"Brother. What happens to us now?"

Chang-jong Lee looked across at Sang-jong Lee with a tense face.

Sang-jong Lee, one leg crossed over the other, looked down at the newspaper lying askew on the table and said,

"What happens? It's gone down somebody else's throat, that's what."

"Even so, you can't call Gyeong-eun somebody else, can you?"

"Does it look to you like Ilhyeon has gone to Gyeong-eun?"

Sang-jong Lee looked at Chang-jong Lee as though the question were absurd.

But it was Chang-jong Lee who looked back at Sang-jong Lee as though he could not follow, and said,

"Father said plainly that he would hand Ilhyeon over to Gyeong-eun, didn't he? And he said he would entrust the management to whoever was best at it. What we have now is only a temporary system, isn't it?"

Chang-jong Lee looked at the newspaper in front of Sang-jong Lee.

Across the paper in large type ran the story of Tak-hyeon Lee putting his weight behind Seong-ho Kim's system.

"The old men are all out. Do you know what that means?"

Sang-jong Lee looked at Chang-jong Lee as he asked it.

But Chang-jong Lee only shook his head as though he had no idea.

"It means there's nobody left to get in the way of anything that Seong-ho boy does."

"Nobody left to get in the way?"

"That's right."

Sang-jong Lee shook his head hard and said,

And then he tapped the newspaper with a finger as though it amused him, and said,

"What that means is that every result the company posts becomes that Seong-ho boy's credit."

"And what's good about that?"

Sang-jong Lee looked at Chang-jong Lee with contempt.

Then he let out a deep sigh and said,

"Well, if you don't know even that much, no wonder you're sitting here like this."

Sang-jong Lee, still looking at Chang-jong Lee with contempt, went on explaining.

"Who did Father say he would entrust the management to? Didn't he say the most capable man? And who is the most capable man? The one who puts up the most results, isn't he?"

"That's…