Mr Mermaid | LK Adaptation

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

On January 20th, the National Swimming Championships were held at City-C. This time coincided with the last month of the lunar calendar. City-C was located in the Northeast, and the outside temperature was around -20 degrees. As such, even though this competition was called the 'Spring Championships', in reality, it had nothing at all to do with spring. Lisa was well prepared, but even so, she had almost become a frozen dog outdoors. Actually swimming in this kind of cold weather ... it was scary just thinking about it. Although the swimming pool would surely be heated, there would somehow still be some psychological stress ...

Lisa shared her thoughts with Bambam and received Bambam's contempt in exchange. "Don't act as if you know how to swim."

Lisa felt that this fellow was really becoming more and more annoying.

The events of the Spring Championships would go on for four days in total, nearly half the duration of the National Championships. The scheduling of the events were rather tight — it was clear to see that the organizers felt it wasn't very important. In the competition this time, the famous top athletes continued to opt to use the opportunity to train their secondary specializations; Nana and Jaehyun were no exception. This time, Jaehyun had chosen once again to only sign up for the 100-metre free. From a normal outsider's perspective, it was like he had decided to lock horns with Jungkook. As a peripheral professional, Lisa knew that Jaehyun's decision was not out of personal reckless whimsy, but many people would not see it that way.

For example, Rosé was howling at Lisa over the phone, "Jungkook is the one that Jaehyun truly loves, right?!"

Lisa found it hilarious. "Isn't Jungkook your husband?"

"No, I've seen the truth of the situation. I'm now team Jaekook."

Lisa asked curiously, "What's team Jaekook?"

"That the team supporting the Jungkook and Jaehyun couple! Hehehehe ..."

She cackled so salaciously that Lisa could not help but feel a layer of goosebumps rising up all over her skin. It was really difficult to be a public figure these days ... you never knew when you might be snatched up and forced into pairings by others.

Both of Jungkook's individual events were on the first day of the competition. They were the 50-metre free and the 100-metre free. His results for the 100-metre free was 48.13 seconds, a little short of his previous 48.04 seconds. Some people began to worry whether his results in the Winter Championships had been a extraordinary fluke. It would probably be difficult for him to break the 48-second wall after this ...

However, these concerns did not last for long, because Jungkook achieved his new personal best of 21.90 seconds in the finals of the subsequent 50-metre free. At the same time, he matched the current Asian record for the event held by a Japanese swimmer.

What a miraculous athlete ... performing averagely in his main specialization, but equalling the Asian record in his secondary specialization.

Actually, this was not that unusual. The variability of the short-distance races have always been considerable — it wasn't very surprising no matter what happens. This was also one of the charms of such events, because everyone only differed from the others by those few scant milliseconds or so. Anyone at all could become champion — and this was what made these events so exciting and nerve-wracking. If it were Jaehyun's specialization, the long distance of 1500 metres made the advantage very obvious. Even a pig could see who would come in first, so cheering for anyone else was like doing pointless work — it was very awkward and embarrassing.

When Jungkook was interviewed, after going through some of the standard questions, the reporters began probing for gossip. "Jungkook, some netizens have said that you're the most handsome athlete in history. What do you think about that?"