Chapter 13 · free to read
A patchwork board under white lamps, checked by men paid to find exactly the thing they were about to fail to find.
Kuroi. It means black. It took me four seconds to think of and it fooled a stadium of four million.
They had never seen anyone ride flat-footed. There is no reason to — unless your ears have stopped being enough.
Sohma wasn't only killing me this tournament. He was thinning the whole field. I heard it four seconds before it happened, and I still only saved the one.
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