<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ae/Anime_Swimmer_03.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><strong>Takahiro "Tak-kun" Tsurugi</strong></span></span><br/><br/><hr/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>    </td><td>Once he had checked his messages, both normal texts and WhatsApp chat messages, Takahiro amused himself by laying his cellphone on the table's smooth, wooden surface and then making it spin in place rapidly, much like a spinning top toy. Leaning back in his chair as he only touched the spinning phone once it had slowed down to a snail's pace, the swimmer watched the pair in the kitchen finish up, Ayumi soon serving breakfast as usual.<br/><br/>Leaning over, he helped serving everyone's shares, putting rice from the rice cooker into each of their bowls and pouting them each a glass of water. Ayu-chan had done all the cooking, so the least he could do was help out with serving the food. It wasn't much work and soon all three of them were set to dig in. Clapping his hands together, he said, "Itadakimasu!" as was custom in Japan before eating a meal. Picking up his chopsticks, Takahiro began eating his breakfast, starting off with some rice and a bit of fish. God, he loved baked fish...<br/><br/>"Neh, Ayu-chan, when's your break today? I'll drop by and we can have some lunch together." It wasn't nearly every day, but the swimmer's training schedule allowed him to flexible with planning his individual training hours. His trainer usually only came around for an hour or two to check up on progress, his times, and go through the training schedules he made for the professional swimmer. It was pretty exhausting, but he knew very well the amount of personal freedom more than made up for it. Some athletes were drilled and grilled day and night by their coaches and trainers, but that's something that has only proven to have negative results on a free spirit like Takahiro. When his times started getting worse, they started backing off and saw the damage come undone again and even gradually improve over time. Since then they've kept the proverbial leash away and just let him train whenever he wanted to. As long as he kept his times down and won matches and tournaments, it didn't matter much to them <del>   </del> his coach, trainer and sponsors, that is.<br/></td></tr></tbody></table>