blueteamnovel Chapter 71
Chapter 71
2.
“Kim Chang-sik, let me ask you one last question.”
“Y-Yes, sir. Please go ahead.”
“If I truly decided to bring this building down, how many people could you save in this conference room?”
“!!”
“Stop thinking and answer immediately—!”
“Three! Only three, at most.”
“Lee Myung-hoon, what about you?”
Lee Myung-hoon, who had been cornered until the meeting’s conclusion, witnessed Shin Seong-gwak suddenly appear, crushing Kim Chang-sik with sheer force.
Seeing the merciless display, Lee Myung-hoon’s eyes lit up.
This elder must be acting on Father’s orders.
As expected, Father has chosen me as the next guild leader.
Overcome with emotion, Lee Myung-hoon answered confidently.
“I can save everyone!”
“And how would you do that?”
“If we prevent you from becoming angry, the building won’t collapse, and no one will get hurt. If Kim Chang-sik has committed any wrongs, I will make them right!”
The unexpected and precise answer took even Kim Chang-sik by surprise.
At that moment, as everyone started to believe that the power dynamics were shifting from Kim Chang-sik to Lee Myung-hoon—
“Then go ahead and try calming my anger.”
Shin Seong-gwak stomped his foot powerfully.
A sharp wall emerged, slicing everything on the ground into thin layers—shoes, chair cushions, and even the palms pressed to the floor.
The walls of the room began to close in, with the floor and ceiling heaving violently, turning the space into a suffocating trap.
“Aaah!!”
“Lee Myung-hoon, do something, you bastard!!”
“Please, sir! Save us! We’re all going to die!”
Even the executives, who were not as influential as the deputy guild leader, screamed and begged for their lives.
But Shin Seong-gwak’s fury showed no sign of subsiding.
“You’re all the same! When these young ones stray, instead of correcting them, you coddle them just to keep your pitiful titles?”
Neither the notorious deputy guild leader Kim Chang-sik,
nor the guild leader’s son Lee Myung-hoon,
nor the senior executives who had secured their places in the hierarchy,
nor the newly recruited talents,
none could satisfy him.
Trusting such people to handle frontline duties? Foolishness.
He berated himself for ever thinking they could manage on their own.
The words hit like a thunderbolt.
Kim Chang-sik and Lee Myung-hoon, overwhelmed by despair, could do nothing but laugh bitterly or shed tears of frustration.
“Any objections?”
The room fell silent under Shin Seong-gwak’s icy glare.
Every proposal, from the establishment of the Support Dispatch Team to mass reassignments, passed unanimously.
After the meeting, as the exhausted executives stumbled out, Shin Seong-gwak quietly spoke:
“Executives, remain behind.”
He wasn’t done yet.
The executives, familiar with Shin Seong-gwak’s terrifying reputation during his prime, silently obeyed and stayed behind.
3.
In martial arts circles, when conflicts arose with prestigious sects, the most effective strategy wasn’t to confront the offenders directly but to pressure the elders entrenched within the sect. This approach produced immediate and noticeable results.
Myeongho Guild will surely pay the price.
Even Shin Seong-gwak, with his formidable presence, could have been dismissed as one of the guild’s troublesome younger members if he were the same breed. If Ha Eun-eung had deemed him to be of that ilk, she wouldn’t have hesitated to kill him and target someone of higher rank instead.
However, in her eyes, Shin Seong-gwak was not someone who would lower himself to stirring filth for the sake of appearances. If his methods bore the mark of someone who had spilled significant blood in the past, they were precise and brutal. He would submerge his hands in blood, but never in muddy waters.
It was clear to her that he wouldn’t let the disgrace brought upon him by the younger members slide unnoticed.
“Unni, the police investigation results are out. The magical waste wasn’t the work of the Myeongho Guild but rather the convenience store owner trying to commit insurance fraud.”
Ha Eun-eung heard the news from Joo Ah-young, who approached her with a cheerful expression, only to be stunned at Ha Eun-eung’s reaction.
“Unni, you didn’t cause any trouble, did you?”
“......”
“Why are you avoiding my eyes, unni?”
Like a guilty dog caught misbehaving, Ha Eun-eung kept her head turned toward Joo Ah-young but avoided meeting her gaze.