"Thanks, I guess," Mayuzumi says; he isn't going to turn down any belated well wishes in that department, even if it feels kind of like a lifetime ago since he last stepped foot on his university's campus. A hell of a lot of things have happened between then and now for him. "I suppose for me it's been a pretty long time since our Winter Cup match and all."
He isn't really the kind of guy who's adept at comforting others, so he responds to Takao's dejection by calmly pulling a light novel out of his pocket and paging through it to where he left off. He's still offering moral support by being in the vicinity and listening to the guy vent; it's just that they don't have remotely close enough a relationship for Mayuzumi to go into a more overt form of senpai mode without making things awkward.
Because in a way he sort of does feel a whisper of that kind of responsibility for Akashi's friends and the people important to Akashi's friends in turn, even if Akashi himself's no longer present in Lunatia. Loyalty is one of his strong points even if being a touchy-feely shoulder to cry on isn't.
"This place really isn't such a bad one to get stuck in, though. The technology here's on the sci-fi level and pretty cool, for example."
Unlike the place he ended up before this one, Lunatia has a thriving light novel industry! And computers and VR video games! That has to be a comforting thought, right?
"...Although I won't deny the moonblessing stuff's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes."
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He isn't really the kind of guy who's adept at comforting others, so he responds to Takao's dejection by calmly pulling a light novel out of his pocket and paging through it to where he left off. He's still offering moral support by being in the vicinity and listening to the guy vent; it's just that they don't have remotely close enough a relationship for Mayuzumi to go into a more overt form of senpai mode without making things awkward.
Because in a way he sort of does feel a whisper of that kind of responsibility for Akashi's friends and the people important to Akashi's friends in turn, even if Akashi himself's no longer present in Lunatia. Loyalty is one of his strong points even if being a touchy-feely shoulder to cry on isn't.
"This place really isn't such a bad one to get stuck in, though. The technology here's on the sci-fi level and pretty cool, for example."
Unlike the place he ended up before this one, Lunatia has a thriving light novel industry! And computers and VR video games! That has to be a comforting thought, right?
"...Although I won't deny the moonblessing stuff's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes."