Free Web Novel'Does this even make sense?'
Kim Hyundong.
He was an active UFC fighter, but he was also a broadcaster who, these days, showed up on YouTube or variety shows more often than he did in actual combat sports.
Usually, Hyundong’s YouTube content was things like inviting other famous celebrities to the ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) gym he ran and having them learn a bit of fighting.
And sometimes, on live broadcasts, he’d communicate with viewers, watch videos that became a topic, and do a quick review.
-Hyundong, isn’t this pro-level?
And right now, the moment Hyundong turned on his live broadcast, he watched a video that viewers immediately flooded in demanding he analyze, and his mind went blank.
[Female Idol Subdues Signing Event Rampage]
(A scene where Lee Sion shoulder-throws a knife-wielding man and slams him down)
↳Holy shit, isn’t that an actual knife?
↳Wow, she’s like lightning. The instant the knife shows, she charges?
↳Even the guards hesitate a bit and Lee Sion is insane
↳With that Liu Bei cosplay, it looks like some Chinese wuxia movie
Looking it up late, it was an incident from this morning.
A video that showed a scene where Lee Sion, a member of the recently hot girl group Iam, subdued a knife-wielding assailant with a shoulder throw.
-That’s still insane even watching it again
-I think I rewatched this like dozens of times the moment it dropped
-I’ve thought she was different since that 7:1 incident, but this is a real fighting talent that got stolen by the idol world
-At this level, she was legit the kind of talent you could’ve put against Ronda Rousey
-It’s not too late even now
And Hyundong’s live viewers who saw the video were all freaking out while typing in chat.
'They’re not freaking out.'
Normally, when even slightly athletic celebrities appeared, Hyundong’s viewers would say they were “talent the fighting world missed” and make a big fuss, and Hyundong would play along for fun.
But not this time.
Actually, this wasn’t even Hyundong’s first time analyzing a Lee Sion video.
Back during Agbaek, when Lee Sion’s school-violence controversy happened, Hyundong had reacted to Lee Sion’s video on live before.
When he watched Lee Sion’s video back then, Hyundong couldn’t stop marveling at the clean weaving and footwork.
"Like I said in the previous video too, this person definitely learned boxing."
↳She didn’t learn it though?
↳Yeah, not boxing, people around her even confirmed she never even went to academies through all of school
↳So Hyundong saw wrong?
↳Did her dad teach her?
Chat filled with messages saying Lee Sion had never learned boxing, but Hyundong didn’t believe it.
No matter how you looked at it, that was movement from someone who’d learned.
"But seeing today, she learned judo too."
Click.
Hyundong clicked the mouse, jumped back to the beginning of the video, and paused the screen.
"You see this? No hesitation, immediately grabs the opponent’s wrist with one hand and pulls, then grabs the forearm with the other hand and slides the armpit onto the shoulder. That was seriously perfect."
In judo, the grip points for a shoulder throw shift a bit depending on the opponent’s posture or position, and the part Lee Sion was gripping right now was truly perfect.
A series of flowing, water-like motions—controlling the wrist of the hand holding the weapon, and then immediately gripping the arm so it couldn’t be pulled free, and flipping him over.
"This isn’t easy. People who teach ordinary folks a shoulder throw as self-defense are all bad people. Why? Because the basics of a shoulder throw are grip strength."
↳??? Isn’t it like you use their force against them and stuff?
↳I saw it in Baki, yeah, shoulder throws are a technique where you take their force and flip it
↳Hyundong doesn’t know fights
↳So are you saying teach boxing as self-defense or what
As a flood of rebuttals poured into chat at Hyundong’s words, he gave a hollow laugh and continued explaining.
"That works when they’re extending a punch, but that’s not what this is, right? To throw someone who’s just standing there, you really have to break their center with pure grip strength and flip them. That’s why judo athletes’ grip strength is no joke. Ordinary people can never throw someone like this."
Not a joke—sure, maybe athlete versus ordinary person.
But if it was ordinary person versus ordinary person, a shoulder throw was the worst option, just giving your back to the other person, completely defenseless. frёewebηovel.cѳm
Except—
BANG!
As if to shatter that common sense, the knife-wielding assailant got slammed into the ground with a satisfying crash.
-Guhhk.
In the Octagon, where fighters competed, the floor had devices that absorbed impact to protect the fighters.
'Even so, if you get grabbed and slammed once, the shock makes your whole body tingle.'
Even then, when you got slammed, it sent a jolt through your body like electricity and made your strength go loose for a moment, so getting slammed onto bare ground was guaranteed to be damage on a different level.
As if proving it, the video showed the assailant lying on the ground, mouth hanging open, dropping the knife from his hand, his body trembling.
"Wow... I seriously want to invite this person to my gym at least once."
↳It’s been a while since I’ve seen Hyundong praise someone this hard
↳Back then wasn’t it a foreign fighter, not an idol?
↳But does that count as self-defense?
↳He had a knife, so wouldn’t it?
Right around when he was wrapping up the reaction, Hyundong saw the chat that came up and realized something.
'Is this okay?'
It was definitely a threatening situation where the other guy had a knife and was trying to swing it, but since he got slammed onto bare ground, his injuries wouldn’t be small, so whether it was self-defense could get murky.
On top of that, to Hyundong, Lee Sion looked like a trained martial artist no matter how he looked, and in situations like this, that often worked against you, so he couldn’t help worrying.
***
"Good job."
"Hoo... I guess a kind person like me really doesn’t have it easy in this world."
The police station.
Surprisingly, it was the first place I’d ever been in my past life and this life combined.
I’d lived such a clean life that I could brag I was someone who could live without laws, so I’d thought I’d never go there, and getting brought in unexpectedly made me flustered, but—
"It looks like this will be recognized as self-defense. We won’t even be filing it as a criminal case on our end, so you don’t need to worry."
Thankfully, my first visit to the police station could end without any problems.
"Is Shinyu okay?"
"Yeah, Shinyu said she didn’t even properly see the moment that guy pulled the knife."
"That’s a relief."
An assailant who suddenly pulled out a knife and tried to cause a scene at the fan signing this morning.
Because I stepped in fast and subdued him, we could end it without anyone getting hurt, but unfortunately, the fan signing had no choice but to end there.
First we had to hand that bastard over to the police, and after that, starting from taking statements, the assailant who got dragged to the station caused a scene about reporting me for assault and this and that, so it was impossible to keep doing the signing.
More than anything, I was fine, but thinking about how the other members must have been shocked, even if we could keep going, canceling the signing was absolutely the right call.
"I’ll take the members and go back first. Especially Shinyu—she says she’s okay right now, but there could’ve been psychological shock, so I’ll take her to the hospital."
So Sanghyeok, the CEO, took care of the other members, and PD Raon and Manager Yunsik came with me to the police station and we proceeded with the investigation.
In that process, the assailant brazenly made a fuss saying if my self-defense was excessive, he’d sue me for assault, so for a moment it almost got annoyingly complicated.
But—
"From here, please leave it to me."
[Kim & Hwang Law Firm]
A lawyer from a famous law firm that anyone in Korea had heard of showed up, and saying they’d take it from here, they cleaned up the situation in an instant.
"Hm... of course there’s no criminal record, but this school-violence committee record from student days could be a bit of an issue. Still, this case is fairly well-known, so it should pass fine. More than anything, in this case, precedent..."
I didn’t understand even half of what he was saying, but if I summarized the important part, it was basically this: in cases like this, the perpetrators sometimes see cases that came out on TV or in the news and come out saying they’ll countersue, and that happens pretty often.
"Do you know why it ends up on TV? Because it’s a truly special case. Normally, they won’t even accept the case filing. Korean law isn’t that easy."
As expected of the peak of learned people, the lawyers were even thinking about whether there wasn’t some way to squeeze him harder.
"Long live New World!!!"
"Seriously, Yunkyung’s family really is different... I never thought they’d even have a dedicated team."
And the one who sent that Avengers lawyer squad was none other than Yunkyung.
"I contacted my mom, Captain! Just wait a bit. I’ll get you out right away."
Did she think I’d gotten locked up in a holding cell or something?
Anyway, thanks to Yunkyung using her family’s power a little, we could wrap things up comfortably.
"A while ago, I talked with the CEO for a bit, and even before this, we were going to give you some rest once this event ended."
"Already?"
"You had no break right after Agbaek because you were preparing to debut, and then you went straight into promotions, so it’s been nonstop. You did well just holding on until now."
While I was briefly thinking back on what happened at the police station, Raon’s voice pulled me back.
Leave.
It was a word I hadn’t even been thinking about, so I was dazed for a moment, but—
"Things are going to be loud again for a while because of what happened today, so instead, let’s go home and rest properly, and then start promoting again."
At Raon’s continued words, I had no choice but to nod.
[Fuck, this is why you don’t work at some shitty small company]
「What’s the point of the kids doing well if they didn’t even check the belongings of the fan signing attendees?
What were they going to do if the kids actually got hurt?
It ended as a happening because Sion handled it well, but this is seriously a huge problem
What’s the point of the members being good on broadcasts and good on stage if you can’t even pay attention to something like this」 ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
↳Seriously, what did they even hire guards for?
↳If it weren’t for Sion, Shinyu seriously could’ve been in huge trouble
↳Ah, I’m so fucking pissed, the vibe was perfect before the incident
↳I was laughing looking at the clips of them doing an insane street stage and the cosplay, then I saw the incident and my face went blank
↳The kids are all okay, right?
Separate from the fact that the case wrapped up fine, Yours—our fans—were furious.
Starting with how the event management could’ve possibly let someone like that win a signing that only picked 300 people.
And what the guards who were protecting us were doing, and so on—since we’d been in danger, they were mad enough to point out a lot of things.
'No matter how much you prepare, you can’t respond perfectly to everything.'
But I didn’t think the company’s preparations or the guards’ response were lacking.
Because no matter how well you prepared, gaps always happened, and you could only minimize them—responding to every accident was close to impossible.
If, to prevent something like this, we went beyond checking belongings and did body searches on people attending the signing, it was obvious there would’ve been talk about that later too.
Of course I was grateful for the fans’ feelings of thinking about our safety, but seeing PD Raon looking dispirited, I felt bad for her.
Tap tap.
"Hm?"
"Hey, hang in there. If everything worked out for people, that’d be boring."
"What?"
"Next signing, should we try bringing in a metal detector?"
Since it seemed like it weighed on her that our first signing ended in an incident, I patted PD Raon’s shoulder as she’d been making a long face, and said it, and—
Thunk.
"Ow!"
"Hey, I’ve been in the entertainment industry for sixteen years. Who’s worrying about who?"
"I’m saying there are a lot of things with good reactions too, so don’t only look at the bad things and worry."
Snap.
I showed Raon the screen on my smartphone.
-Parachute, school violence, fan signing rampage... is this a rookie girl group’s career?
↳Amazingly, one person is the main character in all of it
↳God Sion! If only one of those blew up and it was a normal member, they would’ve been gone ages ago
↳lol “gone” is right. The other side is
↳Is it normal that because Lee Sion is there, even if something happens, I get excited before I worry?
↳How did that bastard think he could mess with a group that has a crazy bitch who won a 7:1 fight?
↳Honestly it was suicide lol
There were people criticizing the company too, but even more people saw what happened today and ended up learning who Iam was and taking interest.
Of course, in that process—
-Lee Sion is basically a talisman. This bitch personally takes care of every incident, accident, and controversy
-If you flip the thinking, is Lee Sion actually blocking all the team’s bad luck?
-Why Iam’s wiki page is clean? Because one person is hogging it lolllll
-Sion, let’s keep doing exactly what you’re doing
There were also a lot of rumors about me spreading, but still.
"Anyway, you really worked hard, Sion. Now let’s go back to the dorm. We’ll just pack a few things there, and Jiu and Yunsik will take the members home one by one."
"Yes, sir."
The dorm.
A space that became my new home after the training dorm.
Hearing Raon say we were going back there, I felt my heart ease for some reason.
'Are my rookies all sobbing and dragging the vibe down again? I guess I’ll have to fix it again.'
Thinking about it, the other members probably were still really shaken from what happened, so I thought I should personally loosen them up.
***
Reuniting with them was the worst.
"Captain...."
Yunkyung was looking at me with tears dripping down, but unlike that expression, the hand holding the pillow had so much force in it you could see the veins.
'I let my guard down. I didn’t think they’d ambush me the moment I walked in.'
The instant I returned to the dorm, I got wrapped up tight in a blanket, laid down on the living room floor, and had to take a pillow beating from the members.
"Sion, you really need to be punished! What were you going to do if that person actually swung the knife?!"
"Shinyu!! I moved to save you... no violence! Stop the pillow!"
I tried to make excuses somehow, but the members didn’t let it slide and raised their pillows at me.
So I tried to calm them down first, but—
"Captain, are you not scared? There were guards!"
"You—what were you going to do if you got hurt?!"
"Please be careful!"
Maybe because they were really angry, unlike usual, my fancy topic-changes and excuses weren’t working at all.
"Lee Sion."
So while I was thinking how I could escape this crisis, Ryu Ayeon, who had the coldest expression out of everyone surrounding me, spoke to me.
"...What."
That chilly look made me flinch without realizing it, and I answered a little deflated, and then—
"You’re not in danger?"
"Huh?"
"Only Shinyu is in danger, and you’re not in danger?"
"That’s...."
Ryu Ayeon’s answer that came back was even colder.
"The way you think about us, we think about you too. If you get in danger for us, do you think we can just be happy about it?"
"That’s right. If you got hurt trying to protect me...."
At Ayeon’s words, Shinyu—who’d been the one in danger today—added on, voice shaking.
Only then did I understand why the others were angry too, so I couldn’t say anything and, still wrapped in the blanket, tried to squirm away toward the room like a grub.
"Idiot. Don’t try to do it alone. Do it together."
Ayeon’s voice came from behind my back.
"I taught you what teamwork is, so why do you always try to do everything alone?"
"...Okay."
Thinking about it, I could feel myself too that I’d only been trying to protect them, so I had no choice but to reflect.
But—
"Then untie me!!! We have to go on leave!"
Right now was time to get ready to go on leave, not time to be tied up in a blanket.
"What?"
"PD Raon said she’s giving us leave because we worked hard! The managers are coming soon! We have to pack!"
"Then why are you saying that now?!"
"You didn’t even give me a chance to talk!"
I complained that it was unfair, but the members didn’t even listen. The moment they heard the word leave, they got excited and left me tied up in the blanket, each of them going into their rooms to hurriedly pack.
"Hey! Untie me!!!"
My empty shout echoed through the dorm.
