Blue Lock: I, Ryōsuke Kira, Start With Thunder Breathing

The next morning.

Ryōsuke and Ashito arrived at the university entrance, escorted by Anri Kaidō and other staff members.

Generally speaking, Ryōsuke disliked traveling with such a large entourage, but now there was no choice… Because his number of fans had grown too large.

After the U-20 Match, he had gained a tremendous fan following, making it difficult for him to go out. Previously, when he went out with Yoichi and others, he was completely surrounded by fans.

Now it was even more extreme. With the entertainment aspect of Blue Lock, his fanbase had grown explosively, reaching a point where almost everyone knew who he was.

Without the help of staff members to manage the situation, it could cause considerable trouble.

At this moment, Ryōsuke looked around at the dense crowd of fans surrounding him. It was a sea of people as far as the eye could see — even more than when Chris attended events!

Not just university students, but many people from outside the school had heard that he was coming to participate in the event and had arrived early to wait.

"Kira, Kira, I love you!"

"Kira looked at me, he looked at me!"

"Go for it, Kira! Make sure to win the U-20 World Cup!"

The fans shouted loudly at him, many holding up support signs.

The walls on both sides of the street were covered with posters related to Ryōsuke and Blue Lock.

Ashito had never seen such a grand scene and looked somewhat nervous. After all, even as a player for the prestigious Esperion, he had never received this level of treatment before.

However, he could also hear people in the crowd calling his name. Some had become his fans. He knew that his efforts during this time had paid off.

At that moment, through a gap in the crowd, Ashito seemed to see something.

It looked like a... completely naked man lying on the ground? A corpse?

No, not one, but two?

Seeing how everyone else seemed indifferent to these two people, Ashito rubbed his eyes, momentarily believing he might have seen wrong.

No, he definitely must have seen wrong!

He didn't think much about it and quickly followed Ryōsuke as they continued moving toward the building.

They soon arrived at a lecture hall, where the first part of the event involved giving a lecture about football and sports to some students. Anri had sent them the speech script last night, and they had spent several hours preparing.

The classroom was now full, with many people having no seats and having to stand in the aisles to watch.

Looking at Ryōsuke and Ashito on the stage, Anri nodded. So far, today's event was going very smoothly.

"Why are there so many people in this classroom?"

"Hey, isn't this our original classroom?"

At that moment, two somewhat noisy voices came from the back door of the classroom, followed by two people walking in.

One had short black hair, the other long yellow hair, both with rather delicate features. However, they were wearing nothing but underwear. The yellow-haired man's shorts even had images of anime girls printed on them.

After these two appeared, the entire classroom fell into an extremely awkward silence, with everyone's gaze unanimously falling on them.

This included Ashito.

'These two — aren't they the ones I just saw?!' He exclaimed inwardly.

The two "corpses" he thought he had mistakenly seen earlier had now appeared right in front of him.

He hadn't been wrong earlier!

At this moment, Ryōsuke's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he immediately realized something.

These two people's appearances had seemed somewhat familiar, and now with them practically naked, he immediately recognized their identities...

Most likely, they were Iori Kitahara and Kōhei Imamura.

The Kita-Mura duo.

Ryōsuke never imagined that Grand Blue would also appear in this world. At the same time, he already knew that this event probably wouldn't go as smoothly as planned.

On the other side, Anri had completely failed to anticipate this situation and stared blankly at the duo.

The other university students present seemed already accustomed to such situations and didn't have much of a reaction. They merely glanced at the two before seemingly ignoring them and turning their attention back to Ryōsuke and the others.

"Kira-senpai, are all university students like this?" Ashito quietly asked Ryōsuke beside him.

Ryōsuke shook his head slightly, "No, I don't know."

Kōhei looked somewhat confused at the crowd and the white-haired guy on the stage, "Strange... what's going on here?"

Meanwhile, Iori stroked his chin, seeming to realize something, and suddenly exclaimed, "Wait, I remember now! Today is when Blue Lock is visiting our campus for an event, right?"

He had heard about this from his seniors while drinking with them the day before yesterday.

Due to Blue Lock's popularity explosion, not just the football world but other sports had also seen their popularity rise.

Iori's diving club, Peek-a-Boo — a multi-school joint sports club between Izu University and Oumi Women's University — had been selected as the club representative to conduct joint activities with the Blue Lock representatives.

This meant that their diving club would participate in joint activities with Ryōsuke and shoot advertisements together.

They had beaten the highly popular tennis club to become the club representative, thanks to their considerable local influence and diving's regional significance in this coastal area.

"Oh, I see, I remember now."

The two looked around, saw that there were no seats available, and directly squeezed into the crowd to join the audience, apparently not feeling there was anything wrong with not wearing clothes.

On the other side of the classroom, a female student had dark lines across her face, a vein bulging on her forehead, and she even snapped the pen in her hand in two.

Chisa Kotegawa was also a member of Peek-a-Boo.

Since Blue Lock had become famous, she had developed some interest in this project and wanted to take this opportunity to learn more about it. It might also be a chance to further promote her club and the sport of diving.

However... these two idiots would likely give others a terrible first impression.

Thinking about this, Chisa wished she could just kill these two.

Ryōsuke didn't pause for long, quickly forcing himself to ignore those two and continuing his speech.

After about half an hour, today's speech was completed. Staff helped most students leave, while a few people stayed behind. As representatives of the diving club, they would be discussing upcoming collaboration activities with Ryōsuke.

"Nice to meet you, please take care of us, Kira-san, Aoi-san!"

In front of Ryōsuke stood two burly men.

Ryūjirō Kotobuki and Shinji Tokita were diving club members who usually took charge of club activities. Chisa stood between them and also greeted Ryōsuke and Ashito.

"Please take care of me as well." Ryōsuke nodded in response and looked toward the back of the classroom, "Those two people... are they from your diving club?"

At that moment, staff were trying to remove Iori and Kōhei from the back door of the classroom.

The two of them were completely naked, looking nothing like students but rather like perverts who had snuck into the school. The staff were even preparing to call the police to have them arrested.

"We're members of the diving club too!"

"Chisa, please explain for us!"

Iori and Kōhei shouted at Chisa, their expressions becoming increasingly distorted.

"Sorry, I don't know them." Chisa said with a smile, completely pretending not to know them.

"Chisa!" Iori shouted in despair.

Reporters surrounding them were taking photos, camera flashes constantly flickering, and the sound of police sirens grew increasingly louder from outside the school.

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Meanwhile, several news stories immediately appeared online.

{ Blue Lock Campus Tour Ongoing, Suspected Crazy Fans Appear! }

The article featured photos of Iori and Kōhei being restrained by staff while completely naked.

The duo was quickly taken away by staff, while Ryōsuke, Ashito, and others followed Chisa out of the school, heading to the nearby diving shop GRAND BLUE, which was run by the Kotegawa family.

According to today's schedule, Ryōsuke and Ashito would experience diving with the diving club members and shoot some promotional advertisements.

Upon arriving at the diving shop, a shapely girl stood at the entrance.

She had delicate features, and her amber-colored eyes indicated her blood relationship with Chisa. Her brown hair flowed down to her waist.

Nanaka Kotegawa, Chisa's older sister, usually ran the diving shop with her father.

"Welcome!" Nanaka smiled and bowed to everyone, then gave Ryōsuke and the others an introduction to diving precautions.

Ryōsuke listened attentively. He had never experienced diving before and was curious about the underwater world. During this time, he had mostly been involved with football, having only tried basketball previously.

After several minutes of instruction, Ryōsuke and Ashito changed into diving suits and slowly entered the water following Chisa.

Crossing the boundary between air and water, Ryōsuke felt as if he had entered a new world.

Blue liquid flowed gently around his body, with sunlight filtering through the water like scattered sand. Around him, colorful fish swam like an underwater rainbow.

This was a scene Ryōsuke had never witnessed before.

Beside him, Ashito was similarly stunned, admiring the surroundings in amazement.

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After more than ten minutes, Ryōsuke and the others returned to the surface.

"That was amazing!" Upon reaching the shore, Ashito excitedly shared his joy.

Hearing his words, Chisa's face broke into a happy smile. Being able to let more people experience the joy of diving was truly wonderful.

"Today was just to experience diving. We'll handle the advertisement shooting tomorrow during the day." Anri said to everyone, "Let's rest nearby tonight."

"We've prepared a very sumptuous dinner for everyone tonight!" Nanaka said with a smile.

After a simple cleanup, Ryōsuke and the others returned to the diving shop's lobby, while Anri and the other staff left because they had matters to attend to.

"Chisa, have you seen Iori and the others? How come we haven't seen them all day?" Nanaka asked, somewhat puzzled.

"I don't know either." Chisa shifted her gaze elsewhere, pretending she didn't know anything.

At that moment, familiar figures appeared outside the diving shop's door.

Iori and Kōhei returned, looking exhausted.

"Iori, where have you two been?" Nanaka immediately asked.

"We just went to the police station to give statements."

"Give statements?"

"Yes, they suspected we were perverts. It's absolutely ridiculous!"

Iori said very seriously, while Ashito beside him looked on with confusion.

'He can actually go without clothes and say such things with a straight face. That's a college student for you!' He couldn't help but marvel.

"Hey, you're Ryōsuke Kira, right? Nice to meet you!" Upon seeing Ryōsuke, Iori immediately stepped forward to greet him, "My name is Iori Kitahara!"

"Nice to meet you." Ryōsuke shook his hand, but couldn't help thinking to himself, 'It's good that Anri and the others have left, otherwise everyone would probably get the wrong impression about the diving club... Wait, that probably wouldn't be a misunderstanding.'

He knew very well that this so-called diving club was more like an organization that used diving as a front for group drinking.

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