episode_0004

“Sorry for being late. There was a bit of traffic.”

“No, it’s okay since I came. Are you hurt anywhere? I heard you were involved in an accident yesterday.”

Because it was Kang Seok-ho who had already chased down from the company and held back the questions he wanted to ask.

As soon as I saw my grandson’s face, even though I hadn’t finished the conversation with Kang San-ho, I rushed over to check on Seo-jun’s health.

“Yes, it’s clean without any scratches. Grandpa.”

“Yes, yes. We don’t want any wounds to appear on our precious grandson’s body. Cancer, not like that.”

Normally, I wasn’t this worried about Seojun, who was still a 26-year-old adult.

However, because I heard what happened at the department store yesterday, today was an exceptional welcome.

“Son, it’s hard to see your face unless you’re in a place like this.”

As soon as he turned 20, Seojun became independent, and as such, he rarely met his father.

Although she spoke in a friendly voice, Kang San-ho was not so kind as to go and visit her son who did not visit her first.

“If you wanted to see it, you could have come to my house.”

“Hey, man. Anyway, does it make sense for my father to visit me? As a son, you should visit him.”

Seojun’s second older brother, Kang Sangwoo, who was looking at this with a displeased expression, spoke reproachfully.

“Okay, what does the youngest know? Aren’t you still young?”

The eldest older sister, Kang Ji-su, smiled elegantly and stopped Kang Sang-woo.

As she said, compared to them, Seojun was quite young.

Considering that Kang Ji-soo is 45 years old this year and Kang Sang-woo is 43 years old, it was natural to use the expression young as they are almost 20 years older than Seojun.

“Children tend to have little concept.”

Of course, the problem was that the expression ‘young’ was never a good expression.

“So, your kids have no concept?”

Kang Hyeon-seo, Seo-jun’s third older sister and the only one who was by Seo-jun’s side after his mother passed away, was watching the scene quietly and hit the nail on the head with a grin.

“This bastard, how are you touching my child?!”

“ Seojun is also like a younger brother to me, right?”

“What kind of commotion is there at grandpa’s birthday party!”

Kang San-ho, who normally would not have paid much attention to whether his children would fight or not, shouted as if he was annoyed and stopped the fight.

Of course, I didn’t mean to stop my children from fighting, as I always did.

Before Seojun arrived, the main person who was talking to Chairman Kang Seok-ho was himself.

“Our Seojun is doing well at work these days. Well, I guess there is no better news. Now that I think about it, you’re not dating a girlfriend?”

In an instant, everything started to revolve around Seojun, and he was so upset that he screamed.

“Seojun seems to be a bit behind the other kids. Is it because my mother became like that at an early age?”

Pretending not to be Kang San-ho, he deliberately said things that would offend Seo-jun.

From the beginning, Kang San-ho did not like his children very much.

It was like that when I was young, but now I just saw him as a rival who had to share Chairman Kang Seok-ho’s wealth, so I had no choice but to do that.

It was quite funny to act like that after giving birth to so many.

Anyway, while he didn’t like his children that much, the one he disliked the most was Seojun.

A child with great talent.

Kang San-ho was always filled with anxiety, as if everything he had would be taken away by Seo-jun.

‘Whew, this kid… I never like him.’

Because Seojun was like that, after his wife died, it seemed like he was treated like a bastard for no reason.

Of course, whether my father did that or not, Seojun didn’t care about anything, as if he was a person who had completely lost his emotional part.

“Ah, well. Wouldn’t you like to take care of it yourself? Coral, don’t meddle for nothing and just leave it alone.”

“Haha, yes. Don’t worry, father. When have you seen me force something like that? Aren’t all the other kids meeting the people they want to meet and living well?”

Those words, which seemed like sophistry, meant that he was not that interested in his children.

In any case, the sight of Kang San-ho trying to divert Chairman Kang Seok-ho’s attention to himself as much as possible was quite tearful.

‘Is this something like the CEO of an affiliate company? My father.’

Meanwhile, Seojun was still looking at the translucent window that had risen next to the people.

Really, it couldn’t be anything other than an explicit skill.

Seojun knew very well that his father was a person who wanted to rise to the position of chairman of the company and take real power.

However, his potential as the president of an affiliate company seemed too insufficient to take on that position.

This is an indicator that since he is currently serving as the president of one affiliate, he will not be able to grow any further than that.

Of course, whether my father is talented or not.

As the father did not love his child, Seojun also did not have any affection for his father, so it was a matter of little concern.

“Grandpa, I have something to tell you.”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

Moreover, unfortunately, Seojun had something that Kang Sanho did not have.

What Kang San-ho envies the most.

“Let’s see what it is. I’ll talk to Seojun for a while and then come back. Eat.”

That was Chairman Kang Seok-ho’s interest and infinite affection.

***

“Okay, what do you want to talk about?”

A grandson who can spare time at his birthday party even though there are a lot of people around.

“What I am going to tell you from now on is a matter that you should listen to as the chairman of Sogang Group, not as my grandfather.”

Such a grandson was trying to bring up a public story in a private setting.

As Seojun was a person who strictly differentiated between public and private matters, it was rare for him to talk as the chairman and head of the division outside of the company.

No, it was safe to say that it wasn’t there.

“Hmm, really? Yeah, good. From now on, I will listen as Chairman Kang Seok-ho, so please speak. Don’t make me curious.”

Chairman Kang Seok-ho, who judged that something unusual would come up, nodded with an expression of interest.

I never thought that it would be my birthday and that I would suddenly be back at the venue while spending time with my family.

“I want to create a guild.”

“Guild? Oh yeah. Now that I think about it, I heard that he was awakened as a hunter.”

When you become a hunter, you are required to register with the association, so Seojun had already finished registering as a hunter after the department store incident yesterday.

Since it was registered as official data, it was natural for it to reach the ears of Chairman Kang Seok-ho.

“So you want to run a guild under your company name?”

If possible, I wanted to hand over the company to Seojun, who is capable.

If you are more interested in being a hunter, it would be a good idea to create and run a guild at the company level.

Sogang Group had connections with large guilds due to its reputation, but since the power of hunters was an asset, it would certainly not be a bad thing to develop their own power.

“No, we will use a borrowed-name guild. I will actually own it, but I will appoint someone else as the master. Some people have already seen it.”

However, it was clear that what Seojun said next was difficult to understand.

I have awakened to the power of a hunter, and if I were to create a company guild at the company level, of course the best way would be for the hunters involved to take real power.

What was the intention behind creating a guild under a borrowed name and talking about it to yourself as if you were trying to create a guild for the company?

Chairman Kang Seok-ho was difficult to understand at all.

“..If you weren’t going to create a company-owned guild anyway, why did you bother to bring this up to me?”

Kang Seok-ho, who was sure he didn’t just bring this up because he was a smart and intelligent grandson, asked back.

“I want to use company funds to grow the guild. Of course, it’s not illegal use, it just feels like the company is sponsoring a new guild.”

But the answer that came back was, as expected, a lame answer.

“Why should I allow that?”

If it had been a conversation between grandfather and grandson, he would have thought he was acting foolish and would have expressed his refusal more gently.

However, Kang Seok-ho, who had no reason to consider such aspects at all as he was now in the position of the chairman and general manager of the company that Seo-jun had requested, smiled helplessly as if he was dumbfounded.

“What does our company benefit from? If you are going to provide sponsorship, I think it would be more beneficial to strengthen those connections by investing money in large guilds with connections.”

I knew that Seojun was still young, and it was true that Chairman Kang Seok-ho felt much younger than he appeared.

Even so, I may have been expecting more because Seojun has always expressed reasonable opinions.

“Well, what you can definitely gain by sponsoring a new guild is the image of doing charity work.”

The image of doing charity work itself was not a bad image.

No matter what, companies had to continue to create a good image, and charity work was one of the things that could improve that image.

It was certainly a good way to create such an image by spending a certain amount of money.

“You didn’t just bring up the story to create an image of doing charity work. Stop pausing and get to the point.”

Chairman Seok-ho Kang spoke first, slightly furrowing his eyebrows at Seo-jun’s spinning words, which seemed to be hiding something no matter how he looked at them.

“We will grow the guild into a greater guild than the large ones currently in the country. We have already looked at all the talented people.”

Seojun’s face as he spoke was filled with strange confidence.

“Hehe, I can see that you are full of confidence. How do you know that?”

Kang Seok-ho, chairman of Sogang Group, a leading conglomerate.

His intelligence was truly beyond imagination.

So, as to who Seojun wants to create a guild for now.

Actually, I already knew from the beginning.

I was thinking that I would definitely repay him for saving my beloved grandson, but this was not the way I thought about it.

That’s why I was curious.

Seojun was obviously talented, but there was a reason why he was so confident.

“The ability I gained through awakening as a Hunter is the ability to distinguish people’s talents and develop them.”

There were a few answers I expected, but the answer that came back was something that transcended all of those thoughts.

“Ho-oh, is that so?”

“Yes, whatever. It may be hard to believe right away, but you will naturally understand over time.”

There was something different in Seojun’s eyes that I had never seen before.

“At the company, I would be able to rise to the position of general manager in 3 years without anyone’s help. Who would have thought?”

Until now, I didn’t talk about it because I had no interest or desire for anything.

Seojun was a person who knew his strengths very well.

What talents you have and how to utilize them.

“If I work hard, I will definitely climb higher, and one day I may even be able to climb to the highest point. But what if you also have the ability to see and develop other people’s talents?”

In that confident voice, Chairman Kang Seok-ho felt his heart pounding like crazy for the first time in a long time.

“I will kill both the company and the guild. And I will take all the positions that the Chairman wants me to take. Isn’t this a good deal?”