35 Puppet Captain

In the endless darkness where emotions and disturbing emotions emerge, the five people who were forced into the darkness slowly began to fall into the illusions created by their own minds. Hiruka, Raito, Kaze, Shin and Ryu began to feel something strange enter their minds.

The faint sound of people asking for help from the darkness is as if the darkness is sucking up anyone who enters into it. Silent fixation with blank eyes in the opponent's defense area makes a barrage attack that they do easily can be broken. The strange feeling that emerged increasingly raged in their hearts before finally the sound of the whistle of a number sign increased for the opposing team to realize them.

"W-what was that just now?"

"Do you feel the same in the dark?"

They stared at each other with confusion as the effect of the opponent's ability ended while wondering what really happened. Instead, the opponent smiled with satisfaction seeing the effect caused by the ability of the dark area that couldn't be dispelled.

"When you are exposed to my abilities, you are certain to lose"

With arrogance Kenta said the word defeat to his opponent but in the eyes of the Cyoku High School team members did not show any sense of trepidation but enthusiasm for not giving up.

"As long as the match isn't over then anything can happen," Shin said firmly.

The match resumed with a throw-in by Shin to Kaze followed by a quick pass to Raito who at high speed ran into the opponent's ring intending to score but as if there was a blocking wall made him a little hesitant to shoot.

"I can't !! The darkness seems to haunt me while in the area of attack"

Raito paused for a moment before finally making up his mind and preparing to shoot, but the darkness kept following him wherever he went until he finally devoured him and seemed to carry him into the dark like that.

This opportunity was not wasted by Clay, who easily snatched the ball from Raito's helpless hands.

"Damn !! what a troublesome ability"

Shin cursed to let go of his frustration, but he realized that it did not produce anything.

The ball bounced back on the floor as the movement of Clay who carried out the attack continued with the pass directed at Ogure which then disappeared along with the ball leaving only the sound of the ball colliding with the floor.

"I don't want to lose here especially in my first match with this team"

Ryu took a deep breath then released a very strong roar towards his opponent so that his opponents unwittingly directed at him.

'Dragon's Roar'

At the same time the roar was heard, Ogure unconsciously showed himself so that Shin could win the ball without any significant resistance because their focus was now on Ryu.

"I don't really want to use this technique because I'm afraid to hurt others, but now I won't hold back anymore"

With a strong determination, Shin jumped very high then threw the ball in his hand toward the opponent's ring making the ball glow and cause sparks.

'Falling Meteor'

After launching the shot, from the height Shin landed his feet on the floor and flung the people around him. Shin then looked at the opponent's ring and noticed the ball falling towards the opponent's ring but unfortunately, the ball only grabbed the ring and made the ring fall to the floor along with the ball.

Priiiitttt ....

The sound of the whistle was heard and made people watch both from outside the field and the players from inside the field. The referee temporarily stopped the match with the reason to repair the ring damaged by Shin's ability.

"Arggh .. I haven't used this ability for too long so the accuracy starts to decrease"

Irritated, Shin stepped out of the field to wait for the ring to be fixed. The other team members could only be silent seeing Shin's annoyance while following from behind to the bench.

"I have no idea whatsoever to overcome my opponent's abilities"

"I think I have to play Gyo in this match."

Pak Yagami looks desperate and intends to play Gyo who should not be able to play because he is still under sentence.

"No !! we can still do it"

Shin's sharp eyes showed that he was still able not because he did not trust Gyo's abilities but his eyes signaled to his coach to give him another chance.

"Dark Eyes ... don't you have a way to overcome Kenta's darkness?" Gyo asked half whispering.

"In my observations, that ability can only be eliminated by the ability of elements that are contrary to the elements of darkness," answered Dark Eyes.

"So the point is that the ability of darkness must be overcome by the ability of light? But none of this team has the ability of light," Gyo replied.

"If only you had opened the third seal, you could have easily overcome that troublesome ability," said Dark Eyes wishingly.

"But there is one thing that makes me surprised to see their team captain who did not take any action and after I watched carefully, it was like a body without a soul," explained Dark Eyes.

"What???"

Surprised, Gyo hears an explanation about the captain of the opposing team from the mouth of Dark Eyes but what is even more confusing is that Gyo is a soulless body played in the match. With a little glance in the direction of the opposing team's bench, Gyo tried to confirm the state of the opposing team's captain but there was nothing wrong with him because Yasu the captain of the opposing team could sit and interact with the other team members.

"What is that? You might have seen it wrong," Gyo said quietly.

"But it was clear he had no soul and looked like an empty shell," Dark Eyes denied.

Astonished by what he heard made Gyo think hard about the captain of the opposing team but what power, empty brain Gyo was unable to think of anything. His final choice was to share what he knew with his teammates. With a little doubt in his heart, Gyo dared to tell the story according to Dark Eyes's observations and his recent observations.

Gyo's words made all the team members, including Mr. Yagami, shocked to hear that. By combining all the thoughts they get and all the possibilities that could have happened then all team members can finally find the same conclusion about the captain of the opposing team.

"As we have concluded, the ability of the captain of the opposing team is to break his soul into pieces and unite it with the souls of his team members so that their abilities become stronger," Mr. Yagami concluded.

"If it's like this then to break the darkness capability of Kenta then we must break the ability of the captain first," said Shin giving advice.

"But how do you do that? Didn't Ryu use his ability in the area effect before, but their captain wasn't affected?" said Raito.

"That's true ... his ability should also be able to strengthen Ryu's ability," continued Ren.

"Th-that's because my ability only makes their abilities focus on me. How can someone who doesn't have focus be influenced by my ability?" said Ryu explained.

Everyone was silent for a moment hearing Ryu's explanation and incessantly thinking about how to overcome the ability of the captain of the opposing team so as to make the atmosphere quiet. In the midst of silence finally heard the voice of someone who gave a glimmer of hope.

"Looks like I have a good idea"

"Just as I cut the threads of the soul with my abilities, maybe I can restore his soul," Gyo said.

"Then let's do it !!" the whole team said compact.

whats next?

to be continued