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"I'm sorry... But I'm not asking you for your forgiveness. Not yet." He replied. "I feel so much guilt, and yet a part of me wants to shout at you so badly." The corners of his mouth try to curl up at that admission. "If only you had put your carefulness at the top of your list. But you do not. For all the caution you raise your team up under, you do not practice it enough yourself."
"Sometimes winning means taking risks." Tezuka says, and somehow he feels he is apologising for his actions by offering some kind of explanation. Fuji does things like this to him, unintentionally.
"Not at the risk of yourself!" Fuji says harshly. "We had this discussion once before. And still you did not learn the lesson. Why do you think so little of yourself that you can so carelessly discard an entire limb?"
Tezuka cannot reply; he has never seen it as such. But never before has a match been such a risk to his arm. How would you know what you would do until the moment comes?
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"I really didn't think, until the last possible moment, that you would really let yourself be hurt so badly." Fuji admits. "As if that is an excuse... But I thought you had realised. I thought you had learnt from last time. Obviously my point was not made clearly enough. Tennis is more important, winning is more important. And pain is more memorable, and more compelling."
"Compelling?"
"Isn't that the one last thing that was keeping you going?" Fuji asks almost innocently. "We all knew there was a low chance you would win. We all knew there was a substitute who could recover the score for us. If you really wanted Echizen to step up, you would have let him. But the pain made your goals and your sense disappear, no?"
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"I'm sorry... But I'm not asking you for your forgiveness. Not yet." He replied. "I feel so much guilt, and yet a part of me wants to shout at you so badly." The corners of his mouth try to curl up at that admission. "If only you had put your carefulness at the top of your list. But you do not. For all the caution you raise your team up under, you do not practice it enough yourself."
"Sometimes winning means taking risks." Tezuka says, and somehow he feels he is apologising for his actions by offering some kind of explanation. Fuji does things like this to him, unintentionally.
"Not at the risk of yourself!" Fuji says harshly. "We had this discussion once before. And still you did not learn the lesson. Why do you think so little of yourself that you can so carelessly discard an entire limb?"
Tezuka cannot reply; he has never seen it as such. But never before has a match been such a risk to his arm. How would you know what you would do until the moment comes?
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"I really didn't think, until the last possible moment, that you would really let yourself be hurt so badly." Fuji admits. "As if that is an excuse... But I thought you had realised. I thought you had learnt from last time. Obviously my point was not made clearly enough. Tennis is more important, winning is more important. And pain is more memorable, and more compelling."
"Compelling?"
"Isn't that the one last thing that was keeping you going?" Fuji asks almost innocently. "We all knew there was a low chance you would win. We all knew there was a substitute who could recover the score for us. If you really wanted Echizen to step up, you would have let him. But the pain made your goals and your sense disappear, no?"
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