Training lasted till 1pm in the afternoon. By then, Sato was beat and exhausted. He laid on the training grounds, deeply panting. If university training was exhausting, this could be counted as hell. Every step of the way, Master Choi would push Sato's body and brain to the limit. Whenever Sato thought of another way of striking his teacher, it would be immediately shut down by Master Choi right after.
Gray came to pick the young man up from his teacher's house. Seeing how tired Sato was, it made Gray feel bad, yet extremely proud of him. Not just anyone gets a chance to learn from one of the best Taekwondo masters in the world.
"How was the training? Was it fruitful?"
Sato drank a whole bottle of water before he finally had the chance to speak. "Yeah, it was very fruitful. Far more enriching then the set movements we had to learn in the clubs."
"Of course," Gray reminisced the times when he underwent training with Master Choi. Back then it was hell for him too. Except, it was in a different way.
"I still remembered the days when he had made me do progressive weight training while sparring with him."
"Oh?" Sato was curious.
"I had about a months time before I had to go for a dangerous mission in Country K. In that country, no firearms were allowed at all and so we had to mostly rely on closer combat. Thus, Master Choi created a hellish routine for me to follow, to which I fainted at least twice everyday."
"That's insane!" Sato admired Gray's perseverance.
"It's all in the past. Now, I'm mostly rusty bones." Gray rubbed off the compliment. He had never been good at receiving them.
When Sato heard what Gray said, he mummured out some words under his breath. "Rightttt... A six-pack lean fit soldier like you would fit the description of 'rusty bones'..."
"What did you say?"
"Nothing." Sato shook his head while smiling.
The two of them headed home in good spirits.
...
In the front porch of the martial master's House, the Old man finally took a seat after his long morning. Although he didn't move much, he was still tired from all the parrying and reflexive movements. Sato had definitely surprised him the most out all of his previous students.
Master Choi knew that he was training a genius. And so, his method and approach was different to how he taught his other pupils. The old man realised early on that the boy would most likely study up the other kicking patterns in Taekwondo. This would mean that there was no need to teach Sato from the ground up. Instead, he could work on building a strong foundation for his newest student and not dwell on other aspects too much.
With that said, Master Choi chose sparring as a good teaching point. It allowed Sato to get more familiar with person to person combat and gave him more space to practice his kicks. The set rigid movements that could be learnt by Sato instantly is leagues apart from what the grandmaster teacher was doing with him.
As a result, after the end of the first training, there were already several new combination of kicks that Sato could pull off. Although his physique and strength wasn't there yet, this aspect cannot be rushed due to Sato's natural build.
I am definitely training a devil, thought Master Choi. He wiped his head when recalling the spar. No matter how many times he knocked the young pupil down, Sato would stand up again, like an undead zombie that didn't know how to die. Since the young man did not complain, the teacher should even more not take a step back.
I sure am getting old though...
...
After taking a shower and having barbecue for lunch, Sato decided it was time to let his body take a break. His mind however, was put to use. Sato went ahead to play Ray Of Light. Gray came along as well, after all, who else would he want to spend his weekend with?
They were planning to enter the Frozen Tundra Dungeon, where they were going to attempt to kill the Demon General Trazar. In a dungeon, Sato and Gray were able to kill the demonified beasts which doesn't go against their passive skill. In addition, the other reason why they were doing a dungeon run now, was because of the Sibling squad. They wanted to play with their senior.
"Senior Sato! Let's go kill some Demons!" Sister Laia wasn't free today to play and so the remaining group entered the five man dungeon.
The average level of the monsters were around Lv55 to 60 and so it wasn't too hard for everyone to battle with. While they were fighting, the siblings would joke around and make Sato laugh. Even Gray had to give it to them sometimes when they make a funny joke. Although he wouldn't laugh, he would show a small smile as a gesture.
"Say, Senior Sato? " Hobz asked out while shielding his team from the Chilling Breath of the Gargoyles.
"Yeah, what's up?" Sato followed up.
"So, Hayden, Hanz and I were planning to go to the Grand Theme park tommorow. And we were curious if you wanted to come along? You can get Senior Ming to go with us too! Heck, Big bro Gray should come too!" Hobz invited them enthusiastically.
Before Sato could even say anything, Hobz continued on talking by himself. Sato could only break a sweat when he heard the talkative boy go on.
"Since tommorow is the Country's Founding Day, there would be a firework showcase that was said to be the greatest one this year! So of course you would want to come right? Right?"