"Are you really going to spar with Benedict?"

The night before my sparring session with Benedict, the old man, who had been discussing various matters with me, suddenly said this.

‘Why? Can't we spar?’

<It’s just that I wonder why you’re suddenly considering it. There’s still a huge gap between you and Benedict, so you won’t gain much from it.>

The old man’s words were valid. Learning through actual combat can only happen when the gap between the two is not too wide.

When I think about the difference between Benedict and me, all I could gain from our sparring …