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Mynavi Women's Open

Thank you all for waiting.

The first round of the 11th Mynavi Women's Open preliminaries will now begin.

It's finally starting.

Yes.

It looks like a lot of people showed up, too!

Yes.

Sis, can you take this seriously?

I am. Do you have a problem?

Hinatsuru Ai

A-Ai.

C-Cute... She's too cute.

It's illegal to be that cute.

You've grown up so much...

Kuzuryu-sensei? Can you take this seriously, please?

Courage Ryuo Kuzuryu Yaichi

Yaichi!

I-Ika?! What the hell are you doing?

I heard you were doing the commentary, so I came to see you.

Hurry up, and go to the match hall!

You'll lose by default!

But I can't see you if I go to the hall!

I thought I'd come by and ask for your answer from the other day.

What are you two talking about?

I'm not talking to you, you gray-haired uggo.

Peons who don't have talent should shut up.

Are you angry, Ginko?

It's just a joke. See you!

Make sure you tell your little disciple

that I'm looking forward to playing against her.

The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done!

Game 9: August First

Master!

Mynavi Room 2

I won!

Oh, already?

Amateur Hinatsuru Ai, who already won her match

and made it to the preliminary finals, is here to join us.

You've shown us strong game play against a strong opponent.

How were you feeling during the match?

Yes! Um, I just wanted to win no matter what today.

Oh? Why is that?

Th-That's... a secret.

Secret? You can't even tell me?

A-Ah, I'm sorry. I can't tell you yet...

Especially you, Master.

Huh?

I see. That makes me sad.

Kakkobayashi Suzu Yashajin Ai

The match between Amateur Yashajin Ai and 5th dan female pro Kakkobayashi Suzu.

How do you see it?

Silver, Double Wing Attack, to Bishop Exchange... that's fairly old shogi.

Ai is best at Bishop Exchanges.

From Double Wing Attacks, she dragged the opponent into a formation she's best at.

She's very cunning.

Wonder who she takes after.

We have Amateur Yashajin, who just won.

Hello.

Were you not afraid during the match against a veteran?

No.

Thanks to the dojo I go to, I'm used to old peo— veterans.

She was seriously about to say "old people."

Also, I can't lose today, no matter what.

Huh?

Male Players' Waiting Room

Meeting room

Spill it.

What is this "answer" Sainokami Ika was talking about?

I met her playing online shogi during middle school...

We started chatting after our match.

And then you hit on her.

You're wrong!

I didn't know my opponent was a girl my age in the first place.

Even though our match was very short,

she was equal against me, who had a rank in the Promotional League...

And? When did you guys actually meet?

Shogi Association

We decided to meet up when we went to Tokyo for a match.

We were both surprised.

Who knew it'd be a pro player and a female pro player,

and for her to be Sainokami Ika...

Then?

Ika got excited and said, "It's fate."

And every time I'd go to Tokyo, we started playing shogi if she was free...

So you were secretly going on dates during your business trips.

No, I wasn't!

We were having matches!

Then where were you playing?

Like, cafés with private rooms, or karaoke rooms...

That's what you call a date! I'll kill you!

This is where it gets important!

Right after I got my Ryuo title, Ika asked me out...

Wait! Why would you kick me?

What? I didn't.

Did you happily accept?

There's nothing between us!

But it seems like she's still waiting for an answer.

You're just keeping her around at your own convenience.

Like your captured pieces.

I properly turned her down! Everything has ended between us!

So she's basically your ex-girlfriend.

Master? Are you here?

No, you're wrong!

What?

What are you doing to Master?!

Don't stop me. I'm making him spill things about his ex.

Let us hear it in detail.

A-Ai?! Calm down! And she isn't my ex-girlfriend!

Female Imperial Throne, Sainokami Ika, the opponent you're facing next.

She's Yaichi's ex.

She's not my ex!

But yeah, she's your next opponent, Ai.

Truthfully, this isn't something we should

be talking about right before your match, but...

I see.

I understand.

That means she's your ex.

How does it come to that?!

She doesn't actually like me. She just wants to play shogi with me all the time.

I like you.

If I have you, Yaichi, I don't need anything else.

I turned her down and tried to keep my distance from her.

I told her I wanted to focus on shogi.

Then she...

Let's play.

Ya-i-chi.

What's wrong with that person?!

To think she just barged into your home naked...

What a pervert!

Have I not heard a similar story recently?

I was actually wearing clothes!

I'm sorry, Ai.

Right before your important match...

Master, you're um... troubled by Sainokami-sensei's confession, right?

Yeah. Of course.

I don't even like her.

I understand.

To ensure that she'll never trouble you again,

I'll go turn her down with the match!

It's impossible. There's no way she can win.

Really? Sure, there is a gap in their abilities,

but you never know how the match will go until it ends.

You saw it, too, didn't you, Sis?

Ika's match in the first round.

She doesn't care even if the opponent breaks.

She's only interested in making herself stronger.

She's that kind of an... egoist.

So are you telling the brat that because it's impossible to win, she should forfeit?

That's...

There's no way a player will quit an official match.

She won't stop.

That brat...

Sainokami Ika Hinatsuru Ai

Sainokami Ika Hinatsuru Ai

Let's have a good match.

Side Pawn...

Such an obvious provocation.

Kuzuryu-sensei, what is Sainokami-san aiming for?

I don't understand her intention, but...

For all types of Bishop Exchanges, you lose when you lose your composure.

Hinatsuru-san does have an option to keep fighting while leaving her bishop closed...

Face-to-face!

Direct Opposing Rook?!

This is... a very violent development.

Yes. It's an extreme offense formation.

There aren't many match examples, and likely neither has researched this...

That means it'll be a clash of talent against talent.

The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done!

Imperial Female Throne Sainokami Ika Amateur Hinatsuru Ai

Aren't you Yaichi's boarding disciple?

Aren't you playing a lot of shogi with Yaichi every day?

Hand by hand, move by move,

with Yaichi every, every, every, every, every, every, every, every day...

I'm so jealous, it makes me angry.

So I'm going to let you have it.

My judgment.

There you go!

One more!

Is she planning to go all the way?

Okay.

It. Is. Checkmate.

If Ai takes her Gold, it'll be checkmate for Ika.

She's strong...

Hey, hey.

If I win, can you switch with me?

Isn't it meaningless if someone with no talent plays with Yaichi?

That's why I'll switch with you.

It must be so fun.

If it were me who was living with Yaichi,

we'd just stay home every day and play and play.

No one else, but just the two of us will play and play and play.

Being a female pro player is so boring...

Shakando Rina and Tsukiyomizaka Ryo and Kugui Machi and Sora Ginko, too.

They're all fake. They don't see anything.

Ika lost to Sis once.

The reason she lost was...

She put the piece she was supposed to move on the opponent's piece stand.

A foul move that no one had ever seen before.

Ika had ended up doing a move on the board that was a few moves ahead in her mind.

Sis wasn't able to read that move.

If they'd played normally, Sis would've lost.

That's why Sis acknowledges that Ika's talent is above hers.

I'm so disgusted when I see people with no talent playing shogi.

I feel like I'm rotting when I play with those kinds of people.

It's like rotting while I'm still alive!

Ika is strong.

But I don't want Ai to become a player that's only good at shogi.

Someone like Shakando-san, someone like Sis...

True female pro players who have the heart to never give up...

That's why...

Show her, Ai!

The monster drowning in arrogance, who only looks down on others...

The ultimate egoist who only knows how to think about herself...

Here, here, here, here, here, here, here...

The idiot who thinks she's the only one suffering...

Blow her away!

Here, here, here, here, here, here...

Here!

About what you were saying...

Huh? What?

I refuse!

What?

What?!

She attacked instead of defending!

Good!

That kind of check...

isn't scary!

Here!

Huh?!

She's throwing away her Gold?

Huh?

Huh? Whahahahat?

This is weird.

What?

This... What?

The tables have... turned?

Here!

I'm the number one disciple of the Ryuo!

I won't let someone like you take my place!

I see, that's how it is.

You can see it, too.

Here!

It's so hot!

Here!

What? Don't underestimate me, you grade schooler!

Here!

Here!

Female Imperial Throne, Sainokami Ika.

You've used up your allocated time.

Please note that you only have a minute per move from now on.

Ika-chan is using more allocated time than her opponent?!

I-Isn't this the first time?!

That grade schooler isn't normal.

Can you take my Dragon (Ryuo)?

Do you have the courage to do that?!

Taking the Dragon would be the right move.

What? But...

Yes, if she takes the Dragon, Ai will lose.

If not, there still isn't a way to win.

In that case, she's just leaving the Dragon

during overtime to pressure Ika, so that she'll make a mistake.

In just a moment, she's calculated all that?

That brat?

Here!

It's the end.

Yes.

Whoa! Seriously?

Sainokami Ika... against a grade schooler...

S-So strong...

Sainokami Ika lost?

What's with that grade schooler?

That day, Ai and Keika-san also managed to win.

All the members of the Kiyotaki family made it through the preliminaries.

You don't seem too happy.

Yeah. As a master, I couldn't do much for my disciples...

Actually, they might not even need my help!

She's gotten strong enough to beat Ika without a handicap.

Right.

And if you can't even tell why she's suddenly gotten stronger, you're a failure as a master.

Huh?

Now, I'd like to ask the players what their hopes are for the next round.

Hinatsuru Ai-san.

Yashajin Ai-san.

Please tell us.

Yes!

What?

Ai, too?

Hinatsuru-san and Yashajin-san want to gift their victories today to someone, right?

Yes!

Master... Happy 17th birthday!

She knew?

That today, August 1st, is my birthday?

Well, the name "Yaichi" (8-1) is only good for making it easy to remember your birthday.

Master has taught me a lot of things,

but I haven't been able to return the favor.

That's why I decided with Ai-chan,

that on Master's birthday, we'd present you a stronger us!

Because if we don't get stronger,

Master won't be able to focus on the upcoming Ryuo match.

Happy Birthday, Master.

Please continue to stay as my master.

Okay! It's your turn next, Ai-chan.

I'm okay.

Didn't we promise we'd do it together?

I play shogi for myself...

Up to this point, and from now on...

But today, I played just for you.

J-Just today, okay?!

Ah... M-Master?

W-Wait! What are you...

Both of you... thank you.

Master...

Hmph.

Shogi Association

Two weeks after the Mynavi preliminaries, the Ryuo's challenger match was held.

I will bet everything on this hand!

Excalibur!

Subway Rook?!

Is he trying to invade with his King?

He reached the deepest part.

With this, Ayumu's King will not be checked.

The King...

...is being pushed back?

It sounds unbelievable,

but the Meijin changed the trajectory a slight bit, and led Ayumu's King out.

Ayumu didn't manage to invade with his King.

He was made to invade...

It's my loss.

Kannabe Ayumu: He's strong.

So my opponent was decided. The god-like, undefeated king...

Shogi World

Kannabe Ayumu, Heads Toward the Ryuo's Challenger Match. I" want to dance with the Meijin on the board."

Eternal Seven Crown, The Challenge Towards His 100th Title Holding

The Meijin.