"Chief. There is something important I must report."

"Yes?"

The representative director's office of Haryun Incorporated, the core of all the Haryun Group's affiliates.

It is the floor below the topmost of the Haryun Building, which stands tall in the middle of Gangnam.

The floor directly above it is Chairman Ha Cheolgon's own office.

The master of this place is Ha Donghun, representative director, in name and in fact the power next after Chairman Ha Cheolgon of Haryun.

He is of middle height, around a hundred and seventy-five centimetres, and for his glasses he wears a white gold frame, chosen specially.

Sixty soon. But he keeps himself so cleanly in hand that he still looks to be in his early fifties, and gives a young impression.

He is ordinarily quiet by nature and on the sparing side with words.

Even so, the officers under him and the ordinary staff who work with him all think of him with fear.

Ha Donghun went through the planning office as well. In those days he earned the by-name of the silent butcher.

After joining the board on Chairman Ha Cheolgon's instructions, he threw tens of thousands of employees out.

Even then he was a man who carried that hard business through without wavering, behind a blank face nobody could read.

Im Jaeho, his right arm and the chief of his secretariat, who has been at his side throughout, watched Ha Donghun's expression and quietly held out a report.

"What is it?"

"You will see when you read it."

Im Jaeho, his right arm, is the one house retainer Ha Donghun trusts and leans on most.

He is also the man who will hold the post of overall chief of the secretariat, serving the chairman to come.

Ha Donghun set foot in the group's management before the Haryun Group was split.

Im Jaeho, who joined afterwards as a new recruit in the secretariat.

From that time until now, Im Jaeho has been at Ha Donghun's side, assisting him and coming along with him, a comrade.

Both of them were past the middle of their…