The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61: Good Build

Baekdu Hotel.

Jeong Yeon-hee finished preparing to go out in the hotel suite room where she was staying.

Her grandfather had transferred his shares to her, so Jeong Yeon-hee was now a major shareholder of the hotel.

She had graduated from the military academy.

The officer commissioning ceremony was scheduled in a few days.

So she was staying at the hotel until then.

Her family told her to come home, but she didn’t feel like it.

If she stayed at home for no reason, it would remind her of her father.

Her father who was no longer in this world.

There were still traces of her father left at home.

Her father was murdered 10 years ago.

The culprit still hadn’t been caught.

However, she knew it was something a Mage had done.

The overturned car, the driver, bodyguard, and father who died on the spot. Their bodies were found with their hearts and internal organs missing.

And the CCTV footage taken nearby clearly captured the appearance of the culprit in beast form.

Even now, that Mage’s image was saved on Jeong Yeon-hee’s smartphone.

She made a vow.

She would definitely catch the Mage who killed her father and get revenge.

That’s why she entered the military academy.

Heaven must have helped, as she even succeeded in awakening.

Her first choice for commissioning assignment was also the ‘Imperial Capital Defense Command, Anti-Maein Special Operations Unit’.

It was a place that tracked, arrested, and annihilated Mages through cooperation with the Imperial Intelligence Maein Investigation Team.

Since she graduated as valedictorian from the military academy, it was almost confirmed.

Mages were Jeong Yeon-hee’s most important concern.

Whenever articles related to Mages appeared in newspapers or media, she would search for and read them thoroughly.

She would even send people to investigate parts that were insufficient.

That’s how she came across the Gurye Mage incident.

As many as three Mages were caught.

All at once, too.

What kind of bastards were they?

Could they possibly be the culprits who killed her father?

Naturally, Jeong Yeon-hee investigated separately.

She pestered her grandfather to mobilize the group’s entire information network.

But it wasn’t the Mage who had killed her father.

Just as Mages have different faces and body types from their original forms when they transform into beasts, their beast forms also differ from each other.

She thought it was fortunate.

Because she had to take revenge for her father herself.

But while investigating the Gurye trio Mage incident, she learned a name.

Taehong Bio Chairman Kim Tae-ju.

It was recorded that Gurye’s Nogo-dan Guild and Jiri Mountain Defense Corps had caught the Mages, but the group’s information team had a different opinion.

They said there was a very high possibility that Chairman Kim Tae-ju had done everything from tracking to annihilation by himself.

Really?

How could one person catch three Mages when even catching one was difficult, and alone at that?

Jeong Yeon-hee knew how difficult Mages were to catch.

From then on, she began to take interest in Kim Tae-ju.

When she looked into it, he was someone who hadn’t even awakened, someone who had been a mana rejecter until recently, but someone who had solved the concerns of Jirisan’s masu-dense area in one stroke by inventing an antidote, and even exterminated Mages.

Each one alone would be shocking enough to faint, but he had accomplished all this by himself in just a few months.

She felt it intuitively.

He was someone with something special.

Maybe he knew methods for tracking Mages.

So she had been waiting, thinking she must meet him someday.

Anyway, today was the day to have a meal with her family.

The location was home, but since grandfather was calling, she had to go.

Jeong Yeon-hee took the elevator down to the lobby from the suite room.

“Good day, Miss.”

Her secretary was waiting for her in front of the elevator.

“We’ll be late. Let’s hurry.”

“Yes! The car is on standby. I’ll escort you.”

While crossing the lobby like that.

‘Hmm?’

One person caught her attention.

‘…Why is he here?’

It was Lieutenant Do Min-su.

The Hamyang Unit officer who had led her during the Jirisan masu subjugation operation observation.

Seeing him in a suit, was he on leave?

“Lieutenant Do Min-su!”

Do Min-su turned around wondering who was calling him.

“…Huh? Cadet Jeong Yeon-hee?”

“Salute! Are you on leave?”

“Ah, um, it is leave. But what brings Cadet Jeong Yeon-hee here… Ah! Right. This was Baekdu Hotel.”

“Yes, I’m staying here. Then why are you here, Lieutenant?”

“I came to get a room at the hotel. But it’s difficult since there are no rooms available.”

Jeong Yeon-hee tilted her head and asked.

“That’s strange. It’s not even a weekend, so there should be plenty of rooms.”

“Well… the manager is being stubborn. He says the room for the chairman must absolutely be a suite room.”

What?

Who are the manager and chairman?

Lieutenant Do Min-su is a soldier.

Jeong Yeon-hee noticed two people, a man and woman, standing at the front desk.

The woman seemed to be a company employee in neat office wear, and the man had a sturdy build wearing a silver-gray coat…

‘Wait!’

Jeong Yeon-hee’s expression showed she had realized something.

Jiri Mountain Defense Corps Lieutenant Do Min-su and escorts who seemed to be fellow soldiers, chairman, silver-gray coat… Combining the clues, she could tell who that man was.

Click-clack!

Jeong Yeon-hee’s steps toward the front desk quickened.

Then she heard the conversation.

“Please make it a general standard room. This is a luxury hotel, so even that will be sufficient.”

“That won’t do. Honestly, even a suite room is insufficient.”

“Ah, Seo-yeon, you’re stubborn. I’m saying it’s fine…”

Jeong Yeon-hee quietly joined the conversation.

“Excuse me… may I help?”

“Yes?”

Tae-ju looked at the young woman who suddenly appeared and asked.

“Who are you?”

“You are Chairman Kim Tae-ju of Taehong Bio, correct?”

“…That’s right, but?”

“I’m called Jeong Yeon-hee. I’m an officer candidate who will be commissioned soon. I previously participated in the Jirisan masu subjugation operation as a cadet.”

“Ah! A comrade-in-arms.”

Tae-ju smiled brightly and welcomed Jeong Yeon-hee.

We fought together in the subjugation operation, so we’re comrades-in-arms.

“But what kind of help?”

“Please leave it to me. I’ll solve the room problem for you.”

“…There’s no need to go that far.”

“No, I also have a duty to attract excellent guests to my hotel.”

Tae-ju tilted his head.

Her hotel?

The employee also seemed to know who she was.

“Please change my room to a standard room. And move Chairman Kim Tae-ju to the suite room.”

“…Are you sure that’s okay?”

“I’ll take responsibility.”

“Yes! Understood.”

“And call the staff to clean my room thoroughly and move my luggage to the other room.”

Meanwhile, Tae-ju was captivated by Jeong Yeon-hee’s back view.

Firm buttocks, sturdy-looking thighs, slender waist and straight back, long limbs…

Then Baek Seo-yeon said.

“Chairman, if it’s Ms. Jeong Yeon-hee, she’s the granddaughter of Baekdu Group Chairman Jeong Uk-cheol.”

“Ah! Really? No wonder.”

“Yes, you seem interested, so I recommend getting close to her.”

“…When did I show interest? It’s not like that.”

After finishing her conversation with the employee, Jeong Yeon-hee approached with a smile.

“It’s the room I was using, so please move in after it’s cleaned thoroughly.”

“Not at all. Thank you.”

“What are you saying! We’re more grateful to have such a famous person staying at our hotel.”

And then.

“If it wouldn’t be a bother, could I visit you once while you’re staying at the hotel?”

“Uh…”

There’s no reason to refuse.

We’re comrades who fought demons together at Jirisan.

“Yes! Please contact me anytime.”

“Thank you.”

Tae-ju watched Jeong Yeon-hee turn away with interested eyes.

She’s appealing.

But there’s not even a speck of romantic interest.

In Gangho Murim, they usually describe that kind of physique as ‘having good bone structure.’

Not just good, but she possessed the best martial talent among all the people he’d seen so far.

Things like heavenly martial body, yin-yang body, cosmic body… that sort of thing.

Teaching talented people and watching them grow. That’s another joy of being a martial artist.

‘If only her character is decent…’

Let’s wait and see for now.

* * *

As soon as he moved hotel rooms, Imperial Intelligence Service Section Chief Moon Gyeong-sik came with a contract.

A kind of freelancer contract.

It contained all the best conveniences for Tae-ju.

Whether he caught demons or not, 100 million won deployment fee per case.

Deployment requests could be declined anytime.

For long-distance travel, the Imperial Intelligence Service would provide transportation, etc.

100 million won per case is pocket change to Tae-ju.

But it’s big money for the Imperial Intelligence Service.

Since the deployment fee is 100 million won, they’ll only call when they find solid leads.

“Should I sign here?”

“Thank you. We’ll do our best to serve you.”

Serve what?

We’re going demon hunting together.

“Goryeo Hotel will soon receive a business suspension order. The manager directly opening your room with the master key was caught on camera.”

He had asked for help thinking Baek Seo-yeon alone might struggle, and it seems like a good decision.

“And…”

After pausing for a moment.

“We can also handle Mirinaei Chairman Lee Gi-eon for you.”

“…How? He’s still a major corporation chairman.”

“That measly chaebol chairman, we have enough power to put him in a wheelchair and send him to the prosecutor’s office. We can make him rot in prison until he dies.”

“…”

Seeing Section Chief Moon Gyeong-sik so confident, he must have committed many crimes.

“Just because a chaebol falls doesn’t mean Mirinaei Group will collapse, right? If we remove him now and professional managers take over the company, the economy will improve too.”

Everything he said was right.

But Tae-ju shook his head and refused.

“It’s fine. I’ll handle my own affairs.”

“…Yes, please let us know anytime.”

It’s not good to keep owing debts to the Imperial Intelligence Service.

That could lead to being dragged around in the relationship.

“Oh! There should be good news from the Patent Office soon.”

“Ah! Yes.”

Meaning the examination will pass soon.

Now it’s time to run the factory.

Produce in advance to create maximum inventory, then sell throughout the Empire once the Food and Drug Administration sales permit comes through.

So now only the completion ceremony remains?

* * *

Heavenly Realm.

Danggumak’s entertainer theater business was indescribably successful.

A theater surrounded by tents.

He gave 10 peaches to the Great Tree Immortal and laid out 50 comfortable wooden chairs.

He made a deal with the Dark Immortal for a subscription discount to always maintain dim lighting.

He asked the Ghost Valley Immortal for a spell formation with 15 peaches and set up barriers throughout the tent.

So that only people Danggumak permitted could enter the theater.

But Danggumak was going crazy.

Even though business was going this well and he had already secured over 1,000 peaches.

“Please, let’s go home.”

“…”

“…”

“…”

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.

.

Not a single person listened to his plea.

All the Immortals had been holed up in the theater for three days and nights with bloodshot eyes.

Of course, that doesn’t mean their eyes were literally like that.

It’s a figurative expression.

How could Immortals’ eyes get tired?

“Ah! Let me rest too! I have a mountain of things to do!”

Still silent as ever.

Why are they all acting like this?

This isn’t ordinary addiction.

At this rate, there’s no way to find an answer.

Finally, Danggumak turned off the beam projector.

Click!

“Huh!”

“What, what is it?”

“It turned off?”

“Which damn bastard?”

“Fucking asshole!”

“Geez, this is driving me crazy. Right at this scene.”

Unable to accept the sudden change in situation, curses and intense reactions erupted from everywhere.

They had turned violent like villains in a movie.

“Danggumak! Did you do this?”

“That’s right, but you’ve already watched 10 episodes today. We originally agreed to screen 5 episodes per day, so please return to your quarters and sleep.”

Then all kinds of curses and complaints were directed at Danggumak.

“Hehe, I was being lenient since you just ascended to immortality, but this won’t do.”

“Damn it! Just tell us if you need Seon-do Peaches!”

“How many would it take? Just tell us how much!”

“Are you sleepy right now? That Ouyang whatever guy is tormenting our protagonist like that.”

“Let’s watch that bastard die and then go home.”

“You’re going to feed us sweet potatoes and cut it off here?”

“I’m dropping out!”

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.

.

Dokson Danggumak felt his life was threatened.

Having no choice, he turned the power back on.

Pop!

The Legend of the Condor Heroes drama continued.

“Oh! It’s back on.”

“Dokson, thank you.”

“Indeed, only Dokson understands my heart.”

“With such character, no wonder he ascended to immortality.”

“Hm? Who ate my popcorn?”

“Shh!”

“Sikseon, it was you, wasn’t it?”

“Good grief! Please be quiet.”

The theater instantly became quiet.

This is serious.

At this rate, Part 1 will end tomorrow, or the day after.

Of course, there’s still plenty of content left to show.

‘I need to control the pace…’

A moment later.

Another episode ended.

“…?”

“No way, it ends here?”

“Did you learn some cutting technique?”

“Tsk tsk, this is why those from the martial world…”

“Continuous screening!”

“Continuous!”

“Please, continuous…”

Then Taebaeok Seonin spoke up.

“Good grief, you people! If you keep expecting everything for free, your immortal energy will disappear! You need to pay a price. Only then will Dokson continue playing it for us.”

“That’s true.”

“Come now, let’s all put out one more peach each.”

Another hundred or so peaches piled up in front of Danggumak.

Swoosh!

He swept them into the Infinite Space.

The next episode began.

Danggumak resigned himself.

‘Right, the more peaches the better.’

There are actually many places to use them.

The items to send to Tae-ju this time.

Danju Seonin’s treasure and bundle of talismans.

The number of talismans was 100.

Three peaches per talisman.

Buying one bundle cost 300 Seon-do Peaches that disappeared in an instant.

And he gave 600 Seon-do Peaches to Cheoljang Seonin and bought one of his treasures, the Divine Spirit Flying Blade.

Even among treasures, consumables like alcohol or talismans are relatively cheap, while treasures that can be used for a long time like tools are very expensive.

There are many other things he’s ordered as well.

All for Tae-ju.

‘Phew, if I don’t suffer, who will?’

Danggumak also leaned back in his chair and took out a Seon-do Peach, chewing it with crunching sounds.

His immortal energy was gradually recovering.

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