Chapter 81

Baro rounds on Isagi for failing to leap at the free kick, and neither Chigiri nor Nagi hides their frustration either. Isagi accepts the blame, faulting himself for not smothering the earlier buildup and for missing how bottomless Tokimitsu's stamina is. On the other side, Tokimitsu reaches for a celebratory high five, but Rin waves him off.

As Baro insists he would have blocked the kick had he joined the wall, Isagi counters that Rin would simply have chosen another finish. Studying how Rin exploits him, Isagi resolves that beating him means presenting himself from an unexpected angle. Baro and Chigiri argue over the next move, but Nagi hands the moment to Isagi with a simple call to go.

From the restart Isagi trails Baro, who slips Tokimitsu but cannot fully lose him, so the expected pass never comes. Confronted by Bachira, Isagi ignores the open calls from Baro and Nagi, aware that Rin is logging every option, and instead lofts a long ball to Chigiri, who outruns Aryu despite fading stamina. Isagi peels away on a diagonal run into Rin's blind spot, yet Rin still reads it and sets to smother a straight shot. Anticipating exactly that, Isagi holds off, lets Rin commit in front of him, and flicks a reverse back-heel into the top corner to score.

Isagi uses Baro as a decoy to slip past Tokimitsu, then answers Bachira's pressure with a long pass to Chigiri, who beats Aryu in a footrace. Drifting into Rin's blind spot to collect the return, Isagi is still tracked by his rival. Reading that Rin braces for a direct strike, he instead executes a back-heel direct shot to draw the match level at four each.

Last Action is the fifth chapter of Volume 10 and the eighty-first overall, part of the Second Selection Arc. It was published in Japan on April 15, 2020, and in English on December 21, 2021. The chapter is adapted in Episode 22.