"Poor Sakuma Jirou. Forced to watch as his friends get their just punishment." Tears rolled down my cheeks as the reality of our situation finally dawned to me. Now that I think about it, it's actually funny.At one point in time, we thought that we were invincible, we thought that we were unstoppable, and we thought that we could do anything. We thought that we, the players of Teikoku, were the "gods" of the soccer world. But in one blink of an eye, all of those beliefs, all of what I thought I knew disappeared. Everything changed when he stepped onto the field.