Tee-ree-ree-ree-ree tee-ree-ree-ree-ree.

"Mmh……."

Ah Yura, who worked late into last night and came home.

She got in, emptied a can of beer and fell asleep as though she had collapsed.

Short of sleep, she screwed her face up at the smartphone sounding by her head.

The work keeps piling up these days.

All of it to do with the VIP.

Most of it is more exacting than she had expected.

Tee-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree.

By the ring alone, it is not an ordinary call.

A particular tone kept for clients, and for VIPs at that.

A telephone bell that rings plain and clear.

"Who is it at this hour…… ah!"

Ah Yura groped a hand out, checked the smartphone, and her eyes flew open.

She manages exactly one VIP.

Ah Yura checked the caller on the screen again.

"Young master?"

A VIP client whose own name, Ha Tae-ung, has become awkward to call him by.

Attorney Kim Gyeongmin, the man she is paired directly under, calls him so as a matter of course.

Tik.

She touched the call button in a scramble.

"Young — no, Ha Tae-ung-nim. This is Ah Yur——"

—What is this?

"Sorry?"

A voice cold enough to bring her wide awake rang against her eardrum.

She has never heard a voice this cold from him.

The client Ha Tae-ung has always spoken to people softly and in good order.

A man in whom a chill timbre like this could not be imagined.

But now…….

—My reason for contracting with Jo and Jang is clear. The safety of my family!

Ha Tae-ung's words, which came through as a growl.

Sleep fled and Ah Yura went taut.

Something has blown up!

"I am sorry. If anything is unsatisfactory, please tell me."

—There are men in front of the house in Sokcho at this moment, and they are after my parents.

"Sorry?"

—Kang Deuksu! Why is the matter I retained you on not dealt with yet?

"……I-I am sorry."

There is nothing else to be said.

Ah Yura is a new attorney at Jo and Jang.

The case is led by the senior,…