Chapter 25: [Bonus chapter]Shoyo’s past

While every player in the video analysing room of Karasuno elementary school were making fun of Ookami elementary school, there was a single player in the room who didn’t show any interest in his teammates mockery, seated with his legs crossed in the far left corner of the room all by himself.

Unlike his fellow teammates, he didn’t let out a single laughter.

“Hahaha…, Just sent us to the damn final already. Nobody except Ronden elementary school can take us. Don’t you agree Shoyo?”

One of the players of Karasuno elementary school arrogantly stated.

The silent person who was seated at the far left corner of the room was non other than Shinji Shoyo.

Just like Hiro, Shoyo was considered a prodigy by the coaches of Karasuno elementary school. And even though, he was at his 4th year of elementary school, it was his first tournament.

Because of his medical condition, his parents took him to US for treatment. One day, during his first year of elementary school while playing football, he suddenly collapsed .

Upon witnessing his collapse, the staff members rushed towards him and took him to the nurse. The nurse tried everything in her knowledge but he couldn’t regain his senses.

Fearing that something serious might have happened to him, the faculty members informed his parents. Upon hearing the condition of their son, his parents rushed towards the school and took him to the hospital.

As the doctor started to run some tests on him, it was known that there was a tumor growing in his head. He was suffering from brain tumor. Due to the unusual location of the tumor and lack of the technology required for the surgery to remove the tumor, the doctor in the hospital raised their hands up and suggested his parents to take him to US for further medical treatment.

His parents burst out in tears after hearing the words of doctor. His father who used to own large corporations took him to US for further treatment. Since money wasn’t a problem for his family, he

got the necessary treatment in reputed hospital of US. The surgery went well and the doctor’s in the US successfully removed the tumor from his head.

However he stayed back in US for further treatment and recovery. After recovering enough and spending nearly two years in US, he returned back to Japan with his mother. His father couldn’t stay by his side all the time because of his business and left after a while. His mother stayed back in US with him and took care of him.

And finally after recovering completely, he started to play football once again. Even though he couldn’t play football for almost 3 years, he still regained back his skills within some months because of his talent.

Slam!!

“Silence!! Now I’m going to play the video of the match between Ookami elementary school and Public youth elementary school, so everybody pay attention now.”

The coach slammed the table infront and yelled at his players to quite down. .𝘤𝘰𝑚

All of the players instantly shut their mouth as they heard the roar of their coach.

“And you Shota, sit down.”

The coach ordered the player standing beside Shinji Shoyo to sit down.

The smile on his face quickly faded away as he heard his coach’s yell and without uttering a single word, he pulled his chair forward and sat down quietly.

The coach then started to play the video of the match between Ookami elementary school and Public youth elementary school.

“What? They all dropped deep from the beginning of the match? Are they going to play a defensive game for the entirety of the match?”

One of the player inquired.

“Now pay attention to that number 10 who’s taking the ball forward.”

The coach paused the video just at the moment when Hiro was charging the ball forward.

“What’s so special about him?”

“Yeah, I don’t see anything special in him.”

“However their keeper is ridiculously small. Hahahaha”

The players of Karasuno elementary school whispered between themselves while making fun of Endo’s height.

Even though they didn’t show their true feelings upfront, it was clear that they were still taking Ookami elementary school very lightly.

“Huh!! Seriously?? What the hell was that? He dribbled past all those defenders all by himself and scored a ridiculous goal too!!”

All of their eyes widened in shock. They couldn’t believe the fabulous goal scored by Hiro.

“Shh!! Quite down. Let’s watch the whole footage first. And at the end of the video, I want everybody to present me with their analysis. Also for the entirety of the match pay a close attention towards that number 10 of Ookami elementary school.”

The coach exclaimed as he paused the video.

At the end of the video, the looks on the face of every player completely changed. At the beginning of the analysis, they were all arrogant and cheerful. But at the end of the video, all that was left was the feeling of hopelessness.

Even after the end of the video, nobody dared to utter a single word. The room was unusually silent.

Meanwhile in Hiro’s house, his parents were having a heated discussion between themselves.

“I never thought that Hiro was interested in newtube.”

Takashi exclaimed in disbelief.

“Yeah, me too. I thought that he was only interested in football.”

Momo replied.

“Also what did you talk about with the reporters?”

Takashi questioned.

“Nothing much. They wanted to interview Hiro. So I just gave them my contact information.”

Ring!! Ring!! Ring!!

Just then, Momo’s phone started to ring.

“Wait.., Let me pick up this call.”

“Hello! Mrs.Takahashi speaking.”

She picked up the call.

“Hello! Mrs.Takahashi, I’m Suzume. The female reporter from before who spoke with you regarding the contact information of Takahashi Hiro’s agent.”

The reporter from before introduced herself.

“Oh hello! Suzume san. How can I help you?”

“I was wondering about if we could interview Hiro tomorrow?”

The reporter expressed that she wanted to interview Hiro. Momo hesitated to reply. She began to think of excuses to turn down her proposal. Just then the reporter spoke something which caught her attention.

“Obviously we’ll pay for the interview. So would you like to discuss about the payment?”

As soon as she heard about money, she couldn’t retain back herself from agreeing to her proposal.

“Where will the interview take place?”

Momo replied with a smile on her face.

“We’ll perform the interview at the school.”

“But will the principal agree?”

Momo questioned.

“You don’t have to worry about that mam. We’ll take care of it.”

“If you say so then it’s okay. Now then shall we talk about money? Hehe”

She exclaimed with a wry smile in her face.

‘What’s with her obsession with money?’

Takashi thought as he witnessed her cunning grin.

Meanwhile in school, Hiro was fiddling around with his phone while being seated at the middle row of the auditorium.

“Sigh~”

While looking at his phone, he revealed a deep sigh. He looked extremely troubled as if something was gnawing on him.

Seeing his troubled expression, Akashi approached him.

“What’s the matter with you now?”

Akashi was concerned about his wellbeing.

“It’s nothing!”

Hiro tried to shrug him off. However Akashi kept on pestering him.

“Is it about your newtube channel?”

Akashi questioned as he noticed the sight of Hiro’s channel in his phone.

“Yeah”

“Now that I’ve got 70k subscriber in less than 24 hours and gained 580k views, I can monetize my channel.”

Hiro exclaimed.

“Isn’t that a good thing? But why do you look troubled instead?”

Akashi bewilderingly questioned.

“I haven’t told my parents about my newtube channel. And I’m still a child, so I can’t even monetise the channel. And if I want to monetise my channel, then I’ll need to ask one of my parents to handle the channel.”

“Then just ask your parent?”

“You don’t know my mom. If she finds out that I’m making newtube videos instead of studying, she will simply bake me alive.”

He started to turn pale as he began to imagine different scenarios of revealing the presence of his newtube channel to his mom.

Just then, coach Miura made his way towards the auditorium with assistant coach Honda accompanying him. Honda san was carrying a remote in his hands.

Chatter!! Chatter!!

“Silence everybody!! Now we’ll be analysing the match of Karasuno elementary school. I’m sure that you’ve already watched their match in the stadium while they were playing. But now we’ll thoroughly analyse their weaknesses and strengths so that we can prepare well against them.”

Coach Miura exclaimed and gestured Honda san to start the video.

However unlike the players of Karasuno elementary school who mocked their opponents even before the start of the match, the players of Ookami elementary school were serious about winning against Karasuno elementary school.

If it were before the arrival of Hiro, the atmosphere around Ookami elementary school might have been different. Let alone win against Karasuno elementary school, they would be whining and cursing their fate for being placed in the same group as Karasuno elementary school.

Which they did previously when it was announced that they were placed in the same group as Karasuno elementary school. But after their first win against Public youth elementary school, their mindset had totally changed.