The Dreamers
Hardwork

“Fyuuh..,”

Hiro sighed when he had finished running around the field 20 times like what he always does every time he trains with Takashi.

“Alright.., break five minutes!”

“Thanks coach!”

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After several trainings with Takashi, Hiro begins to find his best touch again. He started dribbling the ball again. The shot is always right towards the corner of the goal that is difficult to reach the goalkeeper.

His speed had also increased with time. His agility is also not bad for an attacker. It seems that soon, Hiro will soon become the great attacker he once was.

“Come again! don't get tired before the sky gets dark!” Takashi's shout continued to burn Hiro's spirit while training.

Secretly, Hiro's father always noticed when Hiro was training on an empty field with Takashi. The field where Hiro was training was so close to the construction project where his father worked. There is no harm in the father always giving the best support for his son. He always wishes him the best.

“Be the best son, Father will always support you from here,”

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But all of this requires a process.

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3…

..year..

..then.

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Summer, winter, autumn, spring, Hiro has spent 3 years since he returned to training to play football specifically with Takashi.

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Takashi is the only coach who believes in Hiro's ability the first time he came to the academy 8 years ago. Everyone underestimated it then. But look now, a 20-year-old teenager is 178 cm tall. His thin body has now also become an athletic body.

Hiro and Ryota are now at university to pursue higher education. Thanks to the scholarship he received during High School, Hiro was able to return to education. They were together again at the University of Sapporo.

At the University, Hiro joined the University's football club. Hiro and Ryota are both mainstays in the University club and always participate in various competitions to get many awards.

Hiro begins to feel that if his decision, which he considers a mistake, is now a way for Hiro's old dream. If it wasn't for the scholarship, Hiro couldn't have gone on to university, and Hiro would have never felt the trophies and titles with his team at university.

But because Hiro can be said to be a poor child in his campus, he often gets less good treatment from his friends. Ryota is unable to defend her.

...

"Haha! poor kid pret-sokan became a campus hero! haha!"

...

Many friends in the campus who do not like Hiro because according to them, Hiro is very prominent and attracts all the attention there.

People who often insult Hiro say that Hiro is too exaggerated. Hiro is a new student who has made his senior-senior existence covered by Hiro rays.

Starting from that, Hiro began to get unpleasant treatment from his friends on campus. Often, the food is lost somewhere. He is also often locked from the outside by an unknown person while in the bathroom. And there are many other undeserved things.

Often Hiro is able to shut the mouth of those who hate him by weakening his achievements to the University. But all those achievements never seem to be enough for people who are always looking for mistakes from Hiro.

Hiro also did not understand why his friends did not like him. Only Ryota has been kind to Hiro all this time.

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In the afternoon, Hiro and Ryota are practicing football on the campus field with their colleagues. They both mourn his fate.

“You can be patient Hiro, the storm will surely pass,” Ryota said to calm Hiro.

“Iya, it's just.I don't understand why they hate me,”

“It looks like it's because they can't be like you,”

“Really?” Sahut Hiro's.

“Iya. Didn't you do the same to Daichi?”

“Haha, True also yes,”

From that day on, Hiro became more confident whenever he was hated. That means, someone else wants to be like him.

Hiro cannot change the fact that he is hated, but he can still turn that hatred into a force for him.

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One day, Hiro once told his father about the behavior he got while at the University. His father is no longer a building clerk. His growing age made his father's boss forced to break his contract. Now Hiro's father only works as a part-time courier. Therefore, Hiro became able to meet his father longer every day.

“Dad.., have you ever been bullied at school?” Hiro asked when he came home from his dorm that night.

“Hmm? Of course Dad ever,” replied Hiro's father while sipping coffee in front of the house.

“That's over? What are you doing?”

Hiro's father put down his cup and replied, “Dad just kept quiet and also did not fight,”

“Oh so--,”

“But.., I realized that Dad's attitude at that time was really wrong,” It seems that Hiro's father has still not finished his speech. “Dad thought, it should have been at that time, Dad should have fought them by saying if their actions had hurt Dad. But I didn't do that, until I finally had to endure the pain for the rest of school,”

“...” Hiro can't say anything. Hiro just patted his father's back, signaling he also felt what his father felt.

As the day wore on, Hiro decided to return to the dormitory. “Alright Well, Hiro wants to go back to the dorm,”

“You sure you don't want to stay at home?”

“No Well, Hiro wants to go back to the dorm, after this there is an event. If it's late, I'll miss bus.” Hiro. “It looks like next week I'll stop by back here,”

Dad smiled. “Well then, see you later.”

Hiro's father was very happy, even though he could no longer see his son at home at all times. Hiro's father understands the situation. Since childhood, Hiro just wanted to make this little family live better.

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While on the bus to his dorm, Hiro again convinces himself to be strong in the face of every ordeal in him. If not himself, who can help him when he is in the deepest hole?

Although there are friends and people who like Hiro, but who do not like much more. Hiro has to be ready for all that. Because of the heart of a star, it should not lose and fall into a black hole in space. He has to defend himself at all costs.