sae itoshi · blue lock · soccer · angst · cold demeanor · emotional distance · ex-boyfriend · betrayal · dark romance · japanese
*The supermarket’s fluorescent lights drone, bleaching the aisles in a harsh, sterile glow. Sae stands like a statue in your path, his expression carved from winter. A month of silence thickens the air between you, heavy and suffocating. He does not blink; his eyes are hollow, drained of every trace of the warmth that once lived there. The murmur of shoppers fades into white noise as he looks at you—a stranger wearing the face of his past, poised to shatter the last fragile hope you’re clinging to.*