Seong-ho Kim looked quietly at Jeong-sik Park's whitened face and said,

"It strikes me that would be for the better. Because only then can your grievance be resolved as well, Secretary Park. Is that not so?"

"Th-that's… it isn't so much a grievance…"

Jeong-sik Park did not know what he ought to say.

In truth, when he had spoken to the prosecution and to those around him, it had not been in order to clear a grievance.

It had been only to press Sang-jong Lee so as to receive the money a day sooner.

And yet he had not in the least foreseen that it would rebound in an unintended direction.

"Are they really… saying they'll re-investigate the accident?"

"Yes. Which is why the company intends to request a re-investigation actively as well."

"The company? Why would the company… I'm no longer with Ilhyeon Construction."

Jeong-sik Park had resigned from the company when he turned himself in.

And so he could not understand why the company would be actively requesting an investigation.

"You may not be with Ilhyeon, Secretary Park, but my brother is."

"Ah… that's so. President Sang-jong Lee is the president of Ilhyeon Construction."

Jeong-sik Park, who in thinking only of himself had failed to think as far as Sang-jong Lee, let his head drop.

"And so it seems the President himself instructed the prosecution to investigate thoroughly."

"President Min-gu Noh did?"

The face of a Jeong-sik Park who had already gone white went whiter still.

At hearing that words he had brought out in order to receive money had reached the ear of the President, he felt even a sense of vertigo.

"Because the President takes a great interest in Ilhyeon. So it seems he heard of your matter as well, Secretary Park, and gave a direct instruction that not a grain of grievance or suspicion be left. Don't worry too much."

"Vice-Chairman."

"I know what it is you're worried about, Secretary Park. Even if you are to be punished, you want it to be within the bounds of the law, do you not?"

Seong-ho Kim shook…