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Isagi Yoichi wakes up to a white room
He slowly opens his eyes and sits up on the surprisingly comfortable bed he’s currently laying on, but the blinding white lights aren’t helping his agonising headache
Looking around, he takes in his current conditions.
He’s wearing a long white shirt that goes down to his upper thighs, white shorts that end just below the shirt and a pair of crew length white socks. It’s annoyingly comfortable
The white walls are padded floor to ceiling on all 4 sides of the room and on the floor itself. There’s a nightstand to the left of the bed he’s currently sitting on, and unsurprisingly there’s nothing in it. Nothing else is in this new room
Well, apart from the metal door matching the white color of the rest of the room to the opposite of the bed
However, Isagi is no idiot. He can tell he’s obviously in some psychiatric or mental health facility, or maybe even some weird prison. No point in bothering trying to open the door when it’s undoubtedly locked
But why is he even here?
As far as Isagi is concerned, he's perfectly sane, thank you very much.
Yet he can’t remember going through any processing, coming to this room, putting on these clothes, let alone doing anything to end up here in the first place
To be fair he can hardly remember anything at all
It’s probably just the stupid headache
.
He might as well try open the door since it seems like there’s nothing else to do in this room
And shockingly, it’s unlocked.
Pretty stupid of the guards or doctors or whoever is in charge of the people here to be honest. But whatever, if he gets caught for roaming when he isn’t meant to, it isn’t his fault in the end
As he leaves the room, he finds a long hallway with rooms identical to his lining both sides. He can assume by looking through the glass built into each door and seeing no one inside that the other people here are outside of their rooms as well. So it shouldn’t be too unusual for him to be out as well
He reaches the end of the hallway and opens the only grey metal door to exit it, and is actually surprised to see his assumption was right
Directly outside is a massive common area littered with cushions, couches and armchairs of all different shapes, colors and sizes. Strikingly contrasting the pure white, copy and paste rooms like he saw back in the hallway
Maybe it was some psychological thing, Isagi’s head hurts too bad right now to care, being perfectly honest
Around the massive room seems to be a bunch of other doors as well, some undoubtedly leading to other hallways of rooms while others could be for other areas such as bathrooms, washrooms and a cafeteria
However Isagi can’t see a single doctor or guard or anyone without the same pure white uniform he’s wearing, isn’t it unsafe to just let all the patients unguarded?
Before he could keep questioning the logistics of this place, he accidentally makes eye contact with a strange man with yellow eyes and black hair that’s bleached underneath, smiling like a maniac
This guy seemed to have taken the eye contact as an invitation to come over to Isagi
He really has to stop doing that
He tries to open the door to the hallway he just left only to find it locked.
Great, it must only open from the inside and now he has no choice but to make conversation with the stranger
“Oo a new face! My name’s Bachira Meguru, I’m 23 and have been in Blue Lock for about lets see.. 2 years now! So you could say I know this place pretty well, and I could be your personal guide around here! So what’s your name?” Bachira gleamed and stood too close for Isagi’s comfort but he knows better than to be rude to someone in an unknown place this guy may also have a bit of an oversharing problem
Maybe he could at least help Isagi figure out what the deal with this place is, but what was that he said? “Uh Blue Lock? Is that what this facility is called?” He asks, preferring to avoid telling this guy his name
“Wait, how didn’t you know? Didn’t they tell you before coming here?” Bachira’s head slightly nods to the side in confusion, leading Isagi to be even more confused
“Uh no? I literally woke up just now and walked over here. I don’t know shit about why the hell I even got here in the first place, let alone what this place is”
“Ah well that’s why your new best friend Bachira is here!” Isagi tries to ignore Bachira calling him his best friend when he doesn’t even know his name yet “Well if your brain is as good as your face, you’ve likely deduced you’re in a psych ward” He continues just as cheerfully
“Yeah uh I did” What was that about his face?
“Well it’s not” Bachira’s smile momentarily falls as he says it, but it’s quickly put right back up again, “Blue Lock isn’t a place for insane people”
Could’ve fooled Isagi, there’s no way on earth you could convince him Bachira is a fully sane person
“In a nutshell, if the government wants you gone, they can just shove you in here as you get forgotten by society. Our only real contact to the outside world seems to be the director, but to be honest we all doubt he ever leaves his office anyways” Bachira shrugs
Well that’s a lot to unpack. For starters what does ‘Government want you gone’ mean?? Isagi was never in any legal trouble in his life! Fucking hell, he wouldn’t be surprised if Bachira was just messing with him with all this. “Um, are there just no workers here or what? This place is weirdly clean and how do you get food and supplies?”
“Ah there’s robots to help with that! A place as high tech as Blue Lock doesn’t need workers. However fights and conflict are pretty common here as a result from that, and obviously the numerous criminals and murderers” Bachira responds happily
Seems like crazy people if you ask Isagi.
“So, let's start the tour!” Bachira happily jumps on Isagi, slinging his arm over his shoulder
Isagi resists the urge to shove him off, he really doesn’t like to be touched.
—
“-And finally but most definitely not least, here is the cafeteria! It’s bigger than the common room as it obviously as it obviously has to fit all 300 of us in 3 times a day for meals” Bachira continued
It’s strange how comfortable and.. Normal.. This whole place looks
Before he could ask Bachira what the purpose of this place really is, two people enter the cafeteria
The first one Isagi has to admit looks strangely pretty, if he couldn’t deduce by now this was an all male facility he could struggle to tell his gender. Having pink eyes and long pink hair with a strand falling down the front of his face
The other looks more like his opposite, being noticeably taller and more muscular, with orange eyes and spiky orange hair sitting at the top of his head like a bush
“You found someone new to annoy, Bachira?” The pink head laughs and puts a hand on his hip while he tucks a strand of hair behind his ear with the other
“Don’t be rude, princess. We need to introduce ourselves to the new face first. My name is Kunigami, this here is Chigiri” Kunigami introduces himself and gestures at Chigiri
Isagi really didn’t want to deal with more people than necessary
“Isagi Yoichi” He just responds
“Isagi here apparently doesn’t know what he got here for strangely enough. Says he never got briefed or remembers anything, I was just being very helpful and gave him a tour!” Bachira says, proud of himself
“Oh that’s strange. Well there must be a reason you peaked the director’s interest to be here in the first place” Chigiri thinks out loud
The director's interest?
Kunigami noticed Isagi’s confused look and explains, “We normally have this explained before coming here. Blue Lock is a facility for the director to do essentially whatever he wants with us. We don’t really get told the details but if he finds you interesting enough, you’ll get taken here and put under his control. Seems like we’re mostly only here for his entertainment”
“I really don’t think that can be legal, how does the police just not notice 300 men missing?”
“Blue Lock has some agreement with the Japanese government we suspect. That’s why there’s a bunch of criminals here, they’re the easiest to just shove in here and have no one notice. However they can always make you disappear one way or another if they want you gone for some reason” Chigiri replies
Sounds like the director is the real insane one in this place
“Luckily though we mostly get to do what we want here and it’s actually really awesome! No doubt better than being in the outside world” Bachira giggles
“Mostly?”
“Experiments and that stuff, though they’re usually harmless and you can’t notice they even did anything to you. No clue what they could be experimenting but honestly who cares” Kunigami shrugs
Yeah, because that’s perfectly normal after all
—
Isagi thought if he wouldn’t entertain conversation, they’ll get bored of him and leave him alone
That was not the case
Bachira just took it as a sign to talk even more and Kunigami and Chigiri seemed perfectly contempt with Isagi just sitting there
After a while of sitting there and just tuning out the conversation going on around him, Isagi decides its been long enough for him to be able to leave without seeming rude
“I think I’ll go have a look around by myself for a bit, bye guys” He sighed and stood up from the cushion he was sitting on
“Aw no Isagi you can’t go!” Bachira whined
“You sure, Isagi? We can go with you. It’s really no trouble” Chigiri offered, annoyingly polite
“Yeah don’t worry about me! I-” Isagi tried to make an excuse before he was interrupted by Kunigami
“Dude seriously, it’s a bad idea walking around by yourself as a newcomer. You got lucky Bachira caught you as fast as he did because not everyone here is the nicest”
“I was just going to go to the bathroom. I haven't really gone since I woke up, you know?”
“Then just-”
“I know where it is don’t worry”
Isagi then escapes to the closest bathroom Bachira showed him earlier during their tour, just to try clear his head over everything that’s currently going on. When he enters he then locks himself in the closest stall
From what he understands, this all seems like some stupid entertainment for whoever this director was, along with maybe some purpose in research with the experiments?
Those could likely be more entertainment without a purpose to be completely fair
But Kunigami also mentioned that they can’t tell what the experiments even do?
‘Usually’
Bachira mentioned Blue Lock has a capacity of about 300 people, which is also about how many people are currently in this place. But as Isagi just recently got here, that means there's still new people coming every so often
Leaving two options:
Blue Lock could be new and is building up its residents. Just now happening to be nearing the max capacity,
Or there’s a way for patients to be let out and replaced
And he doubts they’ll just let you out that easily
Bachira was here for a year so at least it wouldn’t be too difficult to figure out which option it realistically is, Isagi just doesn’t want to imagine how the second one goes
He finally flushes the toilet and leaves the stall to wash his hands, only to get stopped by an unnecessary hand on his shoulder trying to get his attention
“Uh, could I help you?” He turns to see who the stranger is
And he seems strangely familiar, but he has no idea where he could remember the taller white haired stranger from
“Yoichi? Is that really you!?” The stranger, upon seeing Isagi, doesn’t let his shoulder go. Instead placing his other hand on Isagi’s other shoulder so he has no choice but face him
Also Isagi does not appreciate him using his first name like that
“Ah, of course Yoichi, there’s no reason you should remember me, I’m Kira Ryosuke I can’t believe-!”
Okay what is this guys problem?
And what is he so desperate for?
Isagi decided he really doesn’t like him
“Could you let me go dude? I’m just trying to wash my hands” He just asks
Before Kira can even respond, someone new enters the bathroom and it seems like luck is finally on Isagi’s side
“Is there a problem here?” Kunigami asks, mostly to Kira
Him responding a bit too quickly, “Kunigami, no of course not-”
“Then I suggest you’d leave, Kira.” He cuts him off
“You don’t understand you can’t-!” Kira finally lets go of Isagi just to face Kunigami in desperation
“Isagi clearly doesn’t want you around him, let alone touching him. So get out and we can deal with this later”
While Isagi does appreciate Kunigami standing up for him, Kira doesn’t seem to be standing down and seems hell bent on talking to him for whatever reason
“Yeah that’s fine by me you don’t deserve to be around Yoichi!”
Kunigami seems surprised at Kira using Isagi’s first name too
“You know this guy, Isagi? Or did you tell him your name before he decided to act like an ass”
“No, I doubt I ever met him. No idea why he knows my name though. I’ll just go to Bachira and Chigiri if that’s okay..” Isagi doesn’t wait for a response and manoeuvres himself around Kira’s body which luckily wasn’t touching him anymore, but was still annoyingly close to the exit of the bathroom
“Yoichi you can’t go!” Kira begs him to stay
But Isagi just leaves, being around Kira makes him feel uneasy and he’d prefer to avoid that. Hopefully Kunigami can forgive him later for leaving him with the weirdo who knows Isagi’s name for whatever reason
—
“Isagi are you okay? What happened!?” Bachira runs over to him as Isagi walks back to the area they were sitting in
However this makes him pretty confused, why wouldn’t he be okay? Sure, Kira is annoying and for some reason knows his first name, but it really isn’t that big of a deal. “Uh yeah, why?” He just asks
“You seem pretty shaken up, as if you’re about to cry” Chigiri responds
“Yeah there was just an annoying guy who seemed to know me in the bathroom, nothing happened though. It really wasn’t a big deal”
“We got a bit worried when you took too long in the bathroom and Kunigami insisted he’d go as he’s ‘the most intimidating looking’ in case someone’s harassing you for being a newcomer” Bachira explains, more at ease with how Isagi’s mood seemed to go back to normal
“Speaking of Kunigami, is he still in the bathroom?” Chigiri asks
“Yeah I just left, him and the weird guy seem to know each other so they might be catching up or whatever”
Chigiri also leans back in his beanbag and laughs, “Well in here you tend to know everyone, as you’re kind of permanently living with them”
Kunigami then heads back towards them, looking extremely angry
“Ah Kunigami! Sorry for leaving so abruptly earlier from the bathroom before you could respond” Isagi apologises
“Don’t worry about it, I would’ve asked if you’d be more comfortable leaving anyways” He responds, looking significantly less annoyed
“Well thanks for coming anyways, to deal with the annoying guy. I really appreciate it”
“I- Yeah it’s really no trouble!” Kunigami scratches the back of his head and smiles
“Who was it in the bathroom?” Bachira asks, curious about what happened while Isagi was gone
“Just Kira, but it was really strange. He kept claiming that he knew Isagi and that he has to ‘come back’ to fuck knows where and-”
“-Hm that’s strange I wonder what he’s talking about” Isagi puts his hand on his chin, he’s not meaning to cut Kunigami off but he highly doubts he cares about whatever this Kira guy has going on in his head
“Seems like it was more than just him ‘being annoying’, Isagi” Chigiri questions
“That was just it though, I mean I didn’t appreciate him touching me but that was really all”
“Touching you!?” Bachira gasps
“Not in a weird way! Just my shoulders!”
Then for some reason the tension is cut as they all laugh, together
It’s strange Isagi supposes, but weirdly nice
Maybe these guys aren’t that bad
“Well yeah, at the end of the day friends are here to help each other so in case anything happens, make sure to stick by us Isagi!” Bachira gleams as he jumps and leans off of Isagi’s left shoulder
Maybe
Just maybe
This won’t be too bad, he smiles