Hikaru no Go 棋魂 Episode 1

The 18-year-old handsome time recalled that summer many years ago, he met a very special person, who was more than a thousand years old and inseparable from him, it was that person who made him indissoluble with Go. It was June 30, 1997, the day before Hong Kong’s return, and the hot Fangyuan City was full of joy.

At noon, when I was in elementary school, I stood in front of a shop, watching the four-wheel drive cars on the shelves obsessively. He wanted to buy it, but he didn’t have that much money in his pocket. He saw the coin purse on Jiang Xueming, a female classmate next to him, and he took it to the boss and placed a deposit. He said that he would definitely come to pick up the car he wanted in the afternoon. He ran to his grandfather’s house, and Jiang Xueming chased him to get his money back.

Grandpa was not at home, Shi Shi took the key from a shoe on the floor at the door, opened the door, and then rummaged around looking for valuable treasures. After flipping for a long time to find a Go board, the sky outside suddenly became gloomy and dim. Seeing it was about to rain, Jiang Xueming asked him to leave quickly. He felt very strange when he saw that one part of the chessboard was wet. Jiang Xueming looked at it but saw nothing. She was a little scared and turned around.

Curious times touched the wet place with his hand, and suddenly a dazzling white light flashed in the room. He heard a strange sound around him, and he was so scared to ask who that person was. Soon a man in a white costume appeared. In front of him, Sunshine thought it was a ghost and was terribly scared. The man claimed to be surnamed Chu Mingying and said he was not a ghost, but the number one chess player in Nanliang.

When he woke up when he was fainted, he found himself lying on a hospital bed. Grandpa and Jiang Xueming looked at him worriedly. The nurse said he had to drink more water for low blood sugar. Shiguang was holding a cup and drinking water. Suddenly he saw Chu Ying standing aside. Shi Shi was so frightened that he quickly pointed to the place where Chu Ying stood and asked the nurse to take him away.

The nurse looked in the direction he was pointing and found that no one else felt this. The child speaks strangely. Chu Ying smiled and said that no one can see him except time. Grandpa told Shi Shi not to pretend to be sick and hurry back to school. Jiang Xueming also said that he had caused her to be late for class this afternoon.

The two went to school with their schoolbags. Jiang Xueming said on the way that he almost scared her to death at noon. She went back and saw him fainted to the ground. Fortunately, his grandfather came back in time. As time looked at, Chu Ying was behind, and he told Xueming that someone was following them all the time. Xueming looked back and saw that no one thought he was talking nonsense again and ignored him and left.

Time in the classroom asks Chu Ying to stop following him, Chu Ying said no, he wanted time to help him find the hand of God, but when he was puzzled by time, Chu Ying told him that the hand of God is the ultimate chess player against Go Pursuit, for thousands of years, no one has ever played a real god. As long as time allows him to play chess to help him achieve his long-cherished wish, he can make time a very powerful chess player. Time fiddled with the car in his hand saying that he could not play chess and didn’t want to play chess. Chu Ying couldn’t help but feel sad from it. When he was uncomfortable, he would vomit, but even then he insisted that he would vomit to death and would not play chess.

Later, in the school’s knowledge contest, Chu Ying helped Shiguang win the game, Shiguang agreed to take him to find his grandpa to play chess. As a result, because of his arrogance, grandpa sent him a book and sent him away when he saw that he was not good at it. Chu Ying waited for 300 years but didn’t play a game and felt disappointed. After returning home, he taught Shi Shi some basic knowledge about Go, and the next day he took him to find his grandfather to play chess, who knew that grandpa had something to shirk.

As the two of them walked back, Chu Ying couldn’t help but feel sad when he remembered his last day in Nanliang. He and Yang Xuanbao were playing in the hall that day. He didn’t expect Yang Xuanbao to buy into others to frame him for cheating. He lost the chess game in confusion. Emperor Wu refused to listen to his excuse and asked him to go back and think about not entering the palace again. After going back, he jumped into the river without thinking about it. Unexpectedly, a white light appeared, his consciousness went through, and he was trapped in a void ever since.

After listening to the time, he sympathized with him and took him to find a place to play chess. They came to a private chess house. After the time paid and registered, he said that he had never played chess with others. The staff did not understand his chess skills and was hesitating about who to play against him. When time saw a child inside, he ran over and sat opposite him to play a game with him. The staff can’t help but laugh secretly. Time is not knowing that the sky is high and the earth is thick. It turned out that the kid was named Yu Liang.

Regardless of his younger age, he played chess very well. Older people called him his teacher. Under the guidance of Chu Ying, Yu Liang lost the game, and the people in the chess hall were very surprised. After time passed, Yu Liang looked at the chess board and found it incredible. An old man next to him said that watching Shi Shi play chess is completely like a layman, and the staff said Shi Shi had never played chess with anyone else. Yu Liang felt even more incredible.