Chapter 37 - Raimon vs Diamond Dust

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"Looks like he's faltered." Gran sighed, "he was such a promising player and Enlightened Heat were a good team."

"Yeah but you can't completely trust androids can you?" Burn retorted, "and he obviously would go back to them at some point."

"Because of Endou."

"You really like Endou don't you." Gazel said, "then I'll pay them a visit soon."

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Since the game against Enlightened Heat was abandoned, Raimon were just having a kickabout since this was the first time that they properly just got to play football without any pressure of fighting Aliea Gakuen with James and Gouenji again, before actually doing some training.

They trained hard for the next week and they gathered at the riverbank to do so but a blue and black football shot into the ground and a calm voice seemed to emanate from it. 

"Gentlemen of Raimon, we of Diamond Dust are waiting for you at the Football Frontier Stadium. If you do not show within thirty minutes, we will attack Tokyo at random with black footballs."

"Let's not waste any time, let's get there right away." Hitomiko said.

Once they arrived at the stadium they got to the pitch and Hitomiko went through their gameplan. 

"Gouenji, of course, you'll be straight into the starting line up. James, the same goes for you but you two will indefinitely be marked immediately."

"James, do you know how strong they were compared to Enlightened Heat?" Kidou asked.

"Well, with the unimaginable amount we have trained, I would say that now we are better than Enlightened Heat. Of course we drew to them at the tournament but Diamond Dust were training really hard after as well."

A bright blue light erupted from the bench next to them and as the light settled, eleven players in white and blue kits appeared.

"We are Aliea Gakuen's master rank team, Diamond Dust." Gazel said, "Endou, I'll show you how freezing cold the darkness can be."

"I don't care if it's hot or cold! I will not allow people like you to destroy schools with football!"

Raimon lineup (5-3-2). Endou (C). Tsunami, Kabeyama, Touko, Kogure, Domon. James, Kidou, Ichinose. Gouenji, Rika.

Rika passed to Gouenji for kickoff and all the Diamond Dust players cleared the way for Gouenji, giving him a clear path to shoot, which he took and the ball curved to the top left corner of the goal.

"That's our first goal!" Rika cheered.

But the Diamond Dust goalkeeper was able to react at the last possible second and jump to get a hand to the ball. He threw the ball all the way to Endou who was able to catch it without any trouble.

Endou was about to throw the ball to James but noticed that all of the midfield and attack were already being marked by Diamond Dust players, so Endou had no option but to play out from the back.

He threw the ball to Domon who tried a first time pass to Ichinose but the pass was easily intercepted by Rhionne, she feinted, sending Touko the wrong way before passing to Gazel who volleyed it towards Endou who was driven back but the ball didn't enter the goal.

Endou threw the ball to James who passed to Kidou but Gazel quickly came and stole the ball, he passed sideways to Rhionne and James was able to intercept the pass.

"Take it back Kidou!"

Kidou took James' pass and gave it to Ichinose who later gave the ball to Rika. She prepared to shoot but Gokka came in and slid in and an icy path followed him as he was sliding, he got the ball off Rika, frosting her leg, "Frozen Steal".

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