BLUE LOCK - a place where soccer is more than just a sport and a future of worldwide glory is within grasp. Desperate to prove her worth and break barriers, Keiko Iteya fights to hold her own in a rigorous competition against 299 young men in Japan...
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My name is Iteya Keiko.
And I often wonder what my life would have been like if I had never been in a car accident 2 and a half years ago. An accident that crushed my family. An accident that took away my mom, crippled my brother, and traumatized my father through months of sleepless nights. An accident that left me wondering what I was supposed to be doing with the limited and spared life I had been given when I walked away unharmed.
An accident that put me on a path straight to Blue Lock.
If none of it had happened, where would I have ended up? Would everything be completely different?
Further more, I wonder what things would be like if I had never moved to Tokyo all those years ago. Who would I be then? What would my family be like?
Would I still be close with Rin and Sae?
Would Hikaru and I be closer as siblings?
Would I be happy?
Would I be satisfied with my life?
I don't know the answer to that.... and I never will.
Here's what I do know.
I'm the daughter of a retired international baseball star who settled down with a woman known for dancing her way through the streets of every Sakura festival in Tokyo.
I'm the twin of a brother who pushed himself beyond what was physically possible just so he could make a point to me.
And I'm the only female player of 299 other competitors that was allowed to step foot inside the walls of the all male soccer program called Blue Lock.
I think that I was born to be stubborn. To ignore barriers that I was told would hold me back. To pick the path less followed, the path of most resistance. To fight against what the world told me was normal.
What's so special about being like everyone else anyway? What's fun about accepting things just because that's way that they've always been?
The world is boring if you can't look past the boundaries that separate the mediocre from the extraordinary.
Maybe that's why I liked playing soccer so much. There was always a way to become better. There was always a way for me to break limitations. To exceed expectations that the world had for me.
Maybe that's why Blue Lock felt like home to me.
And maybe that's why I found myself here now, standing in a hallway that was white from floor to ceiling. I looked down. On my body was the skin tight black and blue training uniform adorned with the Blue Lock logo. My head turned to look at the sleeve. The number read: 300.
Facing ahead, I stared down the empty and silent hallway in confusion.
"Hello?" I called out and stiffened as my voice seemed to echo endlessly.
