Chapter 244 Silent Captain
Feeling the sensation of warmth, Hiro shut his eyes tightly. As if some small worms were wiggling around his pupil, he felt a tingling sensation in his eyes.
Although the feeling was somewhat weird, it wasn't painful at all. Infact apart from that weird tingling sensation, he felt the warm sensation quite soothing.
Finally after few seconds, as the tingling sensation vanished overtime, Hiro slowly opened his eyes.
And as he opened his eyes, to his surprise he found the world around him even more clearer than before. You'll discover the inception of this content at n0v@lbin★
Quite surprised by the changes in the world around him, his pupils enlarged as he muttered to himself, "Damn!! Everything looks so... Clear"
As if he was seeing through a lens which was customised to cure his visual defects, his vision got more sharper at this very instant. It was like everything he was seeing was in HD.
However as he continued to look around him with his heightened vision, his eyes started to hurt and he started feeling lightheaded all of a sudden. Just like how any normal person would feel after wearing high powered glasses for the first time, he felt the same.
Hiro then lightly covered one side of his eyes and let out a subtle laughter with his head lowered, "Haha... This sensation feels... Quite amazing"
Perspiration was running down his face and his complexion had turned somewhat pale. One could clearly see that he was in pain right now.
Even so, instead of contorting his face in agony he was smiling at this moment.
Even though his eyes were hurting, he looked like he was enjoying this newfound sensation.
One might really mistook him as a madman if they were to see him in such state.
After gaining this new skill "Eagle Eye", for the next three days until the arrival of the match with Jordan, Hiro continued to use this newfound skill to get familiar with the usage of the skill.
The first time he used his skill in one of the training match, it was such a terrifying experience that he was literally frozen at his place. The shock he had received was just too great for him to digest in that short while.
For a while it felt like his world was shattering right before his eyes while using that newfound skill "Eagle Eye".
Just like an eagle observing the ground beneath from high heaven, he could see every minute details of the entire field. Be it the position of players, ball, position of manager, he could see it all.
Observing the entire field from above, he felt like he was a god watching over puny mortals from above. It was such an exhilarating experience which he could never forget in his entire lifetime.
Just like that for the next three days he tried to get familiarise with the new skill as much as he could. Although the skill provided him great vision, it also limited his movement.
It was just too strenuous and mind boggling to focus at his movement and the field at the same time.
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"May be 4 or 5. Hahaha....."
On the other hand, faces of most players of Jordan looked quite stiff and grim. Despite reflecting the light coming from one end of the tunnel, their eyes seemed quite dull and listless.
Their brows tightly knitted, their expression grim, as if they were bothered by something, they looked quite tensed right now.
Why wouldn't they be tensed? Afterall they were going to face one of the favourites of the tournament.
Also just like national team of Japan, they didn't have much information regarding the players of Japan as well.
If and only if they could face Japan in their second match, perhaps they wouldn't have been this worried.
However call it bad luck or fate, they were facing Japan with only limited information.
As there's a saying, "Unknown is the most terrifying thing in the world"
Well by that logic players of Japan should also be worrying right now.
But the reason why they were not worried was mainly because they trusted the assembled team. With superstar players like Hiro and others, how could they not be confident?
Unable to bear the jokes of his teammates, Hiro stepped out of his position and walked towards the group of players who were being noisy at this moment.
Staring coldly at those players, Hiro mumbled, "Let's give some respect to our opponents, shall we?"
As those players heard Hiro's voice and locked eyes with Hiro, a cold sweat ran down their body.
Those bunch immediately shut their mouth and docilely nodded their head.
Hiro's action didn't go unnoticed as players of Jordan noticed his action as well.
Some anxious players of Jordan started to shiver inwardly as they developed a fear against Hiro.
'Damn!! He's scary' cried out one of the player of Jordan while looking at Hiro.
Although he made his intentions clear, Hiro wasn't done yet. Thus before returning to his position, he scoffed at his teammates for their arrogant behaviour, "Confidence is good but not overconfidence"
Although the players of Jordan couldn't understand Hiro's words, they still felt chills after hearing the tone of his voice.
Just by observing the body language of people, one could roughly differentiate between strong minded and weak minded people.
All along, for the entirety of their stay at the tunnel, Hiro hadn't spoken anything, despite wearing the captain armband.
Most of the time, it should have been the captain doing the talking. However seeing te opposing captain as calm as night sky, players of Jordan were quite nervous all along.
But now as Hiro opened his mouth while emitting a terrifying aura around him, their nervousness changed into fear.