Author's Note: Sorry for the delay, school picked up and my free time flew away. On a sad note, we're almost done with these. The only person left after this one is Suzuna. This one takes place around field-day.
Summary: Komusubi meets a new kind of powerful man….
A New Understanding
By: Bar-Ohki
There are different kinds of power in this world. Some say power is money, some say power is knowledge, and some say that power is just raw strength. No one knew the ways of power better than Komusubi Daikichi. Power-go is a language only understood by manly powerful men. This mostly included men who were physically strong and intimidating, but there were a few exceptions. One of whom was Hiruma Youichi, the infamous devilish quarterback.
Hiruma had money and knowledge as his sources of power, something Komusubi had always acknowledged. Hiruma was a manly, powerful man, he should understand power-go.
"T-training?" Komusubi asked Hiruma upon a chance encounter in the empty hallway one morning at school. Kurita would have translated the question as something on the lines of 'You mentioned a new training regiem the other day and I was wanting to confirm if we were going to be doing that today, or sticking with the old training'.
Hiruma paused and considered the question for a moment. "I'm trying a new tactic today."
"Broken?" Komusubi asked. This translates as 'I have never doubted your expertise with football technique and I am sure you know it better than me, but could you tell me what was wrong with what he have been doing'.
"If yesterday's regime didn't work, today's would be impossible." Hiruma explained. "And today's is the most important for the Seibu match."
"Fugo!" Komusubi bowed and hurried along. His exclamation translates as 'thank you for clarifying that, I plan to put all of my effort into your new regime so that I can be strong enough to defeat Seibu'.
"Ya ha!" Hiruma called back over his shoulder at Komusubi. It was not obviously power-go, but Hiruma had said 'I'm going to punish you twice as hard if I catch you slacking today, though I will reward you if you can inspire your teammates to put forth the same amount of effort as you'.
After the Seibu match, Komusubi acknowledged another source of power for Hiruma: leadership. Hiruma could convince a group of mismatched misfits to pull together and become one of the strongest football teams anyone had ever seen. As their leader he was strong in mind and sprit, taking care of them and continuing to drive them forward.
Komusubi might be Kurita's apprentice, but he was Hiruma's follower and comrade first. That was the important thing.
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