12 Hours After Chapter 79

Translator: Khan

Editor: Aelryinth

Shin Dong-woo, president of the Kai Games, introduced me to each of the directors of the Kai Games .

“This is the chief of development general . ”

“This is Chae Joong-sun . Nice to meet you . ”

“Thank you . I'm Han Sang Hoon . ”

I held his hand and waved it, but I put my attention on Director Tak Joon-gi, who sat in the back .

'I thought I'd see him someday, but… I didn't think that was going to happen today . '

He was the third-largest shareholder of the Kai Games, but he didn't seem to directly interfere with management, similarly to me . He also didn't have a formal title, like an outside director . But today, he showed up with the directors at this meeting where we greeted one another .

'Has he come to see who became the first major shareholder?'

I tried to sneak a look at him, but every time Mr . Shin showed up with new faces and introduced them to me .

“This is Kim Young-ji, the finance director . ”

“Nice to see you . ”

“Yes, good to see you . ”

By the end of the greetings, it wasn't until the last minute that Tak Joon-gi stood up . As he moved, I could see the people next to him flinching away . They bent over and gave way to the king, as if they were the followers . Tak Joon-gi was moving forward .

CEO Shin also stood aside and said, “This is Tak Joon-gi, our third-largest shareholder . ”

He only had a 5 percent stake, but they treated him as a superior . Perhaps the fact that he was the third generation of a chaebol family, and that he was a big hand in the investment industry, was a big factor . I faced him . He was quite tall, about 180cm tall, slightly taller than me . I looked up and met his eyes .

Looking closer, his image was definitely different from when I had seen him from a distance in the Garden Envy . His eyebrows were thick, his nose was big and slim, and he felt like a big man as a whole, but his eyes were small and long, so I could not tell what was inside . In addition, his lips were thin and small, so he seemed to be rather petty .

He extended his hand and said, “I am Tak Joon-gi, it's good to see you . ”

As I had done when I had met Kaiji outside last time, I greeted him, “I've met you for the first time . I'm Han Sang-hoon . ” I spoke as if there had been no business in the Garden Envy .

He looked at me and said, his eyes shining, “Yes, Mr . Han . I've heard a lot about you . ”

The look was like saying, 'I know you have been to Garden Envy . '

'What the…?'

I tried to find out what his intention was . “Oh, really? Where did you hear my story…?”

At my words, he laughed and spoke vaguely, “Here and there . ”

I thought, letting go of his hand in moderation . 'This man… he's certainly a man who I should be careful of . '

If Garden Envy was a den of snakes, then this person was the huge snake that moved them, a python . I shook hands with him last, and then followed Mr . Shin's guidance and went up to the top of the podium .

“Now, Han Sang-hoon, who is a major shareholder of our company, will say something . ”

I made the same inaugural address that I had done for the inauguration for OH Entertainment; I just changed the name to Kai Games .

“ . . and full investment and support to Kai Games…”

There was no need for procedures such as having delegation ceremony like OH Entertainment . Shin Dong-woo, the founder of the company, was already at the center of the company .

“I'm confident of the success of the Kai Games…”

While giving a speech, I took a peek at President Shin Dong-woo . He looked at me in a friendly manner . Like OH Entertainment, I said, “I'm not going to touch any game development . Just make a good game . ”

As I had said so, he was now able to devote himself to developing the game without any interference . I heard that the Chinese board of directors asked many things and interfered in game development .

– You shouldn't have this white bone . -

– Let's do this in red . -

– Please do something that will work in China . -

They had been giving such orders, and he had been quite stressed . Now that all the Chinese board members had resigned after taking over the company, President Shin Dong-woo had no one to tell him what to do with development . It was natural for him to thank me, because I had drawn thorns out from his eyes . He would be more concerned with development .

“… I'd like to ask you…”

As soon as I was done, everyone clapped enthusiastically, to impress the new owner . But one person, Director Tak Joon-gi, was like leader Kim Jeong-eun in North Korea, crossing his palm up and down and clapping slowly . He was using that manner, 'Let's see how you do . '

'Oh, yeah . You're a royal family . Is that it?'

He had probably lived being clapped at rather than clapping . After the meeting with the board members, I followed Mr . Shin's guidance and looked around the entire company . Looking back at the game developer, it was certainly exciting . When I saw the games up on the monitor, I could see Fantasy War Ground, the big hit of the future .

“It's a new genre of Battle Royale, which has transformed modern war into a fantasy fight with swords, bows, or magic instead of guns . We'll be in CBT soon for the regular users . ”

'This game will be the ultimate hit that will captivate gamers all over the world . '

I'd been looking around the whole company like that .

“Then I hope you work hard to the end . ”

“Yes, of course!”

After a last-minute goodbye with Shin, I returned to the underground parking lot .

As soon as I got into the car, Secretary Seo said, “That Fantasy War Ground looked so interesting when I saw it in front of me . I think it's going to be a big hit . ”

I nodded, “Sure . I told you that it's going to succeed . ”

Secretary Seo looked at me in a rear-view mirror . “I think you have an amazing perspective . Really . ”

“No, no . ”

But then my cell phone rang, and a text came in . It was an unknown number, but I could tell who sent it by looking at the text .

– This is Master T . I would like to see you at the cafe on the second floor, in front of the Kai Games . Duros . -

Director Tak Joon-gi, Master T, wrote the text and sent it with my nickname in the Garden Envy . He knew that I had attended the meeting he had hosted .

'But how did you know that?'

I had time to recuperate and reflect . I'd only been to the meeting once and never given my name there . I'd only seen him once in the distance . He was surrounded by people and didn't even have time to see me .

'What possible scenario…'

There were only two possibilities that I could think of right now: first, Kaiji, Director Lee Won-jae, made a statement to him . Second, Section-chief Kim Hye-sook, who had given me an invitation to Garden Envy, sold the information .

'… Who was it?'

I was thinking about it, Secretary Seo started the car . Of course, it was time to get off work . I stopped him, “Secretary Seo, wait a minute . ”

“Yes?”

“Wait here for a moment… No . Go on home . I'll get off here . ”

“Yes?”

“It's because I've got some personal business to do around here . Go ahead . ”

At my words, Secretary Seo tilted his head, but he obeyed my order .

“Yes, sir . Boss . ”

I crossed the crosswalk at the green light . On the second floor of the building across from Kai Games, there was a large dessert cafe, as Director Tak Joon-gi had said . I thought as I entered the building, 'Why is this guy calling me… …what the hell is he trying to do?'

I doubted him . But no one could cheat on me . I had an eye for the future . Even if someone was trying to tie me up with a lie, I was confident that I would resist it . Entering the cafe, Director Tak Joon-gi waved his hand at me from the inside corner . I approached him and sat down and said, “Why did you ask me to meet you?”

At my words, he grinned and said, “No, well… It wasn't because of something . I just wanted to see you personally . As you know… I like excellent investors . By the way, you are a 29-year-old man with $60,000,000 assets . It was very interesting . ”

He seemed to know only with the assets of Invictus Investment .

'It's $160,000,000, not $60,000,000 . '

He couldn't have imagined I had earned $60,000,000 more in my personal accounts in two months after investing $30,000,000 into Invictus Investment . Even if he was a member of the royal family, a human was only a human being . No person with power could know the future . That meant, no matter how much he held his form in front of me, it just seemed ridiculous in my eyes .

He said, tapping his finger twice against the window where the Kai Games looked . “I'd like to ask you, by the way . Why did you buy this company?”

I answered simply, “I think it's a good game company . ”

He looked at me with his snake-like eyes, having hands on his chin . “Is that just about it?”

“Yes . I enjoy investing in game companies . Isn't the sale all for the game company? It's good because it's simple . If the game hits, the stock price goes up . If it fails, it goes down . I approached it in that sense . Especially this beginning… it is considered to be a work of both stability and novelty by mixing fantasy with the popular Battle Royale genre . ”

He didn't seem to know much about the game . Even though he was in his forties, I felt like he couldn't understand anything when I was talking about the Battle Royale genre .

'But if he were a son of a rich family, would he have played a game? He was probably golfing and traveling abroad at that time . ' I asked him the same question, “Why did you buy this company?”

He once again said with a sizzling smile at my words . “I'm confident that I can sell it and make money . ”

I asked him implicitly, “Well… did Director Tak have a good view of the game, too?”

If he pretended to know here, he was 100% lying . But he began to laugh openly at my words . “Hahaha!”

As I tilted my head, suddenly he looked straight at me and said one more thing, “I don't know the game . ”

It was a remark that I didn't understand with common sense . He didn't know the game, but he bought the game stock .

But he twinkled his eyes and said, “But I still know the stock . You know, stocks are a kind of pyramid scheme, a trick game . ”

At the remark, I thought once again, 'This man is a dangerous man . ' But nevertheless, I decided to listen to him more .

'A crisis is an opportunity in the stock market . If this person tries to put me in danger, that will be an opportunity, too . '

I grinned at him and said, “That's right . ”

Chapter end