## Chapter 48 – Weakness
Seo-hee Jung glared at me with fierce eyes.
I don’t know if fighting spirit is real, but the overwhelming force flying at me right now could certainly be called that.
‘The Cipher Tiger of Daehan International High School.’
A nickname given to her because she always walked alone and acted alone.
The ‘Cipher’ in front was added to put her down.
It literally meant ‘female.’
As far as I know, one of the guys in our class made it up.
‘But even if she’s a female, a tiger is still a tiger.’
Different from wolves or hyenas.
She has no weaknesses when it comes to fighting.
She’s serious and never shows an opening. Even if it seems like she’s showing an opening, it’s often a trap.
It wasn’t just once or twice that I rushed in when she showed her back and got countered.
Hoo.
I took a breath and lowered my stance.
Seo-hee Jung is better than me. If I rush in, it’ll only give her a chance to attack.
I quietly moved my eyes and body, following Seo-hee Jung.
Shuffle. Shuffle.
Seo-hee Jung was about 5 meters away from me, circling around me, trying to find an angle to come in.
And thanks to sparring with her every day for the past few days, I could at least catch the moment she rushed in.
‘She’s coming.’
Pabat!
A fierce and sharp movement.
She rushed at me and pushed me down.
‘Ground?!’
Seo-hee Jung used grappling techniques from the start, as if she was going to end the fight in one go.
Her intention was clear: to create a ground situation and twist my joints to get me to surrender.
I quickly twisted my body to avoid her arms and legs and protect myself.
But Seo-hee Jung, who had climbed on top of me like a spider, didn’t leave me alone.
She watched for an opportunity, looking for a chance to use her techniques.
Pabat. Pababababat.
Back and forth. A fierce point of contact continued.
Pat. Pabat.
The sand stirred several times, creating a messy and complicated mud fight.
But my skills couldn’t have improved that much just from learning techniques for about 5 days.
“Keut.”
Before long, Seo-hee Jung caught my arm and put me in an armbar.
Seo-hee Jung hugged my arm and pressed down on my upper body with both legs, smiling softly.
“You’re pretty good. But the game is already over. Give up.”
“I haven’t lost yet.”
“It’s no use being stubborn. You’ll just dislocate your arm. Well, I’d like to see you cry and surrender at least once.”
Seo-hee Jung smiled and put more strength into the hand twisting my arm.
Wooduk. My arm slowly began to scream.
‘Keut. Damn it. It hurts, but it feels terrible.’
It felt like my arm was tearing and being ripped off.
The precarious tension and pain, the fear of being cut off, kept sending red signals to my head.
Give up now. Surrender before something really bad happens.
‘No. I can’t give up.’
I ignored it and endured.
It wasn’t over yet.
If someone asked me if I was holding on because I could really win, I was confident that I would shout without hesitation.
Of course, because I was confident I could win.
“If you pull any harder, something really bad will happen. Give up now!”
“I won’t.”
“I told you to!”
I didn’t give up and endured.
“You’re such an idiot.”
Seo-hee Jung muttered and released my arm and stepped back.
I massaged my throbbing arm and got up from my seat.
“I won’t give up.”
Actually, I don’t think I can win against Seo-hee Jung either.
That’s because I’ve never fought before. Not even once.
This was the first time I’d ever learned how to fight.
This was the first time I’d ever bumped into someone violently, hitting and getting hit.
‘Can I, who has never fought before, beat Seo-hee Jung, who has been professionally trained?’
That’s nonsense.
Even if I’m stronger than Seo-hee Jung, even if I’m faster than Seo-hee Jung, I can’t win.
Technique honed over a long period of time is like that.
‘But this fight is my victory.’
I was sure of it just now.
If she wanted to knock me down, she could have just hit my head or vital points.
Then it would have been over in one blow.
‘But Seo-hee Jung used grappling techniques.’
She went out of her way to use an armbar, a technique that even the most skilled person can’t easily succeed against a resisting opponent.
What that meant was obvious.
Seo-hee Jung doesn’t want me to get hurt.
The decisive proof was that she was just looking at me with a troubled face.
“If you want to give up, you do it, Seo-hee Jung.”
“Eek!”
Seo-hee Jung rushed at me and threw me.
When I fell, I got up again, and she threw me again, and when I got up, she threw me again.
If I didn’t get up, it could be counted as a suppression, so I had to desperately accept all those techniques and get up.
“Give up!”
“I won’t.”
Peok. Peok. Peok.
Seo-hee Jung started kicking my legs, judging that she couldn’t do much damage by throwing me on the sand.
But the smile on my face grew even thicker.
‘She’s careful not to hurt my bones, and she’s only hitting the muscles to loosen my legs?’
I can just grit my teeth and endure this much!
I desperately stood up my staggering body and endured with all my might.
“Heok. Heoeok. Why… why don’t you fall? You’re definitely not that strong…?”
Seo-hee Jung stopped moving, breathing heavily, and I barely stood up, my muscles trembling, and smiled softly.
Seo-hee Jung doesn’t know yet. The existence of my daily quest. That’s why I carry 400 bottles of water every evening.
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〈Status Window〉
Name: Jung Woo-jin
Strength: 11 (+1)
Agility: 11
Stamina: 12.9 (+1.9)
Physical Resistance: 8%
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As a result of performing the daily quest for 6 days, my stamina had risen from 11 to 12.9.
I was even able to raise it by 1.9 without any loss of stamina by refraining from sex for 6 days to get Seo-hee Jung.
Was that all?
My strength also increased by 1 after carrying water, eating meat, and resting diligently for 6 days.
From Seo-hee Jung’s point of view, my abnormal increase in stamina must have been incomprehensible.
I gave Seo-hee Jung a deep smile.
‘Even if there was no such effect, you can’t beat me.’
To beat me, you have to at least knock me out.
But knocking someone out is a very dangerous thing to do.
Giving a blow that can cause a knockout is dangerous in itself, but depending on how you knock someone out, there was a possibility that things could go wrong later.
Especially on an island like this with no medical facilities, it was something you shouldn’t try.
‘As long as you have affection for me, you can never do it.’
How could you beat a carefully raised disciple until she faints?
In other words, this fight was already decided in my favor the moment the bet was made and the sparring began.
All I had to do was provoke that stubborn and headstrong tomboy and drag her onto this battlefield.
‘In the first place, I don’t need to beat you. All I have to do is endure.’
“Eek!”
Peok. Peok. Peok.
The attack came again, but I endured with all my might as my body was about to collapse.
Even if I fell, I got up with all my strength.
Stagger.
Seo-hee Jung couldn’t bring herself to hit me.
If she added another blow in this state, I wouldn’t be able to get up, but Seo-hee Jung hesitated without delivering the decisive blow.
Instead, she made a strange expression.
I don’t know if I saw it correctly, but she was making an expression like, ‘What should I do? You’re annoying, but you’re so admirable.’
A face that made me feel good.
But she soon realized that it wasn’t the time to do that and hardened her expression.
The watch she had taken off before the sparring. Seo-hee Jung’s gaze turned to her watch.
‘5 minutes left.’
Suddenly, I wanted to check how much affection I had for Seo-hee Jung.
“Seo-hee, you remember the bet, right? You have to knock me down within 20 minutes to win. If you don’t, you lose. There are 5 minutes left.”
“Eut.”
“If you can’t knock me down, you’re going to roll around with me here. My dick will be going in and out of your pussy. Maybe you’ll even have a baby.”
“!!”
Seo-hee Jung, her eyes flashing, rushed at me and kicked my legs again.
Peok.
“Just give up!”
Peok. Peok. Peok.
“Don’t get up, just give up!”
Of course, I didn’t give up and endured. I gritted my teeth and pulled up all the strength I had.
Had she decided that this wouldn’t work?
Seo-hee Jung hesitated for a moment, then came behind me, who was lying down, and hugged me tightly. She wrapped her arms around my neck and choked me.
“Give up, Woo-jin!”
I desperately gritted my teeth and endured the chokehold. It was almost over now. This tenacious struggle was about to come to an end.
“Give up! Please!”
“Kkeuek. Kkeuk.”
The world suddenly turned yellow.
Is this how it ends?
“Damn it.”
Suddenly, oxygen rushed in, and the light in my vision brightened and darkened repeatedly.
Cough. Cough cough.
My dazed head tingled, and the thoughts that had stopped for a moment began to return.
Slowly, the blue sky, the palm trees, and Seo-hee Jung’s face began to appear.
“Why… why don’t you give up so easily?”
In the end, Seo-hee Jung released the arm that was choking me. If she had done it a little longer, she would have knocked me out, but in the end, she couldn’t.
“Why… why…”
It’s so scary to give affection to someone.
Who would have known that Seo-hee Jung, who was like an iron fortress, would collapse so easily and become full of weaknesses?
Right now, my existence itself was Seo-hee Jung’s weakness.
Seo-hee Jung couldn’t push me away.
That’s affection.
Love and hate.
I answered Seo-hee Jung’s question with my barely functioning head.
“You told me not to give up easily on anything. I’m just following what I learned from you.”
“!!”
Seo-hee Jung widened her eyes and looked down at me for a long time.
Even though I was lying with my head on her thigh, I could clearly feel her heart beating.
“You’re really… a guy worth teaching, Woo-jin.”
“Is that a compliment?”
“Of course.”
Seo-hee Jung sighed deeply and looked at her watch.
There was still about 1 minute and 30 seconds left.
Enough time to subdue me again at any time. But Seo-hee Jung stroked my head and said calmly.
“I lost. It’s your victory, Woo-jin.”
As if she had predicted what would happen in the future, her cheeks and ears were flushed red.
