The Rise of the Iron Chapter 39: Ritsumeikan High’s Scout Report!

Chapter 39: Ritsuikan High’s Scout Report!

Honestly, Kumiko’s luck in drawing this tournant sucked. A lot.

I an, how in the hell could she draw an opponent who managed to force the best team in the prefecture for a draw for the third round, and the best team itself if they managed to get into the fourth round?

Also, for your information, there were only 32 teams participating in this prefecture tournant, so the fourth round ant it was a semifinal already. Yeah, this was indeed a short tournant, and that was why facing two strong opponents in a row was the worst outco possible.

"Ritsuikan..." Makino pondered solemnly. "It is that crazy team who will return the opponent’s punch with two more punches, right? The one who never shies away from going all-out attack, no matter who the opponent is..."

"Let’s wait until the others are here first, and then we can start talking about this." Kumiko smiled wanly.

As they waited for a while, one by one, the players started to co in. So still groaning from the soreness yesterday, while the others were basically a bunch of idiots who didn’t know what it felt like to be sick.

"Tch! Shishida-senpai, why are we here again?! Would it be better to use this ti to train?!"

That fool who didn’t know how it felt to be sick, Hiroshi, complained imdiately the mont he entered the room. The others felt the corner of their lips twitching madly. Hiroshi was always a pure and innocent boy, yet whenever things related to football were brought up, he would turn into an annoying maniac who would bother everyone on the team.

"No, cannot do that, Hiroshi-kun." Kumiko wiggled her finger playfully. "What do I tell you about balancing training and rest? You don’t want to be injured and get sidelined for the rest of the year, right?"

Hiroshi shuddered imdiately, shaking his head so strongly that Higo was afraid it would get off his neck in an accident. It seed that being injured was the boy’s worst nightmare here, probably because he was afraid that he couldn’t play football anymore.

"Anyway, I know that Hiroshi is an idiot who cannot get sick—" Fujinaga chid in.

"HEY!"

"—But Jun, I have never thought that you would be the sa..." The defensive midfielder shook his head in exasperation. "How could you still have that much energy to co here running? I swear, I still feel numb after the ga yesterday!"

All the eyes snapped at the tall defender, who just grinned foolishly. Even at first glance, they all could see that Jun was the sa type of idiot as Hiroshi, the one who only cared about football.

"Well, the fact that you are numb just from one ga just shows that our training is lacking, right?" Kumiko smiled, but this ti, an evil aura surrounded her like crazy. "After today, we are going to up our physical training, okay? Anyone who lasts the shortest ti cleaning everyone’s shoes for three days!"

"Oh, co on!"

"Not that again!"

"Don’t you know that the teachers are scolding

for sleeping in class?!"

"That’s your fault, Idiot!"

Everyone groaned instantly, knowing that they were going to be tortured later. Makino just shook his head, but his stern expression was enough to shut them all up. "Don’t complain. Kumiko-chan is right. If our condition is this bad just after playing the first round, that ans we are not up against the top team like Sappotani. This is sothing that could only be fixed by training, so swallow it up and suffer silently."

That... Was a cruel word to say. However, everyone understood the assignnt here. It was better to die in the training rather than collapsing in the middle of the ga, where the stakes were the highest.

After everyone was there and Kumiko was ready with the laptop and the screen, she finally coughed, stopping all the chatters and noises in the room.

"As most of you might know, our next opponent in this tournant is Sapporo Kita High, a school that we have already beaten last year. Their lineup is basically the sa, and I don’t think we have anything to worry about. So, I would like to skip to our opponent for the third round later."

Honestly, this move puzzled so of the players there. They all knew that Kumiko was not one who liked to underestimate the opponent, and now... This? However, out of trust for the girl, they decided to go along, knowing that she would give her reason for this.

"Ritsuikan High... This is an ultra-attacking team, the one that manages to push Sappotani High’s defense to death. In the last winter tournant, they managed to stage an almost coback ga, from being down by 3 goals at halfti to tying the score 4-4, just to lose against them in the penalty shootout. They are the closest in Hokkaido to beat Sappotani, and the only reason they fall in this bracket is that their loss against Sappotani was in the second round of the tournant."

The atmosphere inside the room turned somber, with so of them cursing their luck to get drawn into the sa bracket as this kind of team.

"Without saying this, I know that so of you will understand. This is not just an ordinary ga for us. This is a clash of philosophy between an ultra-attacking team and a great defensive team. People will watch this collision, as it is not often they find a good rivalry here." Kumiko continued.

Even though none of them had ever t or even watched Ritsuikan’s ga, all the players there felt their blood boil. Indeed, the narration was too great. The offensive team that could break the best team’s defense four tis just in a half, and a team that went to the final with their great wall strategy?

This was definitely going to be a cinema.

"However!" Kumiko suddenly raised her voice, snapping them from their thought. "That is not sothing that I want to show. No, instead, I want you guys to watch here, the recording of the ga that Ritsuikan High played in a sparring ga last month."

"Um?" Everyone looked at each other confusedly. "Why?" Higo couldn’t help but ask.

"Because..." Her tone was somber. "In that ga, Sappotani managed to show their dominance, beating them 8-0 without rcy."