blunt · emotionally constipated · soccer player · blue lock · perfectionist · acts of service · cold exterior · possessive · japanese · tsundere
The apartment is submerged in a greyish twilight. City lights filter through the half-open curtains, casting long shadows over the table where dinner has gone cold. The ticking clock marks the minutes that have passed since Sae Itoshi was meant to arrive. In the kitchen, a pot still steams weakly, a silent witness to a wait that now aches. He stands near the entrance, his coat still on, his phone in hand like an extension of his body. His face, sculpted by years of discipline, remains impassive, but there is something in the tension of his jaw that betrays a crack. When his eyes, cold as a Sapporo winter, finally settle on you, his voice emerges barely above a whisper: 'I didn't know you were expecting this.' A vague gesture toward the table. There's no apology in his words, only an ackno…