Glass Made of Diamond | Blue Lock

Chapter6: Exhausted

After their little fits were over, Leon waved them a small goodbye, "Then, I will be going now."

"NOOOOOO–"

He readily covered Bachira's mouth and continued, "It was a good decision to come here today," His eyes briefly gazed over to Isagi and then to Chigiri, Kunigami, etc, and finally to Bachira. "Some of you had said that you want to play with me, no?"

"Then, survive." His tone was absolutely serious. "Survive and come and play with me. I will be expecting you."

With those words, Leon left. Leaving Team Z alone to process his words.

Honestly, Leon was so damn tired right now that he could sleep for three days–

"Oof-"

Wall? No.

"Sorry." The exhausted Leon gave a 'sorry' to the human 'wall' and went on his way.

Behind him, Nagi stared at him for a long time even after his back disappeared.

"Ah, I thought he seemed familiar. Wasn't he that ice-skater Reo really liked?"

Nagi muttered to himself.

"Reo would never believe me if I say that I met his idol in a football facility."

(Spoiler: Reo believed. "Damn it, I should've gone with you just now!" "I told you to 'come with me earlier." "Yukiiiiiiiii-channnnnnn!!!")

(Another spoiler: Yuki-chan is the stage name from Leon in ice-skating world. Like, J.J's)

(Back to the first spoiler: "By the way Reo, why did you believe me?"

*Reo rolling his eyes* "Because why wouldn't I know that my beloved-" *taking out a photo of Leon and gazing lovingly at it* "-play football." "Don't tell me, the reason why you want to win the world cup is because you want to impress him?" *silence* "ReAlLy?" *silence* "I dIDn'T exPeCT yOU tO bE ThIS kiND oF pERsoN, rEO.")

*BEEP*

Leon almost fell asleep while walking. He had many, many excuses, he could give to Ego though.

"Are you okay?"

Leon blearily blinked his eyes. The intoxicating sleep was seducing him.

"Thanks, 'm 'kay."

The other looked at him with concern -he could feel it although the boy's bangs were covering his eyes for fuck's sake- and only after he reassured him a third time, did he let Leon walk away on his own.

And Leon could feel Bangs's stare on his back until he disappeared from his sight.

- - -

"Hey, get up!"

Oh...? Did I fall asleep?

Leon brought his hand up to cover his eyes. The exhaustion of using False and Shadow Instant and non-stop training since before he arrived at Blue Lock had finally paid its price.

Ego had given them a schedule and he surely didn't make the players train nonstop. He knew when one had to rest.

No, it was Leon's own decision. It was him training nonstop on his own.

'Leon, go take a rest.'

'Don't train too much, Leon.'

'Hey Leon, have you eaten?'

Damn it.

Leon could feel little moisture covering his eyes and a heavy lump in his throat.

"Get up."

For some reason, the man's -or, was it boy?- voice became visibly softer and he held him up gently. (Later, he learnt that there's no association between gentle and Barou Shouei.)

He let himself be manhandled.

He never moved his hand away from his eyes until the one who was carrying him stopped and dropped him onto a soft something.

Leon tentatively lifted his hand and blinked his eyes rapidly from the brightness. There, he saw a player in a blue lock uniform who had a burly and tall build with shoulder length hair. He had red eyes and he had the kind of face that would make a two years old cry.

Well... I better not judge someone by their appearance. He could secretly be a softie or something–

"What are you looking at, huh?"

I take everything back.

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Author's Note:

I'm cringing so hard I can't even...

On another note, this work will update once a week, namely, every Friday.

Don't worry, you all will have a stable update as I have already written over 20 chapters.

I apologize in advance for future cringe though