Chapters 25-28 Summary

Uragami's newspaper wants the match to continue if at all possible, and after examination by two doctors, it is decided the Master can continue to play. Rather than playing for five hours every five days, the rules are changed to hold sessions every two or three days for half as long. Otake lodges a complaint that he cannot get enough rest in only two days, and cannot get fully into his game in only a few hours of play. He is in a difficult spot, he confides to Uragami, because if the Master gets worse it will be said that it is Otake's fault. He feels the proper thing for the Master to do if he cannot meet the rules of the match is to forfeit. Otake threatens to forfeit himself, but his wife and others convince him to continue.

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