[ It'd be meaningless... if I wouldn't have fun doing it. That's so well-adjusted; Akashi finds it positively fascinating. Akashi supposes he was expecting somebody similar to Kuroko in personality, given their similarity in other personal traits, but Mayuzumi's so different that it's striking — both in the way he thinks about the world, and the fact that he is tall, dark, and handsome.

... Which are really all just even more points in Mayuzumi's favor. ]

Good. Then I'll just pretend I never saw your resignation form. I suppose you wouldn't be prepared to show up to this afternoon's practice... but if you have time, come anyway.

[ Time to get schooled in the ways of misdirection, Mayuzumi. ]

I'm looking forward to it.

[ That's not a phrase he uses often, not for somebody who considers most of his life in various levels of inevitability. ]