Ayumu Tanaka, a first-year student, abandons the Kendo Club on a whim to join the illicit Shogi Club. Urushi Yaotome, the club's president and a shogi expert, is overjoyed to finally have a playing partner. Urushi aspires to be Ayumu's shogi mentor and student role model as an upperclassman. But all too frequently, she finds herself blushing with embarrassment! Ayumu, who is stone-faced and honest, has no problem calling Urushi "cute." Although he likes her, he refrains from admitting and swears to first beat her in a game of shogi. The two youngsters have numerous humorous and heartwarming adventures through school life and shogi games. Ayumu adores Urushi, but he is still a long way from beating her at shogi. Using the