Chapter: 4 Upcoming selection

Without realizing it, Izumi and the others had been in Blue Lock for three days.

Some people still carry out physical fitness tests by running at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour for those three days.

This time, a young man named Raichi Jingo said loudly: "You think you can become the best striker in the world like that? You better go home before I make you cry!"

But this young man did have arrogance. He had been running at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour for an hour.

Moreover, Izumi couldn't last long.

After the running test, the jumping ability test continues.

This makes Izumi so tired that he runs out of breath. Another young man came and gave Izumi a glass of water: "No need to care about what that person says, just do what we can do."

Izumi took the water from the young man's hand and thanked him.

With the sound of preparation, both runways took off at the same time. Izumi's takeoff height is 70 centimeters, while the boy's takeoff height was only 2 centimeters less than Izumi.

"I didn't expect your jumping ability to be better than mine."

The young man spoke to Izumi

"You're not a bad Jumper. By the way, I don't know your name yet?"

Izumi asked the young man.

"My name is Kuon Wataru, Please take care of me in the future!"

The young man smiled at Izumi and asked "I don't know your name yet?"

"My surname is Kori and my name is Izumi. You can call me Kori or Izumi from now on."

Izumi said to Kuon.

When the bell rang, it was finally time to eat. Here, the examples speak for themselves.

"No, why are there preserved eggs here? This dish!"

Izumi couldn't help but complain, and then she wanted to see who had extra soy sauce.

At this moment, Izumi suddenly saw a man feasting on dumplings.

On his left arm is written "296 Z"

This makes Izumi feel disadvantaged.

"Why can the person ranked 296th eat dumplings? Aren't I better than the two people behind him? Why are mine preserved eggs!?"

Izumi's heart was devastated.

After eating, everyone went to rest. Izumi lay where she was, tossing and turning unable to sleep soundly.

So he got up and walked to the training ground.

"Anyway, I'm unemployed. Why not practice my personal skills more? It will be very useful in the next competition!"

Soon, Izumi suddenly arrives at the training ground and sees two teenagers sparring. They are Isagi and Bachira.

I saw Bachira running towards Isagi who was carrying the ball. At this moment Bachira started talking to himself: "There is a monster in my heart. He only talked when I was playing football..."

Izumi was speechless while listening to Bachira's constant nagging.

Bachira continued: "Whether it's Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Noel Noa, all great players have a monster inside them. Surely that is proof that you are a striker. That's what I believe. So, Isagi... I'm grateful to come here because I could meet you."

This time, thunderous applause rang out.

"So this is what Bachira thought in your mind! But I really want to know why you and this weakling have such thoughts?"

The person who spoke was Izumi.

"Who are you? Why don't I get any impression?"

Bachira said with an innocent look.

After hearing this, Izumi just smiled faintly, in an instant, she started running quickly. When Isagi and Bachira were confused, he snatched the ball from Bachira's feet, then, 30 meters from the goal, he kicked the ball with his left foot. There was a loud gunshot!

The ball shot into the goal like a cannonball.

Isagi, who was watching the show on the side, looked surprised.

"30 meters! And how fast the ball flies is beyond the reach of ordinary people!"

Isagi opened his mouth and sighed.

Bachira, who was watching, was also surprised when Izumi returned.

"I didn't even see clearly how he snatched the ball from under my feet and scored? It seems like there's more than one person who has a monster in their heart!"

Bachira said excitedly.

"What you see now is just a small part of my strength. Don't be too arrogant in front of me!"

Izumi said with a domineering look, then turned around and left, leaving Isagi and Bachira's unpredictable backs.

When Izumi saw that they didn't follow him, she sighed.

"F*CK! Really scared me half to death. I didn't even think that a 30 meter shot would work. This time I'm really cool, Haha."

Izumi returned to the dorm with a smile.

Suddenly, a voice came from the broadcast, asking everyone to return to their rooms, and the rankings would be updated soon.

When Izumi arrived he saw Igarashi who was happily showing off the rank on his left arm to everyone.

"Looking around! My ranking rose rapidly from my initial ranking, 300!. Look, now I'm ranked 275th!"

Izumi couldn't help but glance at her left arm.

"267,Z"

Izumi felt quite happy seeing her ranking.

Just by doing some training, my ranking rose 31 places.

Not long after, Ego Jinpachi appeared on the big screen.

"Wow, wow. Good job, Unspoiled talented player!. Are you enjoying life at Blue Lock?"

Some people were quick to complain to him about how he could practice football in such a bad environment.

Jinpachi's ego sneered mercilessly: "The bad environment is because your football skills suck! Stupid! Let's talk a little about Blue Lock. In this facility, a total of 25 teams from B to Z are divided into five groups per building. By the way, Each team lost one person after the Chase game, so there were 275 players left."

Upon hearing this, the bald man's heart suddenly dropped, and the self-confidence he had just built up collapsed again.

Ego Jinpachi continued: "Your ranking determines which team you will be on. Ranks 1 to 11 are on team B, ranks 12 to 22 are on team C. In short, you, team Z, ranked last, are in Building 5!"

Isagi couldn't believe it. He didn't expect that someone as strong as Izumi would only be ranked so far behind.

Finally, Ego Jinpachi said: "Highly ranked players get good food and practice in better buildings. Here, the best soccer player is king. Want a better environment? Improve your ranking! Well then, let's start the first selection!."

After hearing this, Izumi started to feel excited.

"Is the first round of selection coming?"

The scene switches to a hotel. The reporter is interviewing a young man and asks if he will play at international level and represent his country.

The boy's name is Itoshi Sae, he is one of the New Generation One of 11 World Heroes.

He said that he would never come back even if he died. His dream is to win the Champions League. The national team of this weak football country does not have a striker who can receive his pass and go with his agent.

The agent tries to persuade him, for him to be careful so that the media doesn't hate him. He said he didn't care about that. After all, he only came back this time to report a passport. Then, he paid attention to the movements at Aulia's press conference. Coincidentally, it was a Project Blue Lock meeting.

The JFU President explained this plan to everyone, and journalists continued to question the rationality of this crazy plan, especially since it would cost the lives of 299 people.

Hirotoshi Buratsuta gradually panicked, but this time Miss Anri stood up and said directly that Japanese football needs this kind of crazy plan. Unless you don't want to see the birth of a hero in Japanese football!

On the other hand, Ego Jinpachi explains the first round of selection to everyone.

"The first selection will involve 55 of you in Building 5. This is like five teams meeting each other. Only the top two teams will continue to the second selection in this survival match!."

"So the 11 of us on Team Z will be playing as an official team? But we are all strikers."

A red-haired young man who looked like a woman said, that person was none other than Chigiri Hyoma.

After everyone heard this, they started arguing about their positions.

Ego Jinpachi said: "Listen. Football is all about scoring goals. Those of you who are stupid because you are fixated on positions and tactics, all of those roles will develop slowly. Football originally started with each player being a striker. So play football like the real thing! Make football from scratch with all your brains."

Back in the conference room, Miss Anri talked about the progress of Japanese football over the years, and then she said something else.

Although everyone believes that Japanese football is only one step away from becoming world class, this step must be taken with risks. It's time to rebuild Japan's football dream.

On the other hand, Ego Jinpachi Continued: "Discard what you believe to be common sense. Push new ideas into your brain. What we really need right now is for Japan to become the best in the world..... It's not the cooperation of 11 players. All we need is one hero!. Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar. Football can develop endlessly if there are heroes like that. To stop it, a new defense system was created. To surpass it, new tactics were born. One person's play can change a team, a country, even the world. That's the meaning of the sport of football!"

"This is a new stage for Japanese football. We are adults who have forgotten our dreams, and will be carried forward by our young talents."

"Do you have the courage to dream of a new dream of winning the World Cup?"

The scene cuts to Ego Jinpachi: "Are you guys ready to fight!?"

After that the scene switches again to Miss Anri: "And that's all..."

Then after that the scene switches between Ego and Miss Anri and they say the same thing: "it's in Blue Lock!"

To everyone's amazement, the press conference ended.

The scene switches to the young man who was watching the press conference and only saw the agent urging him to go to the airport and get on the plane, but the young man asked him to cancel because he wanted to witness with his own eyes what kind of Blue Lock would eventually be born in Japan.

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