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AIKO STOOD IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING WITH WITH CONFIDENCE, BESIDE YOICHI. THEN AIKO AND YOICHI BEGAN TO WALK INSIDE THE BUILDING TOGETHER. AS SOON THEY WALKED IN AND AIKO SAW...TONS OF GUYS. „WOAH, THATS A LOT OF GUYS." YOICHI SAYD. AIKO JUST LAUGHED AT YOICHIS SURPRISED FACE. „ OH, IM THE ONLY GIRL," AIKO SAYD SHOCKED. AIKO THEN WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOICHI, BUT SHE WAS CUT OFF BY SOMEONE. THEN SUDDENLY THE DOOR WAS CLOSED BEHIND AIKO AND YOICHI. AFTER THAT THE LIGHTS GOT TURNED OFF.
„TCH...TEST ONE, TWO, ONE." SOMEONE SAID AS A MAN APPEARED ON THE STAGE IN FRONT OF ALL OF YOU. AIKO SAW THAT THE MAN HAD A REALLY WEIRD HAIRCUT AND HE WAS ALSO WEARING GLASSES LIKE A SCHOOL NERD. THEN THE MAN BEGAN TO SPEAK.
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU UNPOLISHED GEMS," THE MAN SPOKE,"ALL YOU UNDER 18 STRIKERS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN SOLELY BASED ON MY CRITERIA AND BIASES TO BE HERE TODAY. ALL 300 OF YOU."
AIKO THEN TOOK A QUICK LOOK AROUND AS THE MAN SPOKE, „I AM JINPACHI EGO. MY JOB IS TO MAKE JAPAN A TEAM CAPABLE OF WINNING THE WORLD CUP."
THE CROWD STARTED MUMBLING. YOU HEARD YOICHI ASKING YOU, „WHOS THAT GUY? YOU KNOW HIM AIKO?"
AIKO REPLIED, „NAH..NO WAY."
ALSO THE WORD „WORLD CUP" CAUGHT AIKOS ATTENTION. AIKO WAS ALL EARS FOR WHAT THIS EGO GUY HAD TO SAY.
EGO CONTINUED, „ILL PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS. JAPAN ONLY REQUIRES ONE THING TO BECOME THE STRONGEST POWERHOUSE IN FOOTBALL AND THAT IS THE CREATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY STRIKER. FROM YOU 300 PLAYERS GATHERED HERE TODAY, I WILL FORGE THE BEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD THROUGH A CERTAIN PROJECT. LOOK HERE. FOR THIS PURPOSE, WE HAVE BUILT THIS FACILITY...CALLED BLUE LOCK. STARTING TODAY, ALL OF YOU WILL ALL LIVE IN THIS BUILDING, AND FOLLOW, DOWN TO THE LETTER, MY PERSONALLY-DESIGNED TRAINING REGIME. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO BACK HOME, ANS AS OF NOW, CAN CONSIDER YOUR FOOTBALL CAREERS AS YOU KNOW THEM,OVER. BUT I WILL SAY. THIS : IF YOU MANAGE TO SURVIVE ON BLUE LOCK, AND DEFEAT THE OTHER 300 PLAYERS AROUND YOU..YOU, THE LAST PLAYER STANDING...WILL HAVE BECOME THE BEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD. THAT IS ALL FOR THE DETAILS. NICE TO MEET YOU ALL," EGO SAYD.
„I THINK IF I WOULD BEAT ALL OF THESE 300 CANDIDATES, I WOULD BE THE BEST ON IN THE WORLD AND I ALSO COULD IMPRESS MY TEAM FROM FRANCE." WAS AIKO THINKING.
AIKO THEN LOOKED AT YOICHI AND SAW HIS SHOCKED FACE.
YOICHI WAS MUMBLING „WHAT DID HE..? WHAT DID HE JUST SAY..?" AND THAT MAKED AIKO REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT YOICHI.
SUDDENLY AIKO HEARD A BOY SPEAK UP, „HEY! SORRY BUT.. I CANT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAID JUST NOW."WHILE THE BOY WAS ASKING THAT MAN EGO, AIKO ASKED YOICHI A QUESTION,"WHAT IS HIS NAME, YOICHI?" YOICHI JUST REPLIED WITH, „RYŌSUKE KIRA!" AND AIKO WAS LIKE OOHH!!
KIRA CONTINUED, „FOR MOST OF US, OUR TEAM IS OUR MAIN PRIORITY...PARTICULARLY THOSE OF US WHOLL PARTICIPATE AT NATIONALS. THERES NO WAY I CAN ACCEPT THOSE KINDS OF TERMS. I...I WILL NOT THROW AWAY MY OWN TEAM.
SUDDENLY SOME BOYS STARTING TO ANSWER BACK TO THAT MAN EGO.
„THATS RIGHT..! IM ALSO PLAYING AT NATIONALS!", WAS ONE BOY SPEAKING.
THE OTHER SAYD, „ AND WHY DO WE HAVE TO ALL LIVE TOGETHER..!"
THEN TWO OTHER BOYS WERE YELLING, „ WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, ANYWAYS?!", „ LETS SEE SOMEONE WE KNOW!"
EGO SAID SURPRISELY SOMETHING REALLY HARSH, „ I..SEE. GET LOST, THEN. IF YOURE THINKING OF LEAVING, GO RIGHT AHEAD. YOUR TEAMS ARE WHAT NOW..? YOUD REALLY CHOOSE YOUR TEAMS OVER BECOMING THE BEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD..? YOUD RATHER BE A HIGH SCHOOL CHAMP IN THIS SHITHOLE OF A COUNTRY..? HUH? WHEN I LOOK AT ALL OF YOU, I CRINGE AT THE THOUGHT OF JAPANS FOOTBALL FUTURE. YOU GET IT? JAPAN IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WHEN IT COMES TO ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS IN FOOTBALL, WHICH MOST PEOPLE ATTRIBUTE TO OUR INNATE NATIONAL CHARACTER. BUT BEFORE YOU GET ANY IDEAS, IN EVERYTHING ELSE... WERE SECOND-RATE. I WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING..WHAT IS FOOTBALL TO ALL OF YOU? A SPORT WHERE YOU TRY TO SCORE GOALS IN TEAMS OF 11 MEMBERS..?"OUR BONDS ARE IMPORTANT"?"I WILL PLAY FOR MY TEAMMATES"? WELL, THATS WRONG. THAT WAY OF THINKING IS EXACTLY WHY JAPAN LACKS FOOTBALL SKILLS. FOOTBALL IS AT ITS CORE, A SPORT ABOUT SCORING GOALS EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUR TEAMMATES. THE BEST PLAYER IS THE ONE THAT SCORES THE MOST GOALS.. IF YOU WANT TO PLAY PRETEND FOOTBALL ISTEAD, THEN GET LOST ALREADY."
YOICHI AND AIKO LOCKED KINDA ANGRY AT THAT MAN EGO. „ WHATS WITH THIS GUY..? HE MAKES NO SENSE.." WERE YOICHI AND AIKO SAYING IN THEIR MIND.
OTHERS STARTING TO MUMBLING AGAIN.
KIRA SPOKE AGAIN, „....HOW INSULTING. TAKE THOSE WORDS BACK...PLAYERS LIKE HONDA, OR KAGAWA, AND MANY OTHERS..ALL OF THOSE WHO SHAPE THE JAPAN NATIONAL TEAMS LINEUP...THE VALUE OF TEAM PLAY INSTILLED IN THE NATIONALS TEAM IS THE SAME THATS A PART OF US! THEY ARE OUR STARS! YOUR WRONG.
„HM? HONDA..?, KAGAWA...?, HMM..? YOU MEAN THE SQUAD THAT HAS YET TO WIN A SINGLE WORLD CUP? I DONT CARE ABOUT THAT CRASH. ARENT I TALKING ABOUT BECOMING THE BEST TEAM IN THE WOLRD? COME ON. LETS TALK ABOUT NOEL NOA, FOR EXAMPLE. HE MANAGED TO WIN THE BALLON D'OR OVER ASTOUNDING PLAYERS LIKE MESSI AND CHRISTIANO RONALDO. HES TALKED ABOUT AS IF HES BEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD...AND I HIS WORDS,"FEEL BETTER LOSING 3-4 AFTER SCORING A HAT-TRICK, THAN WINNING ONLY BY 1-0 WITH AN ASSIST" AND, ONE OF THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, ÉRIC CANTONA, SAID THIS :"WHEN THE SEAGULLS FOLLOW THE TRAWLER, ITS BECAUSE THEY THINK SARDINES WILL BE THROWN INTO THE SEA". PELÉ. ARGUABLY THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER IN HISTORY, AND WINNER OF THREE WORLD CUPS, ONCE SAID :"THE BEST FORWARD? THE BEST MIDFIELDER? THE BEST DEFENDER? THE BEST GOALKEEPER?""TO ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS, I ALWAYS ANSWER THAT IS ME".! WHADDYA THINK?! AWFUL, ARENT THEY?! BUT THEY CAN SAY IT BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST! ALL OF THEM ARE REVOLUTIONARY STRIKERS!! THEIR EXTRAORDINARY EGOISM...IS THE ONE THING JAPANS FOOTBALL LACKS. YOU WILL NOT BECOME THE GREATEST STRIKERS IN THE WORLD, UNLESS YOU HAVE THE EGO TO MATCH. MY PURPOSE HERE, IS TO CREATE SUCH A PLAYER IN JAPAN...FROM THE CORPSES OF 300 PLAYERS...ONE HERO WILL RISE IN ALL HIS GLORY!! ALRIGHT, YOU UNPOLISHED GEMS..LET ME AKS YOU ONE LAST QUESTION. IMAGINE THIS..YOU ARE AT THE VERY FINALS OF THE WORLD CUP..PLAYING UNDER THE EYES OF 80,000 SPECTATORS IN THE STADIUM...YOU ARE ON THAT VERY FIELD..THE SCORE? 0-0. ITS STOPPAGE TIME OF THE SECOND HALF...THE VERY LAST PLAY. A TEAMMATE HAS MANAGED TO PASS THE BALL TO YOU...ITS 1 ON 1 WITH THE GOALKEEPER. THERES A TEAMMATE SIX METERS TO YOUR RIGHT. IF YOU PASS IT TO HIM, YOULL PROBABLY SCORE THAT GOAL..THE HOPES OF ALL JAPAN LIES ON YOUR SHOULDERS..YOU ARE AT A TURNING POINT ART THE WORLD CUP FINALS..WITHOUT HESITATION, YOU SHOOT IF YOU DESIRE THAT REBELLIOUS EGOISM..THEN STEP TROUGH THE GATE. ILL SAY IT ONCE MORE..LOUD AND CLEAR...FOOTBALL IS A SPORT TO DEVELOP YOU ALL AS STRIKERS. THINK OF LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE ON THE FIELD AS SUPPORTING YOU. THROW AWAY YOUR COMMON SENSE. WHEN YOURE ON THE FIELD, YOU ARE THE STAR. YOUR GREATEST JOY IS SCORING POINTS, AND NOTHING ELSE. YOU LIVE FOR THE EXCITEMENT OF THAT VERY MOMENTS. NOW THATS..A STRIKER DONT YOU THINK."WAS EGO SAYING TO ALL OF US. OH AND BEFOR I FORGET THIS...THERE IS A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER UNDER YOU ALL,".EVERYONE BEGAN TO LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND STARTING TO SPEAK TO EACH ANOTHER. EGO JUST LOOKED AT AIKO AND THEN EGO BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT YOU THE ONLY GIRL AND ONLY WITH THE NAME AIKO,"SO LETS ALSO TALK ABOUT AIKO ISAGI, FOR EXAMPLE. SHE HAS PLAYED FOR FRANCE U-20 SINCE SHE WAS 13 YEARS OLD AND YOU KNOW WHY BECAUSE SHE WAS A CLEVER PLAYER. SHE ALSO WON 3 WORLD CUPS FOR THE WOMEN CATEGORY FRANCE NATIONAL TEAM AND ALSO HAS 1 BALLON D'OR IN HER COLLECTION FOR BEING THE YOUNGEST BEST FEMALE STRIKER SINCE FEMALE FOOTBALL HISTORY."
AFTER EGO ENDED HIS SPEECH EVERYONE STARTED TO LOOK AT YOU,EEVEN YOICHI LOOKED AT YOU, WHILE YOICHI WAS STILL SHIVERING FROM BEFOR. THEN AFTER THAT YOICHI BEGAN TO RUN INTO THE DIRECTION OF THE GATE AND RIGHT BEHING YOICHI WAS AIKO. EVERYONE JUST LOOKED AT THE ISAGI SIBLINGS AND THEN THEY ALSO BEGAN TO RUN INTO THE DIRECTION OF THE GATE AND ONE AFTER ANOTHER WENT THROUGH THE GATE.
„300...EVERYONE DECIDED TO PARTICIPATE..EVEN AIKO ISAGI DECIDED TO PARTICIPATE..IT SEEMS,"SAYD EGO.
„SO THE GEARS HAVE STARTED TO TURN. FROM NOW ON, I WILL FOLLOW YOUR EVERY ORDER. THE FUTURE OF JAPANS FOOTBALL IS IN THOSE 300 PLAYERS..I WILL LEAVE THIS IN YOUR HANDS, MR. EGO." WAS ANRI TEIERI SAYING.
THEN EGO BEGAN TO SPEAK AGAIN, „...PERHAPS, WELL HAVE TO SACRIFICE 299 PLAYERS FOR THIS,EXCEPT FOR AIKO ISAGI...BUT THAT WILL CREATE ONE TRUE STRIKER ABOVE THEM ALL. THATS THE ESSENCE OF BLUE LOCK."
„IT IS..."WAS TEIERI ANRI SAYING."
„THEN LET US BEGIN, MISS ANRI...THIS WILL BECOME...FOOTBALLS MOST CRITICAL MOMENT."WAS EGO SAYING AGAIN AFTER ANRI WAS FINISHED WITH HER WORDS.
TO BE CONTINUED...
AUTHORS NOTE : MAN THAT WAS ALOT OF WORDS :O...SO EXCUSE ME FOR THAT. AND ALSO FOR THAT CHAPTER I HAD THE MANGA FOR HELP SO CREDIT TO THE AUTHOR AND THE CHARACTERS >:(!!!
PS : I DONT KNOW WHEN I CAN CONTINUE WITH CHAPTER 3, BECAUSE MY SMARTPHONE GOT TAKEN AWAY FROM ME :').....I NEED IT TO WORK WITH THIS FANFICTION.... YOU KNOW THE MANGA IS THE CEMENT FOR MY FANFIC.... SEE YA :D