[Forgiveness might be impossible for both of them, but acceptance wasn't. They could learn from their mistakes. In fact, learning from them was all they could do if they hoped to move forward. But when they began to add up, sometimes carrying that weight, especially carrying it alone, was too great a burden.

It's why Sakuma is glad that Genda has entrusted him with this. And why, in turn, he can entrust his own concerns with Genda.

There is some guilt, of course, in needing that help, but it's nothing not overcome by remembering they have always compensated for each other's weaknesses.]

The points you're both from are the past for me. [This is the first time he's admitted that aloud. The words sound strange to his ears, as they should. He and his friends should never exist this far apart. There's too much distance between them in need of closing.] I've joined Inazuma Japan.

I wish I could report that the FFI is everything we'd ever hoped, but...it isn't. Things aren't what they appear.

[Demonio hadn't been Kidou. Fudou was actually...not altogether terrible. He supposes. So long as he didn't open his mouth. But more importantly...]

Kageyama has reappeared.