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Chapter 120 "The Soul of Chess" is over
What Torishima Kazuhiko wanted to say was exactly such a thing.

There are not many people who can listen to him, so they chose to choose, and Kazuhiko Torishima chose Akira Toriyama.

"You bet your future on Tori Akino, you are really courageous." Akira Toriyama sighed.

"Of course it's not just Akino Tori," Kazuhiko Torishima said bluntly, "There will be other strategies to increase the importance of questionnaires; dig newcomers and give opportunities for valuable works; increase the competitiveness of manga magazines and cultivate authors' abilities... ...Anyway, it depends on God's will."

The sales volume of "Weekly Shonen Magazine" will surpass that of "Weekly Shonen Jump".

In 1992, "Weekly Shonen Magazine" began to serialize "Kindaichi Boy Case Book".The influence of this work is huge, and it has changed the impression that magazines give people the impression of edge-to-edge comics. The recent circulation has reached 430 million copies.

The gap with jump is only 20 copies!
Such a small gap was unimaginable before.

Torishima Kazuhiko has a strong sense of crisis in his heart, and he must solve the problem quickly.

Otherwise, since the serialization of "Fist of the North Star", the crown of Jump, who has always been in the leading position, will fall from his hands, and he will die of annoyance.

……

"Soul of Chess" will end with only one chapter left.

Oda is in a bad mood recently. He has learned a lot from Hibiki Higashino, and he has new knowledge every day.

And Higashino valued him very much.

Think he can be the backbone of the jump.

No one has ever recognized Oda's talent so much.

This gave Oda a romantic sense of dying for his confidant.

During the year at Higashi Hibiki Studio, although the work was heavy, Oda was very happy every day.

It's a pity that as the manga is coming to an end, it's time for him to start looking for the next one in his assistant career.

"This is the pudding from the shop at the subway entrance. Mr. Sasaki brought it. Mr. Akimiya said that he wants to lose weight. I'll leave it to you."

Higashino placed four servings of pudding in front of Oda.

He himself doesn't like sweets. The pudding of this shop has always been highly rated. Higashino has seen it before. Asahina, who was paralyzed, looked happy and soft after eating the pudding from this shop.

"I don't have much appetite..." Oda said.

"Eh?" Higashino was taken aback, and he asked anxiously, "Oda-san, how could you have no appetite? Could it be that you are sick? Are you dizzy?"

"I just..." Oda was silent for a while, subconsciously took out the pudding, took a bite out, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, "﹋o﹋I'm not in a good mood."

Higashino Hibiki was speechless, he ate so happily and said he was in a bad mood.

He patted Oda on the shoulder and asked the real situation.

Oda was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and told the truth.

He didn't want to leave Bird Akino Mirai Studio, and wanted to keep working until the serialization began.

Higashino Hibiki only thought it was funny, but he was also moved by his heart.

I told him that after finishing "Soul of Chess", the serialization of "Slam Dunk" will begin.

Only a maximum of two weeks between intervals.

"It will be even harder in the future, just don't hold it against you."

"Yes." Oda nodded happily, and ate the pudding with peace of mind.

"(つヮ) is delicious."

He covered his mouth happily, and his eyes were blind.

When Higashino brought up the topic of "Slam Dunk", he simply took out the manuscript paper and paintbrush, sat in front of the TV, dug out the nba video, and began to learn the details such as lines and muscles, and the rationality of movements.

"However," Higashino suddenly remembered NHK's toll collector, "I have started using NHK's channel now, and I am ready to pay the bill. Why is the toll collector not coming?"

"It's called Tanaka. Next time he visits, I will definitely pay him the fee."

……

On Friday, Sasaki came to visit with a box of things.

"It's No.1." He said.

"Huh?" Higashino didn't know why.

"Soul of Chess Xiaozheng No. 1." Sasaki said in detail.

"Huh?" Higashino was shocked.

"That's right, the story of this story is No.1."

Sasaki said that he was not joking, and that this result was correct.

The result of the previous episode was only No.5.

"Why is that?" Higashino was a little flattered.

"Soul of Chess" hasn't won Xiao Zheng's first place for a long time, not to mention the first, there is no top three.

The sudden No.1 brings not excitement, but bewilderment.

"Look at these letters, they are all letters from readers of "Soul of Chess"."

Higashino took the cardboard box, which contained dozens of letters.

He sat on the sofa, took out a letter from a reader, and read it quietly.

……

"Hello, Mr. Akino Tori, I am a reader of "Spirit of Gossip". If you want to say your favorite character, it is indeed Sakai Fujiwara."

"At the beginning of 1994, I saw "The Soul of Chess", and I was shocked for a while. It turns out that Go can be drawn so interestingly."

"As the thousand-year-old soul of the Heian-kyo period, I really like the innocence and "childishness" of Sato. These two temperaments are well integrated with his strong aura of Honinbo Shusaku, which makes me feel very real and cute. "

"I've been looking forward to when he will show the "Hand of God" and surprise everyone. "

"Waiting...waiting..."

"Until in my favorite plot, after Zuo Wei and Taya Yukiyo won the battle, the foreshadowing of Zuo Wei's disappearance was planted."

"After that, I continued to read the manga nervously, thinking that such an important character should not disappear."

"However, there are more and more foreshadowings of this kind of possibility, even directly from Zuo Wei's mouth, so I have to accept this fact."

"It's not that I can't accept Zuo Wei's disappearance... Well, there are some things that I can't accept, some of them."

"But if Zuowei must disappear, why not let him say goodbye to Xiaoguang?"

"With this thought, I became extremely disappointed. I stopped watching "Soul of Chess", and even hid the booklet that I once cherished very much under the bed."

"Soul of Chess just disappeared from my life."

"I started to go to school, play with my classmates, play video games, and play baseball, but I don't know why, and my heart is always empty."

"It wasn't until I heard my classmates discuss that "Soul of Chess" was about to end, that I finally realized that I hadn't put down "Soul of Chess"."

"So, continue to watch "Soul of Chess" and see what the teacher wants to express."

"Shinto Hikari came to his senses and found Sakai in Go. He became more and more mature and grew into a qualified professional player and Japan's future star."

"At this time, I understood that "Soul of Chess" not only inherits, but also grows."

"Shinto Hikaru experienced the pain of Zuowei's disappearance and search, and only after he walked out did he really grow up."

"It turns out that these are all valuable, and it's not that the author is forced to be sad for the sake of being sad."

"After a lot of crying, I want to write such a letter and hand it to you, the teacher, to reminisce about my mental journey. If you are lucky, I hope the teacher can know that there is a reader who deeply likes your works .”

"ps: I really want to know the ending of the battle between Hikari Shinto and Ryo Toya!"

After reading it carefully, Higashino looked at the identity of the reader. He is a high school student in Shimokitazawa.

The writing is very profound, Higashino was very moved.

"So that's how it is," he nodded. "Those who used to like "Soul of Chess" couldn't give up because of the end of "Soul of Chess", so they came back and continued watching."

"Seeing the new content of "Soul of Chess", I understand the plot of Zuo Wei's disappearance."

"Is that so?" Higashino raised his head and asked Sasaki.

"There are reasons for this." Sasaki replied.

"The sales volume of the single volume of "Soul of Chess" has also picked up, and the fifth volume has already begun to be reprinted."

Another piece of good news, Higashino read the next letter with this joy.

The name was written on the cover, it was Murasame.

His content is relatively concise.

"After reading Sensei's comics, I was deeply moved, so I also decided to become a cartoonist, and become a cartoonist like Sensei!"

"Change Go, change the world."

"I like shogi. Now there are more shogi players in Japan than Go."

"But there is no such phenomenal shogi work as "Soul of Chess"."

"Teacher, please look forward to it. Maybe one day, I will break into your world."

"I admire you very much, Murashira."

……

Such a letter gave Higashino a gleam of joy.

Higashino has to look forward to the person who is guided by himself and embarks on the path of chasing manga.

If the other party can really succeed, it is what he said, and they will meet in the future.

Later, the letter about "Soul of Chess" was about being influenced by "Soul of Chess" and learning Go;

There are readers who thank Higashi Higashi for creating the soul of chess;
There is also talk of anger towards Zuo Weicheng Buddha, but because it was screened by the editorial department, the words are not violent.

These many letters made Higashino happy, but also melancholy.

"The two-year serialization of "Soul of Chess" is finally coming to an end."

Only the last sentence remains.

"Soul of Chess" is about to leave his serial life.

"The teacher once said something about AI. Yang Hai of the Chinese Chess Academy also has a future in Go, and he believes that it is in the computer."

"Will there be any content about this? I'm very curious."

Seeing this letter, Higashino snapped his hands.

I came back from the future and learned about the toughness of AlphaGo. In the end, after AI made human chess players despair, they regained their lives.

They are learning AI one after another, using AI to raise the height of Go to another level.

"Why don't I paint such a content? He is born with beauty, brutal and heroic beauty."

Higashino has also seen Ke Jie crying.

Such a lens must be extremely shocking.

"After "Slam Dunk" is on the right track, start the serialization of "Soul of Chess" short stories."

Higashino had an idea.

……

In the second issue of jump in 1996.

Odagiri looked at the manga magazine with a serious expression.

This is the work that led him on the road of Go, the ending of "Soul of Go".

From then on, he will practice the path of a professional chess player by himself.

There was a trace of reluctance, he didn't want to open the comic book.

If time stops here, then "Soul of Chess" will never end.

After 2 minutes, Odagiri made mental preparations, took a deep breath, and looked in.

……

Shinto Hikaru was shocked, Taya Ryo actually saw through all this.

Ta Yaliang said: "The person who played against me twice in the Go club is Sai."

"Because I know you best, so I know. Only I know that in your body, there is another person."

Hikaru Shinto's pupils trembled, "Taya..."

Ta Yaliang took back what he said just now, "No, it's nothing, I said something strange."

Shinto Hikaru was shocked.

"Taya, he noticed Sai!"

"Until now, no one has known about Zuoi except me."

"Zoe, Taya noticed you."

"Found you!"

At this moment, Shindo Hikaru was shocked and happy.

I am glad that someone knows Zuo Wei, Zuo Wei's imprint is not only her own.

There is also a sense of excitement that Taya, you understand me and Zuowei.

Ta Yaliang thought for a while, and continued: "No, the Go you play is all you have, it will not change, that is enough."

He also felt that there was another person, which was outrageous and impossible.

He rejected his guess.

Shinto Hikaru looked at their chess game, and smiled happily, not only himself, but Taya also thought so.

"The Go I play is all I have."

"Taya, you are right, because Zuowei is in my Go game."

……

In the subsequent game, Xiaoguang lost.

In this important chess game, the result is not important.

Anyway, you can continue to play chess in the future.

In the evening, after washing up, I changed into pajamas.

Xiaoguang fell asleep, he had a lucid dream, and met Zuo Wei in the dream.

The other party was still the same as before, wearing a robe and showing a sad expression.

Xiaoguang was very happy and told him what happened recently.

Although he lost the game with Xiao Liang, there will be more games to play in the future.

Listening to his description, Zuo Wei smiled.

Xiaoguang talked about other people's affairs after Zuowei disappeared.

As he spoke, he couldn't hold back any longer.

Angrily, he began to question why Zuo Wei disappeared?

What does it feel like to disappear?
Is it sad?Still smiling?
If only I were smiling like I am now.

Xiaoguang looked a little disappointed.

At this time, Zuo Wei narrowed his eyes together, expressing that he was very happy.

Seeing his response, Xiaoguang regained his energy, and told about Taya Ryo's discovery of Zuowei's existence.

But Zuo Wei looked at the light beside him, and he was about to disappear again.

Xiao Guang hurriedly wanted to stop him, hoping that Zuo Wei would not disappear.

Zuo Wei handed out the folding fan in his hand and handed it to Xiaoguang.

During this transmission, Xiaoguang became sober.

Tears rolled down his cheeks, and he looked at Kong Luoluo's palm.

In this Go game, He Gu was surprised to find out.

Shinto Hikari's game was solid, he saw through the opponent's conservativeness, seized the perfect timing, and played the key piece.

His growth is really amazing.

Thinking like this, he was stopped by Hikari Shinto.

A folding fan lit up in the opponent's hand.

"Soul of Chess", it's over.

……

"Ah, is it over?"

Odagiri came back to his senses and was immersed in the manga until the end of the content, only to wake up like a dream,

He felt his cheeks itchy, touched them, and they were wet.

"Why am I crying?"

He looked in the mirror, his eyes were red, and there were tears on his cheeks.

I don't know when I started crying.

Looking at the time, he watched this sentence for 10 minutes.

"Phew, it's over."

His heart felt lost.

It's like the departure of a good teacher and helpful friend.

"I am very grateful to be able to read "Soul of Chess", I am really grateful."

He sat blankly until the sun reached the top of his head before he realized that he needed to play chess and start today's study.

Odagiri patted his cheeks, "From now on, a new life will begin."

……

When Odagiri was reading "Soul of Chess", countless people were also watching.

They are the readers of "Soul of Chess".

Some of them were angry because of "Soul of Chess".

But at this moment, all the anger disappeared.

Only a deep sigh was left.

It is precisely because I like it so much that I am very angry.

Can't you serialize more and let yourself scold more?

"Tori Akino Mirai is really a unique manga artist."

"You can ruin the achievements of the work at the most prosperous time."

"It also finished the work when it returned to the peak."

"These two points sound very strange."

"Actually, the starting point is the same. For the logic and rigor of the work."

"Only those who deeply love their own works will do this."

Some critics made such remarks.

Readers agree.

They understood Higashi Higashino and "Soul of Chess".

Putting down the stone in his heart, he chose to reconcile with Higashi Higashino.

……

On Friday, Sasaki notified Hibiki Higashino.

"Soul of Chess is No.1."

This is actually very rare. Except for some works, they can maintain a high ranking when they are finished. There are only a few works.

As far as Higashino can think of, there is only "Dragon Ball" at present.

"Even the single edition of "Soul of Chess" has created a wave of panic buying."

"The sales of the fifth and sixth volumes have exceeded 100 million copies."

"Currently, the separate volumes of the seventh and eighth volumes are also planned."

Sasaki told a lot of good news, but Higashino didn't bother to listen.

He recently got a disease, which is a mental illness, and he is slightly depressed.

I hid in my room and didn't go out all day.

I was planning to quickly start the serialization of "Slam Dunk", but I couldn't get up the energy.

"This is a situation where there is no emotion to pin after the work is finished."

Sasaki is very understanding.

"If you can, go out with him for a while."

Akemi Akimiya chose to take over this matter.

She took Dongye Xiang to the hot spring.

After returning, Higashino was in high spirits.

Started painting "Slam Dunk".

"Oda! I told you a long time ago that there are many people in a picture, and their characteristics must be exaggerated, otherwise the readers will look the same!"

It was as if he had been injected with blood, and his fighting spirit was high all day long.

　Thanks to Bai Jintong for the reward.

　　Thanks to the book friend 20171126021739251 for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)