A Clue (1)
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“Hehe. Congratulations, Jae-hyun.”
Just as I was taking in the sight of the enormous clan tower.
I felt soone hugging tightly from behind.
It was Kim Chae-eun, who had now beco a mber of .
I smiled and clasped her hand.
“When did you get here?”
“Just now. I rushed over as soon as I heard there was going to be our clan’s very first eting.”
Today was the day the clan was founded and the first official eting was to be held.
All 83 clan mbers were to attend and discuss the future direction of the clan together.
Since half of the clan mbers were student Holders, the eting ti was set for the evening.
‘And it will probably be like that from now on.’
Although clan activities should be the top priority once you beco a clan mber, it’s inevitable that activity areas will overlap.
Until the student Holders, including myself, graduate from the academy, we had to balance this ti allocation well.
This was especially sothing I had asked for understanding before recruiting clan mbers.
“Let’s go in first! The others will be here soon.”
Since I ca early to look around the clan tower, there were still many clan mbers who hadn’t arrived yet.
“Hurry, hurry-.”
Kim Chae-eun grabbed my wrist and led .
I smiled and followed her into the building.
“Wow… It’s huge.”
The ’s clan tower, known as the EH Tower, exuded grandeur and splendor from the inside.
From the high-end interior that imdiately revealed it as a newly constructed building, to the neat reception desk, and the entrance equipped with an access card system.
It felt like seeing the clan tower for the first ti during my internship last year.
“We greet the Clan Master.”
“Greetings to the Master!”
As we passed the reception desk and entrance, the guards and staff greeted us.
Honestly, I still felt awkward with the title of master and it made a bit embarrassed, but the staff seed thoroughly trained and greeted without any hesitation.
As we passed through the entrance, Kim Chae-eun nudged my side with a sly look.
“It’s really cool.”
“Don’t tease .”
“Hehe, I’m serious. I go to sleep and wake up to find my boyfriend is a Clan Master? Sounds like a novel title, it’s fun.”
“Ugh….”
Hiding my embarrassnt, I quickly turned towards the elevator.
“Still, they’ve hired really good staff. Even though there wasn’t much ti.”
Kim Chae-eun followed closely behind, speaking.
I nodded in agreent and replied, “The friendly clans were a big help.”
In fact, the ability to organize the clan’s internal affairs so quickly was largely due to the help of the clans we had ford friendly alliances with.
The top 3 dostic clans.
Having maintained their top positions for so long, they had a lot of data on clan establishnt and had built up considerable related infrastructure.
Under the na of friendly clans, they spared no support.
sold the clan tower building and land at a low price, helped with the selection of capable staff, and provided various items and equipnt needed for operation.
From their perspective, it was supports to maintain relations as friendly clans, but for , which was still in its early stages of establishnt and had little prepared, it was truly invaluable support.
‘…It also helped with the image sohow.’
If the support beca too excessive, we might have been seen as a subsidiary clan of the top 3 clans.
They are such large clans, and is a newly created clan.
But the fact that we received help evenly from all three top clans changed the perception.
Since the support wasn’t biased towards any particular clan, it rather created an image of being under the protection of the top 3 dostic clans.
Thanks to this, ’s popularity was skyrocketing from the start of its establishnt.
“We greet the Master.”
When we arrived at the 31st floor, the top floor, by elevator.
A secretary in neat office attire greeted us.
A beauty with both a smart image and intellectual charm.
…That’s right.
She was a beauty.
“What’s this?”
Kim Chae-eun beside looked at with narrowed eyes.
I panicked for no reason, even though I had nothing to feel guilty about.
“W-What?”
“Why is the secretary so pretty?”
“No, it’s a misunderstanding. To begin with, there were only female applicants. They were candidates screened by Royal.”
This is really unfair.
While I personally selected ’s clan mbers from the start, it wasn’t the sa for the civilian staff.
I had sought advice and recomndations from , who have expertise in this field.
Of course, I conducted the final interviews, but all the applicants were won to begin with….
But Kim Chae-eun seed to have no intention of letting go of her suspicions.
“I was already feeling like I’m getting more competitors these days….”
“Huh? What did you say?”
I imdiately asked about Kim Chae-eun’s voice that was barely audible, but she shook her head with a smile.
“It’s nothing. We’ll talk again when the others arrive.”
“No….”
Kang Juyeon and Moon Ga-eun are joining here too?
For a mont, I felt dizzy.
…Is this the fate of soone with multiple lovers?
“Um… Master?”
As I was bickering half-jokingly, half-seriously with Kim Chae-eun.
The secretary who had been standing at attention on one side addressed .
Suddenly turning my head, I saw that she had a piece of paper in her hand.
‘…What’s this?’
I had already received a report on the clan schedule, but this seed to be separate from that.
She slowly approached and showed the paper.
“This is an official docunt sent by the Korean Holder Association in the form of a request application. It just arrived, and I was about to contact you, but you happened to co up to the master room…”
“A request application?”
“Yes. It’s a request for investigation regarding the recent series of Holder kidnapping incidents in Jongno.”
I took the official docunt handed over by the secretary and checked it.
As she said, it was indeed a request application with the association president’s seal.
Of course, our clan isn’t a ‘rcenary clan’ that takes on and solves requests from others, but we had sothing we promised as a condition with the Holder Association from the establishnt of .
“…It seems the association has judged that this incident is related to the Ludenark Sect.”
That was precisely the Ludenark Sect.
To find clues about them who imitate evil, and if given the chance, to exterminate them.
This was also the primary goal of our clan at present.
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[Web Transmission] This is the secretariat. Due to an urgent matter within the clan, we wish to move the scheduled eting ti one hour earlier. Clan mbers who cannot attend at the changed eting ti, please contact the clan secretariat. Thank you.
“What’s going on?”
Park Jin-woo ca straight to the clan tower as soon as his class ended after checking the ssage.
It was his first ti seeing the clan tower, but…
There was no ti to be amazed at its splendor.
He entered through the entrance and took the elevator to the eting room.
The destination was the conference room on the 28th floor.
It was a large conference room where all 83 clan mbers could gather.
When he arrived, most of the other clan mbers were already seated, probably because they had no particular schedule.
Park Jin-woo found an empty seat at the back and sat down.
“Now that Holder Park Jin-woo has arrived, all clan mbers are present. Then, let’s start the eting.”
A man in the center of the conference room picked up the microphone.
Though the na didn’t co to mind, it was a familiar face.
He was a mber who had been part of the .
Jin-woo had expected his friend Do Jae-hyun to explain, but he was seated in a corner slightly away from the center.
And next to him sat Yoo Eun-seol, the S-grade Holder who had been talked about since her recruitnt.
“Greetings, fellow clan mbers. I am Han Sang-jin, a special category Holder who has been appointed as the temporary planning team leader of the Evil Hunter clan.”
Han Sang-jin was in the special category.
Among them, he was a Holder in charge of the taming category.
During the operation, Moon Ga-eun also awakened to the taming side, and the Raid force leader Do Jae-hyun also possessed an excellent contractor…
They were sotis collectively called the taming category trio.
Han Sang-jin was a mber who used to give good opinions with sharp analytical skills and quick judgnt within the Raid force, and it seed that Do Jae-hyun also highly appreciated these points and assigned him the temporary position of clan planning team leader.
“Actually, today’s planned eting was supposed to organize future operation plans, departnt and position arrangents, and additionally celebrate the clan’s establishnt, but…”
Han Sang-jin used a pointer to flip through the PPT.
A title that made one frown just by looking at it appeared.
Holder serial kidnapping incident.
Recently, as the disappearances of so Holders beca frequent, there were ominous rumors about whether they might have been kidnapped…
This material seed to confirm that as fact.
“It has been confird that a student Holder currently attending Seoul Academy is included in the Jongno District disappearance cases being classified as kidnapping incidents. And as the possibility of the Ludenark Sect being involved in this incident has been detected… This case has beco our clan’s top short-term priority.”
The conference room imdiately buzzed at Han Sang-jin’s shocking statent.
“W-What?”
“A student Holder?”
“Suddenly ntioning Ludenark…”
A student Holder has been kidnapped.
This was no longer just under the jurisdiction of the association and governnt, but also ca under the jurisdiction of the academy.
Moreover, the fact that the Ludenark Sect, the clan’s top priority, was involved ant that couldn’t just sit back and watch this problem unfold.
“Therefore, putting aside all clan priorities, we will proceed with temporary activities by grouping the currently gathered clan mbers into hunting teams. The temporary organization is as follows.”
Flip, flip-.
The PPT slides changed…
In an instant, the temporary departnt setup for clan mbers was completed.
All clan mbers are assigned to hunting teams, and the hunting teams are divided from Team 1 to Team 5.
“The Clan Master is Do Jae-hyun, and the Vice Master is Yoo Eun-seol. Also, the Vice Master automatically becos the leader of Hunting Team 1 in the temporary organization.”
The founder of the clan and the clan’s absolute powerhouse.
It was only natural that they would be organized as Master and Vice Master.
“Next, Hunting Team 2 leader Lim Hyun, Team 3 leader Jeong Seon-young, Team 4 leader Kim Ah-reum. And…”
The speech paused for a mont, and Han Sang-jin’s gaze lingered at the back.
Park Jin-woo was blankly staring at the material.
It was the mont their eyes t.
“Team 5 leader Park Jin-woo. The clan mbers nad above will be the executives who will serve as temporary team leaders and confird senior clan mbers. Team leaders, please check your team mbers and ensure there are no issues for upcoming operations.”
“……”
Park Jin-woo, listening quietly, thought.
‘Ah.’
Passing over all the veteran Holders…
To be chosen as a team leader-level executive.
It was the mont when that damn friend of his was stirring things up again.
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