spooksandspectres
"Devote yourself to the team, and you'll surely find victory!"
Akio Katsuya's wings were clipped earlier than most. Once a promising striker in his youth, he eventually found himself forced into the role of a midfielder, stuck delivering boring strikers the same textbook passes, again and again, all the way up to Japan's national U-20 team.
That is, until a single match. A match against a group of nobodies, led by a forgotten madman. Exposed to what it means to embrace your 'ego' for the first time, Akio is forced to confront a part of himself he thought to be dead and rotting.
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