After Jeongguk's win...

A fired-up Chisoo and Seungmin's victories bring the final score up to 3 to 2. They've pulled off a miraculous win against Yangeun High School!

"Woooooow!!!" Seungmin shouts in joy.

Junseon wraps his arm around his friends neck while jumping, "We won!! We won! Hahaha!!!"

(Y/N) jumps in the air with a wide grin on her face, "Ahhhhh! You guys all worked so hard!!!"

The members all gather Jeongguk, patting his back and giving him compliments for his big win. Jeongguk gets flustered but acknowledges his members' praises. As he looks through the crowd, (Y/N) is standing there clapping as she is smiling at Jeongguk. Jeongguk feels this indescribable flutter in his stomach and heads straight to her direction.

(Y/N) notices him coming her way. "Jeongguk! I'm so proud of you! You did so grea-"

(Y/N) was cut off as she felt Jeongguk's strong but firm arms placed around her, pulling her into a tight hug. The female was shocked but gave into the hug anyway.

"Thank you...(Y/N)." Was all Jeongguk whispered as he feels at peace with the embrace. 'I love you...(Y/N). So much.'

They break from the hug and head over to the rest of the members.

Everyone gathers around in a group, spinning around as they cheer. The Yangeun High School athletes don't seem to be processing their loss quite yet.

"Seungmin sunbae. You're pretty good. I wasn't expecting anything from you, honestly." Jeongguk admits, seeing it as a compliment.

(Y/N) nods her head, "Right! Me neither."

Seungmin looked offended, "Wow...You guys are too much. What did you take me for?!"

"Hey, but why'd you-" Junseon looks around his surroundings before lowering his voice. "Why didn't you go for his leg? I told you, it would've ended right there if you hit his right leg."

Jeongguk looks in Muho's direction and purposely raises his voice. "Ah- You're asking me why I didn't hit his right leg?"

"Uh- Huh?" Junseon sweatdrops by Jeongguk's sudden raising of his voice.

"I'd be embarrassed, even if I won." Jeongguk firmly states, "I don't need dirty tricks to win...Unlike someone I know."

"What's this kid talking about?" Junseon asks Seungmin, who just shrugs his shoulders.

(Y/N) couldn't help but try to gauge Muho's reaction to Jeongguk's sudden provocation. "R-Right! It's more meaningful to win fair and square. Only insecure kids need to cheat. Right, Chisoo." She nudges his side.

"If you're confident in your own skills, you wouldn't dare do anything like that." Chisoo's meaningful remark allows everyone to break out into satisfied laughter.

"Let's go, guys." (Y/N) says, "We need to eat a celebratory meal. Go go go to eat meat meat meat!"

The members instantly got pumped, chanting, "Right! Meat! Meat!!!"

Everyone's in high spirits as they pack up...but (Y/N) feels an unusual energy from behind them.

It's Cheon Muho, running towards Jeongguk with a chair!

"Jeon Jeongguk!!!" Muho shouts out as he charges at him.

"Jeongguk! Look out!!!" (Y/N) runs to him.

Jeongguk looks behind and sees his rival's angered figure, "Ah!"

Feeling the adrenaline rushing through her veins, she pushes Jeongguk out of the way from the chair and finds an opportunity to land a square kick onto Muho's shoulder. It's very similar to the move Jeongguk showed off while sparring with Chisoo.

Muho's figure thuds to the ground, groaning in pain as he grabs onto his shoulder. The club members look down at the fallen rival and then up to their Manager, fascinated by the sudden courage and strength she just showed off. Even Chisoo's jaw just dropped with Jeongguk looking just as astonished.

"Whoa...Manager! That was so awesome!!" Seungmin shouts with stars in his eyes.

Junseon looked so shocked but impressed at the same time, "You just took down Muho with just one kick! Manager, you're amazing!!"

(Y/N) sighs in relief and calms her nerves before running to Jeongguk's side, "Jeongguk!! Are you alright?!"

Jeongguk catches his breath and manages a smile, "Yeah, thanks to you. You had killer timing along with that kick! I knew you could handle some self-defense, but that was a whole another level!"

(Y/N) flushes shyly at his compliment, "Y-You really thinks so? Thanks..."

Jeongguk gives her a thumbs up then turns to Muho, who's lying on the floor. "Cheon Muho. Think deeply about why you chose to practice Taekwondo in the first place. Let's fight again when you find the answer."

Seeing Jeongguk so grown-up moves (Y/N) deeply. 'You're so cool, Jeon Jeongguk!'

The Principal finally rescinds his threat to dissolve the club. News of their victory spreads like a heroic tale throughout the school, causing more people to become interested.

*Timeskip*

Jeongguk was standing in the middle of the club's mat as he looks to a random boy from the school. He crosses arms and gives him a serious stare.

The boy seemed pretty excited, "I'm here to learn Taekwondo..."

Jeongguk didn't seem impressed, "You're here to learn Taekwondo?"

"Do you have requirements for joining?"

"Of course. You. Why do you want to learn Taekwondo?" Jeongguk asks coolly with an intimidating look.

The boy looked puzzled at first thinking it was a joke, but saw Jeongguk's expression. He chuckles nervously, "I'm hopeless at studying, so..."

"Wrong!" Jeongguk waves his hand dismissively, signaling him to get out.

The boy looked shocked of getting rejected.

*Minutes later*

Jeongguk keeps his hard stare, "How about you?"

"Yo. There's this kid who keeps picking on me." Another boy who came to join, started ranting, "So I want to get back at-"

"Wrong!" Jeongguk dismisses him.

The guy nods his head, understanding.

*Minutes later, again*

Another boy comes in while munching on his sweet bread.

Jeongguk smiles at how ridiculous the guy looks. No chance he'd really accept him.

"I want to join the Taekwondo club too!" The guy responds as his mouth is full of bread.

"Hey. Get out!" Jeongguk replies, still smiling at how much of a fool this guy looked.

"Why?" The guy clasps his hands together, pleading to Jeongguk.

Jeongguk raises his voice, "Leave!"

*Minutes later (sorry)*

Another kid with glasses, who looked exactly like the first kid that came in, was playing his flute.

Jeongguk was confused as he thought he already seen him before, "Hey- What are you doing back here? I told you no."

"I'm a...twin." The glasses boy asked shyly. "That was my twin brother earlier...So, what's your answer?"

Jeongguk looks down for a second before bringing it back up and answers coolly. "Once you've found an answer to the question, come back to us."

"Uh..." Was all the glasses boy said before he stepped out of the room.

Jeongguk just stands there grinning to himself proudly. 'Wow...I was pretty cool just then.'

As Jeongguk is lost in his train of thought, Chisoo sneak attacks behind him and puts him in a headlock.

"Come here." Chisoo holds his headlock on Jeongguk, teasing him. "Hey! You think your all big now-"

Jeongguk grips onto him, trying to get out. "What?! I just asked them what you asked me!"

"When did I do that? When'd I do that? This little kid..."

"It was exactly the same!" Jeongguk starts tickling Chisoo's sides, causing him to squirm a bit.

"I'm not ticklis- Pfft!" Chisoo unlocks his hold as he couldn't take the tickling.

They stand a distance from each other.

"Are you captain? Huh?" Chisoo asks Jeongguk playfully.

Jeongguk's shines his bunny smile, "Sure, I'll be captain."

Chisoo points to the battle mat. "It's been a while. You wanna spar?"

"Oh, do you wanna spar? It's been a while." Jeongguk says, imitating Chisoo.

Chisoo starts chasing Jeongguk, "Come here!"

Jeongguk laughs as he runs away, while Chisoo follows him.

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