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16. 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒 that rang from the door snapped Iris out of her daze, causing her to pause the show on the tv to stand.

She rubbed her eyes, stretching her limbs before tiredly making her way to the door, letting out a calm, "I'm coming!"

"The fuck?"

"huh?" Adonis said, his miscolored eyes meeting hers as he moves inside without a second thought, "oh I quit."

"You quit?" She repeated, following him inside after closing the door, "didn't they just announce the u-20 game?"

"The whole thing was exactly how I imagined, that's why I quit," Adonis answered, sitting down on the couch as he let out a sigh, "there wasn't anything to make fun."

Iris paused, noting that he'd completely ignored what she'd said about the u-20 game.

"The whole thing? As in Blue Lock?"

she sat next to her brother, resting her head on his shoulder, "Yes, it's just a bunch of high-school boys manipulated into devoting their lives to the sport."

She sat up. "Manipulated? If i'm not wrong, they're all there by choice, are they not?"

"It doesn't change what I said," He fired back.

"But for them to get a chance to become the u-20 team, does that not mean they've greatly improved?"

He didn't respond.

"So I'm right then? So I don't understand? I mean, Rin's there, right? He was the closest to you in skill, he must've improved."

Silence from Adonis, who continued to look into his lap.

"They're trash."

"huh?" An instinctive response to his words, almost like she couldn't believe what she heard, that she'd need to hear it again.

"Every pass, every shot, every goal, every step, I saw it. Every single thing that happened around me, it...it was all so pitiful."

Iris sat, her mouth closed, her eyes trained on her younger brother, listening to him talk.

"I saw it all, I felt it all. It was such a painful feeling, surrounded by such garbage."

He paused.

"They were like flies, flies I could flick away with such ease, such mediocrity. Insects that didn't deserve to stand on the pitch.

Sure, they improved, but to me, they're nothing. Their best, is incomparable to my worst. It was no fun, stomping on those ants with ease, ending their careers in Japan like im playing God."

His words were so pugnant, Iris could almost see the aura of negativity radiating off of him, she could see the dark colors swirling around him, his eyes penetrating through the dark cloud.

And for what felt like the first time, Iris understood her younger brother.

"Adonis," She interrupted him, watching his head raise up, his colored eyes meeting hers, silence following whilst a soft, sincere smile raised on her face.

"You reek of arrogance"

—

Those words stuck to Adonis, day by day, multiple passing, words that wouldn't leave him alone.

He didn't understand what she meant, He tried
multiple times, and had even looked it up, but to no avail

He knew the generalization, but he couldn't understand how he related to it, and he wanted to figure it out.