![]() There was only one man Ogata had ever considered truly dignified, and this man's dignity exuded an aura that was far more palpable up here than it had been in life. About to retort, Ogata paused as he recognized the figure seated in a corner who had lifted his head from the goban. Some of the go-players turned to look when Kuwabara wheezed in loud hoary laughter as offensive in death as it had been in life. "Old friends, Ogata-kun? A past past-life? Is that why you like fish so much? Hee hee!" When he turned around, Kuwabara had stopped and was squinting at him with a speculative look. He watched, riveted, as it hovered for a few moments, then shook itself out of its daze-three shakes of the head, left-right-left-and then turned-to the left, of course, angled a little upwards-before swimming away slowly. The fish in the tank plunked against the glass, the familiar timbre stopping Ogata mid-stride. For six months, she had bounced off surfaces of varying hardness before cutting herself on a sharp edge and succumbing to infection. He'd called her Grace, because she was prone to bumping into the glass of the tank or colliding with the other fish. He'd had a koi angel once, a brilliant red-orange fish marbled with black and white, just like the one before him. Ogata paused a moment that one wasn't common. The fish inside were familiar ornamental freshwater fish: pretty enough, but ordinary, and nothing Ogata hadn't seen before. Where the original go salon had held a spotlighted stone sculpture, though, there was a large fishtank instead. The room didn't smell of smoke like the Touya salon did, but it had the same inviting leather sofas, tastefully decorative vases and calligraphy scrolls, soft lighting, and many gobans. #GOBAN SALON PROFESSIONAL#He'd lost count of the number of pick-up games he'd played in go salons when he was younger, or the number of people he'd met as a professional coaching at conferences and tournaments. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ogata didn't recognize any of the faces, though none were completely unfamiliar to him. There were a few people in the go salon, and they were all dressed mainly in white, but there were so many different styles of clothing on display-suits, kimono, yukata, t-shirts, even white jeans-it didn't seem as if there was a uniform. On the other side of the archway was a room remarkably similar to the go salon Touya Kouyou had owned in real life. Summary: Ogata meets some old friends in the great go salon in the sky. Characters: Ogata, Kuwabara, Touya Kouyou, Sai ![]()
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