230 – Waking up to be famous
The previous night, after a fierce fight with Ivan, I mastered Hayate’s final weapon, nagi, and narrowly won.
After that, I went home in the car driven by Boris, took a quick shower, went to bed, and woke up to the sound of sparrows chirping.
Cheer! Tweet!
“…….”
It seems that the fatigue has built up without realizing it.
My head was clearer than usual, probably because I had a good night’s sleep after a long time.
But the moment I saw the bright sky outside the window, I realized something was wrong and immediately got up.
“Ugh!”
Perhaps because of the sudden movement, his left cheek throbbed as if he had a cavity.
I checked the time as I wrapped my palm around the part I had been punched last night.
[6:40]
“…Did you oversleep?”
Anyway, I felt like I had to give up morning exercise.
Because it’s been less than 12 hours since I ate ghost pills, my physical condition wasn’t very good, so in a way, it was a blessing in disguise.
Before I left the room, I carefully checked my body with a mirror to see if there were any bruises, then put on my clothes and headed to the kitchen.
“Good night.”
“You woke up late today?”
“I think it’s because I came in late yesterday.”
I asked her mother as she poured her barley tea into her cup.
“What about the president?”
“Look at him? It’s already been a week since the president lady left the house.”
“Oh, I did.”
I awkwardly scratched the back of my head and glanced at the storage room where the president stayed for about a month.
‘Yooseong-gun! Have breakfast! The stir-fried pork prepared by my mother is delicious!’
To this day, the president’s lively voice plays automatically in my head.
Well, it could be said that the president has infiltrated my daily life to that extent.
“How much rice do you want to eat?”
“Give me a lot. I’m hungry.”
“Okay.”
As I put the gobong rice that my mother gave me on the table, I remembered what the chairman said earlier.
‘I intend to rise to the top of the Saionji family. Only then can you have a good relationship with Yooseong-gun. Will Yooseong-gun cheer me on like that?’
Originally, it is realistically impossible for a person from a prestigious family like the chairman to have a relationship with an ordinary commoner, and a Korean-Japanese at that.
That’s why the chairman ran away from home and secretly dated me.
However, it is impossible to hide or keep quiet about the fact forever.
The Chairman, who had no intention of parting with me because of the opposition of the family, returned home with the ambition of taking over the Saionji family instead of his grandfather, who had collapsed on the day of his engagement ceremony.
He said he would ask me for help if he needed it, but judging from the fact that he hasn’t asked for anything so far, it seems that he had intended to solve it on his own from the beginning.
Well, that’s what the chairman is like.
“Eat and eat. I made a lot of stewed meat and potatoes.”
“Oh, yes.”
I was lost in my thoughts for a while, and I hurriedly started eating after hearing my mother wipe her wet hands with a dishcloth.
***
After having a very standard breakfast of white rice, boiled meat and potatoes, and soybean paste soup, I immediately washed up and changed into my school uniform.
‘Is next week already the cultural festival day?’
Monday comes after Saturday and Sunday are off.
November 13th was the day when the private Ichijo High School’s cultural festival, the ‘Raising Festival’, began.
The reason why the school festival is named is because the school’s founders, the Ichijo family, are collaterals of the Fujiwara family.
It is true that the Fujiwara family between the Fujiwara and the person the Chairman almost had an engagement ceremony with.
Well, it seems that the Saionji family has a stronger influence on the academy.
Click!
“I’ll be back.”
“Yes”
After greeting my parents who are still having breakfast in the kitchen, I open the front door and go outside.
Blue sky, wide view.
It was the usual scenery of the town.
I like this neighborhood.
In a modern society where people’s sensibility is gradually drying up, it is very rare to have a village overflowing with affection among neighbors.
I walked down the stairs, glanced at the store sign, and headed to the subway station to go to school.
***
“Good morning!”
“Hello, Ryuji.”
“Good morning, Mr. Kim.”
“Yes, nice to meet you too, Yaguchi.”
It is not an exaggeration to say that they are almost friends in the same neighborhood, and I met them at the subway station and exchanged greetings.
“Hello brother.”
“Hello, Yuika.”
After exchanging conventional greetings, they get on the subway heading to school.
“By the way, Mr. Kim, why is your jaw hurt?”
“Huh? This? I bumped into it while exercising yesterday.”
I laughed awkwardly when I said that.
Actually, the part hit by Ivan was bruised, but it was difficult to tell the truth easily because of the image of an honor student usually shown at school.
Although it’s also because I’m not the kind of person to get hit anywhere.
“Oops, be careful. It hurts.”
“hahahahaha, thank you for your concern.”
Fortunately, Yaguchi passed without a shadow of a doubt, and Yuika seemed to believe me when I said I was injured from sports.
But it seems that the two ghosts that came with Ryuji as a bonus weren’t what they looked like.
「Well, if you are a contractor, you can’t fool my eyes.」
Saying that suddenly, Mahes flew beside me, squinting his eyes and staring at my chin.
「Kim Yoo-seong, I feel an unfamiliar energy in your body. It looks like you fought another fighter yesterday, right?”
How did you know that?
As I winced and looked up, Mahes crossed his arms with a smug expression and said,
「Although it has faded a lot, I can feel the reverberation of qi from your body. Given that it smells so strong, it must have been a very strong person.”
This isn’t some kind of beast.
I looked at the foreign ghost, who is said to be able to distinguish other people’s energy by smell, in a puzzled way.
Chaki, who had been listening to Mahesu’s story with interest, also asked if he was interested.
「So who did you fight with? If you’re going to fight, you should have called Ryuji. See me too.”
“It just…that happened. It had to do with Sasha’s father.”
「If it’s Sasha’s father, is that crazy muscle mass you saw last week?」
It’s not exactly wrong, but when he says something, it feels vulgar.
“…That’s right.”
As I nodded my head in agreement, Mahes also exclaimed, “Oh-oh,” As if he recalled the memory of that time.
「From the first time I saw you, I thought you were an extraordinary man, but I didn’t expect you to be this strong. To inflict such a wound on a warrior of the sun I recognized.”
To correct one misunderstanding, I am not a warrior of the sun.
It was like a nickname Mahes, a fight addict, gave himself.
“You worked hard. Yoo Seong-ah. To be caught up in such a trouble.”
After hearing the story between me and Mahes, Ryuji comforted me by patting me on the shoulder.
Actually, these are the events he might have gone through if it wasn’t for me, so I felt something uncomfortable even though I was grateful for his comfort.
For some reason, I felt like I was doing all of Ryuji’s hard work.
But it’s human manners not to show it off, so I said thank you with a smile and then moved on to another topic.
After that, after passing a few stops, the subway fills up quickly.
Since it was the rush hour of going to work, we naturally stopped talking and started fixating our eyes on each other’s phones.
Well, it didn’t really matter because it was so natural.
But today, something is itching in the back of my head.
Should I say it feels like someone is secretly spying on me?
It’s not the first time he’s been receiving attention because he’s so tall and has a savage look.
But today felt a bit different.
Is it like being watched by an unspecified number of people?
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I could express my discomfort, but I decided to put up with it for a while until I arrived at school because it was uncomfortable to tell people not to look in such a crowded situation.
Because I thought that if I didn’t show any reaction, the interest would soon disappear.
But what is this?
Contrary to my expectations, the gaze that seemed to be spying on me continued to follow me until I got off at the school stop.
And it was after arriving in front of the school gate that I found out why it seems to be attracting a lot of attention today.
“Over there! Over there is Kim Yu-seong!”
Surprisingly, the thing that greeted me when I just arrived at school was the huge number of cameras.
***
“Kim Yoo-seong! Are you the main character of the video that is currently becoming a hot topic on the Internet?!”
“What kind of relationship do you have with Japan’s pride, 4-time GOF winner Kotaro Fuma!”
“Please tell us your personal impressions!”
“How did you get to know the president of the East Egg Company, Ivan?”
A feast of questions pouring in from all directions, like fire.
I looked around in a stupefied state.
Dozens of TV cameras were actively taking pictures surrounding me.
‘How did this happen?’
I couldn’t guess anything.
Is this a video that has become a hot topic in the first place?
I’ve been busy with training for the past week, so I haven’t had time to look at the video posting site Nicodong or YouTube, so I hurriedly took out my cell phone and searched.
Then, a thumbnail floating proudly at the top of the real-time trending video.
It was a real-time live cam of me fighting on the street with Kotaro Fuma, who suddenly attacked me a week ago.
“…Crazy.”
f*cked.