15. Three ways to kill your boss (12)
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Minjun expected two things from his interrogation of Kim Yeonju.
One, reveal what they did to Jang Tae-jun in collusion with Edelines. Even if the kidnapping is not successful, if we investigate the process and motive of the failure, we will get closer to finding out the truth about Jang Tae-jun.
Second, if the frying pan’s statement is true, Kim Yeon-ju’s testimony was false from the beginning, and the two were quite close. Kim Yeon-ju may know his secret that no one else knows.
However, Minjun had not expected from the beginning that Kim Yeonju would cooperate readily during this interrogation process.
“That dragon planned and executed everything on his own! I had no choice but to do as he said because of the threats!”
In preparation for such a situation, Jeong-pal had locked Kim Yeon-ju up in a private storage room that Min-jun had rented separately. It was a place where he had previously stamped his footprints during a joint investigation on another case.
He informed Kim Yeon-ju of the charges while transporting her, but the suspect desperately denied them.
Minjun sat facing her.
“······!”
At that moment, Kim Yeon-ju felt a pressure weighing down her entire body.
The eyes of the man I met were piercingly cold. It felt as if frost was forming on my own pupils as I looked at him.
Minjun said calmly.
“Dong-beom, Edelines has already been arrested.”
The suspect’s entire body muscles become more rigid.
“I heard from your phone conversation today that you two seem to be very close. How long have you known each other?”
Repeating questions that have not been answered in the office.
Kim Yeon-ju barely gathered all her courage and protested.
“That… is a misunderstanding. ······I’ll say it again. That dragon unilaterally threatened me···.”
Cut off the conversation.
“That can’t be true.”
The hormones emitted from Kim Yeon-ju’s body were too strong to be considered that way. Chemical substances that are expressed more strongly when in close contact with a target of temptation for a long time. If the scent was so strong that it hurt Min-jun’s nose, there was only one answer.
“I am sure. The two of them had a relationship that was much greater than what they just testified. So, the shallow trick of lying to avoid the charges alone will not work.”
His gaze briefly brushed past her hand. The blush on her face grew deeper. Minjun didn’t believe the nonsense about being threatened.
In fact, there was one flaw in Chairman Jenkinson’s reasoning about the collusion between Kim Yeon-joo and Mangnani Dragon.
‘Jenkins is from a family close to nobility, and his exile to Earth was also for political reasons. As a result, he only half understands the psychology of the dragons who have relatively little… especially the younger ones.’
Despite possessing far greater abilities and wealth than the average race, they developed an inferiority complex when comparing themselves to the Elder Dragons, the de facto rulers of Earth. This anger is often expressed by belittling and despising other races.
‘Assuming that it was the work of those guys, there is something strange about this incident.’
A question that remained unanswered until I met Kim Yeon-ju.
Let’s say that Jang Tae-jun, who is studying dragon genes, decides to reveal his secret to the dragon. What happens next? How did he find out who and where the suitable dragon is that will move as Kim Yeon-ju wants?
And according to the psychology of ‘those dragons’ that Minjun knows, Kim Yeonju, who approached him to use him, should have been torn to pieces. How dare you try to use the great dragon as a long-term pawn! Kkwarung!
However, Kim Yeon-ju survived unscathed, Hyosung Industrial is still intact and is still going strong, and Kim Yeon-ju is even acting as the de facto leader.
When we put all this together, the conclusion was the same.
‘That dragon had a good reason to not only keep Kim Yeon-ju alive, but also help her.’
And the answer came thanks to the dragon-attracting hormones I felt when I first met her.
‘I didn’t go to find the dragon to kidnap Jang Tae-jun. The chronological order is reversed.’
Kim Yeon-ju knew about the dragon before she decided to kidnap Jang Tae-jun.
That too, while maintaining a very intimate relationship. Long enough for the ISP to manifest.
“?”
Jeongpal stuttered as he felt the story was going in an unexpected direction.
“Ah… No way, then?”
A few hours ago, the orc wondered how Minjun had accurately picked Edelines out of the three suspects.
The answer was simple.
Edelines is the only lesbian of the three.
***
Kim Yeon-ju trembled and shook her body.
“Evidence obtained through wiretapping is invalid in court…!”
He cuts me off again.
“Don’t worry. I’ll get your confession right again. Here.”
In the end, it even makes you use magic.
Since the other party was not a member of a criminal organization with supernatural powers, I tried to use the least harmful means possible, but there was no sign of cooperation.
‘I can’t help it.’
Minjun grumbled and raised his good right hand. His black magic had been charged enough when he caught the dragon, so there was no need to harm himself again.
Boogle!
A small bump appeared on her finger and burst. A worm wriggled on her red, peeling skin. Kim Yeon-ju gasped at the sight. She instinctively felt something ominous and twisted her body.
But it was no use.
Shhh!
The Happy Bug, sensing her breath, bounced and dove into her nasal cavity.
What followed was a similar process to the one when interrogating the Society members. After the bug settled into his brain, Minjun recited the mantra, and the violent stimulation created an illusion. A brief moment of fake happiness immediately took over her. And after 10 minutes, the overwhelming sensation completely receded.
“Ugh… Eeeeek!”
As if she had encountered the cold she had forgotten, Kim Yeon-ju was shivering all over.
“Please, please···..”
He pleads with tears in his eyes.
“Please, again, send me back······.”
I didn’t wonder what I saw in that vision.
Minjun speaks in a cold voice.
“Now, what you say from now on will be recorded. Tell me slowly, step by step, without leaving anything out. What you conspired with Edelines to do against President Jang Tae-jun. And everything you know about President Jang Tae-jun.”
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Minjun looks at Jeongpal. The recording preparations were complete.
“Well then, shall we begin?”
***
As Minjun knew, Jang Taejun and Kim Yeonju first met 10 years ago, when the company had just been founded.
President Jang Tae-jun grew a small company to its current size in 10 years with his extensive knowledge, outstanding business sense, and genius ideas. As the company expanded explosively, they were busy in the beginning, to the point where 24 hours in a day were not enough. Even then, the two, who were single like now, spent the whole day together, ate together, shared personal stories, and eventually even slept together occasionally.
It was an ambiguous relationship. They never talked about their future. However, Kim Yeon-ju knew that Jang Tae-jun had no other woman besides her. It was because his schedule didn’t allow time for that. Kim Yeon-ju was the same.
So, although she never said it out loud, Kim Yeon-ju thought the relationship would continue.
That was until Jang Tae-jun started saying something strange one day.
‘Please don’t misunderstand what I say.’
The words that began like that contained content that could not help but be misunderstood.
‘I think I’ll have to leave here soon. I’ll have to go quite far.’
It was an absurd statement. After all that hard work to grow the company, you’re leaving?
When asked which country he was going to, Jang Tae-jun avoided giving a definite answer.
‘So, I think it would be better for you to meet someone else now.’
The man who had been with me for nearly 10 years in both work and personal life never explained to me exactly when I would leave, where I would go, or why I had to go… nothing.
Kim Yeon-ju was angry, but she couldn’t say, “Then let’s end it here.” She was afraid that if she did, it would be irreversible. Instead, she went to a bar she didn’t usually go to, alone, and drank like crazy. Then, a person approached her. It was a young woman with tattoos and piercings all over her body.
I knew I had that tendency, but I never dreamed that something like this would happen when I was in my forties. The woman who introduced herself as ‘Ethel’ revealed that she was a dragon after a few nights of sex.
Kim Yeon-ju maintained relationships with both Ethel and Jang Tae-jun for a while. Romancing someone from another race was quite thrilling, and meeting Jang Tae-jun was even more heartbreaking when the end was imminent… but there was a sense of stability that comes with meeting someone for a long time.
‘Taejun was the one who told me to meet someone else in the first place. I just did what I was told.’
Of course, I never said that I should meet both at the same time, but the self-justification was sweet.
‘What? I… what?’
A few months after starting the affair, Kim Yeon-ju discovered something was wrong with her body. She went to the gynecologist to see if she was pregnant with Jang Tae-jun’s child, and heard something unexpected.
‘This may be an unfamiliar concept to the patient.’
ISP expression.
It sounded like some being beyond her was advising her that she had done enough tightrope walking. It was time to end this situation.
Guided by something that could be intuition or a premonition, Kim Yeon-ju spoke to Jang Tae-jun that day.
At that time, Jang Tae-jun didn’t show it, but she felt like he was being chased by something. She ignored it.
‘I went to the hospital today. I’m an ISP manifester. I think I’m a dragon.’
This was tantamount to a roundabout confession of infidelity.
However, Jang Tae-jun didn’t seem surprised at all upon hearing those words. Instead, he spoke to her very calmly.
‘Oh, is that so?’
And after thinking for a moment, Jang Tae-jun said something she couldn’t even imagine.
‘Then, can I ask you a favor?’
And when she heard the words that followed, Kim Yeon-ju still cannot forget the complicated emotions she felt.
Despair, anger, a sense of absurd exhaustion. And yet, a feeling of… a glimmer of hope.
Jang Tae-jun said this to her.
‘If it’s okay… could I get some blood?’
***
The moment Kim Yeon-ju imitated Jang Tae-jun’s words, Min-jun’s face turned pale and hardened.
