Enchanted || Blue Lock

Chapter 4

A loud noise seemed to clammer above them causing all players to turn up to the ceiling. As they did that, a small hole seemed to open up above the middle of the room revealing a familiar-looking soccer ball.

As the ball took its first bounce on the ground, a figure instantly dashed over and took possession of it. Upon further inspection, [Name] recognizes it as the obnoxious dude making confident claims of beating Nagi and Reo.

"You guys will lose here and get sent back home."

"Geh, Nakeoma." [Name] heard Reo sigh as he and Nagi easily avoided the ball kicked towards them. Although he thinks it was less of their skill and more of this Nakeoma person's lack of them.

"If you're gonna fight, don't drag people into it." [Name] murmured, more so grumbled than anything, as he side-stepped the attack. The guy seemed like an act first, think later type of dude, and his actions proved it with the way he kicked the ball aimlessly.

"If that were me..." He visualized an image of him receiving the ball. "I would've hit in the spot the player I'm aiming for would move to instead of where they were." But who was he to judge? 

As the ball bounced against the wall, [Name] saw Zantetsu slide over in front of this Nakeoma dude and grabbed the ball before it could ricochet back over to the original kicker.

"Throughout heaven and earth," Zantetsu's voice was entirely serious as he even made eye contact before running off past the guy with tremendous speed. "I alone 'Run Solo.'" 

[Name] couldn't help but snort out loud at the wrong usage of the quote. He was keeping this for future reference. Everyone else seemed to be shocked at the display of the skill as they immediately turned their heads to follow where he was taking the ball.

"Huh?! You mean Honored one?" Reo yelled despite being taken aback by the sudden acceleration of speed.

"Eh? Glasses-kun, what are you doing..." Nagi asked as he watched Zantetsu take the ball in an uncrowded area.

"Oh my god..." Something seemed to spark within [Name] as he took a step forward to get a better view of what Zantetsu was doing. "I don't think he even knows what the rules of this game are." He said out loud with a dumbfounded look as he watched Zantetsu continue to guard the ball under his feet.

A loud laugh seemed to erupt within Reo's mouth at the words as things clicked for him as well. He slung an arm around Nagi and pointed at Zantetsu's direction. "This guy's the best! He's totally stupid! A natural-born idiot!"

Nagi was quick to agree. "The way he tries to sound smart by saying difficult words...Yep, he looks and talks like an idiot."

"Hey, don't say things like that, it's mean." [Name] shook his head and crossed his arms, his voice taking over a nagging tone. "He might be an idiot but there's no need to point out the obvious."

Reo only seemed to laugh louder at [Name]'s comment while Zantetsu, who heard everything, seemed to twitch in annoyance. "Idiot...Idiot..." The glasses-wearing teen mumbled. "Only idiots call other people idiots!" He yelled as he suddenly began running at max speed once more.

"Uh oh, looks like he's pissed," Nagi commented far too lightly for a man who was now being chased.

"Just run in a zig-zag! With that speed, he can't change directions that easily." He yelled in amusement, it was quite obvious he was having a blast right now.

"Good luck with that then..." [Name] mumbled more so to himself as he watched Nagi and Reo make a run for it. He expected Zantetsu to follow them only to realize his eyes were also set on him. "Why me too?!" He squawked in offense before running off as well with a jump. "I was defending you earlier!"