[B]MATSUOKA MINORU[/B]

It took all of my willpower, as well as Cloacina assuming direct control over my eyelids ([color=00aeef]I definitely deserve thanks for that, don't I?[/color]) which I hadn't asked for in the first place ([color=00aeef]You have to learn to appreciate other people's help, Matsuoka![/color]), to not flinch at the sight of Adachi Ruriko's approach. The sheer level of rage and bloodlust burning in her amber eyes was horrifying, and I personally really didn't want to be on the receiving end of her anger, especially after seeing the display that was her fight. Thanks to the 'help' I got from Cloacina ([color=00aeef]Hey![/color]), unfortunately, it looks like I'm not going to be able to avoid getting the living nightlights beaten out of me.

[color=00aeef]It's daylights, Matsuoka, but you'll be [i]fiiiine[/i]. The educator is here![/color]

A sigh of relief leaves my mouth before I can hold it back. My gaze moves immediately towards my saviour - it's Miss Hoshino. I'm very thankful for the PE teacher's intervention. Her presence is, to use the American expression, very much a sight for sore eyes, because thanks to her, I've avoided what could possibly have been a lifetime of pain. All because Cloacina chose to ride my back on the entire training shindig and rushed things when I was far from ready. ([color=00aeef]Struggle builds character![/color]) Said struggle, of course, has likely doomed me to a future with a taciturn samurai girl.

And maybe the foreign girl too?

[color=00aeef]You worry too much about the future, Matsuoka.[/color]

Worries about the present are not particularly my 'thing', so to speak.

"[color=00a651]That was ah, my god's doin',[/color]" I immediately explain after the white girl. Even if it appears I am, to use the American expression, throwing Cloacina under the wheels of a truck ([color=00aeef]It's [i]bus[/i], and hey![/color]), it would be for the best if I were to provide the full details behind my accidental acceptance of the challenge before any assumptions were made. The possibility of me avoiding an incredibly lopsided duel would then exist, as well. "[color=00a651]She can, ah, control my body anytahm she wants, yaknow?[/color]"