Meanwhile, Ryoma sits quietly on the bench inside the locker room, watching the fight through the flat-screen mounted on the wall.
The crowd's reactions echo through the speakers, but he barely responds to any of it. To most people, he would simply look calm. In reality, he is conserving energy.
Unlike Satoru and Aramaki, who spend the last thirty hours recovering after the weigh-in, Ryoma is still in the middle of camp.
His fight against Liam O'Connell is three weeks away, training remains intense, and the gradual weight cut has already started. The fatigue isn't dramatic, but it is enough to make him avoid wasting energy where he doesn't need to.
That is one reason he isn't outside helping the corner team, preferring to save his full focus for Aramaki later. The other is that he wants to see how Satoru handles pressure without him standing nearby.
