[it's as close as she can get to admitting that she has no idea how one plays soccer aside from the fact that it involves a brightly patterned ball.
normally Lapis has no trouble acknowledging her complete ignorance of (and often, apathy towards) the ways of earth, but in a moment like this she senses that may be close to blasphemy. there was something very important here, important to people who'd mattered, and she was hesitant to knock it over with her existence.
it had been fine to pretend she knew what Gran was talking about when he'd made the first offer. there had been time then, as false a belief as it turned out to be. here...Lapis can't stand as their representative, even to Sakuma. it would be a gross disrespect of the happiness they'd brought her.]
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[it's as close as she can get to admitting that she has no idea how one plays soccer aside from the fact that it involves a brightly patterned ball.
normally Lapis has no trouble acknowledging her complete ignorance of (and often, apathy towards) the ways of earth, but in a moment like this she senses that may be close to blasphemy. there was something very important here, important to people who'd mattered, and she was hesitant to knock it over with her existence.
it had been fine to pretend she knew what Gran was talking about when he'd made the first offer. there had been time then, as false a belief as it turned out to be. here...Lapis can't stand as their representative, even to Sakuma. it would be a gross disrespect of the happiness they'd brought her.]