Ep. 22 - Fight Club

**Ep. 22 - Fight Club** is the twenty-second episode of *Hand Jumper*.

## Plot

This episode begins with a memory of Sayeon being trained by Jaeil on the basics of how to fight. Sayeon is exhausted, and tells Jaeil to stop trying to train her, since she won't ever be good at it and it won't be useful to her. Jaeil disagrees, and tells Sayeon that she's already learned how a punch works. Despite her complaints, Jaeil tells her that she needs to build some muscle in order to be able to actually deliver a strong punch. Sayeon rebuffs him, telling him that she's a girl and won't need this anyways since she's going to go to law school. The memory ends, and we return to the present.

Back in the gym of the Aberrant Corps Third HQ, Sayeon and Min watch each other quietly. Sayeon considers her options on how to successfully hit Min, and tries to think of the situation as a puzzle. Her thoughts are interrupted by Min, who tells her that she is using her essence wrong. Sayeon's essence is evenly distributed across her body, but she should be focusing it in the areas of her body which she needs most at any given moment. Thinking of this advice, Sayeon remembers Jiwook moving unnaturally quickly, and realizes that he must have focused his essence into his legs. Emulating his technique, she does the same thing, and attacks Min again with greater speed.

Min dodges her strike, and Sayeon struggles to slow down after missing him. His green, glowing eyes reveal that he has activate his essence in order to evade her. Sayeon realizes that Min has become absurdly fast by using his essence. She considers further that her gift is useless in this situation. Her ability to revert time by 20 seconds only gives her the advantage of information, knowing what will happen, and this is most useful in complex scenarios where there are many moving parts which she can influence with this knowledge. However, in this scenario, with only Min facing her, Sayeon decides that she has to brute force the situation instead of relying on the informational advantage her gift gives her. Sayeon focuses on going faster, and speeds towards Min. He dodges her strike again, and flips down off the stands onto the main floor. He runs away from her and Sayeon pursues him, jumping off the railing. The long fall is difficult for Sayeon to do, and she goes to the ground, groaning about pain in her ankle.

Min returns to her and asks her whether her ankle is broken. Shivering in pain, Sayeon tells him that it's swelling up, and asks him why it isn't healing. Min explains that healing doesn't happen automatically, and directs Sayeon to concentrate her essence in her ankle. Sayeon closes her eyes and focuses, but tells Min that she is unable to concentrate so she isn't healing. Min leans over and picks her up. He says he will carry Sayeon to the nurse's office, where there are officers with yellow essence who can fix her ankle. Suddenly, Sayeon weakly punches Min in the chin, surprising him. Sayeon reveals that she's feeling fine, and isn't injured. Grinning with pride and with her eyes glowing teal, Sayeon boasts to Min that she won his challenge.

## Appearances

### Characters

* Jaeil (flashback)
* Sayeon
* Min
* Jiwook (flashback)