Real Man

Chapter 41

Thud.

After a short practice, Yoo-hyun came down from the ring. 

The gym manager patted his back and encouraged him.

“Yoo-hyun, you did well. You seem to be improving every time, don’t you?”

“Thank you.”

“Manager, what about me?”

The manager sneered at Park Young Hoon’s question.

“Young Hoon, you need to work harder. How many mistakes did you make on the ring?”

“That’s because Yoo-hyun…”

“Enough with the excuses. Yoo-hyun, here.”

The manager cut off Park Young Hoon’s words.

He then gave Yoo-hyun a warm smile and handed him a drink.

Naturally, Park Young Hoon protested.

“Manager, why do you only give it to Yoo-hyun?”

“I’ll give you one when you improve your skills.”

Yoo-hyun chuckled as he received the drink.

He could clearly see that the manager was hiding another drink behind his back.

“Really, you favor the original members too much…”

“What?”

As a drink popped out of the manager’s hand, Park Young Hoon quickly took back his words.

“No, I mean, you are such a great manager. Hehe.”

This was also a familiar scene.

Then, Oh Jung Wook, who had sparred with Yoo-hyun for the first time, shouted loudly.

“Come on, let’s stop arguing and eat.”

“Are you already here?”

“Yes. I also brought some free dumplings!”

“Oh, there’s also liquor!”

Eating delivery food on the gym floor after working out was also the same.

It felt natural to him now.

“Yoo-hyun, eat a lot. You’re too skinny.”

“I sweat every day, so it’s natural to lose weight.”

“Then what about Young Hoon?”

The manager’s fact bomb made Park Young Hoon pause as he was eating jajangmyeon. He rolled his eyes around.

“Should I stop eating?”

“Look at me. I might hit you if you do well.”

The manager flexed his upper body and taunted him. Park Young Hoon quickly straightened his face.

“Let’s just eat.”

“Hahaha.”

The people sitting around laughed and Yoo-hyun also joined them.

Would he have ever imagined this in the past?

Definitely not.

But now this place had become an indispensable part of Yoo-hyun’s life.

The people he was with were also the same.

They were all warm and kind people, no matter how they got together.

“Here, Yoo-hyun. Eat some sweet and sour pork too.”

“Thank you.”

He was especially grateful to the manager who took care of him one by one.

If he hadn’t held on to him, Yoo-hyun would have lived without knowing this good place.

So he naturally wanted to repay him.

‘Is there anything I can do to help?’

Yoo-hyun quickly looked around and asked.

“Manager, are you going to keep managing the roster by hand as the number of members increases?”

“Yeah. It’s too much trouble.”

“Why don’t you get a system for that?”

“Nah, there’s no need to waste money on that.”

Yoo-hyun thought differently.

It didn’t matter if they did it by hand in the company conference room, but it was different for the gym.

They had to manage the fees and also provide different programs according to each person’s level.

It might be okay for now, but it would only get harder as time went by.

Kim Tae Soo, who had just debuted as a pro fighter, chimed in.

“We tried it before, but that company wasn’t very good. Oh, manager. You also looked for other places, right?”

“Those guys were even more scammers.”

“They asked for twice as much? Anyway, they were too expensive. They also charged extra for maintenance fees. And most importantly, they weren’t trustworthy. Why? Do you know any place?”

Kim Tae Soo conveyed the manager’s specific thoughts for him.

It all came down to money and trust issues.

If that was the case?

Yoo-hyun glanced at Park Young Hoon.

“We have a financial expert here, don’t we?”

“Me?”

Park Young Hoon pointed at himself and smirked.

What did a fund manager have to do with a gym electronic system?

Yoo-hyun said.

“You have a lot of successful self-employed clients, right? Isn’t there anyone who owns a gym?”

“There is.”

“Then just ask them. It would be easy to compare if we had a list of verified companies.”

“That’s true. I could even lower the price by just poking around a few places.”

The manager frowned and asked him.

“Young Hoon, why didn’t you tell me this earlier?”

“Huh? I didn’t think of it.”

“Kid! You’re so useful!”

“Ah, thank you…”

Park Young Hoon’s mouth curled up at the manager’s unexpected compliment.

The manager then moved the plate of sweet and sour pork in front of him to Yoo-hyun’s side.

He then turned all the attention to Yoo-hyun.

“Yoo-hyun, eat more sweet and sour pork. It’s all thanks to you.”

“But Young Hoon is doing it, not me.”

“No. He would never do it if I left him alone.”

Park Young Hoon flared up at that.

“Manager! I’m doing the work, why do you only take care of Yoo-hyun?”

“Kid, aren’t you going to debut as a pro soon?”

“A pro?”

“Yeah. Are you going to stay fat like that?”

“Of course not. I’ll work hard!”

The manager was not just anyone.

He was a master at coaxing and soothing one member.

His last words were the final blow.

“It will take a very long time, though.”

“Hahaha!”

The people laughed as they heard the manager’s muttering.

Sweating, eating, laughing, and talking like this.

All of this was so precious to Yoo-hyun now.

The next morning.

A man called Park Seung Woo.

He was Hwang Dong Shik, a senior from the second part.

“Park, did you book the meeting room for the biweekly report?”

“Oh! Right!”

“Hey, you have to do that. You’re the deputy secretary when I’m on vacation.”

Every team had a secretary role.

They shared the tasks that were needed to keep the team running smoothly, besides their main duties.

Hwang Dong Shik’s secretary role was ‘meeting in charge’, which meant he was responsible for taking care of the team’s overall meetings.

When he was absent, the backup member was Park Seung Woo.

But Park Seung Woo was so busy with preparing for an urgent report that he couldn’t take care of it.

His face turned pale because of that.

“I’m sorry. I’ll do it right away.”

“It’s too late. The reservation must be full by now.”

The meeting room reservation cycle was renewed every month.

Individual meetings could be changed by negotiation, but the team regular meetings had to be booked in advance.

They had to reserve a large meeting room that could fit all the team members, but it filled up quickly.

Hwang Dong Shik rubbed his throbbing head.

He had a headache thinking that he would get scolded by the team leader for not booking the meeting room in advance.

Then, Yoo-hyun, who quickly intervened, said to Park Seung Woo.

“I reserved it.”

“What?”

“Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock, right? I reserved the time according to the biweekly schedule.”

“When?”

Park Seung Woo asked incredulously.

“Yesterday. You said it was a biweekly report this Thursday.”

“…”

“Wow, Park. You used the newbie well. Good job.”

Hwang Dong Shik gave him a thumbs up and Park Seung Woo blinked his eyes in disbelief.

“No, no.”

“No, it’s fine. Thank you. Thank you, Yoo-hyun.”

Thud thud.

He even received a smile from Hwang Dong Shik, who was always grumpy.

Park Seung Woo felt flustered.

‘I think I did tell him that there was a biweekly report…’

Even if he understood his gibberish words perfectly, how could he think of reserving a meeting room?

Was this something possible with just sense?

He turned his head and saw Yoo-hyun shrugging his shoulders as if he didn’t know.

What a pretty guy.

He couldn’t stop smiling when he looked at him.

“Thank you. You smart guy.”

“Sir, are you trying to hug me?”

“What’s wrong with that? We’re both men.”

“I don’t like men.”

Yoo-hyun leaned back his chair lightly and avoided him.

The atmosphere in the office became even more harmonious after that.

Especially Park Seung Woo’s face was like a warm spring breeze.

“What are you doing? Are you still looking at the textbook? Ask me if you don’t understand anything. I’ll tell you everything.”

“Yes. I’ll do that.”

Park Seung Woo tapped Yoo-hyun’s shoulder, who was sitting next to him, and looked proud.

He seemed to want to teach him something even though he was busy.

Yoo-hyun didn’t want to break his mood, so he nodded along.

But it was a bit burdensome that he kept looking at him and giggling.

He muttered to himself as if talking to himself.

“I want to teach him something…”

The truth was, there wasn’t much work given to new employees.

They couldn’t give them work right away since they didn’t know anything.

Instead, they had to teach them how to do it by sticking with them, but that also took time.

That’s why there was a six-month OJT (on-the-job training) period for new employees.

Of course, it didn’t matter if they were busy, OJT period or not.

Park Seung Woo kept getting annoyed by Yoo-hyun.

Carefully.

He even took out his notebook and business card holder.

His efforts were clearly visible on the densely filled notebook.

The business card holder had not only the cards of companies or other departments or teams, but also their characteristics and points to note.

It was definitely not a material made to show off to anyone.

Yoo-hyun had never seen it before either.

Park Seung Woo handed him the notebook and business card holder without any hesitation.

“Study this. It’s a trade secret, so you have to listen to me well.”

“Thank you.”

Yoo-hyun’s sincere answer made him happy and Park Seung Woo said generously.

“I’ll give you everything since I’m giving it to you. Log in to my computer. I’ll share it with you.”

“Okay.”

“You’re so smart. You get it right away.”

Park Seung Woo’s face was full of smiles.

He logged in to Park Seung Woo’s computer through the company internet, and there was a work folder.

It was huge.

It was a time when the concept of cloud computing hadn’t been introduced yet, so they collected all the data on their personal computers.

Especially Park Seung Woo was the type who collected everything and then looked at it.

The folder tree showed that he had organized it well.

He gave him all this?

They were data organized in his own style, not in a unified format.

Even the report for his assigned report that he was organizing until just now was in there.

‘Market research, company list, exhibition analysis data, technical report, business plan…’

The folder names had numbers in front of them to make them easy to see in order.

The subfolders were organized by year.

It would take a day just to open it.

He must have wanted to give him a lot.

Yoo-hyun was grateful.

Sincerity makes flattery natural.

“You’re such a cool senior.”

“Hahaha, it’ll take you a year to see all that. Just think of it as something that exists.”

“Okay. I’ll buy you coffee.”

“Hey, how can I mooch off my junior? I’ll treat you big time after the report is done.”

Park Seung Woo boasted.

Yoo-hyun smiled and looked at the monitor that was copying.

New folders were coming in one by one in the open space.

He opened one of the files.

It would take a year to see all this?

He chuckled to himself.

Other people wouldn’t dare to do it, but Yoo-hyun was different.

He had experience in doing actual work, and his vision wasn’t stuck in the part, but aimed at the whole group.

He could guess the whole content by just looking at the first page of the report.

He had gotten used to Han Sung Electronics’ report style.

He felt like his memory was getting clearer now.

The chronology that Yoo-hyun reconstructed and recorded was mostly written down from Yoo-hyun’s achievements.

He looked at the business plan for this year and the next year that he was writing, and checked the ongoing projects, and the overall outline began to emerge.