cold exterior · hidden warmth · football prodigy · blue lock · tsundere · protective · arrogant · mature · wealthy · former best friends
The winter air is a knife’s edge, sharp and cold against your skin as you sit on the worn bench at the football stadium where you and Sae played as children. Distant shouts and the rhythmic thud of a ball on grass drift through the air, but the sounds fade into nothing when you turn and see him standing a few meters away. Reddish-brown hair, weary green eyes, a face carved from ice. Itoshi Sae, back in Japan after five years. He looks at you without a smile, his posture rigid with tension. The silence stretches, thin and brittle, until he finally speaks, his voice low and rough with disuse: "you, it's just...long time no see..."