Chapter 167: The Unseen Pieces on the Shogi Board
After spending a few minutes casually chatting with the enthusiastic maid girl and the mischievous little kid who had been hanging around the venue—
The second round of the preliminaries began.
Yukima Azuma took his seat.
His opponent this round: a professional 4-dan shogi player.
But to him, that meant nothing.
To Yukima Azuma, the world of shogi consisted of only two kinds of players.
Those who held the title of Meijin—
And everyone else.
If you weren’t a Meijin, then you were just another piece to be taken off the board.
No exceptions.
With his level 9 shogi ability, Yukima didn’t just possess instinct or talent—he held complete technical mastery. From yose and tsume techniques to the most obscure joseki formations, from hypermodern defensive play to sacrificial chaos styles, he had them all. His knowledge was encyclopedic. His instincts honed. His playstyle was a hybrid of deep AI-like precision and godlike intuition.