Responses
The way the chapter ended did freak me out, but I think Dan will be okay in a way because potato was there with Dan to test out the spray so I'm hoping potato (i forgot his name lol) will be able to defend Dan that it wasn't his fault.
Oh yeah! I forgot to say that, thanks! Yeah Potato to the rescue!
Chapter 49
So it turns out that they never actually talked about it. What? So Jaekyung was waiting for Dan to bring it up first? Ugh, Dan! You have a responsibility as a Team Black employee!
BUT! I don’t think Jaekyung will lose. And the match may take place next episode or it’ll be Jaekyung’s backstory, or possibly both.
Here’s why I don’t think he’ll lose:
1. He’s almost definitely seen Baek Junmin fight in the past.
I really think they both were either in rival gangs or the same gang in the past. They both have those massive tattoos but Junmin’s is full of color and he has many whereas Jaekyung’s more traditional tattoos are black and white—in the past. This also explains why he reacts so poorly to being called a baby. It seems that he was bullied (I mean the complex, the need to win, the milk every morning, the relentless training, the anger… kinda obvious) and that the trigger word was “baby” to belittle him.
2. The placement of the injury he received: his foot. Hello Achilles? But the achilles tendon is on the backside of the foot/ankle and Jaekyung’s burn is on the front of his foot. It’s probably acid—I was literally screaming at my screen “WATER!!! WIPE IT OFF!!!”—because it was immediately painful and irritating. Since this burn was on the other side of the achilles tendon and on top of a throbbing vein, it made me think of boiling blood—anger that will carry and drive Jaekyung through this next fight.
3. Seems like this will be Jaekyung’s second spar with Junmin, a follow up from the last one where he lost and apparently cried. Jaekyung will have to apply different techniques to counter Baek Junmin's attacks. Jaekyung’s foot will force him to wrestle with Junmin, which will probably result in him being strangled and trigger a memory. Remember when Jaekyung was training before his match with Dan, before Yoon Gu headlocked Dan, and Jaekyung had someone in a headlock who was tapping? Jaekyung said, “You can’t get out of this? Just do it.” Makes me think he is repeating something he heard. I believe he’ll break free but Junmin will seriously injure him before ultimately losing.
Jaekyung will keep his title but will be too injured to compete for a while or forever.