R:    Hey, Haru? R:    I told you I’ve always admired you, right? R:    You might not remembered it, but I still remember, the day I first met you. R:    To be honest, it had never occurred to me that I could lose to someone. But any frustration I felt vanished when I thought, “There’s someone more amazing than me. I want to be able to swim like him.” R:    That’s why it’s hard for me when you’re not always there ahead of me, showing me what path I should take. Without you, I have nothing to aim for, you know? H:    I remember it, too. That tournament… R:    Do you remember the freestyle race we swam during that tournament this spring? When we tied and set a new tournament record together? H:    Yeah. R:    I was testing you then. I wanted to see if that was really the farthest you could go. And when I sensed you coming up from behind me, I knew for sure. That you were definitely going to enter the same world as me. R:    Hey Haru, during that race, did you feel something, too?