An Office Worker Is Good At Exorcism - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109
Part 5. Sales Team 1 Workshop (1)
“Manager Kang! What happened yesterday?”
The next day.
The moment I arrived at the office, Gwak Young-ho approached with a worried expression.
“I mean, you’ve never done this in all your years here, and suddenly you take a half day off? Did something bad happen?”
Kang Hyung-seok set his bag down at his desk, but even as he did, Gwak Young-ho looked so anxious that his concern was palpable.
“Well, you see…”
“Go ahead, just tell me. If there’s anything I can do to help, I will.”
This made it even harder to explain.
Yesterday, I had texted Gwak Young-ho that I was taking a half day.
The reason was naturally to rescue Chae Young-sik from the factory, which made explaining this to Gwak Young-ho genuinely difficult.
“Well, I’ll tell you the truth.”
Looking at Gwak Young-ho’s eyes urging me to speak, I opened my lips carefully.
“I went to the factory.”
“The factory?”
“Yes. I didn’t go there for work-related reasons. I went to meet someone.”
For a moment, Gwak Young-ho, who had been thinking I’d gone for a business meeting at the factory, furrowed his brow in confusion.
“Explain it to me. Who exactly did you go to meet?”
“Someone I met through an introduction. Their family apparently runs a business manufacturing tableware.”
Shin Jung-ah, who happened to be coming out of the break room, was watching with interest and seemed to have grasped what had happened.
“Hmm? Wait, wait.”
Sensing the conversation was taking an odd turn, Gwak Young-ho furrowed his brow even more.
“So you went to that factory?”
“No, that’s not it. They said he took a job at a different factory because of successor training.”
“Ah! I see.”
As if understanding, Gwak Young-ho relaxed his brow, and I continued with a faint smile.
“If I’d known you’d worry like this, I would have told you beforehand. I apologize, Director.”
“Manager Kang, you should have told me if that was the case. Why waste a half day like that?”
“It wasn’t really appropriate to call it a business meeting.”
“Still!”
This time, Gwak Young-ho seemed genuinely sorry.
After all, it appeared I’d gone to meet someone who could potentially become a client.
“But about the person you met yesterday—does their family’s factory have a decent size?”
“I didn’t see it myself, but it didn’t seem small. It’s a place that produces tableware—the kind you commonly see in restaurants.”
“Oh?”
Gwak Young-ho showed strong interest, and I searched my memory, rolling my eyes.
“And they said they could also manufacture brass tableware in the future.”
“Wow! There’s a lot of demand for that these days.”
There was a Korean cuisine cooking program that aired recently.
Perhaps because of this, traditional premium tableware made of bronze vessels became widely known, and sales surged dramatically—a development that brought a gleam of satisfaction to Gwak Young-ho’s eyes.
“So you met with the successor of such a place? Well done! You really did excellent work, Manager Kang.”
“No, well, thank you.”
“Keep in steady contact with them. That’s how big opportunities happen. You understand?”
Gwak Young-ho was so pleased that Kang Hyung-seok responded with a smile.
“Yes, understood.”
“Phew, what a good fellow.”
Gwak Young-ho, in a way that felt somewhat overbearing, vigorously rubbed both of Kang Hyung-seok’s shoulders before heading into the Manager’s Office.
It felt like things had wrapped up appropriately, with just the facts conveyed.
Click click.
So with a playful smile, Shin Jung-ah gave a thumbs-up gesture toward the rooftop.
Kang Hyung-seok laughed as if exhaling, then made coffee in the break room and poured it into a tumbler.
Pop.
The rooftop was always the same whenever I came up.
Several people were already smoking, but since they were from different departments, I exchanged only brief greetings.
Kang Hyung-seok and Shin Jung-ah stood at a distance from them, each bringing coffee and a cigarette to their lips.
“Whew! I heard everything from Ha-yoon yesterday.”
“I see.”
“She said thank you?”
Kang Hyung-seok, looking slightly embarrassed, swirled the coffee in his tumbler and took another sip.
“Ah, I should have been the one attending such meetings originally.”
When Shin Jung-ah spoke with a note of regret, Kang Hyung-seok responded as if joking.
“It seems you’re fine with it now.”
“Fine with what? Oh.”
It appeared she had completely overcome the trauma from the Goblin incident when she was eating pig intestines.
Even though Shin Jung-ah’s lips twisted into a grimace and she shuddered, the reaction wasn’t as intense as it used to be.
“That’s in the past. When was that anyway.”
“How is Chae Young-sik doing?”
“Well, he seems to still be in shock. There was quite a commotion in his family too, apparently.”
Chae Young-sik had taken the factory job at his parents’ urging.
In a sense, because of his parents, such an incident had befallen their son Chae Young-sik, so it would have been strange if there hadn’t been an uproar.
“And I heard his father went looking for him that very night?”
“Is that so…?”
“You didn’t know?”
Shin Jung-ah suddenly leaned in close and delivered the information in a low voice.
“The police showed up there and it became a huge mess.”
“What? The police?”
“You didn’t know. Well, it didn’t make the news anyway.”
Shin Jung-ah clicked her tongue and scratched her head.
From her perspective, it seemed like a major incident, but she was disappointed that it hadn’t made the news.
“Not every incident makes the news, you know.”
“Still… anyway, the Company Representative supposedly beat an employee with a hammer. There was blood on the floor and everything was chaos.”
“What? The Representative did that? Why?”
“I only heard it secondhand, so I don’t know the reason.”
“Hmm.”
Kang Hyung-seok clicked his tongue and furrowed his brow.
I’d accumulated quite a few sins.
Seeing incidents pile up one after another….
“So he was arrested for murder?”
“I heard it was attempted murder.”
“Attempted…?”
Shin Jung-ah rolled her eyes as if searching her memory, then took a deep drag from her cigarette and exhaled.
“Yeah. Attempted murder it is. But he suffered a serious head injury.”
“Ah.”
Kang Hyung-seok nodded with a look of understanding.
I could roughly piece it together.
The Company Representative had gotten into a fight with Director Kwon and committed a reckless act in his rage, leaving Director Kwon injured.
With a serious head injury, he wouldn’t be able to live as he had before.
‘Is this the punishment you deserve?’
A lifetime confined to bed, dependent on others for basic bodily functions.
A life where the wealth accumulated through sacrificing humans as offerings would never be properly enjoyed—only consumed by hospital bills.
‘But this won’t be the end….’
Don’t mistake this present life for hell itself.
The true hell will unfold after your death.
Don’t expect the punishment of a Shaman who committed such transgressions to be on the same level as others’.
“Why that expression?”
Kang Hyung-seok shifted his gaze to Shin Jung-ah, and she rubbed her furrowed brow as if mirroring him.
“This is a happy ending, isn’t it?”
“Just… I wish none of this had happened in the first place.”
Shin Jung-ah, who had been silent for a moment, smiled bitterly.
“That’s a tough wish.”
It was a sentiment impossible not to empathize with, so Kang Hyung-seok smiled bitterly as well.
Society is people entangled in each other’s lives.
Where there are good people, there are bad ones too, so if such incidents didn’t occur, that would be strange.
“Still, I wish only good things would happen.”
He spoke the words like a sigh and checked the time on his wristwatch.
“We should head down soon. Work hours are starting.”
“How’s your schedule today?”
“Busy. I have quite a bit of paperwork.”
“Share your to-do list with me. I’ll help with whatever I can.”
I smiled at Shin Jung-ah as I headed toward the stairs.
“Could you review the contract documents that Namgoong Min-ah finalized this time? I’d also appreciate it if you could confirm the PowerPoint presentation I prepared for the afternoon meeting.”
“Got it. Anything else?”
I descended the stairs with Shin Jung-ah, exchanging work-related conversation as we went.
I’d been living a hectic life as a Shaman all this time.
So now it felt like I was finally returning to being a company employee.
***
It was around the time when quitting hour was quietly approaching amid the busy work.
Gwak Young-ho, who had been conducting the weekly settlement in the conference room, let out a dry cough as he looked at the team members seated around the table.
“So, one last announcement.”
“Manager, this is taking too long.”
Shin Jung-ah whined at the dragging meeting.
Lee Jin-pyung, seated across from her, had a blank expression, while Namgoong Min-ah beside him sent a look that said she agreed a hundred times over.
“This is it, the end! And it’s good news.”
Gwak Young-ho read the room before pressing his lips firmly together to set the mood.
“Now, this is really important information, so listen carefully.”
“Yes.”
“Understood.”
Only the senior managers responded.
“We’re having a workshop.”
Gwak Young-ho spoke with great gravity, as if delivering crucial news.
“Pardon? A workshop?”
“You’re telling us this suddenly?”
Shin Jung-ah and I asked in surprise,
“What’s a workshop?”
“It’s something we did during new employee training.”
“Ah, so we’re going on a trip? It was like an MT and it was so much fun.”
“Um… yes.”
Namgoong Min-ah and Lee Jin-pyung conversed between themselves.
Tap tap!
Gwak Young-ho tapped the whiteboard with his bent index knuckle to draw everyone’s attention back to him.
“Listen. Why is everyone so scattered?”
“Well, it’s because you’re making the meeting too long, Manager.”
“Manager Shin, are you hurting my feelings?”
“Yes, I apologize.”
Gwak Young-ho let out a sigh and smiled with a blend of playfulness and embarrassment.
“I said it jokingly, but the workshop is real. You all know our department has really excelled this time, right?”
All eyes focused on me.
First place among the sales teams.
I had done the lion’s share of the work, and Shin Jung-ah, who joined midway, had also diligently filled her quota.
“So unexpectedly, we got a budget approved. Under the guise of a workshop.”
Gwak Young-ho had never experienced anything like this before, and he couldn’t stop grinning.
“In all my years, I’ve never seen anything like it. So we need to go on a workshop to strengthen our unity as a team. Where does everyone think would be good?”
“Anywhere but the Mountain.”
Shin Jung-ah answered with razor-sharp directness, and one by one, the others voiced their preferred destinations.
Scratch, scratch scratch.
Gwak Young-ho, who had written everything down, exhaled heavily through his nose while looking at the whiteboard.
“Valley, beach. Mountain is out, overseas…. Min-ah, overseas is a bit much.”
“Yes….”
“So it’s between valley and beach—which would be better?”
Gwak Young-ho asked while subtly pointing toward the beach.
The beach appealed to him more than the valley, especially since he could go fishing and eat fresh sashimi from the day’s catch.
“The Valley.”
“The Valley, of course.”
“The… we’ll go with the Valley.”
But Shin Jung-ah and Namgoong Min-ah quickly mentioned the Valley, and when Kang Hyung-seok spoke up hesitantly after them, Gwak Young-ho’s eyes drooped.
“Why?”
“I just don’t like it.”
Shin Jung-ah spoke with such clear distaste, leaving no room for argument, that Gwak Young-ho’s shoulders sagged as well.
The beach carried certain associations.
Fishing, light clothing, strong winds and salt residue on the skin.
And intense ultraviolet rays.
All things that both Shin Jung-ah and Namgoong Min-ah disliked.
“Then what about you, Lee?”
“The Valley is fine with me either way.”
Lee Jin-pyung said it matter-of-factly, and Gwak Young-ho had no choice.
“Sigh! Then let’s go with the Valley.”
“What about the schedule?”
“I’ll start looking for a pension.”
Gwak Young-ho had moved quickly, hoping to find a place where fishing would be possible, and no one objected.
Everyone was busy with their own work.
Leave the troublesome tasks to the manager.
Though unspoken, they all felt the same way.
“Then everyone prepare on your own, and I’ll announce the schedule once it’s finalized, so make sure not to cause any trouble with our clients. Handle any urgent matters first.”
“Yes! Understood.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
Even with a regretful look in his eyes, Gwak Young-ho smiled and touched the whiteboard.
“Alright! Everyone, let’s do our best until next week’s workshop!”
Then he wrote something large on the whiteboard.
Whoosh, swish, whoosh whoosh.
【Sales Team 1 First Workshop】

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