Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 663

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 133
44. Handover (3)
Industrial espionage? And not even at a tech company, but at a planning firm. It was quite an exaggerated accusation.
This guy didn’t come here to commit espionage.
Framing him as an industrial spy was merely a warning for Kyung-ho Lee.
‘From the company’s perspective, they could see it this way. I’m showing him that.’
If I had known nothing about Kyung-ho Lee and were actually from the audit team, I might have harbored such suspicions.
I wanted to show him that.
That Strongest Planning could view you in this light.
I was showing him a preview of events yet to come.
That preview alone was enough to jolt him awake.
“What!?”
He jumped back with a start.
“I-industrial e-espionage? What kind of baseless accusation is that?”
Despite his shock, he whispered quite quietly.
Even though this wasn’t Strongest Planning’s headquarters, related personnel were scattered throughout the place.
He couldn’t speak loudly about such matters.
“Hey, don’t be alarmed. I haven’t determined it as fact yet. If I had, we wouldn’t be sitting here having coffee and chatting like this.”
“No, that’s not what I’m saying!”
“But there are certainly suspicious circumstances, aren’t there? You’re not even acknowledging that much?”
“That’s… well…”
Considering the timing of the company’s establishment and his job transfer after resignation, it was certainly odd.
“Sigh…”
Kyung-ho Lee furrowed his brow in thought for a while, then turned the question back on me.
“So why did you come here? If there are suspicious circumstances, by your own logic, you could just tear through all the files and search, right? I’m innocent.”
“Oh?”
Innocent, he says. As if.
How naive.
This guy had never been audited before. Or rather, he’d never even witnessed one.
Even if he’d worked in society for a long time, he hadn’t spent much time at a large corporation, so it made sense.
“When an audit team moves in, do you really think they’d only examine that one thing? If an audit team mobilizes and finds nothing, do you know how embarrassing that is? To avoid that embarrassment… those people have reserves they keep hidden.”
“Reserves…?”
“You refuel with your corporate card, right? Just because the company provides one.”
“Isn’t that standard?”
“Even the fuel you used on a weekend trip for personal reasons?”
“!”
“Those things just get lumped together later as business expenses on the corporate card, right? Too strict? Can’t help it. That’s the rule.”
“…”
“Company-related receipts—sometimes you turn them in, sometimes you don’t, right? Normally we don’t touch those. We can’t catch everything anyway, so we let them slide. And we keep them. For times like this.”
“What, what do you mean?”
“Something smells off. No evidence yet? Then we’ll hound you over every little thing. Every single matter. Then you’ll spill everything.”
“….”
Kyung-ho Lee’s complexion turned ashen.
Was it just gas? Whenever he went out on company business, he’d occasionally stop by a sauna and charge it to the corporate card.
There were many things where the line between business and personal blurred. He’d handled all of it with the corporate card.
Everyone processed expenses this way without realizing it, and the company never paid much attention to amounts like that anyway.
Gradually, the boundary between personal and corporate funds became murky.
Before long, I was spending it however I wanted without even realizing it.
But Kyung-ho Lee couldn’t help but think increasingly about this.
‘Why is this bastard coming to me first and telling me this?’
If he were from the audit team, shouldn’t he have moved immediately once he caught something?
Could there be some conflict of interest?
Is this a situation where something shouldn’t happen?
Is there some internal political situation involved?
No, more than that….
‘Is this bastard really from the audit team?’
Kyung-ho Lee suddenly found the man before him suspicious.
Starting with the fact that he came alone, and then suddenly intercepting him during work.
It was strange.
“You. What’s your name? Come to think of it, I haven’t even seen your business card.”
“I don’t hand out cards for matters like this.”
“….”
Is that so? The audit team doesn’t give out cards?
Kyung-ho Lee tilted his head, trying to reconcile this with what he knew about the audit team.
‘I’d need to have seen one to know.’
Regardless, the fact that he came alone was truly strange.
People who don’t hand out cards carelessly wouldn’t perform this kind of work alone.
I should ask. Why he came alone.
“Then why did you come alone─”
──flick.
At that moment, the man produced a business card.
“?”
The audit team doesn’t give out cards, he said?
The next instant, I understood why he’d given me one.
Because he wasn’t from the audit team.
“M, Manager? What the hell are you─”
──bang!
Kyung-ho Lee rose from his seat in fury.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“It’s all written there, isn’t it? What I’m doing.”
Juhyeok scoffed at him.
“Exactly! Why did you pretend to be from the audit team?”
“When did I ever? You’re the one who assumed I was from the audit team.”
“W-wait, the legal team? You said you were from the legal team?!”
“At our company, I handle legal matters as well~”
Now that I thought about it, this bastard never even mentioned Choi Kang Group.
‘How can someone be this absurd?’
Kyung-ho Lee was dumbfounded.
“Shouldn’t you be relieved that I’m not from the audit team? Why are you so angry?”
I wanted to punch that smirking face, but barely restrained myself with the patience I’d accumulated over nearly a decade in corporate life.
Then, a strange question flickered through my mind.
‘Wait.’
Wait, wait.
‘What the hell? How does this bastard know all of this?’
Suddenly, chills ran down my spine.
If he wasn’t from the audit team, how would he know?
When the corporation was established and what treatment I received at my previous company.
That the corporation was a dead shell.
Even the flow of money.
Could it be…?
“You… who are you?”
There’s only one person this could be.
Seojia.
“Her current boyfriend.”
Juhyeok answered with a bitter smile.
“!”
This can’t be.
So it was related to that woman after all.
Juhyeok stood up and pressed down on his shoulder.
“Listen. Just sit back down. I showed you the preview earlier, didn’t I? If you just walk out of here, the main feature will be far more brutal.”
His tone suddenly shifted as if he’d become a different person.
“Preview?”
“Ugh. My eyes hurt. I need to take these off now.”
Swish.
He removed the contact lenses and pulled out glasses from his inner pocket, putting them on.
Frameless glasses—uncommon these days.
‘His face looks familiar. If that’s really the case….’
Only then did Kyung-ho Lee remember where he’d seen him before.
This bastard really did come from Seojia’s side.
What?
These guys are pathetically fake.
Kyung-ho Lee found himself laughing now.
“So you’re just going to threaten us and claim our company has a corporate entity?”
“What threat?”
“You called it a preview.”
“Ah. Is that a threat? I suppose by your logic, you could categorize it as ‘just’ a threat.”
….
Was there something more to this?
But that couldn’t be possible.
He’d said it himself earlier—it was a dead corporate entity with no revenue ever flowing through it.
“What else are you planning to do? By your own admission, that thing is dead.”
Kyung-ho Lee’s corporate entity had no revenue.
Never had from beginning to end.
It was a dead entity from the start.
“Can you prosecute a dead person? Or is it even possible for them to commit a crime?”
Applying the law’s standards to such an entity was pointless.
“Whatever else you try to do, it’ll barely qualify as criminal activity.”
If he forced the issue further, it would border on actual criminality.
“Even this right now is risky for you, isn’t it? Impersonation. You’re a criminal, you bastard.”
Despite the provocative words—impersonation, criminal—Juhyeok answered without showing any sign of being rattled.
“Impersonation? What impersonation?”
….
Right. What impersonation indeed.
“Even if I did impersonate someone, what exactly did you lose?”
….
“Voice phishing cases don’t even get reported if there’s no money lost. You’re going to report an impersonation you only saw in your own delusions?”
Kyung-ho Lee continued to growl.
“You’re a young punk who doesn’t know to fear the law?”
“The one who doesn’t know to fear the law is the stalker bastard.”
“S-stalker? How is that stalking!”
“I never said it was you.”
“You crazy son of a bitch. Now you’re acting like a moth drawn to flame, throwing yourself at this for some woman? All this for just a girl?”
He seemed to have nearly lost his composure.
He foamed at the mouth over Seojia more than he feared that terrifying corporate auditor.
“Go ahead and try something! Are you going to hit me? What are you doing here?! You arrogant bastard…!”
….
The opponent had become unnecessarily agitated.
Juhyeok took a brief pause.
‘This is becoming difficult for both of us.’
Both sides needed to cool down and talk this through rationally.
If the opponent loses their rationality too much, they won’t listen to reason.
And it only increases the damage on our side.
“People are watching. Stop it.”
“…?”
Once I made him aware of the surrounding gazes, Kyung-ho Lee quickly fell silent.
“Ha. Ha… fine. I’m leaving. Do whatever you want among yourselves.”
And he tried to grab his bag and stand up.
“You said your corporation has no profit, right? What if it does?”
Kyung-ho Lee, who was about to leave, turns back around in disbelief.
“Profit? From what? The company isn’t even operating. What profit!?”
Operating it is simple enough to do.
“Jia will generate the profit.”
“What?”
Kyung-ho Lee scoffs as if hearing nonsense.
“Her generating profit!? So she hasn’t generated any profit, and now you’re saying she will!?”
“That’s right.”
“How could someone like her possibly generate profit in popular culture and entertainment planning!? Even if she tries, it would only be pittance that doesn’t even count as corporate profit. A mid-level contract worker coming from….”
If the profit were too small, it could certainly be ambiguous. But Jia’s earnings were far from ordinary salary.
“Pittance? When she was doing editorial work, she made six times your salary on good months. What are you talking about? She’s already generating profit. It’s just registered under her personal name instead of the company.”
“…What?”
I’m the strongest planning Manager, aren’t I?
Several times my salary? Her?
Kyung-ho Lee’s pupils dilated even more than when he received an audit.
Juhyeok laughed mockingly.
“So Jia really didn’t tell you anything?”
“That’s ridiculous….”
Kyung-ho Lee growled in disbelief, but Juhyeok simply moved past it.
The truly important part hasn’t even come out yet. This is just the tightening process.
“Anyway, that’s not the important part. I redirected the profit coming in this time from what Jia earns to that corporation. So your corporation will have profit.”
“!”
Jia decided to receive this profit not as an individual editor, but as the CEO of the corporation.
Then that corporation would suddenly have profit.
“So, you’re currently employed at the strongest planning company. Your corporation as CEO suddenly starts operating? What now?”
“H, how much exactly is that? The money she makes.”
Is this bastard really curious about how much Jia makes at a time like this?
When his own job is about to disappear.
Juhyeok continued, exasperated.
“You’ll find out eventually anyway. But the revenue source should matter more to you, right?”
“Revenue source?”
“We’re putting in something big this time. From the advertisement we received.”
“…?”
Where they received the advertisement. It came from the Hitman Simulator. But who planned that advertisement?
“It’s an advertisement planned by Choi-gang Planning.”
“What…? Wait, hold on….”
Could it be… this advertisement I was about to enter right now?
“So the revenue source marked in Choi-gang Planning’s account and the revenue source marked in your company’s account both have the same advertiser’s name. You bastard.”
“!”
Kyung-ho Lee finally understood.
Why this bastard appeared during this advertisement shoot.
This advertisement was connected to him.
‘This insane….’
Now all the threads unraveled.
In a very unfavorable direction.
“The Manager secretly owns a corporation, and the establishment timing is strange, and the job-change timing is strange too. But you’re receiving money separately from the same advertiser as our company? What does this look like to you? Huh? Does this look like a simple side job?”
Sweat dripped down Kyung-ho Lee’s forehead.
He finally grasped the true gravity of the situation.
He asked with trembling lips.
“No… you’re really going to put that revenue into that company?”
“Of course.”
“You crazy bastards… trying to screw me over. You’re doing this with your own money?!”
It was for something far more important than that.
But the opponent didn’t need to know, so Juhyeok remained silent.
“What… what do you even want? What are you trying to do with this?”
I had tightened the noose completely.
Juhyeok moved to the main point.
This was both the main point and the conclusion.
“Hand over that company.”
This would resolve everything.

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