idk I guess I still play this dumb asshole

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[anomia]

That sounds pretty dramatic for sports.

Raimei exhibits her usual lack of brain-to-mouth filter by saying a moment later, brow furrowed, "That's pretty dramatic for sports. What kind of authority was that? You can't let some arrogant jerk with a complex keep you down, if that's what it is!"

She smacks a curled fist into her other palm, not like a punch but straight down, to make a point. Guess who serves that role on her team? Not knowing when to quit was basically Raimei's job.

[shikisuru]

Her lack of filter doesn't make him falter one bit. The smile hasn't faded from his face, and his expression seems to wordlessly say, I thought you'd say that. Truth be told, that is in fact exactly what he's thinking.

"I have noticed that soccer seems to get a little more... excitement, I suppose you can say, than the other sports. I've talked to classmates from different clubs, and that's the impression I've gotten."

None of them have had to travel through the time-space continuum because somewhere in the future (two hundred years from now, to be specific) the pursuit of stronger and stronger soccer had given birth to a genetic mutation that resulted in children being born with psychic powers and consequentially short lifespans, and how discrimination against those children had pushed them to guerrilla warfare.

... He's glad it's just one sport.

"That threat is already gone. The current captain of our team wouldn't ever let us play so half-heartedly again."

[anomia]

Her face scrunches up in disgruntlement, before relaxing into a steady, quieter concern. Raimei's life is such that threat is a loaded word for her, and she doesn't exactly focus on two things at once.

"Was it really a threat? Because, we're family now! Maybe you're not a Shimizu, but I'll totally beat up anyone who's threatening you, Shindou-kun, just say the word!"

[shikisuru]

"Y-you don't have to beat up anybody, Raimei. And you can call me Takuto as well -- as you say, we're family now."

He makes a mental note to word things a little differently, since she seems to be the type to take words like 'threat'... very seriously. Almost literally.

"Youth soccer was under the control of an organization in the government called the Fifth Sector for a few years. It was recently disbanded with the appointment of a new executive."