Cherish the time

Chapter 165

Iris left without asking Shinto about his relationship with Sakou.

A few days later, Nico also left - the International Amateur Go Tournament was officially over, and he had no reason to stay in Japan.

Just before leaving, he entrusted the security guard at the gate of the chess academy to hand over a letter to Shinto, which contained only three lines of simple information.

Raymond＿599

14:00-17:00 (Japan)

thank you.

The last thank you is written in Japanese, crooked and illegible.

Shinto breathed a sigh of relief, put the letter in his pocket, and smiled at Taya standing beside him, "Let's go."

Ta Yaliang glanced at his pocket subconsciously, without asking any further questions.

Sensing his attention, Shinto just tilted his head and asked, "It's been a long time since I played chess with you... How do you feel today?"

"…fine."

"Are you nervous?" When he asked this question, he turned his head and looked forward, his tone became very gentle.

Taya subconsciously clenched her trembling right hand in her pocket without answering.

Shinto ignored Taya's silence, and just said softly to himself, "I'm... very nervous."

——Today is the third time they have met in the Dashouhe arena, and this time, almost half a year has passed since the last time the two played against each other.

"...Are you also... nervous?" Taya asked in a low voice.

"Of course." Shindo smiled slightly, looking down at his unshakable right hand, "Although...maybe I can't show it physically, but my heart is more nervous than ever."

He looked at his current hand, but what he remembered was the time when he played against Taya Ryo as the third general in the team competition in his previous life.

——that excited, trembling, uncontrollable right hand...

"…why--"

Taya Ryo's question was answered by Shinto directly before he could ask it out.

"——No reason." He smiled, looking quite gentle, but there was a bit of irrefutable taste in his words.

"I don't need any reason, I'm just looking forward to it."

"I look forward to every bit of your progress, and I look forward to every fight with you."

"I've been, been looking forward to..."

As he spoke, he showed a somewhat dazed expression, and then the words stopped like this.

Ta Ya Ryo stood aside, as if waiting for what he would say next.

However, Shinto was silent for a moment, then turned his head to the front, "...let's go..."

...

……

"You wanted to say... what were you expecting?"

After the game ended, before the two separated, Taya asked Shinto this sentence.

The blond boy against the light smiled self-deprecatingly, "...Don't you know?"

"I don't know." The scene of Jin Wuxi falling to the west was reflected in those green eyes, revealing a kind of shocking courage.

"..."

Shinto was silent for a moment, and suddenly broke into a very slow smile - a variety of emotions were mixed in that smile, which was so complicated that it was hard to recognize.

"I'm looking forward to—"

Takashi woke up suddenly from his dream.

Sweat drenched the back of the pajamas and ran down the spine.

He brushed his hair, propped his forehead and sat on the bed without moving.

The room was very quiet, and Taya could hear her own violent heartbeat sounding like a drum beating in her ears.

"...a dream..."

He murmured, his face pale beyond belief.

The mechanical "tick" of the clock made him gradually calm down.

"...It's a dream..." He let out a long sigh of relief, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, intending to find a glass of water to drink.

On a winter night, the cold wind blows through the dead leaves and makes a whistling sound outside the window.

As soon as Taya opened the door, the oncoming cold air made him shiver, and he became more awake.

He thought of the dream just now, especially the scene at the end of the dream where Xiao Guang melted into the light as he spoke.

Taya Ryo couldn't help but feel a little amused.

——Why did you have such a dream for no reason...?

He walked down the long wooden corridor in fluffy frog-head slippers, and went to the kitchen to pour himself a cup of warm water.

The temperature of the water went all the way down from the esophagus, warming the cold stomach, and he felt that his tense nerves were relieved.

Lying back on the bed again, Taya's mood has calmed down.

He closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

This time, what he dreamed was no longer the parting scene in the sunset yesterday, but the story of the two bathing together when Xiaoguang came to his house for the first time more than a year ago.

He saw Xiaoguang wearing that ridiculous shower cap, saw the two people fighting around the shower head, saw them rubbing each other's backs while talking, and then dipped into the bathtub together-this was a little different from the original situation small difference.

then…

I don't know if it was stimulated by the water temperature or what happened, Ta Yaliang trembled slightly, and peed in the bathtub.

Taya Ryo woke up again in fright.

The whole person could not be more awake.

Lying stiffly on the bed, he felt his crotch was warm and sticky, which was obviously not what he should feel in a normal state.

--not…

He felt that his brain was about to stop spinning for a while.

- almost 14 years old and still wet the bed!This is really terrible!

Tremblingly, he stretched out his hand to touch his underwear, but what he found was a slightly viscous liquid, which was different from the usual urine...

"Puchi...wetting the bed..." Akiko Taya smiled and turned on the tap to catch the water, "I knew you hadn't even read the health education textbooks I gave you before."

Taya Ryo was taking a shower in the bathroom, deaf to the sound coming from outside.

"This is not bedwetting, Xiaoliang," Taya Akiko soaked his underwear in the water, and picked up the soap in the corner, "It means that our Xiaoliang has grown up."

The warm water hit the young man's face, stimulating Ruyu's skin to turn pink.

"...Speaking of which, since you became a professional chess player...it's rare to see you so cute..." Taya Akiko sat outside the door, rubbing his soiled clothes, and sighed with nostalgia, " ...lol...wetting the bed..."

Ta Yaliang listened tangledly, thinking that he didn't want to go out to meet her.

Fortunately, Taya Akiko has never been a character who would catch something embarrassing. After teasing her lovely son for a while, she smiled and called his name.

"Small light."

"..." Taking advantage of the "squeak" of the water as a cover, Ta Yaliang pretended not to hear it.

"…You've grown up."

The mother's voice full of love and tenderness was accurately conveyed to Ryo Taya's heart through the sound of heavy water.

He stared blankly at himself in the mirror.

...Obviously, there is no difference from yesterday's him, isn't it?

Why did he grow up overnight?