Tak-hyeon Lee got into the car and spoke with his eyes shut.

"I'm tired."

"Chairman. You've been through a lot."

Do-beom Hwang looked at Tak-hyeon Lee with pity in his eyes.

On any ordinary day Tak-hyeon Lee wouldn't so much as have sat across a table from the Prosecutor General, and he had gone and bowed his head to him.

Even with his eyes shut Tak-hyeon Lee let out a thin laugh as he spoke.

"Don't think I bowed my head to Prosecutor General Song over Mun-jong. I did it for Ilhyeon."

Do-beom Hwang nodded and told the driver to start.

Then he turned around from the passenger seat and put a question to Tak-hyeon Lee, whose eyes were shut.

"What did Prosecutor General Song say?"

"A man is dead."

Tak-hyeon Lee opened his eyes and looked at Do-beom Hwang.

"One man died and one came back from the dead. And the one who came back from the dead walked into the prosecutors' office on his own feet and reported it — how is a thing like that to be smoothed over?"

"Then…"

"There has to be an investigation and there has to be a punishment. Prosecutor General Song said that part couldn't be helped, and I agreed with him."

"So the case can't be buried after all."

Tak-hyeon Lee stopped for a moment, let out a small sigh and said,

"The case can't be buried. But you can change the man."

"Change the man? By that you mean…"

"Mun-jong's attending secretary will take the responsibility and go in instead."

"That's a relief."

Do-beom Hwang's face eased at what Tak-hyeon Lee said.

"Well, incitement to murder needs plain evidence, and all there is at the moment is circumstantial, so if Mun-jong denies it there's nothing to be done."

"And they said they'd set the direction of the investigation that way, so you don't need to worry."

Tak-hyeon Lee thought back to what the Prosecutor General had promised him across the table.

"The Prosecutor General said he'd give the instruction himself to the Special Investigation Division prosecutor who opened the case,…