episode_0424
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For a moment, Tomoya Takahashi, like all office workers, continued to busily complete his paperwork.
Since stealing technology is not something that can be done with pride, the fewer people involved who know the details of the situation, the better. As a result, the workload of Tomoya Takahashi, the executive director who had to coordinate the big picture, was not at an average level.
His position is probably one of the best in the company, if only in terms of work intensity.
Of course, it was also a position that he took for himself, as he was given more rewards in the form of money and power.
When Tomoya Takahashi was looking at the monitor with tired eyes, his smartphone suddenly rang loudly.
His eyes widened as he identified the sender.
The CEO and president was Shuichi Watanabe.
‘What’s going on at this time… ?’
Putting aside the questions that naturally flowed, he answered the phone before the second ring rang. And then he quickly cleared his throat and spoke politely.
“President Watanabe. Why did you contact me so late at night?”
“Takahashi-kun, I have something important to do. Please come to the office right now. I have some urgent work to do.”
Shuichi Watanabe’s voice was as cool as always. A cold, commanding tone of voice. However, I was surprised that despite the urgency, there was no emotion in the words.
He instinctively realized that no good could come from dragging out his words for no reason. And even though the person I was talking to was not in the same place, I jumped up from my seat, bowed down, and answered.
“Okay, boss. I’ll be there right away.”
Tomoya Takahashi quickly hung up the phone and gave instructions to his secretary.
“Hey, I’m going to see the boss for a moment. Don’t mess up the documents I was looking at and just wait.”
“Please come back.”
After receiving a greeting from his secretary and roughly organizing the pile of documents, he straightened his wrinkled shirt and left the office.
The hallway was dark and quiet. Most of the employees had already left work a long time ago. So, only the sound of his footsteps rushing towards the elevator echoed in the empty building.
‘It’s an emergency call from the boss…’ ‘What’s going on?’
Tomoya Takahashi’s mind was busy as he moved around quickly, weighing various possibilities. Although overtime work was a daily routine at Hisako Network, this did not happen often.
‘Are you going to reprimand me with the Amour gun?’
But it was strange. Due to its nature, the Hisako Network had a culture that abhorred unproductive actions such as reprimands, which was prevalent from top to bottom.
His workplace was such that if he didn’t do his job properly, he would be fired, and if he did his job well, he would be quietly scolded with meager incentives and move on.
All kinds of imaginations passed through Tomoya Takahashi’s mind.
His body got on the elevator and rose toward the top floor where the president’s office was.
But he couldn’t come to a conclusion until he got off the elevator and arrived in front of the president’s office.
He glanced at the empty secretary’s seat and knocked on the president’s office door.
Knock-
“I will go in. President Watanabe.”
“Come in.”
After receiving permission and opening the door, the figure of Shuichi Watanabe sitting on a leather chair caught his eye.
Blink ㅡ
There seemed to be something wrong with the lights in the president’s office. Even blinking due to the brightness of the light being much weaker than usual. Thanks to this, a dark shadow was cast on Shuichi Watanabe’s face, making it difficult to guess how he was feeling.
‘I need to inspect the entire building.’
Thinking that, Tomoya Takahashi entered the president’s office and cautiously opened his mouth.
“What did you call me for? ”
“… … .”
But there was no answer from Shuichi Watanabe.
It was only then that Tomoya Takahashi realized that the atmosphere in the president’s office was a little strange due to the strange silence. It was a little late for me to realize it because my mind was so busy.
He rolled his eyes here and there, examining the situation.
A pair of women’s shoes was seen lying behind the sofa placed for serving customers. It was not something that would be lying around in the office of Shuichi Watanabe, a balding middle-aged man.
He recalled the empty secretary’s seat he saw before entering the president’s office.
‘Was there an affair between the boss and the secretary?’
Although the president, Shuichi Watanabe, was a married man, it was not particularly strange to say that he was having an affair with his secretary.
He was not in a position to criticize his boss morally, nor did he want to.
The problem is why he called me to a place where he hasn’t even erased his traces. And if the shoes of the absent secretary were here, the secretary must also be there, but the secretary was nowhere to be seen.
The ‘clunk’ sound of the door closing was heard behind him, and all the lights in the president’s office turned off.
And when the light came back on, the brightness returned to normal. So he was able to properly check the scenery of the office.
He gasped in astonishment.
“Heo Eok… !”
Shuichi Watanabe, who thought he was setting the mood, was dead with his eyes wide open and his mouth open. Before he died, he looked frightened as if he had seen some kind of ghost.
Tomoya Takahashi’s face suddenly became as pale as a corpse when he thought he had made eye contact with the president.
As he slowly took a step back without realizing it, he felt something hard hitting the back of his head.
puck!
“Ugh… !”
The last thing he saw before he fell unconscious was a human figure as black as the shadow of a grim reaper.
***
slap! slap!
“Ugh… ”
“Hey, wake up quickly.”
Takahashi, who had been hit on the cheek, groaned and frowned.
I felt like I was slowly coming to my senses, so I took out some water from my inventory and poured it on my face.
“Apupu… !”
The guy who got hit by water looked around with a half-asleep expression. There was no need to kidnap us to another location, so we were still in Hisako Network’s president’s office.
The guy looked at me and muttered blankly.
“Am I dead too…? ?”
“He’s a funny guy. If you were hit by water and woke up, you would still be alive. Don’t worry, I just passed out.”
I knocked him out by hitting him in the back of the head, so there might be some aftereffects later, but it wasn’t important. If he can live until the aftereffects come, that would be fortunate.
Perhaps only then did he feel the cold water soaking his clothes, as he turned his head and looked at the spot where the boss’ body was, with an expression as if he had just woken up. The president’s chair was empty. It was because I took the body into my inventory.
“… Did you kill the boss?”
“There are no other suspects here.”
“Why on earth?”
When I killed the guy called the boss, it was almost an accident.
In order to use a key to go anywhere, it was necessary to imagine the destination in one’s mind. Otherwise, the key stuck in the air would not turn.
The image Maria shared with me was a photo of the president and CEO’s office on Hisako Network’s company website. That’s why I first arrived here.
However, due to time constraints, I thought the boss had already left work, but surprisingly, he stayed in the office and ended up running into me.
The problem is that the moment I entered the president’s office was the moment he was sexually harassing the secretary.
The secretary, who just looked at me with an expression of disgust, was forcibly holding me and groping her here and there, so I unconsciously killed her by breaking her neck like I did when disposing of trash.
The secretary fainted when she saw that. She had been left lying down in the storage room attached to the office.
But there was no reason to explain this to him.
“I just died because I deserved it.”
‘It is clear that the president has nothing to do with this matter, so it is not wrong. In any case, if the executive director was to do his job, which is the purpose of my coming here, he would have received approval from the president. The boss must have been involved in some way.’
-that’s right.
Maria agreed with me. Then, in an instant, I investigated the illegal acts committed by the president and brought them to my attention.
Items that make your eyes feel dirty even if you just glance at them. Of course, it was not an official criminal record. However, it was a more reliable result than official records obtained by hacking the president’s smartphone and computer.
The boss’ appearance was an ordinary pot-bellied man with no trace of the villain bosses I usually see in movies, but that was only his appearance.
Looking at the things he did, he was not an ordinary human being, but rather a disgusting person who did not feel any hesitation or guilt about pursuing his own desires.
Takahashi said with an expression as if he were possessed by a ghost.
“I definitely heard the boss’s voice and came in… ”
“I’m good at imitating vocal cords. Do you know that it is Jangsanbeom?”
“… … .”
-You wouldn’t know that it’s a modern monster from a Korean ghost story.
‘Oh yeah?’
I was just trying to make fun of him, so it didn’t really matter if he didn’t understand. Impersonating the president was Maria’s job.
As I quietly glared at Takahashi, he trembled with a very frightened expression.
“Woah, I don’t know what kind of grudge you have for doing this, but I didn’t see anything. If there was an incident in the past with the boss, I don’t know about it.”
“Wow, this is some acting.”
I felt like anyone would mistake me for a really timid office worker. I can already see the brilliant history of the guy Maria investigated. He was a guy who actively did dirty things just as much as the boss.
It could be that he was really scared because he gave in a hundred times. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced being threatened by a masked assailant like this.
However, even in that situation, it was interesting to see him try to escape by using the already dead boss as an excuse.
“I came here because of you, not because of the boss. Darknet, glitches, referrals, and black feet. Anything comes to mind?”
“That’s… !”
The guy stopped shaking after hearing what I said. Seeing that the pupils were greatly dilated, this time it was a genuine reaction of surprise.
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