"No, no. It's not that."

CEO Seo-gang Won waved his hands and spoke.

"I think you may have misunderstood, sir. We're not looking for investment from you, or from Ilhyeon."

"You're not looking for investment?"

"That's right."

Seo-gang Won broke into a broad smile, meaning that he was not lying.

"Seong-ho. There's already a place that's said it will provide the funding, so we don't need the money."

"You've already secured the money?"

At Chang-jong Lee's words, Seong-ho Kim, still with a look that said he didn't quite believe it, looked at Seo-gang Won and asked.

"Then why is it, when I asked earlier how much you'd raised in investment, you didn't answer? If the investment is already in, then the amount is fixed."

Seo-gang Won answered Seong-ho Kim's question with the same smile still on his face.

"It's not that the investment amount is fixed."

"You say the investment amount isn't fixed? What does that mean?"

Sitting there with the face of an amiable man, Seo-gang Won's voice was neither high nor low.

Seong-ho Kim did not find this Seo-gang Won's manner pleasing.

Because from long experience dealing with many kinds of people over past years, Seong-ho Kim knew that a person who gave an unbelievably good impression from the very first meeting was rather someone to be kept at a distance.

Rather than dropping his guard, Seong-ho Kim let his own guard rise and smiled back at Seo-gang Won.

"I see. It seems I've been showing a rather overly defensive side. Being on guard against people is what I'm most used to, so perhaps that's how it came across."

"Oh, no. It's fine. Director Lee here reacted just the same way as you did at first."

"That's right, Seong-ho. I was the same. But as we've worked together, that kind of thinking of mine has been wiped clean away. I've come to trust them. So you can trust them too."

"All right."

Chang-jong Lee himself had stepped in to say to trust them.

Seong-ho Kim thought that since these were opponents he couldn't just chase out, it would…