Kei didn't blink.He couldn't.The entire stadium felt like it was frozen in time as the ball left his foot in an arc no one had ever seen before
It spun sideways without curving, dropped without slowing, and found space that logically shouldn't have been open
The defenders reacted late but not from hesitation.They simply couldn't calculate what didn't make sense
Even the coach watching from the bench stood up slowly as if unsure if this was real
Ren sprinted into the phantom gap like it was scripted and when the ball touched down he was already raising his foot to volley
Goal
But that wasn't the moment that shocked the crowd
It was what came after
Kei was already jogging back as if nothing happened as if that pass wasn't a glitch in football's code
"Did he...mean that?" Amano muttered eyes wide
"He didn't even look" Dazai whispered
But they all knew the answer
He did
Kei had used the defenders' reaction speed against them, delivering the ball to a place that only existed between frames of instinct and logic
Not in training
Not in tactics
In belief
The fans didn't cheer loudly
They stared
Trying to understand
Because the pass didn't just break rules
It rewrote one
The system analyst from the opposing team stared at the replay frame by frame and shook his head
"That play shouldn't exist"
But it did
And the boy who made it was already planning the next
The silence from the crowd didn't last long
It shattered into chaos as realization set in
The Ghost was real
And he wasn't done haunting them yet