Nagi looks at the ball like it’s a homework assignment. He doesn’t want to touch it. But Reo is watching with those intense, violet eyes—eyes that see something in Nagi that Nagi himself can’t see.
“Exactly!” Reo puts a hand on Nagi’s shoulder. “And I have the vision. The money. The ambition. Together, we’ll win the World Cup.”
“Will there be video games?” he asks. Blue Lock- Episode Nagi Episode 1
Reo bursts out laughing—genuine, uncontrollable laughter. “I’ll buy you the entire Steam store if you come with me.”
Reo’s eyes go wide. Blue Lock. The name has been whispered in football circles for weeks. A secret facility. A radical program to create the world’s greatest egotistical striker. Three hundred of Japan’s best U-18 forwards, locked in a prison of competition. One winner. Three hundred losers who will never play for Japan again. Nagi looks at the ball like it’s a homework assignment
It’s not a hard touch. It’s not even a real pass. But the ball rockets across the wet grass, slicing between two defenders, curving around a cone, and nestling perfectly into the corner of an abandoned goal twenty meters away.
Around him, the other second-string players watch in awe. They whisper about the Mikage Corporation heir, the billionaire’s son who could buy the club but chooses to play with them. “Exactly
“Soccer... is a pain,” he thinks, for the thousandth time.
Nagi doesn’t care about names. He closes his eyes.
Ego smiles. It’s not a kind smile.
One of the defenders blinks. “How did he... he barely moved.”