—In the sound of the rain I whisper your name~

Scratch. Scratch.

Lyrics full of feeling, filling an empty notebook.

Tok. Tok. Tok.

The hotel’s royal suite, on the highest floor of the Signiel.

Outside the window, where the beautiful night view spreads out wide and clear, thick raindrops fall.

Seo Dahui, who has still not been able to sleep, poured the fierce feeling down into the notebook.

Today too she was helped in a way she could not have imagined.

The agency’s cowardly manner, whose meanness had made her feel even the impulse to kill.

They did not allow her so much as the time to say goodbye to Ha Tae-ung.

Gu Miryeo, who disregarded the relationship of all that time and dragged her pride down to the floor.

She had foreseen a situation like today’s and had her bags packed in advance.

It is disconcerting, but the luggage comes to no more than three travelling cases.

There were hardly any newly bought clothes either.

She had run every event on sponsored clothing, so she has nothing of her own put by.

And even so the settlement money was only enough to keep basic living going.

The laptop she uses when composing is the highest-priced thing she owns.

She does not have one piece of the jewellery everybody has.

Thanks to Ha Tae-ung, Seo Dahui has come to stay in a first-class room at the Signiel hotel.

Trickle, trickle. Trickle.

Like the rain beating on the window, the tears ran down out of Seo Dahui’s two eyes without stopping.

—Like time stands still~ your longing voice embraces my heart~

The words of the song running on like a river.

She heard Ha Tae-ung’s voice, which had wrapped round her as though time had stopped.

—This night of rain, your warmth wraps my heart like a candle~ and the small flame opens tomorrow’s dream again…… Goodbye for now, see you again soon……

“Thank you. And this kindness…… I’ll repay it without fail.”

Seo Dahui, gripping a fist that looks frail.

The light in her eyes glittered like the morning star.

Ha Tae-ung, the man who made her hold courage and a dream once more.

At this moment, to Seo Dahui he was a knight of heaven, set there by the sky.

Trickle.

Red wine filled a crystal glass.

The top floor of a hotel in Yeouido.

Isabella, looking at the night view around the Han River, could not easily fall asleep.

She wanted a drink unusually badly.

The VIP contract holder she had approached with a degree of playfulness.

The result was that she had gone and made an agent contract as well.

“It’s strong……. Still.”

Isabella looked closely at the right hand with which she had shaken the client’s.

Something had certainly passed between her and him.

She had the feeling of something like a fate being connected.

It is not chance.

After the handshake her ability was plainly reinforced.

And at the same time, that something stamped into the middle of her.

“This feeling…… what is it?”

That she is tied to the Korean client Ha Tae-ung by an invisible cord of fate is certain.

That something that grows hot merely from calling him to mind like this!

It is unfamiliar.

And at the same time it is a marvel.

“If Daddy and my brothers knew…… hee.”

A playful smile hung on Isabella’s face.

An Eastern man, far removed from the nobility.

It is a relationship the house would never permit.

“What am I thinking about now?”

Isabella, shaking her head as she brought the wine glass to her mouth.

If Seo Dahui had not appeared at that moment…….

“Hoo-ut.”

In that instant Isabella’s face coloured softly red.

“A pity.”

There is not much time left.

Straight after arriving in Korea she finished the shopping in Seoul.

By tomorrow afternoon she has to leave Korea.

The meeting with the client Ha Tae-ung, short and strong.

“But why did it change in a moment?”

Isabella called to mind her first sight of Seo Dahui, who had come looking for Ha Tae-ung.

From the moment Ha Tae-ung stepped actively into the woman’s business, she saw Seo Dahui’s road ahead begin to change.

Seo Dahui, who began to take on a bright and brilliant colour.

“It isn’t a thing that can change easily…….”

Isabella called to mind the lives of the rich she has come through until now.

Their fates ran, for the most part, in a direction already fixed.

She had never once witnessed the thing she saw with Seo Dahui — a person’s own light changing in a moment.

“Ha Tae-ung, what are you? Why do you stir my curiosity?”

At the thought of him her heartbeat quickened.

Isabella emptied what was left in the glass.

Tok-tok. Tok-tok.

Raindrops striking the window.

Isabella thought that sleeping tonight was out of the question.

A man’s face rising on the glass with the rainwater running down it.

“Haa.”

A short sigh that forced its way out between her lips came back round again to her own ear.

Tak-tak. Tak-tak.

I struck the keyboard busily.

I am setting the best possible environment up.

Now it is perfectly ready.

I have obtained a safe tax haven account able to trade coin and shares, raw materials and foreign exchange futures.

Speed being life, I moved nimbly.

And.

“If I just fly this account…….”

Fly one laundered account and it is finished.

Send the mail to Isabella tomorrow and it is wrapped up.

A method of laundering an account that cannot be traced.

A method I took in by instinct, as though I had known it from the start.

At this level not even the American federal agencies can find it.

“The accounts keep changing.”

There are many methods for laundering investment money perfectly.

What they take instead is cost, and connections that can be trusted.

“Isabella…….”

Her face, which came up as I said the name over.

A rare beauty.

And on top of that I have made a woman of a boutique firm’s house my personal agent.

The best card I have obtained in my second run.

My overseas account that nobody will find.

Shff.

I got up from my seat.

Outside, a pouring rain came down and beat at the glass.

The heat has come earlier than in any other year.

With the atmosphere unstable the rain was fierce too.

The raindrops struck the glass just as roughly.

“Over nothing more than DM Group.”

The orc manager who threatened Seo Dahui and then me on top of her.

On nothing more than one manager’s standing she trusted DM and threw herself about in front of me.

It was laughable.

My opponent is Haryun.

It amounts to beings outside the spectrum provoking me.

“Wait a little…….”

My assets, which will be puffed up once more when next week comes.

At this present moment they have gone well past the trillion mark.

If it goes as expected, in a few months the size of the holding will be…….

“In this life, anyone who stands in my way, whoever it is…… I do not forgive.”

My firm vow, turned toward the sky.

The war in which a wind of blood will blow has already begun.

If one of us has to be finished…….

It is not me.

It is you!

(End of Chapter 108)