Piercing Eyes and Lingering Headaches
It was clearly a situation where a major clash seemed imminent just moments ago.
Lee Suyeon was impressed.
Yu Jena had obviously been quite displeased by Yujun’s gaze, yet a few short words from him had completely dispelled the tension.
Even so, the situation wasn’t safe enough to relax. That was why she quickly stepped forward.
“Jena unnie!”
Lee Suyeon hurried ahead.
“Suyeon, you’re back?”
Yu Jena greeted her.
The look in her eyes that had seemed ready to burn everything to ash softened into something kind the moment it fell on Lee Suyeon.
“I’m back, unnie. But the guild situation is a complete mess.”
“...I must have shown you an unsightly side of things.”
Yu Jena wore a bitter expression for a moment before smiling again.
“But it’s all right. I’ll take care of everything. Did you hear what happened?”
“I did. And… you don’t have to carry it all by yourself, unnie.”
“I don’t have to carry it?”
Yu Jena asked, puzzled.
“It’s already been resolved!”
She pointed at Yujun with a bright smile.
“Trainer Kang Yujun right here took care of everything!”
At those words, Yu Jena turned back toward Yujun.
“......”
The gaze that seemed to pierce straight through him was definitely not pleasant. It wasn’t exactly unpleasant either, but it clearly felt like the use of a skill, which was why she had been about to take action.
“So you’re a trainer.”
If he was a trainer, that gaze made sense.
I felt something when I used my focus skill earlier. He instinctively noticed that I had activated a skill.
As expected of an S-class awakener; their senses were extraordinary.
Yujun felt the power of an S-class awakener once again and resolved himself.
I need to be careful.
Staring in silence like that could easily make someone uncomfortable. A bad first impression would follow.
Trust is the most important factor.
To teach high-ranking awakeners, a solid foundation of trust had to be established first. Without it, training itself could not take place.
They pay close attention to that aspect in the Infinite Tower as well.
If the game was like that, reality demanded even more care.
I’ll have to level up the focus skill further.
No matter how vital it was to read the other person, the highest priority was to avoid detection and discomfort.
“My name is Kang Yujun. I’m working as a freelance trainer, just as you were told.”
“...I am Yu Jena. Since you claim to have resolved the guild’s issues, I’ll need a precise explanation. Including what you mentioned earlier.”
Yujun had said the Neverland trainers were a mess.
Yu Jena wanted to hear the details.
“I’ll explain it, unnie!”
Lee Suyeon answered first. Her account would naturally carry far more credibility.
“So……”
She had meant to keep it brief, but the story couldn’t help but grow long.
From solving her own fainting issue to the rehabilitation of the awakeners, the tale stretched across a full thirty minutes.
The guild members who had just returned listened with uniform reactions.
“......”
“What did you just say?”
“That’s impossible……”
“You’re telling me you handled all of that in a single day?”
“Yes.”
She had cured Lee Suyeon’s fainting condition, moved to the Neverland Guild office, and even resolved every guild member’s injuries.
All of it had happened in one day.
The awakeners who had returned with Yu Jena stared at Kang Yujun in shock.
“Just… how skilled are you, exactly?”
“So this trainer fixed everything? Suyeon’s fainting problem, and not only did he rehabilitate our guild members whose conditions had worsened—he completely healed them?”
“That’s right!”
“I can’t believe it. Really. Yesterday they were all on the verge of death……”
Before they had left for the tower raid, the condition of the injured inside the guild had been dire. Rehabilitation had not only failed to progress; the pain had grown worse.
They had watched them drag themselves through training with deathly expressions.
Given the circumstances, the atmosphere inside the guild could not have been good.
At the center of it all lay the conflict between Yu Jena and the Neverland trainers.
Yu Jena had insisted it wasn’t her fault and lashed out at the trainers. The trainers couldn’t talk back to her directly, but they believed the training sessions she had proposed were flawed.
If they had stayed together any longer, fights would have broken out.
That was why Yu Jena had left quickly for the tower raid while the trainers continued struggling with the injured awakeners’ rehabilitation.
Yet there had been no sign of improvement.
Now that situation had reversed in the blink of an eye.
“I simply carried out the request I was given. There’s no need to thank me so profusely.”
Watching Yujun display such humility, they could only click their tongues in awe.
To accomplish something so monumental in a single day and still remain this modest—it was the first time they had seen a star trainer behave with such humility.
Awakeners with talent usually grew arrogant. They themselves had been no exception.
Even now they lived with a fair amount of that confidence.
That was why they could not help but be even more astonished.
“No, we truly thank you.”
“Thanks to you, Neverland can finally breathe again!”
“We were reaching our limit as well. The workload was enormous, and the tower was simply too much for us to handle right now.”
“Director Yu Jena suffered the most. This time… she really helped us when we were on the brink of death.”
That was why they had planned to tell the guild master upon their return that they could not endure any longer. Continuing would have led beyond injury to actual death.
“But now it’s resolved.”
Gratitude toward Yujun swelled inside them.
Yu Jena felt the same.
She gestured to the awakeners.
“You’ve all worked hard. Go rest and attend to your duties.”
“We’ll… head off to rest then.”
“Thank you for your hard work, Director!”
They quickly filed out.
“Unnie, I’ll be going too!”
Lee Suyeon was quick to read the room.
Her role had been to introduce Yu Jena. After that, it was best to make herself scarce.
Besides, the worry she had carried seemed unnecessary now.
“Trainer Kang, fighting!”
She pumped both fists encouragingly and swiftly left the training room.
Thud.
Only Yujun and Yu Jena remained.
“Could I hear more details about what you told me earlier?”
Yu Jena lightly stamped her foot and extended her hand. Two chairs inside the training room flew over at once—one stopping neatly in front of Yujun, the other in front of her.
Every movement of an S-class awakener carried a different weight. One could feel they existed on an entirely different level from ordinary awakeners.
“Yes, of course.”
Yujun sat down and motioned for her to do the same.
“Please, have a seat.”
With a single sentence he had firmly seized both gravity and control of the conversation.
Yu Jena sat with an unreadable expression.
“As I mentioned, I noticed quite a few problems while overseeing the rehabilitation process.”
It was clear that Yu Jena and the Neverland trainers had been at odds.
“I can state it plainly. This entire matter is the fault of the Neverland trainers.”
“...The trainers claimed it was my fault.”
“I heard that as well. That it was training you personally saw results from.”
“Yes, that’s correct. So the trainers learned my method, turned it into an official training session, and taught it to the guild’s awakeners.”
At first it had been effective.
But the effects suddenly grew excessive, and soon injuries began to appear.
Still, for Yu Jena it was a frustrating situation.
“But it worked for me.”
“Could I see the training method you used, Yu Jena?”
“Why?”
According to Lee Suyeon, Kang Yujun was an externally contracted trainer. He had recently been working as a contractor for the Sky Guild and had only stopped by here temporarily.
“You’ve finished the contracted work, so shouldn’t you be returning now?”
It was a reasonable question.
No need to lie.
S-class awakeners were extremely sensitive about such matters. Even now her eyes remained fixed on his pupils.
In that case, I’ll mix truth with it.
“Because when I examined the training method, I noticed several dangerous elements.”
“...Dangerous elements?”
“Yes.”
For a moment, distrust flickered in her eyes.
The guild trainers had looked at her the same way—claiming the awakeners had been injured because of the dangerous training method she used.
But they were the ones who had asked for the training session!
They had begged to be taught because the results were good, yet the moment problems arose they pinned everything on her.
Yu Jena felt anger rise inside her.
Normally she would not have become this furious.
But Yu Jena carried a pain that constantly kept her on edge.
“You suffer from headaches, don’t you? It appears to have been going on for quite a long time.”
Her eyes widened at Yujun’s words.
“How did you……”
That was simple enough to see.
Shaaaaak—.
It was because a clear fracture could be seen through the blue light that had been gathering around her head since earlier.