12 Hours After Chapter 95

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

Behind Secretary Seo, a middle-aged man appeared . I stared at him with a dryly; he had long, raised hair, sideways slanting sharp eyes, and pale skin . He looked just like a lizardman, a lizardman . I tried to think of his name for a moment . I couldn't remember the name, but I did remember the nickname Lee Ah-young had told me: Newsmaker .

I was thinking about that, and he extended me his hand and said, “Nice to meet you, CEO Han . I am Kang Joo-hyuk . ”

Just at that moment, I thought of that name: Kang Joo-hyuk .

“Ah… Yes . ” I held his hand and shook it a little reluctantly .

'Jaeil Economy? That's not going to be the Daewon Daily News . By the way, why is he…?'

At the moment, he smiled and said, “First of all, congratulations on your award!”

“Oh, thank you . ”

“Well, I have to interview one of the winners of this award… I really wanted to interview the CEO, so I was talking to your secretary . Would you be able to take an interview?”

Behind him, Secretary Seo had a triumphant look on his face, as if he said, “I've got one, boss . ”

Well, he deserved it, because I'd been saying to Secretary Seo for a long time: let me be exposed to as much media as possible, whether it's our company or my name .

But the problem was that the person he had brought was a very, very dangerous person .

'Secretary Seo doesn't know what this guy is doing . '

I turned to reporter Kang Joo-hyuk and said, “Why did you think of me… there is like Director Tak Joon-gi, of Suyeon Travel . ”

“Ahh… Director Tak Joon-gi? He's from Suyeon Group, so he's a little…” Kang nudged his face at me and spoke with his voice down, “These days, readers don't really like the way a man born in a rich family is posted . We can't have click counts on it . Besides, I heard he is a tough guy . ”

'I know Kang has been working with Tak for four or five years . '

They had been colleagues from the time they broke down Go-young Food . This man lied without a blink of an eye . It was an amazing skill, in a way .

I also told him as naturally as I could . “Oh, that could be, because these days are a time of relative deprivation . ”

“Yes, and I wanted to get an interview with CEO Han, not someone else . I heard you were talking to the mayor earlier . You are from a poor family, right?”

“Yes, well, yes . ”

“That's good . I guess . Rather than saying that the third generation of chaebol won a prize for spending money, it would be better for the CEO of a poor family, who is thirty years old, winning the prize for hiring a lot of young people . Isn't this a good picture, CEO Han?” he said to me with a rather stupid smile .

I looked at him for a moment . 'This guy… is the one who's been ordered to come by Tak Joon-gi, though he thinks he has not been found out . '

I knew his true identity through Lee Ah-young: the Newsmaker who makes news to sway stock prices and extort money from ants . As I knew he was an assassin, it wouldn't be a bad idea to listen to him .

'It is possible to avoid daggers or trajectories just by looking behind you . If I'm good, I can make a counterattack . '

“It sounds like… that's a good story . All right . Let's do the Interview . ”

He bowed to me and said, “Really? Thank you, CEO Han!”

Secretary Seo behind him opened his thumb . I looked at it and thought inside, 'Huh… it's not an eel you've caught, man . It's a viper . '

“What do you usually see when you look at stocks?”

“I'm more likely to see their future growth potential . Stocks are what grows after eating dreams . I tend to try to predict the future as much as possible . ”

“Oh, I see . But isn't the future unpredictable by people?”

“It's not just impossible . Don't you think that futurologists like Alvin Toffler are amazingly predicting the future? I don't think it's impossible, but I'd like to say it's very difficult . ”

“It's very difficult?”

I said, nodding my head, “Yes . But if I succeed in that difficult thing, the profit is very high . ”

“Oh, that's a good word . ”

He wrote down as he listened to what I was saying . That looked very familiar . I was sure he'd been working as a reporter for a long time .

“And finally, please say something to the young people at this time . ”

“Me?”

“Yes . tell some kind of blessing or some prickly advice to the young men of this age, as a successful man in your thirties . ”

At the words I stroked my chin for a moment and said, shaking my head . “No . I don't want to say that much . ”

“Then…?”

“I just want to cheer them up… that's all I want to tell them . ”

The reporter, Kang Joo-hyuk, stared at me for a moment and said, “But why don't you tell them something a little bit specific? You're a good predictor of the future . Tell them, 'Don't waste your life . What about designing your future? For example, how about learning Chinese? Or why don't you learn coding?'”

I shook my head strongly and said, “I don't want to . I've been successful at an early age, but… that's because I've had some luck, too . It's not entirely my ability . ”

That was not a word of humility . Without the news of 12 Hours After, I wouldn't have been able to do this .

I went on to say, “They all have their own reasons, and to tell an unspecified number of people to do this or that, I… I think it's arrogant . I think it's irresponsible . So… I just want to cheer them up, no matter what the young people do . I want to say that . ”

He quickly typed with his hands . “Then do whatever you want, and do it well?”

But I didn't like it . “No, I don't want to say, 'if you work hard at anything, it will be done . ' I think that's a lie, too . Some things don't work, even if we work hard . Of course, sometimes it's helpful to step back and rest . ”

Reporter Kang Joo-hyuk stared at me .

I went on to say, “So I just want to say, 'Whatever you do, I cheer for you . Cheer up . There are times when luck comes to life . ' That's all I want to say . I got a little bit of wealth at this age, but… I think that's largely due to luck . ”

“Hmm,” Kang Joo-hyuk raised his lower lip and said as if he were somewhat dissatisfied, “Is that so? I see . ”

I didn't know if it was because he didn't have enough for an article, or because it was different from what he thought .

“Then I'll finish the interview with this . The content of the interview will be adapted to the best possible level, and it'll be on our weekly magazine and Internet site in about a week . ”

I nodded, “Yes . ”

Reporter Kang Joo-hyuk put his laptop in his bag .

I was looking at him . 'What is this? Is that it?' I thought so . As soon as I broke up with Director Tak Joon-gi, he asked for an interview, and I thought something was going to come up with a strange offer, but there was no such thing .

'… is he just here to see me today? Is this a pre-investigation?'

But just then, he said, “By the way, this is a personal question…”

I opened my eyes wider . “Tell me . ”

“Who do you think will be chosen as the Old City Regeneration Project maker of Seoul City?”

I said with my eyes blinking, “… what?”

“Don't you know Mayor Joo Sung-won's pledge?”

“Aha… the Old City Regeneration Project . ”

'It was the biggest, number one pledge of Joo Sung-won . Such a pledge is to rejuvenate the Old City spirit by demolishing old buildings in Seoul City, creating new buildings and new commercial districts . To be honest, there are no good pledges like development or redevelopment . It's the kind of commitment that the real estate agents like, the residents like, and everyone likes .

'That's why Dong-bo Construction, in which he was an outside director became a leading stock at the time of the Seoul mayoral election . Usually, most political theme stocks focus on who will be elected before the election, and what the elected will do after the election . It's a so-called policy theme . Now that it's been a little over half a year since Mayor Joo Sung-won was elected, it's time to start the engine . '

I asked him, “Has it been under way lately?”

“Oh, didn't you know that?”

Frankly speaking, I didn't know . There was no such news in the future news . Even without such news, my calendar application was already covered with a treasure map made of initials, so I didn't think to look for it .

“As soon as he was elected, everyone has asked him to keep his promises . It's been a radical development lately, the first redevelopment project in Jung-gu… They're even close to selecting a business operator . ”

“Aha… and does it include Dongbo Construction?”

“No, Dongbo Construction was not on the list, because the mayor used to be an outside director there… I think he just left them out, as he was afraid of preferential treatment . ”

“Huh . ”

'These days, if they have connections, it might be a negative factor since the people around watch that carefully . '

“Then…?

“About five have been nominated… ” He took a piece of paper out of his sleeve .

'Oh, now you've revealed your true mind . '

I could see the paper as a dagger, not the paper itself, but a dagger trying to stab me .

“The most likely ones are Bisang Construction and Jinyang Development here . It's compressed by these two…”

I asked him, “Where did you hear that?”

“Haha . Well, I could hear things here and there… while I was working as a reporter . It's a rumor . Haha . ”

'A rumor? Not one you made up?' I didn't think the nickname “Newsmaker” was made for nothing .

I furtively said, “Oh… so I'll have a good chance if I just pick one here . Isn't that going to be pretty easy?”

He said with a real smile, “Of course!”

Maybe he thought he nearly got the fish, he seemed to be laughing like that . However, I was not a person to be caught easily .

'Pah! Can you hook me up?'

I thought how to sink this guy under the sea, below the surface of the water . That way, he would probably not even be able to shed tears of grief .

Chapter end