Rebecca Silverman
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Hey, kids, here s an interesting thought! If you make an ill-advised bargain with someone, along the lines of, oh, I don t know, swearing that you ll quit the sport you love and that your recently deceased parents performed if you lose a competition against a highly-skilled competitor,
you don t have to stick with it. Especially if you re a grieving ten-year-old who still did pretty darn well and placed second. But if it wasn t for that,
Skate-Leading Stars might not have a story, so here we are. Poor, angry fifth-grader Kensei, whose life was already in the toilet, told his emotionless rival Seo that he d quit figure skating if he lost to him, so when Seo comes out victorious and cruelly tells Kensei that he ll never beat him, he just…stops. If Kensei was looking for a way out of figure skating because it reminded him of his parents deaths (and his coach s in the same accident; gotta pile on the tragedy for this poor kid), that d be one th