“Caliber! what are you doing?”

Around the time Caliber had just started helping an unknown old woman.

His coach, Edwin, who was on the phone at a distance, came running up to him in a fright.

“How can you not be still?”

“But it’s a bit like just watching.”

Edwin scolded in a worried voice. Either that or not, Caliber continued to pick up herbs that had fallen on the floor and move them around.

“I have to move steadily through rehabilitation training anyway, but it’s better to do good deeds in moving.”

“… Phew, yes.”

Edwin, who was about to say something, let out a deep sigh at Caliber’s words and shook his head from side to side.

If it was a guy who could hear what he was saying next to him, he would have stayed quiet from the start. But it’s a little hard to tell them not to do something good… … .

“What, can I post it here?”

“Yes. I was originally here.”

If you can’t stop him, it’s better to just help him and end it quickly. Edwin, the coach, crouched across from Grandma and started helping.

“Aigoo, thanks for this… … .”

“What are you talking about?”

“I do not know. Wouldn’t that be a bad thing though? Even when you were talking to me earlier, you sounded like you were worried.”

Although the language is not mutually compatible, you can still feel the nuances of the words. Edwin made a circle with his fingers, gestured that it was okay, and put the herbs that had fallen on the floor into a colander.

“then… Can I just give it to you now?”

“Looks like I picked them all up.”

It was quite large because I brought back what I had lined up on the stall and sold, but with two human hands added, the work was over in an instant.

“Here, take it.”

“Ayu, thank you so much, foreign bachelors. thank you! thank you!”

Edwin hands over a colander full of herbs and vegetables to his grandmother. Then, the grandmother put on a look of gratitude and sorry, then took something out of her pocket and held it out to the two of them.

“I have nothing to give you, even this… … .”

“Oh, that’s fine. You don’t have to give it.”

What she handed over was none other than a 10,000 won bill.

They didn’t know exactly what the prices were like in Korea, but at least they could guess that this would be a pretty big amount for her.

I didn’t really expect any expectations, and I certainly didn’t have any intention of receiving an unreasonable reward. The two shook their hands and refused, regardless of who said first.

“Get it quickly, in Korea you just get it.”

“Haha, um… Ah, the green light! Green light!”

Nevertheless, seeing the grandmother who was trying to give her money, Caliber looked for something to turn her words around and pointed to the back of her and said in an urgent voice.

A green light at a crosswalk with a signal.

The two were just passing through, but the grandmother would have to cross to the other side. Unsurprisingly, a slightly nervous expression flickered over his firm expression.

“Aww, bachelors! Take it quickly!”

“I can’t speak Korean. I don’t know Korean.”

“Gosh… … .”

A magic word that says you can cope with any situation!

When Caliber spoke the only Korean word she had memorized, the grandmother put on a speechless expression for a moment, then began to move forward as if she couldn’t help it.

“I’m sorry to just go! Thank you, thank you!”

Even so, the grandmother who looks back and says that there is still a heart left. The two of them waved at her a couple of times, and then started walking again.

“So, are you proud of doing what you want?”

“Good. It’s been a while since this. by the way… … .”

Caliber spoke as if it were natural with a smile on his lips. After taking a few steps, his complexion gradually hardened, and then he stopped in place and put his hand on his waist.

“what’s the matter?”

“that… Earlier, I felt a slight jerk while moving in a hurry, but I guess that was wrong. It hurts more and more from before.”

“Ah, so do it in moderation!”

At that, Edwin frowned and approached him. Caliber’s voice seemed normal at first glance, but the cold sweat running down his cheeks seemed to give a rough idea of his physical condition.

‘… I don’t think it’s something that can be taken lightly.’

Edwin did not have professional medical knowledge, but as the head coach of a professional club, he learned basic medical examinations and first aid.

However, all he can do is vaguely guess that the situation is quite serious. I didn’t know what to do or where I went wrong.

“First of all, from 119… … .”

“Can I help you for a moment?”

When Edwin is holding a smartphone out of his pocket.

Moments later, someone quietly spoke to me from behind. It was such a sudden appearance that I was slightly surprised.

“uh… Hey, who are you?”

“I was just passing through, but I think you’re in trouble.”

Edwin let out a clearing of his throat and asked, trying to hide his surprise. Then the man smiled lightly and answered in fluent English like before.

A young man who was watching them from across the street.

It was Kang Tae-han, the director of Cheonma Massage.

* * *

‘I’ll understand better when I see it up close.’

Meanwhile, while talking to Edwin, his mind was focused elsewhere. Another man, Caliber, was grasping the physical condition.

‘It’s not a problem that happened in a day or two.’

The appearance of blood vessels that are all jumbled up.

Things that should originally be far apart are entangled with each other, and things that should be attached are connected to different places.

I could tell that there was a problem just by looking at the constant limp, but when I looked inside, it was fortunate that only those symptoms came out.

This level of situation is not simply caused by a momentary shock or a temporary abnormality.

This is a situation that can only occur when the organs are shaken or the blood vessels are subjected to shocks dozens or even hundreds of times.

‘It’s going to be hard to improve right away.’

That’s why it’s hard to restore it to its original state.

If there is a part that is the core of the problem, if only that part is solved, some action will be taken. If only the self-sustaining power is supported, the body will begin to return to its original state on its own.

However, this case is different.

This is because the accumulated damage from numerous shocks, large and small, began to explode all at once.

If the former is a knot that has been twisted with difficulty, the latter has no particular knot, but it feels like a ball of thread is twisted here and there.

‘However… What.’

It’s not impossible though.

And while watching him from the other side, Kang Tae-han had already made up his mind to help this man. The meaning of the fact that Kang Tae-han made up his mind once was not so light that he gave up saying that it was a little more difficult than he initially thought.

“Are you a medical professional?”

“I am not a medical professional, but… I can say I am an expert at least in this situation.”

A vague answer at first glance.

However, there was a calm tone and confidence in his voice, as if he were talking about the truth itself.

‘… What do we do?’

Naturally, Caliber’s body could not be entrusted to just anyone. It could have been an irreversible result if a problem had arisen after taking some action hastily.

As usual, it would be the most rational choice to send this stranger back and call 911 again to call an ambulance.

But why?

Is it because of the plain confidence in the voice he just heard, or is it because of the strangely mysterious atmosphere felt in his body?

Reason was saying ‘don’t do anything stupid and call an ambulance’, but I couldn’t make a choice. I felt like I was missing out on a bigger opportunity.

“… Then, let me ask you a favor.”

“Edwin?”

Edwin finally came to a conclusion. The one who was surprised by those words was Caliber next to him. It wasn’t a sign of rejection, but rather a genuine surprise at a decision that no coach he knew would ever have made.

“Would that be okay too?”

“… yes what As long as the coach is okay.”

At Kang Tae-han’s words of consent, Caliber nodded slowly and replied.

To be honest, I couldn’t trust this stranger, but he trusted Coach Edwin’s decision. Wasn’t there a reason why he made this decision?

“then… … .”

Meanwhile, as soon as he heard Caliber’s answer, Kang Tae-han started walking towards him. If I had gotten the consent of the person himself, there was no need to wait any longer.

Kang Tae-han immediately put his hand on his waist, and with the opposite hand, clenched his fist and lightly slapped him in the spine.

“What?!”

Caliber burst into exclamation involuntarily.

He turned his head back, as if to check what had just happened. Edwin, who had been watching the scene vividly, froze with a puzzled look on his face.

‘First of all, wake up the blood… … .’

However, Kang Tae-han’s hand did not stop. He didn’t even loosen his fist. As if the lower back was just the beginning, the blows continued going up one after another along the spine.

“Ahhhh… … !”

“Are you an expert?”

In the end, Edwin, who was worse off, opened his mouth.

A voice trying to stop him. At first, he tried to have faith, but the scene unfolding before his eyes was enough to make that faith disappear.

“Ahhh!”

While Edwin was approaching him.

When Kang Tae-han grabbed Caliber’s chest and pressed his lower back with his other hand, the waist, which had been bent for a long time, stiffened with a deep elasticity.

“It can’t be solved by forcing it like that… … .”

“No, no, Coach!”

Anyone can do it by forcefully pushing it out, and it is an action that only causes adverse effects in the first place.

Edwin couldn’t stand it and raised his angry voice. However, Caliber himself raised his hand to dissuade him.

“Are you feeling too refreshed now?”

“… Are you happy?”

“Yes. It’s amazing.”

As if that wasn’t a lie. Caliber lightly moved his body from side to side with his back straight. The look of pain that had just been there before had disappeared.

“Your back, is your back okay?”

“Yes. I was a bit surprised, but it didn’t hurt. Rather what should I say… Should I say it feels like a nail sticking out?”

It was true that Kang Tae-han had slapped him on the back, but of course it wasn’t an action aimed at beating him.

By applying a shock in a somewhat violent way, the closed blood vessel was opened and the breath was opened so that the clogged blood vessel could circulate.

Even with that alone, the blood circulation was reactivated for a moment, and the temporary back pain was naturally alleviated.

“Hey, thank you so much for this… Whoops!”

However, the measures Kang Tae-han said did not end here.

He taps his shoulder once, and pushes his thumb hard enough to reach the inner muscles. Sometimes, he moves his hands roughly as if assembling something.

Wood-deuk, quick-deuk, soft-deuk.

And an eerie sound resounding in between.

It was a sound that would make your spine tingle when you hear it from someone else, but hearing it coming from your own body made it doubly frightening.

“… That’s about it, that’s pretty much it.”

And when all of that was over, Kang Tae-han tapped him on the shoulder.

“Ahhhh… … .”

Caliber finally relaxed the tension in his stiffened body. Then he let out a deep sigh of relief.

“I’m about to lose strength in my legs… what?”

Then, all of a sudden, I found it belatedly.

A walking aid placed in front of you.

It was his physical condition that made it difficult for him to stand in place unless he held on to that, but now he was standing still, leaving the walker unattended.

“Huh?”

Besides, the legs are fine.

To be precise, the symptoms were noticeably alleviated.

Of course, it wasn’t completely fine, and he was still shaking at this moment, but it was stable enough that standing still didn’t matter.

“How is this… … .”

“First of all, as a place is a place, we only took simple steps.”

Caliber looked down at himself with a dumbfounded expression. Edwin, who was watching this from the side, was also surprised.

The only thing that seems normal there is Kang Tae-han. He rummaged in his pockets, pulled out a business card from his wallet and handed it to Caliber.

“You must be busy because you are traveling, but if you have time, please contact me and visit me. It’s impossible during business hours, but if it’s dinner time, I’ll make some time.”

“ah… Yes. All right”

“Oh, are you going like this?”

Kang Tae-han hands over his business card and moves on again.

When Edwin called and stopped Kang Tae-han, he smiled and opened his mouth.

“I was on my way back home.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Then go in carefully.”

“thank you.”

After leaving those words behind, Kang Tae-han starts to grow distant again.

The two were staring blankly at their backs. The surroundings became quiet in an instant. At one point, the two looked at the business card in their hands, regardless of which one came first.

“So, what does it say?”

“I do not know… Let’s take a picture and ask the travel agent.”

“Good idea.”

Edwin nodded and immediately took out his smartphone.

It didn’t take long for the two of them to realize that the person who handed them the card was the director of Cheonma Massage.