Sunday, October 30, 2022
Gewiss Stadium, Bergamo
7:30 PM - Kickoff
The players lined up at the edge of the dugout while the stadium noise thickened around them like a physical presence, and Atalanta's home crowd was loud and confident with twenty-three thousand voices building toward that moment when the teams would emerge, and the atmosphere carried expectation rather than hope because this wasn't a match Atalanta expected to lose.
Demien stood in his position in the line while his hands adjusted his shirt once at the collar, and his eyes stayed forward without scanning the crowd or checking his teammates because his mind was locked entirely into what came next.
The system activated without warning.
Blue text materialized in his peripheral vision with that familiar clinical precision, and the panel appeared cleanly against his mental field of view.
「NEW MATCH MISSION」
「OBJECTIVE: Make Opponent DM (Bolu Marino) Feel Hopeless」
「REWARD: 100 SP」
「MISSION ACTIVE」
