She says it with pure excitement, but Ryoma feels something wrong in the pit of his stomach. That sense only deepens as Aki adds something else.
"This might sound absurd if I call it a fateful match…" she hands over the brochure. "But look here! It lists him under Kirizume Boxing Gym."
Okabe snatches the paper first, squints, stumbling over the print. "Hey, there's another one under Kirizume. Reonarudo Sishi? Something about a lion?"
"That's Leonardo "Shishi" Serrano," Ryoma corrects him. "He's a hafu. A popular YouTuber who just started boxing."
"Oh, a total rookie then…"
Ryoma says nothing more. He simply takes the brochure from Okabe's hand and studies it closely, his mind racing.
He knows Aramaki well but from his previous life, where Aramaki belonged to Murakami Boxing Gym, not Kirizume.
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Tournament Draft
Round 1 – Left Side
Match 1: T. Kanzaki (Minato Bayside Gym) vs. Masato Kurobane (Tachibana Gym)