“…You’re right.”

“Aren’t I?”

Jang Maldong grinned before waving his cane around.

“Take it slow. Eat at the right times and get a lot of sleep. What you need to do right now isn’t building up your stamina but controlling your mind and looking inside your subconscious psyche. There is a reason ‘mind’ comes first in mind, technique, and body.”

A healthy mind develops a healthy body. Remembering the old adage that admonishes to make haste slowly, Seol Jihu bowed.

“Thank you.”

“No need. Ah, if possible, try to train elsewhere. The Neutral Zone is a place for the newbies to train. Because of you, other people have been too scared to use the facility.”

Though Jang Maldong said this jokingly, this was indeed a mistake on Seol Jihu’s part. Realizing it now, Seol Jihu went, ‘Ah.’

“Sorry, I’ll find another place.”

Seol Jihu respectfully bid goodbye and left the training room. Since the head manager’s room was huge, he planned to train there.

It was around then that Eun Yuri came to the training room in her tracksuit. Her morning missions had actually ended early, so she asked Jang Maldong for personal training. She had only run into Seol Jihu by coincidence.

“Oppa…?”

She called out to him, but Seol Jihu breezed past her. Eun Yuri gave a shocked expression as she stood frozen in a daze. For some reason, he was giving off a hard-to-approach air today.

“Don’t mind it so much.”

Jang Maldong chuckled.

“He becomes blind once he puts his mind to...