Chapter 105

Team A and Team C get their match underway with Reo on the ball, brooding over the grueling effort it took just to draw near Nagi's level, a gap he knows still yawns between them. Resolving that he alone deserves to stand beside Nagi, he ignores Aryu's marking to loft a long pass tuned to the exact spin and timing Nagi prefers, only for the towering Ishikari to rise and head it clear.

Rin gathers the rebound and waves off Shido's demand for the ball, choosing instead to release Igarashi under pressure from Tanaka. Cornered by Reo and frozen over whether to feed Rin or Shido, Igarashi caves to Shido's threat and passes his way, but Gagamaru, marking Shido, hooks the ball away with an audacious heel trap and tumbles to the ground, drawing praise for the acrobatic defense.

Gagamaru's steal springs Yukimiya, who slips past Rin with a drag scissors move that Reo likens to toying with a child. Reo contrasts Yukimiya's hard, power-driven dribbling against Bachira's soft, creative touch, while Yukimiya declares the one-on-one duel to be football's foundation and himself its finest exponent in Japan. He proves it by breezing past a challenging Shido, earning the label of one-on-one emperor.

When Igarashi and Ishikari trap him in a pincer, Yukimiya spurns Reo's call and unleashes a shot from thirty meters that sails high before dipping as a gyro shot toward the net. Aryu positions himself to block, yet Nagi materializes in front and traps the ball, remarking on its heaviness before turning it into the top corner and apologizing to Yukimiya for stealing the finish. The strike leaves Reo shaken, convinced the Nagi before him is no longer the one he once knew.

The hundred-fifth chapter, titled 5 X 6, spans twenty pages in Volume 13 and the Third Selection Arc. It was published in Japan on October 21, 2020 and in English on May 17, 2022, and its events are shown in the anime's twenty-eighth episode.