#160. One, two. 3
“The dog is barking so loudly that I can’t hear it well. What is it barking at?”
Kim Man-pal's face was pale, but it could not deceive his unconscious observation skills that saw the trembling of his shoulders and the ripples in his neck.
I'm fighting against mental fear.
Unconsciously, she leaned her upper body towards him, her jaw clenched.
Of course, there was a faint smile on his lips.
“Then you don’t understand this. Your family died once a year.
Death by heart attack, or poisoning. Two of your close neighborhood acquaintances also died, also of heart attacks.”
“This dog bastard!”
Kim Man-pal screamed and shook his body as if he was going to rush at him at any moment, but the bonds did not come off. Instead, his ankles and wrists turned red as if blood was about to spurt out.
The unconscious smiled as if it found Kim Man-pal's reaction amusing.
“They were all people who knew my true identity. They even hurt my body.
“Because I was stressed, couldn’t understand what was being said, couldn’t eat quickly, couldn’t finish work quickly, and couldn’t drink water.”
Woojin, whose eyes had been leisurely turned to the left for a moment, looked at Kim Manpal again.
“Or, collapse from exhaustion.”
Kim Man-pal was busy grinding his teeth.
He killed him.
And lied.
I was deceived from the beginning by that little, young guy who pretended to be deaf and unable to speak.
“You devilish bastard…”
It just didn't look like that.
The devil who came to him.
The unconscious smiled faintly.
“Then am I the birth of a devil? Then who created the birth of a devil?”
“When I die, I will come and devour you even if I have to become a ghost.”
“If ghosts were real, the murderers would all be dead before they even went to prison.
Listen to me carefully. Believe it or not, it's your freedom. Your family. Do you really think I'm dead?"
“You crazy kid…”
“I was the first to find out when your wife died among your family members. Do you remember? In the greenhouse.
Well, it doesn't matter who killed you. What matters is that you came to me just as I planned.
I just took a little action next to the dead people. People believe what they want to believe and see what they want to see to justify themselves. Think about it carefully.”
The unconscious continued speaking calmly, looking at him who was glaring at her as if he was going to kill her.
“Okay, so here. Why on earth are you? Why is it? Why did you come here? The answer is simple. To kill me. Why?
Because you thought I killed your family. That's what you wanted to think. Humans tend to judge easily and believe it.
That's why I helped you feel more comfortable. That's why I helped you feel more comfortable. The visit a few years ago was one of them.
You made the gears turn so that you could come to me. You wrote letters to make me want to kill you more, and you even gave me a bribe.
With my family dead and locked up in prison, I have nothing left to lose.
The guy you think is the devil sent you a bunch of letters. Wouldn't that make you venomous and vengeful?
And you will have faith as you think of me.”
The unconscious continued speaking as he got up from his chair.
“You, the human being, are an organism made up of magnesium, chlorine, potassium, sodium, sulfur, calcium, phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen.
“I called you here. You reacted like a puppet.”
The unconscious smiled again.
“It’s only natural. Do you know that? I took care of your health too.
Revenge makes people healthy. You must have exercised voluntarily. You must have also done aerobic exercise regularly.
“I’m thinking about the day that would kill me.”
“What the hell is this crazy kid talking about…!”
He smiled as his unconsciousness grabbed his hair.
“You don’t have to understand. I’ll say it again, you came to me, and you and I met again.
Okay, from now on, I'll tattoo you on your body just like I did back then. Don't worry. I'll take care of you so you don't die.
The smile that had been unconsciously on his face disappeared in an instant.
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3 days later.
Shinwha Group Chairman Lee’s home.
The chairman was sitting across from Shinwha Electric's CEO, Kim Dae-han.
After Chairman Lee had been quietly staring at the Go board for about ten minutes, Kim Dae-han suddenly knelt down.
“Chairman, I’m sorry! I think I was out of my mind for a moment. I’m sorry!”
Kim Dae-han banged his forehead on the floor.
“It’s noisy.”
“Chairman, if you forgive me just this once, I will never forget this favor. Think of our old friendship and…”
“If the Chairman tells me to die, I will die. If he tells me to wag my tail like a dog, I will make a tail out of nothing…”
“Daehan-ah.”
“Yes, Chairman!”
The Go stones in the chairman's hand were rubbed together.
Kkudduk.
“You were originally a dog.”
Kim Dae-han's bloodshot eyes grew wide and slitted.
“Chairman…”
“I thought I’d throw you a snack every time you embezzled a little bit of money. Now give me all your stake and get punished.
Then don't boil the water."
“Come, Chairman…”
The chairman turned his gaze and looked at the man in the suit.
They were people from SH Strategy.
“What are you guys doing? It’s time for the guests to arrive.”
The men forcibly lifted Kim Dae-han up.
“Let’s go.”
“Come, Chairman!”
As he was dragged out, Chairman Lee spoke to the only person left.
“Tell the prosecutor general. He said it’s not a delisting, right?”
"All right."
He bowed his head and disappeared, and shortly thereafter a man in a suit came in again.
It was none other than Woojin.
The chairman greeted me with a sad smile.
“Have you eaten?”
“I ate.”
“You look happy, what’s wrong?”
“Ah, it seems like you had a great time eating with an old friend.”
“So your face looked good?”
When Woojin smiled, Chairman Lee stared at Woojin for a moment while offering him a seat.
I felt like something had changed in the atmosphere.
At that time, Woojin, who was still smiling, said.
“It’s noisy outside. What’s going on?”
“I think you already know, but why are you asking?”
“I brought up the wrong topic. I’m sorry.”
The chairman spoke calmly while retrieving the stones from the Go board.
“Nothing will change. You don’t have to worry. Just think about how to merge Hye-rim’s company with Brain Food.”
Woojin, who was not listening to those words but observing the voice with his ears, slowly nodded his head.
"All right."
And then he asked to change the mood.
“Mr. Chairman, may I ask what kind of bet you are considering today?”
The chairman smiled with his arms crossed.
“Um… What were you thinking about?”
Woojin held back a snicker.
Even in these small words, the foundation of not being the first to lose is embedded.
It comes out unconsciously over a long period of life.
That person is Chairman Lee of Shilla Group.
“I would like to see the chairman’s study.”
The chairman opened his mouth as if in surprise.
"study?"
"yes."
“Why? Because I thought there might be some hidden treasure?”
“I said this because I thought things would go better if I received a lot of energy from this chairman.”
“Hahaha! You’re a good talker. You’re funny. Haha! Alright. If I win, you have to play Go with me until dinner tonight.”
“Okay, let’s go with the one-shot.”
So, the chairman started by laying out my points first.
At that sight, Woojin nodded his head slightly, as if he understood something, so that Chairman Lee could not see it.
widely.
The game of baduk has begun.
Woojin started to count as soon as Chairman Lee said that, and 10 minutes passed by quickly.
Woojin's hand, which was reaching for the white bowl, stopped.
Chairman Lee smiled at that sight.
“How is it? I’ve grown quite a bit now, haven’t I?”
He created ten houses with just one move.
Woojin smiled and rubbed his forehead.
“This kind of number… This is the first time I’ve seen someone develop skills so quickly.”
Of course, it was Woojin who made it happen.
He made it look like a fierce battle and deliberately gave up his house.
If you give yourself this kind of hope that you can overcome yourself, you will find more of yourself in the future.
Woojin's thoughts were one-off, and in fact, there was something he wanted to confirm.
We tested him one move at a time to see if he was learning effectively.
The conclusion is, there was none.
The brain lacks plasticity.
Because I'm older? That wasn't it.
Of course, one could say that it was a disease that came with age.
Occasionally, there was a slight slurring of pronunciation, and a slight twitching was observed when placing a stone.
If we judge these comprehensive things, this is.
“I feel good today. What should I do? Why don’t you hurry up and put it down?”
Woojin, who erased such thoughts from his mind in an instant, gave up on his lost home and took a different approach.
I had no intention of losing, I was just observing the chairman.
We also continued to observe the learning effects.
After 40 minutes like that.
Percussion.
As soon as Woojin's stone was placed on the board, the game ended with Woojin's victory.
But the chairman smiled.
“It felt good, you know. But it was a satisfactory result.”
Although there wasn't even a glimmer of hope before, today there are some signs of progress.
“Okay then, shall we start the game again?”
Woojin opened his mouth and smiled at the sight of Chairman Lee recovering the Go stones.
“Mr. Chairman, this was a one-off.”
“Wasn’t it the third time?”
The moment the chairman said those words, Woojin's gaze scanned his face and movements as if observing him.
It wasn't a playful stroke of luck, it was just me spitting out the truth I believed in.
Woojin's smile grew deeper.
“Yes. One-shot.”
"okay?"
"yes."
Chairman Lee, who had been smiling and nodding, stood up from his seat.
“I wanted to see the study… Follow me.”
The chairman started going up to the second floor straight away.
Woojin followed behind and observed his gait.
“Here, bring me a cup of tea.”
Chairman Lee went up to the second floor and pushed open the large door that looked like a gate and went inside.
Woojin followed right in, and the smell of wood wafted out.
The interior was quaint and had large windows that looked out onto the yard.
The bookshelf and the desk looked luxurious, like an aesthetically pleasing relic that had been passed down from generation to generation.
And a chair that only the Shinwha Group chairman can sit on.
Despite being an object, it looked proud and lofty.
Of course, that may have been how the general public viewed it, but to Woojin, it was just an object.
“It’s not like there’s anything to eat at a famous banquet. Doesn’t it look like there’s nothing special?”
Woojin was looking at the scenery outside the window,
I turned around and looked at Chairman Lee sitting in the emperor's seat.
It is an unsuitable position for this aging and sickly chairman.
Woojin, smiling, spoke up.
“The view looks really nice.”
On the contrary, if I sit down, it will fit very well.
