episode_0085

There was no forgiveness in Hong Seo-yeon’s life.

To her, who reigned over Neo Seoul as the top predator, forgiveness and mercy were nothing more than moral excuses created by the weak to survive.

Next to Ji-hoon, she was very pretty and tried her best to act kind, but her true nature never changed.

The hypnosis she received only changed her relationship with Ji-hoon. She never completely changed as a person.

“…That’s ridiculous, that’s absolutely impossible…”

Hong Seo-yeon mutters very loudly as if she wants someone to hear, and then begins to take out several tools in front of Ji-hoon’s eyes.

She was taking out, as if it were a given, various tools, starting with a syringe that appeared to be used for drawing blood and then the ones needed for testing DNA.

“No…Why is this in my house…”

Ji-hoon wanted to ask something, but Hong Seo-yeon’s face was very serious and she was very angry at the moment, so he stopped asking about the tool that appeared in front of him.

“Oh, Hong Seo-yeon. I told you that I really heard it then. Ji-hoon and Mr. Hong Gil-dong weren’t lying.”

“I don’t think Sonagi would lie either… but because of my personality, I definitely need solid evidence that I’ve investigated.”

Hong Seo-yeon laughed, placed her arm on the table first, and sucked out all the blood in one breath.

‘Hong Seo-yeon… I think she’s thinking of doing a genetic test with Hong Gil-dong right here…”

Ji-hoon was a little embarrassed.

In fact, the fact that Hong Gil-dong is Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae’s hidden, abandoned son is a fact that has been proven only through his own ‘mouth’.

In reality, it could very well have been an outright lie.

“Hmm…”

Hong Gil-dong looked at Hong Seo-yeon with his sunglasses off, and when he saw that she had drained all her blood, he held out his arm.

His arms, with their bulging muscles, were definitely black.

Jihoon’s arms didn’t appear black because he was specifically a racist.

Starting with his thick lips, the ‘Hong Gil-dong’ standing before his eyes was black. It was impossible to completely deny the possibility that he was mixed race, but at least in Sonagi’s eyes, Ji-hoon’s eyes, and lastly in Hong Seo-yeon’s eyes, he was a foreigner with dark skin.

“You know that I won’t give you any leeway just because you’re cooperating, right?”

Hong Seo-yeon spoke in a voice full of venom, injected a needle into Hong Gil-dong’s arm, and naturally sucked out the blood.

She immediately threw her blood and Hong Gil-dong’s blood into the testing machine and clapped her hands twice.

“Did you call? Chairman Hong Seo-yeon.”

“Please modify the algorithm I mentioned last time by inserting the information you just uploaded and test the blood here.”

“Okay, it’ll probably take about 30 minutes.”

“Do it faster.”

After finishing speaking, Hong Seo-yeon took the fresh fruit juice brought by the android and drank it in gulps.

“…Well, first, let’s pretend you’re really my uncle and talk to him.”

Hong Gil-dong nodded quietly. He was originally a man of few words, but now, at this moment, his mouth was even tighter.

“Why haven’t you said anything until now? Why haven’t you even come to see me? I’m sure everyone knows that I hate Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae so much.”

“Do you think I could meet the CEO of a future company?”

“If you want to meet, you can meet easily.”

“You still don’t believe the testimony of Sonagi Yang and Kim Ji-hoon and are conducting a DNA test. Even if I met YOU alone, there’s a high chance that you’d think it was the Old Fixer’s nonsense.”

“Ha…”

Hong Seo-yeon doesn’t get angry and says it’s nonsense.

There was nothing wrong with what he said.

In fact, even if Hong Gil-dong had suddenly come to her one day and told her that he was Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae’s abandoned child, Hong Seo-yeon would not have thought anything of it.

To Hong Seo-yeon, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae was just an annoying and irritating presence, not an enemy that had to be killed someday.

It was only now that the other person had openly shown her one remaining tooth and pushed back the back of her neck that she was paying attention to me. If she had been her normal self, even if Hong Gil-dong’s story was true, she would have only said, ‘So what?’

“…You speak as if you know me well.”

“You are the only corporation in Neo Seoul that has not invested in welfare projects after Lucky Venus”

“Oh, so if Lucky Venus goes under, you were thinking of attacking me next? You don’t think I don’t know what the Hwalbindang or whatever is going on?”

Hong Gil-dong simply nodded quietly.

“What good is a product if there are no clients to buy it?”

“Don’t even think about teaching me something in front of me. Mr. Hong Gil-dong, you lived as a problem solver for decades, and I spent my childhood preparing to become the president of a future company, and after becoming an adult, I was forced to become the president thanks to you!”

Hong Seo-yeon, who pointed her finger and shouted, put her palm on her temple and pressed it hard.

“…What is welfare…”

She muttered in a very small voice, and her brother’s face passed through her mind for a moment.

Her younger sister, unable to bear the disgusting corruption and dirty deeds that Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae was committing within Mirae Enterprise, left.

‘…Fuck…’

What would have happened if, that day, I had joined forces with my younger brother to cut out the rotten flesh of Mirae Enterprise, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae?

Did the man in front of you appear in front of you and help you as if it were a given?

Would his brother have continued to do such outrageous things as run away from home, start a gang, and attack and try to kill him?

It was something unknown, but Hong Seo-yeon, the genius, could imagine it.

“Honey, Mr. Hong Gil-dong is not the type of person to lie. We were the ones who forced him to talk about his family in the first place.”

“…I’m sorry, honey… Right now… Just this once, I’m going to believe that I can definitely trust you.”

Hong Seo-yeon looked at Ji-hoon with a very apologetic expression and shook her head once.

‘It can’t be helped, I can’t change humans through hypnosis.’

Ji-hoon took a step back from Hong Seo-yeon.

Sonagi looked at him and shook her head from side to side.

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but you know you shouldn’t use that weird program.”

No matter what, it’s a family affair.

Although Sonagi did not want Hong Seo-yeon to shoot Hong Gil-dong to death, she could understand his feelings and thoughts.

What if Ji-hoon were to see himself playing with that right in front of his eyes?

She honestly seemed to be very disappointed in Ji-hoon, whom she loved.

“don’t worry.”

Ji-hoon answered simply and looked at Hong Seo-yeon.

Just looking at Hong Gil-dong gave her a headache, so she pressed her head with her hand.

“It’s done. Chairman Hong Seo-yeon.”

Trinity’s voice announced that this tense moment would soon be over.

“…The algorithm…can’t be wrong…”

Hong Seo-yeon swallowed hard and looked at the information displayed on the HUD for a while before pressing her head harder.

The test device she believed in so much clearly revealed the relationship between Hong Gil-dong and Hong Seo-yeon.

『According to Chairman Hong Seo-yeon’s algorithm, the probability that Mr. Hong Gil-dong and Chairman Hong Seo-yeon are relatives converges to 100%. The probability that Mr. Hong Gil-dong is a relative of Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae is 99.999 994 077 166 4%. From a biological perspective─』

“Ms. Trinity, be quiet.”

Hong Seo-yeon kept her mouth shut, suppressing her boiling anger.

Then she pointed her finger at Hong Gil-dong.

Once again, sentry guns prepared on the ceiling and floor aimed for the face of his uncle, Hong Gil-dong.

“At first… couldn’t you say it?”

“Considering your personality, it was absurd.”

“My… personality! My personality!! Stop talking about that! Why would someone who wants revenge on Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae do that! You killed my parents? Huh? You… were my younger sibling. You were my younger sister!!”

After hearing the scream, Hong Gil-dong quietly nodded his head.

“Yes, as you said, the CEO of the future company at that time was Me’s Younger Sister.”

“Did you know when you killed him?”

Hong Gil-dong nodded, and Hong Seo-yeon, feeling a deeper sense of betrayal, pointed her finger at his head.

“I couldn’t help it.”

“I can’t help it…”

“Your future company’s chairman, Hong-ryeon, was a puppet, and in reality, Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae held the real power. You also know this.”

“…”

“That day, that plane.”

Hong Gil-dong took the red sunglasses out of his pocket again, held them up to his face, and covered his eyes.

“Originally, it was the plane that Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae was supposed to take.”

“…That, that can’t be…”

“Me received two requests from different fixers on the same day from CEO Hongryeon and Vice Chairman Hong Kwontae.”

“No, no! There’s no way…”

“I couldn’t tell who was on the plane that day.”

He had a calm expression as he spoke, but a tear was running down his dark cheek.

“Mr. Hong Gil-dong… You might not have accepted the request, right?”

“There was a 50% chance that I could get revenge on CEO Hong Kwon-tae, Ji-hoon. To my shame, I was blinded by revenge that day and killed my sister. I had no choice but to kill her.”

Hong Kwon-tae and Hong Ryeon submitted the same request on the same day, for the same reason.

In order to kill each other, the most expensive and most reliable solver was hoping to destroy the other’s plane.

However, Hong Seo-yeon’s mother, Hong Ryeon, did not have employees like Vice Chairman Hong Kwon-tae who could be used as her assistants.

It’s easy to make an itinerary for a trip to the United States.

In the first place, Chairman Hongryeon was a puppet. If he was told to go to the United States for the benefit of Mirae Enterprise, he would go, and if he was told to go to Japan, he would go.

“…. Mom suddenly said she had to go on a business trip that day, damn it… It had to be more than once or twice..! I was on my period at the time and was sick, so I just lay down and slept…! That.. That…”

Hong Seo-yeon bites her lip and bursts into tears. Everyone remembers the last time they saw their parents’ faces.

If that’s the end of it, with him yelling at her to hurry up and get out because his stomach hurts, and then yelling that he understands… then anyone would feel resentful.

She slumped down and the hand aimed at Hong Gil-dong stopped.

“But…what you said…”

“…If Mr. Hong Gil-dong just tells me the date, I’ll ask the fixers I know. No, you can just tell me which fixer received the request from former Chairman Hong-ryeon.”

Hong Gil-dong nodded at Sonagi’s words.

“…I don’t think you’re lying, honey.”

Ji-hoon nodded once, and Hong Seo-yeon lowered her head with tears in her eyes.

“Mom… didn’t say anything?”

“You recognized me.”

The man with dark skin said this and put his hands in his pockets.

“You’s Mother, Me’s Younger Sister seem to be women who can’t keep up with the trends of this era.”

What he took out of his pocket was a gold pocket watch. He handed it to the crying Hong Seo-yeon and stepped back.

The red sunglasses were strangely shining. I couldn’t tell if it was because I was remembering that conversation or because it was holding back the tears that were flowing.

“Ha… Hahaha… Is this proof of a conversation with your mom? I’m not kidding… ”

Hong Seo-yeon opened her pocket watch as if she was dumbfounded, and inside was a family photo with the faces of herself as a child, her beloved younger sibling, her mother, and her father.

“It’s not a brain chip… It’s not brain data… Ha, this is… This is…! Ugh… Huhugh…!”

Hong Seo-yeon clenched her teeth and put her hands on the ground, bursting into tears.

Hong Seo-yeon’s mother, she was a very antique woman who did not fit in the cyberpunk world at all, so she had to be eliminated by her father.