It was just another ordinary day.
Going to school as usual,
Studying while slacking off just enough,
Hitting the basketball court with friends until just before mandatory self-study,
And dozing off during self-study, completely exhausted.
He was 18 years old, a sophomore in high school.
Han Yeon-hoo.
174cm, 65kg. The only exercise he’d ever done was playing soccer and basketball like crazy during PE class and lunch breaks since middle school.
Perhaps because he moved his body in his own way, he had some decent, toned muscles. But that didn’t exactly mean he had a great physique.
When it came to looks, he wasn’t the type you’d call handsome at first glance. But he wasn’t ugly either, and thanks to his gentle demeanor with slightly downturned eyes, he had a reasonably warm appearance.
If you counted the girls he “dated” in elementary school or the first year of middle school, he’d had girlfriends.
He was quite good at studying until around the second year of middle school, but around that time, he started spending a lot of time hanging out with friends. Because of that, he was now around the mid-tier in terms of academics. He was reasonably good at soccer and basketball, and also reasonably good at games.
Whatever he did, he was good enough to hear, “Oh? You’re pretty good?” However, he had never been deeply immersed in anything, nor did he have the persistence to reach the level of “good.”
In summary.
Honestly, he thought of himself as above average. If you were to put it in terms of mock exam grades, he’d be around a 3 [on a scale where 1 is the highest score].
Frankly speaking, his looks were decent. He had slacked off on studying a bit, but he was still above average, and he was quite good at sports. The same went for games. Wouldn’t that be above average?
Yeah.
He thought he was at least that much.
He thought that if you lined up hundreds of thousands of male high school students, he’d be sitting relatively close to the front.
But that didn’t mean he didn’t know his place.
“Will you go out with me?”
He was definitely not the type to have a high school girl, who would definitely make you turn around and look again if you ran into her on the street, smiling gently in front of him and suddenly confessing.
Yeah, absolutely not.
However, he was by no means a loser. Honestly, high school was an all-boys school, so there weren’t many opportunities to talk to girls, but until middle school, he used to hang out with both girls and boys normally.
Thanks to that, even though he was greatly embarrassed inside, he was able to say it clearly.
“Shincheonji, no thanks.”
And then he immediately turned around and ran away.
Wow, Shincheonji [a controversial religious movement], which I’ve only seen on the internet, is around here too.
Are they even trying to lure kids these days?