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You eagerly watched as the clock ticked down on your tablet, the progress of each player labeled with their icons. Noa didn't talk as you both got into position, and you shifted your tablet for him to see. A giant "TRAINING START!" flashed across the top of the screen before you noticed the players taking off.

Narrowing in on the statistics, you noticed Kunigami Rensuke was holding his own against Kaiser. "His stats are insane compared to his old stats." You commented off-handedly to which Noa just simply grunted.

You looked through the names, your eye catching on Blue Lock's number two, Isagi Yoichi. As the players began completing the first zone, you silently cheered upon seeing that Erik and Grim were doing so well.

A small sigh left your lips as you saw the Wild Card keeping up with Bastard München members, causing worry to eat away at your mind. "Calm yourself." Noa's voice made you freeze and send him a small glance with a nod before looking back at the tablet.

Kind of intimidating still...

The tablet flagged unnatural movement, and you clicked on it to see it pulling up a camera with the sight of Kaiser blocking someone else's shot. Your brows furrowed in pure annoyance as you looked at Noa for instructions, wanting to go down there and punch the Blue Rose in his throat for that asshole move.

Noa said nothing as he continued watching, forcing you to turn back to the tablet nervously. You saw Ness interrupting to begin handing out the special earbuds you had given to be able to understand the others. Erik and Grim started to interact with the others, and you so wished that you could hear the conversation.

You watched wearily as Kaiser grabbed the face of someone you couldn't fully see, and Noa finally began to head down from your shared position. Swiftly, you followed after him while keeping track of the situation on your tablet.

"...Yoichi is a foolish clown, who thought he was the protagonist until now. Nice to meet you, Blue Lock. Blossom and fall, for my sake." Kaiser dramatically said, causing Ness to giggle and you to roll your eyes as you approached.

"Stop, Kaiser." Not interrupted beside you, stopping not too far from the group, and you followed his actions. You readjusted the tablet, moving off the camera and turning your eyes officially to the group. "And quit it with that habit of acting like you're superior. It's childish."

Kaiser turned to you both innocently, sending you a sly wink to which you gave him a disgusted glare. "Sorry, Noa, I thought it'd get them hyped up." You knew he wasn't sorry in the slightest, especially as his eyes shifted to take in your deadpanned expression. Kaiser could apologize for whatever he wanted, and he would never truly be sorry.

"Don't talk back to me. I make the rules." Noa's gaze hardened at Kaiser, and you internally cheered at him getting in trouble.

"Sure sure."

"For now, the first training is over." Noa began addressing everyone rather than just the tattooed male, and you began distracting yourself by going over the player statistics as you half-listened to him. "You must have noticed by now, but this room is meant to gauge your physical abilities. Bastard München's philosophy is 'super-rationality.'

"I do not take invisible things like impressions or emotions into consideration. Only those who hold the proper 'numbers' to win will be chosen as regular players. I'll take the data from the results of the training and from your matches for all twenty-one players here. Those who make it to the top eleven will be used in matches."

You pressed a few buttons on the tablet and a list of the players ranging from first to twenty-first showed up behind you for the players to see. Glancing at Noa, you fully tuned in now that you couldn't look over statistics, and you frowned at seeing the fact that it counts as Isagi didn't clear despite Kaiser interrupting the goal.

"Bastard München is a team that wins with logic." Noa stood with his hand on his hip, looking out at the people around your age.

"Goddamn...everyone in the low ranks is from Blue Lock?" You finally took a look at the players, seeing that the one who spoke had sharp teeth and had an aggressive furrow in his brow.

"Those German guys are strong." This one had button-like eyes with white hair that kind of looked like an owl.

"Shit...we might not even get a chance to play in matches." This one was a male who was truly gorgeous with black hair and tinted glasses.

"What? I'm in twelfth?" Igor Schneider stared at the list, and you snickered, tempted to tease him, but holding back due to being in front of everyone.

"Eh?" This one had wide black eyes and black to white hair that was tied up.

"Someone ranked in..." Bald with ugly eyebrows.

You glanced at the list again yourself, spotting the Wild Card Kunigami in the third spot. Ness brought a hand to his chin as everyone stared at the blank-faced male. "Oh dear. That's unexpected." The Magician hummed, and a wicked grin spread across Kaiser's face at the sight of the nerves radiating off Blue Lock's players.

"Everyone is dismissed." Noa stated and began walking away from the groups of players, leaving them to do as they wish.

Curiously, you turned back to the group as the Bastard München boys chatted with each other on their way out of the training room. You cleared your throat, asking for those from Blue Lock to hang back. Nine of them shared glances with each other and lined up, the tenth not even bothering with the others as he stood at the end of the line.

"As Ego briefly mentioned, I'm your new manager. I haven't fully put names to faces yet, but I'm interested in getting to know you all." You smiled brightly at them, studying each of their faces. Your eyes snagged on the male in the middle next to a shorter, pink-haired male.

"You're a certified hottie." The bald one with ugly eyebrows from before spoke, and your smile dropped immediately, wishing you could smack him in the face.

A disgusted glare settled on your features as your grip on the tablet tightened, thinking about the fact that he might manage to be worse than Kaiser at this point. "Anyway," you turned away to not have to look at him and forced your friendly demeanor back for the rest of the guys. "If you guys need anything or want to chat, you can come to me. If I'm unavailable or cannot get you a requested item, please go to Noa."

The pretty one in the middle with blue eyes that Kaiser was being shitty to earlier raised his hand a bit. "Do the other teams have managers? Or is it only us?"

"Only Bastard München! I was brought over by Ego; although, I was not fully informed as to why." You answered, trailing your eyes over each of his gorgeous features before your attention was stolen by Kunigami walking away. Your lips pursed at the sight, and you looked back at the group, deciding to let them run free. "You guys are officially dismissed, so go eat, choose your rooms, shower, stuff like that."

The pink-haired male with a small bit of it braided moved up to you as soon as the others stared leaving. "Hi hi!" He greeted, and you noticed his teeth were like little shark teeth in a way. "I'm Kurona Ranze."

You took the hand that the adorable male stuck out, giving it a firm shake as you felt like you'd already bonded with him as you restated your name. Following behind the others, you two stuck close and chatted quietly.

Interestingly enough, Kurona was actually never talkative and was introverted, making you wonder why he initiated the conversation first. He also had this adorable habit to repeat himself, which you avoided bringing up in case he was self-conscious about it or anything.

"My favorite movie is Guardians of the Galaxy, Galaxy." He seemed eager to talk about his favorite movie as you guys sat down at a table in the cafeteria after grabbing some food. Just as you were about to prompt him to continue, the most of the rest of Blue Lock sat down around you.

The gorgeous guy with glasses had taken the spot to your left and the pretty boy had taken the one to your right. A cyan haired boy sat across from pretty boy, officially filling out the end of the table as others filled in on either side of the others.

"Can you all remind me your names again?" You asked, giving Kurona a smile that said you would ask him about his favorite movie later.

"Ah, I'm Isagi Yoichi." Pretty boy responded first, and you took in the seemingly innocent look on his face. A light blush tinted his cheeks pink as he made eye contact with you and smiled.

Humming softly, you looked at the boy across from him. "Hiori Yo." He introduced, taking a few bites of his food with a small smile. He also looked innocent, but you were getting a feeling that these boys had nasty personalities on the field.

You turned your eyes to the male on your other side. "My name is Yukimiya Kenyu." Nodding, you put the names to your memory to try and remember them as you picked up your fork to begin eating your requested dinner.

"(Y/n)!" Kaiser called, approaching you from behind. His hands rested on your shoulders, which you immediately brushed off with a curl of your lip. "Why are you sitting with these clowns?"

Sighing heavily, you looked back at the cocky striker grinning down at you. "Because I want to get to know them." All eyes around you watched the interaction, and you grimaced, shifting your gaze to see most of Bastard München watching.

Erik didn't look like he wanted to help you in this situation, causing you to frown deeper as a pang of hurt stabbed your chest. They must really not like these boys. You turned around, facing your food again as you debated on what to do.

"Why not just let them sit where they want to?" Isagi spoke next to you, and your eyes darted to the pretty boy, who gave you a smile in return. You were about to smile back and agree with him, but you supposed the world had a different plan in mind for you.

Kaiser's grin turned wicked, grabbing you from your seat and pulling you away from them as Ness grabbed your food. "You're sitting with me." He demanded, and your cheeks lit up with an angry heat. You glared up at him as you were forced next to Theo, who gave you a sympathetic look. "Ness." He snapped his fingers, and your food was in front of you before the Magician started readily pampering him.

Theo leaned in next to you as Erik switched with Schneider to sit across from you. "You okay?" The former of your buddies asked, and you simply nodded, feeling a bit upset that Mr. Control Freak wouldn't let you get to know the Blue Lock players.

You landed a light kick to Erik's shin beneath the table, and he sighed, leaning in over his food. "I'm sorry, but they're smegma." He huffed lightly, running a hand through his hair as Theo patted your shoulder comfortingly.

"I always forget what that word means." You grumbled, eating your food while ignoring Kaiser being a drama queen next to you.

Theo responded before Erik could, removing his hand in favor of eating. "In slang, it's essentially calling someone 'worthless.'" You gave a harmless glare at the boy sitting across from you.

"I'll bust your kneecaps." The threat was harmless, and the other two just laughed. Whatever tension that was there before had begun to lighten as you were put into a better mood after Kaiser's bullshit. You were glad about that, but you made a mental note to talk to the others later and apologize since you wanted and needed to get to know them and their personalities.

You certainly had your top interests of the players, mainly being the four you had been dragged away from. It would most likely also be nice to have a change overall, and you wet sure you'd want some of the friendliness they seemed to offer before the matches officially began.

Tuning out Theo and Erik, you thought about the matches, growing tense as you tried to imagine how they would go. Kaiser definitely seemed to have something against Isagi, which you knew would disrupt the usual feel of Bastard München and how they played. You threw a small side glare at Kaiser and Ness before forcing yourself to tune back into the conversation going on around you.

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