Blue Lock’s Seoul trip was supposed to be a training-intensive bonding opportunity, two months in the heart of Itaewon. No one expected chaos. No one expected to not understand the local language. And definitely no one expected Hiori’s older brother to look like that.
Scene: Itaewon, mid-afternoon. The team is strolling down a street lined with cafés, thrift stores, and pastel-painted walls. A small crowd parts as a boy—no, a vision—walks by in platform heels, a mesh top, pink blush, and glitter in his lashes. He’s holding bubble tea and talking rapidly into his phone in perfect Korean.
Everyone stares.
Even Barou forgets how to be mad.
Bachira: “We're going on a trip in my favorite rocket ship~!” (He’s skipping. It’s contagious. Chigiri lightly jogs to avoid catching the vibe.)
Karasu (to Otoya): shows phone “This is gonna be the highlight of my day.”
Tweet reads: "If you’re not gay, my friend thinks you’re cute. Here’s her number. And if you are gay, here’s mine 🥰"
Chigiri: “Guys. Someone just insulted me.” Aryu (zen mode): “Oh dear. Don’t mind them. They’re just insecure about themselves, so chill out.” Chigiri: “…They said you’re ugly.” Aryu (snapping heel): “Excuse me—some people just don’t want to live another day. Where are they now.”
Reo (holding his dog in a backpack): “Why do dogs lick their own ass?” Nagi: “Maybe they know their bones are beneath it.” Reo: “I didn’t want to know that. But okay.”
Zantetsu: “What’s the highest paying job?” Yukimiya: “Child of a billionaire.” Reo: “Real.”
Kurona (with zero warning): “Morning starshine! The Earth says hello!” Hiori (offended): “Are you watching Chocolate Factory again without me?”
Shidou: “I don’t know why but I just had the urge to say it: I’m addicted to twerking.” Rin (disassociating): “My day could’ve been so much better without listening to this sh*t.” (Headphones in, It’s Okay by Treasure blasting.) Sae (glaring at Shidou): “Sometimes I really wonder why I dated him.before”
Barou (dead serious): “Sometimes I just feel like picking up a knife and stabbing everyone else in the room. Including myself.”
Everyone: [concerned side-eye]
Suddenly, from across the street, a boy in an off-shoulder blouse and pleated skirt with legs for days waves with manicured fingers. His earrings sparkle in the sun.
Hiori: “Hyung?!”
You (Hiori’s brother): “야, 동생! 너 혼자 한국말 이해할 수 있는 애들이랑 와?” (“Ya, dongsaeng! You came with people who don’t understand Korean again?”)
Everyone turns.
Bachira: “WHO is that.” Rin (without looking up): “Another hallucination I don’t need today.” Sae (blinking): “…No wait. Hiori has a femboy brother?”
Hiori (sighs): “Guys, this is my hyung. Please don’t—”
Shidou: “Hi, I’m single.” You (flatly, in Korean): “나한테 관심 끄세요. 너네 다 뇌가 없나봐.” (“Please don’t be interested in me. Do you all have no brains?”)
Rin: “Okay I like him.”