[And if Rise is watching closely, she might manage to catch Yagyuu's mask slipping back down a little farther at that comment. More and more, this match is feeling like a pendulum, swinging back and forth between realizations and recognitions, and this time it's swung back to the beginning, back to the reminder that no, this opponent isn't like the others, she doesn't understand like his teammates and cohorts would.
Honored? She's honored? Sarcasm might've been one thing, but to say that with sincerity...
It's only a small measure of standing she's lost in his opinion, but his eyes are colder now, his expression more guarded, his smile more polite. The messages are conflicting and as yet, he hasn't had time to sort them out, so he's forced to take them as they come and catalogue them later--does she have that spirit or doesn't she? Can she possibly understand what it means, belonging to a team like theirs? Does she think it was a gift, a favor, that he ensnared her into letting him hit his Laser?
He showed it for a reason, but not as a gift. And if she can't make sense of what that reason is, then perhaps that will be the end, the door of opportunity irrevocably closed.]
I'm looking forward to your answer.
[And he returns to the back of his court, waiting for her serve, and it comes better than before--harder, faster, now possessed with more of a message--and the pendulum begins to swing back again. Is she or isn't she? Do you have it in you to understand, Kujikawa-san?
He returns the serve with force equal to her own, adding a new measure of pressure to the gameplay.
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Honored? She's honored? Sarcasm might've been one thing, but to say that with sincerity...
It's only a small measure of standing she's lost in his opinion, but his eyes are colder now, his expression more guarded, his smile more polite. The messages are conflicting and as yet, he hasn't had time to sort them out, so he's forced to take them as they come and catalogue them later--does she have that spirit or doesn't she? Can she possibly understand what it means, belonging to a team like theirs? Does she think it was a gift, a favor, that he ensnared her into letting him hit his Laser?
He showed it for a reason, but not as a gift. And if she can't make sense of what that reason is, then perhaps that will be the end, the door of opportunity irrevocably closed.]
I'm looking forward to your answer.
[And he returns to the back of his court, waiting for her serve, and it comes better than before--harder, faster, now possessed with more of a message--and the pendulum begins to swing back again. Is she or isn't she? Do you have it in you to understand, Kujikawa-san?
He returns the serve with force equal to her own, adding a new measure of pressure to the gameplay.
Show me. Show me. Show me.]