Chapter 33: [Bonus] Soccer Club Debut

Hiro was still in shock the next morning when he opened his eyes.

One dual cultivation session made up for three days of diligent cultivation!

Sadly, he could only do it once every 24 real-time hours. Otherwise, his cultivation would skyrocket!

The surplus from the additional CB points saved him a chunk of time, but he still needed about 52 million units of Spirit Qi to undergo the great tribulation.

In any case, the estimated time was shortened from ten days to about one week, which is a great improvement.

In a good mood, Hiro jumped off his bed to shower and prepared for school. As for breakfast, he would have his meal in the car since he didn't have much time to waste.

The Third Ring was quite far from the Inter-High education district, and he was afraid of being caught in traffic.

He also needed to inform the school that he had acquired his personal property for accommodation, so that they would give the dormitory quota to the next person who needed it.

Today was the third official day of school, and Hiro wasn't going to be the only one busy running errands all around the administrative building.

After he alighted from the car, he gave his dormitory keys to Sebastian, and then asked him to fetch the books and notebooks before meeting up in the administrative building's waiting area.

While Hiro was waiting for his turn to meet with the freshmen year's student advisor, he noticed Teacher Aiya making her way into the building.

She was probably on her way to the meeting room designated for the teachers. After thinking for a bit, Hiro decided on a course of action.

He used the {synchronization} function of the system for a second, sweeping the entire floor with his divine sense, capturing the movements and micro-expressions of everyone on the floor.

Then, his divine sense swept out to surround the building, taking in the actions of everyone who had an angle to observe the building's entrance.

Then, he immediately shut down the {synchronization} before anyone could notice anything amiss.

Hiro then smiled and muttered under his breath, "This is more like it. Now, I only need…"

Hiro stood up and walked around the floor and observed the walls. Soon, he found the roster of the school's teachers, and he was immediately delighted.

With one glance, he cross-referenced the suspicious teachers from his memory with those on the roster, identifying their names and faces.

Hiro then fished out his phone, entered the classroom's chat group, and contemplated sending a direct message to Teacher Aiya.

After thinking about it, Hiro shook his head and decided against it. In any case, there were only about eight teachers, and he could keep an eye on them without alerting her.

So, he sent the names list to Jodi instead, while instructing him to keep an eye on them and investigate their interpersonal relationships for any common acquaintances.

Hiro's turn was soon called in, and he quickly settled the necessary papers to drop from the dormitory. This way, it wouldn't cause a commotion if one day the inspection staff couldn't locate Hiro in the school building during off hours.

After confirming his schedule for the day with Sebastian, Hiro left the Administrative Building and headed for class.

…

The school day passed uneventfully, and other than his brief encounter with Teacher Aiya in the cafeteria, Hiro had another run-in with Zyd.

Surprisingly, Hiro found Zyd and Vanti hanging out together, making him imagine the trio of Marcus, Zyd, and Vanti causing trouble.

A double spy, a delinquent, and an opportunistic cheapskate.

The more Hiro thought about it, the more amused he felt. At least, that was until he arrived at the soccer field for the club activities, only to find the same trio in the same club.

For a moment, the four of them tacitly grouped up a fair distance away from the team, silently staring down at each other.

"What a red flag," Hiro was the first to speak, kneading his forehead in pain. Then, he glared at Marcus.

"This must have been your idea, right?"

Hiro couldn't think of any other reason as to why both Vanti and Zyd were in the same club as himself; unless this sneaky innocent-looking Marcus had a hand in it.

Marcus rolled his eyes. "You're overthinking things, brother."

"Really?" Hiro scoffed, pointing at Zyd as he cursed. "Then why is he looking like a married guy caught in a gay AV?!"

Only now did Marcus realize that Zyd had the classical shocked expression of 'How did he find out?'

Vanti clutched his stomach and laughed, stomping the ground with his foot. Sёarᴄh the novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Defeated, Marcus could only shrug. "You can't blame me for this. Since you dropped from the dormitory, I had to think of a way to keep in close contact with you, hence why I settled on joining the same club as you."

"Then what about these two?" Hiro pointed at Zyd and Vanti, not as irritated as he was confused.

"Hey!" Vanti wiped his crocodile tears and complained. "I've always been a regular on the school's soccer team! You don't know, but soccer, football, basketball, and volleyball clubs started operating during the summer holiday, and I was a rare talent scouted to join the school's team."

Vanti couldn't have been more proud of his achievement. However, he didn't give Zyd the chance to explain himself.

He pointed at Zyd and said, "As for this guy, he's a senior member of the club. Although he's a second-year sophomore, he sucks at this sport. He still couldn't make it out from Group B into Group A after all this time."

The Inter-High had two teams for each sport to accommodate the larger number of students.

Group B could be considered as an extension of Group A's reserve players, except that they get to compete in friendly exhibition matches.

As for the critical games, those are left to Group A, and the so-called Top Eleven starting lineup.

Zyd's expression turned a little ugly as he hooked Vanti's head into a headlock, grinding his knuckles into the latter's head. "Keep talking nonsense and I'll rip your head off for my next hat trick."

"Oh great ancestor, please have mercy… have mercy…" Vanti struggled to squirm out of Zyd's headlock.

Then, he moved next to Hiro and breathed easy while rubbing his neck. "Oh, what position are you going to play in, Hiro?"

Although Vanti asked this, he knew that only the coach would decide on this matter at the end of the day.

Nonetheless, the first internal competition between the members of Group B was an open competition, each will play in the position they think suits them best.

The coach will watch from the side and make his judgment based on the performance of the students, making this out to be quite the golden opportunity.

"Is there a need to ask? Of course, I'm going to play in a forward position—though it doesn't matter if it's center forward or by the wings. I'll still make it into the top strikers ranks of our team."

Hiro was very confident, and it was somewhat contagious. Vanti slapped Hiro's back and exclaimed, "Well said! Don't worry, I'll be watching your back from the middle field position. My passes are godly sick, you just need to score."

"How good is Marcus, then?" Hiro didn't believe Vanti, but he didn't call him out on it.

Hmm, it's quite distasteful of me to look down on him without playing first. Then again, it can't be helped… My confidence comes from my system, but where does his confidence come from? What a pretentious guy…

"Him?" Vanti gave Marcus a curious look, touching his chin. "I don't know, I've never seen him playing sports before. All I know is that he likes gaming and stuff."

"I'm just going to be the errands boy of the team, nothing grand." Marcus hurriedly clarified himself, waving his hand.

Hiro's eyes lit up. "Great, I was worried no one would have the time to take good photos and videos of me during the games. Hm, I'll get you a set of streaming equipments too, you can stream my games live in the future!"

Marcus blinked his eyes and asked, "When did I agree to do such a thing?"

Marcus was just being funny, but he didn't expect Hiro to turn his head and say, "Forget it! I'll get Elvin to do it instead. I'll give him a handsome pay so that he could get around his poverty-striken lifestyle too."

Vanti nodded. "I agree, leave such a good opportunity to that pitiful guy. Sigh, many girls will be disappointed to learn that you two no longer sleep in the same bed…"

"Since when are we sleeping in the same bed?! Damn it, we're ordinary roommates, who's maliciously slandering me?!"

Hiro reacted quite strongly, almost strangling Vanti. Then, they heard the loud whistle from the coach, asking everyone in Group B to line up and split into two teams.

It was about time for the newbies to debut.