Must talent wait to be discovered? Or can it make itself seen?
1. The gaze that "finds"
Aoashi keeps showing the moment of "I found it."
Midway through a match, Fukuda looks at one player sitting on the bench. It doesn't look like a choice made by reasoning. It's almost a hunch. And he says, quietly: "Yoshito. You — go." With that one line, a person's trajectory begins to shift.
Something strange has already happened here. How could Fukuda pick Ashito? Not by a score, not by a number. With something not yet put into words — a kind of hunch — he discerns talent. The discovering eye is itself an unexplainable knowing.
