[Something in him feels pained at that, like cold water is splashed on his face after a loss. He really was a different person back then but he's changed since then before it was knocked into him, literally, even if it's due to feeling threatened by people like Tobio and Ushijima.]

That explains why you became the King then.

Look kid, I don't like geniuses, you don't have to work hard to get where you are, it just comes to you while the rest of us spend months or years to get where we are.

[He's going there, and still bitter about that.]