The Ilhyeon baseball club employee who was poring over the newspaper again today spotted Director Jeong-seop Yun entering the office with a dazed face and offered a glad greeting.

"Director. You're in?"

"Huh? Oh. Yeah. Good morning."

The employee set the paper he'd been studying down on the desk and looked Director Jeong-seop Yun over closely.

"What's the matter with your face? Has something happened?"

"My face?"

At the employee's words, Jeong-seop Yun wiped a hand down his face. Then, looking at the newspaper on the employee's desk, he offered a remark to change the subject.

"Looking at the stock tables again?"

At Director Jeong-seop Yun's words, the employee turned his gaze back to the paper.

Most of the little triangles were pointing downward.

"Looks like it dropped again today too. Are you all right?"

Wearing a gloomy expression, the employee shook his head and said,

"Strangely, it just keeps falling…"

"Section Chief Choi said the opposite — that now's the time to buy, that you should just hold. Don't worry."

"I know that too, but with it already down more than fifteen percent, I can't help feeling uneasy."

The employee, gazing down at the paper, raised his head and looked at Jeong-seop Yun again.

The usual Jeong-seop Yun would offer heartfelt words of comfort — are you all right, what will you do. But today he only offered the commonplace it'll work out.

"Director. Has something really happened?"

"Something happen? Something… nothing's happened."

"You don't look like nothing's happened, though. Are you really all right?"

Just as Jeong-seop Yun, at the employee's repeated are you all right, was about to explain the reason, the office door opened and Seong-ho came in.

"Good morning, everyone."

Seong-ho greeted the staff and gave an instruction to the employee who'd been staring at the stock tables until moments ago.

"Section Chief Kim. Check an account for me, please."

"Representative. By 'account,' which account do you mean?"

Seong-ho gave a soft smile toward Jeong-seop Yun, standing alongside Section Chief Kim, and said,

"There's an account the group's operating budget comes into, isn't there? Check…