Chapter 79: Master T, Part I
Translator: Khan
Editor: Aelryinth
Shin Dong-woo, president of the Kai Gas, introduced to each of the directors of the Kai Gas.
“This is the chief of developnt general.”
“This is Chae Joong-sun. Nice to et you.”
“Thank you. I’m Han Sang Hoon.”
I held his hand and waved it, but I put my attention on Director Tak Joon-gi, who sat in the back.
‘I thought I’d see him soday, but... I didn’t think that was going to happen today.’
He was the third-largest shareholder of the Kai Gas, but he didn’t seem to directly interfere with managent, similarly to . He also didn’t have a formal title, like an outside director. But today, he showed up with the directors at this eting where we greeted one another.
‘Has he co to see who beca the first major shareholder?’
I tried to sneak a look at him, but every ti Mr. Shin showed up with new faces and introduced them to .
“This is Kim Young-ji, the finance director.”
“Nice to see you.”
“Yes, good to see you.”
By the end of the greetings, it wasn’t until the last minute that Tak Joon-gi stood up. As he moved, I could see the people next to him flinching away. They bent over and gave way to the king, as if they were the followers. Tak Joon-gi was moving forward.
CEO Shin also stood aside and said, “This is Tak Joon-gi, our third-largest shareholder.”
He only had a 5 percent stake, but they treated him as a superior. Perhaps the fact that he was the third generation of a chaebol family, and that he was a big hand in the investnt industry, was a big factor. I faced him. He was quite tall, about 180cm tall, slightly taller than . I looked up and t his eyes.
Looking closer, his image was definitely different from when I had seen him from a distance in the Garden Envy. His eyebrows were thick, his nose was big and slim, and he felt like a big man as a whole, but his eyes were small and long, so I could not tell what was inside. In addition, his lips were thin and small, so he seed to be rather petty.
He extended his hand and said, “I am Tak Joon-gi, it’s good to see you.”
As I had done when I had t Kaiji outside last ti, I greeted him, “I’ve t you for the first ti. I’m Han Sang-hoon.” I spoke as if there had been no business in the Garden Envy.
He looked at and said, his eyes shining, “Yes, Mr. Han. I’ve heard a lot about you.”
The look was like saying, ‘I know you have been to Garden Envy.’
‘What the...?’
I tried to find out what his intention was. “Oh, really? Where did you hear my story…?”
At my words, he laughed and spoke vaguely, “Here and there.”
I thought, letting go of his hand in moderation. ‘This man... he’s certainly a man who I should be careful of.’
If Garden Envy was a den of snakes, then this person was the huge snake that moved them, a python. I shook hands with him last, and then followed Mr. Shin’s guidance and went up to the top of the podium.
“Now, Han Sang-hoon, who is a major shareholder of our company, will say sothing.”
I made the sa inaugural address that I had done for the inauguration for OH Entertainnt; I just changed the na to Kai Gas.
“.. and full investnt and support to Kai Gas...”
There was no need for procedures such as having delegation ceremony like OH Entertainnt. Shin Dong-woo, the founder of the company, was already at the center of the company.
“I’m confident of the success of the Kai Gas…”
While giving a speech, I took a peek at President Shin Dong-woo. He looked at in a friendly manner. Like OH Entertainnt, I said, “I’m not going to touch any ga developnt. Just make a good ga.”
As I had said so, he was now able to devote himself to developing the ga without any interference. I heard that the Chinese board of directors asked many things and interfered in ga developnt.
– You shouldn’t have this white bone.-
– Let’s do this in red.-
– Please do sothing that will work in China.-
They had been giving such orders, and he had been quite stressed. Now that all the Chinese board mbers had resigned after taking over the company, President Shin Dong-woo had no one to tell him what to do with developnt. It was natural for him to thank , because I had drawn thorns out from his eyes. He would be more concerned with developnt.
“... I’d like to ask you…”
As soon as I was done, everyone clapped enthusiastically, to impress the new owner. But one person, Director Tak Joon-gi, was like leader Kim Jeong-eun in North Korea, crossing his palm up and down and clapping slowly. He was using that manner, ‘Let’s see how you do.’
‘Oh, yeah. You’re a royal family. Is that it?’
He had probably lived being clapped at rather than clapping. After the eting with the board mbers, I followed Mr. Shin’s guidance and looked around the entire company. Looking back at the ga developer, it was certainly exciting. When I saw the gas up on the monitor, I could see Fantasy War Ground, the big hit of the future.
“It’s a new genre of Battle Royale, which has transford modern war into a fantasy fight with swords, bows, or magic instead of guns. We’ll be in CBT soon for the regular users.”
‘This ga will be the ultimate hit that will captivate gars all over the world.’
I’d been looking around the whole company like that.
“Then I hope you work hard to the end.”
“Yes, of course!”
——
After a last-minute goodbye with Shin, I returned to the underground parking lot.
As soon as I got into the car, Secretary Seo said, “That Fantasy War Ground looked so interesting when I saw it in front of . I think it’s going to be a big hit.”
I nodded, “Sure. I told you that it’s going to succeed.”
Secretary Seo looked at in a rear-view mirror. “I think you have an amazing perspective. Really.”
“No, no.”
But then my cell phone rang, and a text ca in. It was an unknown number, but I could tell who sent it by looking at the text.
– This is Master T. I would like to see you at the cafe on the second floor, in front of the Kai Gas. Duros.-
Director Tak Joon-gi, Master T, wrote the text and sent it with my nickna in the Garden Envy. He knew that I had attended the eting he had hosted.
‘But how did you know that?’
I had ti to recuperate and reflect. I’d only been to the eting once and never given my na there. I’d only seen him once in the distance. He was surrounded by people and didn’t even have ti to see .
‘What possible scenario...’
There were only two possibilities that I could think of right now: first, Kaiji, Director Lee Won-jae, made a statent to him. Second, Section-chief Kim Hye-sook, who had given an invitation to Garden Envy, sold the information.
‘… Who was it?’
I was thinking about it, Secretary Seo started the car. Of course, it was ti to get off work. I stopped him, “Secretary Seo, wait a minute.”
“Yes?”
“Wait here for a mont... No. Go on ho. I’ll get off here.”
“Yes?”
“It’s because I’ve got so personal business to do around here. Go ahead.”
At my words, Secretary Seo tilted his head, but he obeyed my order.
“Yes, sir. Boss.”
I crossed the crosswalk at the green light. On the second floor of the building across from Kai Gas, there was a large dessert cafe, as Director Tak Joon-gi had said. I thought as I entered the building, ‘Why is this guy calling ... ...what the hell is he trying to do?’
I doubted him. But no one could cheat on . I had an eye for the future. Even if soone was trying to tie up with a lie, I was confident that I would resist it. Entering the cafe, Director Tak Joon-gi waved his hand at from the inside corner. I approached him and sat down and said, “Why did you ask to et you?”
At my words, he grinned and said, “No, well... It wasn’t because of sothing. I just wanted to see you personally. As you know... I like excellent investors. By the way, you are a 29-year-old man with $60,000,000 assets. It was very interesting.”
He seed to know only with the assets of Invictus Investnt.
‘It’s $160,000,000, not $60,000,000.’
He couldn’t have imagined I had earned $60,000,000 more in my personal accounts in two months after investing $30,000,000 into Invictus Investnt. Even if he was a mber of the royal family, a human was only a human being. No person with power could know the future. That ant, no matter how much he held his form in front of , it just seed ridiculous in my eyes.
He said, tapping his finger twice against the window where the Kai Gas looked. “I’d like to ask you, by the way. Why did you buy this company?”
I answered simply, “I think it’s a good ga company.”
He looked at with his snake-like eyes, having hands on his chin. “Is that just about it?”
“Yes. I enjoy investing in ga companies. Isn’t the sale all for the ga company? It’s good because it’s simple. If the ga hits, the stock price goes up. If it fails, it goes down. I approached it in that sense. Especially this beginning... it is considered to be a work of both stability and novelty by mixing fantasy with the popular Battle Royale genre.”
He didn’t seem to know much about the ga. Even though he was in his forties, I felt like he couldn’t understand anything when I was talking about the Battle Royale genre.
‘But if he were a son of a rich family, would he have played a ga? He was probably golfing and traveling abroad at that ti.’ I asked him the sa question, “Why did you buy this company?”
He once again said with a sizzling smile at my words. “I’m confident that I can sell it and make money.”
I asked him implicitly, “Well... did Director Tak have a good view of the ga, too?”
If he pretended to know here, he was 100% lying. But he began to laugh openly at my words. “Hahaha!”
As I tilted my head, suddenly he looked straight at and said one more thing, “I don’t know the ga.”
It was a remark that I didn’t understand with common sense. He didn’t know the ga, but he bought the ga stock.
But he twinkled his eyes and said, “But I still know the stock. You know, stocks are a kind of pyramid sche, a trick ga.”
At the remark, I thought once again, ‘This man is a dangerous man.’ But nevertheless, I decided to listen to him more.
‘A crisis is an opportunity in the stock market. If this person tries to put in danger, that will be an opportunity, too.’
I grinned at him and said, “That’s right.”
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