I like to think that Tenma has got to be fluent in English, or at least more proficient than most of his peers. Now, part of it came from this headcanon of mine when I started writing Soar High, but another came from the fact that Aki used to live in America. Then it kind of spiraled from there...
I like to share this because I remember a friend of mine who pointed out that our voices tend to change when we speak in a different language or tone. Ofc, it's more nuanced than that, or something, but it's still funny to imagine Tenma casually switching to English mid-conversation, only for his voice to come out a little lower than usual that the first time it happened, it kind of catches his friends off-guard a little.
Now imagine one of them gets a random phone call, doesn't recognize the number, and when they answer, they get, "Is this [friend's name]?" in full, somewhat deep voice in English.
That made them freeze and kind of scare the crap out of them because they do not recognize the voice. It could be because hearing someone's voice on a call is much different from in real life, but, well, either way, they didn't, and they were like, "..Who is this??" while thinking about who they had offended.
"Oh! It really is you! Good morning! Sorry, it's me, Tenma! Please save my current number, my last one got corrupted for some reason."
"...Tenma, it's 1 in the afternoon."
"Oh- really? I just woke up from my nap and I thought it's still morning! Haha, sorry! Anyway, I'll get out of your hair now, bye bye~!"
They just stare at their phone dumfoundedly.
(Until they realize that Tenma probably did that stunt on purpose because why would he need to ask that first question if he already had their number lmao)
This may or may not have happened irl....
