chapter 104
The office we arrived at was so chaotic that we would believe it had been bombed once. Not a joke, for real.
The exhausted team leaders had gathered in one place and stood apart. The phone was ringing so much that I unplugged it.
I picked up a Post-it that was lying on the floor. There was a scribbled handwritten letter.
[Reporter Wooseok Kang of Daejin Newspaper]
[Interview inquiry]
[xxx-xxxx-xxxx]
If you say you received a call from 9 am, it is now 5 pm… … .
The coffee in one hand suddenly becomes shabby.
Did you mean to buy something a little more generous?
“Superstar 2 team leader, are you here now?”
Han Ye-rim, who sits in the corner, pretends to know. I approached her, being careful not to step on the stunned team leaders.
He asked for coffee.
“What kind of Americano, cappuccino, or macchiato would you like?”
“Americano. I’m on a diet these days.”
“Where is the CEO going to lose weight?”
“How are you?”
I was given coffee and a straw. Han Ye-rim took the lid off and drank it as it is. Then stick out your tongue and fan your hands. It’s like a girl with a quick temper.
“Can I get some cold water?”
“What do you do to your employees? That’s Okay. look at work.”
Han Ye-rim grabbed a mug and ran to the bathroom.
Belatedly, a zombie moan is heard from the desk next to it. An old man was drooling and looking at me.
“Team 2, please give me one Americano too.”
I gave Lee Ji-hye a cup earlier, and Han Ye-rim a cup, and now I have one Americano left to eat.
I looked at the face of the PR team leader, who was about to crumble like dust.
Looking at the situation, even if you ask for a kidney, I will give it to you.
“Okay, eat this. Are you very busy with me?”
“Thank you.”
The PR team leader, who was sipping coffee, asked as he took off his neck pillow.
“But why do you use respectful words with the CEO? are we there?”
“yes? what is that… .”
“The team leaders know that the two of you are friends.”
I opened my eyes and looked at him.
Did you know?
how?
“I go into the representative’s office every now and then and contact my child every day, so how can the people of the company not know? At first, I thought it was a male relationship, right? But I cleared up the misunderstanding that the manager’s daughter wasn’t like that.”
“Are you my daughter?”
Have you ever heard of Ruri here?
“This is Han Yoo-jung. You’re always chasing behind the team leader.”
Oh, Yoojung.
“… … By the way, is it that hard to be friends with Yerim?”
“Yes, a lot.”
shit.
I have tea.
I hid it by hiding it, but I don’t think it’s at all from other people’s eyes. The PR team leader wiped his face and said.
“I was 26 and had a team leader, so I wanted something like this. I only thought it was because we were friends with the CEO, but now I understand. You said you served in the UN Army? The reaction on the internet is also uproar.”
He clicked the mouse and checked the knights.
The whole page was covered with documentary stories.
“What was the PR manager doing?”
“I was preparing a press release with the CEO. 2 Team leader and Lee Ji-ah.”
Whether or not Lee Ji-ah participated in the 2nd attack group was raised as a social issue. It’s a story you hear every now and then. Naturally, Bastard reacted more sensitively, not less.
Because Lee Ji-ah was the representative hunter of our company, and she was the face.
The company is also responding.
In particular, the PR team leader is struggling. In order to respond to the association’s public opinion battle, press releases are distributed, and only the articles are continuously monitored, asking for corrections if misinformation is revealed.
Meanwhile, mine was added. It’s probably just one step before the swearing comes out of your throat.
I thought I’d buy some donuts instead of coffee.
The PR team leader scratched his outstretched head.
“By the way, Chief.”
He looks at me with puzzled eyes.
“Isn’t the original documentary main character Lee Ji-ah? That was the plan to get them out of the 2nd raid. I suddenly changed my focus to the 2nd team leader, so I don’t know what it is.”
“The association has expunged my records from the database.”
“yes?”
“If the original plan went as planned, I would have come out right on the day of the call. We are hit by a headwind, and public opinion only deteriorates.”
“No, well, no matter how bad the association is. Do they even do that?”
“He did.”
The original plan was to take Lee Ji-ah’s depression as an excuse to get her out of the second raid.
The association noticed this and expunged my records from the database.
Mentioning depression would obviously be seen as an excuse. There is no compulsory force in the designation of the second raid.
However, even hunters cannot completely ignore the image. Especially in the current situation.
He ignores the dangers of others and cares only for his own comfort. how much swearing It is clear that the anger that has nowhere to go will be directed at Lee Ji-ah.
If the association cancels Lee Ji-ah’s hunter qualifications, who will curse the association together?
As a hunter, knight revival becomes impossible.
So I made the board again around me.
The PR team leader, who was writing the press release while beating the keyboard, stopped his finger. He tilted his head.
“Team 2, there is one thing I don’t understand.”
“yes.”
“If you follow the original plan, you make Lee Ji-ah a hero and refuse to participate in the 2nd raid without being insulted by that achievement. Depression as an excuse.”
“yes.”
“But what’s the use of changing the main character to the team leader?”
The PR team leader turned the chair around and looked at me.
“It has nothing to do with the fact that the team leader is a UN soldier or that Lee Ji-ah can’t attend the raid, does it have anything to do with it?”
He smiled at the sharp stabbing question.
“Yes, not at all.”
“Shouldn’t it be better to drive away the achievement of saving 2,000 people so that they don’t get insulted?”
It was a fact that Lee Ji-ah could not participate in the 2nd raid anyway. Depression is a fact, not an excuse. But the problem was that it seemed like an excuse.
In other words.
“After all, nothing has been resolved, right?”
It was the time when the PR team leader opened his mouth.
Han Ye-rim walked with a mug. Huruk, she drank cold water and sat down.
“Team 2 manager, I just got a call from the association, and the date for Lee Ji-ah’s meeting has been set. Please check the schedule in advance.”
“All right. And the representative.”
“yes.”
“We all knew that the team leaders were friends.
“… … Eh? really?”
She tilted her head.
“How did know? PR team leader, do you have tea?”
The PR team leader makes a weird face.
Roughly speaking, it’s a look on your face that you probably didn’t know that. He expressed it directly to me, but as Han Ye-rim is the representative, it seems that he can’t say it at all.
He wiggled the corners of his mouth and coughed.
“The 2nd team leader was very friendly to the representative.”
In the end they sell me
I have to be a representative too. Also, the payer is the best.
I checked my watch and stood up.
The head of the PR team, who was beating the keyboard, leans out of the partition. he asked
“Chief 2, where are you going?”
“I have work left.”
“Is this time? Why don’t you do it tomorrow and then go to work together later?”
“No, the company came to pick up Jia for a while. It’s something I have to deal with on my own.”
I put on my coat and went down to the underground parking lot.
I still have a long way to go to work.
* * *
General Manager Lee Jae-hyuk looked in the mirror and put on work clothes. It was a dress that was completely conscious of public opinion. It’s a status that gets a special mention for buying and eating a kollang bungeoppang on the way to work, but shouldn’t you be wearing work clothes to give it a sense of friendliness?
He muttered to himself as he closed the zipper.
“Proud Korea, Proud Association.”
Dungeon management is difficult in countries with poor security. This is because the Awakened people who will take charge of the dungeon are picking people up. Money is usually much easier to make illegally.
Rather than trying to earn the money that other people would have made in 10 years and earning it in one year, it’s enough to rob it.
Therefore, the daily life of the third world and developed countries was very different. When an unresolved dungeon break causes thousands of casualties in Africa, Korea has only opened two gates in 20 years.
The Red Gate was a disaster whose cause was still unknown, and the Cheorwon-gun Gate was due to the Abyss Dungeon, which was determined to be impossible to attack.
In other words, it means that the dungeon has been handled perfectly with virtually nothing missing.
Korea’s land area is small.
The security is excellent and the population is too large for the area. There are 10 million people living in the metropolitan area alone, and due to the activities of the hunters at the site at the time of the Red Gate, the death toll was only 1,500.
Since Korea has excellent security, most of the awakened dream of being a hunter who can earn money legally.
So, hunters in Korea are already oversaturated. Even if you get a license after passing the hunter exam organized by the association, you have to go through the guild once again.
The elite hunters who have been filtered out like that, take care of the dungeon, hoping to earn some money. There could be no dungeon left in Korea.
Some of the dungeons that didn’t pay off were handled by the association with support from the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Just like dealing with the Abyss dungeon now.
In other words, Korea was overly competent in dungeon management.
“Write. I think this might be a stomach ulcer.”
And that was the biggest problem.
*
Jaehyuk Lee sat on a chair in the office and turned on the TV. In the news, stories about Kim Hyun-woo were in full swing.
The secretary, who handed Jaehyuk Lee a cup of Maxim 1/2 coffee, asked as if passing by.
“Is it Kim Hyun-woo? A person who quarreled and quarreled with the association several times.”
At Red Gate, 1,500 people were killed. In response, the association made Lee Ji-ah a hero and deliberately floated it.
A girl who was only sixteen. Even a promising youngster with no achievements could turn into a celebrity by shining a camera on them.
The documentary broadcast ratings were 32%.
Currently, there is no one in Korea who does not know Kim Hyun-woo.
“What is your schedule today?”
“An hour later, there is a board meeting with the agenda raised by the general manager. Are you ready now?”
“Hey, listen to what the young men said after being late.”
Jaehyuk Lee got up from his seat and hurriedly grabbed his briefcase. When I was below, the position of the general manager seemed high. But not now.
After all, there’s a stomach on top, and that doesn’t change until you sit on the top seat.
“Ouch… !”
Lee Jae-hyuk suddenly rolled his eyes and had a seizure, and the secretary panicked.
“Hey, boss! Why are you like that?!”
“Now that I think I have to go into the conference room, it’s bittersweet. Yesterday, in a dream, the young men came out and stabbed me with a knife. You f*cking bastards.”
a hoarse voice asked.
“… Can I get you a woohwang cheongsimhwan?”
Jae-hyeok Lee was satisfied.
“Are you there?”
“I thought you might be nervous, so I brought one. Please eat before entering the conference room.”
“Ah, this precious thing… .”
Jaehyuk Lee poured Woohwangcheongsimhwan into his mouth with trembling hands. He frowned and drank the water.
A documentary broadcast with an audience rating of 32%.
Kim Hyun-woo laid the plate.
No, I made a new one.
was willing to do
He clapped both cheeks with the palm of his hand, giving him a cheer.
Now, we enter the battlefield of the demons.