Once the currency market's trading was suspended, inquiries from every affiliate's finance department came pouring into the Restructuring Headquarters.

"We have no problems at all, so proceed as usual."

"Tell them not to worry. The group holds sufficient dollar reserves."

"There won't be any issue with payment settlement, so tell them they can continue business as normal."

Seong-ho stood quietly, watching the staff field the calls pouring in one after another.

Just then, a secretariat staffer came to find him.

"Head."

Seong-ho, hands clasped behind his back, turned his head toward the secretariat staffer.

The staffer bowed slightly and said, "The chairman is asking for you."

Understanding that Tak-hyeon would want him given the chaos, Seong-ho nodded. "Understood, go on ahead. I'll finish up here and head to the chairman right away."

At Seong-ho's word, the staffer left first, and Seong-ho went to find Deputy Head Gyeong-deuk Lee.

"Deputy Head."

"Oh, Head Kim."

In the thick of handling affiliate responses, Gyeong-deuk wiped the sweat from his brow and spoke to Seong-ho. "What's going on here… trading suspended in the currency market? Why did this happen?"

Though he'd been telling the affiliates not to worry, Gyeong-deuk himself didn't actually know why things had come to this. Thinking Seong-ho would know, he asked. And just as Gyeong-deuk expected, Seong-ho did know exactly why the situation had come about.

"It hit the trading limit, so they've used that as an excuse to halt trading and stop the dollar from climbing any further."

"Will that actually work?"

"Not a chance."

Knowing well, from his experience of that former life, what such measures led to, Seong-ho shook his head. "This kind of thing is going to become commonplace going forward."

"Trading suspensions are going to become commonplace?"

Gyeong-deuk wiped the sweat trickling down the side of his face. What had been sweat from the rush of fielding calls a moment ago had now turned into a cold sweat.

Seong-ho laid a hand gently on his back and said, "So tell everyone not to panic too much. We hold sufficient dollars, and there's a considerable amount…