Chapter 823 – Meal Meeting

After enjoying an afternoon date at the ice rink, we headed to a restaurant within the Ariel Foundation.

A steak house that feels quite expensive, with a completely different atmosphere from the handmade burger restaurant I went to for lunch.

It was not a franchise family restaurant frequented by ordinary people, but it was a sign with an incomprehensible French character written on it. I’ve already given up on why there is a store like this within the foundation.

‘It’s probably there because it’s a good place to be.’

Either the business is so good that foundation hunter girls frequent it, or it’s so expensive that it can be run by selling just ten dishes a day. I thought it was probably the latter, but I was scared for some reason, so I didn’t bother to ask.

Even though I had a lot of money, this feeling was still unfamiliar to me, who had lived with the sense of a commoner for about 40 years, including my previous life.

“Does it suit your taste, Seongcheol?”

“Yes, that’s good. There was also a restaurant with such a nice view within the foundation.”

“Of all the restaurants you can go to at the foundation, this one has the best view. “It is one of the seven scenic spots of the Ariel Foundation Seoul branch.”

“…”

I thought that if I asked more, I would end up getting an explanation of the remaining six scenic spots, so I stopped.

At this level, it was not a hunter guild, but just a decent community facility. Since this is a guild that hires women from wealthy conglomerates as hunters, its basic infrastructure must be on a different level from other guilds.

Above all, since the Korea Ariel Foundation has only two branches, Seoul and Busan, I thought it would be natural for infrastructure to be concentrated in those two regions. In any case, the foundation, with only two branches, has been ranked among the top guilds in Korea for decades.

“By the way, Mr. Seongcheol.”

“Yes.”

“… Do you have any specific plans for the future?”

“What are you planning?”

“You are thinking of doing something against the golden rose and the golden aleaf. If Seongcheol’s personality is the same, he probably won’t leave it alone. My sister… No, just like she did to that woman.”

It was roughly Si-hee talking as if she was inferring my next action based on what I did to Geum Rose and Geum Dal-rae.

Well, Sihee’s prediction wasn’t so wrong since she was actually planning to do something. It’s just that it’s a little awkward to reveal the whole plan to Sihee.

‘It’s not something that can be resolved in a particularly pacifistic or humanitarian way.’

At least, from what I know, I planned to make those women go through the same thing they did to Eunbyeol.

And after that, I’ll have to ask Eunbyul roughly what kind of situation she’s facing and how to solve it. And we need to make it possible to do that.

As a result, of course, I didn’t intend for it to end well. First, I had some idea of ​​the sisters’ punishment and ending in my head.

Killing someone is not easy to erase traces of, and more than anything, it goes against my beliefs, so of course I wouldn’t do it, but I planned to at least make it so that they could never go against Eunbyeol and me again, and that they couldn’t even think of doing that.

“I’ve been thinking about it, but it’s hard to tell you what the plan is. It’s not a plan worth sharing with others…”

“Are you okay. All I had to do was know that Seongcheol had a plan. No matter what Seongcheol does, I support him, and I will help him as much as I can.”

“… Perhaps we will soon be able to realize what is written in the contract.”

“Don’t push yourself too hard. They said I could write anything, so I just wrote down my small wish, and you can only help to the extent that you can.”

I plan to help only to the extent that I can, so of course I will do everything I can.

Because the contract with Sihee was to help Eunbyeol resume her hunter activities.

At the very least, it was clear that Geumhyang’s sisters were Eunbyeol’s biggest obstacle at the moment, and if she could just overcome them, Eunbyeol’s return as a hunter would probably not be far away.

“And in the case where I didn’t leave Do Ye-hee alone like I mentioned earlier, it wasn’t really my intention to take the initiative. What I just happened to see in front of me were Sihee and Eunbyeol, who were being bullied by Do Yehee, and I just instinctively felt like I had to help them, so we ended up fighting on the spot.

And then the reason Do Ye-hee was condemned and punished was simply because she did something like that. Do Ye-hee couldn’t let go of her regrets and came to my house and called me Si-hee’s acquaintance… Hmm, hmm.”

“Do you qualify as my acquaintance?”

“… “Please pretend you didn’t hear it.”

… I guess I made a mistake with my words.

It was still a secret to her that Do Ye-hee showed up to test me in order to prevent undesirable people from becoming entangled around Si-hee. Of course, she never specifically promised to keep it a secret, but she decided that it would be better to just keep it a secret.

First, the fact that the people around her were tested by her older sister would have hurt Si-hee’s pride, and it was difficult for me to even talk about this unless Do Ye-hee said it herself in the first place.

So, if possible, I tried not to intervene in the somewhat complicated relationship between the Do-kyung Group sisters, but fortunately, Si-hee didn’t seem to know anything about what Do Ye-hee had done so far.

“Well, I guess she didn’t approach Seongcheol with bad intentions. “If I look back on what has been done to me so far.”

“Yes?”

“You probably approached Seongcheol to test what kind of person he was, right? Is she the right person next to me or not? That woman is the type of person who won’t let go of things unless she sees them with her own eyes.”

“… “Did you hear from Do Ye-hee?”

“How could that proud woman have said it out of her own mouth? … Just these days, sister… She had a lot to do with that woman, and in the process, I found out that she wasn’t as terrible of a person as I thought.”

Is it a story that you eventually realized it yourself?

Anyway, it wasn’t quite bad news. It meant that the relationship between Sihee and Do Yehee was improving little by little.

As a sexual desire manager who manages both people’s sexual desires, I had no reason to refuse to let them be friends.

“Actually, I thought it was strange, just a little bit. “When she snatched up my connections, it was almost always when the other person asked me for an awkward favor.”

“Is this a difficult request?”

“There are requests like asking me to show my face in official settings, investing company funds in research projects, taking over a subsidiary that seems a little risky, etc. Even back when I was young, I hesitated because the request made me feel uneasy, but now, anyone can see that it was probably an attempt to take advantage of me.”

“…”

“And at that time, I thought that losing connections in the competition for succession was more fatal, so whenever the other person asked for such a request, I tried to scale back a little and grant it. Something like investing only half of the amount they ask you to invest, or saying you can’t show your face officially, but you can respond if it’s an informal dinner, etc.

But I think that was probably what those people wanted. “He probably wanted to ask me for a request so ridiculous that I couldn’t grant it, and then make me feel guilty while getting what he wanted.”

“Hmm…”

“But every time that happened, there were several times when that woman, Do Ye Hee, approached my contacts first and offered to do her favor. Until recently, I thought that what she did was to rob or take away my connections, but recently, I’m starting to think that maybe I was just naive back then.

If she really meant to harass me in the first place, she would have gotten rid of her dick first. Because he was my oldest friend and the friend who helped me the most when I was having a hard time. But in Nari’s case, even when she was at her hardest, she protected her from her golden sisters until the end, and in the end, I denied that woman’s actions because I didn’t want to admit that I had no eyes for people.”

“… I can’t say anything. Although I am close with Sihee and Do Yehee, I don’t know everything that happened between them.”

“It can’t be helped. This is our sisters’ work. On the contrary, I made Mr. Seongcheol worry about things for no reason.”

It was a nerve-wracking statement, but it was still better than not hearing it at all.

“Then, are you going to reconcile with Do Ye-hee again?”

“No, that’s a different problem.”

“Yes?”

“To be honest, I still don’t understand why you would stop people around me without saying anything, even if it was for my own good. It would have been nice if they had at least explained why they did that to me. If that were the case, there wouldn’t have been any misunderstandings and there wouldn’t have been a falling out between us. Isn’t that right?”

“… Well, that’s how it should be.”

“My pride cannot allow me to approach such an unreasonable woman and ask her to reconcile first. … Well, there’s nothing she can’t do if she honestly confesses what she’s done and asks for forgiveness, but she’s not there yet anyway.”

It seemed that the day when Do Ye-hee would be able to call Si-hee her sister was still far away.