As soon as his slight anxiety had set in, it was gone; this was a subject he could approach from a neutral angle. "I didn't really choose it myself; my father participated in the kendo Olympics, and so it was a given that I would take up kendo myself. I was very young when I started, and I just stuck with it," he allows a brief pause to hang in the air before his own reassuring smile springs forth, "if you want to get philosophical, it's been a medium for bettering myself beyond the sport itself." Captain of the judo club, huh?, huh? Wouldn't want to get on her bad side.

I like her good side better, anyways.

And, of course, it was obligatory that Baku ruin his poise with another idle thought like that. Once a mild anxiety sets back in, he knows it's probably better to end the conversation on a good note before he says something stupid. A faint color rises to his cheeks.

"Sorry, uhh, I didn't mean to interrupt your training for this long. Maybe I'll see you later, Saiga-senpai!"