The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 246



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246. 1+1=3 (5)

We went to a Korean restaurant in Myeongdong.

When I arrived at the restaurant, Captain Kang was waiting for me.

“President Kang Soo-gi came first and is waiting for us.”

“Are you here already? You sure look like your ass is on fire.”

“Just in case, we gathered 100 employees around the restaurant and placed 20 employees on the left and right walls of the room the CEO uses.”

“I don’t think CEO Kang Su-gi came with kkakdugi, so it’s a bit excessive.”

“No one knows what choices a person will make when pushed to the edge. So please wear this too.”

Captain Kang held out a vest.

The black vest was quite heavy.

“Is this an anti-bullying suit?”

“We searched CEO Kang Soo-gi’s body, but we prepared just in case. Although it is difficult to hide a gun, there is a possibility of hiding sharp metal objects, so we prepared an anti-bullying suit.”

“It may be excessive, but there is no harm in being thoroughly prepared.”

Only after putting on my anti-bullying uniform did I enter the room where Kang Soo-gi was waiting.

Suddenly, as soon as I opened the door and came in, Kang Su-gi fell to his knees.

“I’m sorry. I acted without knowing what I was supposed to do. If you forgive me just once, I will never do something like this again. No, I will become the Vice President’s dog and wag my tail hard.”

“What are you saying I did? I was just on a business trip to China. What does it have to do with the Triad suddenly attacking the Yang faction and the fact that President Kang Soo-gi’s data was handed over to the prosecution?”

It was no different from confessing that I had done it.

Because I uttered the two words that are causing President Soo-gi Kang the most trouble: triad and prosecution.

“I went on a rampage without knowing how to behave. Please forgive me just this once. If I have to die, I will not just pretend to die, I will actually jump into the Han River.”

“You keep saying that it really has nothing to do with me. But I have one question. Was there any reason to mess with the Taewo Group? I also heard that the Triads never gave any instructions.”

This is what I was most curious about.

Even if the Triads were behind it, why did they touch the Taewo Group?

There was no benefit in making many enemies, and in particular, there was no reason to make the top business group an enemy.

“I was so drunk with the Triads on my back. And I thought that if I entered the Chinese market, I would no longer have to worry about the Korean market, so I went wild.”

“Anyway, I don’t understand why you’re hostile towards Tae-Enter.”

“I say this, but there were actually some parts that were customary.”

“Why are you suddenly appearing in practice here?”

“We have a practice of rotating through new entertainment companies in their early stages.”

Is it like kicking a ladder?

There seems to have been a practice of existing entertainment companies stepping on new entertainment companies to prevent them from gaining ground.

“Taewoo Entertainment is also a new company, so they tried to follow the custom.”

“Other entertainment companies were just watching, so I thought they would join in if I took the initiative.”

“So, if you fail, you were planning on just living in China?”

“…That’s right. I was able to do this because I had no regrets about the Korean market. But now I realize how wrong that thought was. Please forgive me just once.”

It was CEO Kang Soo-gi who was rubbing his hands so hard that they burned.

What he said made some sense.

A typical gangster-style mentality of increasing one’s value by stepping on Tae-Enter.

In the case of gangsters, I heard that there are cases where high-ranking gangsters are recruited without any reason in order to make a name for themselves throughout the country.

I can’t believe a person like the CEO of an entertainment company would do something like that.

Although it belongs to a huge group called Taewo Group, Taewo Entertainment is no different from a new company.

It was CEO Kang Soo-gi who thought it was a great opportunity to make a name for himself.

Even if I summarized it like this, there were many things I didn’t understand, but how can you completely understand the human mind?

“You keep asking me to forgive you, but what will change if I forgive you? I can’t change the future by going to jail.”

“If Taewoo Group doesn’t put pressure on me, I can get out with probation. Please, please.”

He wasn’t completely wrong.

If Taewoo Group’s line did not put pressure on him, there was a possibility that his sentence would be reduced.

“But I don’t know why someone who likes conventions doesn’t follow conventions in things like this. Usually, you don’t apologize empty-handed, right? You usually apologize after buying at least a fruit basket or a box of drinks.”

“I couldn’t prepare a gift because I was in a hurry. If you want something, I will prepare it as a gift as soon as possible, Vice President.”

“You’re the kind of person who wants me to spoon feed you. Oh! And why are you calling me vice president now? Before, you always called me the crown prince of Taewo Group. It wasn’t bad to hear. Please keep calling me that.”

The crown prince of Taewoo Group.

I didn’t mind calling him that when I wasn’t around.

It was clearly meant to be sarcastic to use that word in front of me.

President Kang Soo-gi knew that well, so he hit his head on the table and apologized.

“I’m sorry. I mistakenly thought that I had to provoke the Vice President a little more for things to go the way I wanted.”

“The provocation was successful. I had to go to China myself.”

“I have truly committed a deadly crime. I know very well how shameless I must seem to you, Vice President. But I do not want to end my life in prison. Please save me.”

The mean person turned into a mean person.

However, his eyes were still not dead.

The look in his eyes as if he believed that if he somehow didn’t die, he would be able to get back to his current position.

“What can you give me? You have nothing now, do you?”

“I will neatly resolve the issue with Taewoo Entertainment’s singers. I will firmly discourage them from thinking differently again and force them to return to Taewoo Entertainment.”

“You have a knack for talking about other people’s things as if they were your own. Don’t you say it’s a gift for singers from Taewo Entertainment to return to Taewo Entertainment?”

“We will send the SG Entertainment singers you want to Taewo Entertainment. We will send them to Taewo Entertainment without receiving a single penny of down payment.”

SG Entertainment was such a trashy place.

However, flowers were bound to bloom even in garbage dumps, and among SG Entertainment’s singers, there were quite a few who topped the music charts.

“Well, I’ll be honest with you. SG Entertainment is finished now. Its image has fallen into the abyss and recovery is impossible.”

“Still, we still have contracts with singers, so we can somehow carry on.”

“That will only slow down the rate of falling into the abyss a little. Rather, transfer all the singers from SG Entertainment to Taewo Entertainment. That might create a hole for me to survive.”

“Well, I will do that. I will send all singers from SG Entertainment to Taewo Entertainment. So please save me.”

Taewo Entertainment’s problem was its insufficient talent pool.

The problem could be solved at once by recruiting a large number of singers from SG Entertainment.

Moreover, they are singers who worked under Kang Soo-gi, so if they get to experience Taewo Entertainment’s welfare, they will experience a new world.

If that happens, long-term contracts will become possible.

“You keep asking me to live, but what can I do while still alive? Wouldn’t it be better to die and then come back to life?”

“I will unconditionally follow whatever method the Vice Chairman suggests. If I have to die, I will die, and if I have to be resurrected, I will be resurrected.”

“Then, first, please faithfully undergo the prosecution’s investigation. Taewo Group will withdraw its hands from the SG Entertainment issue.”

“No shame, but wouldn’t you be able to help me? If you mobilize the Taewo Group’s line to help me, my sentence could be greatly reduced.”

As expected, he was this kind of guy.

After saving his life, he now asks me to hand over the bundle.

“I don’t know if the sentence will be reduced even if we provide help. A lot of the data has already been handed over to the prosecution, so there are few areas where we can do anything.”

“That’s enough. I’ll send my singers to Taewo Entertainment right now. Thank you very much.”

“You’d better move quickly. We don’t know when the prosecution will switch to an arrest investigation.”

“I will move right away. Thank you very much.”

It was CEO Kang Su-gi who bowed his head several times and ran away.

As he left the restaurant, Captain Kang, who had been hiding behind the wall, appeared.

“Representative, why are you giving someone like that another chance?”

“When did I give you a chance?”

“Didn’t you say you would make a hole for me to survive? I can’t sleep at night when I think about how the CEO was humiliated by a guy like that.”

Captain Kang was more excited than me.

That’s how insulting Kang Su-gi’s actions in front of me were.

“Captain Kang, since you were in the military, you must have experienced torture.”

“Some people left the military because they didn’t like it. I witnessed scenes of torture being used in various ways.”

“Then you probably know which torture is the most painful.”

“Speaking of painful torture, isn’t it waterboarding?”

“There is a torture more painful than waterboarding. Do you know it is hope torture?”

I was currently giving hope torture to President Kang Soo-gi.

How can you extend your hand to a venomous snake?

If he gets the chance, he’ll stick his poisonous teeth into my hand.

“…If you say you are Hope Advisor, are you planning on taking singers away from President Kang Soo-gi?”

“That’s not torture, it’s just extortion. They’ll even give you a lawyer from a law firm and take good care of you even when you go to prison. To the point where you’ll think you’re under the protection of the Taewo Group.”

“Why do you have to do such a troublesome thing?”

“When you are full of despair, you struggle to do anything. But when you think there is hope, you endure it at all costs. After spending 10 years in prison, all the accumulated poison is blown away and all your teeth fall out.”

10 years was a time when the rivers and mountains changed.

It was time for SG Entertainment’s singers to retire as they could not stay safely at Taewo Entertainment.

It was time to change all the connections in the entertainment industry that had become difficult during the rainy season.

What would Kang Su-gi do in such a situation?

Therefore, the best torture method was to paralyze his will by injecting him with the poison of hope.

“It won’t be until 10 years later that Kang Soo-gi realizes what happened to him.”

“Thanks to Kang Soo-gi’s help with Taewo Entertainment, we have benefited greatly. We were able to get Taewo Entertainment’s singer back, and we also got SG Entertainment’s singer.”

“Kang Soo-gi got one and went down, and everything he had was taken away.”

“At school, we learn that 1+1=2, but society’s calculation method is very wrong.”

Thanks to the rainy season, I had a pretty fun time.

That’s why I remembered the insulting words and actions he made toward me only fondly.

However, this does not mean that the amount of rain during the rainy season will decrease.