In this short scene, the narrator laments his inability to lead his school's soccer team to victory. He feels that he has been unable to do so because of the captain's behavior. He wonders if the captain has "gone crazy" and decides to tell his story to the rest of the school. He says that the team's first goal was due to "slight luck" and that they were in complete control of the second half until a man named "genichiro taira" stopped them. The narrator says that he was not responsible for the loss and that the reason the team did not lose was because of their "full devotion to defense" . He adds that the captain is still going to school and that his "future of the team" is hiss to create. He also says that in the last three days, he has returned to being "a kid who soccer" , and that he wonders if this is the same person he was before the game. He tells the narrator that he does not know what he will do with his life after the game, but that he would like to go to "univer sity" and "take a year off." The narrator then says that everyone in the school has been "exhausted" by the game and feels that they have no choice but to "admit it to themselves selves." He says he will become a novelist and follow the narrator to "kashi . .