Monster of Blue Lock

Chapter 5 : A "weapon"

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“I'm gonna say it! I think havin' Isagi as our CF was a mistake! Next game I'll be at the very top of the lineup!”

Of course.... Starting with today's chapter, is Raichi's bantering. Us, Team Z rest in the dressing room after a defeat against Team X. Not a single positive energy can be felt as everyone were arguing.

“No way, me! Isagi sucked, but I'd be an ace as CF!” Naruhaya argued with Raichi, denying his claims on being the main striker.

“Shut it, small fry! All you do is get into fights!” Raichi yelled, glaring at Naruhaya with hostility.

“Huh?! Says you! Why you're acting like all that when Isagi didn't even pass to you?!” Naruhaya snarled, picking on the relentless Raichi. Raichi in return, glared with more hostility.

“Just take me off defense, man! I do way better at scoring than Isagi,” Igarashi said, adding more fuel to the fire.

No, Mr. Fanatic. Your doing a lot more worse than the rest of us.

“I ain't hearing shit from the monk that cost us the game! You fuckin' asshole!!” Raichi threw his water bottle at Igarashi, the latter suprised, gets hurt from it. Yet, he didn't fall... He has a strong head, just with the wrong mindset.

Any second, the fight could get worse. I assume. I at first, plan to stop their pointless argument. But an individual did it before me.

“Enough already! Can you all cut it out?! We're not here to mess around nor are we here to act like monkeys!!” the usual calm Kuon shouted. His action shocked the rest of Team Z. It's understandable as we have never seen this side of him before, who knows what else he could show us.

“Do you really get how dicey our situation is now...?! Our team has already been saddled with a loss....” his eyes squinted.

“Huh?”

“Nope.... Whatcha mean?”

The others were confused, they haven't grasp the bigger problem we're currently facing, I presume.

“Listen. In the first selection.... FIVE teams play in a round of robin tourney. Only the top two teams will move onto the next round. Supposing that all the teams are about equal and manage two wins and losses, the number of points they'll have is 6,” he stated the obvious drawback on our team. Reenacting Ego's words from before the match.

Others seemed to catch on, but few individuals such as Igarashi and Naruhaya had troubles on understanding.

“Therefore, we shouldn't aim for those 6 points, but exceeds that number and go for 7...!!” he explained, with well animatic hand gestures. “Of course, there may be more draws than that, but with two wins and one draw, we'll have 7 points!! We'll be much likely to make it if we reach that threshold...!! I think....” he pondered for a bit, before continuing.

“That goes for other team too. Lose two games, and they can't reach 7 points no matter what. It goes to show that, it might not guarantee elimination, but two losses will put us in a "dead zone" of sorts that would be beyond to crawl out of. Especially, when we're at the bottom.... So just like that, Team Z.... Is on the verge of elimination. If we lose again, we're all but finish...!!”

A black ambience scattered across the room. Tension rises as the looks on everyone's faces tells so.

“This isn't the time to be thinking of ourselves...!! If we don't focus on what we can do to win, then it's over for us!! So please...! Please, Team Z for doing what we can do!!” Kuon finished, as he opens his eyes. It looked scary as I've seen him open his eyes before.... Wait how did he see then...? This isn't the time to think about this.