186 – [3] Think of your family
#186
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“Really? So that’s what it was? For now, I understand. Thank you.”
Cheonma-ri put down her cell phone when she heard the voice of her childhood friend.
He immediately chewed his lip and looked like he was contemplating something.
‘How should we do this?’
I turned my head and looked at the branch manager who was bowing his head.
His face was full of sweat and tension.
It wasn’t simply because the boss was filled with anger or fear.
That was a symptom of when he did something wrong.
“I…… Miss Marie…… ?”
“Shut up!”
Cheonma-ri spat out as if she was very angry.
He immediately looked down at the branch manager with a cold gaze.
The sight of a 6-foot tall woman looking at a 5-foot tall man was quite oppressive.
He was under pressure as if he could be arrested for workplace violence if he reported it soon.
However, he would not report it.
On the other hand, Cheonma-ri would not leave him alone.
“What did you say to yourself earlier?”
“That…” … A member of the Arecibo Autonomous Council who was old enough to have no blood on his head came and went…….”
“What next?”
“I wonder if Nartica is a rising Korean conglomerate these days…… Since he had already entered the market, he visited to ask for more investment in his constituency…….”
“But what did I just hear on the phone?”
“…… Because of the elixir processing contract…… I visited…….”
Different content.
In other words, one side was telling a lie.
From a management perspective, it was right to trust your subordinates.
In the first place, your acquaintance may use their friendship to tell you lies or gaslight you.
However, that doesn’t mean that a thousand birds don’t know that.
This was just a matter of trust.
‘There is no way Kang Si would have lied about something like this. Then… ….’
In the first place, aside from her pranks, did Kang Xian ever tell her her lies?
Unlike the thousand lies that spew out of his mouth whether privately or publicly, he was not a person without trust.
Moreover, what benefit would Kang Xian gain by lying in a place like this?
Even though she denies it to herself, it is almost certain that she will work at Nartica forever after graduation.
Company to join in the near future.
It was safe to say that there was no reason to damage such a nest.
‘But this branch manager bastard is different.’
There was a benefit to be gained by lying.
In fact, she was someone who didn’t really trust it to begin with.
From a very long time ago.
Until this moment today.
‘They say that once a bastard is corrupted, he will again be corrupted. ‘How can it be so consistent?’
A person who was corrupt from the beginning.
Cheonma-ri knew everything about him.
This was because it was the same even before the regression.
And it was none other than her who hired him like this.
You hire a corrupt person.
You may say this is some kind of nonsense, but even though the person was corrupt, he was not without ability.
‘If you weren’t such a talented bastard, I would have dealt with it a long time ago.’
To put it another way, it means that he is a person who is worth that much even if he takes some of the company’s money.
If he had been corrupt and had ordinary abilities to begin with, he would have ended up broadcasting on the Internet somewhere in the world or sinking in the waters off the Yellow Sea.
“Why on earth did you want to proceed with the elixir contract? “Why on earth did you try to hide the Elixir contract?”
“Well, that…” … “I had to somehow dispose of the elixir that was nearing its expiration date—”
“Do you know what Nartica’s elixir disposal policy is?”
Cheonma-ri shot back with cold eyes.
He cringed even more at the interrogation that was not a thousand questions.
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“It is reuse through disposal or purification. But are you going against that and selling it off as you please?”
“Ha, but it is close to impossible to deliver from here to Korea within the distribution period. In the first place, tablets are only possible if they are within the expiration date…….”
“Then it should have been discarded! Do you know what happens if you consume elixir past its expiration date?!”
The other side of a drug that shows extreme therapeutic abilities.
A thousand birds pretended to slit a person’s throat.
“Either die or become an idiot. “It may not be the case for elixirs imbued with the world tree’s protection, but elixirs made on Earth are poisonous!”
From the beginning, Cheonmali planned to bear the loss that would arise from discarding the elixir.
The original goal of a business is to start with a loss and turn it into a surplus.
Even if that were not the case, the size of the deficit was sufficiently bearable.
How much money is being raised at the head office, so why bother living on a big island?
Of course…… Although he urged his employees to do a good job, it was a natural thing for a manager to do.
What’s more, work isn’t just about making money.
So Cheonma-ri kicked his shin.
It was a very slight kick, but that was only by her standards.
“Ahh!”
“Did you think you could eat it even if it was a little past the expiration date, like triangular kimbap from a convenience store?!”
“Ah…… I’m sorry…… !”
“Do you know how much money it will cost to restore the corporate image even if someone eats and dies?!”
She did not ask how much she received.
Even if lawmakers or other companies gave money to the branch manager, it wouldn’t be much.
There were two things that Cheonma-ri was serious about right now.
“What a foolish bastard. “You can’t believe you’re lying to your boss when it’s only a phone call away.”
First, you blatantly lied to yourself.
Even if it is true that corruption is committed secretly, the real problem was the act of trying to justify it.
He pretended to come down in a hurry to avoid getting his corruption discovered, and even pretended to speak gibberish.
If it had not been capable of handling the rapid branch expansion, it would have been kicked out long ago.
“And one more thing. “Why on earth did you stay quiet then?”
“Go on, stay still…” … ?”
“I heard it from Kang Si. “Even though she expressed her reluctance, the member of the local council said that she s*xually harassed her?”
Second, he stayed silent when a member of the House of Representatives s*xually harassed him.
If Kang Xian was subjected to such a thing, it was common sense and justice in her standards to stop it even at the risk of her death.
Of course, Kang Xian did not say that she expressed rejection, nor did she say that the lawmaker openly s*xually harassed her.
This was the truth that Cheonma-ri had deduced using only intuition trained through circumstances and regression.
“That…” … Still, the congressman came to sign the contract…… Evil!”
“Stand upright before another one flies by.”
“Yes, yes…” … !”
I felt like I was going to vomit, but I had to hold it in.
If she couldn’t hold back, she would meet her terrible end.
It wasn’t the worst.
The branch manager trembled and bowed his head.
Cheonma-ri placed her hand on his smooth head.
Soon, he patted it with a thump, thump, thump as if it were insulting.
“Information related to that congressman bastard. Organize everything today and hand it over to Secretary Baek.”
“Information…… ? “What do you plan on doing?”
“Is there any reason for you to know that?”
It’s a problem I’ll have to deal with anyway.
Cheonma-ri scrunched up her face as if she was disgusted at the fact that she had given the traitor one more chance.
“I know your topic. “The reason I didn’t discipline you right away is because my dear friend told me not to kill you.”
I tapped my phone.
The branch manager swallowed her saliva.
“This is your last chance. “This will happen again next time, right?”
I lowered my head and lowered my voice.
He continued speaking threateningly.
“At that time…… “Something that won’t be very interesting will happen.”
There is no next chance.
Behave well.
“Think of your family.”
Then he left the branch manager’s office.
The only person left standing was a middle-aged man kneeling in fear.
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Cheonma-ri headed home.
Of course, with the elixir box that Kang Xian and Shannon forgot to take with them.
I arrived home just as the sunset was setting.
There was something lying in the yard that tried to become a vehicle but failed.
“…… “I need to assemble that and give it to you before the vacation ends.”
I took a deep breath and went into the house.
Then, the interior of the house was revealed, as devoid of the smell of people as her humanity.
Roughly speaking, it meant that there was no one else but her.
It seems that Kang Xian went to the gym with his acquaintances.
She may have felt lonely because she had no precious childhood friends, but the loneliness was only temporary.
She would be able to meet again after some time, and then they would be able to eat together.
Because of this, Cheonma-ri put the elixir box down on the floor and took off her clothes.
She immediately put on the t-shirt and dolphin pants that were hanging on the sofa.
“Ugh, sh*t, I can live now.”
She immediately looked into the refrigerator in the kitchen.
She had some side dishes sent by Jiang Shi An’s aunt, but they weren’t what she wanted to eat right now.
“What, there’s nothing left for snacks.”
Cheonma-ri wanted food that was as cheap as her own mouth.
Considering the years she spent regressing, red ginseng candy would suit her, but she is a regressor who still believes she is a young girl, so what can she do?
Finally she couldn’t hold back and called her secretary. She said
She was running low on sugar because she was using her brain too much, so she ordered him to bring some instant food.
If other hunters saw it, they would call him fat.
Therefore, Cheonma-ri quickly exercised as many calories as she would eat.
Roughly doing a handstand push-up with just two fingers, lifting a weight weighing hundreds of kilograms with one hand, hitting a punching bag in the corner, hitting so hard that sand spills out and cleaning it up painfully, or wearing a VR device. And play a boxing game, or suddenly teebagging in multiplayer.
As if it didn’t matter if I didn’t have to go to the gym, I did my own high-intensity exercise.
Afterwards, when my abs were a little sweaty, I threw myself onto the sofa.
I immediately grabbed the TV remote control and started enjoying life.
No, I didn’t just enjoy it, I started enjoying it too much.
Bukbuk.
“Oh, this is life and s*x.”
It was exactly like her husband, who changed his attitude 180 degrees when his wife went out.
Although Cheonma-ri was actually a woman, she wasted her time anyway.
At some point, a message notification rang on my phone.
She picked up her phone with her toes and checked it.
“Miss, this is Secretary Baek…… I sent materials prepared based on the information provided by Branch Manager Cha… ….”
It was not a grand message.
She just had the information she wanted.
Now, all we had to do was design an appropriate ‘true education’ based on this.
It could be said that it was a very good thing for Kang Xian.
However, the content was a bit long, so I continued reading.
And at some point, her fingers stopped.
“And Hunter Kang previously provided the idea…” … Regarding the project to improve the skills of Nartica’s hunters…… Uh?”
Her eyes widened.
Cheonma-ri swore at her and opened her mouth.
Just as important as the front part.
This was because a new proposal had appeared.