@tailor3145 I took it as Tsukamoto's self esteem is so low, he believed the students only cared about him because he's on the winning team and nobody would support him without ulterior motives. Kazuma is popular and was praised as soon as he walked in, and the girls were complimenting ubukata, but he was kinda ignored at first until they realized he was on the soccer team too. That's what I thought since Kazuma said while we can't tell what people are thinking, he could take the students' praise at face value because they genuinely support him