“Oh, it’s pretty cool, isn’t it? I have a feeling.”

Director Hwang burst into admiration at Seonghyeon Choi’s acupressure. Even compared to the previous attempt, it was a completely different hand taste.

“Is it good?”

“It works fine now. I can do it for guests.”

Kang Tae-han nodded his head in recognition.

I’ve felt it before, but Choi Seong-hyun is definitely talented. Of course, it’s just a basic skill that has nothing to do with internal energy or blood pressure, but the speed at which you follow what you’ve been taught is quite excellent.

“Whoa, it’s worth the time spent practicing.”

“Of course, compared to Taehan, there is a difference.”

“a… How can you be full on your first drink?”

Although he said it in a gruff voice, Seonghyun Choi didn’t seem to be in a bad mood. For Kang Tae-han, the words ‘I can do this for guests’ were not empty words, but a standard of recognition that was quite hard to hear.

“Then I’ll go get ready to receive guests.”

“Yes, Tae-han. great job.”

“Ah, the chief suffered the most in the middle.”

Kang Tae-han smiles and shakes his head. He left his seat, and after a while, Chief Hwang turned his head to Seonghyeon Choi.

“But Seonghyun, why are you working so hard all of a sudden?”

“Yes? Did I always work hard?”

“It’s not like that, but should I say that it has changed more actively? Wouldn’t you like to ask Taehan to teach you how to massage?”

Originally, he was kind-hearted and good at work, but he wasn’t this aggressive.

At Director Hwang’s words, Choi Seong-hyeon paused for a moment and scratched his head. It was a bit embarrassing to say in person.

“… Actually, the atmosphere here has changed a lot since Taehan came, right? noticeably.”

“It doesn’t.”

It was larger than other places and the facilities were clean, so there were quite a few regulars from the beginning, but the main ones were the sauna and jjimjilbang, and the massage shop was just a stop by and go.

However, these days it feels a little different.

The jjimjilbang is empty, but the massage shop is often crowded, to the point where it was never there before. The number of customers who come to the jjimjilbang for the main purpose of massage has increased explosively.

As the number of customers increases, of course sales increase, and as sales increase, the masseurs’ income also increases… It was Kang Tae-han who became the starting point of all these virtuous cycles.

“So, why?”

“just… I thought that was great.”

Seonghyun Choi said with an awkward smile.

He was the one who introduced Kang Tae-han to this place, but in fact, he hadn’t taken the job that seriously. Just earning a decent amount of pocket money and then leaving, that’s about it.

It wasn’t a bad place to work, but to be honest, it’s a massage shop attached to a sauna. How much will it change if you change what you do alone?

However, Kang Tae-han was different. In fact, he changed the atmosphere of this place with his own power, and now many guests come here to an extent that he never thought before.

The way one person’s influence, especially a friend he used to know, changes the world around him… It was a great stimulus to Choi Seong-hyeon in itself.

“So, I’m already working anyway… Let me do it right one more time. That’s it, what.”

Seonghyun Choi rubbed the tip of his nose with his finger. When I asked, he answered, but it was an embarrassing story.

“… Son, he’s a cool guy, this.”

On the other hand, Chief Hwang, as if seeing it again, corrected his posture and sat down, placing his arm on Choi Seong-hyun’s shoulder.

It’s easy to envy or be jealous of someone when you see someone outpacing you. It’s not that difficult to express admiration or congratulations.

However, there are not that many people who can be stimulated by it and follow it. A person who can think like Choi Seong-hyun now.

Of course, there is no guarantee that you will become like that person just because you are chasing after him. Rather than that, he might stumble and fall down while chasing after him.

But even so, what does it matter?

Even if he fell over and stopped halfway, the fact that he took at least a few steps forward would not change. It means that you have already grown at the point you made such an attempt.

“I did not know? That cool one.”

“Tsk, he just turned into a bad luck guy.”

Chief Hwang frowned and clicked his tongue. The two looked at each other and burst into laughter without asking who came first.

“By the way, manager. Can I ask you something too?”

“What? Tell me.”

“Why do I call Taehan Taehan when I always call him in short language?”

The way he speaks is casual, but his title is unconditionally Taehan.

I used to think it would be because it was awkward, but now it doesn’t seem like that. Seonghyun Choi wasn’t the type to obsess over things like this, but it was a bit strange.

“What should I do… … . For some reason, it’s hard to call Taehan by his first name.”

Director Hwang has an eye for it after working at a jjimjilbang for quite some time. If you look at his face or talk to him, you can roughly guess how old he is and what kind of work he has been doing.

In that sense, there was something about Kang Tae-han that couldn’t be explained. It’s as if I’m a few dozen years older… … .

Of course, I know very well how old he is and that he is just a college student, but his impression and atmosphere are completely different.

‘Guests don’t call me teacher for nothing.’

Director Hwang nodded a couple of times by himself.

* * *

“Then where… … .”

Kang Tae-han returns home after finishing his workout after work.

After going back to the mountain, Kang Tae-han had one short task added. He walked over to the large chest of drawers he had recently furnished.

In other words, it is Kang Tae-han’s elixir storage.

It was a chest of drawers that stored the medicinal materials and herbs he had gathered in his backpack in the mountains, trimmed, processed, and stored in their own way.

Those that can be reproduced were lightly trimmed, and those with strong tempers were pickled in honey or soaked in alcohol to neutralize them. In the drawer below, there was also a pill made by hand and wrapped in silver foil.

Thanks to this, a bitter scent unique to medicinal herbs was spreading in a corner of the room, but to Kang Tae-han, it could be said to be fragrant.

“Shall we start today?”

Wild ginseng, which was the biggest harvest, was eaten on the same day, but there were plenty of other elixirs left to eat.

Of course, just because there are so many elixirs, it would be a very foolish thing to eat them all at once.

Even so, there is a risk that the internal energy and the energy of the elixir will cause a backlash, and if the energy of the other elixir is entangled, it can literally turn out to be a complete mess.

Aside from the simple risk of internal injury, the absorption rate of the elixir may also decrease, and the absorbed aura may be transformed into takgi, which may have the opposite effect of making the bloodstream cloudy.

It would be worse than not taking the elixir you obtained.

Because of this, Kang Tae-han was steadily taking a certain amount of elixir once a day after work every night, as if he were eating a healthy meal.

Thanks to this, Kang Tae-han has been eating simple snacks for a while and eating dinner after a long time. As with some herbal medicines, it was much better to take the elixir on an empty stomach.

“… Have you already eaten all the bellflower and deodeok?”

Kang Tae-han looked around the chest of drawers and expressed regret.

Bellflower and deodeok were similar in nature to wild ginseng and had good efficacy, but apart from the effective part, I liked the texture and taste.

It’s good to eat raw sliced and mixed with red pepper paste, or it’s good to eat just with honey… You have to be careful not to consume spirit energy during the cooking process, but it is also a delicacy if you eat it grilled.

If possible, it is unavoidable that the hand goes first to the one that tastes better. However, as a result, bellflower and deodeok have already been exposed. Even though other medicines still have quite a bit of room left.

‘It’s my fault for eating unbalanced, well.’

can you star I have no choice but to eat the rest.

Things pickled in honey or soaked in alcohol still need time. Then there aren’t that many options left. Kang Tae-han picked up a pill and brought it into his mouth.

An item that has spiritual energy, but is too weak to consume alone, or a product that has a synergistic effect by combining energy with other medicinal materials.

However, even if it is a fan, it is not grandiose like the fan of Shaolin. It was just a basic pill made by grinding dried herbs into powder and then kneading it with dampened honey.

“… It’s also very useful.”

For a moment, Kang Tae-han’s eyebrows twitched.

If this was the Great Hwandan from Shaolin, it would have melted like a liquid and flowed into the throat by itself before even tasting it.

However, this is a pill created by Kang Tae-han.

Of course, there was no effect like that of a lie, and in the process of chewing and swallowing, a terrible bitter taste oozes out in the mouth.

However, did they say that the medicine written in the mouth is good for the body?

Apart from the taste, the effect itself was sufficient.

Vivid aura of aura that permeates through the stomach into the bloodstream. Kang Tae-han straightened his posture and exhaled a long breath.

“Huh… … .”

Reiki has the property of being attracted to places where the density of qi is higher. Reiki entering the blood duct naturally gathers in the lower part of the body, guided by the internal energy of the body.

However, sending it to the bottom battle like this is dangerous.

If you encounter the inner energy gathered in the danteon, a backlash will occur, and if you do not do it, it may turn into a takgi and have an adverse effect.

‘I made it at best, but I have to use it properly.’

First of all, it is necessary to collect and bind the spirit energy that has entered the body to the middle ground that has been emptied in advance, and to adapt to the internal energy and nature of the body.

The most basic and safest way is to wait for the spirit energy to be naturally absorbed.

However, in order to increase the speed more, Kang Tae-han’s method is to separately raise the inner air of the lower half and the aura of the middle half, and deliberately bring both sides into contact to the point where the repulsion can be suppressed.

It was a dangerous method that could cause internal energy to run out before the qi process was completed, and at most the spirit energy tied up before the middle stage could flow into the lower halves… … .

“Whoa… … .”

Kang Tae-han’s appearance is extremely calm.

Inhalation and exhalation, only the sound of breathing echoed in the quiet room, and when about ten minutes had passed, Kang Tae-han took a last deep breath and opened his eyes.

The warmth felt softly from the inside of the lower part.

That was proof that the absorption was successfully completed. The mild heat brought a gentle smile to Kang Tae-han’s lips.

“Now then… … .”

Kang Tae-han wiped his hands and stood up.

Maybe it’s because I sweated a little while using my body’s history, but I feel a little more refreshed than before.

“Shall we order some chicken?”

However, internal energy is internal energy, and heat is energy.

Elixir is good, but meat is needed at the end of the day. ‘Eating meat makes the body heavy.’ Kang Tae-han had thought for a long time that the same sound was only made by shamans and Shaolin people.

* * *

“What? Are you going to resign?”

Surprised, Lee Dong-chan widened his eyes. It was a shocking remark from a friend who I thought was getting along well.

“It happened.”

“why? The guy who was excited about launching soon.”

At Lee Dong-chan’s question-filled words, the man with drooping shoulders, Kim Min-yeol, laughed helplessly. Judging by the complexion, it seemed that he was not talking empty words.

“I do not know… Just thinking about going to work these days is so hard. Upstairs, it’s a fictional day, and the kids below believe only in me, but they don’t have the strength… I thought I’d gotten used to this kind of thing, but I wasn’t.”

Kim Min-yeol burst into laughter after speaking, but he didn’t look happy at all. The difficulties of an ambiguous middle management position. Dong-chan looked at him with pitiful eyes.

He was the best friend among his original classmates. The place he joined was also a large company recognized by the industry, and he was the subject of envy because he was promoted the fastest.

The shabby look of such a friend.

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Lee Dong-chan silently filled Min-yeol’s empty glass with soju. He felt sorry for him, but all he could do was empty his glass, like listening to his friend.