"An insei?!"
"The greatest in history..."
No matter how he struggled, he could not escape his final fate. Touya Akira unwillingly placed his last stone.
Even without counting, he could tell that he had lost.
By two points!
The outcome had been decided from the opening!
Was this really Go skill learned within half a year?
It felt even stronger than Sai!
Back then, he had played such a beginner-level game before him. Back then, he had even been going to give him a teaching game.
Thinking of how he had always been called a genius by the outside world, Touya Akira felt his face burn.
Half a year ago, he had already possessed the strength of a professional Go player. After half a year of desperately chasing after Shindo Hikaru, he had grown even stronger.
But now, he realized that all his improvement over the past half year amounted to nothing!
"You were born for Go. I'm glad I was able to play this game with you. My only regret is that I didn't get to finish that teaching game with you when you had just begun learning."
After being dazed for a while, Touya Akira recovered through the force of his own Go.
His gaze was calm, his face filled with sincere regret.
Unlike Shindo Hikaru, Touya Akira had always wanted to catch up to Shindo Hikaru, his peer who had defeated him.
But when facing Xu Yue, he did not even have the thought of catching up.
It was not that the gap between him and Xu Yue was currently too great. Rather, from the moment Xu Yue surpassed him, the gap between them could only grow wider. There was no possibility of catching up...
When no amount of effort could allow him to catch up to