Hearing manager Makoto’s words, Hiro turned his head towards Nozomi who was standing beside him.
Nozomi then blinked both his eyes while looking at him and nodded his head.
“I know it’ll be tough for you. But Hiro I believe that you won’t improve much in U-15 team. And we’ve also talked about it with your agent. And he said that he’ll go with your decision. So please hear us once before you make your decision.” Makoto exclaimed.
Upon hearing his words, Hiro nodded his head and straightened his back.
Manager Makoto then began to explain about the pros and cons of him playing for the U-18 team.
“Although the league will be a bit hard for you considering your age. But we still have more than 6 months left for the league to start. And I believe that we can prepare you both physically and mentally for the league within that time period.” Makoto spoke with a serious expression on his face.
“That’s right Hiro. We’ll train you separately after the training session and prepare you for your premier league debut.” Nozomi who was standing right beside him, spoke with confidence and expressed his desire.
While both of them were presenting their opinions and ideas, Hiro was ardently listening to their opinions and ideas without uttering a single word.
“So what do you say Hiro? Do you want to stay in U-15 team for another year or do you want to play for U-18 from next season onwards?” Makoto finished his sentence with a question.
And as both of them finished presenting their ideas, Hiro lowered his gaze towards the table infront and began to ponder. Or so they thought after looking at him. However he was simply acting. He was acting to make them believe that he wasn’t making his choices rashly.
From the moment he heard from manager Makoto’s mouth that he was going to be promoted to the U-18 team, he had already made his decision.
“I believe that you both are making such decision for my wellbeing. So I’ll go with your decision sir.” Hiro replied without any changes in his facial expression.
Although he was jumping and singing inside his head, celebrating like crazy, he didn’t show any reactions upfront and maintained a poker face infront of the coaches.
“Great!!!” Their face lit up as they intoned excitedly with a wide smile on their faces.
“Then we’ll begin your training from tomorrow onwards. Also you’ll be training with the U-18 from tomorrow onwards as well. So don’t go to the U-15 pitch, accidentally.” Mumbled manager Makoto with a wide grin on his face.
Listening to the words of manager Makoto, Hiro nodded his head.
He then lowered his head and thanked both the coach’s, “Thank you for providing me with such an opportunity sirs. I won’t let you down.”
**** ****
After leaving the coach’s office, he made his way towards his room, jumping and humming silently in joy along the way.
And as he entered his room, he found nobody present in the room, which meant Shun was still at Yuya’s room.
“I never expected that I’d be playing with professional players so soon.” Hiro mumbled while sitting atop his bed.
Since the club’s could play their academy players from 15 years onward, there were some players in the U-18 team of every professional team who can also be regarded as professional players.
“Takefusa Kubo played a professional league at the age of 15. So let’s not get overwhelmed Hiro.” He said to himself while trying to calm him down.
“Ahh right!! Let’s spin the roulette.”
‘System activate’
[System activated]
And as the system activated the same holographic blue pannel of the system appeared infront of his eyes. By that time, he was already used to seeing the blue panel of the system.
He then performed few clicks and headed towards the roulette section.
With a giant roulette wheel, the page was the same as it was before.
[One golden ticket available.]
[Do you like to use your ticket.] 𝓫𝓭𝓸𝓋𝓁．𝓬𝓸𝓂
‘Yes’ Hiro spoke to himself.
And as he agreed to consume the golden ticket, the roulette wheel began to spin.
After spinning for a while, it landed on a card and a golden card popped up infront of him.
Impatient as he was, he immediately clicked on the card.
[Congratulations host for obtaining the passing sense of Kevin De Bruyne(B).]
[Talent description: Activating the talent can significantly improve host’s passing, vision and IQ permanently.]
After noticing the talent he drew from the system, his pupils enlarged as he abruptly rose from his bed.
“Damn freaking awesome!! I freaking love you system.” He mumbled in ecstasy and threw his arms towards the sky.
“Just some moments ago I was thinking of improving my passing and vision. And now I drew such an OP talent.” He continued.
After mumbling such in ecstasy for a while, he paused all of a sudden. Squinting his eyes, he then glared at the system, “But how can the system be so generous to grant me such an overpowering talent? And what’s with that alphabet behind the title of the talent?”
He was somewhat skeptical about the generosity of the system.
[That’s the grade of the talent.]
[Since the original passing talents of De Bruyne is way more OP. Because of your present stats the system has deemed that you’re still not eligible to own such talents.]
[Thus the system has purposely lowered the rank of the talent to fit your capability at the moment.]
[Hence you can only use part of the passing talent De Bruyne possesses at the moment. Meaning you’ll not be able to miraculously play on the level of De Bruyne.]
[So stop fantasizing and work your ass off.]
“Wtf?? Did the system just diss me??” He mumbled while contorting his face after listening to the description provided by the system.
“Oii system!! Did you just diss me?” Feeling mocked by the system, he questioned the system.
[No!! I only described you what you wanted.] Spoke the system.
“Yeah!! Indeed that’s what it did.” Mumbled Hiro dumbfoundedly, since it was speaking the fact afterall.
“But from when did system start speaking like this?” Hiro mumbled.
But the system didn’t reply anything at all. He kept on questioning the system time and again but he didn’t get the answer he was looking for.
“Argh!! Let’s just stop. It has always been unpredictable. So there’s no point asking it.” Mumbling such, he gave up questioning the system.