Let's resolve this on the field.

Soon, the trio of Bachira, Isagi, and Arata arrived in a new room and found Rin's trio waiting in silence until Ego appeared on the room's monitor.

"The third phase will be a quick match with the trios you've formed, featuring Blue Lock Man as the goalkeeper. The first team to score five goals wins," said Ego.

"The winning team will choose a member from the losing team and steal them for their own, forming a team of four. As you progress through the phases, the number of players on the team will increase by one, and the team that manages to gather five players reaches phase five and succeeds in passing the second selection. Additionally, the losing team goes back to the previous phase until only two players remain, and if they lose this 2v2 match, the person not chosen will be eliminated."

"The second phase is nothing more than a battle of rivals, so matches only occur if both teams agree, and the new rankings will be announced, now without lies and updated based on match results," Ego concluded.

"Arata looks at his arm and realizes he really got the first place. He starts looking at the positions of the other participants in the room and notices that Isagi, this time, was in ninth place, and Bachira was in tenth. In the other trio, obviously, Rin got second place, Aryu third, and Aoshi fourth. I could feel the looks of the others in my direction, especially Rin, who was killing me with his eyes," Arata thought.

"Oh, you got first place, as expected from Arata-kun," said Isagi.

"Yeah, and you're not doing bad either," said Arata.

"Yeah, this last phase helped open my mind a bit, and I feel like I discovered other ways to develop. I spent part of the 90 minutes trying to score with my weak leg because you said that was one of my weaknesses. If it weren't for that, maybe I could have finished a little earlier, and although I've improved a bit in this regard, it's still far from considering the weak leg shot as a true weapon," said Isagi.

"Hey, what are we going to do? We don't necessarily need to face those three," said Bachira.

"Indeed, the other trios will be formed soon and have come here so we could challenge them," Arata noted.

As they talked, they could hear Rin's trio discussing...

"Ah, I'm going to end up alone," said the big guy, making a crying face.

"Stop whining, that's not style," said the long-haired guy.

"Shut up, I just want to finish this quickly and move on. You're only here to fill the spot. As I said before forming the trio, I just wanted to choose the least slow ones who could finish that pathetic challenge, and you were the chosen ones. Understand? You and Blue Lock are just steps for me. Bring it on, anyone."

"Hey, you're talking too much for someone who's only in second place," said Arata.

"What did you say, you piece of shit?"

"Just put yourself in your place. You talk as if you're better than everyone else, but you can't even be the best among those you consider trash? That doesn't even make sense," Arata taunted.

"So, you think you're better than me just because you finished that pathetic challenge before me? Get on the field, and I'll show you the difference in our abilities," said Rin.

"If it's not a problem for my teammates, we can settle this now," said Arata.

"I was already thinking about it... if he said he can take on anyone, let's show them that we're not just anyone," said Isagi.

"That's what I wanted to hear," said Bachira.

After this conversation, each trio went towards the door where they would press a button to start the match. Inside the locker room, the trio of Arata, Bachira, and Isagi received their game uniforms, which were now white, and headed towards the field.

The match started with Isagi passing the ball to Bachira, who headed towards Aoshi with stepovers, lifting the ball over his legs while passing on the other side and then running towards Rin. Isagi approached Bachira for a pass, pretending to pass to him, but instead, he launched the ball to Arata, who was running towards the penalty area.

After positioning himself to receive Bachira's pass, Arata noticed Aryu behind him marking him.

"Come, I'll stop him with all my style," said Aryu, who, upon observing Arata's feet and body movement, imagined that he would jump to compete with him in an aerial battle, but what happened was that Arata did jump, but he actually turned around and faced the launch and Aryu, and after jumping, he made the ball hit his back and fly towards Isagi.

"Nice pass, Arata," Isagi thought, and without wasting any movement, he shot to the left corner of the goalkeeper, scoring the first goal for the white team. 1-0 (White Team) "LET'S GO, it seems like everyone has improved in that training, huh," said Bachira, celebrating.

"Yeah, your shot gets more consistent every day, Isagi," commented Arata.

"Indeed, we're very strong," Isagi thought.