"Too little, too late. This place and everybody in it is a lost cause. Maybe I'd consider it if this place had shown some promise by now, but it hasn't. There's nothing of value here."

"Nope. I'm done. This place is boring and the few people in it are annoying." She's not stopping. "I'm not sinking more time into something that displayed zero redeeming qualities."

"Oh great, you're annoying and you completely overstep. Well, you signed me up. Now it's your job to explain why I won't be there."

"Get off of me-" She's pulling Sodashi's hair- "There's no reason for me to stay here. I'd probably be leaving in a couple of days even if you weren't so annoying."

"Nope. I'm turning in my withdrawal papers and buying a plane ticket." She's power walking away-.

"..." She's just going to finish this attempt, and... Still nothing. "Alright, well, if there's that many, then I'm definitely leaving. See you in my nightmares." She's seriously leaving?!

"...If they're anything like you, I might need to move to another country instead of just dropping out." Oof-.

"Yeah, I think I'll pass. You're kind of just irritating like a lot of Pokemon rivals." Oof.

"Then fend for yourself instead of dropping everything to stare at me like a kid who insists on saying hi to every stranger who walks by their house."

"...Words cannot describe how much I want to punch you sometimes."

"...Now you're just being unnecessarily difficult. Fine leave the machines open so somebody will win the plushes before you do. It's your own fault if you end up with even fewer to grab later."

"...Seriously, there are other machines here. There's an open one right next to me. You don't have to wait until I'm done."

"Well sure. Sports on TV are for people who don't have the opportunity to properly play them themselves. But there are other machines. You can play the crane game yourself."

...Piña likes having an audience and all, but... "...This can't possibly be fun to watch."

"...Dammit." Piña can't resist any longer... She's going back to the crane game.

Swimming. ...Just swimming. Not thoughts. Only pool.

"...Heh~" Piña, you can't just chuckle at somebody getting struck by lightning because they're overwhelming-.

Speaking of which, she also picked somebody up and had to be choked out.

Second blender incident.

The blender incident.

Sodashi doesn't come across as very smart, so... Anything is possible.

That's a squid. Or octopus. Not a starfish. Starfish have arms, not tentacles.

...Still dangerously close to the sand, so Piña's still going to get up and just leave Sodashi on the ground. The crabs will be eating well.

"..." Choking harder- If Piña ends up touching sand, she is going to leave Sodashi's unconscious body exposed to the elements.

...Well, clearly Piña's only option now is to put Sodashi in a headlock and choke her out.

"...I should probably find the director's office too, so I know where to leave the paperwork when I turn it in." ...Yep. She's absolutely not having it.

"...I should go fill out those withdrawal papers so I can turn them in quickly the moment I meet somebody who is in the top ten craziest." Looks like she's not believing a word out of Sodashi's mouth now.

"...What. Just... Keep your distance from them and you'll be fine? It's the dolphins you need to worry about."

"Still not worth enduring sand. If I want to see swimsuits, I'll just go to a pool. And a lot of swimsuits just look stupid anyway."

"...Not even the top ten, huh?" Piña's never going to get over that, huh? "There are more appealing things than swimsuits anyway. They're not worth dealing with sand for."

"...Why are you getting so excited? Everybody around here seems to wear the exact same bland swimsuit. Those and water can be found at the academy's pool."

"If they're preparing for a race, they should be on the practice tracks. Not hiding away in their bedrooms. ...Why would anybody go to the beach? Sand is entirely unpleasant."

"I was under the impression that this place was already established. I didn't think I would need to give it time as if it was a newly planted seed."

"...I've seen little more than a glimpse of the others. It's legitimately only you and I here for the most part." They're definitely not getting a big race any time soon.

"Noisy today. Anyway. I could also just crush everybody in a race. You know, as soon as you and I aren't the only ones here who exist."

"...If I wanted to assert dominance, I'd just take somebody to be-" Oh good, convenient censorship courtesy of heavy machinery spontaneously doing maintenance on the practice track.

"All I'm supposed to do is train, race, and be adored. I'm not going to run around begging for friends like a kindergartner."

"It would make me look desperate and needy. That's not the reputation I want. And why is it wholly my responsibility to make first impressions? Why is nobody else trying to do it?"

"...Why is it my responsibility to be social when they should be flocking to me? When do they start having some responsibility?" She's already bored. She doesn't want to look desperate and still be bored when the desperation inevitably turns people off.

Blink. "...Tracen. ...Tracen. ...Tra... Cen... ...Is this place seriously just called Training Center Academy?"

"Here's hoping. It's starting to feel like this place only has like five students." And none of them are obsessed with Piña, so that's not even close to satisfying her.

"I already said I don't want hand me down friends. I don't want 'our' group. I want my own." Piña's not going to be content with just making friends with a few of the people surrounding Sodashi. She wants her own friends and admirers. "...But beating that girl in a race does sound good."

"People who are that timid and scared of everything are impossible to deal with. They're as annoying as drunks. And if she's a winner, she has no reason to have low self confidence. So I'll pass on dealing with her." Piña can be nice sometimes, but... Rice Shower absolutely rubs her the wrong way.

"...How about no? She seems like a pain in the butt to deal with even without resorting to kidnapping."

"I already beaten you in a race and you've been the majority of my social life since. It's not looking good."

"At this rate, I may not be sticking around long enough to get scouted and make a proper debut. The only eyes I've had on me so far is... I think somebody on the student council? And she was just complaining about the arrows."

"It would be great if I could make friends without them being hand me downs. I want to be worshipped, not viewed as somebody who happens to be acquainted with somebody else." ...There. Sodashi's tail is a little lopsided now, but it's free now.

"...If this isn't even the top ten, I'm definitely going to be dropping out within the week." She's crouching down and pulling out an arrow, though. "Hold still." She's... Trimming the hair of Sodashi's tail away from the blades with an arrowhead...

"...You're afraid of people hating you, but you still go out of your way to be like this?" ...Piña gave one plushie. That's it. "...You didn't even get your tail out of the blender."

"Oh please. There's no reason to worry about me. If this place fails to fulfill my desires or entertain me for too long, I'll just move on. I'm not going to throw myself under a train over an academy failing to meet my expectations. I didn't take on student loans to be here, so it's no loss to me."