[There's at first just a noncommittal hum. Which the part of him the remembers Teikoku and what was expecting of him bristled a bit over, because that was a waste of energy and time for something that had no impact on the conversation.]

Before today, if you had asked me to just list the field positions I would have failed to do so. Yet, now it feels more of an oddity to not be down there playing as well. Seeing you as Kidou made it more then just mental dissonance. You always seem to be the true constant in what feels correct.

[He's stopped watching the match below by this point and is mostly just staring at the field in general. There's more to it then that, but even though he knows Kidou and knows he's his teammate, there's both the manufactured distance that Teikoku had instilled in him as Genda and Christopher's own lack of any friendship that wasn't casual and fleeting. It's why he holds back on actually saying more then just that regarding how much his memories hold Kidou in such high regard. Genda had never found a means or the strength to be like Sakuma and find ways to be closer without the Commander disapproving. So while those memories made him realize how important Kidou was to Genda that didn't mean Genda was just as important to Kidou.]

Even when you weren't actually at Teikoku you were still that constant.