Chapter 144 – Going to the Competition.

The two weeks passed by in a flash.

‘Kim Hee-kyung Chicken’ was doing well enough to be envied by local chicken shops.
People went crazy over the unique menu called Crispy Chicken.

In addition, there was an article in the newspaper the day after Kim Hyun-sam visited, and there were quite a few mentions of Crispy Chicken and our restaurant, as if it was worthwhile to pass the envelope.

It was plastered with favorable articles saying that Kim Hyun-sam, who visited and cheered for such a wonderful chicken restaurant, had an excellent eye.

Of course, with the title of chicken restaurant that Kim Hyun-sam paid attention to, people flocked to the restaurant, saying they came because they were curious about the taste of chicken.

And people who tasted the chicken were amazed at the taste, and there were people who asked for the secret recipe and people who wanted to allow them to do business.

Suddenly, as these consultations increased, Aunt Jeong-hee and Aunt Hyo-seon became insanely busy.

But what really hit the jackpot was something else.
It was Kyungmi’s poster.

Even though there were not many posters of Kyungmi in the neighborhood, the smiling face of Kyungmi in the posters was so pretty that more people came to the store to ask for posters, and some even took off the posters pasted on the street.

Normally, Kyungmi was not a standout student at school, but was just a pretty model student who was good at studying.

In addition, as Kim Hyeon-sam’s attendance at the opening ceremony drew attention, Kyung-mi also drew attention, and she quickly became a celebrity.

People who were not normally close to her have pretended to know her, and even said that there were male students who waited for her in front of her school and delivered her letters and gifts.

Today, as soon as school was over, I came to my house and chatted with my mother, and when Kyung-mi talked about the boys who gave her presents, I got jealous for no reason, and I was worried that there might be a problem with strange guys chasing after me.

“Hey. Kyungmi Kim. In the future, when school is over, don’t count anywhere else, go straight home. Understand?”

When I spoke bluntly, it was the lovely Kyung-mi who giggled and said that I was happy because I was jealous.

Seeing me like that, my mother put on a puzzled expression and said, ‘Don’t worry about Kyeong-mi, take care of yourself.’ She teased me as well.

Well, my nose is three right now.
Now, on next Monday, the Seoul National Sports Festival selection competition will be held.

So, for the past two weeks, I took care of only the busy work and left most of the work to Mrs. Junghee and Auntie Hyoseon and devoted myself to exercising.

When the two aunties heard that I was going to the National Sports Festival, they worked even harder to avoid worrying about work.

As a result, it was clear that Auntie Jeong-hee and Mr. Jeong-hee had a bad face last time, but I haven’t been able to properly ask them until now.

The day after the opening ceremony, Auntie Jeong-hee smiled and kissed me as usual.

A few days later, I thought about it and asked Aunt Jeong-hee in passing, but Aunt Jeong-hee said it was nothing, and she laughed and shook her head, saying it was okay, so I thought I should ask after the game, so I didn’t think it was a big deal.

I didn’t think I was going to lose after going to the preliminary round, but I wasn’t without anxiety.

So, I worked out harder than other times, and the director paid attention to the final hardening.

The coach personally gave me a mitt, and I prepared for sparring by doing two matches a day.

Fortunately, several people participated in the selection round at the gym, so we were able to exercise in a good atmosphere while cheering each other on.

Everyone knew my skills, so they dared to spar with me even though I knew I would lose, and I didn’t look at them at all and beat them up as best I could.

Even the director didn’t stop people from sparring with me.
It was because sticking with a strong person and enduring it gave me the confidence that I could try it when I met a weaker opponent.

Instead, the director ordered me to be a little gentler, but I had the same idea as the director, so I tried my best to endure it.

After dealing with me every day for two weeks, people’s skills improved remarkably.

The director said that the atmosphere was good and liked it, and the people themselves were also happy that their skills had improved, and everyone said thank you to me.

It’s Saturday.
The competition will be held for 5 days starting next Monday.

Today, I went to the gym of a physical education university where the contest was held because I had to weigh in before the contest.

Led by the director, we moved by van with the gymnasts selected for each weight class.

Despite skipping breakfast and arriving early in the morning, there were a huge number of people preparing for the weigh-in.

Even though they were only weighing in today, everyone was nervously waiting for their turn with nervous faces.

Surprisingly, there were quite a few women.
I wasn’t too nervous, so I was leisurely watching the girls.

But among those women, I noticed a woman who was looking around with her head constantly turning this way and that.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the woman looking around.
She was the pretty Suyeong noona who was looking for me.

As I continued to look at Sooyoung-noona while smiling, only then did Sooyoung-noona meet her eyes and smiled broadly, waving both her hands above her head and making her jump up and down.

“Sister. Don’t run Then you’ll hurt your ankle again.”

I approached my sister and talked to her, and she was laughing that she was hesitating.

Sooyoung noona, smiling broadly, was by far the prettiest to the point of shining here.

People stared at me as the tall guy approached the women.

When I approached Sooyoung-noona and gently held her cheek, Sooyoung-noona grabbed my arm and shook it while chatting away with her.

I stroked the pure and cute noona Sooyoung’s hair as she was so fond of her, saying that I missed her.

“By the way, where is the manager? I need to say hello.”
“Dad couldn’t come today because he had something else to do. Instead, Yunsu oppa drove a car and brought us.”

My older sister Suyeong took me to a slim person in her early twenties who looked to be around her mid 170’s near her, and she introduced me.

Seeing as this is the first person I’ve seen, it didn’t seem like the people from Hansol Gym came to our gym last time for sparring.

“Hello, this is Seongjin Lee.”

We shook hands and greeted each other, but strangely, I didn’t like the way a person named Yunsu looked at me.

And they usually ask about the level of weight when you greet like this, but Yunsu just said hello and didn’t say anything.

I was embarrassed for nothing, so I didn’t talk to the person named Yunsu anymore and immediately turned my head to Sooyoung noona.

However, the sight of a person named Yoon-soo hanging on my arm and constantly glancing at Su-yeong noona who was acting cute seemed to me to be right.

A person named Yoon-soo likes Soo-young noona, but suddenly a guy named Lee Seong-jin, whom he has never heard of or seen anywhere, appears and Soo-yeong noona treats her friendly and acts cute.

Suyeong-noona boasted to me that Yoon-soo was the best boxer at Hansol Gymnasium and that she was a promising candidate for the Olympics.

In fact, a person named Yun Su was one of the most prominent players in the Korean amateur boxing world recently.

He had won first place in several national competitions in a row, and was one of the players the boxing federation expected to win a gold medal in next year’s Olympics.

I was only pretending to listen to Suyeong-noona’s words at the narrow-minded behavior of a frowning Yunsu.

A person named Yunsu lifted her chin as high as she could when Sooyoung noona complimented her on herself, as if she was in a good mood, and smiled as she looked at her sister Sooyoung.

However, I didn’t notice the childlike behavior of a person named Yunsu at all.

The person named Yoon-soo said I was showing a cold reaction to Soo-yeong’s explanation, and when Soo-yeong’s sister was now crossing her arms, she looked at me again as if she were looking at her enemy.

I neatly ignored this person named Yunsu, told Sooyoung noona to weigh in, and was about to return to our gymnasium.

But Suyeong noona said hello to our curator and followed me with her arms crossed.

“Hey. Kim Soo-yeong, weighing in soon, where are you going now?”

A person named Yunsu from behind shouted in a place where there were a lot of people.
Then people were looking at us wondering what was going on.

At first, I tried to stop Suyeong-noona from following me, but when I heard the sound of a person named Yoon-su calling her in an angry voice without consideration, I grabbed Suyeong-noona’s hand wrapped around her arm and went to the place where our players were. .

Everyone on our side knew Suyeong-noona, who frequented our gym, so when she appeared with my arms crossed, everyone whistled and booed me and laughed happily.

The head coach also greeted Sooyoung noona and said strange things to do well together, and took care of the players.

Sooyoung noona said hello to her manager and her players, she told me to see her later, she gave me a kiss on the cheek, and then jumped up and went back to her seat.

A person named Yoon-soo, who had not taken her eyes off Soo-young from the beginning to the end, looked at me as if she was going to kill her.

I just ignored her and turned her head away.

It was the turn we had been waiting for, and the weigh-in was carried out.

I weighed 73.8 kg, and as expected, I was judged in the -75 kg weight category (middleweight).

After I finished measuring, I put on my clothes, waited for my gymmates who were weighing in, and went out together.

In our gym, a total of five people participated in this tryout, two below my weight class and two above my weight class.

Originally, there was only one person in my weight class, but when I said I was going to tryouts, I raised the weight class knowing that if I competed, I would definitely lose.

So, the coach used to sigh that the player who suddenly changed his weight class was the most worried about this tournament.

I felt apologetic for a moment when I saw that player and the coach, but if I went to the Olympics and won a gold medal, I could be exempted from military service, but I could never give up.

After coming out of the gym, I looked around to see if Suyeong-noona was waiting, but they were all people from Hansol Gym who had come before us to weigh-in, so they all turned around and couldn’t see them.

When we arrived in front of the gym and got out of the car, the director urged us not to overdo it today, drink a lot of water and take good care of our physical condition.

And originally, tomorrow was a day off from the gym, but the players participating in the tournament said they came out for a short time in the afternoon to adjust their condition and warm up.

We answered loudly and everyone went home.