[ The thought of an entire firing squad going for Komaeda... yeah, he can see it happen. If not that, then something similar in the past, where he wasn't able to get there in time, he did feel like a failure— but he never once believed that meant he failed, as a partner or a friend or a person.

This is a speech he's heard plenty of times already, though, and nobody has to tell him how to be a soccer captain, and that the obvious way to choose players is by skill level. ]

Kinda weird to hold a friendship interview, though. It's like going over to your boyfriend's house to meet his parents.

[ It's weird! Why are they doing it like this! Reminds me of high school where one of my friends walked me a block away from her house and she stopped us at the corner and pointed down the street to let me know which house was hers but said I couldn't come any closer bc her mom would be watching out the window and didn't want her to make friends. Then she told her mom I was ranked first in the class and was a starter on the tennis team and her mom said okay we can be friends. ]