Chapter 846 – Internal Affairs of Geumhyang Group (2)

Eun-byeol continues the story about Geum Dal-rae’s ‘why I couldn’t erase her memories.’

Perhaps this incident had a significant impact on the current relationship between Eunbyeol and Geumhyang Group, and she continued to explain this incident in quite detail.

“Do you know why Golden Rose and Geumdallae work closely together even though they are competitors, master?”

“Isn’t it because they both have abilities that are difficult to utilize as a single ability?”

“Yes. In the case of the Golden Rose, it would be possible to mentally force the other person into submission by causing them unbearable pain, but of course, if she did that in public, bad rumors would spread among the people who did it, and it would affect their overall trust.

Geumdallae’s memory erasing ability is certainly a great ability, but it is difficult for her to use it easily. In the first place, most company executives are often B-level or higher in hunter level, so in most cases, Geumdallae’s memory erasure does not work properly.”

“… “I guess I know roughly what happened.”

It was a story that could easily be guessed without any further explanation. I’ve already heard something similar from Sihee once.

Perhaps in the first place, Gold Rose forced her negotiation partner to enter into a contract by inflicting phantom pain. Although I didn’t suffer because of Esila’s mental immunity, looking at her attitude that day when I rescued Eunbyeol, the pain must have been quite unbearable.

In that way, the disrespectful processes that took place in the process of getting a signature, leaving an electronic document, or receiving an investment money and leading up to the contract would have been erased from Geum Dalrae’s memory and made it ‘never happened’.

And that ‘the reason I couldn’t erase her memory’ may have become a problem later.

“Do you know what happens if the memory of making the contract remains, but the memory of the gold rose causing her pain disappears in the process?”

“… I’m not sure. In any case, since there is a hole in the memory of what happened during the contract process, wouldn’t they try to refute it by saying something like ‘This contract is invalid!’?”

“No. The human mind has a tendency to continue the process even if partial memory is lost. So, these thoughts will soon remain in the mind of the person whose memory has partially disappeared. I thought, ‘I don’t really remember, but we probably signed a contract because we had a conversation that was understandable.'”

“… “That it can be done so easily?”

“This is because everyone has a basic tendency to rationalize their judgments. If you make a judgment that you don’t understand, you create the basis for it in your head.

If he writes an article praising communists for a few pennies, he cannot admit that he did it for only a few pennies, so he brainwashes himself into believing that he was originally a communist. … “I can be sure of this because I have experienced it myself.”

… It was a moment when I felt sorry when I heard that this was a case I had experienced.

Anyway, it must have been a bad memory for Eunbyeol, but I felt like I was bringing that up for no reason.

“It was just one time in the process. After Geum Rose subjugated her opponent’s mind by inflicting pain using the illusion barrel, Geum Dalrae erased the target’s memories. In one of those countless cases, Geumdallae’s amnesia did not work, but the two women were not aware of it.”

“…”

“And as soon as that person left the Geumhyang Group building, she started spreading the word about what had happened to other hunters and people who were under contract with Geumhyang.

There are stories that the contract with Geumhyang Group is made through forced torture, and that if you sign a contract at Geumhyang, you will have your memory erased by Geumdallae, so you cannot properly remember what happened inside.”

“… There must have been an uproar inside Geumhyang.”

This is because it was an incident that caused threats and damage to outsiders due to the heated succession competition. It was not strange for both Golden Rose and Geumdallae to be deprived of their qualifications as successors.

… Eunbyul’s calm confession right after that embarrassed me again.

“The one subject who failed to have that memory erased… It was me, master.”

“… Huh?”

For a moment, I couldn’t understand the incredible words that came out of Eunbyeol’s mouth.

Not only did he use illusion and amnesia on outsiders to pursue the group’s interests, but he also did it to her own sister?

Moreover, according to the story I just heard from Eunbyeol, she means that the person who escaped was spreading Geumhyang’s internal secrets… That meant that Geum Nari helped bring down the Geumhyang Group, which was her successor.

“In the first place, it wasn’t just one time.”

“…”

“Before that, the two women, Geumjangmi and Geumdallae, had used me several times to obtain unfair contracts. And of course, as I just said, I was rationalizing myself and roughly piecing together the memories of that day.”

“…”

“Her main way of using me was probably to supplement her lack of connections. In order for two people who had difficulty engaging in proper hunter activities to sign a contract to continue the Geumhyang Group, it was important to draw on my personal connections and create a relationship.”

“…”

“From the beginning, I wasn’t really competing with those women. Rather, I thought I was the only one competing, and Geumjangmi and Geumdallae were manipulating my memories and using my connections like mosquitoes. Among the memories I still have, there are a few that are almost certainly distorted.

It might be a good thing that I don’t remember some things. Anyway, I don’t think that Golden Rose woman would have done me any good. There may be some phantom pains that it would be better to forget about. “It’s phantom pain, so there won’t be any evidence left, so we won’t be able to legally punish those women now.”

It was Eun-byeol who just calmly confessed something that she thought must have been quite painful in the past.

Of course, as time goes by, your sense of what happened in the past may have become dull, but it may not be easy to tell this to someone else.

Eunbyeol, who noticed that my expression was tinged with pity, tried to suppress her emotions and after that, without much change in her emotions, or more precisely, without expressing the change in her emotions as much as possible, she continued to tell me what had happened.

“The reason Geumdallae can no longer erase my memories is simple. This is because the capacity of her awakening ability, ‘memory erasure’, has already reached its full capacity.”

“… “It’s full?”

“In the first place, the essence of Geumdallae’s awakening ability was not simply to erase memories. To be exact, it is the ability to ‘save’ a certain level of memories of using her own awakening ability. Her azalea used her abilities so recklessly that her memory capacity was full, and as a result, erasing her memories didn’t work for me.
Thanks to this, I was able to reveal to other hunters what Geumhyang Group, Geumjangmi, and Geumdallae had done so far without receiving amnesia.”

“… But if something like that had happened, wouldn’t there have been a nationwide uproar at least once? “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a scandal over Geumhyang’s memory manipulation.”

“That’s Geum Tae-hyang, the current godmother of Geum-hyang… Because my grandmother used her hands. Just by giving money to a few media companies, you can control the media that seek profits through provocative news articles.

Although some companies that had previously entered into unfair contracts through Geumjangmi protested… In the first place, the two people in the position of successors were in no position to sign a contract with a large company that was difficult to handle, so this was probably at a level that could be resolved well.

Of course, the ugly rumors that remained as a result spread among the foundation and companies, so Geumhyang is still unable to receive positive attention from other companies.”

“…”

“… Actually, until then, I didn’t have any bad feelings towards my grandmother. It would have been natural for her to take care of her scandal just to protect the company called Geumhyang.

Even though Geumjangmi and Geumdallae used me and manipulated other people’s memories to cause confusion in the succession competition, I didn’t think that was the intention of the entire Geumhyang Group.”

“Well, Eunbyeol, if you think so, you can look at it from that perspective…”

“I thought so until Geum Tae-hyang disqualified me from the competition to succeed the Geumhyang Group, which two people were competing against.”

“…”

Thanks to these words I heard from Eunbyeol, I was finally able to be confident.

Geumhyang is already a rotten company that is no longer self-purifying.