"I have only one card I can play as the underdog!"
"You are below me Hamuro"
Oh, he's prideful, that's his motivation. "Pride" might be the first of the mortal sins, but it's by far my favorite - too much of it and you're an epic a*#hole. But have at least a grain of it, and you WON'T EVER GIVE IN.
It was that grain of pride that got me out of the bottom of the darkest pit (not because of some mushy heroic shit or another, but just because I was far too prideful to let myself be defeated like that.
I'm curious to what length he his willing to go to protect his pride (thing is, when you get to choose between rope and scaffold you sometimes pick the wrong one, intending to save your dignity but scarring it nonetheless - though with those choices, there's no winner in the race to begin with)
yeah, I'm glad he didn't back down and say he would fail his tests
I have so much respect for the uke. He realizes that he's not the only one who suffers, and acknowledges that the people around him are going through problems of their own. I absolutely can't stand it when characters whine and say shit like "why me" or "why is everyone else around me so happy and I'm so sad."
And also because he turned down the seme's deal. He know how important grades are.