From Scratch

Sho stretched his arms out as he began gathering his belongings from his locker. Before he could leave, the monitor on the wall turned on. On the monitor, Jinpachi pushed his glasses up to his nose as he gained everyone's attention.

Jinpachi Ego: "Now that you're the right number of players for a team, I will proceed. For the next 3 days, you will be pushed to your absolute limits. From strength, endurance, and flexibility."

After snapping his fingers, a holographic depiction of a player popped up. In the holographic depiction it went over general attributes, strengths, weaknesses, height, age, weight and finally weapons.

Jinpachi eagerly grinned as gazed upon Sho.

Jinpachi Ego: " Day 1 will consist of strength and conditioning, Day 2 will consist of stretching your limbs as far as they will go. Finally Day 3 will consist of constant endurance.

Then the screen changed immediately after Jinpachi finished his sentence. The screen now had detailed instructions to move to a whole other room down the hall.

Sho grabbed his belongings from his locker and nonchalantly walked out of the room.

In the hallway, Sho's body felt somewhat reawakened after this new experience. He made it to the room down the hall and slowly opened the door.

In the new room, Sho saw multiple futons laid up next to each other, so Sho grabbed a futon and stuffed his duffel bag under the blanket.

Since he had the rest of the day, Sho wandered around Blue Lock and stumbled upon a whole practice field to himself.

For the rest of the day, Sho practiced dribbling the ball in silence and went to sleep with a content grin on his face.

As everyone in Team W slept, one player didn't. With his frowning face he stared at Sho's sleeping form with pure animosity.

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TIMESKIP (3 DAYS)

In a small room next to Team W's sleeping quarters were 11 treadmills lined up next to each other.

Every player in Team W got onto their respective treadmills and equipped special watches that counted their heartbeats per minute, and countless other health related things.

Sho took the utility belt that hung from the treadmill and clipped it onto his collar as he watched the monitor intently.

On the monitor a small timer was slowly counting down from 1 minute as everyone got ready for it to hit 0.

As it did everyone slowly paced themselves as the treadmills gained speed. Everyone ran for nearly 30 minutes before players exhaustingly hopped off the machines.

Sho looked over at his other "rivals" as they began dropping like bugs. Only 3 players remained after the hour and a half mark. All the treadmills easily exceeded 15 mph (24 km).

Junichi, being one of the last 3 remaining in team W to run, wiped the sweat off his forehead as he felt his leg muscle straining.

A loud beep ringed through the room as the treadmills sped up to 17 mph (27 km).

A short fit player yelled out

???: "Argh I'm out!"

Sweat stuck to his scalp as he dropped to the floor. Wiping the sweat from his hair, he immediately grabbed the water bottle near him and intently watched Sho as he began breathing irregularly.

Sho glanced over to Junichi as sweat drenched every part of his treadmill.

Both Junichi and Sho ran for another hour before Junichi began to scream.

Junichi: "Never!"

With nothing but pure willpower Junichi stayed in the race, as Sho unstuck his shirt from his chest. Sho's legs went numb as sweat trickled down them. With no feel in his legs Sho mistakenly landed on the side of his foot and was ripped off the treadmill.

A loud sound reverberated throughout the small humid room as the treadmills slowed down until they reached a complete stop.

Sho used the wall next to him as support as he got up. His breath was ragged as he raised his sweaty shirt over his stomach. Sho didn't bat an eye at Junichi and made his way to the changing room.

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Across Blue Lock both Bachira and his newly acquainted friend Isagi sat on the floor as they intensely talked to one another about his monster.

Bachira: " Trust me, you have a monster in you just like I do. I can just sense it in you."

Isagi weirdly looked at Bachira as he said

Isagi: "Monster? Are you sure, you're not ju..."

Bachira's stomach interrupted Isagi as it grumbled.

Bachira: "Nya ha, looks like I'm hungry."

Bachira quickly stood up and had Isagi guide him to the dining hall.

While Bachira and Isagi ate, Jinpachi Ego watched them through the many cameras throughout Blue Lock. Anri walked up from behind him, as Jinpachi brought his knees up to his chest. Jinpachi threw his empty cup of noodles over his shoulder as he said

Jinpachi: " What an eventful day. Now it's time to introduce them to the first selection."

As Jinpachi pressed a bright red button next to him a screeching sound rang throughout Blue Lock. Jinpachi tapped the microphone in front of him and simply said

Jinpachi: "Everyone report to your rooms and wait there until further notice."

As everybody reported to their rooms, Jinpachi went over the multiple results with Anri and pointed out a few interesting statistics. He grabbed a handful of paper and hastily handed them to Anri.

Anri's eyes analyzed each paper and stared in amazement at the multiple record setting statistics for both endurance and jumping tests.

Jinpachi gazed in her direction as she read through the statistics and simply said

Jinpachi: " Let's keep an eye on those special talents."

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a pretty crappy chapter, sorry!

Have a good day.

Next Chapter: Mold