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“Aha. That means you've safely slipped out of the airport?”
Jo Gyu-Min urgently puffed away at his cigarette while talking on the phone.
“I was freaking out, you know? You guys getting caught would've been seriously bad for everyone, after all!”
Lee Hyeon-Su tutted loudly.
-Is that why you took us to the cleaners?
“I didn’t do that, hyung. Chairman Hwang did.”
Jo Gyu-Min cackled as quietly as possible so the other side couldn't hear him. Merely listening to Lee Hyeon-Su's sulky voice was enough to automatically refill Jo Gyu-Min's tank with pure energy!
He had to pay a hefty price for messing around earlier, but it was also true that he didn't walk away empty-handed.
“What’s going on with our cargo plane, though?”
-Don't worry about it. It's busy unloading its cargo right now. Your corporation is not in any trouble.
“That’s good to hear.”
Jo Gyu-Min wasn't joking this time. He really was breathing a lengthy sigh of relief. If the Brits discovered that a cargo plane used by Jaegyeong was also used to smuggle people in… Not just any people, but martial artists! The level of harm that would fall upon Jaegyeong would have been incalculable.
Material harm was already difficult enough to imagine. But the immaterial harm done behind the scenes? Now that would have been astronomical.
‘You better believe that the Chairman has been incredibly kind to your cause, mister!’
The worst outcome would've been instilling a negative perception of Jaegyeong in Europe, not just the UK. If that perception led to real-world sanctions, Jaegyeong would've had to deal with the crisis of the European market becoming inaccessible.
To confound the matters, the corporation's planning team...
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