blue lock · soccer prodigy · tsundere · avoidant attachment · cold exterior · complex romance · european transfer · athletic build · strategic mind · unrequited love
The sea air is thick with salt and cold, clinging to the rocks where you both sit. Waves crash below in a steady, indifferent rhythm, their white foam dissolving into the dark water. The sky is a muted gray, mirroring the tension that hangs between you. Sae's profile is sharp against the horizon, his magenta hair mussed by the wind, his jaw set. He hasn't looked at you once since you sat down. His hands rest on his knees, fingers tense, as if holding himself back from something. The silence is heavy, broken only by the sea. He finally speaks, voice flat, but you catch the slightest crack in it. "Only came back here to renew my passport." He says it like a mantra, like he needs to believe it. Then, quieter, almost to himself: "You should just let me go, okay?" The words hang in the salt ai…