"Drink."

"Thank you."

Director Hong Ilsu's office at Jo and Jang. The puer he brings out only for people he is close to was poured into the cups.

"……."

For a moment a silence lay between the two of them.

Kim Gyeongmin was always tense when he was called into this room.

It is not a place a man is called to for a cup of tea and nothing else.

Director Hong Ilsu is the right arm of Jo and Jang's managing attorney.

Most internal reports reach him first.

Last weekend it was Kim Gyeongmin who used what power Jo and Jang holds.

"You've come…… straight from Sokcho?"

"Yes. There's a great deal to do."

"A great deal to do is a good thing."

The talk went on, as though neither of them cared much about it.

Whatever the tone of the two voices, the force moving back and forth in the talk is heavy.

Hard to breathe in here.

Kim Gyeongmin had expected the air to be like this, to a degree.

The Sokcho private lender and his crowd, who made a target of the family of the VIP Ha Tae-ung, were not ordinary men.

The VIP had given the instruction at once to dig out what stood behind them.

He put the request to the information team straight away.

The direction his rough guess points is…….

"Gyeongmin."

"Yes……."

"I told you, didn't I. That your style had changed."

"Yes."

"……There is no chance a man who served as head of a criminal division failed to feel this warning."

"I am sorry."

"Sorry for what. Everybody here does his own share. We're adults."

His share, and adults! With those two words Director Hong Ilsu drew a line, and drew it plainly.

He has stated in this fashion that he intends to stand out of any responsibility for what is coming.

"I went over the contract, and I can't see a hole to get out through."

"……."

The VIP Ha Tae-ung had been that thorough.

"That isn't what I'm pointing at. I'd have signed it myself."

"As I reported, it…