Chapter 84: Who Are You? 2
"Hmm. So your body grew too quickly, and you suspected I might be using drugs? Is that why you brought me here to scare me by talking about drugs?"
Hearing this, Lim Soo-hee waved her hands.
"Suspicion? No, I was worried. Worried."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
"It's different! I believed in you, Juhwan. I just wanted to warn you in case something like that happened, or if something unexpected came up in the future."
"So basically you didn't trust me?"
"Ugh."
In the end, Lim Soo-hee slightly lowered her head as if she had nothing to say.
Seo Juhwan smiled and looked at her.
He wasn't really angry. After all, she was genuinely worried, and he thought her method was reasonable.
She couldn't directly ask if he used drugs, and she couldn't conduct a drug test as a gym manager. So to scare him about drugs, she gathered everyone and listed all kinds of side effect cases.
'Actually, it makes sense to suspect.'
He achieved a 345-pound total in deadlift, bench press, and squat after just two months of the gym. He didn't even have a large frame to begin with. It wasn't unreasonable to be concerned about drug use.
Seo Juhwan shrugged and made a gesture indicating it was fine. Then Lim Soo-hee's face brightened, and the others also smiled and spoke.
"Haha. Sorry, Juhwan. You're not upset, right?"
"It's fine. I'll just accept that my talent is genius-level."
"Puha. You've got great spirit too. Actually, this isn't the first time. I've actually caught a few people using drugs before."
"Really?"
"Yeah. When I listed all those side effect cases like before, their faces went pale."
It seemed she had experience catching drug users before. In fact, from Lim Soo-hee's perspective, it didn't matter whether they used drugs or not, but at least at Ribbon Fitness, she didn't want to accept drug users as members.
Steroid users could break the will of natural athletes, and in really bad cases, they'd even solicit and sell drugs like Baek Gang Ho mentioned earlier.
Anyway, when Seo Juhwan passed over it casually, everyone got excited and the drinking party resumed.
As they were drinking to their hearts' content, passing cups back and forth, Kim Dae-seop, the oldest member, pointed at Seo Juhwan and shouted.
"Where have I seen you before! Juhwan!"
"Yes? You saw me at the gym, right?"
"Not that! Isn't this you?"
He thrust his phone forward.
On the phone was a large image of his face before he lost weight.
It was a video of an interview after catching a murderer.
The Ribbon Fitness members who had been eating and drinking noisily fell quiet, focusing on the video. When the video ended, people looked at him with surprised eyes.
Come to think of it, at the Anyang branch, since he had lost weight, nobody recognized him?
Glancing at Lim Soo-hee, she vigorously shook her head as if to say it wasn't her who spread it.
Baek Gang Ho looked at him with wide eyes and spoke.
"Juhwan, you caught murderers too? You're quite impressive, huh?"
"Haha... It just happened that way."
Kim Dae-seop, who showed the video, suddenly stood up with a soju bottle and beer bottle in his hands.
"Whoa! I didn't recognize a national hero! Let me pour you a drink!"
"Yes?"
"What? Put out your glass!"
It wouldn't work with Baek Gang Ho, who was over 190cm, but Kim Dae-seop was also an incredibly large person who could lift 570 pounds in his total. At his loud shout, Seo Juhwan quickly brought a soju glass.
Kim Dae-seop clicked his tongue and spoke.
"Tsk. Not that, a beer glass!"
"Yes, sir."
He held out a beer glass, and Kim Dae-seop poured soju generously.
The soju bottle that had more than half remained was almost completely emptied, and at the end, he carefully drizzled beer on top.
The ratio was 9:1.
Having finished making the drink, Kim Dae-seop smiled brightly and said.
"These days young kids call this honey liquor, I hear?"
Sir, that's not it...
*
He didn't know how long the drinking would continue.
It had already been over two hours.
Seo Juhwan drank madly because of the interview video that was suddenly revealed. These people were all drinks-lovers who didn't get tired of drinking.
"Wow, Juhwan drinks well!"
"It looks like Juhwan has been drinking the most?"
"Really? Yeah, it's true! Then let's have one more!"
Among them, Seo Juhwan, who was keeping his senses, was definitely someone who held his liquor well. He had already drunk three of Kim Dae-seop's honey liquor concoctions and was still alive.
Baek Gang Ho, who had brought a hangover cure earlier, said the drinks were going down smoothly today and drank like a hippopotamus. Naturally, drinks came to Seo Juhwan as well.
He continued pouring drinks, clinking glasses with Kim Dae-seop, Lee Mun-seok, and Baek Gang Ho in relay.
In between, he also clinked glasses with Lim Soo-hee and Lee Hyeri.
Lim Soo-hee was giggling, clearly drunk, while Lee Hyeri had a flushed face and only gave soft eye smiles in silence.
They drank like this until dawn.
To be exact... what time was it?
"Huh!?"
Seo Juhwan suddenly jumped up from his seat.
"Ugh."
His head was throbbing from how much he had drunk.
When he got his bearings and looked ahead, this wasn't his house.
"Where am I...?"
It was dark because the lights were off.
The place where he was sitting felt soft, and based on the texture, it seemed to be a bed...
"Mmm."
A woman's voice came from beside him.
...Who are you?
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