[i]Farang means foreigner huh? Well, that makes sense.[/i]

Ichiro allowed himself to be led over to the shade of a nearby tree, stepping lightly on his bruised leg as advised, his injuries bothering him enough that he felt relieved to be able to lean his weight against its trunk by the time he got there. His head would probably feel fine by the end of the day, assuming nothing had been rattled around too much, but his leg would likely bother him for a couple days at least.

He’d likely have to skip practise for a while.

The fact that Kasemchai was only Rank 11 came as a surprise; Ichiro had fought people ranked twice as high as that or more and they weren’t nearly as strong as the Thai student had been. Granted he had lost to them as well, but he could still notice a difference in power when he was on the receiving end of it. Well, he was a transfer student after all; his low rank was just a result of him only having started recently and not having as much time to earn points as the rest of them.

[color=6ecff6]“Well, ever since the student council president changed the rules all anyone has cared about in this school is their rank and fighting; you can’t do anything without having enough power or enough points, including running a baseball team. No one on our team is all that strong, so we get pushed around a lot and we can’t earn points for equipment or anything else.”[/color] Since Kasemchai had asked Ichiro didn’t have any problems sharing his motivations with his fellow student. He was pretty sure most people had an idea of what was going on anyway, it wasn’t like he was quiet about it or that it was a big secret.

[color=6ecff6]“I wasn’t really interested in fighting, but if things carried on the way they were there wasn’t going to be a team for much longer. Everyone put their points together to buy an AED so one of us could earn points for the rest of us.”[/color] Ichiro raised Slugger up to illustrate his point. [color=6ecff6]“I’m the only one who could use it.”[/color]

Admittedly things hadn’t been going too well since then; he’d managed to go from Rank 0 to Rank 7 in a short enough time, but he wasn’t the best fighter and the school had a lot of people who were better than him. Plenty of people who weren’t so good either, but they weren’t worth many points and Ichiro felt bad challenging someone who couldn’t or didn’t want to fight. [color=6ecff6]“What about you? Did you transfer here just so you could fight?”[/color]

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