Hearing the description provided by the system, suddenly a fire ignited inside him. He was encouraged by the words of the system. He realised that he could do a lot more miraculous things with the system.
“Not only can I view my own stats, I can also view stats of other players and coach. Damn!! Am I inside some kind of game world?” Mumbled Hiro feeling all excited.
After that he clicked a few times and opened the roulette wheel to make use of his silver ticket.
[One silver ticket consumable.]
[Would you like to use it?]
[Confirm] [Cancel]
“Confirm” Mumbling such, he clicked on the confirm.
And as he clicked on the confirm, the roulette wheel started to spin. After spinning for few seconds, it landed on a card.
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining skill Penalty expert]
[Skill: Penalty expert]
[Skill description: While this skill is in effect, the host won’t miss his penalty.]
[Number of usage: 1 per day]
With no change in his facial expression, he read the description of the skill. However he wasn’t as impressed as before when he got to learn about the skill Magic Vision.
Compared to the skill Magic Vision, the skill he acquired at that moment looked pretty dull to him.
Since he was already someone who was capable of slotting the ball inside the goalpost from the penalty spot, without the use of any skills, he felt like the skill ‘Penalty Expert’ was completely useless to him.
Failing to realise the importance of the skill which he acquired, he dubbed it as useless without thinking much.
“It’s pretty useless.” Mumbled Hiro as he closed the system and fell asleep.
**** ****
Ring!! Ring!! Ring!!
At exactly 5 in the morning, Hiro woke up to the sound of the alarm clock. Exhausted from yesterday’s match, Hiro was somewhat hesitant to get out of his bed. And lack of sleep from interacting with the system till late in the night, made it even more difficult for him to leave his bed.
“Argh!! Can I take a day off?” Mumbled Hiro to himself in his sleepy voice after hitting the snooze button on the alarm clock.
“Remember what you told yourself yesterday.” Murmured Hiro in his sleepy voice and continued, “You told yourself that you need to work hard to achieve your dream. So get up you lazy bum.”
Murmuring such, he left his bed.
After that he went to the bathroom to splash some water on his face to wake him up.
Walking with his eyes half closed, he somehow made it to the bathroom without falling or injuring himself.
Just as he walked inside the bathroom, he heard a familiar voice from behind him.
“Good morning Hiro”
Without turning back, he replied in his sleepy voice, “Goo…..od Mor….ning.”
Yawn!!
While replying such, he let out a yawn.
“Seems like those 4 goals you scored yesterday took your sleep away.” Mumbling such, Kota Yui joked.
Without paying much attention to his words, Hiro began to splash some cold water on his face to wake him up.
Splash!! Splash!!
After splashing some cold water on his face, he finally woke up from his sleepy state. The refreshing cold water felt rejuvenating to Hiro.
“You forgot to mention about the assist. Four goals and one assist.” While joking, Hiro reminded.
Saying such, Hiro left the bathroom.
Although Kota Yui still didn’t like Hiro much because of Hiro’s talents, they had pretty much settled the beef between them.
Listening to Hiro’s reply, his mouth twitched and his face tightened. Even so, he didn’t show any changes in his facial expression until he saw the sight of Hiro exiting the bathroom.
And as Hiro left his line of sight, he contorted his face and squeezed few words out of his mouth while gnashing his teeths, “Arrogant bastard.”
**** ****
Arriving at the training ground, Hiro greeted his teammates and his coach’s.
As usual Tatsuki was full of energy even in that early in the morning. As if he wasn’t affected even a little by that match yesterday, he was just like a blooming flower, full of vitality.
“Yoh!! What took you so long?” Tatsuki questioned while performing some high knees.
“Ahh!! I was just having trouble waking up.” Replied Hiro while joining him in the warm-up. 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒓𝙚𝙖𝙙.𝓬𝙤𝙢
“Seems like yesterday’s success is getting on your heads.” Tatsuki responded.
“Cut him some slack, senior Tatsuki. You know he’s not like that.” Akihiro who was also doing warm-ups beside them came to Hiro’s defence.
While having such idle talks, they continued their warm-ups. And after awhile more and more players joined them.
The ambience around them was somewhat warm. And in the far east horizon, sun was slowly making it’s appearance.
Slowly rising from the east horizon, the morning sun painted the east sky with golden colours.
“I feel really sorry for Maebashi’s team captain.” Mumbled Rinji while recalling the events of the yesterday’s match.
“What’s there to be sorry about. Didn’t you see how they were gaslighting the referee to give Minato red card for the foul which he didn’t even commit.” Sounding somewhat angry, Shun joined the conversation. “If you ask me. I’d say, they deserved it.”
Hearing Shun’s response, everybody nodded their head in agreement.
Just then manager Makoto too made his appearance. Until his arrival coach Kensuke was noting down the attendance of the players.
“Everybody gather around.” Manager Makoto ordered the players as soon as he entered the field.
Hearing his loud voice, everybody began to run towards the manager. After reaching the side of manager, they began to gather around him, orderly.
Cough!! Cough!!
Manager Makoto then coughed a little to clear his throat. And as he finished clearing his throat, he started to speak, “First up all, I’d like to congratulate you all for your victory and I’d like to commend every single one of you for performing well in yesterday’s match.”
“Good job everyone” With a smile on his face, he commended his players.
Clap!! Clap!! Clap!!
Hearing his praises, all the players began to clap their hands.
And while they were still clapping their hands, Makoto interjected, “And”
Hearing his voice, they stopped clapping.
“And I’d like everybody to congratulate Hiro for Hiro’s achievement in yesterday’s match. With 4 goals and 1 assist in his debut, he has achieved a dream debut.”
Clap!! Clap!! Clap!!
“Congratulations Hiro”
“You deserve it”
“You played really well”
The players began to congratulate Hiro for his performance in yesterday’s match.
Hiro’s cheeks started to turn red and he started to scratch his scalp nervously.
“Thank you everyone” Hiro bowed his head to thank them for congratulating him.