“The attachments are all done, and the next step left is the debt restructuring.”
“I still don’t understand it……. At this point it looks better to shake the hands clean and start fresh.”
“They aren’t ordinary people, are they. Stewards like us only have to move as instructed.”
The office of Attorney Kim Gyeongmin’s team at Jo and Jang.
Ah Yura and Kim Gyeongmin are spending busy days lately handling the Pacific Fisheries business.
The VIP client Ha Tae-ung instructed them to acquire Pacific Fisheries.
Ah Yura’s position on the acquisition of the firm in question is still a negative one.
“There isn’t a sound asset in it. The freezer and cold-storage warehouses are every one of them mortgaged to the max. And private lending underneath that……. Haa.”
The asset condition of Pacific Fisheries, for which walking through a bankruptcy looks the fitting course.
“He’ll have a plan.”
“A hundred billion at the least has to be pushed in. At that level…….”
“That’s pocket-money level.”
“Sorry?”
“He’s a member of one of the ten great groups. If the bloodline’s the real thing they’re all holding about that much.”
“Ha Tae-ung-nim is outside the count, isn’t he.”
“Attorney Ah. Do you really believe that?”
“Sorry?”
“There’s no knowing how it may turn out. That’s the frightening part. Look at the history of Joseon. Even the herd boy cutting grass on Ganghwa Island became king.”
“Ah!”
At Attorney Kim Gyeongmin’s words a gasp broke out of Ah Yura’s mouth.
“That’s why a bloodline is frightening. If Attorney Ah were a group’s chairman, would you simply leave a bloodline with ability lying about?”
“…….”
“The truth is it’s a bloodline that can’t be denied. And on top of that, if the child who was put out succeeds! What do you think the position is then?”
“Even so…….”
“Why Chairman Ha Cheolgon became the business world’s cold-blooded man — you don’t know the reason, do you?”
“No.”
“Because he had no power. That’s why he turned poisonous, like a yaksha. Look the personal records up. You’ll see.”
“…….”
The upper-class money-holders’ way of reckoning, which Ah Yura finds it hard to understand at all.
“Our young master is drawing a large picture. He means to declare war through his father. Pacific Fisheries is needed for that work. It’s usable, isn’t it.”
“…….”
“Harden the wick properly. If a real war breaks out you could die. I warned you, didn’t I.”
“Yes…….”
Ah Yura’s heart shook.
The cold dealings of upper-class figures, heard about through a few of her intake.
In front of money and profit they made frightening decisions in which even a bloodline is not kept in view.
She too, performing the role of an assistant, may not come through it safely.
“A hundred billion! He’ll produce it. We only have to take a thick cut. Lawfully, at that.”
Kim Gyeongmin believed this chance to be the turning point of his life.
The conclusion he reached facing the young master himself.
He is not an ordinary person.
A hot ambition hidden deep in both eyes, and an aspiration hard to measure.
The moment he met that gaze, his head went down of itself.
At present nothing is settled about the Haryun Group succession.
Chairman Ha Cheolgon rules the ground.
The sons who are to take charge of the succession are still competing fiercely.
And in a situation like that, if a bloodline that was put out shows prominence in management…….
“Heh.”
Kim Gyeongmin was thrilled at the thought alone.
In his own way, all through his life, he has held to the A course.
From graduating Seoguk and passing the bar examination to becoming a Jo and Jang attorney.
The people around him praised it as a successful life.
But there was always a lack of one shot with impact in it.
And into a life like that a great chance has come.
“Are you enjoying it?”
“Me? Hahaha. Of course. Our young master is quite the little prodigy, isn’t he.”
The charm of the VIP Ha Tae-ung, which a man falls into the deeper the further into the work he goes.
“At this rate, won’t it be you who meets with a great matter rather than me, Attorney?”
“Me? Don’t worry. I may not look it, but I have the ability to look after my own front at least.”
Kim Gyeongmin was confident.
Exactly then.
Tee-ree-ree-ree-ree-reet.
The office interphone rang.
The in-house interphone.
He pressed the call button.
—Attorney. Director Hong Ilsu is asking for you.
“Director Hong??”
A summons from Director Hong Ilsu, one of the real powers at Jo and Jang.
So it begins…….
“……??”
“…….”
Kang Junu and Jang Jiyu were startled for real.
The pupils of the two of them grew wide enough to be disconcerting.
The Management Studies Society members watching the sight were startled along with them.
Nothing short of a fairly large unit registers with them at all.
But the expressions on those two faces are another matter.
“H— how much is it!”
At Kang Junu and Jang Jiyu’s reaction Lee Jeongjun asked it in a shaking voice.
Fuck! Don’t tell me it really is a trillion?
Even his formidable mother does not hold cash on the trillion scale.
Add up the shares that are to come to her by inheritance and perhaps!
At present a cash asset on the trillion scale cannot be imagined.
Every member’s gaze turned toward Kang Junu and Jang Jiyu, who are confirming the assets Ha Tae-ung has held out.
“…….”
Kang Junu and Jang Jiyu, mouths fallen open and unable to close them.
“Puhahahahahahahahahaha!”
Out of nowhere Kang Junu burst into a great clapping laugh.
And.
“Any member who’s against Tae-ung being vice president, get out.”
The president’s order came down as settled.
“Lee Jeongjun!”
Kang Junu looked at Lee Jeongjun.
“Let’s read our own place.”
“……!!”
“If you’re short on objectivity about yourself…… life gets tiring.”
Kang Junu’s cutting warning went on.
“…… What is that supposed to mean.”
“How much have you got in your account?”
“Sorry?”
“Have you got about ten billion?”
“…….”
“If it isn’t even that much, shut up. The scale of Ha Tae-ung’s assets is…… beyond your imagining.”
“……!!”
“…….”
Beyond what Lee Jeongjun imagines!
At this one remark everybody listening shut their mouths.
The meaning is exactly that it goes past a trillion.
“Ha Tae-ung! Have you got a girlfriend?”
Out of nowhere Jang Jiyu asked Ha Tae-ung.
It sounds like a joke, but Jang Jiyu’s expression is entirely serious.
“Not yet.”
“Really? Then how about me?”
Jang Jiyu met his eyes and grinned slowly.
She is one of Cheonghwa High School’s three great beauties.
For a moment Lee Jeongjun’s expression twisted.
The scene of a Jang Jiyu he has loved on one side making an open approach.
The one confessed to should have been himself, not Ha Tae-ung.
And yet…….
I’ll kill him! Without fail!
Lee Jeongjun, glaring at Ha Tae-ung with a look of rage.
Does this make sense?
The one truly shocked was Jang Jiyu, just the same.
Ha Tae-ung, holding an enormous sum from coin investment.
The Tether figure stamped in the overseas coin trading wallet.
The number of circles was tremendous.
In won it went past the trillion scale.
It was certain to go beyond even the scale of the slush fund of her dad, Sindo Group’s chairman.
A mere single high school pupil…….
Jang Jiyu truly wanted Ha Tae-ung.
Ha Tae-ung’s looks, which give off light, and his manner, which has quality in it.
The children of houses that count sitting with her in the society room all looked like limp squid.
Ha Tae-ung, who has made even the crown prince Kang Junu into a thing of no consequence.
At this moment the initiative within the society has passed perfectly to Ha Tae-ung.
From now on Cheonghwa High School’s Management Studies Society is…….
“Lee Jeongjun.”
Ha Tae-ung named Lee Jeongjun, the leader of the resistance.
“…….”
Lee Jeongjun, biting quietly at his lip and glaring at Ha Tae-ung.
Snap.
In the air where the two men’s gazes collided, sparks seemed to jump.
And.
“Say it.”
The right corner of Ha Tae-ung’s mouth went up in a slow grin.
“Tae-ung-hyung~ like that.”
“Shut up! Why would I, to a charity case bastard like you!!”
Lee Jeongjun, who because of his pride does not acknowledge it in the end.
In that moment.
“Lee Jeongjun! Get out! Right now!!”
(End of Chapter 114)