For as long as Manjiro could remember, he had always hated you. There was no other word to explain his feelings except hatred from the bottom of his heart, and his reasons for hating you were unknown.

Although you were an excellent fighter and he respected that, there was something else that really irritated him to the core.

He was always in denial about it, and when he finally understood why, he hated it even more.

He hated the fact that.. He was starting to love you.