The athletics clubs (at the powerhouse private school he attends) are different from the laid-back ones at the public school here, so they almost certainly hold intense/strict practice even during summer break.
A: “So I thought ‘Society hangs on a paper-thin balance, after all’”
B: “What?”
A: “And in that (society), what am I, who just languidly works part-time. I wondered stuff like that”
“Tanaka-kun, what job do you have?”
“Now and then some small illustrations for a sports newspaper and such… though even if I say that, it’s still a part-time job.”
Filled with trepidation at what might have spread among the boys’ volleyball club, I brought menus over to the table where the four of them were sitting with awkward, stilted movements.
Soon powder snow began to fall. At first it was falling lightly, but before I knew it it started falling wet and heavy, and my breath was so thick and white that I could almost catch it in the palm of my hand.