Football: King of Penalty Area
Ch. 85 - Routine Medical Examination

Athletic Cologne Gym Room, Koln, Germany.

It has been four days since Indonesia's match against Qatar. In accordance with the promise made Frans. Raynaldi and Mario who still have league matches are allowed to return first and do not follow Indonesia to face Guam at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium.

Meanwhile, Marco and Radgar who also play in Europe still follow the team to play against Guam. The reason, because Marco is not the main player in his team and not necessarily playing in the league. So rather than just saving the stamina to sit on the bench, Frans decided to take him and play another game.

While Radgar has a different case, because the second league Belgium is almost finished and leaves only 3 games. The team Radgar is in, Seraing United. Already leads the standings with a 12-point lead and is certain to progress to the Belgian Pro League next season, so Radgar who is also the main player is not so needed by his team and the head winner Seraing United has also given permission to Radgar to focus on defending his national team until the new season.

The match between Indonesia against Guam ended in accordance with predictions with a landslide victory of Indonesia 3 goals without reply. Meanwhile another match, where the United Arab Emirates host Qatar ended in a goalless draw. This result makes Indonesia lead the standings with a 5-point lead from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

“League 2.The Bundesliga has just 8 games to go with the last game coming in mid-May. After that, until the end of May there will be 3 games left to determine the top 20 teams that qualify.” Raynaldi thinks about the rest of the season.

“Hey, don't I have time off like this?” Raynaldi only realized that he hardly had time off because all the schedules in May to July were almost full.

“Well, no problem. This can also be called a blessing because there is no need to worry about the physical condition declining after the holidays.” Raynaldi muttered while reassuring himself.

As Raynaldi was resting while thinking about his vacation, someone came to call out to him.

“Hai, Ray. It's time for a routine medical check-up! Everyone is required to go to the medical room!” Tony Karl shouted to Raynaldi who was pensive.

“Oh, Okay... I'll be here soon!” Raynaldi soon got up and followed Tony Karl.

. . . . .

After walking for a while, Raynaldi and Tony arrived in front of the building with white paint that was in a separate area to the south of the gym and training ground.

Actually, the examination that Raynaldi will undergo is a full-body examination to assess the physical condition of the player scientifically. This was only done at the Koln Athletics starting this year when new coach Thomas Sobek took office.

Thomas Sobek once mentioned to the board, because his team could not bring all the players he wanted. Then at least do a medical check-up periodically so that he does not lose the chain of play in the middle of the road due to injury.

Though ultimately bad luck hit Thomas Sobek completely. He tries to keep the physical condition of his players and uses them scientifically so that they are not easily injured. But it was the many external impacts and stupid accidents that made him almost lose the entire front row.

Because of this experience as well, Thomas Sobek was more thorough in his physical examination and use of players in the game. It also gets a good reception from the players, because no player wants to get injured and taking time to prevent injuries is a good thing.

After entering the examination room, only Dario Robert and Buhari remained as the others had already completed the physical examination early.

“Robert, Buhari, are you still here?” Raynaldi.

“Oh, Ray, I just finished a physical. You came for the check?” Said Robert.

Meanwhile, Buhari notices Tony's arrival. “Tony, are you dragging Ray again? He actually does extra training in the gym isn't he?”

“Well, who would have thought this kid was a monster who couldn't get tired! He actually ran for extra training in the gym, while the others were resting.” Tony muttered annoyed, because he was the youngest. Tony has often been made ‘fuller’ at the club lately, and this is all due to Raynaldi's habit of disappearing for extra training during breaks outside lunch.

“Hahaha... Poor tony.” Robert laughed at Tony's annoyance.

“It's enough don't laugh at it..” Buhari rebuked Robert who was laughing, and looked at Raynaldi. “Ray, didn't the coach ask you to rest?”

“Yeah, I still feel light and powerful, so I went to work on strength in the gym.” Raynaldi said innocently.

“You're..” Buhari shook his head, ever since coming to Koln Athletics, Raynaldi also earned another title, training crazy. He always comes early and goes home late in every daily training session.

In addition, lately Raynaldi's stamina increased quite a lot so that he could continue to train even after 90 minutes of training and 45 minutes of practice matches. Buhari even began to doubt that Raynaldi was still human.

Raynaldi himself felt strange with his physique, he often experienced fatigue and muscle aches after training to his physical limits. However, after resting all night, Raynaldi did not feel the pain or muscle ache he expected, but instead he felt his body become stronger every time he exceeded his limits.

Moments later, a female nurse came and called Raynaldi for an examination. The examination items are actually not too much, just height, weight, body health checks, fat levels and muscle levels in the body.

Raynaldi, who completed his physical examination, sat on a bed in the medical room. It didn't take long, a late 50s old man came back with the nurse who invited him earlier.

“Doctor Ralf, can you stop looking at me like a special research specimen?” Raynaldi could guess that from Doctor Ralf's expression, he had found something strange on his physique again.

“Hahaha... I'm just confused because this is the first case of body development as weird as you!” Ralf laughed when he heard Raynaldi's words.

“Look at yourself, the one on the left is the medical record when you first came and the one on the right is your record now.” Ralf used a clip containing records of Raynaldi's medical examination.

Raynaldi could see in the medical records it was indeed a little far-fetched. For example the height of the body when it came was 175 cm and now it is 180 cm, then the weight is 68 kg and now it is 75 kg. On the other hand, the muscle rate that was originally only 30% is now 38 % and the last fat rate that was originally 18 % is now only 13 %.

This data should not be possible in just 3 months of training, unless the person is a fitness maniac using steroids. But clearly, Raynaldi had never used this kind of medicine, all of his body's data had increased to a normal and balanced range.

“Isn't this normal? Asians will grow the most when I'm 17 to 18?” Raynaldi asked innocently.

“Indeed under such normal conditions, but your development has already exceeded normal limits know? Think of it like this, if it's normal people eliminate 2-4 percent of fat levels in the body in 2 months is normal, but they are unlikely to be able to increase their muscle mass at the same time.”

“In addition, your height and weight also increase a lot without reducing your speed and agility! This is an abnormal thing! When others can only reduce their body fat levels, can you improve yourself in all aspects? Do you think this is normal?” Ask Ralf.

Raynaldi was silent, and asked his system inwardly. “System? Is this what you did?”

[The system eliminates the host's physical growth limits and makes it reach the top of the human body possible in the fastest time that the host body can accept. The increase is now still within the limits of the physical increase that a normal human being can achieve with more effort.]

“How much system do you mean by ‘more effort’?” Raynaldi's mind is skeptical.

[The system is under no obligation to explain this aspect.]

“What fucking system do you mean? Isn't this going to make me a research specimen?” raynaldi grumbled in the heart.

[Home master need not worry, the system will not be detected by the currently available medical devices. So when the host is considered a strange creature by others, just hold it.]

Looking at the system's answer, I don't know why Raynaldi feels this system is getting annoying.

“Well, Doctor Ralf. Maybe it's because I keep up my training well?” Raynaldi said while pretending to be confused.

“Well, this is also possible. I've also never seen a player as skillful as you were in training.” Ralf could only accept Raynaldi's words because he felt it could still be categorized as ‘plausible’.

“Okay, Doctor Ralf. I'll go first. It's time for lunch. Bye!” Raynaldi left the medical room while sighing in relief.

Group J Classification

1. Australia \[9 points\] \[10-2\]

2. United Arab Emirates \[4 points\] \[9-4\]

3. Qatar \[4 points\] \[8-3\]

4. Guam \[0 points\] \[0-18\]