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[September 7] [Hikaru no Go] Dr. Mom
Title: Dr. Mom
Day/Theme: September 7 / Herr doktor
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character/Pairing: Touya / Shindou
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Dr. Mom
Shindou had agreed to bring his mother to watch Touya play an exhibition game.
“Touya-san’s doing well isn’t he?” she whispered.
Shindou shook his head. “Nah, I think that he’s going to lose this one.”
“Really? But he’s giving Kurata-san such a hard time, right?”
“Mom, you don’t know anything about the game. How can you say that?”
His mother was quiet a moment, thinking. “The same way that I know that Touya-kun is an important person to you.”
Shindou shifted uneasily in his seat. “Ah… what do you mean…?”
His mother laughed softly. “Hikaru, your ears are turning red!”
* * * * *
author’s note:
A shameless retelling of a famous Go game between Gennan Inseki, an 8-dan player and master of a Go school, and Honinbo Shusaku, then only 17 years old and a 4-dan player. The event has come to be known as “The Ear-Reddening Game.”
Up to move 127, it was generally thought that Gennan was winning the game but a doctor in the audience voiced the opinion that he believed that Shusaku would win the game.
When asked why, the doctor claimed no superior knowledge of the game but rather that he had observed that Gennan’s ears had become flushed (hence the nomiker, “ear-reddening game”) when Shusaku played out move 127 which told him that Gennan had been surprised and taken back by the brilliant hand.
And indeed, Shusaku went on to win the game.
Day/Theme: September 7 / Herr doktor
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character/Pairing: Touya / Shindou
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Dr. Mom
Shindou had agreed to bring his mother to watch Touya play an exhibition game.
“Touya-san’s doing well isn’t he?” she whispered.
Shindou shook his head. “Nah, I think that he’s going to lose this one.”
“Really? But he’s giving Kurata-san such a hard time, right?”
“Mom, you don’t know anything about the game. How can you say that?”
His mother was quiet a moment, thinking. “The same way that I know that Touya-kun is an important person to you.”
Shindou shifted uneasily in his seat. “Ah… what do you mean…?”
His mother laughed softly. “Hikaru, your ears are turning red!”
* * * * *
author’s note:
A shameless retelling of a famous Go game between Gennan Inseki, an 8-dan player and master of a Go school, and Honinbo Shusaku, then only 17 years old and a 4-dan player. The event has come to be known as “The Ear-Reddening Game.”
Up to move 127, it was generally thought that Gennan was winning the game but a doctor in the audience voiced the opinion that he believed that Shusaku would win the game.
When asked why, the doctor claimed no superior knowledge of the game but rather that he had observed that Gennan’s ears had become flushed (hence the nomiker, “ear-reddening game”) when Shusaku played out move 127 which told him that Gennan had been surprised and taken back by the brilliant hand.
And indeed, Shusaku went on to win the game.