When a Beagle Becomes a Defender [Football]

System: [You’re the villain in a soccer fanfic.]

[You play as a defender, but you’re a terrible person and an awful sport. If you can win by kicking a person instead of the ball, you’ll do it.]

[You’re ungrateful and ambitious. You abandoned the mentor and seniors who had high hopes for you, and betrayed the hometown fans who adored you. At your new club, you form cliques; on the national team, you’re the number-one instigator of internal conflict. And you do all this for one reason: yourself,]

When the Host appeared, the System suddenly froze, then let out a shrill scream.

A little beagle with eyeliner all the way around its eyes held its paws together and tilted its head at the System. “Wer?”

System: [...]

I bound a dog. Can it play soccer? This villain-raising quest is a lost cause.

The System had planned to lie flat, but one day it discovered that the quest had actually been completed!

Its Host, named Marco, who had gained a human body, had become the most feared villain in the world of soccer!

The players, referees, managers, and fans he’d tormented even formed an organization called the Marco Victims’ Alliance!

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Marco had figured out the rules of human soccer with his own clever little brain. But he couldn’t understand why his teammates and opponents were huffing and puffing after playing for two hours.

His captain had great stamina, though. Even after the match, he hadn’t collapsed.

Marco: [Wer~ Do you think he could be my owner?]

The System looked at this person blessed with the perfect talent for enduring hardship, and fell silent.

Surrounded by fallen teammates, the Dutch captain Robin van Persie remained standing, resolute: “...”

P.S. This is set in a soccer fanfic. Please separate it from real-world soccer.

Check out my completed stories in the same genre, Absolute Superstar, National Treasure Goalkeeper, and Golden Whistle of Football, in my author profile.

Theme: Only by standing together can you win the championship!