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Ego Yoichi is the son of Ego Jinpachi, but the young man did not like his father at all.
"Aren't you able to keep all your grades at 100? You're a useless"
"Why didn't you lead your team to win the soccer nationals, Yoichi?"
"Be a selfish striker, become the best striker in the world"
"Leave art and focus on your studies and football"
"Your drawings are horrible, you should stop, you are useless for this. No, you are useless, you are a shit"
It made me feel so bad, so worthless...
He tried to do what he could to make his father proud of him, but nothing seemed to make him happy.
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Ego had had a child with his childhood friend, Suzuki Fuyuka. However, months after the birth of her son, they have a bus accident in which they were traveling to return home. Fuyuka died in the accident, but Yoichi was able to survive.
Jinpachi was devastated with the loss of his wife, so much so that he tried to blame his son, but he couldn't, so he tried to move on with the child.
However, despite his attempts, he lost his patience and began to be very demanding with the boy.
At the age of 5, Yoichi began training that his father sent him. He didn't want to play soccer, but he also didn't want to be a disappointment to his father, so he accepted the coaching and did his best.
But his father was not satisfied, he said that he did not try hard enough, and that if he continued like this, he would not be able to achieve anything.
It was the same every day, training to satisfy his father despite the constant criticism.
Yoichi doesn't remember the last time his father hugged him, told him how much he loved him or that she enjoyed some happy moment with him. Since his mother's death 5 years ago, his father was more distant than he used to be before.
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Yoichi was 10 years old, and became a Japanese soccer prodigy.
He thought his father would be happy and proud of him, but no. He made a nasty comment.
"So? I don't care that you're a Japanese soccer prodigy, you're still a useless kid. It doesn't matter if people tell you that you're good, because you're not. Don't think or pay attention to those stupid titles" Ego said.
"Forgive me father" Yoichi apologized with his head down.
"Whatever, get out of my sight"
After that, the minor quickly returned to his room.
"Why? What did I do wrong? Why does dad treat me like this? I just want everything to be like before, for dad to tell me how much he loves me, for us to enjoy moments together. Was it my fault that mom is dead?" "Maybe dad was right, that's why he hates me. I want my father to be the same as Ayato's father, to love me, to give me affection. Why can't my life be like that?" He sobbed Yoichi in his bed, he really missed his father's affection.
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"Ego, you should stop" Noel Noa spoke, who apparently had heard the entire conversation from before.
"Stop what?"
"Don't play dumb, you obviously know what I mean. Yoichi doesn't deserve that, it's not his fault for Fuyuka's death, you shouldn't blame him. You shouldn't force him to fulfill all your dreams either, he's not your puppet The Frenchman said seriously.
"Ah? Yeah, I know it wasn't that brat's fault that Yuka died, but my heart can't accept it, I need to blame someone…" Jinpachi spoke.
"No, Jin, you can't do that. You can't be like that with your son and create insecurities in him just to get over Fuyuka's death. You should go to the psychiatrist" the other recommended.
"Shut up Noa, you don't know anything" he said as he looked seriously at the French.
"Jin, if you're going to continue like this, I'm leaving. I'm not here to see you act in this immature way" Noa got fed up.
"Immature? Ha! Especially me, bastard. You don't understand me at all and you're 'advising' me, huh? Yoichi is nothing more than a mere useless" The Japanese's voice became weaker as he spoke.
The Frenchman completely ignored everything his friend said, and before leaving, he gave him a few last words.
"One piece of advice, if you want to have a good relationship with your son, apologize to him, start treating him well and tell him how much you love him. Goodbye, I hope that the next time we meet, you have changed"
After that, he left.
"Shit" The Japanese commented.
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Yoichi had lost, he had failed to win the match against the Itoshi brothers, he had failed.
He was worried about how his father would react.
As soon as he got to his house, he saw his father sitting at the dining room table.
"Yoichi" His father spoke.
Yoichi simply lowered his head in response, he was unable to meet his father's eyes.
"Not that you were the Japanese soccer prodigy? How the hell did you let those brothers beat you? See? You're just a useless weakling" Jinpachi scolded
The minor no longer wanted to be there, he wanted to go back to his room and paint.
"Don't think there aren't going to be consequences for losing, brat. I threw all your art crap in the trash, there's none of that in your room now." Boom, the man dropped
"W-what...?" Yoichi wanted to cry, because he knew that his father was telling him the truth, that he had thrown everything away for sure.
Yoichi couldn't take it anymore, art was his only escape from that cruel world, and now he can't escape the world of art. All because his father destroyed everything. From his childhood to his world, yes, art for Yoichi was his world, the only one in which he was not criticized by anyone, where he could be free to express himself.
"Ugh, I'm going to end up getting angrier if I keep seeing you, but I need to make a lot of things clear to you"
The man had been scolding and criticizing Yoichi for an hour and a half non-stop.
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It was half past seven in the evening, Yoichi quickly left home as soon as he finished the talk, since he couldn't escape his world. So he ended up going to a park, where he went to a corner where no one would see him and cried.
"Nii-chan! There's someone crying!" He told his older brother a boy.
"Hmm?" The boy's older brother approached.
Those two children saw Yoichi crying and approached him.
"Hey what's wrong?" asked the eldest of the brothers.
"N-nothing..." Yoichi stammered.
"Don't lie! It's obvious you're not well!"
"Rin, shut up for a moment" The older scolded his brother.
"Sorry..."
Yoichi looked at both of them, they were the Itoshi brothers. The people who had beaten him today.
"Look, I don't know what's wrong with you, but I still remember you, you're the number 11 of the team we're playing with today, right? I'm Itoshi Sae, from the team that beat you. Join us and come play soccer with us" Sae offered.
"But... I don't like soccer" Damn, he was crying, two guys approach him and invite him to play soccer to her face, what the fuck?
"But you're very good at playing! We almost lost!" The boy named Rin said.
"Yeah, but-" he couldn't finish speaking when the older Itoshi dragged him off to play.
"Shut up and come play"
The three of them were playing until the two brothers had to return home. Yoichi is not going to lie, it is the first time that he enjoys that sport so much. Perhaps these two brothers could become his new escape.
"See you tomorrow!" Rin said goodbye happily.
"Yeah... That's if I can get out of that place..." Yoichi sighed with his head looking at the ground.
When he returned home, his father did not say anything to him. So he just showered, ate something and went back to his room.
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Time passed, Ego stopped talking to his son about him, and he also stopped caring what he did.
Every day the young man went to the park to play soccer with the Itoshis, only at those times did he come to enjoy the sport.
"Yocchan, next week I'm going to Spain, they invited me to Real Madrid to be an apprentice" The older Itoshi reported sadly.
"Really? Congratulations Sae! Happy for you" Yoichi congratulated with a sweet smile.
"Yocchan, aren't you sad? I'm leaving, and I don't know when I'll be back" Sae asked.
"Yeah, I know, but Sae, you can fulfill your dream, you shouldn't be sad, it doesn't matter that we're apart, we can always call each other, right?" answered the other.
"Hmm, as positive as always. Who expected that the boy who was crying in a park would become my best friend" Sae commented as he looked at the sea.
"Ah? But you made me play soccer with you and you didn't even ask me the name idiot" Yoichi complained, but he was, Sae considered him his best friend.
"Well, sorry" The redhead apologized with a beautiful smile.
They both remained silent, looking at the sea while holding hands.
"Yoichi, take care of Rin, please. And when I come back, I'll assure you that I'll be a great player" Sae suddenly spoke.
"Sure, I'll take care of Rin, and I hope you achieve your goal. While you achieve yours, I'll also strive to be a great striker" Yoichi said.
After that, they both hugged each other and said goodbye.
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As soon as he returned home, his father yelled at him.
"Yoichi! Idiot! How did you let your grades drop?! Do you think it's normal to get a 92 in maths?!" Ego yelled.
"Dad..." Damn, and he thought that his father wasn't going to yell at him anymore.
"Don't call me Dad! You're not my son, you're just a stupid kid who never had to be born! You can't do anything right, ugh" Said the father.
"What?" Yoichi couldn't take it anymore, he wanted to let go of everything, and he did.
"Now you're deaf?!"
"Shut up now, I'm sick of this! Why don't you stop demanding so much of me?! I just want your love, for you to tell me how much you love me, not for you to demand all this shit from me and put your fucking expectations and dreams in me! No I'm your puppet, I'm your son! Why?! You're always ruining my life, creating insecurities in me. You knew I loved art, that it was my only way to escape this damn place, and you destroyed it... You destroyed the only thing that I loved it! It's not fair, it's not fair, nothing you do to me is fair! You're just a bastard who can't get over mom's death!" Yes, he finally managed to release all the accumulated thoughts of him, finally he was able to release everything.
"Yoichi... Don't raise your voice at me, I'm your-"
"Father?! When did you act like one?!" After that, Yoichi quickly went to his room, he didn't want any more.
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Ego realized that he never had to treat his son in such a way, he could have followed Noa's advice and none of this would have ended like this, but he was stupid and didn't listen to her. And as a result, he made his son hate him and want nothing to do with him.
Perhaps, he should let Yoichi get away from him for a while, he planned to send him to live with Noa, and since he happened to be in Japan, he would simply take him to his hotel and later they would go to Germany, so that his son could start a new life, away from his father.
He entered Yoichi's room and told him that they were leaving, that he was going to be able to have a new life, away from him.
He struggled to get her into the car, but it was done.
"What the fuck do you want?! Now you want to abandon me? What the hell" Yoichi yelled, since he didn't understand at all what that man was doing.
"Yoichi, shut up and that's it, I already told you everything" the man ordered.
"Shut up? Damn, now you're going to leave me with your friend-"
"SHUT UP ALREADY-" he couldn't finish the sentence when a car crashed into them.
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Apparently a man was escaping from the police, so he was driving recklessly, and it ended up being a fatal accident.
Jinpachi just received a small injury, unlike his son, who was in a coma for a week.
However, when he woke up, he had lost his memory, he didn't remember anything at all.
Ego thought it was time to leave him, he decided to leave Yoichi in an orphanage in Saitama, so that his son would be free. And he prayed that his son would not remember him and everything he did, so that she would be happy.
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In a park, there was a boy sitting on a bench with a soccer ball, waiting for someone.
"You are Itoshi Rin, aren't you?" Ego asked the boy.
"Yes, it's me, what do you need?" asked the boy
"I am Yoichi's father, he is dead, he passed away in an accident" After saying that, he quickly left.
"What?! Wait!" Rin tried to chase after the adult, but he was already gone.
Yoichi-nii died...?
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Years later, Yoichi was adopted by the Isagi family, a family where they showed his son how much they loved him and let the boy be free and enjoy art and soccer.
Ego Yoichi, the Japanese soccer prodigy "died" allegedly, according to the news.
But no one knew, well yes, a person, who was actually alive, with the new name of him living in Saitama studying at Ichinan High School, Isagi Yoichi.
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Yoichi and his team were playing to qualify for the soccer nationals, yes, he ended up loving soccer, something he used to hate.
Although Yoichi didn't like the team's motto, "All for one, one for all". He doesn't know why, but he never liked that.
They lost that match, however Yoichi didn't feel anything for their defeat, he simply thought that it was the fault of that motto that was the reason why they lost.
When he got home, he had received an invitation from the JFA to participate in a project called Blue lock. The boy agreed to participate in that project, thinking that this way he could achieve his dream, to be the best striker in the world.
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Ego was nervous, Yoichi had accepted the invitation, he doesn't know if he would be able to look at that boy after everything he did, or if he remembered everything.
But apparently not, he did not remember anything. What did seem, is that he still kept the philosophy that he instilled in him when he was still younger.
He was happy, to see Yoichi happy after all, even though he didn't remember anything.
The one who wasn't happy was Rin, they had lied to him, Yoichi-nii never died, but he didn't remember him. When he went to ask Ego for an explanation, the man told him the whole truth. And Rin was unable to accept it.
After that, he decided to call the other Itoshi to tell him everything too, and the reaction was the same as his brother's, they were unable to accept it, that Yoichi, the person they loved so much, forgot them.
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Yoichi was very loved by everyone in Blue Lock, according to Ego, they had all become Isagi's dogs. But how not to fall in love? Isagi was the sweetest and kindest person in the entire facility, you could always rely on him.
Ego knew that all those hormonal teenagers had fallen in love with Yoichi, and the only thing he asked was that they not hurt Yoichi, he wouldn't bear to see him suffer anymore.
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After the match against the under-20s, Isagi celebrated the victory with his teammates.
Ego, after so many years, saw his son enjoying a victory and finally being loved, that left him alone. Although a part of him was breaking into pieces, since Yoichi didn't remember him, but he supposed that this was his punishment.
"Yoichi! Look! Try this shake, it's great!" Said Bachira
"Yoichi-nii, don't listen to that bee and let's go watch a movie together" Rin interrupted.
"Isagi! Ignore those two and let's go to my house!" Shidou shouted with a smile.
"Don't be a pervert, demon. Yoichi, come with me, I'll help you practice soccer, so Luna doesn't insult you anymore" Sae offered.
"Don't mind any of that, Yoichi, come with me and Nagi to go shopping and do whatever you want! I pay for everything!" Reo suggested.
Yoichi, seeing that scene, laughed happily, for some reason, he always wanted this, to be free and enjoy with his friends, but he didn't know why.