[Well hell. Cheering somebody up isn't the effect Blake has real often, but the kid looks genuinely happy.]

[It's not that easy to tell with bright red eyes, though.]

[It bucks him up some to be called Lieutenant again.]

It doesn't look like there even is a school system here. Don't ask me how anybody can read and write.

[Blake isn't that much of a fan of learning from books, but you have to have something. Just as long as it's happening to other people.]

Sports scholarship, huh? I didn't know Japan had those. I thought they were all about tests.