<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ac/Taro03.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Taro Ikeda (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12730054#msg12730054)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Track & Field<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, very early morning<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shizuma<br/><hr/>The wind and the sudden crack puzzled Taro, and his brows knitted together over narrowed eyes. Was that some side effect of Shizuma's power? But his puzzlement lasted for only a brief moment. The way that girl looked at him made it very much impossible to think about side effects or dangers of her power.<br/><br/>He wasn't really doing much, just being friendly, but it seemed to mean a lot to the younger girl. He couldn't help but smile at the thought. He was doing some good in a small way, and he felt a  little proud of himself. Still... wasn't that what every student should do, be friendly to a newcomer?<br/><br/>"I am certain the other students will be just as accepting, Shizuma-san. Some may need a little time to get to know you first, but I trust neither the headmaster nor the student council will tolerate any discrimination."<br/><br/>He sipped his water again, thinking about something else to say. Should he tell her about his own background? He didn't want to play up that his own background wasn't completely average, but Shizuma seemed rather uncertain of herself, and maybe it would help if she understood why Taro had no general problem with abnormals.<br/><br/>"I... also have my own reasons to trust 'abnormals' ", he air-quoted around the word he rather disliked. He looked into the distance for a second, away from Shizuma. Turning his head halfway back to her, enough to look at her face over his shoulder, he added: "My parents both carry red cards, unlike me. I could have easily been in your shoes, if fate had decided it."