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The day after encountering the strange hedgehog head was also one week before the competition with Mikage Agricultural School. Shiki gathered everyone in a certain area of Raimon Junior High School.
As everyone arrived, Shiki clapped her hands to attract their attention. "Everyone, remember how I was late during our practice at the riverbank?"
"That's because I was preparing for this!!"
"And that is..."
Shiki pointed behind her. "Raimon Junior High School's exclusive training base!!"
The crowd shifted their gaze to this 'training base.'
Silence fell.
Kazemaru broke the silence, asking Shiki, "Yae, are you saying this is our training base?"
It was a perfectly reasonable question, considering that the training base Shiki referred to was just a mound of earth.
"That's right! Look, there's a door..."
Before Shiki could finish her sentence, Mokkin spoke up in a trembling voice. "I know this place..."
He adjusted his glasses. "This is one of Raimon's seven mysteries—the 'Unopenable Door'..."
"Legend has it that students who come here mysteriously disappear..."
"Since then, anyone who has entered through that door has never been seen again."
At this point, many felt a chill run down their spines, and their hairs stood on end. The two managers even hugged each other tightly, barely suppressing their voices.
Hearing this rumor, Shiki scoffed. "No, no, no, Mokkin, your story has a flaw."
"If it's called the unopenable door, how could anyone get inside?"
Suddenly, everyone's brains overloaded for a moment before returning to normal.
"True!!" Mokkin replied. "That story must be fake! One of the seven mysteries has been debunked!"
But at that moment...
Shiki suddenly wore a strange smile. "However, Mokkin, this is indeed one of the seven mysteries—a rare true story."
Seeing everyone relax only to tense up again, Shiki continued. "This door can indeed swallow people."
"It usually remains closed because someone has ordered it to be shut."
"Conversely, if someone orders it to open, then it will open."
Mokkin fearfully asked Shiki, "Yae, how do you know so much?"
Shiki replied casually, "Because I was the one who ordered it."
"Huh?"
The recently rendered atmosphere of horror reached its peak as Yae pulled everyone up to the highest point.
Shiki turned and patted the door, saying, "Hey, door, I brought food back! It's time to eat!"
At that moment, the door seemed to respond to Shiki, slowly creaking open.
Everyone visibly panicked.
Mokkin couldn't help but scream.
The two managers, who were already huddled together, clung even tighter, unable to contain their cries as tears streamed down their faces.
After a loud shout from Bishan, he fainted on the spot, only prevented from collapsing to the ground by Shaolin Temple, Kurimatsu, and Minoru who caught him just in time.
The door swung fully open, revealing a figure inside—it was Natsumi.
"Is everyone here?" she asked.
Everyone was stunned into silence.
"Huh?"
Natsumi looked at the pale faces around her, the managers clinging to each other, and the unconscious Bishan with confusion. "What's wrong with you all? You look like you've seen a ghost!"
Except for Natsumi and the fainted Bishan, everyone turned to look at Shiki's position.
Shiki was stealthily trying to sneak away into the nearby woods.
Realizing that everyone had noticed her, Shiki broke into a cold sweat and muttered softly, "I might have gone a bit too far with the joke..."
Anger levels were rising.
Ten minutes later.
"You can't do this again next time! Do you hear me?!"
"Yes..."
The ones delivering the scolding were Haruna and Miki Akira, both of whom were fuming with rage.
Naturally, the one who had caused their anger was Shiki. After discovering that it was all Shiki's prank, Haruna and Akira had dragged her aside for a ten-minute lecture.
Shiki knelt throughout the reprimand, arms straightened out as if she were about to hold a bucket of water.
Upon learning what had happened, Natsumi felt no sympathy for Shiki; she simply remarked lightly that it served her right before stepping aside to watch the scene unfold.
Kazemaru asked Natsumi, "Forget about Shiki for now; what did she mean when she said this place is a training base?"
Natsumi replied, "This place is the Lightning Football Team's secret practice ground, also known as the Thunder Training Ground."
Endou looked puzzled. "Huh? A secret practice ground?"
Shaolin Temple was equally confused. "Thunder Training Ground?"
Someoka stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "If there's this place, why didn't our football team have anywhere to practice back then?"
Shiki responded to Someoka, "Well, it’s been abandoned for quite some time..."
“?”
Seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, Shiki asked Natsumi, “Did you not tell them about Inazuma Eleven?”
Natsumi looked at the group, “Uh… didn’t I mention it?”
Everyone shook their heads except for Shiki. “No.”
“…”
Natsumi decided to pass the blame to Shiki, “You didn’t remind me, so it’s up to you to explain.”
Shiki was speechless. “…”
He slowly began, “To put it simply, forty years ago, there was a legendary football team that was undefeated, almost considered the best in the country.”
Endou asked, “Are you talking about Raimon Junior High School?”
“Exactly!”
Tsumon raised his hand and asked, “But I remember that forty years ago, Imperial Academy was dominating the nation, right?”
Shiki was pleased with Tsumon’s question and pointed at him. “That’s the key point. The teams in the finals of the Tomorrow's Star Football Tournament back then were Raimon Junior High School and Imperial Academy.”
Kazemaru added, “So at that time, Imperial defeated Raimon and started a forty-year winning streak?”
Shiki stroked his chin, pondering his words for a long while before saying a few words, “Yes, but also no.”
The group looked confused. “Huh?”
Shiki explained, “After the young lady told me about this matter, I went to look for related reports.”
He then spread his hands. “However, there is not a single piece of information regarding the outcome of that match.”
“The once undefeated Raimon and the underdog Imperial competing against each other would definitely attract attention; there’s no way there wouldn’t be any reports.”
“After several days of investigation, I found only one thing.”
“Raimon did not participate in the finals.”
“After that, this place was left abandoned.”
As everyone listened to the story, their initial confusion did not dissipate; instead, it grew.
But one person wasn’t thinking too much about it—Endou.
He excitedly exclaimed, “So this is the first time it’s being used after forty years!”
“That’s amazing, everyone!”
“We actually get to use the training equipment that the legendary Inazuma Eleven once used.”
“I can’t wait! Let’s hurry down!”
He moved to open the door.
Shiki quickly stopped him. “Wait a moment!!”
Endou turned to Shiki. “What’s wrong now?”
"I have to tell you all something."
When Shiki said this, the two managers looked at him with expressions that clearly said, "What trouble are you stirring up now?"
Seeing their faces, Shiki realized he was being misunderstood. "Wait a minute, I'm not joking!"
"I'm serious, really!"
Shiki cleared his throat and slowly continued, "This special training is not mandatory for everyone."
"After Chairman has someone fix this equipment, I went to try it out."
Shiki scratched his head. "How should I put this? It truly lives up to the legendary team's training."
"Ordinary people simply can't get through this special training; they might even get injured..."
Before he could finish, Someoka interrupted him. "But..."
"If we don't participate in the special training, we won't even be able to win against our current opponents, let alone the Empire!"
"I'll join; I won't hold everyone back anymore."
Everyone looked at Someoka, who had made up his mind.
In the three matches they had played so far, Someoka felt he hadn't contributed at all. In the first match, they were brutally defeated by the Empire; in the second match, he was completely outsmarted by Oni Gari Dou's tricks; and in the third match against Wild Junior High, he had to leave the field due to an injury.
Thanks to Someoka's words, the wavering expressions of the Raimon team members steadied.
Seeing their eyes filled with renewed determination, Shiki smiled happily. "Now this is a good team!"
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