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From the handbag that Yeong-eun thrust upon me, she pulled out a red bikini.

It was clearly the gym uniform that Yeong-eun wore during the second PT session.

A bikini disguised as a gym uniform.

“Why is Yeong-eun holding this?” I couldn’t see it no matter how hard I looked.

I thought she must have taken it with her……

Could it be that the hypnosis was broken because of that?

Damn it.

I was careless.

Even if she took it, it would somehow work out with hypnosis.

…or so I thought.

“The hypnosis at the gym isn’t perfect.”

Turning an ordinary house into a gym, having the power to change people’s perception of this place, but it wasn’t perfect.

[Warning: Hypnosis level of prospective member Yoo Yeong-eun has decreased.]

[Initiating processor for Trainer Protection Protocol Level 2. 0%]

“No matter how I think about it, something was off. Calling a bikini a gym uniform, making you exercise in strange poses.”

Yeong-eun’s eyes gleamed sharply.

But she wasn’t as cold as when she looked at the reporter.

Maybe it’s not the tipping point yet.

“Be honest. Even though you call this place a gym…… it’s a house, isn’t it? Do you think I’m a fool?”

Yeong-eun doesn’t exactly know what happened to her.

She just started feeling uncomfortable with the fact that the clothes she thought were gym uniforms were actually bikinis.

“Since you seem very excited, let’s sit down and talk.”

“….”

Calming down Yeong-eun who was pouring out words in excitement.

[6%]

Until the Trainer Protection Protocol mentioned by the system is activated.

Is the influence of hypnosis still lingering?

Yeong-eun, who was just angry with me, nodded her head.

“….That’s right.”

The problem is that Yeong-eun feels awkward about herself obediently listening to me.

[Warning: Hypnosis level of prospective member Yoo Yeong-eun is decreasing due to continued abnormality.]

Not lowering the hypnosis level until the protocol is activated.

If the hypnosis level drops, the plan to recruit Yeong-eun as a full member will surely be in vain.

It’s not just Yeong-eun.

One of the few members of my gym will be lost.

That’s fatal.

Absolutely not.

They are my precious members.

I didn’t cast Yeong-eun knowing it would be this difficult, right?

Damn it.

This will be a mess.

There was no way to step back.

Whether to intimidate or use some other method on Yeong-eun.

“She must firmly believe that this place is a gym again.”

How?

It’s not just anyone, it’s Yoo Yeong-eun.

Didn’t I see her earlier?

The sight of Yeong-eun pressuring reporter Haesu.

“It’s not easy.”

A way to hypnotize Yeong-eun again after the hypnosis is broken.

My head hurt.

No matter how much I thought, no good ideas came to mind.

I pondered while looking at the steaming cup of tea.

In the end, what’s left is.

[21%]

Is this it?

Trainer Protection Protocol Level 2.

I don’t know why it’s taking so long to load.

But I understand that it means to hold on until it’s activated.

Because I have no other options right now.

“Have some.”

I offered the cup of tea to Yeong-eun.

But she didn’t touch the cup.

“What are you curious about?”

“I thought something was strange. From the moment you came to me and offered PT as a condition for working together.”

Straight to the point?

The pace is too fast.

“Because I’m running the gym in my own way.”

Let’s just go with it.

The hypnosis level has decreased.

She still hasn’t completely come out of hypnosis.

As evidence, Yeong-eun wasn’t confident in her own words.

Moreover.

Yeongeun, if you had completely come out of the hypnosis and regained your senses, you would never have said such things in front of me.

You would have hidden this fact thoroughly until you found solid evidence.

Even if it was just for a moment, the Yeongeun I saw seemed to be like that.

That was the reason I could shamelessly walk away.

I was convinced that she still had an unstable consciousness due to the hypnosis.

[57%]

Let’s buy a little more time.

“Are you still talking about the gym… Do you think that will convince me?”

Yeongeun’s expression hardened.

“I’m serious. I have a small but decent gym. I plan to continue developing it.”

“You plan to continue hiding it.”

“I’m speaking sincerely.”

“Sigh.”

Yeongeun let out an irritated sigh.

“You think I’m a fool.”

“No, I don’t.”

It wasn’t a lie.

It was started by the system, but I had operated the gym quite seriously.

I had never been insincere to the members.

Even though it was a relationship formed through hypnosis.

“Do you know why I came back to you? To someone who could be suspected of doing strange things to me?”

I didn’t answer.

A hasty word could be a clue to breaking Yeongeun’s hypnosis.

‘Annoying.’

I had to be careful with every answer.

It was difficult to manage members of a higher level than the gym level.

As I kept quiet, Yeongeun continued.

“That’s because Jaeho needs me. Of course, you approached me and made me do this exercise because you needed me too. There’s a line.”

She handed me a bikini.

“I’m an actress and the granddaughter of the Jeil Group. Whatever you wanted from me and approached me for… Even if I don’t know…”

Yeongeun’s eyes sharpened as she looked at me.

“To be honest, I’ll forgive the rudeness you showed me this time. I tend to be lenient with capable people.”

Yeongeun reached out her hand.

“We can have a mutually beneficial, constructive relationship.”

I looked down at Yeongeun’s hand.

At the same time.

Ding.

[Trainer Protection Protocol Level 2 is ready.]

[Will you activate it?]

Before I could ask what the effect was, the next sentence followed.

[When the hypnosis of the opponent who has received PT at least once tries to break, a new hypnosis can be overlaid to prevent the weakened hypnosis.]

[Applies only once per target.]

It wasn’t just renewing the hypnosis.

It was renewing the hypnosis and strengthening the weakened hypnosis.

That was the essence of Protocol Level 2.

“A constructive relationship…”

Yeongeun’s idea of a constructive relationship.

It meant that I would take the best pictures of her, and she would keep me by her side like this.

Yeongeun would get the best pictures from me, and I would have the granddaughter of the Jeil Group as my backer.

It was the best proposal.

It meant forgiving the hypnosis that had been cast.

Even though it seemed strange, she could make such a decision.

It was an impossible decision with most distributions.

A relationship without hypnosis.

This could also be an ideal relationship.

But.

[If failed, a randomly affiliated member will terminate the contract.]

This failure condition kept blurring my vision.

Even if I could get close to Yeongeun without hypnosis.

If it meant breaking the existing relationship.

‘I can’t do it.’

Right now, I was like a car driving on a one-way street.

There was no way to reverse or make a U-turn.

I couldn’t accept Yeongeun’s offer, even though I was grateful for her trust.

‘I activate it.’

I replied to the system.

[Trainer Protection Protocol Level 2 activated.]

When I didn’t take Yeongeun’s hand.

“Is that a rejection?”

Yeongeun asked in a surprised voice.

And as her expression gradually turned colder.

Instead of answering, I placed my hand on her head.

“Wait, what are you doing…”

My hand reaching Young-eun’s head made her lose focus with fear in her eyes.

With eyes devoid of firearms, she blankly stared into the void.

[Please choose a new hypnosis.]

I thought about various new hypnosis for Young-eun, but no matter how much I thought, there was only one answer.

“If it’s Young-eun, the hypnosis will be undone again.”

Even if she becomes a formal member, I felt like the hypnosis wouldn’t last long.

I can feel the discomfort.

But beyond the discomfort, Young-eun was the only one who asked to undo the hypnosis.

With her thorough personality.

“No matter how much I hypnotize her, she will feel uncomfortable.”

The protocol to re-lock the almost undone hypnosis can only be used once.

If something like this happens again?

Then it will be irreversible.

If it’s a hypnosis that may someday be undone, it’s better to have feelings for myself whenever I doubt.

I decided on a new hypnosis.

“Every time I doubt myself and the hypnosis, my liking for myself grows.”

Continuing to doubt and having a precarious relationship, I overlay the relationship with new emotions.

That was my conclusion.

Young-eun, staring blankly into the void with her hand outstretched.

That state didn’t last long.

[Application is complete.]

“Uh, uh?”

“Are you okay?”

Young-eun, who belatedly came to her senses, looked at me with a face that seemed not fully awake.

She still didn’t have a proper sense of reality.

“Um, sorry. I think I zoned out for a moment. So….”

Young-eun tried to remember what she had just said to continue.

But.

She just couldn’t remember.

“What did I say?”

I’m sure I had something to say to Jaeho….

That….

“Young-eun?”

“I’m sorry, Jaeho, what did I just say?”

“Yes?”

“I was trying to say something, but I can’t remember.”

Jaeho pointed to the gym clothes on the desk with a worried look.

“You said you brought this clean.”

On the desk was a gym outfit with nothing wrong with it.

A bikini with a particularly small fabric area.

A bright red bikini caught Young-eun’s eye.

“Oh, right. I was going to say that earlier…. I don’t know why I’m acting like this today.”

“Maybe it’s because of the reporter Lee Hyesoo, but should we postpone today’s PT?”

Young-eun shook her head.

“That wouldn’t be right. We should do what we planned to do.”

Jaeho swallowed a bitter smile as he looked at the smiling Young-eun.

As if she had used her power to shut up reporter Lee Hyesoo’s mouth.

I did the same thing.

I just used hypnosis.

I’m sorry, but I had no choice.

Let’s think about how to make her a member using the last remaining PT.

The rest is just unnecessary worry.

“Then let’s start exercising. Since you brought it clean, shall we use this for the workout?”

“Okay.”

Young-eun replied energetically without any reluctance.

“Then, would you change and come back?”

I handed the bikini gym clothes to Young-eun.

There was no awkwardness in Young-eun’s acceptance of the bikini gym clothes.

As if this gym outfit was natural.

She took the bikini and went into the changing room.