Failure to Communicate
Tezuka did not place his confidence in words. They were, he had found, were tricky, altogether too slippery in meaning, and unreliable. Words meant to heal wounded; words meant to reconcile divided.
There were better ways to communicate.
Instead of words, he trusted to the things left unsaid, the things that could be read on the face or in the posture, and the things that passed between players, from racquet to tennis ball to racquet.
Tezuka knew that if he had managed to play a match against Fuji Yuuta, things would have gone much differently, and perhaps better.
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