RCKS 5

That was the situation that had arisen. But suddenly, not only did he confirm that Lee Yoonsan’s height had grown taller than his own, but also the only news that came was that all his friends had lost to Lee Yoonsan in arm wrestling.

On top of that, the expression and voice of Lee Yoonsan himself, who was directly saying it, were bright and clear. He said it as if it had not been a particularly difficult duel.

Hwang Haekyung glanced back a little ways at Lee Yoonsan’s words. There, on the boundary of the site made by stacking tires, his friends were running around noisily and playing.

‘Idiots, what are you so excited about playing after losing arm wrestling to a nine-year-old?’

Hwang Haekyung thought such things inwardly and turned his gaze back to Lee Yoonsan.

“Do it with me too.”

It was a challenge to a duel thrown out out of stubbornness from the pointless frustration. The fact that his friends had suffered complete defeat to the nine-year-old right in front of him was frustrating, and the fact that his own height was smaller than the nine-year-old Lee Yoonsan made him angry to the point of feeling wronged.

And the nine-year-old Lee Yoonsan, who had made him angry, was looking down at him as if it was nothing. Hwang Haekyung was annoyed even by that.

Everything was annoying: that he was a little brother but bigger than his hyung, that his build was large and his strength was strong. The weak, slow, and annoying kid that the adults always told him to protect and watch over seemed to actually be superior to him in reality, and that point was extremely frustrating and frustrating again.

“Arm wrestling? Okay!”

“……”

“But Haekyung isn’t sick? I’ll go easy on you!”

“Don’t make me laugh!”

Hwang Haekyung shouted a sharp yell at the consideration Lee Yoonsan offered, his face flushed red as if from a fever while huffing. It was a clear rejection of the consideration. Lee Yoonsan tilted his head at such a Hwang Haekyung. Why is he angry? Lee Yoonsan could not understand Hwang Haekyung, who was suddenly getting angry and huffing right in front of his nose.

He had been sick the day before, and even now, Hwang Haekyung looked extremely sick. His face swollen puffy, his complexion red and then blue, the nasal breaths coming out ragged and seeming hot, and above all, his voice was really not good.

So out of worry, he had offered consideration just like when doing arm wrestling with same-class friends, but on the contrary, Hwang Haekyung got even angrier at those words. He even glared at Lee Yoonsan with eyes turned bright red and stomped off with thumping footsteps toward the place with the table first.

“Do it properly! If you go easy, I’ll kill you!”

And then he took position first, and that was what he said. Lee Yoonsan was a little worried about Hwang Haekyung, who looked even sicker and weaker after realizing the height difference, but that was all.

In any case, Hwang Haekyung wanted to do arm wrestling, and had not Lee Yoonsan originally challenged to arm wrestling in order to get revenge on Hwang Haekyung and his group? Moreover, when he recalled again how the day before Hwang Haekyung and his group had lifted him up onto the tree and scared him, all sympathy for the Hwang Haekyung right in front of him flew away in an instant.

“I won’t go easy.”

And he walked confidently and sat down across from Hwang Haekyung. He took position, grabbed Hwang Haekyung’s hand, immediately applied strength, and flipped it over, causing Hwang Haekyung’s hand back to slam down onto the wooden table with a bang sound.

It was an event that happened one second after starting the arm wrestling, and Hwang Haekyung’s hand back practically crashed into the table. It was Hwang Haekyung’s complete defeat. It was to the extent that bruises formed on Hwang Haekyung’s hand back and wrist, so it was also the moment when Lee Yoonsan’s revenge succeeded.

“Hey!”

Defeat and immediately, an angry shout mixed with anger burst out from Hwang Haekyung. The hand back and wrist that had been slammed into the rough wooden table hurt too much, and losing so easily to Lee Yoonsan, who was younger than him, was humiliating. Thinking that surely his friends were watching this scene from a little ways away made his anger surge even more.

“You too, don’t act cocky to me from now on!”

At such Hwang Haekyung’s anger, Lee Yoonsan also did not back down and put up a threat in response. He had not ignored the fact that Hwang Haekyung’s hand, which he had held for a moment, had been too slender and hot, and that along with the anger in those eyes, tears had welled up and overflowed, but this was clear revenge, after all.

So who told you to bully and exclude me all the time? Lee Yoonsan tried hard to think such things and pretended not to know Hwang Haekyung’s anger and emotions.

A thought came that Hwang Haekyung might be hurt, but he turned away from it. To be swayed by momentary emotions, this arm wrestling had been proposed first by Hwang Haekyung, and it was also Hwang Haekyung who had gotten scary angry saying not to go easy.

“You, don’t show up in front of me from now on and get lost!”

From that day on, the relationship between the two became even worse.

It was an event from a certain winter vacation when Hwang Haekyung was ten years old and Lee Yoonsan was nine years old.