While cowering in guilt and fear, Masao kept on yelling helplessly. But still no amount of begging availed Masao. With tears rolling down his eyes like monsoon downpour, he begged Masato helplessly to stop traumatizing him.
But Masato wasn’t willing to listen to his plea. Infact with a big nasty smile on his face, he was enjoying the sight of Masao cowering in horror. 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘭．𝘦𝘵
“Where’s your smile from before piggy? Now why don’t you show me your teeth?” Masato spoke contemptuously while laughing.
“Please stop it!! Please I beg you!!” His body shivering and his voice shaking, Masao who was traumatised by the words of Masato begged him to stop.
While Masato made such comments, the other four sidekicks of Masato stood there laughing and enjoying the sight of Masao cowering helplessly.
“Yeah Masao!! Did you close your ears and eyes back then as well?” A lanky guy who was standing beside Masato commented while smiling.
As if he was choked to death, Masao’s body began to turn pale and he began to have difficulties in breathing. While sweating and gasping heavily, he screamed in his shrill voice, “Noooooo!! It’s not my fault.”
His finaly cry was so loud that even the people who resided at the end of the alleyway couldn’t ignore it any more. Noticing his screams, they then walked out of their houses to inspect the source of the noise.
“Masato!! The people from the end of alleyway are coming. We need to leave now.” The two guys who were keeping eyes on people at the end of alleyway mumbled while noticing some people making their way towards the commotion.
“Let’s go Masato.” The guy beside him panicked.
“Consider yourself lucky piggy.” Masato spoke before running away.
After that all of them started to run away. They then crawled towards a hole in the far left wall and vanished from the scene.
That hole which was formed in the wall directly connected the alleyway to an abandoned old house.
**** ****
At around 4:30 in the afternoon, Hiro and his teammates were warming up their bodies for the evening training.
While still warming up, suddenly Yuya opened his mouth and questioned Hiro, “I didn’t expect that fat guy to play that well. What was his name again?”
Hiro who was juggling the ball beside him, answered without stopping his legs, “His name is Masao.”
“Yeah right!! That Masao guy. Did he play football before?” Yuya continued.
While still juggling the ball, Hiro replied casually, “I heard from Rin that he used to play some football in elementary school. Aside from that I don’t know more about him.”
While speaking of Masao, he then paused all of a sudden and continued with a serious tone, “Except the fact that he get’s bullied at school.”
Upon hearing the words of Hiro, Yuya who was stretching his legs stopped all of a sudden and abruptly turned his head towards him. He then looked at him with his enlarged pupils, “He get’s bullied!! By whom?”
While holding the ball in his hands, Hiro looked at the ball while frowning his brows and replied, “I heard from Rin that he get’s picked on by some bullies of our class. I don’t know much. He only mentioned that he get’s picked on for his weight. But when I look at him, I feel like there’s something more.”
Yuya who was looking at Hiro with his eyes wide open was left speechless.
Both of them then remained silent for some moment. And just as Yuya was about to open his mouth, manager Nozomi made his appearance on the field.
“All of you come here!! I’ll announce the squad for Sunday’s friendly match against Chiba Middle School.”
Saying such, he commanded everybody to gather around him.
“Let’s talk about it after the training.” Yuya mumbled and stormed towards manager Nozomi.
“Ummmm” Hiro too nodded his head and ran towards manager Nozomi to join the crowd.
And after everybody gathered in the field, manager Nozomi began to announce the squad for sunday’s match against Chiba Middle School.
“Goalkeeper: Shun Yabuzoe”
“Center backs: Yugo Tatsuta and Haruto Suzuki”
Haruto Suzuki was the opposing defender he faced previously during the match against the starting players.
Long rectangular face, black pupils, muscular body, silky straight black hair which gave others the impression of him shampooing his hair almost everyday, Haruto Suzuki was the official number 3 of U-15 team.
Unafraid of performing rough tackles, he was a nightmare for the strikers.
“That guy!! He nearly broke my legs in the previous match. Did he take lessons from Pepe and Ramos?” Hiro mumbled while looking at Haruto.
Yuya who was standing beside him heard his whisper. And after hearing his words, he whispered back, “Consider yourself lucky and be careful of him. He sprained my ankles once in training already.”
While both of them were gossiping among themselves, manager Nozomi continued with his announcement.
“Left back: Soma Ota”
Square shaped face with brown pupils and somewhat brown hair, Soma Ota stepped infront upon hearing his name.
“Dude seriously I’ve been thinking about it since our first game but how old is he?” Hiro murmured while looking at Soma Ota’s appearance.
Since he looked quite old compared to other players, Hiro couldn’t help but ask about his age.
“He’s 15.” Yuya replied casually.
“15!!” Hiro abruptly turned his head towards Yuya.
He couldn’t believe that the guy infront of him was only 15 year’s old. Since he looked much older compared to his age, Hiro couldn’t stop himself from staring at him, perplexingly.
“Right back: Shunta Tanaka”
Upon hearing his name, Shunta’s face brightened and his eyes widened. He was both excited and shocked to hear his name called out for the starting eleven.
Sounding all surprised, Shun spoke meekly while pointing his finger towards himself, “I got selected. Can you believe it?”
Yuya and Hiro who were standing beside him gave him a smile and congratulated him, “Congratulations Shunta. Your efforts were recognised.”
With his head in the clouds, he totally forgot that he had to step infront.
“Shunta!! Come forward.” Noticing him standing still while looking at Hiro and Yuya, manager Nozomi yelled sounding somewhat agitated.
Hiro who was standing beside him gave him a slight push as well.
Having been pushed from the behind, he tumbled forward.
He then while balancing himself apologized to manager Nozomi for his absent mindedness, “Sorry sir!! I was just excited to hear my name. It won’t happen again sir.”