Editing Rapid Fire King:Volume1 Chapter 2 (section)

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Takamura thought to himself with the piano music in the background.

He thought about his baseball games and the battle that Freeter had fought through the word “serious”.

…''Are those the same thing?

He had a feeling they were different.

The video game was played as an individual.

Baseball was played as a team.

They were not really comparable in that sense.

But…

…''I…

He had to do something before he could judge whether or not that Freeter really had been serious.

“I don’t know what it’s like to play a video game like that.”

Did he want to know?

This home console was inferior to the arcade game, but did he want to create a similar situation here to experience for himself what that Freeter had done?

Did he want to understand what that man meant when he said he was serious?

…''But…

''What would I accomplish by learning that?'' he wondered.

He did not know.

How could he know what that would accomplish or what it would mean for him?

He could only say one thing here.

…''Now that I’ve seen someone fight seriously and now that I’ve touched upon that…

“I want to know what it’s like. And I want to know how serious he really was.”

He was curious.

He could not bring himself to get serious about baseball, but now he had encountered another game someone could get serious about. And he had discovered it in the arcade, where he had thought nothing was serious.

…''I saw someone accomplish what I feel like I can’t do.

What was it that man had done?

And…

“Can I do it too?”

If it was similar to baseball, he would stop pursuing this. Because he already had something like that.

But if it was different…

“–––––”

He inserted the ROM cartridge into the console.

He switched it on.

He stopped the CD so he could only hear the game sounds coming from the TV.

And the game began.

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