"…Where are you looking?"
Noticing that the angle of the thief's gaze was not right, Horikita Suzune spoke coldly.
"Ah, no, no, I was just wondering if it would be inconvenient for you to play chess in your school uniform skirt."
Wu Yi pointed at the girl's red pleated skirt, then turned slightly to show her the situation in the room.
"I see. A low table? It's a little more troublesome than the tables and chairs we usually sit on, but it's not completely impossible."
As she spoke, Horikita Suzune stepped into the room, and just as she was about to change her shoes, she stopped and turned to look at Wu Yi.
"Do you have shoe covers?"
"No, why don't you just wear slippers?" Wu Yi shook his head.
"These have been worn by people, right?"
"…You have mysophobia?"
"No, it's just necessary hygiene awareness. If there are bacteria like athlete's foot left on these slippers that have been worn by others, wouldn't it be bad if I put them on again?"
Horikita Suzune's explanation was very logical.
Wu Yi was left with no choice but to take out a new pair of slippers from the shoe cabinet.
"Here, this pair is new and no one has worn it."
"Ah."
Horikita Suzune took it and put it on without hesitation. After changing her shoes, she took out her mobile phone and operated it for a while, then raised her head and said to Wu Yi again.
"I have already transferred the points for the slippers to you. Considering that you may come to my place again in the future, I will consider these slippers my private property. No one else is allowed to wear them. Is that okay?"
Wu Yi was silent for a moment and suggested, "I think if you are really so afraid of being worn by others, why don't you take it back with you, and then bring it here every time you come."
"That's too much trouble. Besides, the shoe rack in my room can't hold more shoes. In comparison, there's still quite a bit of space on your shoe rack, right?"
Horikita Suzune glanced at the shoe rack.
"Besides, I think it's just a pair of slippers. You shouldn't worry about taking care of it, right?"
"…Ringtone."
"explain."
"I think you will become a good caster in the future."
Wu Yi said sincerely.
"Because I found that every word you said could give my fist a 'hardening' effect. If this were in the Type-Moon world, we could both go to Fuyuki City and try our luck."
"I don't really understand what you're saying."
Throwing down these words, Horikita Suzune walked into the room, sat down on the futon next to the low table with the chessboard on it, straightened her back, and turned to look at the person who was still standing at the door.
"Let's get started quickly. I don't think we have much time."
"..."
It’s hard, the fist is hard!
He casually complained in his heart that one day he would fuck you until you lose consciousness and the champagne would be all over the floor. Wu Yi sighed helplessly and turned back to the coffee table, sitting cross-legged on the mat.
"A tall building is built from the ground up. Anyway, let me first teach you the rules of chess, Lingyin."
As he spoke, Wu Yi spent about five minutes reviewing all the basic knowledge of Chinese chess, including the horse's moves, the day's elephant's moves, the field's chariot's moves, and the cross's moves. He then explained to him what the horse's feet and the elephant's eye were.
Horikita Suzune is not stupid. She completely memorized these contents that even elementary school students could understand after just listening to them once.
"Well, does that mean Chinese chess is a game based on the premise that both sides are completely equal in strength?"
"Yes, even the weakest pawn can kill the theoretically most unrestricted rook, even though it can only move one square per turn and cannot retreat."
Wu Yi pointed at the pawn in the front row of the formation.
"So the basic test of playing chess is one's overall view and whether one can see through the opponent's intentions at a deeper level. As long as you can see through the opponent's intentions, you can start to set traps in advance, so as to minimize losses and gain the greatest benefits."
"I see. What about other rules?" Horikita Suzune asked with a nod.
"Other rules? What rules?"
Wu Yi didn't quite understand.
"For example—"
Horikita Suzune hesitated for a moment and made a gesture to take the chess piece.
"Is there anything particular about the way to hold the chess pieces? Is there anything I should be aware of?"
"That's not the case. Just do whatever is convenient for you."
Wu Yi's gaze moved slightly downwards, landing on the girl's toes wrapped in black stockings under her buttocks.
"In theory, you can use your feet. For example, if you think your opponent is difficult to deal with, you can use your feet to play chess, and use the smell of your feet to disrupt the opponent's thinking to the greatest extent..."
boom!
Before she finished her words, Horikita Suzune raised her hand and struck the knife with lightning speed. The sound of the hard wood hitting each other was like thunder in the room.
Wu Yi looked at the red cannon covering his black horse in a daze, and after a short pause he added a sentence.
"Generally speaking, the first move is to go for the lead, and basically... they won't play like you do."
Then he raised his hand and moved the car to eat the cannon sent by Horikita Suzune.
boom!
There was another loud bang, and the same trick was used again. Horikita Suzune's other cannon was also fired, and once again drove away Wu Yi's other horse.
Looking at the two horses that were killed at the beginning of the game, Wu Yi sighed silently.
Five minutes later, seeing that all the chess pieces on her side's chessboard had been killed, leaving only the only veteran who was surrounded by the black side's rook and artillery in the palace, Horikita Suzune fell silent for the first time tonight.
Volume 299: Chapter Lingyin's Shame Development
For the next hour and a half, the two people in the room basically kept playing chess at a pace of five to ten minutes per game.
Horikita Suzune, on the other hand, learned her lesson after being beaten up two or three times.
She gradually realized that the role of the cannon on the field was not necessarily less than that of the horse, and because the cannon's attack range was not restricted, it was in some ways a greater threat than the horse. As a result, she finally stopped doing stupid things like "shoot the horse first before shooting the man".
The result of doing this was that Horikita Suzune couldn't even kill her knight, and at best she killed a few pawns throughout the entire game.
When she finally managed to move the cannon to the doorstep of General Wu Yi's house, she turned around and found that the enemy's chariots, horses and cannons had already arrived at her doorstep. They were bored and were cleaning up the prime ministers and soldiers, as well as the chariots and horses that had never moved. Then they stopped outside the M-shaped palace and stared at the general inside.
But this was not the most humiliating thing. The most humiliating thing was that in one game, the general was controlled by two cannons. The two soldiers did not move from the beginning to the end, and they protected the general tightly in the middle.
When Wu Yi uttered the word "General" indifferently, Horikita Suzune suddenly realized that this bastard had used the black pieces to form a big question mark on the chessboard without knowing when, and the two stacked cannons were the point under the question mark.
In short, he kept hanging her up and beating her in different ways until Horikita Suzune began to doubt her life.
Time passed minute by minute, and in a blink of an eye it was almost nine o'clock in the evening.
"Okay, that's about it for today."
Wu Yi ended the game by using three pawns to pin Horikita Suzune's general in a cross-shaped palace for the fourth time tonight and then ruthlessly bullied him. He yawned and prepared to start cleaning up the chessboard.
But a slightly cool hand pressed down his fingers as he was about to pick up the chess piece and put it back into the chess box.
"Wait, wait a minute."
Horikita Suzune stopped her with a rather weak voice.
"I want... another round."
Huh? Another round?
Wu Yi looked up at the clock on the wall. It was exactly eight fifty.
Of course, this time doesn't make any sense. It's still a bit early for turning off the lights and going to bed, and as for the curfew, it's already past eight o'clock.
Moreover, the curfew only applies to boys going to the girls' dormitory, but there is no such restriction if girls return from the boys' dormitory to the girls' dormitory.
only--
"That's not necessary. All I ask of you is to get familiar with the operation." Wu Yi dug his eyes, "Besides, it's getting late today."
"I, I know..."
Horikita Suzune bit her lower lip lightly.
Compared to her appearance when she first came here, she now seems like a newcomer to the workplace who stepped out of the school gate with lofty ideals but was slammed back into reality by a pay slip of more than 100,000 yuan a month.
Although he still managed to maintain a tough attitude, his words revealed obvious softening.
To put it in a more social way, she's like the arrogant young lady who's been molested in an anime series from the otherworld.
"But I want to play another round..."
Speaking in a tone that was almost whispering, Horikita Suzune looked away.
Oh?
As if realizing something, Wu Yi raised his eyebrows.
"You want to win?"
"..."
Her secrets revealed, the cold-faced girl was speechless.
She really wanted to say yes, but faced with the heartbreaking record of 14 consecutive losses and no wins tonight, she just couldn't say it.
"I understand your desire to win, but there is a problem."
Wu Yi released the hand holding the chess piece and raised his index finger.
"Do you think you really like chess? It's useless to just rush to win. You have to calm down and study hard."
"I...it's okay..."
As if she was too embarrassed to say the word "like" out loud, Horikita Suzune turned her face away again.
What a tsundere, does that mean you like me?
Wu Yi could understand what she meant at a glance, but for some reason he found it particularly interesting to see the cold-faced girl hesitating and being too shy to speak.
So he decided to be a torture king for once.
"There's no such thing as "OK". If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. There's nothing to be embarrassed about saying it directly, right?"
"Well……"
Horikita Suzune pursed her lips, her eyes becoming vague.
"It just means... it's okay. Anyway, it's not annoying."
"Isn't your answer too nonchalant and inappropriate?"
Wu Yi deliberately adopted a tone of rejection.
"I'm not trying to make things difficult for you. It's just that if you really want to learn, you won't be able to continue unless you really want to. Sooner or later, you'll give up halfway. So it's better to give up early and save each other's time."
"Besides, there is only about a week left until the final exam. Even if you are extremely talented and your skills improve by leaps and bounds, you will not be able to surpass Arisu in this short time. However, it is more than enough for you to become familiar with the operation. When the time comes, you just need to do whatever I say after you go on stage."
"So, tell me what exactly you think?"
After saying the last sentence, Wu Yi propped up his chin with the attitude of "Dogecoin HR making things difficult for new interviewers" and waited quietly for the final answer.
"I……"
Horikita Suzune stared intently at her own knees wrapped in black stockings directly below her. Her voice was trembling slightly and her lips were almost pursed into a straight line.
"I want to... move the elephant..."
"I can't hear you."
Wu Yi turned his head and listened attentively.
"Louder, thank you."
"hiss……"
As if her shame had finally reached its limit, Horikita Suzune suddenly raised her head, took a deep breath, and closed her eyes tightly.
"I want to play chess! Are you satisfied with this?"
The girl's roar filled the room in an instant, and after the noise that was like a tornado destroying a parking lot, there was deathly silence.
