“Ha. All right. Maybe we’ll grab him up after his shift one of these days and hit a bar or two,” Akaya says. He might even buy him a drink. Back in their schooldays, he might have let Jackal and Marui treat him quite regularly (the perks of being the kouhai) but he’s grown up a little bit since then.
He takes out a fork and really digs in, stuffing his face with a mouthful.
"Yeah. He'd like that." So would Marui. The three of them don't hang out nearly as often anymore now that they've all graduated. Life and all that. Each of them had aspirations of their own: Jackal's restaurant, Akaya's music career, his own professional tennis path. All three demanded considerable time and energy, and that made it hard to coordinate. And Marui had never really been that skilled with planning and organizing. He was great at rallying people up for a spontaneous trip out, but once you threw competing schedules into the mix, it just took all of the buzz out of it.
"We're gearing up for the season. Practice is brutal right now, but I've got a new trick in the works to surprise Sanada with. He's mine next time we have a match."
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He takes out a fork and really digs in, stuffing his face with a mouthful.
“So? What’s new with you, senpai?”
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"We're gearing up for the season. Practice is brutal right now, but I've got a new trick in the works to surprise Sanada with. He's mine next time we have a match."