2nd part: Hikaru wants to play

Hikaru go to the school tournament. While waiting to his teamates arrival, he looks at a training game between two pupils. By accident, one of them pulls stones away with the handle of his jacket. Then, Hikaru purposes to recreate the game.

He is able to recreat the game by memory and even Sai is impressed. Sai thinks that Hikaru has certainly talent to play go.

The first round begins and opposites Haze's junior high school (Kaga and Tsutsui's) to Kawahagi junior high school. The opposing team laugh at them 'cause Hikaru doesn't know how the clock works, Tsutsui plays with his book and Kaga comes from shogi team. But Tsutsui and Kaga win so they can play the second round.

During this time, Akira, who wants to join the prestigious Kaio's junior high school, meets the director. This one tries to convince him to go to the go club time to time. But Akira is still depressed by his defeat against Hikaru Shindo.

In the second round, Kaga wins easily his game but Tsutsui is about to loose. Kaga go to observe Hikaru's game (the boy wants to play by himself in this tournament and play poorly). Kaga is surprised by Hikaru's way of playing when he found him so strong before. He decides to make the little boy believe that Tsutsui won't be authorized to open the go club if they don't win the tournament. He hopes Hikaru'll play more seriously.

Hikaru is sad he isn't able to win by himself. He asks Sai to play and the ghost reverses the game. They are qualified for the final game against famous Kaio junior high.

This time, Kaga faces a strong opponent. Tsutsui, who had his book be confiscated by Kaga, is in a bad situation. Only Hikaru (Sai) play perfectly. At this point, the director asks Akira to see the go tournament. This one is very surprised to recognize Hikaru and look at his game.

Thanks to a big mistake from his opponent, Tsutsui win his match whereas Hikaru win against Kaio's third captain. Everyone here is impressed by Hikaru's game. But when Haze is declared victorious, a neighbour recognize Hikaru (who is too young to enter the tournament) and the team is disqualified.

Akira congratulates Hikaru and tell him he won't run away from him and he has to beat him to achieve his goal : mastered the divine move.

Akira congratulates Hikaru and tell him he won't run away from him and he has to beat him to achieve his goal : mastered the divine move.

When Hikaru tell him he won't play against him anymore, Akira decides to join Kaio's go club to play Hikaru at the tournament.

When he is better than everyone else in this club, the others hate him.

There is even a plot against him. Three boys want to humiliate him to make him leave the go club. They ask him to play blind go against them.Akira takes up the challenge because he absolutely wants to play against Hikaru.

During this time, Hikaru and Tsutsui look for a third member and stick posters with tsumego (death and life problems). Someone has answer right and thanks to Akari, they learn it's a first year boy named Mitani who did that.

By chance, Hikaru meets him at a go center. He sees the young boy cheating when he counts the territories at the end of the game.

The following day, he forces Mitani to go to the school go club and tries to convince him to join the club and to stop cheating. Mitani, who doesn't want to play, begins a match against Tsutsui but uses a trick to stop the game (he hits a stone against the go-board to make Tsutsui believe he has play. Tsutsui plays twice and be disqualified). Mitani goes away and refuses to join the club.

Hikaru comes back to the Go Center where he meets Mitani first.

This one plays against adult customers while betting lots of money. But the owner of the Go center who realizes the young redhead is cheating, is decided to give him a lesson. He asked a specialist; Dake, who ask Mitani a game, betting a very important amount of money.

Mitani seems quite self-confident. The man plays poorly and holds his stone like a beginner. But suddenly, the man begins to play with his left hand. He plays better and starts cheating by moving the stones in order to increase his advance.

Mitani can't do anything against him and loses. He runs away from there and Hikaru asks Dake for a game to earn the money Mitani lost. He lets Sai play and win.

Mitani agrees to enter the go club even if Tsutsui is anxious about that.

The young redhead boy is a good player and Hikaru increase his level by playing against him.

The school tournament approaches and Akira has to convince Mr Yun, the go teacher, to appoint him third board (and not first) in order to fight Hikaru.

It's the day the tournament takes place. Hikaru is surprised to see Akira in Kaio's go club and to learn he will be his opponent if Haze succeeds in the first round. The Kaio's go team defy Haze's one and Mitani wants to beat Kishimoto, Kaio's first captain who doesn't seem to see him as an adversary.

Hikaru wants to play his games by himself and win his first match like Tsutsui and Mitani despite a bad beginning. At lunchtime, Hikaru heard a talk between Kishimoto and a girl from Kaio about Akira. They say Akira was victim of persecutions and ignored them in order to play against Hikaru Shindo. This one feels sad and decides to let Sai play to satisfy Akira.

When they face each other, Akira shacked from the fear he has to fight Hikaru but he manages to dominate his nervousness. While Mitani try to impress Kishimoto, Sai plays against Akira.

But suddenly, Sai hesitates whereas Hikaru sees a place to play. He asks himself how big is the difference in strength between Akira and him and decides to play by himself.

All of a sudden, Akira gets up from his chair, believing Hikaru is fooling him in playing so poorly. He is very disappointed by discovering Hikaru's true level and hurries to finish the game.

Mitani and Tsutsui lose their match and cries but Kishimoto admit Mitani plays better than he was expected.