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Touya insisted a large keima at the right time and place would have saved Shindou's game, but Shindou argued otherwise, annoyed that Touya had thought a quick sideways glance could beat his judgement, and that Touya had found time to digress from his own first-captain match.

Mental Go only worked so much when pressed against the walls of a swaying train, so both promptly changed their destination station.

We don't want to be disturbed, it was Shindou who informed her this time, while Touya nodded at her with bloodshot eyes as they hauled their overnight bags to the back of the salon.

Ichikawa considered it warning enough that the yelling would commence with little to no preamble, so she went to alert Koga-san, who had a heart condition.

It was pretty much the usual, and she felt a little bad for Akira when she heard him finally say, "Oh, I see," which Shindou immediately pounced on without mercy. A hushed conversation followed, then a long silence hinting at an absorbing game, and Ichikawa faithfully kept the other customers from their table.

Touya and Shindou woke up to her gentle nudges, hours and a worried phone call from home later, when even a Polaroid flash did nothing to stir them up, uncomfortable though those entangled limbs must have been.

Since then, Koga-san had much rarer health-threatening moments at the salon, though he never found out what it was with Ichikawa's raised eyebrows that could shut the boys up in a matter of seconds.

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