:17:08
If I'm not mistaken,
:17:10
aren't you the kindly samurai
who rescued me
:17:15
when I nearly fell in the water?
:17:20
Hardly worthy of the name, I'm afraid.
:17:29
So you play chess, do you?
:17:33
As a matter of fact,
:17:35
I'm really very fond
of chess myself.
:17:42
Perhaps you would let me
challenge you to a match?
:17:47
Sure.
:17:50
Great. Thanks.
:17:54
So tell me,
what name do you go by?
:17:58
My name is Ichi.
:18:02
Isn't Ichi what they call
:18:04
any blind masseur
of a certain rank?
:18:09
In my case,
it's also my real name.
:18:13
Well, then,
:18:15
if your real name is Ichimatsu,
they call you Matsu no Ichi,
:18:19
and if it's Ichitaro,
they call you Taro no Ichi.
:18:23
That's true,
:18:26
but I was always just called Ichi
from the time I was little
:18:31
so Ichi is really
the only name I know.
:18:39
In other words,
:18:44
you're just plain old Ichi.
:18:49
All right, then.
:18:51
Plain Old Ichi.
:18:54
Let's see who goes first.
Throw these pieces.