Ever since Nibutani's father and Kayo Okudasei's old friend passed away, this chessboard has been sealed in the tea room and is no longer in use, but is still being maintained.
Only when Jia Yu'ao Dacheng comes over will it be taken out and given to Jia Yu'ao Dacheng to commemorate the deceased.
As for the few times that Nibutani's father came back, he had no interest in continuing to play chess, so he never took it out during those times.
This time, it was Nibutani's father who specifically asked the thin man to bring a chessboard, and the other party took out this commemorative chessboard. Otherwise, it would probably still be kept in the storage cabinet.
Looking at Nibutani's father lost in his memories, Yushan Kazuto couldn't help but blink, feeling a little puzzled.
He wondered, didn't Nibutani's father ask him to come over to teach him chess? Why was he distracted?
But on the other side, Jia Yueao Dacheng winked at Yushan Heren, asking him not to disturb Nibutani's father.
Looking at Jia Yueao Dacheng's gesture, Yushan Heren had no choice but to nod and wait quietly.
Anyway, I just came here to sit for a while, and after Kong Yinzi's game is over, I will find an excuse to leave.
Nibutani's father's contemplation did not affect Kong Ginko, so Yushan Heren was not in a hurry.
Looking at the chessboard in front of him, countless memories of his old friend flooded Nibutani's father's mind.
In fact, every time they came to the teahouse, they would not drink tea, but would only ask for a glass of boiled water. However, they would pay the bills every time they came to the teahouse, and they even paid more times than Nibutani's father and Kayo Okudasei.
Originally, Nibutani's father thought that the other party just didn't like drinking tea, but still liked the atmosphere of the tea room.
But I didn’t expect that it turned out that the other party… couldn’t drink tea.
A friend of Nibutani's father and Kayoku Daisei was named Murakami Seiji. In their time, he was one of the most famous geniuses, and was as famous as his contemporary Hanyu Sanye.
However, unlike Hanyu Sanye who has a healthy body, Murakami Sei has always been in poor health.
After playing chess once, Murakami Seiji fainted in the corridor of the chess academy and was discovered by Nibutani's father and Kaeyoshi Daisei. The two of them decided to send him to the hospital.
Because of that experience, the three of them became close friends.
Murakami Sei's talent in shogi is undoubtedly the best among the three.
Before meeting Nibutani's father and Kayoo Daisei, they had already participated in the third-stage league and achieved a good result of third place.
You know, he is one or two years younger than Nibutani's father and Kayo Ou Daisei.
He is a famous young genius.
The reason why he lost in the previous three-stage league was not because of his poor chess skills, but because - during the three-stage league, Murakami Seiji missed two games due to physical reasons, which was why he only got third place.
If not for this, with his record of fourteen wins and two losses in the other sixteen games, he would definitely be able to be promoted to a professional level.
After the three met, Murakami Seiya quickly passed the new three-stage league, and with an undisputed record of 17 wins in 18 games, he won the first place in the three-stage league and entered the professional level.
No one knew that this brilliant and talented chess player actually had a congenital kidney disease.
His two kidneys are only about one-fifth the function of an average person's.
In other words, the two kidneys combined have less than half the function of a normal person's kidney.
Although his family had been persistently looking for a kidney source for him in the hope that he could live a normal life after a kidney transplant, no suitable kidney source was found until his death.
Most people who saw him would only notice that he was weak and sickly, but no one thought that his condition was so bad.
Even though he knew he was not feeling well, Murakami Seiji still insisted on playing chess.
I don’t know whether I should admire the other person’s persistence or feel sad about his or her choice.
Year 2 Chapter 295
When Nibutani's father lost his first three-dan league and was preparing for the next three-dan league, Murakami Sei, who was already a seventh-dan chess player at the time, took the initiative to help Nibutani's father practice chess, and the practice location was in the Byodoin tea room.
Because of his kidney problems, Murakami Seiji cannot drink tea. The caffeine in tea will increase the burden on the kidneys. Murakami Seiji, who already has only one-fifth of the kidney function of a normal person, cannot bear this burden.
This is also the reason why Murakami Sei always drinks boiled water in the tea room of Byodoin Temple.
At that time, the two of them often sat in the Byodoin tea room until late at night. The fingernail marks on the chessboard were left during that time.
In fact, these days, it was a huge burden for Murakami Seiji. Many times, he almost couldn't hold on and fell on the chessboard.
Jia Yueao Dacheng felt a little distressed watching from the side, but for the sake of Nibutani's father, he still persisted.
However, perhaps due to too much pressure, Nibutani's father lost two consecutive third-dan leagues and finally left the chess academy in anger.
In the first few years after returning to his hometown, Nibutani's father had been working hard, and he was also angry with the chess academy, so he never returned to Tokyo.
Murakami Seiji was in poor health and could not bear the fatigue of traveling, so he was naturally unable to go to Fukui to see him.
I invited Nibutani's father to Tokyo for a reunion several times, but he refused. It would be impossible to say that I was not disappointed.
However, Nibutani's father also had his own reasons. After he returned to his hometown, Murakami Sei was promoted to eighth dan, and then to ninth dan a year later.
He was just a "deserter" who fled Tokyo after failing in three leagues. Naturally, he was ashamed to face Murakami Sei, who helped him a lot when he was in Tokyo.
Originally, Nibutani's father thought that he would return to Tokyo after he had achieved some success, and he would feel a little more confident.
However, he did not expect that when his work was improving slightly, he had a daughter, and his life was becoming better, he received the obituary of Murakami Sei.
After a chess battle, Murakami Sei was found collapsed on his way home from the chess academy. When he was found, he had already passed away at the age of 29.
After learning the news, Nibutani's father immediately bought a plane ticket and flew to Tokyo.
This is not the first time he has returned to Tokyo in these years. He has been to Tokyo several times for work reasons, but this is his first time returning to the chess institute.
After attending the memorial service prepared by the chess institute for Murayama Sei, Nibutani's father and Kayo Okuda came to Murayama Sei's home in Tokyo.
After Nibutani's father returned to Fukuda, Jiayue Okudacheng no longer shared the house with Murakami Seiji.
After all, both of them were already professional chess players at the time and had a good income, enough to support the rent of a house.
Because of his poor health, Murayama Seiji rented a place not far from the chess institute, while Jiayue Ou Daisei rented a slightly remote location in order to save a little.
Although the departure of Nibutani's father did not affect the relationship between Kayoo Daisei and Murayama Seiji, the interactions between the two did become less frequent.
Kayo Ooshige's personality is a little more introverted, not as enthusiastic as Nibutani's father. When the three of them were in Tokyo, it was mainly Nibutani's father who played a core role.
After the core left, the contacts between Jiayue Ou Daicheng and Murakami Sei decreased, which is actually very normal.
This time, it was the first time that Nibutani's father came to Murakami Sei's residence in Tokyo.
As for Jia Yueao Dacheng, this was only his third time here, and the last time he came here was three years ago.
The house is not big. After all, Murayama Seiji lives alone and has almost no social interaction. He rarely even attends training sessions. The most he does every day is study shogi alone, so he doesn't need much space.
However, this small room is well maintained.
When I opened the door to the living room, I saw a photo of three people. It was taken when Murayama Seiji became a professional chess player and the three of them were celebrating in the tea room of Byodoin Temple.
In the photo, the three of them are smiling happily, full of fantasies and yearnings for the life of chess players.
Both Kaeyoshi Okuda and Nibutani's father believed that after Murakami Sei became a professional chess player, they would soon be able to become professionals as well.
As a result, Kayo Oo Daisei did become a professional player within a few years, but Nibutani's father was stuck in the third dan league and eventually gave up shogi.
At that time, this future development was something that none of the three had expected. According to their original idea, it was Nibutani's father who followed Murakami Seiji to become a professional, and then Kayue Oku Daisei would be promoted.
However, I didn't expect that the world is unpredictable and everything develops differently from everyone's expectations.
That night, because he was happy, Murakami Seiji drank something for the first time, and vomited it out after returning home.
In fact, his condition was already very serious at that time, and because he had overdrawn his body when participating in the third-stage league, he should have rested well.
However, Nibutani's father and Kayo Ooshige were unaware of this.
The two men saw the whole truth from Murakami Sei's diary when they were sorting out Murakami Sei's belongings.
It’s better to call it an essay than a diary. I write one occasionally when I’m interested to record my life.
Even if Murakami Seiji were to write a diary every day, I guess he wouldn't have the energy to do so.
The reason why he left these essays is that Murakami Seiji knew his own situation and that he could die at any time.
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Therefore, Murayama Sei chose to record some things that he thought were more important, so that other people would not know anything about him after his sudden death.
After reading the diary, Nibutani's father and Kaeyoshi Okuda realized that Murakami Sei had suffered from congenital kidney disease since birth.
However, judging from the tone of the diary, the other party is still relatively optimistic about life.
He even joked that the doctors had predicted that he would not live past the age of 18, but he lived into his twenties and would live to be 30 or 40 in the future, which should make the doctors at the time reflect on their original judgment.
However, his wish did not come true. On the eve of his 30th birthday, at the age of 29, Murakami Seiji passed away.
In addition to kidney disease, Murakami Sei also suffered from cancer in the last two or three years of his life.
Anti-cancer drugs will obviously increase the pressure on Murakami Sei's kidneys, but if the drugs are not used, the cancer will be difficult to control. This is a dilemma.
After looking at the date when Murakami Sei first recorded that he was diagnosed with cancer, Nibutani's father remembered that during that period, Murakami Sei had invited Nibutani's father to Tokyo several times.
However, Nibutani's father thought that the other party had been promoted to the ninth dan and invited him to Tokyo to celebrate, so he refused everything.
However, I didn't expect that the other party just wanted to see old friends because he had cancer and didn't have much time left.
Chapter 2296 Murakami Sei's Regret
After realizing this, Nibutani's father, who had been pretending to be strong the whole day, finally couldn't help but tear up.
He regretted very much why he didn't come to Tokyo at that time. Was it because of his so-called self-esteem?
Or is he jealous that Murakami Sei could easily become a professional chess player and be promoted to the ninth dan without any obstacles, while he himself is a "defective product" who cannot even pass the third dan league?
Because of this, Nibutani's father didn't even have the chance to meet Murakami Sei, and all he got was a cold obituary.
He regretted even more why he had not noticed Murakami Sei's abnormality earlier.
Murakami Seiji would go to the hospital every once in a while. At that time, Nibutani's father, Kayo Okuda and Murakami Seiji all lived together. If you paid a little attention, it would not be difficult to find him.
However, both of them thought that Murakami Sei was just weak, so he needed to go to the hospital for more examinations, but they did not think about it in other directions.
Perhaps the two of them had some guesses at the time, but they just didn't want to think in that direction.
However, so much time has passed, and the two of them are actually unclear about what they were thinking at the time.
Nibutani's father was very upset. If, if he had been able to discover Murakami Sei's physical condition earlier, he would not have accepted the other party's help after the first defeat in the third league.
That period had a great impact on Murakami Sei's health. Nibutani's father couldn't help but wonder, if Murakami Sei had not helped him so unremittingly at that time, could his life have been extended a little?
However, Murakami Sei has left, and no one can give Nibutani's father an answer.
Murakami Seiji had foreseen his own death. After all, he could feel that his health was deteriorating.
Even during the game of chess, Murakami Sei fainted several times, but other people didn't know the truth and thought that Murakami Sei was taking a nap!
In his diary, Murakami Sei wrote down his regrets.
In fact, according to himself, he lived a relatively satisfactory life.
After all, the doctor diagnosed that he would not reach adulthood, but he lived to be nearly thirty years old and became a professional shogi player, which made him satisfied.
But to say that there is no regret at all is naturally impossible.
His biggest regret is that he didn't win any title.
In the last few years of his life, Murakami Seito challenged for the title, but that era was the heyday of Hanyu Sanye.
The opponent had the opportunity to monopolize all the titles, and only a few players were able to snatch one or two crowns from Hanyu Yamada.
Even though Murakami Seiji and Hanyu Sanye are known as the twin stars of the chess academy, the gap in their achievements is still quite obvious.
It’s not that Murakami Sei’s talent is not as good as Hanyu Sanye’s, but his body limits Murakami Sei’s performance.
There are many games in the title match, and each game lasts a very long time. Murakami Seiji's body hardly allows him to persist in such a long game.
If Murakami Sei had a healthy body, it would be hard to say who would have won the battle in that era.
The last Chess Saint Tournament he participated in before his death was actually the one in which Murakami Sei had the best chance of winning the title.
However, things are unpredictable. Before the chess saint war was over, Murakami Sei passed away quietly. This regret may have to wait until the next life to be resolved.
The second biggest regret is that my old friends have drifted away.
After Nibutani's father returned to his hometown, Murakami Seiji invited him to Tokyo many times, but he never got a positive response.
Although Jia Yueao Dacheng still stayed in Tokyo, the exchanges between the two sides became less frequent.
Sometimes, when he returned home and looked at the photos hanging on the wall, Murakami Seito couldn't help but sigh.
That period of time was truly the best time in Murakami Seiji's life. He was full of energy and became a professional chess player, and he had several like-minded friends around him.
