There can be no doctors without patients.

If there was not a single sick person in the world, those who cure diseases would also have no reason to exist.

Their organization’s role was to create those ‘patients’, and they took pride in greatly contributing to society as a whole in their own way.

Who would say they like war, but many can be found who think war is necessary.

The organization that grew from the dark selfishness of such people had firmly taken root in a country before long, and had been working underwater doing various things for a long, long time.

They were literally a ‘necessary evil’, so they could receive help from many places in the light.

So if things had just continued like this, they could have smoothly stood at the center of the shadows, enjoyed as much as they had done, and clearly contributed to creating a more prosperous country by causing appropriate chaos in the world.

The man who was the leader of the organization was proud of his role.

Even when unidentified bastards with strange abilities had started to frequently interfere and ruin things from some point, he did not succumb to the so-called ‘villain’ frame.

We are doing work that helps society. The man had always solidified that belief.

But from some point, things slowly started to go awry from the inside.

The man, who was receiving military support from several defense companies with the government’s help, heard that the company supplying the most weapons to his organization was gradually shrinking in scale due to the recently appointed chairman.

The man clicked his tongue with a cigarette in his mouth after scanning the new chairman’s name and profile.

If you inherited a lot from your father, you should enjoy and wield it while living, but the man found the other party distasteful for needlessly being smart and having an unnecessary sense of justice that was strangling his own neck.

Still, considering the ties they had traded with since the other’s father’s time, the man tried to give a final chance and persuasion.

It was a rare mercy for the man.

The meeting was easily arranged.

At the very top of the headquarters, in the deepest space, they held a meeting.

Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon, who attended with only a few bodyguards despite guessing who they were, was exactly as upright as the man expected.

Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon, who had grasped all the corruption and stock manipulation of the defense industry affiliates he had observed for a long time as soon as he took office, as well as the fact that they had been secretly supplying weapons to the man’s organization, declared in a resolute tone that he would reduce the scale of the industry and eventually eliminate it.

There was not a single point of hesitation in the chairman’s eyes as he said that.

Although his neatness that seemed like it would bend but never break was irritating, the man gathered his nonexistent patience and slowly began to persuade the other party.

‘…Chairman. I express deep regret that you dismiss us as a mere criminal organization.’

In the dark conference room, he clasped his hands together and continued in a calm tone.

‘Just the fact that this relationship has continued since your predecessor should make you guess that our roots are not shallow.’

The man looked at Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon sitting across from him.

An expensive suit, neat attire from head to toe. Even clean skin for his age.

He was born wealthy and had never properly experienced hardship, and the man greatly disliked that scholar-like loftiness, but he endured it.

He at least did not want to let personal feelings intervene in such an important matter.

‘As you may have predicted, we are people who move under orders from higher up.’

At those words, Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon’s face, which had shown no wavering, hardened. The man spoke with a satisfied smile.

‘I may have mentioned it through contact before. That we are doing ‘work for the nation’.’

He should understand with this much. The man leaned back comfortably in his chair as if he had already finished persuading.

The already heavy atmosphere in the conference room became endlessly heavy as if a different gravity was at work only here.

After some suffocating silence, Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon, who had been lost in thought for a long time without a word, took off the glasses he was wearing and put them down on the table.

He rubbed his brow with his fingers for a moment as if tired, then opened his tightly closed eyes and spoke.

‘…Then, there is even less room for reconsideration.’

‘What do you mean.’

The man’s tone sharpened at the voice that was even more resolute than before.

The man, who had never been angry enough to lose his reason in front of someone, forgot to manage his expression and scowled at Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon looking at him with an upright gaze.

‘Did you not just say that you are setting the stage for a particular party, causing crimes, manipulating stock prices… doing only things that make no sense at all.’

Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon asserted in an annoyingly gentle voice.

‘My father’s generation may have turned a blind eye to it, but it won’t do in my generation. I will clean up all affiliates based on the defense industry within 5 years.’

It was not a request for agreement, but a notification.

No matter how polite he pretended to be, it was a natural habit of someone who was used to lording over others since birth.

That made the man furious.

‘…Are you saying you will go against what the government is doing now?’

In a way, that’s treason against the nation? When he sarcastically warned, Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon calmly countered.

‘I’m not saying I’ll oppose the government.’

‘….’

‘I’m saying I’ll oppose unjust things.’

Ha. The man, who unknowingly swallowed a snort, now had his brow furrowed so much it could not be seen anymore.

The subordinates standing guard beside him trembled faintly, knowing what such an appearance of their boss meant.

Only Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon remained firm there without wavering.

‘I know you’re quite old, but I didn’t know you were still naive enough to seek justice.’

At the sarcastic tone meant to intentionally infuriate him, Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon rather smiled.

‘As I age, I feel it becomes harder to chase after the right thing. But I’m trying my best.’

The man’s expression was wiped from his face as he had never seen a human who was not afraid of him to this extent.

The air in the conference room instantly turned to subzero. The man asked.

‘Why do you try so hard?’

“Do you know what your father answered to our boss to that question?”

Na-eun, who had been listening to the story Seol-ah was pouring out with a blank expression, made confused eyes, unable to predict the answer.

As if Seol-ah did not expect an answer, she laughed in vain as if she herself was dumbfounded and informed her.

“…’I want to be a husband and father who is not ashamed to his wife and daughter.’ he said.”

“……”

“Our boss really blew his lid that day.”

Seol-ah shook her head from side to side.

“There are exactly two things our boss hates most in the world.”

Leaning comfortably against the backrest, she smugly spread her palm and folded her thumb and index finger one by one in turn.

“The privileged who only have a field of flowers in their heads, and the psychos who believe they are the only good people in the world.”

Seol-ah, who grew up under her boss since childhood, conveyed Yoon Seok Hoon’s beliefs exactly as her boss had expressed them.

“Our boss goes crazy when people who were born with everything lecture about right and wrong, injustice, and whatnot.”

Kindness comes from leisure. Goodness is the same.

Those who lived in hell since birth had no hesitation in taking from others.

To someone who lived such a life, the boss most despised a human who had never known hunger since birth pointing fingers and condemning their actions as a crime.

From that day, Chairman Yoon Seok Hoon and his family became targets.

Because the boss gnashed his teeth, saying he would send him to the afterlife together with his oh-so-precious wife and daughter who think that way.

The under-the-table work was easy. Since there would be many troublesome things if handled in a short period of time, they prepared here and there in advance and cleaned up the surroundings.

“And in the midst of that, you got caught. On our radar.”

Seol-ah laughed, sitting Na-eun, whose expression had already darkened, across from her.

“Jae-kyung was sent in right away since you seemed useful in many ways, but who knew that would become a butterfly effect.”

Seol-ah, who sighed a little at the end of her laughter, glared at Na-eun.

“Do you know how far ‘that’ Han Jae-kyung went to our boss because of you?”

“….”

“He almost crawled and went down on his knees to beg. To please at least spare your mom and you.”

Flinch. Na-eun’s arm that was placed on the table shook faintly.

Seol-ah, who had been watching that sight with relish, continued.

“I think he had been doing that from before. I didn’t know. He begged that if he persuaded you to cooperate with us, so if you contributed to killing K and L, to please spare you. Continuously.”

But you’re really needlessly smart and tight-lipped? She muttered as if the lipstick she had applied was meaningless as she bit her lips again.

“How can you not leak a single piece of information in a dating relationship? Despite how well Jae-kyung treated you. Come to think of it, it’s amazing. I think you might be the first one who didn’t spill everything after dating Han Jae-kyung all this time.”

Seol-ah boredly arranged her hair draped below her shoulders.

“So in the end, the date for dealing with you was set, but our boss postponed the date of your death because Jae-kyung begged and begged. Our boss is soft only to Jae-kyung. Anyway, so originally they didn’t take you there to kill you that day either. They were just going to scare you a little, and I was going to vent just a tiny bit, but what’s with the sudden acceleration? Why did you jump off there without a line?”

It’s also a talent to express jumping off to die like that.

Na-eun tightly closed her eyes, forgetting the timing to get angry due to the amount of truth rushing in at once.

“It was also my first time seeing Han Jae-kyung so desperate like that. You just passed out irresponsibly that day, right? That day was a total mess. Jae-kyung was hugging you, fighting, worried you would die, and in the midst of that, K was only aiming for my left hand…”

“…You’re saying Han Jae-kyung was also the one who caught me when I jumped from the abandoned building that day.”

“Oh my. You didn’t know?”

My goodness. Our Jae-kyung was really the little mermaid. Seol-ah shed tears with sincerity.

“Jae-kyung was really out of his mind then. That was the first time I saw him tremble like that, you know?”

Seol-ah, who had seen Jae-kyung since childhood, saw him tremble like that for the first time.

The human, who only made an indifferent expression even when the boss jokingly pointed a gun at his forehead as a child, trembled like someone who fell into the winter sea.

As if he was so scared he couldn’t bear it.

For a moment, some silence passed.

Seol-ah scanned Na-eun’s stiff expression with a fascinated gaze, and after a while, she frowned at Na-eun’s action of picking up her cell phone.

Na-eun called Hee-won without hesitation.

Towards the other party who picked up in less than a second, she spoke in an unperturbed voice.

“I can come in now, right? I think I found out everything I need to know.”