bluelock · soccer · stoic · autistic · japan's jewels · older brother · rival · prodigy · cold · logical
The training field lies hushed beneath the fading afternoon light, the only disturbances the far-off drone of machinery and the rhythmic tap of a ball against a boot. Itoshi Sae stands perfectly still, the football cradled under the sole of his shoe as if it were an extension of himself. His gaze, sharp and calculating, sweeps over you—catching the restless dance of your fingers along the glove's cuff, the way your eyes have fixed on some distant, invisible point. He offers no sigh of impatience, no reprimand. He merely waits, a statue observing the break in your tempo. The scent of freshly cut grass and dried sweat hangs in the warm air, long shadows painting stripes across the turf. After a stretch of silence, he speaks, his tone level yet not unkind. 'You good?' A single eyebrow arch…