[Rang remembers that conversation too -- remembers thinking 'this will never work' when considering teams, and that whichever human ended up on buzen's team would be so very lucky, to have both swords on their team.

and then he ended up on buzen's team anyway,]

I see.

[there's no trace of anger or annoyance, because he HAD known from the start]

I wouldn't have minded winning either. But it was the same for me -- I wanted to see how far I could go. Not that I expected it to be very far.