It was a cloudy afternoon.

A girl of about 18 years of age entered the go -haired, tall, and pretty faced and fashionable that the receptionist of the institute started to wonder if ever the woman was supposed to be in a different location. After looking around, she approach the receptionist and ask where was a certain shindo hikaru…

"ah…he might be in the observation room watching the ouza match"

"sou desu ka…is he alone?"

"touya- sensei and touya 6dan is there ,ogata sensei and some others ,I think.." the receptionist said with a confused look.

"arigatou. I'll proceed then",

Looks like fun since the other players who wants to know about sai are there…she smirked.

There was a very interesting discussion going on in the observation room…top level. The game between the ouza and his challenger ,though not that good is being studied. when they were about to go out,the door of the room opened revealing a pretty lady with the same age as shindo and touya.

"hello! How are you hikaru?"

"an acquaintance of yours shindo?"waya ask with isumi and touya looking at him and the girl curiouslyand with inquiry.

"huh?ano….who are you?i don't think we had met before…" shindo answered uncertain of what to think about the person in front of them.

"nope !!!we didn't!!! I'm surprise that you're doing well…after that person left …no that isn't right…?let's say after that person fade and vanish…"while watching shindo intently.

The others inside the room became confused as to what topic they are talking about . their curiosity was more peaked when they saw a look of shock and anguish in shindo's face.

"shindo?...are you alright?" his friends said.

"how do you know about that ….how…"

"I just know …it's a pity ,ne for sai's fate to be like that. All he ever wanted was to play go"she trailed…"it must be good then for sai to vanish like that, it lifts up your burden right hikaru?"

"no!!!! sai was never a burden to me….."shindo said ,his voice now cracked.

"is that so?" the lady said,crimsoned eyes looking intently at shindo as if challenging his statement.

The other people in the room were speechless with the knowledge that shindo now gave,that apparently he really know sai. His friends were wide-eyed specially waya and touya. Even ogata sensei was speechless until he grab shindo's hand.

"you!!!you said you didn't know sai,you liar….i was asking a game against that player and you…"

"you can't play him anymore" the lady cut ogata off.

"and why is that? Who are you anyway" waya asked,obviously pissed by the fact that shindo didn't tell them, his friends about the whole sai business.

"who am I is not important." she then face shindo again." hikaru,... because of your selfishness sai vanished right? You can't hear his voice anymore,right?"

"I didn't mean to,sai just …sai…didn't say anything."

"because you didn't care. All sai wanted was go but you denied it from him. He loved you, taught you go, cheer you when touya and the insei looked down on you,gave you strength and everthing but you let him disappear. You even said that someday you'll erase sai in touya's head. Touya this,touya that. All you care about is touya. Not only that, but the last straw that you've done, you had absorbed sai!!!! What a horrible brother you are…."