Chapter 84 – Episode 84. Should I…Get Training?
“Fhehehe…”
How many hours have you been drinking like that? Most of them are already scattered and in a messy state.
I was too drunk with the atmosphere and sat still, and the director sat down in front of me.
“You don’t fall once.”
Sigh-
A snack in one hand and a head in the other.
Seeing Chae-hee noona sleeping on my lap from inside the seat, the director puts on an expression of boredom.
“Uh…”
I put on an embarrassed expression, but even then, the hand that stroked Chaehee noona’s hair didn’t stop.
“Are you possessed by a ghost because you couldn’t meet a woman in your previous life?”
Among the words of the director who grumbles for no reason, the word sticks in the ear.
‘Past life.’
“Well…”
She smiled more casually at Chae-hee noona’s glasses on her desk.
“It’s not like that, but I think the enemy has lost. No, I lost.”
The director, who was silent for a while as he saw me talking bitterly, opened his mouth.
“Sick.”
A young bastard is just a kid in his previous life-
The director, who had been throwing snacks at me one by one, threw them away.
“It’s Lee Tae-sang.”
“Yeah.”
When I accepted it, he replied with a tsk-sound that he was unlucky as well, and then stood up.
“Later, when you are in trouble, go to the association and ask Lee Tae-sang if he knows Lee Tae-sang. Well, not a big one, but a small one.”
“…?”
“Same name, bastard.”
When I raise a question mark, the curator who hit me on the head brings a new glass.
“No, I didn’t mean to wake up-“
“I haven’t even started yet.”
Gurgling-
After pouring soju and beer in a 500ml beer glass at a ratio of 1 to 1, he drank it with a loud sound and slaughtered the snacks.
“Even if you don’t join a guild, go on a lot of field trips to each guild. Go along with the apprenticeship training, and go along with the guild newbies. Anyway, this is a networking site, and even if you know you won’t come, they welcome you. Even if you only take chores, your actual practice will increase a lot. There’s nothing wrong with going back to being human anyway, because you hate each other, and you never know when you’ll get help.”
Give me more kimchi.
“Tseu-eup- I rode it at the end. Anyway, go around and look around like that. It’s like taking a face stamp. Because there are many kids who live alone without a guild. You can take a route that way. Especially when you go to the association, if your image sticks well, they will push you on their own. It’s called a one-person guild, but if you have a lot of money, it’s a one-person guild. So, it’s none of my business whether I go to the academy or not, but if I do, I’ll go hooked. Cutting it off is not a job.”
“Yeah.”
“And. Get trained by us before New Year’s Day in February.”
As if it was the main topic, the director who put the plate down looked at me carefully.
“Wipe off the grease first.”
When I hand over the napkin with a smile, he accepts the napkin with annoyance.
“Bastards don’t have serious taste.”
“Here’s a serious person…”
Noisily-
A bar that is half dead and half zombies running around.
The manager, who clicked his tongue once, puts his hand on the desk.
“My ability is ‘Finding Weaknesses’.”
“Five.”
When I blink, he smiles and slowly begins to explain.
“Well, no matter how much we are alumni and disciples, showing the status window is a bit disappointing, and it is literally the ability to show the other person’s distinct weaknesses and how to break through. Of course, Pafe is only possible against opponents weaker than me.”
If you have some creativity, you can do a lot just by identifying your weaknesses.
After speaking calmly, the director sips a drink.
I responded to the ability that looked interesting.
“With that ability, would you like to work as a Hunter?”
“Right.”
“Oh, then the director was just an A-class hunter at first too?”
“No.”
“…?”
The director smiled and shook his head.
“I was roughing it and then changed direction.”
“Why?”
“There are more jobs I can do with this.”
“…Yes?”
“I see a weakness.”
“Yeah.”
“Is it only visible to monsters?”
“…Ah.”
As I nodded as if I had realized it, the director grinned.
“If you teach talented people one thing, they will pick it up and eat it.”
“What are my weaknesses?”
When I asked casually, the director suddenly crackled.
“I can not see.”
“Yes?”
“It is safe to say that even if you are an A-class person, you do not have any obvious weaknesses, and as you train as an Awakener, you naturally reduce your weaknesses.”
“Oh, that means-“
Puck-
When I smiled, the director who hit him on the head sighed.
“Are you Class A, you bastard?”
“Ouch-! I can’t see you!”
When I grabbed my head and groaned, he slapped me on the head again.
“I told you. I saw only 3 bastards like you. They’re kids, but they’re teenagers with no weaknesses. You’re a very young talent.”
Thud-
The director, who put down the empty glass, finishes his speech.
“So, come and learn. You can’t see with your ability, and I’ll find a weakness that you can only see with your own eyes.”
Because what you lack is practice.
“…Yeah.”
I nodded happily as if I understood, and the director stood up. I threw a question to the director who was about to leave, out of a sudden curiosity.
“Then what are my strengths and weaknesses?”
“…I don’t know.”
“No way. Don’t do that.”
As I flirt and hit him, the director spit out.
“Hardware.”
“Uh?”
Didn’t you have no practical experience?
I tilted my head and opened my hands involuntarily.
Naturally, the arm muscles squirm and protrude, then fade.
A body with well-prepared small muscles. It’s not just a body that’s excellent in aesthetics.
A wild and superior body that is always full of strength in its muscles, and even surprises itself.
Instantaneous and explosive bursts of power, as well as continuous and flexible bursts. None of them fall out
I thought the problem was that I couldn’t use it properly.
“Why?”
Seeing that I didn’t understand at all, the director sighed and returned to his seat.
“This is why it is necessary. Got it?”
“Yes.”
“Tsk- I’ll explain it only once.”
The director points to my forearm.
“You are fine.”
“Well…I think so.”
“There are no newbies like you. Even if you’re just a normal Awakener, you’re at the top level.”
“? So it’s not a software problem?”
“What do you think software is?”
“Uh…Experience? Chamba?”
“Wrong.”
The director shook his head in denial.
“Hardware fits the body, but it is correct to think of software as the senses.”
“Uh… I don’t know any of that.”
“I saw a video of you fighting in a department store yesterday. You said it was your first fight. At the same time, it’s the first real battle.”
“Hey what else-“
“The scene where he elbowed the goblin down without turning his head. How did know?”
“Are they attacking you from behind?”
“That is software.”
“? My body felt it, but wasn’t it hardware?”
“No. It is the software that detects it as a threat and then responds appropriately. What if the flying thing was a knife? What if I didn’t properly calculate the distance to the goblin and missed it?
Didn’t you say that during training this morning, you realized you were an ally and stopped the attack in an instant?”
“Yeah.”
“The ability to distinguish situations like that, the sense of splitting the same second differently. That is software.”
“…Uh-“
“In today’s last training, I didn’t summon a separate shield and built a wall with chains to block attacks. Why did you do that? Is that the limit of your abilities?”
“That’s more-“
“Because it is efficient. And that’s because it doesn’t put a load on the body.”
The director, who did exactly what I was about to say, raised his finger.
“What can be learned from that, the first.
There is no problem with the ability output, but the current body cannot fully withstand the ability. This alone is not enough hardware yet.”
And it’s not really a big factor.
The director, who spread his second finger, continues his words in a powerful voice.
“Second. Your senses are very, very, extraordinary.
Combat sense, situational judgment, self-objectification, grasping the situation from all sides and making decisions without hesitation, making decisions that are closest to the correct answer. There are rather more situations where your body can’t fully handle it.
Then? Correction in the direction possible at that moment. Because that’s the ‘correct answer’.
His natural talent, such as sense of living together, can be counted on one hand.
I heard that you were well evaluated by the guilds. I don’t know how many.
In the first battle, rather than ‘maintaining an appropriate output of power’, you must ‘maintain an appropriate output of power’. It is several times more difficult to make a ‘judgment’. It’s not just a fear of death, it’s a matter of getting the perfect estimate from the first few bumps.”
I suddenly remembered what Chaehee noona said.
Judgment to check and select the degree of output. That’s the sense that’s real talent
While chewing on those words, the director added more words.
“Can you accurately estimate the limit and duration of your ability’s output?”
“Yeah.”
“You think it’s natural because it’s your ability?”
“Yeah.”
“Do you think humans can accurately calculate how many kilometers they can run?”
“…Ah.”
Oh
In front of me who is amazed at the realization, the director answers seriously.
“Physical abilities? Excellent Talent is right. But people who are physically superior to you are common. You can tell just by looking at the arm wrestling today. There are hundreds or thousands of “Stronger people” Than you. Well, if you train it, you can surpass it, but that must be more than talent.”
“However. That sense. How about a sensitive sense like a patient in every way.
The feeling of always hesitating like an animal.
The process of recognizing and using it.
Judgment immediately following.
Combat design.
Reflexive response.
The brain thinking of the next action at the same time.
The ability to judge the current situation.
A plan to overcome the situation.
A pioneering eye that measures oneself and one’s opponents.
Accurately calculate your body’s limits and limit the output of your abilities during combat?
Judging that it is impossible to summon a shield capable of recognizing the projectile and blocking it at the same time, defending using the previously summoned object?
If you say it’s easy, 90% of the world’s trainees will raise a knife against you.
Own limits. What you can do
Place it on the tip of a knife and cut it accurately.
To make the most out of it.
Instinct and Calculation.
Through that, the unprecedentedly accurate sense of an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient.
Circuit to find the correct answer.
Call it a talent
That’s your advantage Isia.”
Well, I’m still a kid.
“I’ll at least take the first steps toward your senses.”
“Ah…”
Me that day saw the light
The name of that light is Lee Tae-sang.
It was damn bright.
“Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang!”
“Shut up, you bastard!”
“Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang! Lee Tae-sang!
