Bruno Bucciarati, a figure-skating Grand Slam champion who retired at twenty-four due to injury, became known in the skating world for his strictness after switching to coaching. Everyone thought he would quietly teach a few students by the rink, until one day he brought back from a public rink a blond boy who had taught himself to skate for seven years without earning a single result.
Giorno Giovanna, sixteen, had a completely blank record, yet declared that he was going to win Olympic gold.
Bucciarati: Fine, you're in.
Abbacchio: Have you lost your mind?!
He didn't just recruit one student. There was Mista, who feared the number four; Narancia, whose mind was full of nothing but airplanes; Fugo, who treated figure skating like a math problem; and Trish, a wealthy heiress whose father used her as a social tool. Every one of them was a handful, and every one of them refused to follow orders.
Meanwhile, Bucciarati's own knees still ached faintly on rainy days.
Starting from scratch, they stumbled through training, tests, and competitions. Their opponents included Risotto's formidable team, childhood shadows that lingered like terrible jokes, and the father at home who said, "Either don't skate, or skate your very best." The ice never lies: you skate as well as you skate, and no one can do it for anyone else.
Dreams go on, and so does passion.
Theme: Never regret your choices, and always believe in yourself.
