Part 2

- Ahem. Ah. Ah... Ah... Congratulations, Uncut Diamonds. You are strikers from all over the country whom I personally selected according to my criteria. There are 300 of you in all. My name is Ego Jinpachi. I'm the man who was hired to make sure Japan won the World Cup.

Now is the time to evaluate everyone in this room for talent, or skills. It's the best time, because I won't be able to meet some of them later. Although I could not evaluate everyone's statuses, but at least 10 players, for sure I can. However, it will be necessary to choose only one. Why didn't I want to copy the talent and skills through the screen? Because I can't copy what I can't see in front of me. Okay, first one, I don't care about the speech, I've heard it before... Wait, I can rate a group of people, but only in one parameter, and only four.

[Football Intelligence: C+]

[Football Intelligence: D+]

[Football Intelligence: D-]

[Football Intelligence: B-]

I don't need any of them.

- Look at the screen. That's the complex you need for this... the Blue Lock.

The complex is great, of course. The training is going to be great. Should we copy Nagi's talent? Yeah, you should. It's the best way. After all, I'll only see him once during a match. Maybe... so I won't have many days to improve myself.

- [Nagi Seishiro] -

- [Skills (Soccer)] -

[Receiving the Ball: Out of the Ranking System]

The skill that gives you the ability to receive the ball.

[Accurate Distance Kick: D].

User has the ability to 100% accuracy kick to range: 20-22(F)/23-25(E)/26-28(D)/29-31(C)/32-34(B)/35-37(A)/38-40(S)

[Football Intelligence: B]

[Dribbling: C+]

[Passing: A]

- [Talents(Soccer)].

[Soccer Monster: S+]

User has an incredible talent beyond prodigy.

[Goal Instinct: S+]

User has the ability to sense on instinct the most likely goal.

[Endurance: B]

User has great potential.

[Athlete's Stamina: C+]

User has great potential.

- ...and it's nice to meet you. - I take it that's the end of the speech. So you might as well start clapping. I've already copied the talent: Football Monster: S+. So we can move on.

Sounds of applause.

- Nice speech Ego-san, where should I sign? - Why are you all staring at me like that?

- You'll just have to go backstage, that'll be enough. - Ego-san was looking at me. I need to look up his status. Although we won't be able to copy it until after we pass the second selection. I'll open the status, and then we can study it. The main thing for me is to look when I open the status or copy it.

- [Jinpachi Ego] -

- [Talents(Football)] -

[Genius Analyst Brains: S+]

[Coach: A].

[Tactical Genius: S-]

- Okay. - I got up and just strolled backstage; I kept looking at the status so I couldn't see who decided to walk with me. Regardless, I felt the stares of at least three people, so I was distracted after we turned around. To see who it was. And I saw Rin coming out of the corner. From there I wasn't interested in who was following us. The four of us left the hall, only to be met by Henri-san, who said: Sit in the first one, choose your seats there. Don't you dare make a mess.

In fact, there's a lot of talent involved in the project here. In fact, while I was watching I realized that their minimum talent for soccer was at a B+ level, which is saying a lot.

The Hall after these four left.

Isagi Yoichi.

- Um... I'm sorry! I can't agree with what you're saying!

"Kira Ryosuke?!"

- Each of us, have a team that we all cherish, not like those four. There are those who have to play in the National Tournament. The obscure program you speak of, I can't join by dropping the team.

- Exactly! I've got a tournament coming up, too!

- All of a sudden, all of a sudden, living together? That doesn't make sense.

- Yes!

- Yes!

- Who the hell are you, anyway?!

- Invite a normal person!

"That's right. We were suddenly called here... to win the World Championship or the title of the best in the world... I don't understand anything at all..."

- That's how it is. You're all sick in the head here. Get out. Get out, all of you who want out. I'm not keeping you here.

"!!!"

- Precious team? Tournament? Instead of being the best in the world, you choose to be the best high school in the country that lost? А? Geez! Just thinking that you're all the future of Japanese soccer makes you want to just lie down under a train right away.

"Э? What?"

- You know? Japan has a good soccer organization. You can call it a gift from our people's foundations, which have been hammered into us since we were very young. But everything else is crap. Let me ask you, what is soccer?

"?!"

- A sport in which 1 person fights on the field by joining forces? "It's all about the bond"? "For the sake of comrades?" No. That's why our soccer is simply pathetic. I'll tell you what soccer is. It's a sport in which you have to get more points than your opponent. The best one is the one who gets the most points. If you want to play friends, get out of here. No one's holding you back.

"What's he...? This is ridiculous..."

- It's outrageous! Take it back! Soccer players... Honda or Kagawa... and many others too... they're the 11 representatives of Japan that fought bravely... we grew up watching them play! They are my idols! You're wrong!

"..."

- М? Honda? М? Kagawa? Hmm? They've never won a World Cup! I'm talking about the best in the world! No? Were you even listening to me? Let's talk about the best in the world! For example: Noel Noah once said: "Rather than win 1-0, it's nicer to lose 3-4, but have a hat trick." And then there's this. A phrase from the greatest player of the 20th century, Eric Cantona: "I don't care about the team, as long as I stand out." Three-time World Cup winner Pele said, "Best striker, best defender, best midfielder, best goalkeeper ... whoever you ask of the players, everyone knows it's me." There. Disappointing?! Isn't it?! And they're all the best! The best strikers in the world are actually selfish. That's what Japanese soccer lacks. If you're not the world's greatest egoist, you can't be the world's best!

"Everything he said... are probably not true!"

- I want to create such a man in this country.

"For no one has ever told me of such a man!"

- Someone who will remain the only person in my project.

"Impossible. I have no outstanding qualities. No talent... I'm just an ordinary, unknown striker..."

- Well, it's time to answer the last question. Picture this. The final of the World Cup. 100,000 fans in the stands. And you're on the field. The score is 0-0. Second half of the match. Overtime. Last chance. After a pass, you take the lead. You're one-on-one with the goalie. Six meters away, your teammate is waiting to pass. A moment where a goal pass would've been a sure thing. You are the hope of Japan and the fans. You are responsible for losing or winning. And only an egoist is capable of making a shot himself in this situation. Remember. Soccer is a sport where it's the strikers who decide. You are the star on that field. Everyone else is there to help you score.

"I'm shaking... Because no one told us that."

- Recognize that your own goal is a striker's greatest joy! And live for that moment! Isn't that the essence of a striker?

"He controls my destiny... Those four, did they know what they were getting into? Discerned this man's competence at the first monologue... How far away they still are from me..."

- I am the attacker! - And I ran, looking only at the open curtains of the stage. I no longer saw the people around me starting to run after me, I ran right after those first people who were already sitting on the bus. There were two who were silent, and two who were having some sort of conversation. And there he was. Matsumae Takahiro - Silent Genius.