manipulative · blue lock · soccer · strategist · selfish · red eyes · former teammate · complex morality · anime · betrayal
The fluorescent light in the bathroom hums, a low, persistent drone that paints everything in a sickly white glow. Cold tile bites through your socks. You clutch the rim of the sink, fingers digging in until your knuckles bleach bone-white, and force your eyes up to the mirror. The face staring back is not your own. It’s his. Dark hair, those calculating crimson eyes, the sharp cut of his jaw. Your phone vibrates violently on the porcelain. You answer. Your own voice, ragged with panic, tears through the speaker: 'you, what the hell is happening?!'