"Thank you very much!" After taking a sip of water, Okumura finally managed to swallow the rice that had gotten stuck in his throat because of his earlier recklessness.
"Don't worry about it!
You don't have to use honorifics with me either!
Neither Black-bellied Glasses nor I really like them!" Sendou waved a hand casually and started eating.
Only then did Okumura and Seto Takuma notice that Sendou had taken two plates. One was filled with a proper meal: rice, meat, vegetables, miso soup, and everything else.
The other plate was entirely meat...
"What is it?
Ah!
I'm not very good at picking fish bones, so I rarely eat fish!" Sendou looked up at their wide-eyed expressions in confusion. Then, noticing that they were staring at his food, he explained.
"No, no!
That's not the issue with the fish, is it?" Seto Takuma grumbled inwardly.
But he still had enough reverence for his upperclassman that he did not dare say it aloud.
"Do you always eat this much, senpai?" Okumura, who was usually quieter, was the one who spoke up instead.
His buddy beside him probably did not understand, but Sendou did. Perhaps their first meeting on the day Okumura moved in had made him more relaxed around Sendou.
"Yeah!
I've always had a big appetite since I was little!
But because of that, when I first joined the club last year, I at least had no trouble getting past the eating part!
Don't let Eijun... no, Sawamura fool you. He was the first one to throw up last year!" Sendou answered while exposing Sawamura's embarrassing history.
"Still!
You don't need to rush. If you can't finish, just eat slowly. Your appetite will gradually adapt to this amount of food as you train and get used to eating like this!"