"Made it, then?"

Seong-ho Kim greeted Dae-su Park.

"You're here, sir."

Jeong-cheol Choi bowed his head to him as well, and Dae-su Park patted his shoulder lightly and returned the greeting.

"Keeping well?"

"Yes. Thanks to you, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, I'm doing well."

"Any time you like — if you're not happy, come to me. I can always make an investigator's post for you."

"Why are you trying to poach a man who's doing his job well? Chief Secretary Choi, don't get any ideas — stay right at my side. I'll make you an executive, a president, whatever you like."

Seong-ho Kim said it to Jeong-cheol Choi in a tone of mock alarm, and Jeong-cheol Choi smiled and thanked Dae-su Park.

"I'm grateful for the thought alone. But I can't leave the Vice-Chairman's side."

"That's exactly why I want him. Where on earth did you find a man like this?"

"Where do you think? Byeong-jin found him for me."

"Ah, that's right. You said he was Byeong-jin's brother-in-law. Where's my head."

Only then did Dae-su Park recall the relation, and he smacked his lips.

"If I had just one man like Chief Secretary Choi at work, the job would be easy… a pity."

Dae-su Park looked him over with covetous eyes and sat down, and Jeong-cheol Choi handed over the documents he was holding.

Having read them a moment, Dae-su Park said,

"The Jaeseung faction has been a place that generated talk for a long time. But there was no evidence, and the police were uncooperative about investigating, so we let it fizzle out too. There was only a lot of talk about how strange it was… And you're telling me it's all this man's work?"

Dae-su Park tapped a finger on the place where Tae-hun Park's name and face were.

"And this one is at Vice-Chairman Mun-jong Lee's side now?"

"There's no evidence yet."

Seong-ho Kim turned up the corner of his mouth and went on.

"But it'll come to us on its own feet soon enough."

"Evidence that comes on its own feet?"

Dae-su Park put down the…