The rain continued to fall as if God had forgotten to turn off heaven's faucets.

The sedan where Kang Jin-Ho was drove past the curtains of rain on the lonely road.

Jo Gyu-Min cautiously asked, “Mister Jin-Ho. The person currently admitted to the hospital is the same man who came with you on the hundred-day leave, yes?”

“Yes, you're right.”

“How did he…” Jo Gyu-Min stopped himself after realizing that Kang Jin-Ho was simply staring outside the window, evidently not in the mood to talk. Besides, Kang Jin-Ho would have said something by now if he had a task in mind for Jo Gyu-Min.

Since he hadn't said anything, Kang Jin-Ho probably thought there was nothing Jo Gyu-Min or Jaegyeong could do for him. Yet…

'However, can we even be any help this time?'

Even after taking into account Hwang Jeong-Hu's influence and power, this matter still wasn't something he could easily interfere with.

Every event within the military couldn’t escape from the reaches of the top military leaders. However, problems related to those events could easily slip through the cracks and snowball into something beyond the military leaders' control.

The folks wielding limitless power and freedom in the army would instantly fall to become frail old men the moment the media sicced its hounds on them. That was why the military had developed a strong tendency to avoid being in the media spotlight at any cost.

'Not only that, but...'

Even if Hwang Jeong-Hu...