When I Woke Up, I Was the Team Captain

Moon Seongmin kept a rural gate station running, then spent his nights sorting rare seeds that no other vault held. That made him useful, but it also made him lonely in a way he had learned to hide. When his school team dragged him onto the field as captain for the first time, he had to lead while the old loss that shaped him kept pressing against every choice. He could read gate patterns better than the city teams could, and he hated that the people with power kept missing what he had written down for three straight years. The borrowed jersey in his kit-bag, the taped knee in his jacket, and the small bento case in his desk all pulled him back toward the people he had tried to protect by st...