Hearing the whistle of the referee, Sho who was standing close to the ball passed the ball back towards Hiro to start the match.
"You're lucky that you're not a defender." Mumbling such under his breath, Chris began to press towards Hiro to snatch the ball away from him.
Despite noticing Chris charging towards him, Hiro wasn't even a bit intimidated by his size. On the contrary, he calmly dribbled the ball towards him as if he was blatantly challenging him to a duel.
Since Chris had already considered Hiro an arrogant player because of Hiro's earlier behaviour towards him, Hiro's actions agitated him even further. And thus he took Hiro's actions as a provocation.
Provoked by Hiro's actions, he sprinted even faster with all his strength.
"Good" Manager Nozomi mumbled under his breath while looking at the agitated face of Chris.
