My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 109

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 109

Episode 109. Interview

If you asked people living in South Korea to name the three most famous companies, most would give the same answer.

Seong Group, also known as the synonym for South Korean home appliances.

SH Group, which competes with Seong but always holds the second position.

And Hwiseong Group, which walks its own independent path unlike the other two companies.

Nine out of ten people would probably answer like this.

“…What business do you have calling me?”

And now.

The chairman of Hwiseong Group, one of the most famous groups in South Korea, had called me.

For someone like me who was just an ordinary citizen until a few months ago, this situation gave me a different kind of pressure than anything I had experienced before.

-It’s nothing major, I just wanted to have a conversation with Han Mi-reo. You probably know the reason without me having to say it, right?

Of course I knew.

Cheon Yu-na kept saying she had created the guild in secret from the group.

She also said that no one would care about whatever she did.

Was that really the case?

No matter how far removed she was from the group’s core, she was still family connected by blood and his granddaughter.

Cheon Yu-na might be oblivious in strange ways, but her actions must have already reached the ears of Cheon Gi-beom, the group’s chairman.

‘He probably called after learning about the kidnapping.’

Until then, he likely just watched quietly.

But kidnapping was a different story, so he called me, the person closest to her.

“When and where should I go?”

-I’m sorry to say this, but I have to go to America tomorrow. Would it be too presumptuous to ask if we could meet today?

“If you send me the location, I’ll go there.”

-Haha, since I’m the one making the rude request, I should send someone from my side.

Cheon Gi-beom’s voice coming through the receiver was incredibly gentle.

Perhaps because of that.

I felt an even more inexplicable sense of pressure.

-I heard that Han Mi-reo lives in Jang-won-dong, is that correct?

“Yes.”

-I’ll send a car directly to your home. If you agree, it will arrive within 10 minutes.

Arrive within 10 minutes.

From those words, I realized that Cheon Gi-beom had already sent someone to Jang-won-dong.

No, considering he mentioned my home address that I never told him, it was safe to assume he had information about me.

“Understood. Then I’ll see you shortly.”

-Yes, see you soon.

Click.

After hanging up, I took a deep breath and walked home.

That strange sense of pressure was still weighing down on my shoulders.

* * *

As soon as I arrived home, I cleaned myself thoroughly in the bathroom.

I didn’t bother changing clothes since the clothes made from Dark Steel automatically became clean no matter how much dust got on them.

They also seemed to deodorize smells, always giving off a fresh scent, so there was no need to change.

“I’ve been waiting for you.”

After finishing my preparations and coming out to the entrance, I looked at the car waiting in front of my house.

A sophisticated sedan that looked like something a chairman from a drama would ride.

In front of it stood a man with a somewhat familiar face, bowing his head toward me.

“You are…”

“Allow me to introduce myself again. I’m Park Su-hyeon, the general manager of Hwiseong Department Store Gangnam branch and the chairman’s direct secretary.”

When I had dinner at the restaurant with Cheon Yu-na last time.

The department store’s general manager I met then.

I just thought he was someone Cheon Yu-na trusted, but apparently that wasn’t the case.

“Why is the chairman’s direct secretary working as a general manager?”

“It’s the chairman’s order.”

“Hmm…”

“Of course, it’s also because I wanted it myself.”

As if the small talk was over, Park Su-hyeon turned around and opened the rear door.

“I’ll escort you safely.”

I nodded and got into the sedan.

As soon as I got in the car, he closed the door and got into the driver’s seat.

“Estimated arrival time is 30 minutes. I’ll depart now.”

Vroom.

The car moved smoothly forward.

I quietly turned my head toward the window.

* * *

30 minutes later.

After getting out of the stopped car, I found myself in front of a massive hanok.

“Please go in. The chairman is waiting.”

Park Su-hyeon opened the main gate and entered first.

Following behind him, I looked around.

‘Is this a restaurant?’

It felt a bit strange to call it an ordinary hanok.

This seemed to be a restaurant with a hanok structure.

Walking deep inside, he carefully knocked on a closed door with his hand.

“Chairman, Black Dragon has arrived.”

“I see, tell him to come in.”

“Yes.”

Creak.

Park Su-hyeon carefully pulled the door open, bowed to me, and stepped aside.

Inside the revealed room sat an elderly man with completely white hair and a kind, friendly appearance, seated in front of a prepared table.

When our eyes met, he stood up, approached me, and extended his right hand.

“It’s an honor to meet you. I’m Cheon Gi-beom, chairman of Hwiseong Group.”

“I’m Han Mi-reo, an A-rank Hunter.”

After lightly shaking hands with Cheon Gi-beom, he smiled toward the open door and said.

“Thank you for bringing him safely.”

“I merely followed the chairman’s instructions.”

“Gratitude becomes late if not expressed. You can go in and rest for a while, Miss Park Su-hyeon.”

“Yes, then I’ll withdraw.”

Park Su-hyeon withdrew while closing the door.

Sensing something strange in their conversation, I blinked and asked back.

“Miss Park Su-hyeon?”

Usually ‘Miss’ was used for women, wasn’t it?

But Park Su-hyeon was definitely…

“No way.”

“Haha. She often gets that kind of misunderstanding. She’s a woman. She just goes around looking like a man.”

“…I really had no idea.”

“Unless she reveals it herself, few people would notice. Even Yuna calls her ‘oppa.'”

Cheon Gi-beom said this with a hint of laughter in his voice and gestured for me to sit.

I nodded and sat in the seat he indicated.

Cheon Gi-beom, sitting across from me, sipped the water in his teacup.

“How much do you know about Yuna, Han Mi-reo?”

“I know that she worked hard since childhood but never saw the light, and that’s why she wants to pioneer the hunter industry that Hwiseong hasn’t entered yet.”

“You know most of the story.”

He chuckled softly and picked up his chopsticks.

“Then, on a different topic, do you know why only Hwiseong among Seongui, SH, and Hwiseong hasn’t entered the hunter industry?”

“No, I’m not sure about that.”

“Of course you wouldn’t. The group buried this story at the corporate level.”

Cheon Gi-beom picked up some kimchi with his chopsticks and spoke in an indifferent voice.

“After the great upheaval, when the world stabilized, Hwiseong also tried to enter the hunter industry.”

“Then why…?”

“Because villains who coveted the magical tools we developed brutally murdered my son and daughter-in-law.”

Crunch.

Even while talking about his family’s death, he acted as if nothing had happened.

Cheon Gi-beom’s expression didn’t change as he bit down on the bright red kimchi with his teeth.

“At that time, it wasn’t Seongui or SH that had the best technology, but Hwiseong.”

They led the hunter industry with the most outstanding technology.

This story spread to foreign countries, and a famous villain organization at the time kidnapped his son and daughter-in-law and murdered them brutally.

Really, so brutally that it was hard to describe in words.

“They held my son and daughter-in-law’s one-year-old daughter hostage and demanded that we hand over all our technology.”

It was such a radical act that would have been unthinkable in a peaceful world.

But at that time, they had barely managed to deal with the monsters that invaded Earth, and the entire world was still in the midst of reconstruction.

With no proper police force or hunter system established, there was only one thing he could do.

“So I was able to save my one-year-old granddaughter in exchange for handing over all our technology.”

“…”

“From your expression, I can see you’re getting an idea. Yes, that child is Yuna.”

The advanced technology had caused an irreversible situation.

Even with regret, reality didn’t change.

That was why Hwiseong Group didn’t enter the hunter industry.

The memories from that time remained with them.

With Cheon Gi-beom.

As an indelible memory.

“This story is only known by the executives of Hwiseong Group. Yuna believes her parents died in a car accident.”

“What’s your reason for telling me this story?”

“…I wanted to ask you to take good care of Yuna.”

“…What?”

At the completely unexpected answer, I opened my eyes wide.

Only then could I see that Cheon Gi-beom’s face wasn’t that of an iron-willed chairman who seemed unaffected.

It was the face of an old man who had already made his resolution.

“It might sound like an excuse, but I couldn’t give Yuna much attention.”

He had loved children since he was young.

The children born from his beloved wife all resembled his wife who had left early.

Among them, what he cherished most was his affectionate youngest son.

“Yuna… resembled that child too much.”

But his youngest son left the world futilely, leaving behind only one daughter.

Even when he tried to take care of his granddaughter, every time he saw her face, the image of his brutally murdered youngest son came to mind.

The blood-stained gift box placed in front of the destroyed office wouldn’t leave his mind.

“So I deliberately lived while erasing those memories. Every time that child came to mind, I felt like I would collapse, so I tried to forget.”

That’s why Cheon Yu-na had to struggle in solitude.

She whipped herself until she became exhausted and gave up.

Cheon Gi-beom was fine with that.

As an ordinary third-generation chaebol.

He just wished for her safety, even if she wasted her fortune.

“But perhaps because she resembled her parents who were awakened ones, even though I didn’t tell her, she looked toward the hunter industry just like those children.”

“Then the current situation must not be very pleasant for you.”

“…Our group doesn’t stop people from pioneering their own path and moving forward. That’s the group’s motto.”

If you want to do something, start without hesitation.

And the end will become a bright star .

This is the slogan that has been upheld since Hwiseong was first established.

When she wants to inherit Hwiseong’s will, how could he stop her from wanting to move forward?

“Of course, since it’s something I don’t like, I won’t provide special support. It would be the same even if she knew.”

He wouldn’t provide support.

However, that didn’t mean he would stop her either.

If she pioneered her own path with her own strength and began to emit bright light.

Only then would he finally face Cheon Yu-na with the eyes of a chairman, not a grandfather.

And that moment would be when Cheon Yu-na gets the recognition she hopes for.

“There’s no special reason I called you, Han Mi-reo. I just wanted to say these words asking you to take care of her, so I called you despite the rudeness.”

“…”

It was really a trivial reason.

But it was a reason that was needed more than anything else.

I casually picked up my chopsticks and reached for the kimchi as if nothing had happened.

“Don’t worry. Cheon Yu-na is much stronger than you think, Chairman.”

“Is that so?”

“From what I heard, she’s already died dozens of times in the Tutorial Tower?”

“Huh…”

Cheon Gi-beom swallowed hard with a shocked expression, as if hearing this story for the first time.

I chuckled and put the bright red kimchi in my mouth.

“And it won’t take long before you face Cheon Yu-na as a chairman, so stay alert.”

“Is that so? That’s quite exciting.”

The atmosphere instantly became lighter.

Having shaken off the pressure that had settled on my shoulders, I continued the meal with Cheon Gi-beom while laughing cheerfully.

After finishing the meal and eating the yakgwa that came out for dessert, I opened my eyes wide at an unexpected word that came from Cheon Gi-beom’s mouth.

“What, what did you say?”

“It seems you haven’t heard. Actually, all the information about Han Mi-reo came from Soon-ja.”

“You’re talking about Choi Soon-ja, the grandmother I know, right?”

Cheon Gi-beom nodded with a smile.

I could only make a dumbfounded expression at that sight.

“How on earth…?”

“We had a connection in the distant past. That’s all.”

I let out a hollow laugh while looking at Cheon Gi-beom, who smiled mischievously as if it were a secret.

It seemed like the world of real wealthy people was still too far for me to understand.

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