"Is this the right account?"

"Yes……. Director."

"Insane……"

CME Group, Yeouido, Seoul. The executive meeting room of the Seoul office.

Wang Dohyeon, the managing director in overall charge of Korean institutional sales, checked one account and was appalled.

A Sunday, a day off. An urgent instruction had come down from above. Coming in to work with no warning and nothing scheduled.

Wang Dohyeon had checked an email sent from the American head office. He took delivery of the material relating to it right away from Deputy General Manager Park Soyeon of the market support team.

Sliide. Sliiiide.

For a while Wang Dohyeon moved nothing but the mouse, going over the material without a word.

On the screen the material, sorted one item at a time, was paging through section by section.

Specifically, the WTI oil chart and the movement of the account's rate of return. And the liquidation price!

"One trillion three hundred fifty-six billion seven hundred million……"

Even setting aside the small ten-million-won units on the end of it, it was a number he could not believe.

"Anything that raises a suspicion of illegal activity?"

Wang Dohyeon's expression turned serious. Before copying the material, Park Soyeon had first gone through the records held under her own authority.

Name matching, source of funds, access IP, trading authority, whether an algorithm was registered — she had combed every one of them.

Tirrick tirrick.

"No irregularity in the name. No irregularity in the flow of funds. No linked accounts. Cross trading, market manipulation, false order patterns. Not applicable, any of them."

"And the system log records?"

Sliiide.

She moved the mouse and put the separate sets of material up on both monitors to compare.

At every point of execution she laid the market data over it and compared the two.

"He held the position for fifty-four days and then closed it out."

"Mm……"

Wang Dohyeon was so staggered that it left him with nothing to say.

The Ilseong Futures personal account that the head office is asking him to confirm again.

"You're certain of it?"

Wang Dohyeon had checked the mail at…