Possessed an Academy Security Guard

191 – 191. Board of Directors

There is a traitor among us.

The words of Oh Eun-soo, staff member of the Yeoil Group, did not sound very welcome to the executives of the secret board. All those gathered there were loyalists who devoted their lives for the rest of the day. There’s no way they wouldn’t be offended by treating them like traitors.

However, apart from their mood, his point made some sense.

Criminal records presented to them by Chaeryeong Min.

In it, there was information scattered that would be impossible to access unless you were a member of the secret board, and even if it wasn’t, the number of people who could conduct an extensive background investigation of that scale would inevitably be limited.

That’s what Eunsoo Oh thought. It’s not strange if there’s a traitor among them. Rather, the fact that there is a traitor among them explains the situation better.

Of course, the possibility was not 100%. However, Oh Eun-soo was the type to boldly push ahead with even the slightest possibility.

If the traitor is in here, he’ll be caught here.

That was Oh Eun-soo’s idea, and the other executives on the board quickly saw through it as well.

“There is a traitor among us… ….”

Among them, Shin Seong-ho was especially displeased with Oh Eun-soo’s intentions, but they agreed that they had to go over the innocence of the members of the secret board separately.

The sharp eyes revealed through the fine wrinkles scan the audience.

“Certainly, don’t be shy about everything in life. There may be traitors among us. But how are you going to find the traitor?”

“That’s a simple matter. Na Joo-yong’s daughter-in-law. She can use that child, can’t she?”

At those words, an uproar spread among the executives. All of them are people who know deeply about Yeo-il’s dark side, so there was no one who didn’t know about Byun-joo’s ability.

“I believe that everyone will know about that daughter-in-law’s ability. So let’s clean up and check your thoughts once in a while. Well, it’s not that I’m trying to control it by brainwashing it, but wouldn’t it be less repulsive if I only tell the truth through suggestion?”

“CEO Oh Eun-soo. I’m sorry for talking…….”

At that time, Seong Yu-jin, who had been silent for a while, quietly raised her hand.

“…… What’s going on? Director Seong Yu-jin.”

At this meeting where reputed affiliate presidents and vice president-level figures gathered, Sung Yu-jin, who was only an outside director, had almost no right to speak.

Especially, a significant part of the cause of this situation was due to him, so it’s no wonder that the other executives weren’t good at it.

However, Sung Yu-jin didn’t care about that gaze.

“The method the boss said seems impossible at present.”

“What do you mean?”

“Currently, Eun-joo Na-joo, the daughter of Warden Na-joo-yong, is in the hospital due to her unreasonable use of her abilities. According to the doctor, she needs to recuperate without using her psychic powers for at least a month.”

“Still, I don’t think she’s in a state where she can’t use her psychic powers at all.”

“No. Unfortunately, absolute rest is a must during recuperation. She may lose the child forever in her search for her traitor, who may or may not be, if she does something wrong.”

For Yeo-il, the chess horse Naeun-ju was an indispensable trump card. If the opponent is an ordinary person, almost unconditional brainwashing or manipulation is possible, and even if it is a superman, if the grade is low, it is not difficult to manipulate it for a short time.

Of course, her lifespan would be eaten away in return, but she was only a small sacrifice for her.

That’s why.

“Sung Yoo-jin, Director. Finding the traitor you may or may not have been talking about. That is the most important issue for Yeo-il at this moment. Isn’t it?”

“That’s right. Giving better…….”

“What a loss if one of those talented kids died. Even if you don’t have mind control ability, you can handle and manipulate people as much as you like. All you need is money and power. Isn’t it?”

In Oh Eun-soo’s head, there was not even the slightest consideration for Naeun-joo. For him right now, Naeunju was nothing more than a convenient and reliable means of verification.

‘President Oh Eun-soo. A guy would think so. Because he has no idea what Naeun-joo is.’

However, Seong Yu-jin saw something more than Oh Eun-soo in Na Eun-joo. To be precise, he placed great value on her future self, not on her present self.

However, that value was known only in Yeo-il, including Seong Yu-jin and Na Joo-yong. Others had no clue.

‘We cannot lose Naeunju by hunting down an unknown traitor. But if I let the executives in this position know the real value of Naeun Joo, she won’t be able to put him under me like she does now. I’m sure everyone in this room will try to take her away right now.’

Although Seong Yu-jin is worried about Na Eun-joo’s safety, she just acted according to her thorough profit and loss calculation. Essentially, he was not much different from Oh Eun-soo.

“Why can’t you answer me, Director Seong Yu-jin? Award winning yes Could it be that you are not the traitor I spoke of?”

“It doesn’t matter. I am-“

“Even if you listen to a hundred words, nothing can be verified. So let’s use that little boy neatly. Isn’t that a chess word that was bred to be used at times like this?”

Seong Yu-jin swallowed her dry saliva at Eun-soo Oh’s tough attitude. He wanted to immediately determine the black and white of everyone present. Therefore, in order for Seong Yu-jin to preserve Naeunju, she had to convince him of another way not to use Naeunju.

But how?

Such a question filled Sung Yu-jin’s mind at that moment.

“Can I talk to you for a minute?”

A gloomy voice spreads throughout the conference room.

At that voice, all the executives in the seat turned their heads at the same time. The edge of a long table. Toward the gray-haired old man who was sitting in the so-called high seat, a little away from the others.

The old man had a stronger physique than anyone else present. An atmosphere that would fit the title of veteran rather than entrepreneur. The shadow cast on his face by the light coming down from above made his impression, which was already under pressure, even more intimidating.

“President… ….”

The identity of the old man was Lim Seong-guk, the chairman of Yeoil Holdings, the holding company of the Yeoil Group, and the head of the group that leads the entire group. A ghastly voice echoes from the old man’s mouth.

“I’m sorry in the midst of a war of words. But I feel like I have to say this now.”

“No. President. What could be more important than the words of the president at this moment? Please tell me. What are you doing?”

“That’s what I said, but what I’m about to say is also about a traitor.”

The chairman’s gaze briefly moved to the document he was holding in his hand, and then he spoke in a clear voice.

“I will make a statement here. There are no traitors among us. Of course, there are quite a few people who have knives in their stomachs without anyone knowing, but at least there are no traitors among us who are involved in this case.”

At those confident words, the executives all started to stir. Shin Seong-ho, who is closest to the chairman, asked cautiously.

“President. If you’re not rude, may I ask why you made that decision?”

“Of course. The reason is simple. It’s because the list of crimes handed over by a woman named Min Chae-ryeong contains facts that no one here knows.”

“What is that…….”

“Middle of page 4. Look at the lobbying for Uijeongbu Mayor Nam Gung-hyeok.”

At that, the executives handed over the documents all at once. The sound of the paper falling over Paralarak reverberates throughout the conference room for a moment.

‘Mayor Namgung-hyeok… ….’

Sung Yu-jin chewed on the name and thought of the figure.

Namgoonghyuk.

He was the new mayor who was elected in the Uijeongbu region by-election earlier this year. An independent politician who does not belong to either of the ruling and opposition parties, rose like a comet after the former mayor was sacked due to his involvement with a criminal organization.

In the document, it was written that there had been a lot of lobbying against Mayor Namgung-hyeok. It was entertainment to win business interests in relation to the redevelopment project of slums in Uijeongbu, which is being pursued by the government.

‘Although it is a lobby involving a large-scale business, it is a lobby conducted against a single mayor. It’s a small thing that doesn’t need attention compared to other things…….’

Why did the chairman ask me to watch this part? The moment other executives, including Sung Yu-jin, thought so, the chairman asked them.

“Is there anyone in charge of this case and pushed forward?”

At that, the executives turned their heads and looked at each other. But no one answered.

“Then who knew about this beforehand?”

The same was true of repeated questions. Around that time, the executives began to feel strange.

The people gathered here are the true power of Yeoil. It would not be an exaggeration to say that all of them were the entire Yeo-il.

However, I don’t know if it’s a side thing at all, and even if there is no political backing, no one knows about lobbying for the mayor in name and color.

‘I can’t do that. At least one of them should know.’

“What? It is natural not to know. This was something I was going to do myself without telling anyone.”

“Yes?”

“Chairman?”

“What do you mean?”

“That’s the literal meaning. Lobbying Mayor Namgung-hyeok to win the Uijeongbu redevelopment project is something I decided and tried to do alone.”

“Why did the chairman bother to move? If it’s a redevelopment project, you can entrust it to Yeoil Construction…….”

At Shin Seong-ho’s question, the executives’ eyes turned to the man in charge of Yeoil Construction’s vice president. However, the chairman shook his head lightly.

“I asked my subordinates to find out. Mayor Namgung-hyeok is a sound businessman on the outside, but he is believed to be closely related to criminal organizations in the slums behind the scenes. Rumor has it that it is also related to the ‘masajang’, who is known as the best broker in Uijeongbu.”

He said that if he lobbied badly for such a person, he could seriously injure his nose, so he tried to be careful. So, the chairman tried to promote the matter himself.

“Wait, I was going to push…… Is it?”

At that time, Seong Yu-jin, who had been listening to the story, asked back as if it was strange. Then the chairman smiled satisfied and nodded his head.

“Yes. We had a plan to get him on our side, but we haven’t put it into action yet. And the plan is only in my head. At this point, the only part of our contact with Mayor Namgoong-hyeok is that we invited him to a charity event in Uijeongbu held by our foundation. Even that is still two days before the event.”

Originally, I planned to contact him through a reliable subordinate during the event and make a separate appointment. In other words, lobbying for Mayor Namgoong-hyeok was about to begin, and nothing had happened yet.

However.

“However, the document that Min Chaeryeong handed over said this. Yeo-il secretly contacted Uijeongbu mayor Nam Gung-hyeok, and through his connections, he tried to monopolize various profitable projects to be implemented in Uijeongbu by mobilizing a large number of criminals in the slums, and furthermore, plotting to organize an underground criminal organization. This is the blueprint related to Uijeongbu that I was drawing. The problem is, that blueprint has not been explained to anyone yet, so it only exists in my head.”

Unlike other crimes, lobbying against Mayor Namgoong-hyuk is still in the planning stage.

That’s why the things presented as evidence were all meager.

Only the executives who heard the blueprint from the chairman were able to connect the weak evidence with the chairman’s plan and put it together plausibly.

But what about the other way around?

“But look at this. With meager evidence, I managed to pinpoint my plan. It’s like looking right into my head.”

Only Chairman Lim Seong-guk knows the full details of the plan.

Unless he told me directly, it was impossible to grasp the plan with such precision in the poor circumstances.

Then, what the hell are the words written on this document?

The whole story was like this.

Yeoil’s lobbying for Chairman Namgoonghyuk was revealed in the episode of Uijeongbu, which took place in the middle and latter half of the original work. Unlike the other criminal facts that came out in the work setting book or passing mention, this case was revealed in detail in the original work, just like the multiple ability study.

The Uijeongbu episode is the first episode that announced Yeo-il’s full-scale appearance in the original work, so it’s natural if it’s natural.

So Ahn Su-ho made a mistake.

Even though Illyana couldn’t bring proper evidence, she thought that the case had already been verified because it was the content of the original work that she clearly remembered.

Because there is a circumstance that Yeo-il approached Namgoong-hyeok. Perhaps it was because Illyana was busy that she couldn’t grasp it properly and didn’t catch conclusive evidence.

I couldn’t bear to think that the fact that the plan hadn’t started in earnest was not enough, and that the whole plan existed only in the president’s head, so that no one would know about it within a few days.

If the chairman had explained the plan to others, he would not have felt strange. He just assumed that someone he had informed of the plan had betrayed and leaked information.

However, because of the chairman’s cautious personality, Ahn Su-ho’s misjudgment was revealed to the surface.

From Suho Ahn’s point of view, it was unfortunate that luck didn’t follow him.

On the other hand, from Yeo-il’s point of view, it was a case of just escaping from a fate that would doubt each other and almost destroy themselves.

“In other words, traitors do not exist. He didn’t get these crime facts from someone leaking them. He got it in some other way.”

“What other way… ….”

“There are many possibilities that come to mind. A future prediction that pinpoints the desired future accurately. Or mind-reading that accurately reads the mind of a desired person from a distance. Anyway, isn’t it that you have a means of securing information that does not work with common sense? With that kind of means, he must have been able to steal the original silver as well.”

“I didn’t expect Min Chaeryeong to be hiding such a means-“

“No. This is not Min Chaeryeong’s strength.”

Sung Yoo-jin shook her head at Shin Seong-ho’s muttering.

“If Min Chae-ryeong had this level of intelligence from the start, there was no way he would have let it rot. In other words, it would be more appropriate to assume that she had an assistant other than her in this case.”

“Speaking of helpers…… ?”

“You don’t know who it is unless you do some research. But in terms of intelligence alone, he must be superior to anyone we know.”

The name of Ahn Su-ho passed through Seong Yu-jin’s mind as she answered that.

‘Information power… …. Come to think of it, the transaction that Ahn Su-ho presented to me during the last secret meeting was also information.’

Ahn Su-ho boldly proposed a deal, citing the identity of an executive of the Winter Alliance. Seong Yu-jin, who recalled that appearance, doubted that the mysterious helper might be Ahn Su-ho himself. But she immediately shook her head.

‘No. When I researched him, he didn’t have the background or experience to have those abilities. It’s suspicious that he showed remarkable growth from an E-class superhuman in a short period of time, but his strength as a superhuman and this kind of intelligence are completely different areas.’

“Anyway. Therefore, there are no traitors among us. Therefore, it would be right to discuss future measures instead of working hard on useless things.”

While Seong Yu-jin was lost in thought, the chairman spoke.

“President Shin Seong-ho. How do you think we should deal with this case?”

“…… Since we haven’t properly grasped Min Chaeryeong’s strength yet, I think it’s an urgent priority to buy time to understand Min Chaeryeong’s potential while accepting the demands presented by that side.”

“I think so too. Whether it is to figure out Min Chae-ryeong’s history, or to cover up the traces of the crimes on this list. What we need right now is time.”

At the words of the chairman and Shin Sung-ho, the direction of the discussion began to flow towards accepting Min Chae-ryeong’s demands. Some seemed dissatisfied with this, but no one dared to go against the trend led by the group’s first and second person.

“President. I’m presumptuous, but can I just say one word?”

Only one person. Except for Sung Yu-jin.

“…… Okay. Tell me.”

“Accepting other conditions is fine. However, the original silver must be retrieved. If you give up the original silver now, you will have to give up the realization of multiple abilities that are on the verge of success.”

“Multi-ability. It’s definitely not worth giving up on that.”

Sung Yu-jin’s expression brightened for a moment at the president’s words.

However.

“But even so, it can’t be weighed against the group’s future.”

“…… Yes?”

“Besides, I heard that research does not necessarily succeed with primordial silver. That’s just one of many ways, so finding a way to research elsewhere would be a good way to do it at this time.”

“President. I’m sorry, but for now, the method using the original silver is the most reliable! And you said that it is the future of the group, and if only the multi-ability research is successful, Yeo-il will surely be able to rise to a leading position not only in Korea but also in the world-“

“A mere outside director.”

– Kung!

The chairman hit the table lightly with his fist and said. Although it was obviously not hit with such strong force, the echo resonated throughout the conference hall and tightened everyone’s hearts.

“…… Does a mere outside director discuss the future of the group? You can’t be arrogant. At best, a hunter who can only run amok in his own power…….”

“Chairman?”

“Come to think of it, director Seong Yu-jin. I forgot to tell you about your responsibility for this situation. The research on multiple abilities is obviously a big project, but I was so obsessed with it that I turned enemies who shouldn’t be turned into enemies…… “

The chairman closed his eyes as if thinking for a moment, and then uttered a small voice.

“…… As a sub-master of Winter Alliance and an outside director of Yeoil Holdings, your position as a registered director on the board of directors is revoked. That should be enough. On the surface, it would be possible to save face by stepping down to focus on guild work.”

Fixed the registered director position. In other words, it meant that Sung Yu-jin would be disqualified from participating in the board of directors of Yeoil Group.

Not only the superficial board of directors, but even the secret board of directors where they are now gathered.

– Fast!

At that decision, Seong Yu-jin clenched her molars. She thought it was unfair that she was doing nothing but working hard for the rest of the day.

Nevertheless, he desperately suppressed those feelings as he protested in a low voice.

“…… Disposition will be received sweetly. However, in order to research multiple abilities, you must retrieve only the original silver. The success of the research is right in front of you, but if you give up on it, how many more years will it take-“

“If you want to be punished, then stop vomiting at my words. Why is someone you know acting like a child from a while ago?”

However, the chairman dismissed Seong Yu-jin’s protest as just a bunch of children.

At those cold words, the expression on Seong Yu-jin’s face disappeared.

After that, the chairman and executives discussed specific measures for a long time, but Sung Yu-jin heard nothing.

Soon after the meeting ended, Seong Yu-jin got into his vehicle waiting in front of the company with weak steps. In the driver’s seat, his assistant, Park In-ho, was at the wheel.

“Director. Did the meeting go well?”

“… ….”

Sung Yu-jin did not answer Park In-ho’s question. She only pursed her lips while staring blankly into the void as if she was lost somewhere or possessed by something.

“…… Director?”

Park In-ho, who felt that the appearance was unusual, asked again, and only then did Seong Yu-jin raise her head.

“…… Go to the Superhuman Rehabilitation Institute.”

“Are you talking about the research institute? All right.”

The sedan started smoothly and Sung Yu-jin leaned against her backrest.

However, unlike the drooping body, those two eyes were burning.