"Well?"

"Well what?"

"Young Ha Tae-ung, sir."

Inside the car taking him home. Mun Gunghyeon, as good as Go Junyong's right hand, had turned around in the passenger seat to put the question to him in the back.

"How was he, you mean?"

Go Junyong let out a breath with the alcohol in it and turned his eyes to the window.

And he went back over the conversation he had just had with Ha Tae-ung.

A conversation that had started out light. It had gone from settling what to call each other to the liquor and the hidden money.

But the longer it went on, the further it moved from how it had begun. He couldn't dismiss him as just his nephew's friend.

His eye for the flow of money was one thing, but more surprising than that was his insight into the future.

Go Junyong took his time answering.

"Secretary Mun, what would you say is the weakest part of our Ilseong?"

"Of the group as a whole, sir?"

"No. Electronics."

Mun Gunghyeon thought for a moment. And then.

"Non-memory semiconductors, I would have to say."

"Right."

Go Junyong nodded briefly. In memory the company is among the best in the world. But move on to system semiconductors and the foundry and it is another story.

"The boy said the same thing."

Mun Gunghyeon turned his head and looked back.

"Ha Tae-ung…… did, sir?"

"Mm."

An odd smile hung at Go Junyong's mouth.

"But that wasn't the end of it."

"What did he say?"

"I asked him, as a joke, where he thought the money would go from here."

"Did he answer?"

Go Junyong stopped for a moment. And he went quietly back over the things Ha Tae-ung had said.

"He said it's not memory but the chips that compute that will eat the world."

"……." "CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, mobile APs."

Go Junyong's eyes deepened, as if his thoughts had multiplied.

"Non-memory, in the end."

Mun Gunghyeon's face went serious along with it. Honestly, you could write it off as a cheeky answer, but it was a surprising…