Chapter 145 – Going to the Competition.

Finally, the long-awaited Monday came.

In the morning, when I left the house with my bag, my mother, Aunt Jeong-hee, Aunt Hyo-seon, Aunt Hye-jeong, and Young-hee were all gathered in the store.

I went to the match, but I was fine, but the women gathered were nervous.
Younghee noona, who knew my fighting skills well, was worried as well.

Among them, my mother was the most serious, so I was very worried as I sighed deeply.

It would be even more strange if the father of the child in the belly goes to a boxing match where they fight each other.

However, when she explained that if she won a gold medal at the National Sports Festival, she could go to the Olympics, and even if she won a bronze medal at the Olympics, she would be exempted from military service.

“Don’t worry too much, mother. Who am I? This is Lee Seong-jin of the world. Gangsters run away just by hearing my name. So don’t worry too much. I don’t get hurt because I wear all the safety equipment like headgear and mouthpiece. I will never get hurt and do well, so please support me. Did you know?”

Representing such women, I hugged her mother lightly, and her mother was in tears.

As the mother’s tears welled up, Aunt Jeong-hee and Young-hee’s sister also tried to shed tears.

“Ah. Whoever sees it will know what kind of war we are going to. I’m just going to play a 3 round match, what a mess. Everyone, be alert and don’t make any mistakes today. Did you know?”

All the women nodded their heads in agreement.

When I opened the door, Young-hee tried to follow.
Young-hee noona seemed to have already kissed the women after leaving the company today to follow me and cheer me on.

When I said that there were only people who came to compete, I would be rather embarrassed if there were people who came to cheer for me.

I looked around and saw that no one was there, so I hugged Young-hee and kissed her on the mouth and told her not to worry too much and to be doing well, as I will be back soon.

Younghee noona nodded her head to see if she was happy with my kiss, told her not to worry, and went back to the store.

When I arrived at the gym today, besides the director, there were two older brothers who would help with the second.

After a while, when all the contestants gathered today, the head coach told them not to be too nervous, and everyone put their heads together, stretched out their hands, shouted “Fighting” And got into the car.

My older brother, who will help me second, drove, and the manager sat in the passenger seat, and we headed to the gym where today’s match was to take place.

As soon as we arrived, the first thing we checked was the bracket.

There are definitely a lot of people in the -75kg weight class, so those in the lower weight class started today, and I will have a three-day match starting tomorrow.

I wondered if I should say that I was fortunate to be able to grasp the atmosphere of the field, but I felt like time was running out of time because I wanted the match to happen right away rather than being nervous.

However, the opponent’s name was a little strange.

On the schedule, it read ‘Cho Yoon-soo (Hansol Gym)’.

This is not a joke from God, and I laughed out of absurdity.

It was the person who looked at me like that last Saturday.

“Uh? Yoon Soo’s older brother. Oppa, my Sungjin sticks with me. Ah~ what should I do?”

Suddenly, I heard a voice saying my name from behind, so I turned around and saw pretty Sooyoung noona looking at the table and frowning.

Then, as if my face caught my eye, Soo-young noona shook her hand with a big smile as she screamed Seong-jin.

“Ah. Does Seongjin stick with Yunsu oppa?”

Suyeong noona muttered to herself, and her smiling face quickly turned into a melancholy one.

I thought it was funny and cute, so I slowly approached her and stroked her sister-in-law’s head.

Then Soo-young noona stuttered and laughed as if she had never done that before, clinging to my arms.

“Joy. Are you Seongjin Lee? Let’s do better tomorrow.”

While I was laughing with Sooyoung-noona, Jo Yoon-soo came to the side, threw a comment and turned away.

“Sungjin. Kill me tomorrow Understand?”

Sooyoung noona smiled cutely and she told me her words.

“Hey. Kim Soo-young What are you talking about? Who’s telling whom to take it easy? Don’t you know who I am If I’m going to live, I have to live. And you, Seongjin Lee, will never see you tomorrow, so don’t ever think about taking it lightly. Okay?”

Jo Yoon-soo even turned red in his face and shouted in anger.

Suyeong-noona thought nothing of it, she just said it to me because she was afraid that her close brother would get hurt.

I was a little offended when Jo Yoon-soo said something rude about seeing her, but she didn’t say anything and endured it because she looked at Soo-young noona.

Soo-young noona, who knows my skills better than anyone else, was worried about her self, so she just told me half-jokingly and half-worried.

“Your sister is fine. Don’t be so sorry Let me see your face.”

When she gently lifted her depressed sister’s face, she was finally smiling.

“Hey. Kim Soo-young, come quickly. Soon, our players will start the match, so we should cheer for them.”

Suyeong-noona and I must have felt my stomach hurt again when Jo Yoon-soo screamed in anger.

No matter how close that person, Jo Yoon-soo, is to Soo-young noona, when I keep yelling at my woman, Soo-yeong noona, her mood gradually deteriorates.

I was thinking that I would do everything in my power not to cause problems in the match, but with Jo Yoon-soo’s action a little while ago, I made up my mind to do my best tomorrow.

I didn’t have a game today, and I was just in a bad mood because of Jo Yoon-soo’s behavior, so I thought I’d just go back and do my job.

When I entered the gym, there were two rings installed, and it seemed that the first match had just begun.

Today, two players from our gym were competing, and all of them were on the A-ring side.

I was sitting in the spectators’ seats a bit far from the ring and watching the match, and the match on top of the ring was more exciting and fun than I thought.

Perhaps it was because it was a selection match for the Seoul National Sports Festival, and the attitudes of the players themselves were different from those of sparring matches.

Perhaps because of this, all the players in the ring hit and run without sacrificing their bodies. Surprisingly, I was quite immersed in it, and I was able to watch the game with my hands sweaty without realizing it.

It was so exciting that I didn’t know how the third round passed, and the result was decided by the judges’ decision.

However, I noticed something strange.

Obviously, when I saw it, the player in the red uniform had much better offense and defense, but the player in the blue uniform won by unanimous decision.

I hadn’t started boxing for less than a year, so I thought maybe what I was seeing was wrong, so I moved on.

However, I could see the second on the player’s side wearing a red uniform protesting to the referee.

I thought it was a little strange, but I just turned my head away because it wasn’t a problem I could be involved in.

The second match began in both rings.

The player wearing the red uniform playing this time was a member of our gym.

I shouted “Fighting” Loudly and watched the game with nervous eyes.

The director climbed onto the ring, put the mouthpiece in his mouth, said something, and then slapped me on the back and came down.

He was a fighter who sparred with me every day, and he was a very good player who was able to withstand my attack properly for the 3rd round.

As expected, the match was unilaterally led by our player in the red uniform.

At the end of the match, the result was decided again by the referee’s decision.

However, again, a strange result came out with the player in the blue uniform winning by unanimous agreement.

The director immediately ran to the judges and protested loudly, but the judges showed the score sheet to the director and did not pretend to hear.

The head coach was angry because his face was red, but fearing that he would look wrong to the referees and affect the next games, he was no longer angry and returned to his seat.

I had no idea what the hell was going on.

I thought it was strange, so I checked the schedule.

I looked at the team under the names of the players who won the match and the players who won this game, and they were all players from the College of Physical Education in Seoul.

I roughly understood the situation.

Somehow, it seemed that absurd things were happening in which the players lost even after winning in a fight for just cause.

Disappointment with the tournament led to a loss of interest in the back games.

Fortunately, our gym player next met a regular player, won by decision, and was able to compete in the next game.

When I saw the boxing federation’s behavior, I felt a sense of crisis that if I did something wrong, I might not be able to participate in the National Sports Festival, let alone the Olympics.

‘I have to win this by KO unconditionally so that the judges can’t do anything about it…’

However, it was not easy to come out with a KO victory in an amateur boxing competition.

The rounds were short, 3 rounds, and it was as difficult as picking stars in the sky to make a KO because the fight was played with protective equipment such as a headgear.

First of all, I thought that tomorrow’s first match would fortunately belong to Hansol Gymnasium, so the judges wouldn’t be biased like today, but since I’m in my first match and Cho Yoon-soo is a candidate for the Olympic gold medal that the boxing federation expects, I didn’t know.

I was seriously thinking about this and that, but the director called me to go home saying that everything was cleaned up.

But when I looked above the ring, the women’s players were playing.

“Chief, there’s Sooyoung-noona’s game today, and I’ll cheer for you.”
“I see. Is swimming your first game today?”

The director also looked around to see if he was thinking of Sooyoung noona, and then he saw Hansol Gymnasium director Kim holding Sooyoung noona’s gloved wrist by the B ring and saying something.

It seemed that the next match would be Sooyoung noona’s match.

“Sungjin-ah, I think swimming is the next game. Let’s just watch this and cheer and go.”

The head coach told me to, so I said yes, and since the other players in our gym also had a good view of Soo-young noona, everyone said yes.

The director approached the B ring and greeted Director Kim with a smile.

Manager Kim was also happy to see us and asked the manager how the match was, and the manager got angry and said about the biased decision in the first game.

Director Kim comforted our director, saying that he understood whether there were many such cases.

I approached Suyeong noona, who was wearing headgear and was still taking deep breaths nervously.

Sooyoung noona also smiled awkwardly when she saw me and waved his gloved hand.

However, as I approached, Yoon-soo Cho approached like a thorn in the eye, and Soo-young noona kept me in check, telling me to step back unless I was involved because I had to advance in the match.

I didn’t say anything to Jo Yoon-soo, who said the right thing, so I saw Suyeong-noona, fought, made hand movements, and came and sat next to the director.

Then Director Kim came up to me and patted my shoulder while giggling at what was interesting.

“Sungjin. You’re joining our Yoonsu tomorrow.”
“Yes. That’s how it is.”

When the name Jo Yoon-soo came out of Director Kim’s mouth, I could see Jo Yoon-soo, who had been taking care of Soo-young’s sister from the other side, glanced over here and pricked up his ears.

“Let’s take care of each other in moderation. Understand? Yoonsu is still looking forward to it, so even if it’s not this time, I really want to see him at the next Olympics. So do it in moderation Also, Yunsu’s skills are not formidable, so there is no guarantee that he will always lose.”

“What. Is that something I can do? If you’re better than me, then of course I lose. I won’t lose my temper like last time.”

I smiled awkwardly and glanced at Cho Yoon-soo while talking to Director Kim, and he had a completely shit-chewed expression, perhaps because his pride was hurt that even his director asked me to take it easy.

Then, he glared at me with an expression that he would wait and see, burning his will to fight.

When I saw Jo Yoon-soo like that, I thought that he was still young.

If Suyeong-noona is like that, and even her own coach asks me to kill her, the first thing to do is to find out how good the opponent is. He went up without knowing how high he was and was only showing his pride.

I didn’t want to start a war of nerves with Cho Yoon-soo, so I turned his head away and pretended to watch the match in the ring.

Finally, Sooyoung noona’s match began.

She shouted ‘Sooyoung-noona fighting!’ To Sooyoung-noona who was just putting on the mouthpiece on the ring, and Sooyoung-noona looked back at me and grinned, revealing the mouthpiece.

The match was tight and thrilling.

Suyeong-nuna was 169 cm tall and had a long reach, using hit-and-run tactics, while her opponent had her guard tight and reckless pushing in.

Fortunately for her, she won on the scorecard as she was able to hit and miss with a long reach because it was a three-round scoring system, allowing Swim Sister to feed her significant blows.

Seeing that Suyeong noona won despite the fact that the opponent was a student at the College of Physical Education, I could see that Hansol Gymnasium director Kim had more power in the boxing world than I thought.

If this happens, I thought that the match against Cho Yoon-soo tomorrow might be harder than I thought.

After the game, when I said congratulations to Sooyoung, who was sweating all over her body, congratulations on the victory, Sooyoung noona took my hand and smiled brightly, saying thank you.

Director Kim smiled happily at his daughter’s appearance, but Jo Yoon-soo was sending an irritated look.

Everyone at the gym said congratulations to Suyeong noona and rode the bongos back to the gym.