Chapter 58 (1/2)
“Why? Can’t I be here?” Su-hyeun asked.
“No, that is not what I mean… Wait, can you?”
Hak-joon was embarrassed and talked gibberish. Su-hyeun chuckled, looking at Hak-joon. He could be confused since Su-hyeun was not an awakener of Ares Guild.
“Well. I did just come in…” Su-hyeun blurred the end.
“Just?” Hak-joon asked.
“The door was open. It was not under heavy surveillance. There was a man who asked me to show my ID, so I showed him my awakener registration card. Then, he just let me in.”
It looked like the manager of the guild house thought Su-hyeun was a guest of Ares Guild. It was a common thing that an awakener got an invitation and visited to awakeners’ guilds.
“But why are you here…? Hak-joon asked.
The Ares Guild, Hak-joon thought, was like a tiger’s den. He was glad to see Su-hyeun but that was another story. Jung Dong-yeong had been paying attention to Su-hyeun for a long time.
“Why? You don’t glad to see me?” Su-hyeun grinned.
“Of course, I am glad. But that is that. Why did you come here? Wait. How did you know I am here?”
“Ms. Yun-seon told me that you will be here. Why did you not answer my phone?”
At Su-hyeun’s answer, Hak-joon’s face became stiff. Su-hyeun had never seen this cold expression of Hak-joon before.
Hak-joon asked in a very low voice, “…How did you meet her?”
“Well. I had been investigating,” Su-hyeun answered.
“How? No. Why?
“You asked why I came here?”
Su-hyeun changed the subject and answered the previous question.
“Where is the bastard, Jung Dong-yeong?”
“…Yes?”
It was an unexpected answer. But that was also not something to pass on. At the obvious hostility in Su-hyeun’s voice, Hak-joon was lost for words. His brane froze and could not find a word to say.
“I said, where is Jung Dong-yeong? I have a business for him,” Su-hyeun pressed for an answer.
Hak-joon collected his mind and answered, “…He probably in the room at the end of the hallway.”
“Over there?”
After hearing the answer, Su-hyeun immediately turned his body and started walking. Hak-joon urgently grabbed his arm and asked.
“Su-hyeun, how did you know about Jung Dong-yeong? And what are you going to do with him?”
“A conversation,” Su-hyeun answered.
“What conversation?”
“A body conversation?”
“…What?”
“Why are you so surprised? Don’t worry too much. Depending on the situation, I may not fight.”
Su-hyeun shrugged his shoulder and asked, “So, what are you going to do?”
“…Whose information is this?”
The director, who was grunting, clenched his teeth at the sudden news.
Kim Do-ui replied to the director who was reading the report, “This is Kim Su-hyeun’s report. What would you do?”
At Kim Do-ui’s question, the director glanced over the report once again. In the short paper, there was a report from Su-hyeun and the opinion of Kim do-ui about it.
“What does he want?” the director asked.
“I think he is asking your favor to investigate.”
“Favor? Favor my ass,” the director grumbled.
Su-hyeun was not asking a favor. He pretended to be polite, but the report was nothing but an order. He was the guy who had been making a fuss about the director’s weaknesses.
“What will you do?”
At Kim Do-ui’s question, the director lit a cigarette. He took a puff on his cigarette. It made him clear his brain. He was lost in thought, blowing cigarette smoke. His head was emptied, but soon, thoughts were filled again. When he reorganized things again, there was only one answer.
“Well. Do some research. Take Seung-cheol with you,” the director ordered.
“You mean the department head, Kang Seung-cheol?”
“Yes. They should start to move soon, too. They can’t be in training forever.”
“Ok, sir.”
“Good. Now leave.”
At the director’s gesture, Kim Do-ui left the director’s office. The director looked down the report again.
He mumbled, “It looks like the Awakeners Accreditation Authority came up to that dude’s expectation.”
At that moment, a thought crossed his mind. Might be, all this was what Su-hyeun aimed for.
It was a small room full of cigarette smoke. In the room, Jung Dong-yeong was talking on the phone, puffing up his cigarette.
“Yes, yes. Negotiation was over… Of course. People these days are quite dirty. It makes money and easy to do. This is a pretty good thing…”
Knock, knock—
Jung Dong-young hardened his expression at knocking sound.
“I will call you back. Yes,”
He finished the phone call and shouted at the door, “Who are you?”
“I am Hak-joon.”
“Hak-joon? Come in.”
When the person he had waited came, Jung Dong-young lit a cigarette again. The door jarred open. Hak-joon who entered the room saw the cigarette smoke and frowned his face.
“Don’t frown. It doesn’t harm your body since you are an awakener as well. Besides, you have plenty of money to buy those.”
Jung Dong-young was a heavy smoker. He thought one of the greatest privileges being awakener was he could smoke as much as he wanted. The harm to the body of cigarettes was not much harm to the awakeners.
“Are you ready? Our guild was on the charge to guard in this party. You take care of directing young guild members this time.”
“I will be ready when I get dressed. By the way, there is a guest to want to see you.”
“Want to see me? Who is that?”
“Kim Su-hyeun. He is the one you were looking for.”
“…Kim Su-hyeun?”
Jung Dong-young’s eyes were crumpled. Kim Su-hyeun, who Hak-jun had known before, was a new S-Rank awakener candidate. He, who had been prominent for two years, was evaluated as having the best talent among the existing awakeners.
“Yes. He said he came here to talk with you.”