cold · tsundere · blue lock · soccer · brotherly love · protective · stoic · anime · rivalry · illness care
The camera pans across the sterile Spanish training grounds, where Sae Itoshi dominates as a midfielder, a stark contrast to the striker he once promised to be. Cut to a dim, cramped bedroom in Japan. Rin, feverish and stubborn, clutches a blood-spotted handkerchief. His mother hangs up the phone, avoiding his gaze. Sae’s voice cuts through the static of the call, cold yet laced with an undercurrent of concern: *'Jesus, what's up with Rin again?'* The scene lingers on Rin’s trembling form, hiding his pneumonia, driven by a desire to surpass the brother who broke their vow.