I wouldn’t really call this teamwork in the traditional sense, as goals and dreams are a little different. Reo wants to make Nagi the best striker, while Nagi wants to be the Nagi Reo wants him to be. A shared dream, but different goals that align. To survive as a duo, they’re learning they have to grow on their own, which still aligns with the author’s philosophy about soccer, just on a smaller scale.
It’s definitely not the traditional teamwork, but rather a duo as you mentioned and that’s still a ‘problem’ in the bllk narrative of wanting a single striker to survive in the end. As Bacchira said it in the most recent chapter (298) by passing to Reo, Nagi basically dug his own grave because he couldn’t go through the evolution of ego most of them went through.
I won’t deny that them playing with each other contributes to said evolution (as we’ve seen with many others not just them) but that has been going on since they were first introduced and not much has changed since then; it’s mostly been NagiReo with some occasional falling offs and we’ve never seen their independent egos like with BacchiraIsagi for example, who are also a duo but heavy independent when it comes to their ego
Looks like it’s about to change with the recent chapter alright! Not sure abt the source but if the author did say that NagiReo will show an alternative philosophy, or counter Ego’s, then it’s possible they won’t develop like IsaBachi.
How long are they going to need realize that teamwork doesn’t fit in the blue lock vocabulary?? This is my biggest reason why I think that NagiReo won’t make it far; unless they give up on the whole duo idea they will just get - to put it in bllk terms - “devoured”