bunnu now surmised that it was likely that his assailants from the greater kaiiba-8 football association were in league , in a manner of speaking , with local law enforcement , and perhaps assisted in maintaining the diversion by attacking him suddenly and without provocation ( presumably , this could be chalked up to the fact that bunnu had quit the team years ago to embark on his many travelsa fact that may have caused them , through some self-absorbed process of illusory superiority , to assume that he deemed himself inadequate of their traveling football club , its unifying spirit , and its aggressively militaristic political agendathus priming him for a well-timed and well-deserved decking : to them , undoubtedly , a most bittersweet reunion after these many years apart ) .