Maybe they were too afraid to tell him no.

[ Lets his hand drop, laughing a little. ]

Your family seems really lively.

[ ok that's legit actually, choromatsu does tend to seem like he's five seconds from snapping at any given moment. ]

That is certainly a word for it, haha...

You seem pretty close too. How many of you are there?

[ don't really have a choice in that....... ]

It's the six of us, and then our parents. More than the house was really built for, haha.

Wow... you probably end up fighting for space a lot.

[ here's some gay drama ]

[ he's just like

damn this really seems like something out of a sports anime we'd do a parody of... he cannot relate to this as a real thing at all but he will try to be polite and pretend to ]

...Swimming together with him really means a lot to you, huh?

[ it really so not normal to feel this strongly about swimming

Rin's a little embarrassed... His tantrum on display. ]

... It's my entire community, you know? Everyone I know swims. So if you fall behind, it starts to feel like you don't belong there anymore.

[ yeah, it was pretty embarrassing tbh, but he's not going to call you out on it. ]

Mm... Yeah, I guess I do kind of get that.

[ though for him it's more like if he moves ahead he doesn't belong there anymore. ]

Yeah. [ He guesses that Todomatsu would understand. ] It's like if you did something so you would belong with your family anymore.

[ nods, frowning a little, but does not memshare the time he got fired from his family for not being enough of a loser so rin can keep believing he's a normie. ]

Right. That makes sense.

[ HE'S LIKE WOW TODOMATSU IS JUST LIKE ME FR totally normal ]

... But it's not as high stakes as saving the world and fighting god and stuff.