"I don't know. I really don't know."

"How can 'I don't know' make sense?"

Bang, bang, bang!

The sound of the desk being pounded filled the small space.

"You're the person in charge, aren't you? And you want me to believe you don't know?"

"It's true I'm the person in charge… but the fund's settings had already been changed before I arrived. I'm not the one who did it."

"Then who did? Are you saying the previous person in charge did it?"

"That's…"

The Ilhyeon Securities management division head could offer no answer to the prosecutor's words and only bowed his head.

"Keep saying you don't know like this and in the end you'll take the fall for all of it. You understand?"

"I really didn't do it…"

"Do you know where this is? The Special Investigation Division. The Special Investigation Division that manufactures crimes that don't even exist and pins them on you! Until you tell the truth, I'll shake down your colleagues, your family — right down to your in-laws' eighth cousins — so bear that in mind."

"I really…"

Knock knock.

Just then an investigator knocked on the interrogation room door and came in.

He glanced at the head-bowed Ilhyeon Securities management division head and said to the prosecutor in a small voice,

"Mun-guk Oh — the Silla Future Asset vice-president who was the former Ilhyeon Securities management chief — has come."

"He came in person?"

"Yes. He says he'll produce important evidence related to the investigation."

"Understood."

Hearing the prosecutor's answer, the investigator left the interrogation room first.

Rising from his seat, the prosecutor looked down at the Ilhyeon Securities management division head, who had lifted his head, and said,

"Think carefully. Once Mun-guk Oh produces his evidence, you'll go from being a witness to a suspect."

"Prosecutor!"

The division head called out to him desperately, but the prosecutor turned his head and left the interrogation room.

"I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Prosecutor. Please, hear me out."

The division head's voice echoed lonely through the interrogation room.

Having left the interrogation room, the prosecutor took…