Just as the ball crossed the goal-line and touched the net, fans present in the stadium ecstatically stood up from their seats and began to cheer while jumping and hugging each other.
“Yeah!!!”
“Gooooaaaaallllllll!!!!”
Followed by thunderous sound of cheers as if some kind of festival was taking place in the stadium, the tense atmosphere in the stadium during the time when the ball was still levitating in the air, suddenly changed into festive mood.
“Tanaka, that’s one of the best goal I’ve seen in my entire life.” His eyes brimming with joy, one of the elderly fan of Kawasaki looked at his companion and stated ecstatically while celebrating Hiro’s goal.
His companion who was also brimming with joy, looked at him with a big wide smile on his face and mumbled while nodding his head, “Ummm… I agree.”
“It reminded me of the goal Rooney scored in 2011 in one of the Manchester derby.” Continued Tanaka, an elderly fan of Kawasaki who looked like he was already in his sixties.
[Majestic!! Magnificent!! Brilliant!!! I can’t stop exaggerating. That goal was simply out of this world. Almost 20 yards away from the post and yet he scored a magnificent bicycle kick from that far. Just how did he manage do that??] Holding the microphone close to his mouth, the commentator commented, cheerfully. Droplets of saliva was spitting all over the microphone while the commentator was making his comment, however he didn’t give a damn at all.
Hearing the loud cheers of the fan, Hiro didn’t need to look back to confirm if he had scored the goal. Just by listening to their cheers, he could tell that he had scored the goal.
And thus, without looking back, Hiro rose from the ground and launched himself towards the section of the stand where the fans of FC Tokyo were gathered.
[What’s this?? Why is running away like that? Does he not want to celebrate his goal with his teammates?] Questioned the commentator while perplexingly looking at the sight of Hiro running away.
Although his teammates couldn’t tell why he was running away instead of celebrating the goal with them, they still followed him to celebrate the goal.
Especially Akihiro who was still doubting Hiro’s reckless strategy until the moment he witnessed the ball crossing the goal-line, sprinted towards Hiro as fast as he could to apologize for doubting him.
However without waiting for anyone, Hiro continued to make his run towards the section of the stand where the fans of FC Tokyo were gathered. 𝑙𝘳𝒶𝒹.𝑐𝘰𝓂
And since he had already memorised the location of the stand with the most fans when he had received the quest from the system, he didn’t need to waste his time to search for the stand.
Arriving at the location, he took off his jersey. After that he pointed his jersey at the fans of FC Tokyo intentionally showing the back of his jersey to the fans of FC Tokyo.
[Hoho…. So that’s what he was going to do. I’m pretty sure that fans of FC Tokyo are very pissed with Hiro’s celebratory gesture] While making such comments, commentator chuckled.
“Show your jersey to your fans, you arrogant prick.” Grumpily shouted one of the fans of FC Tokyo while furrowing his brows in anger.
Fuming with anger, another fan of FC Tokyo yelled, “We’ll pay you back in our home ground.”
Although the loud cheers of fans of Kawasaki was canceling much of the noise coming from the stands of fans of FC Tokyo, Hiro could still faintly hear their angry grunts.
Hearing their backlashes, it made him question about his celebratory act, ‘Perhaps it was a bad decision to celebrate like this. But it’s not like I’ve had a choice. I was forced by the system. So please don’t hate me.’
Although the fans of FC Tokyo were pissed by Hiro’s celebration, players of FC Tokyo were even more pissed. Biting their lips, some of the players of FC Tokyo were glaring at Hiro as if they would kill him.
[Quest completed]
While he was thinking, Hiro heard the notification of quest completion from the system.
Hearing the notification of the system, he let out a subtle smile and meekly mumbled, “I hope it’s worth the risk.”
Just then his teammates came rushing towards him and jumped atop him.
“You cheeky bastard.” Commented Nakahara while rubbing Hiro’s hair.
**** ****
After celebrating for a while, everybody went back to their original position to resume the match.
With only 3 minutes remaining, one could say that the game was almost over. However there were still some extra time remaining.
And there’s a saying in football that every second counts in football. Thus even though it didn’t seem much, anything could happen in that remaining time.
Beep!!! Beep!! Beeeeeeeep!!
[And the game has finally ended with the score of 3-0. Kawasaki Frontale U-18: 3 and FC Tokyo U-18: 0] Commentator announced the end of the game after hearing the final whistle of the referee.
After the end of the full time, the referee added 5 minutes extra. However even in that 8 minutes, FC Tokyo still couldn’t manage to change the outcome of the game.
Let alone change the outcome of the match, they couldn’t even score a consolidation goal.
[Although first half was quite disappointing for FC Tokyo, they still managed to display an amazing performance in the second half. And even though the outcome of the game didn’t favour them, regardless of the outcome, they played an amazing game. So let us all give them a round of applause for their efforts]
Clap!! Clap!! Clap!!
“Don’t worry guys. We’ll get our revenge on them in our home turf.” Shouted few of the fans of FC Tokyo while trying to encourage their players.
After that both the teams lined up for exchanging handshakes to pay respect to each other.
And after exchanging handshakes with their opponents, Hiro and his teammates walked towards the stands were the fans of Kawasaki were seated.
Bowing their heads, they expressed their thankfulness for their support.
Clap!! Clap!! Clap!!
“Well played guys.”
“Well played”
“Good game”