LIQUID SMOOTH | Nagi Seishiro

CHAPTER 5 | TRAINING

~Meal time~

In the cafeteria other than the Miso soup and Rice the food you get changes on your rank. Since I'm third to last I get...... NATTO! Unfortunately. Don't get me wrong I don't despise natto, not yet at least but I'm getting real sick of it every day.

"Awww natto? All I ever get is pickled radish." Igaguri complained. Damn he got it worse than us.

"Cheer up Igaguri." Isagi told him.

"They really have it made; the upper ranks...look... he's got gyoza." Igaguri pointed out.

"Seriously god I'm jealous!"

"This social hierarchy and rewards system is bullshit we haven't even played a REAL match yet, so this is totally based on Ego's bias!" I grumbled.

We looked over to the boy with black and faded to grey hair who was eating the Gyoza..... with his hands?!

" ?! That guy.... Why isn't he using chopsticks?" Isagi seemed surprised.

"Maybe it's a religious thing? Or maybe he was raised by bears..." Igaguri remarks.

"I'm betting on the latter." I say while eating my rice.

I looked around the room observing everyone as I usually would, "I'll be taking one of those ~" Naruhaya said in a sing-song way as he took some of Gagamaru's meal.

"Hey squirt, give that back."

"Sorry but I already ate it." You better make a run for it Naruhaya.

"Isagi hide your stuff!" Igaguri tells him looking around guarding his pickled-radish.

"Nah. We're fine man, trust me." Isagi looked unimpressed as he chewed his food.

~Sleep time~

"Igaguri you NEED to wear pants while you sleep." Kuon lectured.

"Ughh, but whyyyy this is how I sleep at home!" He whined.

"Because it's weird to sleep in your underwear, especially with a girl around you don't want to make y/n uncomfortable right?"

"I guess soooo..."

"Good." Kuon said before slipping into his sleeping bag. I appreciated Kuon's efforts but let's be real those pants are not staying on all night. Somehow he will wake up in his heart boxers.

"KEEP IT DOWN SHIT-HEADS! Some of us are trying to sleep!"

"Yet you're the loudest one..." I mumbled under my breath.

"WHAT YOU SAY PRINCESS?!"

"Nothing!" I gave a innocent smile before rolling over.

It was finally time to sleep, but I was having trouble doing so. :(

For a while I laid there letting my imagination wander but after a while I got bored, and I still wasn't tired. I looked around the room trying to figure out something to do, Raichi was snoring loudly with his covers off and Igaguri somehow managed to get his shirt and pants off and was now laying mostly on Isagi's sleeping bag snoring away.

Since I couldn't sleep I decided to just walk around for a while, maybe get some training done.

Ughh why can't I sleep, maybe I'm just nervous or something. I mean it's true I've been thinking about my position here a lot. I have this huge opportunity and if I let it slip through my fingers my career could be over, I guess it just made me realize I don't want my soccer career to end just yet. It doesn't help being so low ranked and seeing everyone show off their skills either because then I have to try extra hard to out-do them, damn my competitive spirit! I'm quite literally part of that %1 here so I have to be better. I just feel so anxious, every second counts here so if I sit around to long everyone will pull ahead.... I can't let that happen!