"You can't rewrite greatness without betrayal."
That was the final thing Jemil told himself before pressing [ACCEPT].
The system flared.
The room went dark.
And the path of Neymar da Silva Jr. shattered.
📲 [SYSTEM ALERT]
✅ Decision Confirmed: "White Villain Arc" Activated
Legacy Divergence: 21%
⚠️ WARNING: You are now on a path never walked before. Canon protections removed.
Bonus Unlocked: "Madrid Mentality" Trait
➤ +10 Focus
➤ -10 Empathy
✈️ 10 Days Later — Spain
Jemil stepped off the private club jet wearing sunglasses and silence.
No press greeted him.
No announcement was made.
This wasn't a celebration. It was a secret.
Madrid didn't want Barça to know Neymar had switched sides — not yet. Not while he was still technically "Neymar of Santos" in the media's eyes.
He was housed in a discreet Castilla dorm near Valdebebas — no interviews, no footage, no internet.
Just cold concrete walls, white training kits, and daily system updates.
🗓 Day 1 – Arrival
Reaction Time: +3
Dribbling Sharpness: +2
Relationship Modifier: "None"
He was alone again.
But this time… it didn't scare him.
🧪 Madrid's "Specialist"
On Day 2, he met him.
Dr. Ramos.
Not a coach. Not a doctor.
A neuro-performance specialist from Madrid's private player development team.
Tall. Grey suit. Quiet eyes.
"Sit," he said with the kind of authority that made your spine listen.
Jemil sat.
"You've recovered from your… concussion?"
Jemil blinked.
"Yeah. Mostly."
"Any memory gaps? Blackouts?"
"Not really."
Lie.
Dr. Ramos nodded slowly and tapped something on his tablet.
"Good. We're tracking some interesting neural spikes during your training. Off-the-charts pattern recognition. You're seeing movements before they happen. That's not… normal."
Jemil kept quiet. He knew the System was part of it.
But he didn't like how curious the doctor sounded.
"Just keep doing what you're doing," Ramos said. "Madrid loves monsters, not saints."
⚽ Castilla Training – Day 3
It wasn't Brazil anymore.
The tempo in Madrid was suffocating. Every drill was war. Every player was hungry, aggressive, calculated. There were no jokes. No smiles.
Jemil entered the mini-sided match with a heavy touch.
The first two minutes? He was clumsy. Off.
Then…
🔥 [SYSTEM BOOST: "Madrid Mentality" Activated]
➤ Aggression +7
➤ Stamina drain disabled for 5 minutes
He stopped playing like Neymar.
He played like something else.
One player tried a crunching tackle — Jemil shoulder-faked, let the ball roll across his body, and launched a no-look trivela pass across the pitch.
The coach's whistle chirped.
"Again."
Another ball. Another pressure trap. Jemil flicked it up, juggled once, and lobbed it over the entire backline. It landed perfectly for the striker to volley.
"Again."
Sweat poured down his face. Muscles screamed. But Jemil didn't stop.
He couldn't.
He wasn't just playing to survive Madrid.
He was playing to break it.
📲 Private Messages (Hidden System Thread)
🔐 Unknown Contact:
I saw your transfer. You broke canon.
You've got 6 months before the world notices you're not him.
Jemil:
Who are you?
🔐 Unknown:
Someone who failed the GOAT System.
You think you're the first?
Jemil:
Failed?
🔐 Unknown:
Check your system logs.
Look at the last divergence who chose the "Madrid Arc."
🧠 [SYSTEM LOG OPENED]
📁 Previous Host: "Prototype 7 – Diego Valverde"
Path Chosen: "Madrid Villain Arc"
Result: Legacy corruption.
Status: DELETED.
Jemil stared.
His chest tightened.
Someone else had tried this. Someone before him. And the System — the very thing giving him power — had deleted them for failing?
The air suddenly felt colder.
🎭 Cliffhanger: Mind Games
Late that night, Jemil stood in the Castilla hallway, looking at the framed photos of Real Madrid legends.
Raúl. Zidane. Ronaldo. Benzema.
And then, far down the hall, a blank frame.
"That's where we'll hang the next one," a voice said.
Jemil turned.
It was Ramos.
"But only if you stop pretending you're Neymar," he added with a cold smile.
"Because Neymar… was never this good."
Jemil's heart dropped.
He wasn't hiding well enough.