'Huh? Where am I?' You opened your eyes to see a woman looking at you, concerned. Your eyes widened.

"Sweetie, are you alright? You seem like you've seen a ghost." You were lost for words. The person you missed so much is right in front of your eyes.

Tears started to form as you jumped in for a hug. Your hands touched her back to see her hug back. You were so happy. You rubbed your eyes to see a better look of her. You both pulled back from the hug to see.... no sign of her... instead it was your, dead step mother with that menacing smile you hoped to have forgotten. A sudden pain reached your back to see blood stains on the floor. Your stepmother pulled back and kept on stabbing you with a knife. She laugh maniacally as she kept on stabbing you. You felt hopeless and had no energy left to do anything, but grasp on to your life.

"HAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!--"

BEEP BEEP BEEP

You woke up terrified, with the nightmare you just had. Sweat covered your forehead as your heart beat sped up.

"It's... It's just a nightmare... it's okay just calm down..." You touched your forehead to see sweat all over. Seeing your obvious state, you decided to take a nice relaxing shower to calm yourself down a bit.

You finished yourself off and grabbed a towel to dry yourself off. It was about 5:00 am so, you decided to get things ready. You wore your uniform and headed downstairs to see a little note sitting on top of the table. Looking closer at it, you knew this was Miyo's handwriting.

'If you don't see me, I'm out grocery shopping and by the way, I left breakfast on the table, have fun in school!

Love Miyo <3'

You smiled at her little note and started eating. You glanced at a mirror and tried to keep on that smile. You made yourself presentable and left the house.

You arrived at the school and started doing your classes.

- Time Skip - ( After school )

You made your way down the stairs and waved your hand to Tenma and Shinsuke.

Akatsuki's POV

"Yo! Tenma, Shinsuke." I walked towards them to see their depressing faces. "Something wrong?"

"Oh, it's just that, Shindou-san is not here and well... I've been thinking it was my fault that he's not here today..." I scanned the field to see no sign of Shindou and Kudou-kantoku. He was right, but then again it was also my fault too...

"Tenma, don't worry, it will work out somehow, right? That's what you've been telling me." I reassured him as I held his shoulder. He calmed down and took a deep breath.

"Right, arigatou Akatsuki." He smiled as I smiled back.

"But, if Kudou-kantoku's gone, who's our coach now?" Shinsuke asked.

"I don't know..." I replied. It's probably someone from Fifth Sector, but I didn't want to say that in front of Tenma. He's been worrying about things a lot lately. But still, new coach? I scanned the field again to see all the players not playing properly. They kept spacing out all the time. It was getting kind of annoying.

"Tch, Pathetic" Tsurugi spat

- Time Skip -

Practice ended and we all gathered near the benches. The atmosphere here got gloomy real quick as we all sat in some sort of circle.

"Captain isn't here, Kudou-kantoku resigned. What do we do now?" Hayami asked.

"Well, our only option is to follow the new coach's rules." Minamisawa said as Kurama started to get annoyed.

Kuramada-senpai stood up from his spot. "How can you be so calm about this?!"

"It's simple, if we do what the new coach says, it'll be good on our students records. Plus we wouldn't get more trouble that we have by Fifth Sector." Kuramada-senpai couldn't complain to that last statement, so he just sat back on the floor.

"

So, no matter what we do, it'll be the same..." Hayami spoke. We all stared at the grass as the voice of someone scooted us back up to reality.

"That's not true!" The person spoke.

There was a man about a year older than Haruna-sensei. He wore an orange shirt with a white stripe going around the collar line, and a white jacket with orange stripes going down each of his sleeves and brown accents. His jacket's collar is notably raised and it shows of a thick brown stripe on the inside of the collar. With that, he wears dark blue jeans, and orange shoes with yellow laces.

His appearance made Haruna-sensei squeal with excitement, which I didn't understand. I decided to look at him with a closer look. I squinted my eyes and started to stare at his face.

"Is this everyone?" He spoke.

"No, the captain's absent." Kirino replied. I kept staring.

"Mmm?" The man looked at me with questioning eyes. I know I've seen him before, he looked so familiar to me. But from where? ... then it hit me.

"Endou-san... you're, Endou Mamoru, am I right?" I spoke, which gave him quite a shock.

"Yes, yes I am." He said as everyone looked at him with widened eyes. "Endou Mamoru the legendary goal keeper?!" Kirino spoke.

"Endou-kun what are you doing here?" Haruna-sensei asked. I was also curious too. The way he just came in here out of nowhere, I didn't even notice his presence...

"I'm the new Raimon soccer club coach today!" He exclaimed

"What?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Are you serious?" Minamisawa said

"This is awesome! Endou Mamoru being our coach, it's like a dream come true!" Tenma cheered. I smiled as his mood brightened up from all the things that has been happening this past week.

"Right?" Shinsuke replied

"Starting from tomorrow, I want everyone to go to the riverbank grounds." Endou-kantoku said.

"Um.. kantoku why the riverbank?" I spoke. Everyone looked at him with questioning looks.

"You'll see something that you wouldn't be able to see in the school grounds." Endou-kantoku said

"Why do we need to see it?" Kurama asked.

"In order to win.." He replied. In order to win? What does that mean?

He walked past me and gave me a tap on the shoulder as he went off. "I'll be waiting!" He said as he waved at everyone.

"Well, I'm out." Minamisawa said.

"You can't be serious, we'll see something that we wouldn't see on the school grounds? What would we even see there?" Kurama asked.

"He's probably someone that was sent from Fifth Sector or something.." Hayami said.

"Wait.. aren't any you guys going?"

"I'll pass." "Same" "It'll be boring anyway.." They all went off one by one as Sangoku and Kuramada-senpai looked back at us as they followed up with the rest of the team.
'Guess not -_-" '

- Time Skip -

Tsurugi's POV

I entered the building of God Eden and reported the news of the new "coach".

"Holy Emperor, there was a sudden accident to the system."

"What happened?" He replied

"The new coach is now.. Endou Mamoru" His expression was the same as ever, he looked at me with those straight eyes and replied, ".. Thank you Tsurugi for this.. report.. you may go."

I left the building and started heading off to the hospital. I arrived and started walking towards the hall of t

- Flashback -
"... Well that can be our little secret then."

"If you tell anyone. You. Are. Dead"

"I swear, I won't tell anyone."

- End of Flashback -

"Gr... why is it always her?.." I said to myself.

I went inside nii-san's room and sat down on the chair that was right next to the bed.

"Tch..."

"Something wrong?"

"It's nothing..."

"Really?" He looked at me with questioning eyes.

"W-what?"

"You like, that girl don't you?" He asked. My face turned scarlet, as I stuttered.

"N-no, her face just kept popping into my kind for some reason."

"Hehe, is that all?" He asked

"What?"

"Kyousuke, you like her." My face started turning red. "Shush, just.. Please don't tell anyone about it." I pleaded.

"Okay, see you tomorrow Kyousuke.."

"See you nii-san." I went towards the door as I opened and closed it behind me.

"*Sigh*..

...

...

Do I really like her?"

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That is it for this chapter. I'm sorry for not uploading, It's been a hectic week for me. But I will try my best to upload faster.

Bye ● ㅅ ● /