Chapter 296 – This Is Inevitable
Lee Sa-ra and Yoo Ga-hye got in the car and returned to the company.
As soon as she returned to the representative office, Lee Sa-ra first gave orders to Yoo Ga-hye.
“Secretary Yoo, go and bring the Queens kids to the representative office.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to bring him in after talking with Manager Lee?”
“Why do you need to do it in that order? Do I have to take care of his permission?”
Isara shoots sharply.
Nothing she said sounded good right now.
“That’s not what I meant… Rather than just bringing him in, wouldn’t there be less backlash if you deal with Manager Lee, talk through him, and then bring him in?”
“Repulsion? “Why are they protesting?”
Lee Sa-ra throws an object that looks like her smart phone at Yoo Ga-hye with a swish.
“Use the app. “Bring me to a state of complete obedience.”
“As soon as… “You mean?”
“Uh. “Now that I’ve decided, I need to move quickly.”
“But wouldn’t it be better to at least do it after this audition is over? Even if the manager in charge changes midway, it will look a bit awkward…”
“No really, Secretary Yu, why do you have so many questions!?”
Isara gets very irritated.
“Are you unhappy with my decision?”
“No, that can’t be possible. “It’s the CEO’s decision…”
“Then! In action!”
Whoosh, Isara pointed out the door with her finger.
It was a gesture telling me to move quickly and not make him more angry.
‘You have completely entered stage 3, runaway mode…’
Unlike usual, he doesn’t have any jokes and just quickly executes what he thinks.
If you bother Isara at this time, sparks will fly here too.
And now, with her hypnosis app in her hand, if it’s sparks flying out of her…
“…I’ll go and get him.”
Yoo Ga-hye did not resist any longer and quickly walked out the door.
After commanding Yu Ga-hye, she was the head of the southern region.
After she left, Issa immediately called Nambu Chief to the representative office.
“Representative, I’m here.”
“Oh, Chief Nambu. Get all the data from The Queens right now. “Get all the paper documents and bring them here, and send all the materials on the intranet to my email.”
“Me?”
Manager Nambu wondered if he could just ask Lee Se-jin to do that, but Isara nodded.
“I will call Manager Lee and ask him to bring it separately. “Director Nam scrapes all the data that Manager Lee doesn’t know about and only public data.”
“May I ask why?”
Isara frowned at Nambu Chief’s question.
The head of the south was a little surprised, as she was not seen often, as she always smiled and told silly jokes.
“No, if you ask me to, can’t you just do what I tell you? “Why does everyone keep pouting at everything they tell me?”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to pout… “I asked because I thought I would need to know the reason so I could know how much data I would collect.”
“It’s because from now on, I’m trying to raise more queens. “Is it okay to explain the reason?”
“…Yes?”
“Now go quickly and get them all out. Organize it neatly in an email so it’s easy for me to understand! “Bring all the original documents and papers, just…!”
Isa-ra got angry and the head of Nam swallowed up all his questions and objections at the sight.
This was because, like Yoo Ga-hye, he was well aware that the current CEO was in a runaway stage.
In times like this, if you bother the CEO for no reason, it will only make you tired, so you should just walk away and watch.
“Okay, I’ll be right back.”
Chief Nam hurriedly headed out the door.
Thanks to that, he was able to avoid seeing Isara run out of patience and take out the hypnosis app.
“Ha, everyone is really just tired.”
Isara, who was left alone, grumbled for a moment and then took out her cell phone to make one last call.
***
Perhaps because the conversation with Cheon Bom was long, the kids had already left the audition venue.
After leaving the audition room for a while, I got back into my car.
On the way back to work, I received a call from Minji, who had come to her senses.
〈Oppa, where are you… ?〉
“I’m on my way to work right now. “Minji, are you feeling okay?”
〈 Yes… It’s gotten a lot better… Then I… I’ll wait in the practice room…〉
“In the practice room? “Are you already there?”
〈 Yes… It’s a practice room… 〉
“You came out right after I left? “Is there So-yeon or Ha-eun next to me?”
〈Yes.〉
“Okay then stay with the kids and I’ll go. “Don’t overdo it now and take a little rest.”
〈 Yes…〉
Beep.
As expected, Minji, your recovery speed is the best.
I never thought he would have come to his senses and gone to work while I was on my way back to the audition room.
As Soye and Dr. Noh said, there was no need to be too considerate.
I need to stop looking at Minji like a child.
〈All right, if you smile today~〉
“Yes, this is Lee Se-jin.”
〈 Sejin, it’s me. 〉
“Yes, Manager. “What’s going on?”
As soon as I finished talking with Minji, I received a call from Manager Nam, as if I had been waiting for him.
〈Where are you now?〉
“I’m on my way to work. “It will arrive shortly.”
〈Really? That’s good. I’ll be in my department, come right here.〉
“Hmm? What’s wrong?”
〈The CEO is… A bit strange.〉
Representative? What happened all of a sudden?
〈The Queens says he will raise it himself…〉
“What do you mean?”
〈 I don’t know why you do that either. But, the CEO often goes crazy? It happens once every few years, but when things don’t go his way and he’s having a hard time, there are times when he gets selfish. 〉
“Isn’t it basically arbitrary?”
〈No, it’s different from that. Should I say that I’m going crazy, but I’m not just doing it for fun, I’m really doing it as I please. You haven’t been like this for a while, but suddenly you’re like this again.〉
Damn it, what is that again?
〈 Anyway, in that situation, you are saying that you will take away The Queens, so you will have to work hard to persuade and calm him down. So, as soon as you arrive, let’s think about it with me. Got it? 〉
“All right.”
Beep.
After Nambu’s phone call, I felt something undesirable.
The CEO is trying to steal the kids?
This does not simply mean that he will take charge of The Queens.
Don’t I know very well what the status of the Honey Girls she is currently in charge of is like?
‘Are you trying to use a hypnosis app?’
Just like he erased my memory, he might do something stupid to the kids.
I quickly called Soye.
〈 Yes, Sejin. 〉
Fortunately, Soye answers the phone right away.
It seems that the CEO’s power has not yet reached its peak.
“Soye, you’re in the practice room right now, right? “First of all, be careful with the representative.”
〈Huh? What are you talking about all of a sudden~? 〉
“I’m going to go and explain, but if possible, don’t meet with the CEO until I leave. I avoid it a bit and just stay in the practice room. They say it’s a top secret exercise or something. Understand?”
〈Uh… Okay. What’s going on? 〉
“It seems like the CEO is trying to change the manager…”
〈… What?〉
“I’ll explain the details first.”
〈 Yes, come quickly. 〉
Beep.
The call hung up, and as I stopped the car at a red light, I took a deep breath.
“Ha…”
The CEO is trying to control you all with a hypnosis app.
How should I explain this?
‘I thought a time like this would come someday…’
I think it’s time to tell my kids about hypnosis apps.
***
Meanwhile, the hallway on the Dao Entertainment practice room floor.
Yoo Ga-hye, who was walking again and again, stopped for a moment.
‘Is this okay?’
She is the one who has seen from the side how the CEO treats the Honey Girls.
They made it into a perfect puppet that only moves according to commands and cannot do anything else.
As a person, when you see something like that, your conscience is pricked in one way or another.
Although they may have done some wrong things in the past, if you were to ask whether it was a crime worthy of being treated like this, it would not be true.
‘The Queens didn’t do anything wrong.’
But now he says he will make The Queens like that.
To prove his abilities, he tries to use The Queens as dolls to show that if he does as he commands, he will become a perfect top-tier idol.
Is that acceptable?
Yoo Ga-hye, who had been feeling remorse for a while, soon burst into laughter.
‘…Is it okay for me to think like this?’
It was self-deprecation.
Until now, you’ve been by her representative’s side and helped her do what she’s doing, and now you’re thinking about this?
If you were going to worry about it, you should have done it sooner.
It’s too late.
‘I have no right to stop you in the first place.’
Yoo Ga-hye herself is an accomplice who has continued to follow the CEO’s words until now.
Moreover, she will continue to follow her words with her own will.
As the CEO said, didn’t you want to see how far you could go in this industry with a hypnosis app?
Don’t you think that you can control a stupid idol who doesn’t listen to you through hypnosis?
‘In the first place, The Queens is already being dominated by a hypnosis app.’
Sejin Lee’s hypnosis app is a weaker version, but it still suffers for a long time.
Just increase the strength of the hypnosis a little and change the person giving the commands.
Therefore, what she is trying to do now is not a particularly bad thing.
It’s late anyway, so there’s no problem with playing around with it a little more.
That’s right, that’s right.
‘This is unavoidable.’
I’m not particularly bad.
It’s just touching on something that’s already been done.
No need to feel guilty, yes.
Ttukttogak, ttuk ttuk.
Yoo Ga-hye walked down the hallway again, and soon she was standing in front of The Queens’ practice room.
“…I’m going to go in here from now on. “If I am in danger or threatened, you must step in and stop me.”
“All right.”
Park Do-an, the former manager of Honey Girls, responded to Lee Sa-ra’s command in an emotionless voice.
I don’t know how well a guy who runs on a hypnosis app will act as a bodyguard, but it’s better than nothing.
Smart.
“This is Yoo Ga-hye. “Please excuse me for a moment.”
Decided, she opened the door and went inside without waiting for her answer.
