"So… you truly thought I was gonna hit you?"
"Well…" he adjusted his glasses, "it was still a possibility… with a very high percentage of occurrence…"
"Far below 50%," she tried to reason, "and it's not like numbers have ever stopped you from giving your best," she grinned, remembering his tendency to prove wrong – for his own benefit – his ever meticulous estimates whenever it came to tennis.
"Whatever happened – or happens – at the court had nothing to do with this," he stated in a very solemn tone, not with a certain degree of pride after her undercover compliment, though. "I was nervous."
"Even after hugging, finally dropping that horrid senpai, and walking hand in hand?" she almost giggled.
"Look, I'm fully aware how silly it sounds in retrospective. Like everything was in my favor, but… when it comes to you, even a 1% chance of failing would've freaked me out."
"Awww."
"Mae-chan, please," he was scarlet.
"But you make probabilities sound so romantic."
"So, you don't believe me a coward?"
She chuckled. "You went ahead, fear and all and kissed me, right?"
"If you can call that a kiss," it was his turn to chuckle. "I barely knew what I was doing. Yours was the real thing."
"Nonsense. Yours was still the first, technically. And… that's the version I'm telling him," Inui Mae's hand was over her womb, caressing it ever so lightly. So was Sadaharu's.