I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 203

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Transcendent Genius Trainer 203

After Yujun’s training session ended.
The trainers at Promise Guild proceeded with the planned training for Sales Team 3.

“Is it true that Trainer Kang Yu-jun has arrived?”
“Shouldn’t we be receiving training from Trainer Kang Yu-jun then?”
“Is it just a contract agreement so far?”

The Awakeners of Sales Team 3 were quite hopeful.
The Geumgang Kim Family, the Cheon-rae Choi Family, SS-rank Awakeners.
Every Awakener Yujun had laid his hands on had grown stronger without knowing the heights they could reach.

Especially Hero Baek Hyeon-jin’s momentum was most overwhelming.
After recovering from his training under Yujun, he was clearing Tower after Tower that had been difficult to conquer, aiming once again for the title of Korea’s strongest Awakener.

Ma Jun-su and Han Tae-cheon, who had been regarded as Korea’s strongest Awakeners after Baek Hyeon-jin’s retirement, were also belatedly sensing crisis and hastily throwing themselves into Tower conquests.

“That Awakener Baek Hyeon-jin is really no joke.”
“If he can raise someone who was thought to be completely beyond recovery to that level…”

Just how much stronger could an Awakener in normal condition be made?

“Attention.”

Kim Han-ju, the Trainer Team Leader, quietly hushed the noisy Sales Team 3.

“For now, we’ll proceed with the training as scheduled today.”

Kim Han-ju immediately began preparing for training.
Sales Team 3 wore expressions of slight disappointment.
They had expected to learn from Kang Yu-jun right away today.
Yet something felt off.

“But… the trainers’ condition today seems strange…?”
“Something…”
“It’s different from before.”

Especially Kim Han-ju’s presence was ominous.
Sales Team 3 had heard the rumors too.
That the Trainer Team Leader Kim Han-ju’s body was now so damaged he could barely conduct training.
That’s why he could no longer do direct training and only did management and planning now, and there was even talk he might step down from his position.

“Manager Kim.”
“Yes?”

Only the Team 3 Leader among Team 3 knew the truth behind those rumors.

“Are you all right?”

So the Team 3 Leader asked Kim Han-ju cautiously.

“Yes. I’m fine. I plan to conduct direct training.”

Kim Han-ju waved his hand dismissively, as if to say not to worry.
The Team 3 Leader nodded reluctantly. Since he said it was fine, there was nothing to do but trust him for now.
And so Sales Team 3’s training began.

“Relax your strength.”

Debuff.
Kim Han-ju’s Debuff instantly wrapped around the Sales Team 3 Leader’s body.

The Team 3 Leader swallowed hard.
This was where the problem lay.
Controlling the Debuff required considerable hand movement, but Kim Han-ju’s hands were in terrible condition.
One mistake could result in losing control of the Debuff, injuring the Sales Team 3 Leader severely.

“Are you really all right?”

Likely he was pushing himself because of Yujun.

“Aren’t you overdoing it…?”

Yujun, who had been released in his worst form, had returned at his best.
Probably not completely recovered.
He was likely taking on a commission to conduct training.

Meanwhile, Kim Han-ju was in a state where his body was so damaged he could practically no longer work as a trainer.
If Kang Yu-jun achieved excellent results at Promise Guild, the likelihood of Kim Han-ju being pushed out was very high.
That’s why he was pushing himself now.
Knowing his feelings, the Sales Team 3 Leader could only feel sorry for him.

Whoosh—
Kim Han-ju extended his hand instead of answering.
He meant to show it through action rather than words.

Whoooosh—!
The Debuff wrapping around the Sales Team 3 Leader’s entire body suddenly began to adjust.
The Team 3 Leader was startled and flustered.

“Wh… what…?”
“You, the Team 3 Leader, always tend to circulate your Mana excessively. Moreover, you concentrate Mana in a way that puts strain on one side. You must completely ingrain the proper control method into your body. That’s why I’ve made it heavy through the Debuff. If you withstand that heaviness while controlling your Mana…”

Kim Han-ju gestured at the same time he spoke.

“Try controlling your Mana.”

Whoosh—
The Sales Team 3 Leader nodded.
His body felt quite heavy.
A Debuff of this magnitude placed on him would inevitably put severe strain on Kim Han-ju’s wrists.
Yet somehow Kim Han-ju didn’t appear to be in pain at all.
Rather, his wrists moved freely, continuously adjusting the Sales Team 3 Leader’s Debuff.

Fine-tuning.
Carving an Awakener as if sculpting a beautiful work of art.

“Like this… it’s good. Yes, that’s it.”
“How…”

Whoooosh—
Inducing an Awakener’s growth through necessary Debuffs.
That delicate adjustment was being executed perfectly.

“Your wrists… are they all right?”

The Sales Team 3 Leader watched Kim Han-ju in amazement.
Kim Han-ju simply smiled.
Since training was still underway, there was no need for unnecessary explanations.

Crack— Crunch—
The Sales Team 3 Leader’s creaky Mana Road began performing its proper function.

“It’s working…”

He’d known about this chronic problem all too well.
But despite multiple training sessions, the one-sided imbalance couldn’t be corrected.

“…”

And Kim Han-ju was also astonished at his own Debuff control ability.
Everything had changed.

Through Yujun’s training, the limits of his own training had shattered.
What had been impossible before was now possible.
Training led to training, driving the Awakener’s growth.
From some point on, he’d felt a ceiling.
S-rank Awakeners, SS-rank Awakeners.
What should he teach them? There was nothing to see.
There was nothing he could do with his Debuff ability.

His evaluations rose, yet ironically his own skills didn’t improve accordingly.
That’s why he’d had to push himself.

He’d primarily trained only S-rank and SS-rank Awakeners, pouring everything he had into them.
But the results of growth didn’t match what he’d poured in.
Yet he hadn’t stopped pushing himself.
He’d believed that if even slightly better growth came from grinding himself down, that was enough.
He believed that was the path a trainer must walk.

“That wasn’t it.”

Kim Han-ju looked at his own wrists.
Just recently.
No, even just a few hours ago, these wrists had hurt so badly he couldn’t even attempt anything.
These wrists that couldn’t even lift anything remotely heavy, let alone use his Debuff ability.
Now he felt no pain in them at all.

“I never thought this day would come.”

This was Yujun’s message.

“A trainer…”

Doesn’t only train others.
Through training, the trainer themselves becomes trained.
So that such overwork was something a trainer should avoid.

“Now I’m the one learning from you.”

That small Kang Yu-jun came to mind.
How had that small child, pretending to be mature while hiding sadness, grown up so well and returned like this?
And with training skills far surpassing his own, no less.

“It’s good. Yujun. It turned out really well.”

Kim Han-ju was happy as if it were his own doing.
Not simply because the young man had trained him.
It was just that his young apprentice, whom he’d failed to properly train, had grown up so well—and that made him incredibly happy.

“Hey, it’s working! It really works!”

The excited Sales Team 3 Leader stretched out his hand.

“Excellent work.”
“But how on earth did that wrist pain disappear?”

Then voices came from elsewhere.

“Wow…”
“This is completely different!”
“Completely different from the previous training!”

The trainers of Promise Guild who had received training from Yujun were conducting excellent training of Sales Team 3’s Awakeners.

“My body feels so light.”
“What is this exactly…”

Why had the trainers’ skills suddenly become this good?

“We received training.”

Kim Han-ju said, looking at Sales Team 3.

“We received training from Trainer Kang Yu-jun. Trainer Kang Yu-jun eliminated all the problems we had.”

A wind of change was blowing through Promise Guild.

“We were trained first, and he’ll probably train the entire Guild bit by bit.”

* * *

Kang Yu-jun had returned.
Not as an Awakener, but as a trainer.

While Yujun was training the trainers like this.
An announcement began to circulate through Promise Guild’s internal email.

Ding—!

-[Announcement] Promise Guild Capacity Enhancement Training Implementation and Special Trainer Recruitment Notice
Recipients: Promise Guild Executive and Tactical Personnel

-Trainer: Kang Yu-jun.
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“Wow. Yujun’s back?”
“Never thought he’d return like this.”
“You never know what’ll happen in life.”

Yujun, who had once been released.
Moreover, not just released, but released because he couldn’t Awaken.
That Kang Yu-jun returning as a trainer—who would have thought?

“So he’s training the Sales Teams?”
“I heard he’s training the entire Guild?”
“Does that even make sense? One person training the entire Guild?”

If that were something one person could do, there’d be no reason to have fifty trainers.

“…Can that even be done?”
“Seems like it could be. This Yujun isn’t the Yujun of old. As a trainer, Yujun is…”

Some immediately objected, but others were half-convinced.
That’s because Yujun’s achievements had been too massive.

“Normally I’d have told him to stop spouting nonsense. Me too. But… all the things that succeeded before were so substantial.”

While debate like this was unfolding.

“The Trainer Team training is complete!”
“…?”
“What do you mean the Trainer Team training is complete?”
“Trainer Kang Yu-jun handled the Trainer Team first!”

The Guild member who rushed in frantically was an Awakener from Sales Team 2.

“Right now the Trainer Team trained Sales Team 3… and the results are insane!”

It was news that the trainers who’d received training from Kang Yu-jun were showing incredible results.

Ding—!
The Sales Team 2 Leader’s phone rang.

“…It’s from Trainer Kang Yu-jun. He’s telling everyone to assemble at the 5th Training Ground immediately.”
“How many people?”
“Everyone.”

All of Sales Team 2.

“He’s saying everyone should come.”

* * *

Mobilization order for all of Sales Team 2.
Among them were quite a few Guild members who knew Yujun.

“He’s not the Yujun of old.”
“It’s really strange. Who would’ve thought that Yujun would succeed as a trainer like this? If he was going to succeed, we naturally thought he’d succeed as an Awakener.”
“Some jealous bastards are gonna throw a fit over this.”
“There are guys who openly harassed and cursed at him.”
“And they’re still in our Guild.”

There were quite a few people in Promise Guild who disliked Yujun.
Yujun had been receiving Promise’s unlimited support since his Golden Youth days.
In other words, there were people who’d been denied the support they should’ve received because of Yujun’s support.
Of course, if they’d had real skills, they wouldn’t have been robbed of support by Yujun.
The support Yujun received was support given for his talent during his Golden Youth days.

Sales Team 2.
Awakeners who had twisted expressions on their faces were gathered there.

“Why are you all so happy? That guy had no skills and just drained Promise’s resources.”
“He should’ve come back after Awakening and repaid his debt. Why’s he brazenly showing up now?”

Some of what they said was true.

“He was already released, so why even come back?”
“Would you want to come back with guys like you waiting for him?”
“What did you just say?”
“You bastard!”

The situation was on a hair-trigger.
But then the training ground door swung open with a bang.

“Trainer Kang is here! The Trainer Team training is completely finished!”

They didn’t even want to see him being called “Trainer Kang,” but those words caught their interest.

“He taught the trainers first? Smart.”
“Right away he figured it out. We trainers are garbage anyway.”

Then footsteps were heard.
Step. Step—. Step——.

Click. The door opened and Kang Yu-jun entered.
Beside him was Trainer Team Leader Kim Han-ju.

Having heard explanations about Sales Team 2 on the way, Kang Yu-jun quickly swept his eyes across the Awakeners of Sales Team 2.
Whoooooosh—
Those who’d been cursing Yujun moments before, and those who’d wanted to see him—all froze and couldn’t speak.

Crackle—
Crackle—crackle—
A long coat. Black gloves.
And gleaming red eyes.
Overwhelming Mana was pouring out—something completely unlike the Kang Yu-jun they remembered.
Especially since the Yujun they remembered was a Non-awakener with no Mana at all, they felt all the more overwhelmed.

Back when Yujun couldn’t Awaken, everyone had wondered.
If Yujun with such talent actually Awakened, what would happen?
With talent that alone was overwhelming, everyone had to wonder.
Now the answer stood before their eyes.

“It’s been a while. Good to see you all.”

Yujun spoke lightly, bowing his head slightly.

“I’m sure neither I nor you all expected to meet like this.”

Suddenly Yujun’s gaze turned toward those who’d been cursing him relentlessly.

“And I see some especially familiar faces here.”

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