208 – The Man Who Doesn’t Know Defeat
Class 2-B, who was chosen as the dark horse of the athletic meet, was shocked to be eliminated in the preliminaries.
Since the main cause was me, I quickly became a high treason.
“Criminal Yuseong Kim, raise your head. Do you have something to excuse?”
An impromptu class trial.
At the initiative of the judge, Ayase (class president), I was tied by his jump rope and knelt on the floor.
“No….”
I didn’t know that Rika, who was spinning her rope with me, would fly beside her.
It’s entirely my fault for not being able to control my strength, but Rika smiled and overlooked my mistake.
I still felt guilty for refusing to confess, but with this mistake added, I couldn’t see Rika’s face even more.
Anyway, because I failed in the preliminaries for the group jumping rope, which was nothing short of free, unlike the other classes, it was like taking off the car and starting.
At that time, Satoru, who was standing next to Ayase, spoke in a voice that sounded like a renegade.
“Sir, you don’t seem to be showing much remorse as a sinner, so why don’t you stop drinking?”
“No, what are you talking about?”
The class president looked at her dumbfounded, but Satoru acted as if he would immediately get two sticks if he gave an order.
He said he won’t say anything because he committed a crime, but if it was usual, he would have punished him right away.
I asked the class president, thinking that Satoru, who knew that and was still giggling, was also a guy with a swollen liver.
“Then what should I do now?”
Then, Ayase said while looking through the list of sports events on the A4 sheet.
“There is no limit to the number of events a person can participate in, right?”
Originally, I only participated in three events at this sports event.
Relay, equestrian, dodgeball.
It is said that group jumping rope, which requires the entire class to participate, is unavoidable, but due to time constraints, there were also events that were conducted simultaneously if all were to be done within one day.
“…But?”
“If Yuseong squeezes your schedule a little tight, I think you can go out at least five. What do you think about this?”
In other words, do you mean to make up for the points you lost because of me with your own hands?
It was a reasonable decision.
Even if I do this, I’m the only one who gets f*cked because of my busy schedule.
“So what’s the answer?”
Dududuk!
With all the classmates watching, I loosened my restraints and said.
“Let’s try it at least once.”
It’s not the current me that gets f*cked, it’s the future me.
***
There were a total of 5 events in this sports event, excluding the team event.
Soccer, basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, baseball.
In fact, since most of the ball games have sub-activities, it is common for students who were usually athletic to play the role of ace in each class.
Fortunately, the tournament was held by grade level, so there was no such thing as overpowering one team or the other.
Of course, under the premise that there is no such thing as ‘I’.
First event
‘Soccer’
The captain of Class 2-B was Tomoki Shimamura, an incumbent member of the soccer club.
“To win this tournament, everyone must follow my orders, okay?”
Shimamura said that while examining the faces of the male students who were called out from the class.
A total of 11 people.
Originally, one of the tight-knit trio should have been in this position, but I, a mercenary, was the one who went to the field instead while hastily revising the entry.
Excluding me, 10 people went and stood in the seats that matched their positions, as if they had coordinated in advance.
On the other hand, since I just joined the team today, I didn’t know what position I should be in, so I stood there and asked Shimamura.
“What can I do?”
Then Shimamura grinned and patted my shoulder.
“You do as you please.”
“…Anyway?”
I involuntarily asked back in a timid voice, and Shimamura nodded his head and said.
“You know what an all-rounder means?”
“…I understand what you mean.”
The words are grandiose, but in other words, it was a no-plan only for me.
Then you should do as you wish.
Beep!
The whistle of the PE teacher who acted as the referee rang out across the field, and finally the class competition between 2-B and 2-D classes began.
***
Yooseong Kim.
At Ichijo Academy, one of the most prestigious private high schools in Tokyo, the weight of the three letters in the name was enormous.
Sometimes referred to as ‘the school’s strongest man’
For the freshmen who just entered this year, most of the rumors about him are exaggerated, but for the sophomores, who have been breathing the same air as Yuseong Kim since their freshman year, it was fear itself.
It was around the 2nd semester of the 1st year that vicious rumors about him began to circulate around the school.
Originally entered as the top of the class and even recited a congratulatory speech as a representative of the first year, Kim Yoo-seong suddenly started bulking up at a tremendous speed as he entered the second semester. Has become
Actually, if only the appearance had changed, the situation would have been better.
But when sightings spread that he fought thugs 17-on-1 in back alleys, everyone feared him.
Ichijo Academy is a school with a very high variance.
Unless you study well, it was difficult to even cross the threshold of an academy, so most of the bad students were naturally filtered out during the entrance exam process.
Of course, it wasn’t that there were no bullies who were good at studying, and there were certainly cases where both rabbits, fighting and studying, were caught.
However, even such people rolled their tails and ran away like herbivores in front of a predator when they stood in front of Yuseong Kim.
The feeling that literally the ‘species’ themselves are different.
How much can children belonging to the upper classes in Tokyo feel such deprivation while living there?
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It must have been a natural process for classmates and upperclassmen to be in awe of Yuseong Kim.
And today.
The students of Class 2-D were agitated by the unexpected appearance of ‘Kim Yoo-seong’.
‘Hey, is it real?’
‘Isn’t Kim Yu-seong not appearing in soccer?’
‘Damn it! Who’s the bastard who sowed gossip about Kim Yu-seong not appearing in soccer!’
The morale of allies fell before they could even fight.
That’s also true, Kim Yoo-seong’s existence itself is the same as a disaster.
A walking tank that literally walks.
He is 190 cm tall and has muscles that fill his entire body.
The physicality far exceeded the average of Japanese male high school students, as if a character from a boy’s manga had come out into reality.
But running away now was unacceptable.
The place they are standing now is the battlefield.
A confrontation between half and half pride.
There was no one to greet the defeated dog even before the fight.
“Keuugh… I have no choice but to try it.”
“If this happens, it’s a judge’s game!”
The students of Class 2-D made up their minds by exchanging glances with each other.
It is a sports event that only happens once a year.
At this moment, this member can only be together this year.
But you get scared and give up before even fighting?
A man’s pride would not tolerate such a thing.
How much more, aren’t the female students huddled together and watching behind them?
Even if you lose overwhelmingly, you don’t have to collapse unsightly.
The students of Class 2-D, who were determined to fight like that, shouted and burned their fighting spirit.
“Ohhhhh! Let’s go!”
“Isn’t Kim Yoo-seong a big deal! We’re also strong if we fight sincerely!”
“If I win this match, I will confess to Azuki!”
“You crazy bastard! That’s a defeat flag!”
An infighting almost broke out because of one careless person.
The match started with Onuma, the gym teacher standing in the center of the field, blowing his whistle.
Beep!
It was Shimamura, the captain of Class 2-B, who quickly took the lead.
As a current soccer member, his specialty is splendid dribbling.
Shimamura, who flipped the two defenders of class 2-D in one shot, swung upwards in an instant.
“Stuck!”
Listening to the cry of the captain of Class D, three people cling to Shimamura who is playing solo.
No matter how much he was a member of the soccer club, he couldn’t help but lose the ball in a narrow way in front of the iron wall mark.
The counterattack begins immediately.
“My ball!”
A long pass sent to the direction where the striker’s cry was heard.
The striker from Class 2-D, who received the ball without difficulty, passed the defenders from Class 2-B without difficulty.
The distance to the enemy team’s goal is now about 5M.
‘I can do it!’
A grounded confidence wells up in his heart.
As the position of class 2-B had risen due to the quick attack from earlier, the goal side was empty.
But that was just then.
Kung! Thud! Thud! Boom!
A heavy sound, like dinosaur footsteps, began to approach from close range.
‘What!’
The striker of class 2-D was shocked.
That’s also the case, Kim Yu-seong, who had been in the corner of the field just before, was approaching right in front of him.
‘I didn’t use any axis method, but did I cover that distance in one go?’
He gritted his teeth as he swallowed his breath.
‘I can’t come all the way here and take it away!’
It is true that Kim Yu-seong cannot be beaten physically.
But she said he had a ‘technique’.
A token of hard work as a member of the soccer club for two years.
‘Hey there!’
At first glance, Kim Yoo-seong seems like a wall, but the space between his legs was clearly visible, perhaps because he was an outsider in soccer.
All you have to do is send the ball between them and get out to the side.
After completing the intra-brain simulation perfectly, he went straight into action.
But-
‘Isn’t it moving?’
His legs didn’t move, as if a large piece of iron had been attached to them.
My body can’t keep up with my thoughts.
When I realized that fact and tried to move in a hurry, Kim Yoo-seong had already taken the ball away.
‘What nonsense.’
An offensive player from Class 2-D looking at Kim Yoo-seong’s back as he walks away with a bewildered expression.
The name of the sensation he had just felt was ‘fear’.