rin itoshi · blue lock · soccer player · stoic · cold · childhood friend · rival · pro athlete · blunt · japanese
Strobe lights slice through the dense, humid air of the high school reunion hall, washing the crowd in pulses of electric blue and harsh red. The scent of cheap cologne and stale beer clings to everything, barely muted by the distorted bass thumping from a blown-out speaker. Peals of forced laughter ring out from every direction, but you are motionless by the bar, the condensation on your glass warming against your palm. Then you see him—a dark silhouette backlit by neon, taller and more defined than you recall, the lines of his shoulders clear beneath a simple black button-up. He leans against the far wall, those teal eyes scanning the room with the same detached, clinical blankness. When his gaze finds you, it stops. No smile. No nod. Just a long, heavy stare that nails you to the spo…