'Aww it's monday already'

Sena can't believe she has to go to school already, she wasted her precious weekend resting on her bed caused by her muscle-ache. Her muscles are still hurting here and there, but thanks to Mamori-neechan's muscle patch she can move around without feeling like there are needles in her muscle.

"Sena, quickly finish your breakfast! You're going to be late" Sena's mother is about to lose her patience after looking at how slow Sena is at eating her breakfast. It doesn't even look like Sena enjoying her food, she's pretty much struggling to swallow it.

'There are 5 spoons worth of cereal still remaining inside the bowl, I don't think I can finish it…. NO! I have to eat properly from now on' Sena made a promise to herself that she won't be picky about her food and not to leave any leftovers when she's eating. If she really wanted to play football she needed to build her muscle, and she needed proper nutrition to build her muscle.

After desperately swallowing her cereal, she finally scoot her way to school

"Bye mom, i'm going to school" Sena quickly close the door not waiting for her mother reply

'Yesterday she spent her days bedridden because she's running too much, and now she's already running again' Mihae Kobayakawa's worries are starting to pile up.

Students' reluctance to go to school is quite normal, even the most studious students have their days where they don't want to go to school. The reason may vary it could be caused by exam week, forgetting to do the homework, sleepiness from staying up late but for Sena the reason why she doesn't want to go to school is her bully. While every single student impatiently waits for lunch time, Sena doesn't really look forward to lunch time.

"have you memorized everything we told you to buy Sena-chan?"

"Y-yes Toda-san i already memorized it" Sena said while anxiously nodding her head

"Then why are you still here?" her bully said menacingly

"HIIEE"

"HAHAHAHAHA it's always fun seeing her run like that" the bullies amused seeing her gopher running

'WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE ME'

Ever since elementary, she's always been a gopher. Setting aside her small figure, Sena is too submissive to decline their order. She hates running around the school to fulfill their needs, but on the other hand she would feel bad if she declined their order. Even though she already knew they're taking advantage of her, she still can't refuse them. For someone who has zero to no friends like Sena, this is the only interaction with someone her peers she's familiar with. There's a reason why she declined her parents' offer to buy her a phone. It's already troublesome enough having to keep up with her bully's order in school, she doesn't want to imagine what would happen if she had a phone.

It's not like she can't fight back against her bully, with the speed that she learns from riku, she'll be able to get around her bully with ease, but hurting someone is not something that she wanted to do. When she had a fight with her cat (that she lost), she felt so bad afterward she decided to feed her cat premium cat food for a week. She doesn't want to imagine what will happen if she ever fights another human being.

After running as fast as she possibly could, she finally arrived at the cafeteria. The cafeteria is always crowded with a horde of hungry students. With how small Sena's body is, Sena needs to navigate carefully around the cafeteria, if not she'll be pushed around to no end. There's an advantage of having a small body though, she can slip around the gap of crowd easily as long she knows which gaps will open and which gaps are going to close. Calculating the gap is easy, but walking through the open gap before the gap is closed or walking toward the about to be open gap on time is the real challenge. Predicting the gap in such a chaotic horde is near impossible, but for Sena who's an experienced gopher, she can do it if she focuses her sight and her mind.

'Wait a second…. I can use this to train myself can i?'

Right now she can't run at her maximum speed, so she needs to maximize her predicting skill if she wanted to finish her order. Predicting gap + her current speed = best possible route. Running the best possible route is one of many skills needed for a running back, she can think of it like avoiding someone who's trying to block her.

She decided yesterday she wanted to play American football as a running back. The decisions were made after Sena thinks deeply about it. She couldn't be a lineman of course, no matter how hard she trained she wouldn't be able to get as strong as a man. With her muscle strength in mind that leaves receiver, quarterback, tight end and kicker if she trained hard enough she might be able to master throwing, catching, or kicking but her mind is already set on another position. Being a runner is probably the best role for her, with her quick leg she can outrun any pursuer coming her way.

Observing the moving crowd she started to predict which gap is open, which gap is about to close and which gap is about to open. In a matter of seconds she managed to pinpoint the best route she can take, with the route in mind she started running. It took her less than 5 minute to finish her task, now all she has to do is to bring these items to her bully.

'This is actually quite fun' Never in her 14 years of living would she imagine that she'll have fun being a gopher. When you look at it the bullying never escalates to something physical, most of the time she was told to buy some item from cafetaria (with her bully's money) or fetch something they forgot in the classroom. They never shake her down for her money, or tell her to do their homework (they already knew Sena's grade is below average at best). Morally it's quite degrading, but there's no real harm done towards her.

'Now all i need to do is to deliver the items to them' even with her muscles still not yet fully recovered she started running.

Back at her home Sena started planning about her football. If she wanted to play american football she needed a team first, there's no way she can play american football by herself. There's no american football club in her middle school, even if there's any she won't be able to play since she's in her last year of middle school, and her middle school forbids any 3rd year student to participate in any kind of club activity. The best viable option for her is to join the American football team once she enters highschool.

'Now which high school i need to apply'

There are 3 high schools near her home which are Zokugaku, Ojo and Deimon. Zokugaku is a den full of delinquents, her parents won't let her enter such a school. Ojo is a pretty good option, knowing it's a prestigious school, what's more their american football is quite notorious, but with Sena's grade it would take a lot of work for her to enter the school. She can enter Ojo easily without an exam only if she went to Ojo middle school. Deimon is pretty normal school, everything about it is normal, even with her current grade she's sure she would be able to enter Deimon. Deimon has an American football club, but there are tons of bad news surrounding it. The club only has 2 active members in it, and one of the members is rumored as a reincarnation of satan.

Trimming down her option, the best highschool for her to go is Ojo highschool. She can study like crazy to pass the Ojo exam. Training with Ojo's notorious athlete surely will improve her physique and technique. Not to mention Ojo is an escalator school until university, so she can focus on training without worrying about entrance exams. With Mamori-neechan guidance Sena is sure 100% she would be able to pass Ojo highschool entrance exam.

'Should i apply to Ojo highschool?'

Looking at the pros the answer should be yes, but somehow there's another option that keeps alluring her. If she enters Deimon highschool just to play american football, there are a lot of downsides compared to Ojo highschool. First there's only 2 active members within it, it would be impossible to play american football with only 3 people, sure they can recruit more members along the way but it would be challenging knowing the club reputation. The second downside is the club rumor, especially about one of the members, what if he's some kind of scary person, rumors are often exaggerated but there's a reason why rumors happen in the first place, looking at the rumor alone it would be terrifying having a scary person as your teammate. The only upside of entering Deimon is she can go to the same school as her sister, but her sister's existence within the school is the third downside, she won't ever let her play a physically demanding sport like American football.

Even with all of its downside, there's something that keeps assuring her that she needs to enter Deimon no matter what. She doesn't know the reason why, but her guts also told her not to enter Ojo.

'This is one of those unexplainable urge again isn't it'

She's already submitting herself to her sudden unexplainable desire, where's the harm in being dragged along by one or two more of her unexplainable gut feelings. But if she wanted to play american football properly, joining Ojo would be far more ideal compared to Deimon. This is the same as choosing between your wants and needs, being rational is highly required to choose the best option. But currently she is far from being rational. Her mind has been a jumbled mess ever since the weekends. If she wants to be rational she would definitely choose Ojo, but if she's being real rational she won't even think of playing american football, if she doesn't have to play american football then Deimon would be the most rational choice.

'Ojo or Deimon.… aaagh whatever'

She decided to put her decision aside for now, after all she still has 3 months worth of contemplating before the entrance exam. Of course she's not planning to wait for 3 months doing nothing. There are tons and tons of training she needs to forgo in order to make up for what she lacks.

Deciding on which highschool she needs to enter isn't the priority for now, she's not even sure if there's any team who will accept her as their 's quite confident in her leg speed, but what about her stamina, strength and her technique they're all still lacking. The bias against females in a sport where the majority of players are males would be quite challenging to tackle. She needs to have an impressive arSenal that can be used to complement the team and it needs to be impressive enough for them not to think twice of accepting her.

'Can I even do something to impress them?' Sena herself doubts the possibility of her ever getting accepted into a team.

'I can't even do a full push up, can I even improve myself drastically in just 3 month? I mean if they have to choose between a big burly guy and a frail looking girl like me, it would be crazy for them to accept me. Just like the guy at the river, looking at his physique alone he's far more desirable than her. But I was still able to pass him…. YEAH! There's no need to worry about it, if all else fails I can count on my leg to do the job. Even if I'm not accepted to my highschool american football team i'll find a way to play american football. Now is not the time to keep on being worried. I have more training to do'

Setting herself in a push up position, she lowered her body, now all she needs to do is raise her body by pushing her arm.

'This is bad…. I can't even do one push up'

it seems like Sena underestimate how weak her physique is. Because of her muscle-ache she planned to take it easy by doing 10-30 push ups at most then followed up by doing sit ups. But she can't even do one push up let alone following it with a sit up.

'I am doomed, am i…. No teams would ever accept me wouldn't they….'