[Ren gives a short, awkward laugh.] I'm still caught up in it.
[If anything, Kai had only made it worse and worse with his little becoming-Void's-emissary stunt and then they way he'd gone after Aichi...but anyway.]
Kai joined our team, and for a while I was content with that. But Kai was also very good already, and he worked much harder than we ever did to get even better. I didn't want to let him down, or Tetsu.
So I threw everything I had into getting stronger. I visited card shops every day I could and played until they had to close. I read everything I could get my hands on about Vanguard. I switched clans and I worked on my deck until I fell asleep at my desk. Getting stronger for the sake of our team became the only thing I thought about.
[Basically, this was vastly more passion than he has ever showed during on of their lessons, even the first one when he had wanted to distract himself as much as possible from being upset about Hibari, pr the one the other day that he had certainly been taking seriously...but not this seriously. Whether Shun can correctly induce from that that he has been holding himself back...
He looks down at his coffee, suddenly seeming very interested in it, and as he goes on, his voice has that light quality it gets when he's talking about something that bothers him but he doesn't want to show how much.]
And then one night, I gained the power I thought I was looking for. I could hear the voice of my cards, and they promised to lead me to victory if I listened to them.
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[If anything, Kai had only made it worse and worse with his little becoming-Void's-emissary stunt and then they way he'd gone after Aichi...but anyway.]
Kai joined our team, and for a while I was content with that. But Kai was also very good already, and he worked much harder than we ever did to get even better. I didn't want to let him down, or Tetsu.
So I threw everything I had into getting stronger. I visited card shops every day I could and played until they had to close. I read everything I could get my hands on about Vanguard. I switched clans and I worked on my deck until I fell asleep at my desk. Getting stronger for the sake of our team became the only thing I thought about.
[Basically, this was vastly more passion than he has ever showed during on of their lessons, even the first one when he had wanted to distract himself as much as possible from being upset about Hibari, pr the one the other day that he had certainly been taking seriously...but not this seriously. Whether Shun can correctly induce from that that he has been holding himself back...
He looks down at his coffee, suddenly seeming very interested in it, and as he goes on, his voice has that light quality it gets when he's talking about something that bothers him but he doesn't want to show how much.]
And then one night, I gained the power I thought I was looking for. I could hear the voice of my cards, and they promised to lead me to victory if I listened to them.