“Wait... So, you all just... left?” Chairman Hwang Jeong-Hu blinked his eyes in disbelief.

“Yes, sir.” Jo Gyu-Min nodded.

Hwang Jeong-Hu leaned back in his chair while making an unreadable face. A lengthy silence descended in the Jaegyeong Chairman's Office, but Jo Gyu-Min didn't try to urge his boss. Even if Hwang Jeong-Hu wasn't personally there to witness everything, the report alone was still considerably shocking, anyway.

“Gyu-Min, don't you think that guy's boldness has gone over the top?”

“...Well, a lowly scrub like me can't comprehend a larger-than-life man like Mister Jin-Ho, sir.”

“No, Gyu-Min. That's not being larger than life…” Hwang Jeong-Hu massaged his forehead. “...Urgh. I don't know what to think anymore. I thought I had figured out pretty much everything about Jin-Ho, but he has this talent to catch you off-guard and flip everything on its head every now and then, doesn't he? Just what is he thinking?”

“Sir, that's my sentiment exactly.”

“Whew-woo…”

Two men, two victims tormented by Kang Jin-Ho's antics, exchanged gazes of compassion and understanding.

“By the way, is everything you said true, Gyu-Min? Every word of it?”

“Yes, sir. Every word,” Jo Gyu-Min grimly nodded.

Hwang Jeong-Hu looked stunned, his jaw slightly falling.

'That's an understandable reaction...'

Hwang Jeong-Hu already knew to some extent that Kang Jin-Ho was not a 'normal' human being. Didn't he warn Jo Gyu-Min in the past to stop thinking of Kang Jin-Ho as a naive young man? That a scary devil was hiding within Kang Jin-Ho?

However, this was still...