Editing Rapid Fire King:Volume1 Chapter 2 (section)

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Takamura sighed inside the cafeteria.

…''Getting serious, hm?

And he realized something.

“…”

At some point, he had started tapping his finger on the cafeteria table.

He was rapid-firing.

He was slowly copying the movement of that Freeter’s finger.

“…?”

He did not know why he was doing that. He had no real reason and could only he say he was doing it “just because”.

It was not necessary for school.

If anything…

…''It’s a lot like playing a piano.

He tried matching his finger movements to the piano music he always listened to with his headphones, but…

…''What am I doing?

He laughed at himself in his heart.

He liked piano music. Those slow melodies sounded like they were trying to speak to him in some kind of language and they helped calm him down.

The CD rack in his room at home had a space for pop songs and a space for piano music.

He had used piano music as background music when studying for entrance exams in his third year of middle school and he had never stopped listening to it.

But while the movement was similar…

…''This rapid-firing can’t be saying anything.

Games were just for fun. He thought of them as fundamentally different from music in that way.

And he looked around to make sure no one had seen him doing that.

Fortunately, no one was looking his way.

Everything was fine. It was already 1:10. Fifth period would begin in another 10 minutes. The cafeteria was nearly out of ingredients, so the only people still here were the ones with nothing better to do.

“Nothing better to do, huh?”

''That about sums it up,'' he thought while scratching his head. A lot more people in his class had started flipping through textbooks and flashcards at lunchtime, but he was still here in the lazy cafeteria.

More than that, he was thinking about the time he had spent at the arcade last night.

…''I really don’t have anything better to do, do I?

That was when he heard a girl’s voice from behind him.

“Hey, Takamura.”