The narrator is in the middle of a conversation with his friend, the coach of a school in Tokyo, Japan. He's talking about a game that's going to decide the winner of the winter tournament, which is a high school boys' soccer tournament in Japan. In this case, it's the third-round game between Tokyo and Seiseki. The two schools are tied at three with two minutes to go in the game. The coach says that he's worried that the referees are going to give them a penalty, but he doesn't want to lose the game because he knows how to control a game like this. He says that if they lose, they're going to lose a lot of games in the future. In other words, he wants to make sure that they don't give up on the game, even if it means that they lose the tournament. He also says that they've got a chance to win the tournament if they keep their defense strong at the beginning of the second half. He points out that Mizuki is closing in on Mizuki, but Mizuki's got to stop him. Mizuki loses the ball to Hiroshi, who's running away with it. He thinks that Hiroshi's getting too close to Mizuki for him to be able to catch him, so he stops him and sends the ball back to his captain, the head of the team. The captain is worried about Mizuki trying to pass, but the coach says he can't, because Mizuki isn't giving an inch.