Chapter 506 (1/2)

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On the other hand, Jung Haneul was watching the entire sight at a close distance while squatting on the floor. When Dae Lisa intervened in the fight, he stood up and dashed toward her.

“Noona!” he shouted then tried to go hug her.

Dae Lisa avoided him with a flinch since he had been rolling on the floor until just now.

It seemed that Jung Haneul had a crush on her. Regardless of her reaction, he shouted cheerfully, “Wow, noona! I never imagined that you would come to save me. When that all muscles and no-brain bastard flipped all the tables, everything seemed all over. Ah, you see this? I got a bruise on my arm. Geez, it really hurts!”

With a sad face, Jung Haneul rolled up his sleeves and revealed his bare arms. However, Dae Lisa still reacted apathetically. Observing the look on her face, Jung Haneul quickly turned around.

“Uh, well, noona, thanks anyway for helping me. I’ll leave then,” said Jung Haneul.

Dae Lisa responded, “Where are you going?”

Jung Haneul’s face turned stiff. “Excuse me?” he asked.

“I’m not here to help you.” Dae Lisa added, showing a lack of concern, “Why would I come all the way here to do that?”

Jung Haneul’s face changed paler. He finally turned around and tried to flee after her following remark.

“Sorry, but I must take over your rank,” said Dae Lisa.

“Noona, how can you do this to me! This can’t happen!!”

Screaming that way like a tragic hero, Jung Haneul ran away from the spot. I watched him in perplexity. As if Dae Lisa didn’t expect that reaction as well, she also looked bewildered.

Just like his nickname, the Flying Squirrel, Jung Haneul’s running speed was very fast. Even Ruda wasn’t able to react to him who was getting close to the door. Watching him fleeing in a flash, I shouted to myself, ‘No, we’ll gonna lose him!’

That was when a gray lining came into my sight. Leaving an afterimage, something like a Frisbee quickly flew over to Jung Haneul and struck him on the back of his head. With a loud thud, Jung Haneul collapsed in the direction where he was running to. At the unexpected situation, we all just flickered our eyes blankly.

The thing that suddenly hit the back of Jung Haneul’s head was none other than a trashcan lid. When we slowly turned our heads to look behind us, Eun Hyung was smiling there embarrassedly as all attention was on him.

“Ah, sorry… I didn’t know that it was a trashcan lid since I just threw something as quickly as possible…”

Jung Haneul, who already fainted, could, of course, not hear those words.

While there was a moment of silence, Dae Lisa stared at Eun Hyung with mixed feelings of admiration and confusion. She asked, “Why aren’t you participating in the battle?”

“Uh, that’s because…” Throwing a glance outside the alley for no reason, Eun Hyung continued speaking, “… I want to become a doctor.”

“Y… eah…” replied Dae Lisa awkwardly.

The bar was enveloped by a deafening silence again. Shortly after, Dae Lisa raised her fist high up in the air as if she was trying to get over the awkward atmosphere.

She shouted brightly, “Anyway, we now got the tickets to join the battle, so are you all ready?”

Article 40. The Great Birth of the Nationwide Number Zero

On Saturday, all the ranked fighters gathered at Sung Woon Science High School for the Ranking Battle.

The huge school gym was big enough to accommodate a hundred qualifiers as well as hundreds of audiences. The tension and heat of the crowds burned up the space like a blast furnace, which resembled the sights seen in a wrestling arena.

‘Until last year, we just had the actual tournament roughly at some schools with a big empty lot. It wasn’t a huge event like this…’ Speaking to himself, Kim Pyung Bum bit his lips in nervousness.

He was one of the high-ranked fighters who took the seventeenth position in the previous Ranking Battle; thus, he could skip the preliminary round and become a qualified contestant with ease. And that was why he didn’t feel like a stranger in this spot surrounded by numbers of kids with threatening looks.

However, it only applied when he was with his friends.

Ever since Kim Pyung Bum entered high school, he was always with Suh Doh Gyum, but that Suh Doh Gyum had been attacked by someone and was now in the hospital.

Well, to be honest, when that thing first happened, Kim Pyung Bum felt a little surprised but also enjoyed weird freedom at the same time. Staying together with Suh Doh Gyum for more than ten hours every day, Kim Pyung Bum got sick and tired of him. Besides, he knew that Suh Doh Gyum would recover soon from the injury.