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"From here on, the second selection of Blue Lock will begin."

'Can't we get straight into it?' You raise your eyebrow, finding it pointless to keep wasting time for talks.

"The first selection where you fought so far was to make strikers understand the meaning of turning zero to one."

"From here on out, you will make use of a state of the art field so that you can fight to turn your own one into a hundred."

"The second selection is divided up into five different stages."

"It's a leveling system where you'll only be allowed to move on after clearing each stage."

"Your next goal will be to clear the mission in the first stage."

"And those who cleared all the stages and completed the second selection..."

"Will participate in a strengthening training camp, with top world players of my choosing."

'Oh?' You are more curious about how much Ego could possibly do to surprise you even more.

"That's it for the explanation, feel free to warm up. Those who are ready, move on to the gate alone."

"The first stage is an individual battle. Once you've entered, you can't return."

"If you don't advance to the second stage, you would best assume that you'll never meet your rivals beside you again."

"Of course, the second selection will be much more harder than the first."

"No matter how well you've done so far, if you can't get past this, then you're simply just no good."

"Those of you who just lucked out with strong teammates and managed to survive, get ready."

"The second selection will thin out that trash, and only true egoist will remain."

"I wish you all luck."

After the screen went off, most of the players looked around the room.The majority were reluctant to try the first stage.

Nonetheless, an familiar player went and picked up two balls.

He kicked the first ball, allowing the ball to move in a tall yet gentle curve. Soon after, he kicked the second ball.

However, unlike the first ball, this created a low curved shot. Surprisingly, both balls hit each other halfway.

'Found you!' Your eyes brightens up as you grin when you finally found him.

Itoshi Rin.

With that confirmed, you will definitely meet him one day since both of you won't get kicked out anytime soon.

'Ah, right.' You remembered something when you saw Isagi.

"L/N?" Zantetsu calls out, curious as to where you're going.

"You guys can go first." You said without looking back.

"Ukh-!" Isagi felt his hair being roughly ruffled.

He snap his head around to see who would dare to do such a thing but calmed down a little when he saw you smiling at him.

"Good job in the last match, Isagi. You did great! I owe you one. Nagi changed because of ya." You showered him with compliments, which seem to work with how his face turned red.

"It's.... not a big deal, don't worry about it." He spoke while avoiding your gaze.

"Sure, sure." You grinned.

"I'm expecting to see you at the end of Blue Lock, my dear egoist." You gave him one last pat on the head before walking

"Huh...." He felt himself getting pumped up for some reason.

'My dear egoist'? It sounded as if you're trying to trick him into thinking that he is yours to use, like a chess piece.

But he can't get mad... Is it because of the compliments? He is aware that he loves compliments, but will he go as far as to let himself be used by you to earn those compliments again?

Honestly speaking...-

"What the hell was that, Isagi?!" Igaguri spoke in disbelieve.

"Isagi, you talked to her before?" Bachira pop his head
out beside Isagi, startling him.

"It sounded like she's complimenting and petting a dog... No offence to you, Isagi." Kunigami sweat dropped.

"Hey... She's still single, right? Bastard Isagi..." Imamura look at Isagi with jealousy and hatred.

"Uhm..." Isagi sweat dropped, finding this situation too much to deal with.

"A....A-choo!" You sneezed.