Genius Manager Who Hears Voices - Chapter 104



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Episode 104

Heeseong’s expression suddenly became blank.

With his eyebrows furrowed deeply, he quickly spoke into the receiver again.

“Who did you just say? Are you the singer Kim Ji-yu? Kim Ji-yu from Delight… …?”

-Yes, that Kim Ji-yu. She came to me a few days ago and asked me to find out something about the CEO of her agency. She said that absolutely no one should know that she made this request.

“Are you sure? How did you know exactly where the first detective agency was?”

-How would you know? Delight is right across from our office, right? He said he stopped by after much deliberation. He said he came to the entrance several times and then went back.

This was something I never expected.

It’s surprising that celebrity Kim Ji-yu personally visited a detective agency, but the request was to investigate her uncle.

At first, I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

“Could you tell me what the request is about? You said earlier that it overlaps with mine.”

-Yes, I should have kept quiet about it, but this is my first time in this situation, so I’m quite flustered. I keep getting requests for background checks on the same person every few days.

Beep beep beep.

After a brief sound of the car moving backwards, Choi Pil-hwan continued speaking.

– He asked me to find out every move of CEO Kim Seong-chan. The period was one week, and he wanted me to find out everything, including his personal time outside of work. Who he meets, what he does, and where his major expenses are spent.

“What are your major expenses?”

-Yes, in a nutshell, I want you to investigate where I spend my money. Is it for business purposes or is it a personal spending spree? I want you to find out everything without fail, and I will make the decision myself.

“Hmm… … .”

-So I’m in Gangwon-do now. I haven’t had a single roll of kimbap yet because I’ve been following you around since morning. Phew, I’m so hungry I could die.

The fact that Kim Ji-yu asks her uncle to track her every move means that she too is suspicious of something.

Moreover, I asked that the major expenditure details be examined more closely.

He had strong doubts about the situation, which was not resolved at all despite selling the building and giving tens of billions in cash.

“Did you just say Gangwon-do? Where in Gangwon-do are you?”

-Why? Are you sure the manager is coming too? All the way here?

“Yes. Since CEO Choi went there, it means that CEO Kim Seong-chan is also staying there. Since I made the request, I also have to watch the situation.”

With those words, Heeseong picked up a ballpoint pen and ripped off a piece of memo.

Then he left a message of apology to the vegetable gardener.

-Sorry, sister. Next time I’ll treat you to a nice place.

***

After running for two hours, Hee-seong arrived in front of a villa located in a remote area of ​​Gangwon-do.

First, I turned off the lights as Choi Pil-hwan had requested, parked the car a little way away, and got into his car.

“Hey, what is this? Is this a bulgogi burger?!”

“I happened to come across a drive-thru on my way here. I guess we’re just going to eat and survive.”

“Oh my… … This is so touching that I’m almost crying. My stomach was already on the verge of sticking to my back.”

As if he wasn’t joking, Choi Pil-hwan hurriedly took off the wrapping and took a big bite of the hamburger as if he was stuffing himself in it.

Heeseong asked Choi Pil-hwan, who was mumbling while putting French fries in his mouth.

“But didn’t you say that you followed CEO Kim Seong-chan? Why did you come to a villa like this… ?”

Even while driving here, I wondered if I had entered the address wrong because it was such a remote place.

At some point, the dirt road continued on and we gradually got closer and closer to the mountain.

But when we actually arrived at the location, there was an incredibly luxurious villa right there.

Considering Kim Seong-chan’s current financial situation, it was hard to accept that he was staying in a place like this.

“That’s right. I’ve been following this guy around for days now, and I don’t know what’s going on. It’s so different from what I heard when I first received the request.”

“What did you hear? From Kim Ji-yu?”

“Yes, he told me to be careful because he was being heavily harassed by loan sharks and that he might be in danger. He said he might get caught if he did something wrong. So I thought he was a guy with a lot of debt, but after watching him for a few days, I realized that wasn’t the case at all. He was just spending money like crazy.”

“… … What are you talking about? Representative Kim Seong-chan?”

Choi Pil-hwan nodded while slurping down his cola.

“The strange thing is that he never goes to places like bars or entertainment establishments. But he leaves home at midnight. And he goes to quiet pubs. You know, places where you can have a beer and play darts? He goes there every single day.”

“A pub alone? Without a companion?”

“Yes, I was always alone. I just watched from outside for a day or two, but he came out only when the sun was rising every day, so I wondered what he was doing. So from the third day on, I went in too. But there was a reason why he was shut in there and wouldn’t come out.”

“Why? What… …?”

Choi Pil-hwan answered with a laugh, as if he still found it shocking to think about it again.

“This guy is totally crazy about gambling. From the outside, the pub looks like just another place for young people to hang out, but when you go inside, there’s a completely closed room. That’s where they were gambling. Playing cards all night.”

“Gambling… cards?”

My mouth fell open at the unexpected development.

I was momentarily relieved when I heard that they wouldn’t allow anyone to go into bars or entertainment establishments, but gambling?

I wondered how a person with private debts could gamble.

It’s still too early to be surprised, Choi Pil-hwan continued talking while munching on a hamburger.

“As I was hanging around among the young people, a thug came up to me and asked if I had come to play games. When I said I had come to play games and asked how to get in, he asked me about my job and other things and let me in without any problems. But when I went in, I saw that it was a completely illegal gambling house. And the smallest chip started at 1 million won.”

“One million won for one chip? Then that… … .”

“Yes, it was a completely illegal gambling house and it was huge in terms of size. I knew that there were more than one or two gambling houses like that in Seoul, but this was the first time I saw one of that scale. The smallest one starts at 1 million won, so you can immediately tell how much money is involved in one game. The price of an apartment fluctuates with each game.”

“……under.”

What was more shocking than the fact that there was such a secret gambling house hidden inside the pub was that Kim Seong-chan frequented such a gambling house every day.

How on earth did they finance such enormous gambling?

Was there no such thing as private debt in the first place?

Or are you just leaving the debt as it is and somehow pulling it out and gambling away at it?

Hee-sung asked a few questions, saying that he had been investigating for several days already.

“Have you ever found out where that money comes from? It’s gambling money. Did he really have a loan shark debt, or did he pay it off and gamble? I heard he definitely couldn’t pay off his loan shark debt.”

“Yes, of course I found out. He had a hard time. He was a very stubborn person. The loan shark debt itself was from that gambling house. He had been coming and going there for more than a year or two, and he had made a lot of money at first. Then, after revealing his identity and building up some trust, he started borrowing money from the gangsters who managed the place. He paid off the debt and got into debt again and again.”

They say that at first there wasn’t that much debt.

He said he borrowed only what he could afford to repay and that he strictly adhered to the repayment deadline.

Then, at some point, the number of times he visited casinos increased so rapidly that it became almost like living there.

And then, when the money ran out, they would borrow it on the spot at a high interest rate, and it would continue to pile up and eventually grow like a snowball.

When the debt became too much to repay, loan sharks began to pressure him to repay the debt, but somehow, he paid off that large sum all at once one day.

I guess that was the exact moment when he reached out to Ji-yu Kim.

“But what really made me feel like this person had no answer was that even after paying off all his debts, he went back to the casino. He was trying to recover what he had lost through gambling by gambling again. The result was obvious.”

“What’s the result?”

Choi Pil-hwan sighed deeply and shook his head.

“Would that be possible? Where is the person who got rich from gambling? He must have completely lost his senses and in a short period of time, he has incurred a huge amount of debt. It’s already in the tens of billions. Now, he’s at a point where he can’t even reach his limit.”

“Billions… …? Who told you that?”

“Who could it be? One of the gangsters who manages there. He said he’s going to run out of ammo soon and that he’ll have to start work soon. I don’t know if he’ll be able to pay me back this time.”

If it’s work, I’m talking about debt collection.

At that time, it would have been possible to somehow repay the debt with Kim Ji-yu’s help, but now it will no longer be possible.

Kim Ji-yu also gave all the money she earned from her entertainment career to Kim Seong-chan.

‘So, you didn’t get into debt because of work to begin with, but because you got addicted to gambling. I thought it was absurd from the beginning.’

It is true that creating an idol group requires a lot of investment, but there is an appropriate level.

But it was nonsense from the beginning that he couldn’t repay the debt even after receiving tens of billions from Kim Ji-yu.

While running the agency, the income earned from Ji-yu Kim must have been considerable.

‘So, did Ji-yu Kim end up making such an extreme choice after learning this fact?’

There was something uneasy about thinking that way.

It was certainly something that would be a great shock, but I still had doubts about whether it was worth making such a choice.

I could be disappointed, but it didn’t seem like something worth throwing away one’s life for.

‘They said the depression wasn’t that severe… … I’m sure there was something more to it.’

With that thought in his head, Heeseong asked Choi Pil-hwan.

“But why did CEO Kim Seong-chan come to this villa? Could it be that he is trying to gamble again… ?”

But at that moment.

Someone’s voice came into Heesung’s ear.

Genius Manager Who Hears Voices