#I haven't read anything about mackerel yet and it's concerning...

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"Haruka wasn't going to deny that there was someone who could swim faster than him. But he wasn't going to acknowledge it so easily, either. It wasn't that he wanted to win, or that he hated losing; it was just that he couldn't simply accept that there was someone who could feel the water more than he could."

Haruka Nanase's relationship with water is...passional.

like...he's possessive over water. I'm just gonna say that. And, of course, Rin is the cause to that possessiveness and his unusual drive to compete.

Water and Rin represent...something to Haru.