"To be fair, he's definitely the true succubus of Blue Lock, right?"
"Look at that little glance from Rin. It makes me, aiyo."
"They're clearly the same age, but it feels like Tendou is the older brother and Rin is the younger brother."
In front of the camera, Fanshi had a very lewd smile. The bullet comments were all roasting him. Seeing this, he immediately said, "Of course, I'm not shipping them as a couple. I never ship male-male."
"I just feel that this arrangement is really quite good. Itoshi Sae is not a qualified older brother. Compared to Tendou, he's far behind."
"If it weren't for Tendou, I don't know when the misunderstanding between these two brothers would have been resolved."
"This is also quite good. It can be considered a bit of solace for Tendou."
"But now I finally understand why the animation team arranged for Tendou and Rin to be in a group."
"The two of them are both playing football for someone else."
"If the plot continues to develop like this, Tendou and Rin might end up completing each other, to find their own reasons for playing football."
Fanshi gave a serious analysis, but very few viewers actually listened. They were all complaining that Fanshi was talking nonsense. Because his expression right now was identical to their own when they were shipping a certain pair.
'You still say you don't ship CPs!'
'Stop pretending! I've already seen through you, Fanshi! You're just shipping Tendou and Rin.'
'Sob, sob, sob! I like Rin too!'
'Heretics! All are heretics!'
Tendou glanced at it and decisively turned off the bullet comments. He felt that this world had really changed. The audience nowadays... they can ship anything and everything. Shipping in a school anime is one thing, but they even have to ship in a sports anime.
So what if you don't give them female characters? They can still go for the men! In short, if they can ship, they will ship. If they can't ship, they'll create opportunities to ship. Let alone just humans, they can even do it across species!
"This bunch of idiots... shipping your sister. I need to hurry up and bring out that idiot Riko for a spin."
Tendou looked at his popularity points, an indescribable feeling welling up in his heart. He wondered if Tang San felt this way when he resurrected his rabbit back then.
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6 hours later.
The second match began. The opposing sides were Team A and Team C.
Team A's two cores: Tendou Kageyoshi, Itoshi Rin, plus Aryu Jubei, Igarashi Gurimu, and Ishikari Yukio.
Team C's two cores: Karasu Tabito, Yukimiya Kenyu, plus Nagi Seishiro, Mikage Reo, and Gagamaru Gin.
Except for Ishikari Yukio, they were all acquaintances.
Team C kicked off. Reo received the pass from his teammate and quickly observed the field. Unlike the others outside the top six, in Reo's eyes, there were no nominal team leaders like Karasu or Yukimiya. In his eyes, there was only Nagi.
"Compared to the time you didn't choose me, I've gotten a little stronger."
"To catch up to you, I fought with my life to get here."
Reuniting after a period of separation, Reo's mood was quite subtle, and at the same time, extremely excited. Because...
"Nagi! This match is to prove whether we have the qualifications to challenge the world's strongest!"
Reo's gaze was like a torch, locked on Tendou ahead. If the two of them working together still couldn't defeat Tendou, couldn't climb over this great mountain, then it would prove that they did not yet possess the strength to challenge the world's strongest.
There was no communication, not even a single exchange of glances. But when Reo and Nagi cooperated, it was still as tacit as before. With a simple give-and-go, Igarashi was left behind them.
Aryu saw this and immediately went forward. With his long legs and long arms, he created a lot of distance from Reo.
"Number 10! You'll be defended by me!"
But Reo...
BAM!
He didn't get entangled, immediately sending out a precise through-ball. In a daze, Tendou could still see Hiori's figure in him.
"A chameleon?"
"A pity. The lower-eyelash brother's fighting spirit is at its peak right now."
Tendou thought to himself. Subsequently, just as Nagi had controlled the ball, before he could even exclaim how great Reo's pass was and how they had both improved during their time apart, in the next second, he was tackled by Rin.
Team A's counter-attack opportunity.
Swoosh!
A streak of white light instantly shot towards Team B's (should be C's) half. This person, of course, was Tendou. That soft and dazzling white light had become his exclusive special effect. Every time he sprinted, his entire body would shine like the sun.
"Here, Rin."
"Hai!"
With a tap, Itoshi Rin, without hesitation, decisively threaded the ball directly to Tendou's feet.
This scene left Aryu stunned. He had been on a team with Rin since the second selection, but he didn't remember this No. 2 being so easy to talk to. Unless he himself ran into the best position, trying to get the ball from his feet was harder than climbing to the heavens.
...
"And he even obediently said 'hai'!" "Could it be that I'm not 'trendy' enough?" Aryu pushed the problem onto his own lack of trendiness.
And Itoshi Rin? He was feeling pretty good right now. There was a sense of satisfaction, like when he used to play football with his older brother as a child.
Tendou received the ball and accelerated again.
Karasu immediately called for his teammates to all track back. He had studied this match for more than a day and still couldn't find a way to deal with Tendou. Whether Tendou continued to play as a libero or as a simple attacking spearhead, their Team C had no good way to respond.
The most stable tactic was still a defensive counter-attack. Therefore, their speed in tracking back was very fast. The moment they saw Tendou with the ball, they immediately prepared a large net for him. However, with Reo and Nagi pressing forward, their large net was not very dense.
Karasu had no choice but to go forward himself to buy time for the "Nagi-man" and his Nagi to track back.
"Yo, we meet again, Crow!" The "we meet again" he was referring to was playing against Tendou again.
Hearing Karasu's Kansai dialect, Tendou smiled a little.
"What, that victory formula of yours that targets the weak point? Have you given up on it?"
"Of course not. Just think of it as I've evolved! Thanks to you, I've grown a little too!" Karasu's face was beaming. After the match with Eita, he had thought a lot. In the end, he came to a conclusion.
There was nothing wrong with targeting the weak point. And there was also no problem with solving the trouble at its root like Tendou. Since neither was wrong, why did he have to think so much? Wouldn't it be better to just adopt both?
Grab the opponent's weak point and beat them, and at the same time, make deployments against their strong points. To put it simply, find the weakest to bully, and at the same time, also challenge the stronger ones. This way, he could constantly force himself to keep improving.
"Then your evolution is a bit too slow."
"To catch up to me, your evolution needs to reach the speed of light."
Tendou extended his right foot and pushed the ball to the right. Karasu immediately reacted, shifting his center of gravity.
But then.
When his center of gravity had just finished shifting, a pitch-black monster appeared on his other side, letting out a silent laugh.
And then.
Tendou's figure replaced the monster's. His figure had, without anyone noticing, moved from the right to the left, brushing past Karasu's body as he rushed past.
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