Wh-what are these bastards!

Kang Hongdong was badly thrown.

The men who had shown themselves on the first floor are not the bodyguards who went about at Ha Donghwi's side.

These are the ones who sent well-built Deoksu rolling down and then came out.

A man of solid build, who looks to be halfway through his forties, went in front.

Behind him the others stood up like a folding screen.

In the light of the office lamps the men in dark grey suits were every one of them big men.

Clang. Clang. Clang.

Tread, tread, tread.

The men came down the outside stair into the front yard.

There is nothing hesitant in the weight of their step.

They seem not to give the underlings clustered about Kang Hongdong so much as a thought.

A shuffle back, and another.

At the cold force of it coming on, Kang Hongdong and his men gave ground by instinct.

"You know this is a breach of the violence act?"

The middle-aged man in front asked it, cool and flat.

"Heh heh heh heh."

Kang Hongdong pulled his wits together.

Then he showed his teeth and drew the ends of his lips up and laughed.

He must not let their manner push him back.

And he has twenty-odd of his men beside him, and Jo Cheolgwon.

He came up on fistwork, and built a hide for punishment on rough jobs, and that is how he got to where he stands.

His men are a different order of thing altogether from bodyguards who have grown their muscle to look at.

Kang Hongdong narrowed his eyes and glared at one man among those standing there like a screen.

"Mr Ha Donghwi~ you know me, don't you?"

Ha Donghwi, standing behind the middle-aged man.

Kang Hongdong drew his upper lip up until every one of his top teeth showed, and smiled with the raw smell of fish in it.

"Who are you?"

"You don't know me? You borrowed my money. Are we playing at not knowing?"

"……Not at all."

Ha Donghwi looked straight at Kang Hongdong with nothing…