“Soccer?” Anise tilted her head as she searched her memory for when she'd heard it before. “That’s a sport, right? We don’t have it where I’m from, but I think you can play it here.” Anise didn’t know a thing about it besides the fact that it involved a ball, but she’d spent enough time reading the bulletin and watching people in the Recreational Field to learn of its existence.

In any case, Tsurugi looked kind of happy when he talked about practicing with his friends, even if he wasn't overly expressive about it. Maybe he had a lot of good memories.

“Still, that must be nice, spending time with friends at school... I never really had any friends close to my age.” Ion was about the only one, but the age thing was still a little questionable there. Not to mention how the boss-bodyguard relationship was a little different from just being schoolyard friends. It was weird to think that now, Ion was out there, believing that they really were friends from school. Maybe the real Ion had wished things would be that simple... Anise sometimes did, too.