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Quietly testing the impact of heavy cleats on harder surfaces in the field. To others, it looks like she’s just repeatedly pressing the training shoes onto the turf.

— much about food. I’ll be cooking for you, as always. As for French, well. . .we’ll possibly have El teach us a bit, or maybe I can look into some classes around the city, we’ll see.”

“Oi, oi. That’s a silly generalization.” Anne lifts a hand and gently headchops Tama in between her ears. “That’d be like someone in France saying that all we Japanese eat are sushi, y’know?” Anne said with a small grin as she pulled her hand back. “Well, don’t worry too —

“You called?”

Been a while. Lifting up the key lid of her piano in the office and removing her gloves from her hands. She stares at the scars for a couple of seconds before she starts her scales to warm up, eventually starting to play a piece.

out of all the words you said that broke my heart， it was the absence of your voice that hurt the most.

⠀ɪ'ʟʟ ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ .ᐟ ᥫ᭡

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— She voiced out her wishes internally, before bowing one more time as soon as she was done, eventually straightening up as she waited for Verxina.

— She then bowed two times, clapped her hands twice, and prayed as her palms were brought together. ‘May my trainees stay happy and healthy this year, Verxina win the triple tiara, and all the glory they deserve be brought to them.’ —

— shrine maiden back then, after all. Anne waited for Verxina back at the shrine’s main hall, with her producing a 5 yen coin for the both of them. “Ready, then?” She gently tossed her 5 yen coin into the offering box, and rang the bell. —

— carefully using a measured amount to wash both hands in an almost careful, ritual. She washed her mouth before placing the ladle upside down, letting the water drip onto the handle to wash it, too. She was very much aware of this ritual thanks to her grandmother being a —

— “Nnnn, okay. But only because it’s you, Xina!” Even her saying that almost felt like a tooth extraction. By the time they arrived at the front of the shrine, the crowd had very noticeably thinned out. They approached the wash basin, with Anne scooping a cup full of water, —

“Mmm. . .” Anne was still a little hesitant, even as her stomach growled again. If anything, if she were an uma, her ears would’ve been flat on the top of her head right now. She very much /wanted/ to eat something with her, but at the same time. . .her diet. . . —

— “Here, Brian-san. You can leave out the green onions if it isn’t to your liking. They’re really only there for garnish and additional flavour, if ever.”

— After bringing both to a boil, she lowered the heat before pouring each over a metal tray for food, adding a little bit of garnish to them and leaving them out to rest, until she started frying the sliced sausages from earlier, with the other reserved for the egg drop soup. —

— cook, given the chance. By this point, she had poured the seasoned sauces over both of the frying pans, which caused them to quiet down a little before she carefully mixed them, making sure that each was covered thoroughly and mixed properly.

“Hai, hai. No vegetables.” She had already expected this, coming from her. After all, though Anne was generally quiet while out in public, she was actually very observant of what each of the students preferred to eat in the cafeteria. It also gave her ideas on what she /would/ —

— She shook her head and brought out her stopwatch from one of the inner pockets of her jacket. “Ready when you are, Grass. I’ll start the timer when you start running.”

— The last thing we need is an injury, so make sure to not neglect the rest of your lower body while running when compensating for the heavier weight, yeah?” . . .Not that Grass was particularly lacking in her lower body. . .but she’ll never say that aloud. —