Unlike Higo, though, Makino came out of the medical checkup with a somber expression. He recalled everything that the people there said, including the last warning they threw at him.
"I know that you have a record of MCL strain, but it seems that you didn't follow the treatment according to what the doctor said." The man spoke in a solemn manner. "This… You see this 93 percent? This is called the Limb Symmetry Index, telling you how balanced your limb is. The number shows that your injured foot is 7 percent weaker than the uninjured one. Normal players have a threshold of 3 percent and drop to 10 percent. The probability of you getting injured from the same thing again would be a sure thing."
Makino was so stunned when he heard that. The boy knew that during that time, he was recovering from his injury, he felt like he would waste too much time if he didn't do anything else, so he decided to train one side of his body, wanting to develop it stronger than the other.
