The Boy Who Admired the Stars

Try to remember the books you once read.
The fairy tales where everyone finds happiness.

There was a boy in them.
Ridiculous, honest, and straighter than anyone else.
Try to remember such a comedy.

The boy became truant.
He wanted to become the top student in his grade, so he chose to skip school to secure more time to study.

As a result, he became a dropout from everyday school life.

While spending his days absorbed in web novels, searching for effort and meaning, he started working part-time after graduating middle school.

That was when he discovered boxing.

But he did not even know the difference between a professional boxing gym and a fitness boxing gym, so the first gym he joined was a fitness boxing gym.

The young man thought:

“I’m not training enough.”

So he began going to a nearby kickboxing gym.
He trained there six days a week.

Because he had watched a video where Naoya Inoue said that he practiced the one-two punch every single day.

Later, he moved to a professional boxing gym.

But after various events, he quit after promising:

“I won’t do boxing anymore.”

Even so, he still wanted to become stronger, so he continued kickboxing six days a week.

Then he developed schizophrenia.

After leaving the hospital, he gained weight.
To lose it, he started going to the kickboxing gym again.

He lost 15 kilograms.
He worked hard.

And once again, he knocked on the doors of a boxing gym, aiming to become a world champion.

As for the reason, he decided to call it “wanting to become a professional boxer.”

Because he was weak.

He worked hard for a year.

Then one day, his mother took him to the hospital, and he was hospitalized again.
By then, he was already an adult.

Later, a nurse said:

“If you hadn’t run away, maybe you wouldn’t have been restrained.”

Why was he caught?

Because he fell dramatically while running.

It wasn’t that he resisted hospitalization.

He simply ran because he thought he would be restrained, and in the end, he truly was restrained.

He was discharged from the hospital.

To observe his condition, he suspended his boxing gym membership.
Then he injured his leg.

He wants to return to the boxing gym as soon as possible.

Everything up to this point truly happened.

What kind of story awaits from here on, no one knows.

Admiring the star named Naoya Inoue, loving truth, falling in love, and continuing to pile up effort—

This is the story of that former boy.

No matter what tragedy may await him in the future,
that boy will probably turn it into a comedy.

Because he does not love tragedy.