Position: Runner
Likes: Clean and healthy cooking and high quality chicken breast.
Dislikes: Losing and karaoke.
Takeru's the cool, no-nonsense type—always serious, always focused. He's a first-year at Honan Academy and one of the stride club's main runners, usually anchoring (the final leg). He wears glasses normally but switches to contacts during practice.
Back in middle school, he was already making waves as a notable stride player in the under-15 bracket. His thing now is assessing people's potential by literally feeling their legs, which is. his way of scouting talent. His cardiovascular fitness and raw speed are genuinely impressive—Nana has to time his starts carefully or he'd take off too soon. The catch is his parkour skills are just average, which keeps him from being unstoppable.
Takeru doesn't really care about much outside of stride. He's got strong opinions about losing (hates it) and karaoke (also hates it), but he's picky about food in the good way—clean eating, quality chicken breast, that kind of thing. He wears glasses most of the time but switches to contacts when he's training.
His fixation on Riku? Nobody really knows where that comes from.
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