NIKE -Blue Lock-

Raw meat

"So, you two have already initiated some chemical reactions between yourselves in the past."

"And not only those." Shidou immediately responded, taking a bite of meat and completely disregarding the deadpan gaze from the midfielder.

Charles rolled his eyes, redirecting his attention to the figure with red hair sitting (he didn't know with what patience he sat there, perhaps they were both crazy) next to the guy with blond hair and pink streaks.

Nicole was slowly eating the peas on her plate, her gaze lost among the various green kernels while contemplating who knows what.

"Do you have a preference for fast games, Nicklaus?" Charles inquired, his curious midfielder nature highlighted by probing into others' preferences.

Nicole shrugged.

"Not really. I like the result, I don't care about the process," she affirmed, raising her gaze to Shidou when he placed a piece of meat in front of her mouth, babbling about it being his favorite and wanting her to taste it.

Nicole allowed herself to be fed, ignoring Charles's attentive gaze, unsure whether he should care or doubt the sexuality of the two.

"You like tartare?" the girl asked after chewing for a few seconds, her red eyes now on the blond guy. Before he could answer, she nodded a few times, probably in agreement with a thought she had just formulated.

"You're an animal; I'm not surprised you like raw meat."

And that was the moment for Charles to get up and leave.

"I'll see you two after the break." he declared before receiving a nod from the red-haired guy, and escaping the strange situation where he felt like a third wheel.

Shidou ignored the scene as if he had never even seen the French guy at their table, indicating with chopsticks the dish in front of him.

"Yukhoe. It's my favorite." he stated, grabbing another bite and slipping it between his lips, looking at the girl next to him who was still chewing what had been offered to her.

Nicole nodded, smiling slightly before shifting her gaze to her own plate.

"I bet it's also strays' favorite," she said, her clever comment not quite low enough to go unheard by the blond.

"I bet you like the stray ones." he replied, watching the girl smile playfully behind the back of her hand.

Her intense blood-red eyes met his bright pink ones. Shidou saw her nod, showing the previously amused smile now turned sensual and cunning.

"I like 'em wild."

The guy bit his tongue at her suggestive tone, his blood flow directed entirely to a lower region of his body, a clear sign of his excitement. He responded with an equally sexual smirk, his hungry gaze no longer for meat but for something only she could provide to satisfy him.

Unfortunately for him, for his enthusiasm and his erection, someone decided to intrude.

"Vinciguerra, we have to talk."

The red eyes lost their excitement, as did the pink ones, and both shifted toward the same point, meeting a pair of teal orbs that both he and she would have to consider familiar, given how similar they were to Sae's.

"Oh, look who's here. Family mistake-chan." Shidou's friendly and kind greeting was completely ignored, as challenging as it might be.

With those antennas on his head, Rin would have at least wanted to blind him.