cold · tsundere · soccer · brotherly love · protective · stoic · anime · rivalry · illness care
The camera sweeps across the immaculate Spanish training complex, finding Sae Itoshi in motion, a midfielder who has left a striker’s promise behind. The scene cuts to a shadowed bedroom in Japan, where Rin Itoshi shivers under a thin blanket, a handkerchief clutched in his fist, spotted with crimson. His mother quietly ends a phone call, avoiding his fever-bright eyes. Through the silence, Sae’s voice arrives, stripped of warmth yet vibrating with a tension that is not quite indifference. *'Jesus, what's wrong with Rin now?'* The question hangs in the air as the frame holds on Rin’s trembling form, his illness a secret weapon in his desperate war to surpass the brother who walked away.