“Yes, Father.”

A small cafe near the liner building.

Kang Tae-han, who was sitting at a table there, answered the phone in a cautious voice.

[Uh, yes. Taehan, it’s me.]

“Yes. What did you call for?”

[I just called to say hello during lunch. haha.]

Kang Tae-han’s father, Kang Ho-yeon, said in a laughing voice. It was a voice that seemed to be in a good mood so that you could tell that nothing special was going on even if you didn’t have to ask.

“I think we talked on the phone yesterday.”

[I called yesterday, but I wanted to hear your voice again today.]

At his father’s words, Kang Tae-han unknowingly burst into laughter. It’s a new word, but it was a conversation that was hard to imagine if it was the relationship between himself and his father in the past.

[Even this morning, the one you keep filling up… What should I say, Yakcha?]

“I think I know what you mean.”

[okay. Anyway, when I drink it, I think of you. So I said I should call you later.]

“It looks like you’re taking care of it every now and then.”

[It’s not someone else, it’s from you, so you should take care of it. And when I ate it, it fit better in my mouth than I thought.]

It probably has to be.

It wasn’t just herbal tea, but it could be said to be a kind of customized elixir made by mixing different medicinal ingredients to suit my father’s constitution.

It’s not just tailored to your constitution, it’s something that periodically checks your body condition every time you visit Daejeon, and adjusts your temperament or amount of spirits accordingly every week.

In other words, it is a specially made item.

In a way, it was no exaggeration to say that Kang Tae-han himself was making it with much more care than the elixir he was going to eat.

“Good for you. Please continue to take care of it.”

However, no matter how good it is for the body, if you don’t take care of it, it’s a joke. Fortunately, it seems that you are eating it steadily. Kang Tae-han said with a proud smile.

“But Father, I’m sorry, but I’m meeting someone right now.”

[Oh, is that so?]

However, apart from that, the call itself was in a situation where it could not last very long.

Kang Tae-han speaks while glancing at the person sitting across from him. Then Kang Ho-yeon put a panicked voice in his mouth.

[Did I get in the way of this?]

“no. It’s not like that, but I don’t think the phone call should be too long.”

[Yeah, got it. Take care of yourself and be well!]

Kang Ho-yeon left the words and quickly hung up the phone.

I called out of nowhere, but I had no intention of interfering with my son’s work.

“sorry. It’s a call from my father. I couldn’t help but wonder if something had happened.”

Kang Tae-han confirmed that the call was disconnected, put his smartphone down on the table, and once again asked for understanding from the person sitting across from him.

Even before answering the phone, I had accepted his pardon, but it was still considered rude.

“no. It’s a family call, not someone else.”

Then, the man sitting across from him, Jang Tae-hyeon, who is currently in charge of the chairmanship of Daecheong Group, smiled lightly and waved his hand from side to side.

* * *

“By the way, you seem to be on good terms with your father.”

While sitting quietly for a while, Chairman Jang Tae-hyeon spoke to him first.

“What… It’s kind of like that.”

He said it shyly, but perhaps because it was the result of his own efforts, there was a hint of pride in one corner of his expression.

And Chairman Jang Tae-hyun smiled as if he could understand the situation to some extent. It was also a case where he and his father had been at odds with each other for a long time, but recently got closer.

Of course, he didn’t have the means to know Kang Tae-han’s family history, but I guess there are parts that people who have had similar experiences can notice to some extent.

He put a light smile on his lips, leaned forward slightly, and opened his mouth implicitly.

“Anyway, if I were to continue the story I told you earlier… … .”

Then, he took out his smartphone, which he had put in his inner pocket, and ran an application on the desktop. Then, as if showing Kang Tae-han, he pushed the screen forward.

“For now, it’s almost finished like this.”

“… Is this what you asked for before?”

“Yes. First of all, I put the data randomly… In other words, if the teacher corrects the data a bit, it will work right now.”

An application for phone reservations, which was the traditional reservation method.

It was something I asked for when I met Chairman Jang Tae-hyun last time, and it seemed that it had already been completed even though not much time had passed.

Kang Tae-han looked closely at the screen held in Chairman Tae-hyun Jang’s hand, and asked with an intrigued expression.

“Can I touch it myself?”

“Ah, of course. It’s a smartphone that’s being used for development in the first place. It doesn’t matter.”

Jang Tae-hyun holds out his smartphone as if to receive it.

I thought it was a personal smartphone to take out of my arms, but apparently it wasn’t. After receiving the handed over without hesitation, Kang Tae-han started pressing the screen.

“… Is the quality better than I thought?”

Kang Tae-han is not an expert in this field, but he was interested in this, so he downloaded and took a look at other similar applications.

And what he felt while looking at it like that is that the quality of the application literally varies greatly.

There were some that I did not know well, but I wanted to make them neat and convenient, and there were some that I wondered, ‘Did a high school student make them for a performance evaluation task?’

And this application Kang Tae-han was looking at was, without a doubt, a quality that belonged to the electronic side.

The overall design is clean and sophisticated.

A simple, yet fully-equipped interface.

In addition, the most important reservation request function was a very convenient structure, at least to Kang Tae-han now.

You can check the reservations that have been made first, and which massage therapists have vacant reservations at a certain time, just by pressing a few times, you can immediately check.

Of course, as Chairman Jang Tae-hyun himself said, everything here was based on randomly entered data values, but… It’s important that it works properly, what does that matter?

“How are you?”

“It’s so good beyond my expectations.”

Is this the power of capital and technology?

Kang Tae-han never said empty words, but in a voice that came from his heart. I wondered if I was using a cow slaughter knife to catch a chicken, but I feel like I caught a chicken in any case.

“I’m glad you liked it. Oh, I don’t know the details either, but the director says that if you want, you can introduce a prepayment or down payment system.”

“… Is that so. I’ll just let you know.”

Kang Tae-han said with a puzzled expression when he was told that even though it was already exceeding expectations, it was possible to add more features to it.

“This, I am so grateful that I don’t know how to repay you.”

He didn’t know much about this field, but even Kang Tae-han knew that finished products of this quality were not very common.

It was a situation where I just asked for it once and received it.

It wasn’t really a price to pay, so it was a part where Kang Tae-han felt a sense of debt in many ways. However, in response to Kang Tae-han’s reaction, Jang Tae-hyun shook his hand with an exaggerated gesture and said.

“You say everything. How much profit did our company gain thanks to you?”

Directly from the massage chairs of its subsidiary Body Care, indirectly from winning orders for a large oil refining platform in India and explosive share price growth due to a series of good news.

It is truly a Daecheong group that is enjoying its second heyday. But that wasn’t the end of it.

“Besides, I also received a message from you a while ago… Isn’t there talk of collaboration with Aplus this time, too?”

Whoop whoop.

Jang Tae-hyun twitched the corners of his mouth as if he couldn’t stand it, and he let out a laugh without even realizing it.

We haven’t talked about details yet, but we want to put a linkage function with this massage chair in the health application of the next-generation A-Watch and A-Phone models.

It may not seem so great at all, but… … .

The important thing is that the other side made the proposal first, and the related technology was needed for new product development on this side as well.

There was something I desperately needed, but it felt like it was delivered directly to my door.

In addition, it is not another company, but the Aplus, and it is also participating in the development of the next-generation model of the flagship product line. Where else could there be such a great blessing?

“and… In addition to company work, you are also my father and my benefactor, aren’t you?”

However, Jang Tae-hyeon’s affection for Kang Tae-han wasn’t simply because of those beneficial aspects. He said with a slightly embarrassed smile.

“For me, whenever I can be of any help, I am simply happy. So, sir, there is no need to burden yourself in the slightest.”

“… Is that so.”

Was it because there was sincerity in his words?

Kang Tae-han smiled with a satisfied look, and then carefully brought the teacup to his lips as if trying to cover that smile.

* * *

“… Whoa, whoa.”

Inside a small room with a bed and a desk.

Seonghyun Choi, who was sitting on the bed there, took a deep breath as if trying to calm down. Then he slowly opened his closed eyes.

‘… great.’

condition is not bad. My head is calm, and my body feels calm. Choi Seong-hyeon, who checked his condition, opened the lid of the bottle he had placed on the desk, and slowly drank from the cup at once, as if measuring a quantity.

A cold liquid running down your throat. At the same time, the thick bitterness of wild ginseng spreads throughout your mouth.

If it was originally, it would end with just this level of appreciation. It would have been finished to the extent of ‘It’s good for the body because it’s used in the mouth’, but Choi Seong-hyun, who was newly opened, could vaguely feel the true value contained in it.

“It definitely has a completely different feel from kudzu tea.”

As soon as it passes through the neck, it naturally spreads throughout the body. I just took a sip, and with that alone, it feels like my blood vessels are filled with aura.

However, the feeling is not uncomfortable.

It is said that the amount is exquisitely controlled to a level that is not burdensome. Choi Seong-hyeon changed his posture a couple of times, as if trying to find the most comfortable position in that state, and then slowly closed his eyes again.

‘for now… Concentrate on the inside.’

Concentrate on the sensation of blood flow, which is usually felt only minutely, and gradually expand your senses inward.

I’m used to it more than the first time, but it’s still a strange feeling.

It feels as if the tactile sensation covering the surface of the skin is turned inside out.

However, one should not be overly conscious of this condition.

Just as a leaf that has fallen on the water slowly sinks down, I slowly observe as if I am watching as my senses go deeper and deeper.

If so.

The faint sense of blood flow becomes clearer, and the flow of energy flowing through it becomes familiar to some extent. Perhaps because of the effect of the elixir she just drank, the blood circulation was more active than usual.

‘… And in this state.’

I think of the idea of concentrating energy in a specific area.

The part Kang Tae-han said was none other than the belly button.

This place was much bigger and wider than the usual acupuncture points that Choi Seong-hyeon had felt before.

Did you say this place was called Hadanjeon?

In a state of calming your mind and focusing on your inner self, spend time quietly imagining the energy gathering in the lower part of the body.

Human will has power.

Of course, that power cannot directly affect the outside world, and it can only be achieved when it reaches the realm of the mind sword… … .

However, it is an element that exerts a considerable influence on the inside of oneself.

And that will comes from thinking.

It is impossible to directly control the will at will, but it is possible to induce it to some extent if you keep thinking the same thought while focusing completely inside.

That was exactly what Seonghyeon Choi intended.

In fact, as time passed in that state for some time, I could feel the energy that had been scattered throughout the blood flow converging one by one.

However, this is just a preparation process.

The goal presented by Kang Tae-han is to directly move the aura.

Choi Seong-hyun, who judged that he was ready, began to carefully raise the aura of Hadanjeon in that state. More precisely, I was going to try.

“… ah.”

However, at that moment, the accumulated spiritual energy dispersed and began to spread throughout the body again like a water balloon bursting.

Choi Seong-hyeon, who lost his concentration at once, opened his eyes involuntarily exclaiming, and sat there blankly for a while, scratching his head.

“It’s not easy.”

I feel like I can sense something, but I don’t know at all.

As if trying to pick up water with tongs, the moment you try to raise your energy, it flows down and scatters away.

However.

That doesn’t mean giving up.

“… Whoa, whoa.”

Anyway, with the belief that something is getting better with each repetition, Seong-Hyun Choi took a deep breath once again and began to tidy up the inside.