The moment Sano stepped on the field, he took a deep breath, trying to keep his legs steady. He was one of the boys who cared the most about how people looked at him, and it wouldn't be funny if they saw such a tough guy like him trembling to enter the pitch.
'No, I cannot do that. It would be too embarrassing, and Kumiko-senpai's strategy will not work later. I have to keep this expression up.' He muttered to himself.
Indeed, the tough, delinquent expression that he used to hate the most in the past seemed to be transformed by Kumiko into a deadly weapon here. Its use was just one thing, and that was as a deterrent to keep all the balls away from his direction, which would give his teammates an easier time defending the other areas.
