, his mind racing.

next moment.

He exclaimed in utter excitement:

"That press! Kato-senpai's press! It was this move that created the conditions for the teacher to make this attack!"

"Otherwise, if the black piece continues to charge like it is now, the white piece only needs to intercept it to easily eliminate this audacious black piece!"

"But after adding this move, the result was completely different!"

"Now it seems that all the previous moves by Black were just to consolidate his position, because Black already had victory in his grasp!"

"From the moment Kato-senpai made that pressing move, the teacher's black stones already showed unwavering confidence in victory!"

"Although it seems that the white pieces have been maintaining the offensive, in reality... the black pieces have always been the ones in control and have never been at a disadvantage!"

"White will lose if it doesn't make that move, but even if it does, in the teacher's eyes, it's still a loss! Because as long as Black can persist until that move and make its move, White will undoubtedly lose no matter what!"

"Given Hikaru Shindo's skill level, he wouldn't have made that aggressive move, so he chose to connect!"

"And the teacher..."

"I'm confident I can get this far, and I'm confident I can make about twenty steps of room to move around!"

"Therefore, in the eyes of a player of his caliber... that cut across eight columns and five lines was the most powerful counter to White's pressure!"

After hearing Ogata Seiji's words, Touya Akira fell silent.

He knew that these words were true.

But that's precisely why it's so shocking, even surreal.

Because if that's the case, then it means that all of Black's previous moves were foreshadowed from the very beginning, with the endgame already in mind!

Even before Kato-senpai made his move to pressure the opponent, Hikaru Shindo, holding the black pieces, already anticipated his victory!

However, due to limitations in his chess skills, he was unable to maintain his winning momentum until the very end.

Therefore, they had no choice but to adopt a "sticky" approach, lowering their stance and opting for reconciliation...

of course.

All of this was just Akira Touya's speculation.

However, it must be said...

He was right.

At the time of that game, Hikaru Shindo possessed an exceptional sense of Go comparable to that of Touya 10-dan.