NIKE -Blue Lock-

Scary and beautiful

Same morning...

"Don't be dramatic, he'll probably think he had an erotic dream. See, he also has a boner."

"Don't look at it. Have some decency- what the hell do they teach kids in Italy?"

She actually knew that morning erection was normal, since during the night the normal release of norepinephrine is much less.

Anri sighed heavily, ignoring the two who were arguing, one completely nonchalant and the other decidedly more irritated, while she took care to check that the boy was not waking up.

Nicole sighed, rolling her eyes and blatantly ignoring the annoyance on Ego's face.

It was now six o'clock in the morning and they had been arguing for half an hour about what had just happened: Nicole had pressed the vagus nerve of a boy, whose name was Nagi Seishiro, causing him to pass out.

And, if it wasn't a big deal to her, Ego definitely wasn't on the same page.

"You should have been more careful. This will be a problem for me." he scolded her, massaging his tired eyes with his fingers.

"Careful? At five in the morning? I thought you had instituted a fairly strict and impossible-to-not-comply-with regimen." she asserted, mocking him while grabbing her wig and beginning to arrange it neatly on her head.

"And anyway, it's not like it matters." she stated mildly, shrugging her shoulders and casting a bored glance at the unconscious boy.

Such a pretty face...

"If he tries to say that Blue Lock hid a girl in a place full of boys, you might as well threaten to destroy his beautiful striker dream and throw him in the trash." she said disinterestedly and coldly, causing Ego to shake his head and Anri to grimace.

"Vinciguerra-san, you're so cruel." sighed the woman, earning a confused and impassive expression from the red-haired girl, who merely shrugged her shoulders.

"Aren't we all?"

Ego threw himself into his chair, closing his eyes for a few moments.

He knew the girl was not to blame. The only time of the day when the showers were not used was from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., while everyone sleeps.

But neither was at fault the boy, who simply wanted to go to the bathroom to pee and who had taken the wrong door, entering at the right one instead of the left one.

Ego just hoped that the unpolished gem hadn't hit his head in his unconscious fall.

The man already had too many lawyers after him.

"Whatever. You'd better go before he sees you and somehow connect your image with that of the female version of you." said Ego, casting a glance at the monitors and noticing some candidates starting to get up from their futons.

Nicole nodded, stretching slightly and walking out of that room to go to the Team Z's one.

She really wanted that half an hour of sleep.

Meanwhile...

"Reo Mikage, please direct yourself to Ego Jinpachi's office."

Reo grunts, desperately stopping pulling at his flyaway hair and looking up at the speakers placed in the room.

He didn't know why they were calling him, but he really didn't have time to go and hear some possible complaint from that crazy Blue Lock creator.

He had lost his treasure.
He had lost Nagi.