"Chief. I think something's blown up."

"Blown up? What has?"

The chief's office at Ilseong Futures. Na Giseok, senior managing director and head of the WM division, had come to Chief Baek Junyeong, and his face was set.

"Word's come in that somebody out of Europe is going through information on us and on Daehan."

"Going through information?"

Something uncomfortable came into Baek Junyeong's face.

"On whom…… don't tell me."

"Chairman Ha Tae-ung."

"Didn't I tell you to block it?"

"On our side we blocked it thoroughly."

Na Giseok dropped his voice another notch.

"It looks as though instead of coming at us directly they've started with the main bank, the overseas brokers and the FCMs."

Na Giseok hesitated a moment, then added to it.

"And…… there are signs that some information has leaked from the Financial Supervisory Service too."

Baek Junyeong's eyes went sharp.

"The FSS?"

"Yes. It doesn't look as though the exact account records went over. But an examination or a report seems to have put the size of Chairman Ha Tae-ung's trading in front of people, and the talk came out of them."

"They're out of their minds! Those sons of bitches……."

Baek Junyeong swallowed a curse that was on its way out rough.

Chairman Ha's account was tied up so tight that only a very few people inside Ilseong Futures could get near it.

The problem was the size of the money. Returns past several trillion won.

Money like that had moved, and if no rumor at all came of it, that would be the strange thing.

Even inside Ilseong Futures a few team heads in the main departments knew Ha Tae-ung existed.

You can shut mouths as hard as you like; you cannot perfectly shut the mouth of a man who wants to talk.

The brokers and the FCMs who connected the overseas trades were the same.

They might not know the exact identity or the account records, but they could guess what country and what grade of client was trading at what kind of size.

And the Financial Supervisory Service was tangled into…