Chapter 265

Ness gains the ball and fixates on being the man who lifts Kaiser to glory, sure that his own coaching helped forge Kaiser's newest weapon. He threads a delivery meant to make the finish effortless, yet Kaiser judges it unworkable and lets it roll straight past into the boots of Kiyora, a receiver nobody had accounted for.

Isagi grows convinced the goal belongs to him, reading the Paris X Gen backline as coming apart under Bastard's relentless waves. Kaiser, for his part, grasps that thriving demands a confined, high pressure setting, exactly the situation now closing around him.

Spotting the fault line dividing Kaiser and Isagi, Kiyora fires a low, quick ball skimming the turf. Isagi assumes it targets him as it slips beyond Kaiser, only to watch it grip with vicious backspin, stall, and settle perfectly for Kaiser to strike. Charles and Rin rush to smother Kaiser together, but he reaches the stalled ball before either can arrive.

Kaiser waves off the pass from Ness, allowing Kiyora to collect the ball in his place. Forced to pick between the two forwards, Kiyora then feeds Kaiser a heavily spun ground pass that halts directly in his path.

The scoreboard holds level at one goal each throughout the chapter. Kaiser openly names a restrictive environment as the precise condition he needs in order to perform at his peak.