Swallow.

Chairman Gu Jayeon, taking a painkiller and putting a hand to a throbbing head.

“Ugh…….”

The migraine that began because of the stress is vicious.

A daily life that ought to be peaceful has been made a mess of.

The parents gathered in the parents’ meeting room.

Those people, the parents’ association president Ju Miju among them, belong to a portion of the Republic of Korea’s upper class, and their eyes are open wide with a blue edge on them.

The party they are aiming at is not, in fact, the Lee Jangyong who did the knifing.

It is an occasion for a declaration of war against a figure said to have been cast out by Haryun Group.

It is not a light matter.

However much he is said to have been cast out, he is not a bloodline that Ju Miju or she herself can handle carelessly.

A member of a group’s family receives, in one way or another, a tacit protection.

The arm bends inward.

If an attack is applied from outside rather than within, it is regarded as a challenge to the house.

The situation turning at present is like that.

The charity case Ha Tae-ung is Chairman Ha Cheolgon’s bloodline, and it cannot be denied.

However much he was cast out by the house’s discord, that family must not be handled carelessly.

As everybody knows, Chairman Ha Cheolgon is a cold-blooded man.

He changed when, by the previous generation’s benevolence, the business Chairman Ha Cheolgon had built up was divided.

He is cold enough to cast out a bloodline if it becomes an obstruction to the group’s growth, but once a person becomes his, he protects them thoroughly.

And yet Ju Miju is trying to cross the line dangerously.

“Haaa.”

A long sigh burst from Gu Jayeon’s mouth.

Unlike at an ordinary school, she is a foundation chairman who cannot exert great power.

Cheonghwa’s parents’ association officers are members of the Republic of Korea’s upper class, of the houses that count.

Cheonghwa Group does not make it into the upper level they belong to.

“Please, just let no great incident happen…….”

Gu Jayeon prayed it as a prayer.

If the present state of affairs becomes known to Cheonghwa Group’s upper line, the foundation chairman’s seat too is in danger.

Teeeeee.

The interphone rang.

—Chairman.

The direct line of the newly changed security office.

It is a call from the manager of the private security firm newly contracted this time.

“What is it?”

—A guest has come.

“A guest? Who is it?”

—It is Ilseong Hotel’s chief, Go Mihui.

“What? Ch— chief Go Mihui??”

“Heok!”

“Uh…….”

“Th— the Nation’s Bitch?”

“Oh my!”

In an instant gasps burst out on every side.

The vulgar word that had followed Ju Miju about for some time.

The word they might say carelessly behind her and could never dare put on their lips in front of her.

There was no one with a liver large enough to spit talk like that directly at a person of Hanguk Group’s owning family.

And at that Ju Miju, Ha Tae-ung sneered the Nation’s Bitch.

“Y— you……!”

The colour of Ju Miju’s face flushed red and burned.

Her rage reached its limit and she even stammered.

She raged and pointed her finger, but Ha Tae-ung himself did not stir at all.

“Treasurer.”

Ha Tae-ung called Lee Gyeongja, whose face he knows.

“Yes? Yes.”

Lee Gyeongja, answering with a start.

Watching the situation, she had felt the backs of her knees go weak.

The other party is another level.

The nightmare undergone in the principal’s office came back to her.

“That’s the second time.”

“Sorry?”

“In-fringe-ment of the right to learn.”

The words spat out clearly and distinctly, one syllable at a time, in a ringing voice.

“I’m…… sorry.”

Lee Gyeongja bowed her head at once.

This meeting is not by her will.

It was called by the parents’ association president Ju Miju’s own arbitrary decision.

Had she known it was a scheme to attack Ha Tae-ung, she would absolutely never have attended.

Be careless here and the anchovies and shrimps and flatfish burst in a fight between whales.

Apart from Ju Miju there is no parent who would work a mouth against Ha Tae-ung.

A place where even Lee Gyeongja, the mistress of a large accounting firm, bows her head.

The officers watching the sight went cold to the liver.

Every one of them on hot coals!

“…….”

In silence they watched the sparking nerve-war between Ju Miju and Ha Tae-ung.

In that moment.

“Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho hoht!”

Suddenly Ju Miju burst into a laugh like a madwoman’s.

“……??”

“…….”

The officers together in the meeting room could not understand a laugh soaked in madness.

They wondered whether the sound of Nation’s Bitch had not driven her mad.

“A thing with fuck all is getting cheeky?”

Ju Miju, glaring sidelong at Ha Tae-ung and spitting foul abuse out.

Pupils with killing intent added on top of rage and madness glittered frighteningly.

“…….”

The watching officers swallowed their nausea inwardly at Ju Miju’s coarse words.

A woman with no refinement whatever in her.

She had taken the parents’ association president’s seat by her house’s power and nothing else, and the level of her was extremely low.

Every one of the officers uses the title President; not one of them means it.

Ju Miju, like filth one wants to avoid.

“Me too.”

Ha Tae-ung’s short retort, following it.

The sneer that passed briefly across him was more than Ju Miju’s.

“Hey!!”

Ju Miju is one step short of going mad with rage boiling up in her.

She wanted to rush in at once and tear the flapping trap open.

But she had to hold it in.

Ha Tae-ung is a sturdily built young man.

An opponent one hesitates to take on physically.

“Having seen the state of a father wretchedly thrown out by his house, it seems there’s nothing in the world you’re afraid of?”

Ju Miju, gritting her teeth and trying a mental blow.

“On that count you don’t look to be far behind?”

“What?”

“Over one piece of dried beef your life went down into the pit, didn’t it. Heh.”

Ha Tae-ung, giving the truth back with a sneer mixed into it, arriving without warning.

“Heeeeeeey!!”

Ju Miju’s shout burst out with force enough to go through the meeting room and spread to the playing field.

She had utterly exploded.

“Why would a person with no refinement and nothing to look at have called me here, I wonder? Do you all know?”

Ha Tae-ung, looking past Ju Miju at the parents’ association officers.

“…….”

They all bowed their heads or turned them and avoided his gaze.

They were certain it was not their place to come into the two people’s quarrel.

The pupil Ha Tae-ung was no less a lunatic than Ju Miju.

“You! What is your relationship with that barmaid of a woman?”

Ju Miju changed her target.

She shot a look at An Hyeonju, standing blankly beside Ha Tae-ung.

“…….”

An Hyeonju is in a state of shrinking at Ju Miju’s turned-over eyes and her shouting.

She is a real madwoman.

“Say it! Did you sleep with that mongrel bastard?”

“……!!”

Ju Miju’s statement, cheap and past cheap into the vulgar.

Ha Tae-ung is plainly a pupil of this school, in school uniform.

An Hyeonju too is a teacher formally teaching golf.

And in front of their faces, did the two of them sleep together?

She is intervening far too deeply in the area of private life.

“You are…… discourteous.”

Biting her lip, An Hyeonju glared at Ju Miju.

“Discourteous? You two slept together, didn’t you? A pupil and a teacher? Filthy things!”

Ju Miju set the conclusion down first and lashed out.

“Tch.”

Ha Tae-ung clicked his tongue.

In that moment.

Knock knock.

Sliiiiide.

Along with the knocking sound the door opened.

Clack. Clack.

A slender figure stepping into the meeting room along with the sound of heels.

“Oh!”

“Ch— chief!”

(End of Chapter 119)