Chapter 54 – 053+ Prologue
Slap-
It is difficult to call it a hallway as it is separated from the workroom by a partition. With a slapping sound that wasn’t small, the woman in the luxurious office look stumbled and sat down.
The female employees who were passing by the wall and the male employees who were doing their work from across the partition opened their eyes wide and looked at the man who slapped the woman.
A woman looking up at a sharp-fitting man in a gray suit sitting down, unable to believe the reality of being slapped.
A man looking down at such a woman with an expressionless face.
“Just now…… Did you hit her?”
“Heo Woo-dae is fine, isn’t he crazy?”
“Who is it?”
“Looks like Hwanin from HR Team 1…….”
“What is going on?”
Just by looking at a woman, rumors of a man beating a woman in an era where there is a lot of talk about rape and sexual harassment spread across the screen and among male employees.
On the contrary, women just watch with eyes full of anticipation to see how such a situation came to be and what chaos will follow.
“…….”
However, the mayhem that the women hoped for did not happen.
The man looked at the woman with emotionless eyes for a moment, then turned her body and disappeared.
“See what?! Can’t you look away right now!?”
He looked around and screamed with his eyes wide open.
The quick-witted person quickly left the place, and the unnoticed person had his head bowed under the partition by the person next to him.
As her surroundings quieted down, the woman who had been wheezing against her pretty face gnashed her teeth and disappeared. The momentum was so ferocious that the male employees hiding under the screen were almost swallowing their saliva.
After confirming that the woman was gone, the employees behind the partition exchanged stories in low voices.
“The woman slapped on the cheek is Manager Kang’s daughter, right? Planning department…….”
“Uh. They said he was good at his job but had a great personality, so he was real.”
“How did you get slapped by a man?”
“No, more than that, who was the man who slapped me in the face? Does anyone know?”
“I know. I’m Hwanin’s assistant manager for HR Team 1.”
“Oh that…… A friend who doesn’t know what you’re thinking?”
“I heard he was a very blunt person.”
“It’s expressionless and doesn’t talk much, but they say it has a normal personality.”
“Oh, I remember too. I heard the managers say that I don’t harm others and I do my job well, but I don’t get along well with people.”
“Why did someone like that slap Director Kang’s daughter?”
“I know.”
“Why?”
“Kuhm!”
As the chief glared at him with unkind eyes and cleared his throat, the staff members who had grown in his gaze hurriedly dispersed, and the small turmoil at 2pm seemed to come to an end.
“Whoa…….”
“…….”
“Hey, Ina.”
“Yes.”
“Why did you do that? Of all things, the daughter of that manager…….”
“…….”
The shooter, who was sighing with his arms hanging over the railing on the rooftop, asked again as he looked at Hwanin, who was standing there silently like a jangseung.
“Tell me something. You have to tell me why, how can I play Kabara? What if you keep your mouth shut like a clam? Yes?”
“…….”
“Hi and…….”
The shooter, who was expressing his frustration, took out the last cigarette from the crumpled cigarette pack, put it in his mouth and lit it. As if to represent his feelings, the pipe burns quickly.
The shooter, who had been smoking a cigarette without a word, said, rubbing the cigarette with only the filter remaining on the portable ashtray.
“I know very well that you are not the kind of person who would use violence against a man. She probably did or was trying to do something mean to you.”
“…….”
“That crazy girl…… Big. If she’s that woman, she’ll never sit still. It’s something Manager Kang might do. If that line moves, there will be a situation where our side may have to step in, but no matter how much we are in Choi’s line…….”
It was a long sentence, but in summary it meant ‘I can’t protect you’.
In the end, Hwanin’s eyes narrowed whenheheard that he had to kneel down and bow his head before becoming a victim of the company’s power game.
Through the shooter’s reaction, I realized that the bald chief, who could be said to be in charge, had no intention of stepping out.
Hwanin listened to the bullshit of the shooter with one ear and let it out with the other, and began to devise a means to protect himself.
The culprit who caused this situation was Kang Ha-yeon, a woman named Kang Ha-yeon, who, by name, was the manager of Saman Corporation, the 149th in the esoteric business world, and parachuted into the planning department with the glare of such a father.
To express Kang Ha-yeon, it was possible with just one word.
Yellow dog.
As a member of the upper class, if not the uppermost class of society, he is a low-end human being who grew up doing everything he wanted to do and tried.
If there was something she wanted, she was a woman who would have to have it at all costs, and if she heard something she didn’t like, she would have to raise her cheek on the spot to feel relieved.
A woman who is recognized by both men and women for her beautiful appearance and smart brain, acting wickedly beyond her cleverness, avoiding the law and even crossing the realm of her crimes.
After entering the company, such a woman took over the planning office in a short period of time, using her innate talent and back, and became a real power.
“Recently, Director Park’s movements have been unusual. I’m busy monitoring that side, so you’ll have to monitor the neutral line, Executive Director Choi.”
“Can I choose the means on my own?”
“I believe you will do well, but don’t do anything big. Even if Executive Director Choi sticks to Manager Park, he won’t be a big threat…….”
“Because it’s very annoying, right?”
“Okay.”
The moment her father instructed her, Kang Ha-yeon, who concocted a suitable scenario for her with her clever mind, first thought of Hwan-in, who is called the wooden doll of the personnel team 1.
If it was natural, it was natural.
Her preference is a taciturn handsome man. After she joined the company, she went back and forth to her company and saw Hwanin a few times, a man who exactly penetrated her taste.
Moreover, even though it’s only a few months, her work ability is enough to put her in charge one step ahead of her peers, and her reticent personality is enough to earn her the nickname of a wooden doll. If you fall into her honey trap, there is no doubt that he will become your own good eyes and ears.
If you use him, even his father will be able to achieve satisfactory results.
He was keeping quiet because of his father’s face, but it was a car he had promised to get his hands on someday, but it was arranged like this.
Kang Ha-yeon was thrilled with a sly smile on her lips.
Her honey trap is her specialty.
The current social atmosphere was very favorable to women.
A natural victim of patriarchy.
A victim of a male supremacist society.
Thanks to the all-purpose word of gender sensitivity, there is a widespread trend that it is natural for women to be treated preferentially as a relative minority.
If you jump on the bandwagon of this atmosphere, especially in the sexual part, it is a woman’s power to turn an innocent person into a perpetrator with a consistent statement.
She’s also had a few people go downhill in this way throughout her social life, including college.
‘Men are simple. There is no man who won’t come over if I gently shake a carrot while alternately threatening and placating him.’
While taking a shower, Kang Ha-yeon touched her lean and attractive body reflected in the full-length mirror.
Her breasts were big enough to hold with both hands, her waist was narrow enough to fit into a man’s arm, and the line from her waist to her hips was artistic like a statue.
Her mother’s blood, a former top model, has been strongly inherited, and her Western-style body, her own body cultivated through yoga and Pilates, her social status, and her outstanding appearance, her honey trap success rate is 100%. Will reach 200% beyond.
How many men have been fooled by her own hands from her middle school to high school and college?
When she recalled her memories of playing by enslaving both the president of the student council and the department head at the same time as an undergraduate, Kang Ha-yeon felt her slight fever creep up in her belly.
Kang Ha-yeon, who swept her well-groomed pubic hair once, let out a sigh that trembled at her thrill and pressed the clitoris with her index finger.
A tingling sensation spread throughout the lower body, and the heart started beating.
Then she suddenly twisted her mouth.
Based on her experience with several men, she confidently plotted her plans and put them into practice. She was strong-willed, but things did not go the way she thought.
After receiving her father’s order, she first approached her under the guise of coincidence in a place out of sight of others.
Hwanin grabbed her shoulder as if a piece of wood had touched her, and gently pushed her away.
Hwanin took it off as if it were not a big deal, as if leaves had been blown away by the wind, despite the gesture that everyone seemed to like him and the barrage of gifts like drinks with small notes attached to them.
So Kang Ha-yeon’s pride was hurt.
‘How dare you reject me? What are you doing!’
Because he had researched in advance, he was well aware of the personal details of Hwanin.
Her parents died in a car accident. She has no siblings and is on bad terms with her in-laws.
She doesn’t have a girlfriend, she doesn’t have frequent friends, and she doesn’t interact with other people.
She is a bored person who stops by her regular bar once or twice a week after work and visits the mountain once a month for her hobby called bushcraft.
She has no family and no girlfriend. Kang Ha-yeon thought that she would be able to wrap such a Hwanin around her skirt in three or three days, but since she hadn’t seen any results for over two weeks, her self-esteem was slowly hurting along with impatience.
Hwanin wasn’t the only thing on her list. She also had the second and third ranks, so it was okay for her to attack them, but she couldn’t stand the fact that there were men who wouldn’t fall for her.
‘If I can’t do it in a nice way, I have no choice but to use a whip.’
It was Kang Ha-yeon, who revealed her original temperament, feeling annoyance and anger at Hwan-in, who rejected her temptation.
Next day.
Kang Ha-yeon summoned her Hwanin to the meeting room at the end of the hallway where people did not come and go, revealing her original personality and urging her to follow her own orders.
With her blackmail that if she refused, she would spread an issue that would do devastating damage to her social life.
“See? When this becomes an issue, you are buried in society. You know? Society is very tolerant of women now.”
“…….”
In the several pictures shaking in Kang Ha-yeon’s hand, anyone could see that Hwan-in was harassing Kang Ha-yeon.
In reality, it was the opposite. It is a fabricated but not fabricated photo taken as insurance when Kang Ha-yeon makes physical contact pretending to be a coincidence.
The exquisite composition and angle made Kang Ha-yeon look like a victim even to experts.
Kang Ha-yeon felt the thrill of stabbing her womb as she stared at the picture in her hand in silence.
The joy that comes from the sense of absolute superiority that she can drive her opponent to social death with a single gesture of her own, that she is holding on to the other person’s leash but the opponent cannot even resist.
It’s okay if Hwanin threatens himself here and uses force.
Rather, it is to be welcomed. Since he had taken measures in preparation for an emergency, nothing dangerous would happen to him, and the fact that Hwanin had punched him would be an even more certain noose.
Conversely, it is not bad to give in. It was also her preference to make a man as upright as a jangseung kneel down and crawl on the floor.
Kang Ha-yeon predicted several actions her Hwanin would take, and she smiled at her conversion as she calculated the benefits she would gain for herself and her father.
However, Hwanin chose an action that defied her expectations.
“Uh, where are you going?!”
She ignored Kang Ha-yeon and left her conference room.
Judging that her Hwanin was running away, Hayeon Kang chased after him and grabbed her by the shoulder from behind.
She has been exposed to the gaze of others, but such trifles do not matter.
And at the feeling of her shoulder holding her, ‘Oh, isn’t it solid? Her muscles are in good shape…….’ The moment I thought about it.
Slap-
A spark flickered in front of her eyes and her mind became distant, and when she came to her senses after a while, she sat down and found herself looking up at Hwanin’s emotionless eyes.
“…… You could be sued, and in the worst case, you could be fired, and you wouldn’t be able to live on the ground. Director Kang has the power to do that. Hey, are you listening?”
Hwan-in, who heard the bullshit in one ear and let go of the shooter’s useless bullshit, which was more like a threat to go and kneel down and apologize rather than worry, turned around and walked away from the shooter.
I organized the information about Kang Ha-yeon and Director Kang, and set priorities for the work to be done in the future.
She must act first before she can make a move.
“Wow, is that crazy? I’m talking…… Man, where are you going!? Aren’t you coming right now!?”
All he knows how to do is flirt with the bald chief.
Moreover, he was a hwanin who obsessed only with his own self-defense and did not think that the bald manager would protect him, going back and forth like a bat.
The testament of his parents who made every effort to assimilate into society as he was born with a personality problem.
In order to protect it, he acted like a normal person and went to work, but thinking that that was the end, Hwanin left the company behind the shooter who was swearing at him.
After all, it’s past work hours.
“…….”
After leaving the front door and looking up at the office building that was tinged with darkness, Hwanin was lost in thought for a moment.
Hwanin’s parents, who passed away in a car accident, gave Hwanin an eye-level education while logically pointing out the reasons why he should not live while causing harm to others.
I don’t know when I was young, but I felt that what my parents said was right, so rather than not harming others, he has acted like others to avoid harming himself.
It was not difficult for Hwanin, who was smart and quick-witted, to observe and imitate the behavior of his peers. With the help of her parents here, she could be evaluated as a little unusual child, but she was able to avoid the gaze that there was a problem on the mental side.
It was when I came across the Psycho-Pass article while using the Wikipedia site when I was in middle school that I was able to see and feel that Hwanin’s thoughts were further developed and broader.
The next day, Hwan-in, who spent a whole day in the library reading related books, visited a psychopath diagnosis site.
Hwanin, who meticulously filled out more than a hundred items, received a psychopath score that was never low as a result, and rationally concluded that his parents were great.
Because he did not give up on his abnormal self and raised him to look no different from a normal person through dedicated efforts.
“…….”
Anyway, as long as the opponent does not pose a threat beyond the standard due to such a growth process, Hwanin will only watch.
However, once the threat exceeded a certain level, it never stayed still.
It is to collect information from people who have been connected with oneself in various ways, to forge a social blade to identify and bury the other person’s weaknesses, and when that happens, stab it without hesitation.
Of course, he leaves no traces of what he did in the process.
As a result, Hwanin’s response was inevitably defensive.
“…….”
Since he was a Hwanin who had wielded a blade several times in the past, he had no objection to wielding a sword. But now it’s a bit…… To express it, I felt regret.
Instead of passively moving like this, I wondered what it would have been like to act proactively and eliminate the threat in advance.
If his father had been alive, what answer would he have given to the question he is now asking?
What did her mother, who always hugged her warmly, say?
Hwanin got up and headed home, thinking that he would like to see his deceased parents today.
