I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 208

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Transcendent Genius Trainer 208

After Yujun finished his conversation with Oh Do-yun and left.
Han Seok-dae, the assistant team leader, came looking for Oh Do-yun.

“Team Leader, Trainer Kang Yu-jun has returned.”
“I know.”
“Hwang Jin-seong is planning to refuse training.”
“Refuse training?”
“Yes. Trainer Kang Yu-jun knows nothing, so he says there’s no reason to receive training from him. Since Sales Team 1 was split because of Team Leader Oh’s failure, unless you bow your head and make amends, there’s no reason for the entire Team 1 to train together…”
“Foolish thinking.”

Oh Do-yun’s expression hardened.
Kang Yu-jun knows nothing?

“Trainer Kang already knows everything.”

The information he’d provided was merely gossip about Sales Team 1, and Kang Yu-jun possessed unshakeable confidence in his ability to train them.
Excessive confidence was something Oh Do-yun always rejected, so by rights he should have kept his distance from Kang Yu-jun as well.
But after discussing training just now, he’d come to trust Yujun.
Perhaps Yujun really could solve the problems plaguing Sales Team 1.

“We will receive the training.”

Oh Do-yun declared it so.
And at the same time, he was deeply curious.
How could Kang Yu-jun possibly train this chaotic Sales Team 1?

* * *

Knock, knock.
After meeting with Oh Do-yun, Yujun found another office on the twenty-second floor.

-[Hwang Jin-seong]

The office nameplate bore Hwang Jin-seong’s name.
Having met with Oh Do-yun, it was only natural to meet Hwang Jin-seong next.

‘It’s obvious.’

Hwang Jin-seong would refuse the training.

‘He’s a prideful man.’

According to Oh Do-yun’s account, confrontation was inevitable.
But if he’d cared about the guild, he wouldn’t have dragged things out like this in the first place.

‘There must be another issue at play.’

Which is why he’d noticed that Oh Do-yun harbored an additional problem.

‘Beyond the psychological issues Sales Team 2 carried—the yips and such—there’s something else.’

He intended to discern the matter upon seeing Hwang Jin-seong.
And he was curious.

‘Hwang Jin-seong wasn’t with the Promise Guild from the beginning—he joined around the time I was declining.’

There was a time when Yujun had admired him.
To become an Awakener like him.
Through Yujun’s eyes back then, Hwang Jin-seong had been a perfect hexagon awakened one.

‘I couldn’t see his shortcomings back then.’

He’d been S-rank then, and now he was SS-rank—this was Hwang Jin-seong.
So his current state was profoundly intriguing.

Knock, knock, knock.
Yujun knocked once more.

Then the door opened.
Creak.

“I’m Kang Yu-jun. Awakener Hwang Jin-seong.”
“…….”

Hwang Jin-seong, who’d opened the door, frowned slightly.

“Isn’t training supposed to happen at the training ground?”
“I came because I suspected you’d refuse the training.”

Yujun’s eyes shone brightly.
Spark.
Through the True Eye, Hwang Jin-seong’s body glowed gold.
Moreover, mana flowed softly from him.

‘Restraint.’

He was circulating his mana stably while exercising control.
More stable than any Awakener Yujun had seen thus far.

‘Training is essentially unnecessary at this point.’

It was a state that explained why the Promise Guild couldn’t release Hwang Jin-seong and instead found itself under his sway.

‘He’s completed.’

Yujun smiled upon seeing that state.

‘And that completion is his worst affliction.’

“……What do you mean by that?”

The remark that he’d come because Hwang Jin-seong would likely refuse training was not something to be overlooked lightly.
It meant one of his team members had relayed this directly to Yujun.

“Who told you?”
“Don’t suspect your team members. It’s simply obvious from looking, which is why I’ve come to tell you.”

Yujun spoke.

“If you refuse training at the training ground, you’ll likely lose your authority as team leader.”
“……What are you saying?”

A flicker of confusion appeared in Hwang Jin-seong’s eyes, which had been ready to flare with anger.

“Well, I’ve confirmed it now. I understand you’re planning to refuse training. I’ll be going then.”
“……?”

Yujun turned his back without hesitation.
Hwang Jin-seong was thoroughly taken aback.
Hadn’t he come to persuade him and hear him out?
He’d thought Yujun was aware of the rift between himself and Oh Do-yun, and had come to discuss the matter.
But he simply turned his back without hesitation like this?

“Trainer Kang.”

Doubt arose, but his pride prevented him from calling out more insistently.
His pride stood in the way.
He’d already decided to refuse training, so to suddenly call him back?

“Is there something else?”
“…….”

Hwang Jin-seong called after him, then caught himself and closed his mouth.

“If it’s nothing important, I’ll take my leave.”

Hwang Jin-seong didn’t call him back again.
He believed Yujun’s show of confidence to be mere bluster.

* * *

Meanwhile, at Promise Guild 1st Training Ground.

“Does this make any sense?”

Only a single day had passed since Yujun arrived at the Promise Guild.

“The Trainer Team and even Sales Team 2 have finished their training already.”

Furthermore, though Yujun hadn’t directly trained Sales Team 3, the trainers whom Yujun had trained had conducted it splendidly, so it could be considered indirect training.

“Team 3 seems likely to receive direct training from him as well.”
“So now essentially…… only Team 1 remains.”
“He’s also training the youths, apparently.”

Only Sales Team 1, the youths, and the support team stationed in the Tower of Ashes remained.

“Is this pace correct though……?”
“This is unprecedented.”
“The Trainer Team members might feel some kind of way about this.”
“Their feelings might be somewhat hurt.”

Yet when the Trainer Team members arrived moments later, they appeared remarkably bright.
They didn’t look upset in the slightest.

“He’s truly diligent. We’d have grabbed a single team and done training for a whole month.”
“If Trainer Kang became the world standard, we’d all deserve to be fired.”

Team Leader Kim Han-ju remarked.
The Awakeners from Sales Teams 3 and 2 looked at the Trainer Team.
Their expressions weren’t resentful at all—they brimmed with eager anticipation for Yujun’s training.
Yujun was no longer a rival to them.
Hadn’t they received his training from the very first day?
They’d already accepted the gap between themselves and him, harboring only the desire to learn from him.

“I worry Trainer Kang might be overexerting himself.”
“Team Leader Hwang Jin-seong absolutely won’t agree to train.”
“Team Leader Oh……I’m not sure.”
“Team Leader Oh is stubborn too, after all.”

It was quite possible that both sides would refuse training.

“In that case……”
“We’ll try to persuade them.”

If they’d just agree to train, both Hwang Jin-seong and Oh Do-yun would come to understand.
How foolishly they’d been fighting over pride.

“Team Leader Oh Do-yun entering!”

Team Leader Oh Do-yun arrived at the training ground, leading his team members.

“Team Leader Hwang Jin-seong entering!”

Hwang Jin-seong entered shortly after.
Despite both having once been part of the same Sales Team 1, Hwang Jin-seong’s and Oh Do-yun’s teams had vastly different styles.

Upon entering, Hwang Jin-seong and Oh Do-yun’s eyes met.
Once a formidable pair, they’d become the sort of colleagues who now hesitated even to exchange words.

“I thought he might not come.”
“Yet he’s here nonetheless.”

Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong and Executive Director Kim Tae-jeong then entered.
The two took seats from which they could observe the entire training ground.

“Is today’s training completely public?”
“This must be nerve-wracking for Trainer Kang……”
“It’s certainly a burden.”
“Why conduct it so openly?”

Yujun was a trainer the Promise Guild had brought in.
He could have conducted training in complete privacy.
Sales Team 2’s training and the Trainer Team’s training had both been private affairs.

“Trainer Kang Yu-jun entering.”

Spark.
The door opened and Yujun entered.
All eyes fixed upon him.

Lightning radiating with each step.
Eyes flushed red.
As Yujun ascended the training ground, he slowly donned the gloves he’d removed.

“I’m Kang Yu-jun, and I’ll be conducting Sales Team 1’s training today. Technically, this could have been a private training session, but I’ve chosen to make it public for exactly one reason.”

Yujun’s gaze settled on Sales Team 1.

“To show all of you who has caused the Promise Guild such difficulty.”
“……!”
“……!”
“……!”

Everyone wore expressions of shock at Yujun’s bombshell declaration.
It was something everyone had implicitly known, but no one had ever spoken it so plainly.
Even the Guild Master was momentarily startled, then broke into a smile.
It was exactly the satisfying words his heart had craved.

“Right. This is far better.”
“Though if things go wrong, the backlash could be severe.”

Before Executive Director Kim Tae-jeong finished speaking, Hwang Jin-seong’s and his team members’ expressions hardened.
Some of their faces flushed with apparent rage.
Oh Do-yun’s side was no different.

“Those words are too harsh……”
“You brought us here just to publicly humiliate us?”

It was absurd.
How could anyone cooperate with training under these circumstances?
Training couldn’t be forced.
Hwang Jin-seong, his arms crossed, spoke with quiet fury.

“Sales Team 1’s problem is singular.”

Yet Yujun remained unbothered by such fierce reactions.
Bang!
As Yujun stamped the ground powerfully with one foot, potent mana radiated outward.

“Weakness.”

Yujun had no intention of resolving petty power struggles.

‘Why should I bother managing such ego clashes while training?’

“Team Leader Hwang Jin-seong is weak, and Team Leader Oh Do-yun is weak—so you’ve each ended up saving your team members in your own way. That’s your problem.”
“…….”
“…….”

It all stemmed from weakness.

“I’ve wanted to say that too.”

Team Leader Kim Han-ju gazed at him with eyes glistening with emotion.
That was the number-one thing any trainer yearned to say.

“So the solution is simple. Become strong. And I can make you strong.”

At that, some of Sales Team 1’s Awakeners let out derisive laughs.

“What nonsense is this……”
“Are you saying we’re weak right now?”

The core members of the Promise Guild, weak?
Watching Yujun reduce this complex problem to something so simple, Hwang Jin-seong’s team members disliked him even more.

“We…… refuse to train……”

At the very moment Hwang Jin-seong began to speak.
But then. Oh Do-yun stepped forward.
Since yesterday, that one phrase had kept circling through his mind.

-A problem born from weakness.

He’d said all of this arose from weakness.
And.
At the end, Yujun had said.
That he could make him an SS-rank Awakener.

“If I could become an SS-rank Awakener. If I could become that strong. Could I save all my team members?”

Spark.
-Cognitive acceleration activating!

Lightning Mana ignited, and Yujun’s eyes pierced through Oh Do-yun.

‘This is it.’

The other problem Yujun had discerned in Oh Do-yun.

‘Psychological trauma.’

The guilt of failing to protect the team members he’d been responsible for in that perilous tower.
A deep, profound trauma—now his greatest burden.

“Yes.”

Whoosh.
Yujun drew out the Geumgang Steel Staff.

“I’ll make sure you can protect them.”

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