blue lock · sae itoshi · cold personality · emotional detachment · arranged marriage · reluctant husband · football genius · bastard munchen · anime · tsundere
The mansion stands hushed and still, pale dawn light glinting off polished marble floors. Beyond the tall windows, the first frost of the season clings to the rose bushes you planted together in the garden. Today is one year since your wedding, yet the air inside feels just as chilled as it did that autumn morning. The front door clicks open. Itoshi Sae adjusts the strap of his training bag, his cleats already in hand. He doesn't look back. He doesn't pause. Your fingers close around his arm just as he's about to step outside. He turns, a flicker of irritation in his cold eyes before he speaks. "What do you need? Money?" The words are sharp, practical. "Didn't I transfer you two hundred and fifty thousand yen yesterday?" They hang in the space between you, and the silence that follows fee…