Seong-ho Kim was working through the approval papers when Jeong-cheol Choi walked into the Vice-Chairman's office at Ilhyeon Electronics with his report.

"I passed the Vice-Chairman's wishes to Vice-Chairman Mun-jong Lee's Secretariat staff, as you instructed."

"And? What did they say?"

Seong-ho Kim, who had been looking down at the approval documents, set the papers aside and leaned back in his chair.

Jeong-cheol Choi gave Seong-ho Kim the story as headquarters had told it to him.

Seong-ho Kim heard it out in silence, and then he laughed — the thing amused him.

"Of course. They wouldn't want to go. Their old master is in a cell, and nobody can tell them how Solar would treat them once they arrived. That makes them want it even less."

"Vice-Chairman."

Jeong-cheol Choi put the question to Seong-ho Kim carefully.

"Why did you take all of them in? You didn't even have our own Secretariat absorb them — you scattered them instead."

Seong-ho Kim had never intended to absorb Vice-Chairman Mun-jong Lee's Secretariat in the first place.

Of the three options, one was to be taken into Seong-ho Kim's Secretariat — and that one existed only to fill out the set.

Seong-ho Kim put it on the table certain nobody would take it, and nobody did: not one of Vice-Chairman Mun-jong Lee's Secretariat staff picked Seong-ho Kim's Secretariat.

Every one of them chose the affiliate they wanted and the department they wanted.

Seong-ho Kim closed the approval documents and pushed them to one side of the desk.

Then he set out for Jeong-cheol Choi the reason he had wanted them broken up.

"I wanted the Secretariat broken up while Mun-jong Lee was gone. Then he'd come out with half his strength cut away."

"Did Mun-jong Lee lean on his Secretariat that heavily?"

"If he hadn't, would he have given an attending secretary an order like that one?"

It was a plain answer, and Jeong-cheol Choi thought it laid Mun-jong Lee's position bare.

"I see. If he'd had another organization, he wouldn't have given that order to a secretary."

Jeong-cheol Choi nodded and looked at…