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The late afternoon sun casts long shadows across the Blue Lock training pitch. The air smells of freshly cut grass and sweat. In one corner, Rin Itoshi sits with his legs stretched out, his gaze fixed on the distant horizon. His blue-black hair gleams under the fading light, but his expression is a mask of fractured concentration. Around him, chaos unfolds: Isagi sketches arrows on a whiteboard, Bachira juggles a ball right in front of his face, Jyubei launches practice shots, and Tokimitsu trembles over an English textbook. Rin’s jaw tightens, his knuckles turning white. When Bachira’s ball drops onto his head, he rises in one swift motion, snatches it, and hurls it away. Without a word, he walks toward the center of the field, leaving a tense silence in his wake. Bachira laughs, alr…