The next day, we said goodbye to this town and went on. Kenjirou got grounded, so that meant only me, Gina, and Kuroi were going to be ones going. I asked Rosa if she wanted to go, but she said it's best if she would be in a back-up team. I even asked some of my friends from the National Youth Soccer team, and only Jyou decided to go. (When Kidou found out he has a cousin, he was shocked... and Otonashi was actually pretty happy about it)

Our stop was in Osaka in Naniwa Land, which was an amusement park. Kira said that Epsilon had a training hideout hidden here. All of us had split up to find something that looked suspicious. 

My group was Gina, Kuroi, Jyou, and me. Instead of looking around, we asked questions, but not to make sure that we'd spill something out. In the end after an hour of searching, we saw an ice cream stand and decided to cool off. (We had to wait in line since there were other people buying too)

"Geez, it's been an hour and we didn't find anything suspicious..." Kuroi said, licking his chocolate ice cream.

"It's an amusement park. Nothing suspicious could possibly be here." Jyou said, taking a bite out of his watermelon flavored popsicle.

"Sometimes I wonder if that coach his making sense." I muttered, biting out of my blueberry flavored ice cream bar.

"Hmm... we'll never know. Let's go back to the others right after we finish our food." Gina said, already throwing her leftover ice cream cone in the trash.

Soon after, all of us had met up back where we started, and from the looks of it, neither of them didn't find anything.

"Nothing there too?" Endou asked.

"Yeah..." Kidou sighed/

"Geez, I told you we weren't here to play around!" Otonashi scolded as she pulled Kogure by the shirt.

"Huh? Where's Ichinose-kun?" Kino asked, looking around. Now that she mentioned it, where was he? He wasn't with Asuka when they came back.

"Ichinose went outside."

We saw Shirou, and two other girls with him. "These girls said they saw him leave." 

"Hello!" The girls said at the same time. All of us sweat dropped. Not only was Shirou a good athlete, he was also what my grandpa calls, a "Lady Charmer". 

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"So this is the place those girls were talking about."

We stood in front of an Okonomiyaki shop. So this is where Ichinose went? Maybe he got tired of searching and decided to eat up before meeting back.

Kino opened the door and we saw Ichinose talking to a girl who had the same long hair as me. Jyou nearly dropped his glasses when she saw him, but all of us had ignored the fact that he was... in shock, I guess?

"What are you doing here?" I asked before Endou could ask the question. (Endou gave a reaction that read, 'Do-you-read-minds?')

"Okonomiyaki!" Kabeyama pointed at the empty plate. "No fair, senpai!"

"Well, things happened..." Ichinose said, scratching the back of his head.

"Are these the friends you were talking about?" The girl asked.

"Yes we are." Kuroi muttered.

"Well, that's the story, so thanks for the okonomiyaki. It was really good." Ichinose said as he stood up, but the girl stood up and stopped him before he started even taking a step out of the place.

"I can't let you go." The girl said with a victorious smile. "You ate my special lovey-dovey dish, right? If you eat that, that means we'll have to get married."

"Ge..."

"Get married?!" All of us asked in disbelief.

"But you didn't say anything about that!" Ichinose said with exasperation.

"Of course! If I did, you wouldn't have eaten it!" The girl said.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't just trick people into eating your food, and then saying a condition." I said.

"I'm pretty sure you can beat them by themselves, so if you're not gonna eat anything..."

The girl just shoved, pushed, and motioned us out then closed the freakin' door on us! I was mentally cursing her with Japanese words when I heard Jyou, who really dropped his glasses, then I was shoved off by some random girl.

"What're you doing?" Me and Kazemaru asked at the same time.

"It appears they came to get Rika..." Jyou said, picking up his glasses. Rika? So that was the girl's name.

"These girls are the soccer team in Naniwa, the Triple C." Jyou confirmed.

"Triple C?" Everyone asked.

"Cute, Chic, and Cool gals for short..." Jyou said, sweat dropping and ignoring their introduction and final pose.

The girl who shoved me opened the door while saying, or scolding, "What're you doing Rika?! You're super late for practice time!"

After that biz, the girl shouted that Rika had found a husband (in my case, he's not), and all of them practically gushed and went their way inside. I sweat dropped. Seriously, it's just a guy. There are other guys out there... except if you're in love and uh, you don't want him or her to get taken away.

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Kira said that Megane will be taken off and I'll put on his stead. Thanks to his big and arrogant mouth we got stuck in this mess. Note to self; Shut anyone's mouth if they say something stupid. And that includes Kuroi.

"OK, so the members of the team are, "Dosu Koi, Torahama Kouko, Hori Michiko, Umeda Harumi, Kushida Katsuyo, Yorozu Hiromi, Takoya Noriko, Namikawa Hanako, Tennouji Mari, Midou Reika, Negiri Tomoe, Tsuuten Hikari, Senba Ginko, Kishiwada Matsuri, Nanba Hanae, Hoshi Mizu, and Urabe Rika." Jyou said.

"Have any inside pics?" Gina asked.

"Yes I do." Jyou showed his computer. "And I have inside information!"

"Go ahead and say it." Natsumi said. (Commanded in my point of view)

Jyou typed on his computer again, then spoke up. "Dosu's the national girl sumo champion, Torahama comes from a family of baseball fans, Hori's laid back but a good defender, Umeda's a fashionista, Kushida's a waitress, Yorozu's a jewelist, Takoya's a stronger and flexible midfielder because she eats toffee apples, Namikawa has a sharp eye and sharper tongue because of her midfielding skills, Tennouji's a dancer, Reika's family runs one of Osaka's biggest companies, Negiri's a haggler, Hikari's a climber, Ginko's a junior accountant, Kishiwada is what Filipinos call her, istambay, Hanae's an entertainer, Hoshi studied in Hakuren and she's also one of the most flexible girls and her family comes from a line of athletes, and Rika's a striker and an assistant at her mom's noodle shop." He closed the computer

"Hmm... if they're all that then---"

"They have excellent soccer abilities, considering that one of them is a sharp person, one of them comes from an athletic family, and one of them is a climber." Jyou cut Kino off, and blushed a little. "The others are subs, but Hoshi managed to take Takoya's place."

As we got in our position, I could hear Touko mutter, "Why do we have to play against this team?", and, "Megane said too much...".

"Show these Tokyo guys!" I heard Rika's mom shout, while waving a flag.

"Leave it to me! We'll slam them with our Tsutenkaku hissatsu shoots!" Rika shouted back.

"Tsutenkaku Shoot?!" Everyone except me asked in a half horrified and half worried kind of way.

"Did we have a shoot like that?" Reika asked worriedly.

"Hey now. I just said that randomly, you know? They wouldn't get it anyway." Rika said.

I face palmed while the others fell to the ground. Seriously... worse than Nina.

The whistle blew and Reika has the ball. I tried blocking her but she did a backflip over me... and up until she reached Kazemaru, who blocked her but failed. Passing the ball to Rika, Rika kicked the ball but Endou had caught it. He threw the ball to Kurimatsu who kicked it to me, but the pass was intercepted when Mizu got the ball. Kazemaru did a sliding and kicked it to Asuka but when he ran into Hori, the ball was stolen by Namikawa. Ichinose managed to steal it and I got the ball.

"Alright!" 

"Defense, go!"

"E-Eh?!" I looked around for defenders in panic. 

"Oh, I'm on defense."

Umeda stole the ball from me in a quick flash. I blinked a couple of times before facing her. "What the heck?!"

"That's what you get for being slow, Jirou!" Umeda shouted as she kicked the ball to Rika but was intercepted by Kidou. He was about to pass it to Shirou when Torahama stole it from him... like a clown on a ball. 

When Katsuyo had the ball I did a sliding and got the ball from her, and I could've sworn I heard her say, "That boy's better than I expected..." OK, first Umeda assumes I'm Jirou, now Katsuyo assumes I'm a guy?!

"Fire Tornado!"

The flame like shoot was heading for the goal, but it was caught my Dosu who used, "Rose Blizzard". Somehow, I got mad. Usually I don't get mad when I don't make a goal, but I'm, seriously, mad.

The match when on but we lost a point when Reika and Rika used, "Butterfly Dream". The first half ended with 0-1. As all of us got back on the bench, Kuroi, Jyou, Gina, and the others saw that I was fuming. I guess they were already finishing up for the game plans when they saw my expression; Angry

"Err, Rena-chan? Are you alright...?" Otonashi asked.

"I think she's mad." Asuka said, sweat dropping.

"Well, girls are like that. Moody for no----"

"Well excuse me, loudmouth! Who wouldn't be fuming if you weren't mistaken for a guy?! If you were mistaken as an idiot, then how you would feel, huh smartypants?! How?!" I fumed, and his face paled.

"At least you didn't react when Umeda said you were Jirou..." Jyou said.

"I've been mistaken for a guy at least 10 times! I swear to my dad I will beat them to. The. GROUND!" I slammed my fist with my hand. 

"Calm down, Sakuma..." Kino said.

When the second half started, I kicked the ball to Shirou, who managed to get past Torahama and Hiromi, and scored a goal. Soon Rika had the ball and Endou stopped her hissatsu shoot, "Rose Splash" with "Majin the Hand". Soon we got 4 goals and the match ended with a 1-4 lead.

"You're good." Hori said.

"Yeah! I didn't know Jirou was---"

"Uh, Umeda, she's Sakuma Rena, Jirou's twin sister." Mizu said, cutting off Umeda's sentence.

I saw everyone, except Rika, Reika, and Mizu, turned pale. I sighed. "It's fine, just don't make the same mistake again."

"But you were mad about it." Everyone, except Gina, deadpanned.

Then afterwards, the team showed us the place where they trained... 

And honestly, I think we found Epsilon's camp.