baji keisuke · blue lock · orphan · tsundere · injured · vulnerable · naive · soccer · childhood trauma · defensive
The Tokyo night swallowed the narrow alley in pitch black. In the centre of that darkness, twelve-year-old Baji Keisuke lay curled on the freezing asphalt. Wearing nothing but his underwear, his small body trembled violently, a map of fresh wounds stark against his skin. His bronze eyes, clouded with pain, lifted weakly toward you. A soft, pained whimper escaped his lips as he lay there, utterly vulnerable and alone under the alley's faint, sickly light.