Chapter 321 Seed of Envy

Chapter 321 Seed of Envy

As he heard those words of Hiro while looking him straight in the eye, different complicated emotions started to take shape within his heart. Yet he couldn't bring himself to speak his heart out.

Experiencing Yuya's unresponsiveness, Hiro felt quite pitiful and sympathetic towards Yuya. If possible, he wanted to help Yuya. But Yuya had already built a wall around him. And forcefully taking that wall down would only worsen the situation.

Thus, he decided to leave Yuya by himself for the time being. However that didn't mean that he was giving up on him. It's just leaving him alone for some time seemed the best possible outcome right now since Hiro wasn't good with words in the first place.

"Then I'll get going for now."

Bidding his farewell, Hiro walked past Yuya without waiting for his response.

For some while, even after Hiro's departure, Yuya stood frozen at his place with a hollow heart. He could no longer tell what was right and what was wrong.

His face betrayed of any kinds of emotions, he simply stood their expressionless; staring at the ground beneath.

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"What was going on your mind when you made that final block?"

A somewhat timid looking guy who was seated opposite to Shun who right now was surrounded by flocks of player excitedly asked.

With a smirk on his face, while puffing his chest and flaring his nostril, Shun rose from his seat at once. Brimming with pride, he then answered in somewhat overexaggerating tone, "At that moment when that arrogant captain of the opposing team was rushing towards me, I said to myself that I'd eat this guy alive"

Listening to his exaggerated explanation, the entire room got silent as they all focused their attention towards Shun who right now was the center of the attention.

Continuing his explanation, he then jolted his eyes towards Akihiro who had raised this question, "Then I looked him in the eye. In that moment, he too fiercely looked at me. But nonetheless, I didn't divert my eyes off of him. Instead I glared back at him and challenged him, come at me if you dare"

Lost in his storytelling, everybody became intrigued as his way of explaining details piqued their interest. Almost everybody present there was aware that what seemed to be only few seconds to the onlookers was rather long for the ones experiencing it.

In somewhat unsatisfied tone, Shun questioned Hiro.

"From start to finish, everything is unrealistic. First up all, do you even use your brains?"

His words were like a direct slap to his face. And hearing those words triggered Shun as his face became red with anger.

However next instance just as he was about to launch himself towards Hiro, somebody in the crowd burst into laughter.

"HAHAHAHA"

Followed by that laughter, a chained reaction took place as one by one almost everybody present in the crowd burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, Hiro's kinda got a point"

"Yeah, it's rather questionable that Shun thought that much, hahaha"

"Yeah, we're talking about Shun after all"

Soon enough, the once tensed mood inside the room became lively as laughter of players echoed all around the room. Followed by several defeats and draws, it had been quite sometimes since the dormitory had been this cheerful.

And Yuya who happened to caught glimpse of this extremely lively atmosphere from outside the door couldn't help but feel complicated upon seeing this scene. He should be rejoicing like the rest but yet he couldn't bring himself to rejoice.

He had never been treated like this. Let alone someone showing goodwill, during his stay with this team not even a single person had offered even a friendly handshake to him.

Even the treatment, one would get was based on their skills. Not only did Hiro intervene the story of Shun and spoiled the fun, he even insulted Shun directly to his face, yet nobody was angry at him. Instead they all appreciated his sense of humor.

Why was the treatment with him and Hiro different? Why was he treated like shit while he's treated like king?