190 – 190. Counterattack and Negotiation (2)
After finishing the phone call, Ahn Soo-ho sat on a garden bench and enjoyed the warm sunlight. It was the end of May, and white cumulus clouds were flowing like cotton candy in the blue sky.
-Where you go!!
And a shiny bird flying across the white and blue background.
-Fadadak! Dig out!
A bird the size of a swallow glided down at high speed, flapping its wings while hovering in front of Ansuho. The bird, unlike any existing bird, had a silvery metal body and beautifully reflected the surrounding landscape like a mirror.
-Steel Puck!
The next moment, the flying bird lost its shape and fell to the ground, like melting metal. Immediately after, the molten metal took shape as if playing the video in reverse, and soon changed into the figure of Sylvie, whom Suho Ahn was familiar with.
-I’ve been there.
Sylvie held out her hand while saying that. Suho Ahn stretched out his right hand without saying anything, and Sylvie grabbed it tightly.
-Kiiiiing.
Then, with the activation of the talisman, the mana scattered in the surrounding space flowed into Ahn Soo-ho and then into Sylvie. Ahn Soo-ho asked Sylvie, feeling as if the blood in his body was draining outward.
“You came back sooner than I thought. Why does it seem to be getting faster?”
-Because we are optimizing the flight form. The more you practice, the faster you’ll go.
“Are the two of you alright?”
-Yes. I was getting along well with my alter ego. I came full of magic power.
At that answer, Suho Ahn let out a sigh of relief.
Sylvie’s alter ego, which Ahn Soo-ho attached to Ji Ye-won and Kang Ha-neul as an escort, had to be combined with the main body once every 2nd or 3rd day to replenish his magical power. Of course, even if it was not possible to replenish the mana inevitably, it was possible to save mana and endure for a few more days like a laptop’s sleep mode, and it was possible to receive mana directly from two people if urgent.
However, both of them were only temporary measures that were extremely unsettling. In the case of the former, if something happens to the two of them and the clone enters the battle, the mana will be exhausted in an instant, and in the case of the latter, if the clone’s fuel is replenished with the limited mana in the body of the two, the mana will be exhausted in an instant and collapse. .
Ahn Soo-ho decided to send Sylvie’s main body to the two on a regular basis to replenish the magical power of the clones.
The reason Sylvie clings to An Su-ho is because she likes his Talisman, not because she is physically tied down. I could get away with it as much as I wanted, so it took some time to go from Pohang to Sokcho to replenish my magic, but it wasn’t impossible.
‘Even that took half a day at first, but now it only takes two or three hours.’
It was thanks to Sylvie’s repeated flight experience that she gradually optimized herself into the most suitable shape for flight. Thanks to this, Ahn Soo-ho was able to minimize the time he was exposed defenselessly for the safety of the two lovers.
“What is it? Did you come back very soon?”
At that time, Xiao-Mei trudged towards him from the other side of the garden. At Xiaomei’s approach, Sylvie quickly disappeared inside Ahn Suho’s body.
As if she was trying to run away from her.
“How come Sylvie seems to run away every time she sees you. Did something happen?”
“Okay. I handled it a little harshly when I stole it from the postal management bureau warehouse, but maybe that’s why.”
“Come to think of it, it’s tomorrow, right? You leave here.”
Today’s date is Monday, May 25th. And Xiaomei was scheduled to go to Japan through a smuggling flight departing from Busan at dawn on Wednesday, May 27th. The next destination was the southern United States, where public security intervention was difficult.
“Right. It was almost painful to stay at the villa for over 15 days, but this life will end today and tomorrow.”
“I’m sorry you got involved in this for no reason because of me. Of course, if I hadn’t been there, by now you would-“
“Either the first silver was stolen by the Dawning Corps and died right away, or the public security or the Winter Alliance must be held accountable and threatened. Living with you, I listened to it to the point of getting a scab on my ear. I don’t blame you anymore, so you can stop talking.”
“Then what… ….”
“By the way, how about your side? You said you were going to blackmail them with the criminal records verified by that Illyana detective? Do you think it will work out?”
“Well… ….”
Do you think things will work out? To that question, Ahn Su-ho was unable to answer hastily.
“I’m not an optimist, but I always thought that when I made a plan, I made it pretty. But why is it that nothing in this bastard’s world goes the way I want it to?”
“So I don’t think it will work out this time either?”
“Again, I’m worried that a variable I didn’t think of might come out and interfere with it. Still, I hope it turns out well.”
“I hope it goes well. To whom?”
At Xiao-Mei’s question, Ahn Su-ho hesitated for a moment and hardened his expression.
‘Who are you asking?’
If you have a religion, you will answer to the god you believe in, and if not, you will answer that you will pray to the object of ‘God’ in a vague way.
However, Ahn Su-ho was not the case in either case. He clearly knew the existence of a god, but he would never pray to that god with both hands.
‘Let’s beg the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure. Rather, considering his personality, it’s obvious that he’ll grant my wishes in the opposite way.’
“Do you believe in a god? It didn’t look like it.”
“No way.”
Around the time An Su-ho was just released from prison, he heard about the truth of this universe from Ruel, a spirit from another world. That the world he lives in is a worldview that can only be found in common fantasy web novels, with many dimensions and many gods.
So, even though Ahn Su-ho knew the existence of God, he could not rely on God.
Just as the divine beings in the novel appear as imperfect beings similar to humans with only excellent abilities, I have come to know that the gods who manage this world are usually such people with missing screws.
How much more so the god in charge of this world was the Heavenly Demon of Pleasure that he hated so much.
“I don’t believe in gods at all. So I won’t be able to ask for anything from God even after I die.”
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Looking at Ahn Su-ho who said that with strange emotions, Xiao-Mei tilted her head.
Then why did you say something like ‘I should wish you well’?
***
The headquarters building of Yeoil Holdings, the holding company that leads the Yeoil Group.
In the basement, there was a secret meeting room that ordinary employees didn’t know about. It was normally not used by anyone, but occasionally, when the group’s future had to be discussed, board members would secretly gather.
It was a so-called secret board. Meetings between directors who did not follow the formal process were commonplace, but the secret board meeting here was of a different class.
The directors gathered here are the real powerhouses who know the secret and dirty back side of Yeo-Il, while being one of the most powerful people in Yeo-Il.
It was because of Ahn Su-ho that they gathered here today. To be precise, it was because of Min Chae-ryeong who tried to blackmail Yeo-il with the information she received from Ahn Su-ho.
“…… Haaa.”
One of the influential people sitting around the conference room let out a deep sigh. It was only that the others did not sigh, but they felt almost the same.
The requirements that Min Chaeryeong made under the pretext of Yeo-il’s crime were simple.
Immediately stop all operations carried out by Yeo-il to steal the primordial silver from Ahn Su-ho, and give up the primordial silver. And don’t retaliate for it.
Up to that point, it was a basic requirement for Ahn Su-ho’s safety. In addition to that, Min Chae-ryeong handed over 20 A4 pages of large and small requests that she could extract from her spare time. The hand that Ahn Su-ho gave to Min Chae-ryeong was that powerful.
“…… The Winter Alliance executive’s espionage in the child prostitution of director Jang Han-soo on our side. A multi-ability study being conducted at the Yongin Institute. Fraudulent accounting of Yeoil Mobile, which went public this time through division. Roughly, that’s about as big as it gets. Bribes and entertainment given to other lawmakers are minor issues…….”
The executive who had sighed a moment ago muttered as he flipped through the documents.
He is the president of Yeoil Electronics, which makes the most net profit in the Yeoil Group, and was practically the chairman’s right-hand man. He looked at the documents for a long time and said as if he couldn’t help it.
“I can’t do anything about this. If these things are revealed, it will take an astronomical amount of money and time to rectify. Even if it can be rectified, it is currently unclear. Therefore, we have no choice but to fold it this time.”
“It folds. I guess that means…….”
“I will have to fully accept Min Chaeryeong’s requirements.”
“What are you talking about! President Shin Seong-ho!”
At that time, the man on the other side banged the desk! He hit and shouted. He shouted as he pointed at the old man called Shin Sung-ho.
“What you are saying now is nothing more than saying that our days are subject to one individual! Does that even make sense?! If others knew, they would surely laugh at us as cowards!”
“Then what are you going to do?”
“You must trample! Don’t even think about fighting us again! Very thoroughly! Or just kill me!”
“Do you think that the person who threatened you this much wouldn’t even prepare for your own death? There is a certain degree to being swayed by the emotions of the moment and doing stupid things.”
“What?! Stupid?! Are you done talking now!?”
“Georgeo old people, let’s calm down. That’s not what’s important right now.”
At that time, a man who was a little younger than the two elderly people who had been raising their voices at each other, but at least a man in his prime, stopped the two of them. He said, putting on his glasses.
“This is it. These criminal facts. If you look at these things, there are only things that you can never figure out unless you are an insider. What does that mean? Doesn’t that mean there is a traitor within us? Isn’t it?”
“I’m not 100% sure, but I guess. So?”
“Whether or not she listens to the woman’s request, whether or not she is Min Chae-ryeong, is of course an important issue. But isn’t it just as important to deal with finding out the traitor?”
“That’s it, if you take it slow after dealing with the situation… ….”
“Uh huh. This old man does not know the seriousness of the situation.”
The mature man took off his glasses and looked at CEO Shin Seong-ho.
“Do you think the whistleblower who leaked this much confidential and massive information would be an ordinary section manager? As you can see, there will be traitors among the executives.”
“What do you want to say?”
“Perhaps the traitor might be in here right now.”
At those words, all the executives in the conference hall held their breath. Satisfied with that response, the man glanced over at the crowd.
His name is Eunsu Oh.
As the president of Yeoil Life Insurance, a subsidiary of the Yeoil Group, and a member of the chairman’s staff, he was a reversal entrepreneur who had overcome numerous crises and difficulties with his outstanding insight and bold driving force.
Just.
“Anyway, that woman named Min Chae-ryeong gave me a generous amount of time, right? So, before deciding what to do in the future, she thinks it’s right to fervently seek out traitors first. Isn’t it? Directors?”
Just as a broken clock is right twice a day, even the most brilliant people sometimes make mistakes.
Oh Eun-soo was exactly like that.