Sendou's intuition was right again. The root of it all lay in White Hair's struggle before betraying his sister...
After all, White Hair really didn't want to call a junior "big brother"...
About half a month earlier...
"Naru! Are you still mad?!" Carlos looked helplessly at Narumiya Mei, who had been so furious at Sendou that he had been sulking for half the day without responding.
"Carlo!
I've known him for quite a while now, right?!" Seeing Carlos strike up a conversation, White Hair wanted someone to help him sort things out.
"Yeah!
Ever since the day before we played them last year, when he nearly pissed you off to death!"
"Let's not bring that up, okay?!!
Anyone would get mad hearing the kind of things he said, right?!"
"But his ability was the real deal too!!
Sorry, I got sidetracked!
What did you want to say?!"
"Why can't he just talk properly?!!"
"You're the same way!!"
"?!!!" White Hair showed signs of bristling.
"Why do you want to get along with him?!
Isn't the way things are now pretty good?!"
"I don't know!"
"...!" Carlos looked utterly dead inside.
This wasn't the time to be willful, damn it!
"Maybe! He's the only man who's ever left such a deep impression on me!
And aside from the occasional unbearable things that came out of his mouth, he's a really good guy!!"
What did he mean, occasional? You're practically his pet now!! Carlos didn't dare say that aloud, or the guy in front of him would throw a fit.
So he settled down and thought it over again!
"Now that you mention it, that's true. As long as you calm down and talk with him for a bit, he makes people feel close to him!!
Aside from how awful he could