The two teachers’ eyes changed noticeably when the old-world simulator was mentioned.

They looked ready to storm in at any moment.

No matter how strict the research center was, those two could easily infiltrate it.

Judging from the way Im Yeon-hwa rolled up the sleeves of her gym uniform with the Eun Gwang-go logo on it and Jegal Jae-geol loosened his tie, it seemed like they were planning to act quickly.

But there was something they had to tell me before that.

“The name of the person sitting in the passenger seat is Lee Yeo-reum. She’s the older sister of a child in our class.”

The two teachers stopped moving at my words.

“There’s only one Lee in Yi-shin’s class. You’re talking about Lena.”

“Oh, her older sister is here?”

Jegal Jae-geol and Im Yeon-hwa immediately realized that Lee Yeo-reum was Kwon Lena’s older sister.

It would be natural for that capable teacher to memorize all of her students’ names, but it’s not like she just knows their names.

This is especially true for Kwon Rena.

They may also be aware of Kwon Rena’s family relationships.

‘If a child of a criminal involved in the Hwanmong Gate enters Eun Gwang High School, they would know all the basic information.’

In the first place, the reason Kwon Rena was assigned to Class 0, unlike at Plumago, was because she was involved with the Hwanmong Gate.

However, other than confirming basic information about Kwon Rena within the scope of what the school could confirm, and assigning her to Class 0 to protect and monitor her outside of Teacher Ham Geun-hyung, the two teachers and the others probably didn’t do anything special.

Even if they knew about Kwon Rena’s situation, unless there was direct evidence of her involvement in a crime or she caused an accident, the two of them would treat her without prejudice and would not try to dig deeper.

That’s why the two of them probably don’t know what kind of situation Irena is in.

Considering this, they decided to tell her in advance.

“And when the incident happened at the broadcasting station during the broadcast of Playlist, he was there too. At that time, one of the cast members was from Namgung Industry Division 1, and the staff came as a group to cheer him on.”

“Wait a minute, there was definitely an old alien simulator back then... No way...”

“There is evidence that he acted alone. There is no confirmation, but there is a possibility that he helped transport it.”

Jegal Jae-geol was speechless for a moment as he recalled the incident at the broadcasting station.

In the meantime, Im Yeon-hwa asked him a few questions.

He asked about Lee Yeo-reum’s age and position at Namgung Industry, and when he told her what he knew, Im Yeon-hwa expressed her doubts.

“If Lee Yeo-reum was the one who moved that thing at the broadcasting station, she wouldn’t know anything. She was from the alien-related division, so she couldn’t be ignorant about supernatural powers. She would know what kind of power that device exerted at the broadcasting station. And now, she even visits the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute in the military security area.”

I think the same as Im Yeon-hwa.

This summer wouldn’t have been the one who just took on the transport role without knowing anything.

And Namgung’s superiors would know that too.

“But you’re entrusting a young employee who hasn’t been with the company for long with this important information? If she were a good person like Lena, she could have confessed her conscience. She could have told Lena to someone who would help her right away, like Mr. Ham Geun-hyung or Chairman Hwang Ho. Why would Namgung take such a risk?”

Chairman Hwang Ho, not Chairman Hwang Myeong-ho?

I wondered if I could just say that, but everyone here knew about Hwang Ji-ho.

When I rescued Heuk-ho, who was almost captured by Woo Gi-hwan’s gang, I worked with Hwang Ji-ho, so I’m sure I know his true identity.

I didn’t say I knew outright, but I decided not to deny it.

Instead, I decided to answer Im Yeon-hwa’s question.

“They must have found a weakness. From the company’s perspective, he’s easy to find and deal with, but also worth exploiting.”

“Weakness?”

“His parents were caught in the Hwanmong auction case. Didn’t Namgung know that?”

Lee Yeoreum is the family of a criminal involved in the Hwanmong Gate.

Even if there is no collective punishment in Korea, she can never be free.

Even if Lee Yeoreum hates her parents and almost cuts ties with them, that’s the case.

It was really lucky that Kwon Rena wasn’t bullied or shunned in Eun Kwang-go.

‘If there were guys like the fraudulent admissions people who bullied Park Seung-hyun, they would definitely have used that to attack Kwon Rena in some way.’

Since the Hwanmong Gate wasn’t revealed in Plumago, Kwon Rena wasn’t attacked for that, and in this world, the school was cleaned up early on, and now the Eternal Lake, including Kwon Je-in, actively protects her, so there was no problem.

But what was it like this summer?

It was obvious what the atmosphere of the Namgung Group would be like if they removed an excellent person like Hong Gyu-bin from the family register because he made a choice they didn’t like.

Also, I didn’t get a good impression from Lee Yeo-reum’s coworkers that I saw during the broadcasting station incident.

Lee Yeo-reum, a freshman in society who was thrown into Namgung Group without any support, and Kwon Rena, who met good teachers and friends at Eun Kwang High School, must be having completely different days.

“He has a completely different personality from his parents. However, from the company’s perspective, that means nothing. The Dream Gate is deeply intertwined with the auction that sells players with rare abilities, and he belongs to the other-worldly business division. They probably wanted to get him fired in some way.”

There is no such thing as a company rule that forces the family of a criminal to fire, and it can’t exist.

However, there are plenty of ways to pressure employees who haven’t done anything wrong.

There was no need for a company like Namgung to take the risk of damaging its corporate image just because of one employee.

So they could have used methods like inducing resignation or sending him to a low-ranking position in the province.

If the company strictly follows the legal procedures and does such things, it will be difficult for individuals to hold out.

There are ways to ask for help from influential people or groups that can exert power within the company, or to expose him to the media and exert pressure, but it is difficult for Lee Yeoreum to choose these.

‘There will be no influential people that Lee Yeoreum can directly ask for help. It would be different if it were through Kwon Rena, but I don’t think Lee Yeoreum would do that. Also, if he were exposed to the media, it would be disadvantageous.’

To the public, Lee Yeoreum is a family member of a criminal who lived comfortably in luxury due to the Hwanmong Gate incident and then joined a large company.

If Lee Yeoreum is treated unfairly, some people will defend him, saying that his family did nothing wrong, but there will be many who will support Namgung, saying that it is good to see him.

Jegal Jaegeol changed his expression and said.

“As Yi-shin said, Nam-gung seems to have the power and the excuse to threaten Lee Yeo-reum. So, Yi-shin, do you think Lee Yeo-reum was threatened and moved the equipment?”

Jegal Jae-geol’s eyes and voice were greatly depressed.

Jegal Jae-geol was actually caught up in the tyranny of Nam-gung Group, which was no different from intimidation, and was unable to write poetry, and was in a situation where he could not teach at any school other than Eun-gwang High School.

Perhaps, thinking of Lee Yeo-reum, another victim, would hurt his heart.

I answered honestly.

“I don’t know yet. So I think it would be better to step down from this position today.”

“What? Why is that the conclusion?”

Im Yeon-hwa openly expressed her dissatisfaction.

As a strong human, she seemed to think that she could easily infiltrate a research institute like this and confirm and obtain what she wanted.

Of course, Im Yeon-hwa would do that, but she wanted to move cautiously for now.

“He and Namgung Gyuyeon are all related to the Namgung Group. But there’s something on my mind.”

“Can’t we sneak in and see everything first and think about it later?”

In a normal case, that would be the case, and since I was able to make a strong move, I wanted to boldly follow Im Yeonhwa’s decision, but there was something on my mind.

The clue that I could see right now was Lee Yeoreum and Namgung Gyuyeon.

“The person in charge of transporting the old-type otherworldly simulator is just an employee. And Namgung Gyuyeon, who is researching something at the Ministry of National Defense Research Institute, is a member of the Namgung family, but I heard that they remove their children from the family register without any problem there.”

The Namgung family had placed a move here that they could easily discard.

Im Yeonhwa seemed half convinced after hearing what I said.

She continued.

“There’s too little information. Even if we infiltrate now and find an important clue, we might not even know it’s a clue and just pass it over.”

“But it’s not often that we get a chance to come here.”

“Yes, that’s right. But if we rush in without preparation, we’ll be gone for a long time, and if we don’t show up for a long time, someone will come looking for us.”

Especially in the case of Jegal Jaegyeol, Geumchanwangchan’s gang wouldn’t stay still.

They must have made every preparation to invite Jegal Jaegyeol and watch together, so it was clear that those crazy guys would soon start searching the military academy.

In my case, I promised to watch it with my classmates, so they must be worried.

“The exchange will take place over a total of three days. Give me one day. I’ll finish preparing by the last day.”

The two teachers were convinced by my words.

Inwardly, I told the white tiger not to stay still, but to call the red tiger and investigate this summer.

And I decided to ask the two teachers in advance.

“Teacher Im Yeonhwa, since you know this place well, can you ask me to scout the surrounding area and structure?”

“I will. I don’t have a class right now, so there are no kids looking for me.”

Im Yeon-hwa’s words sounded a little lonely.

If he had come to watch with Woo Ki-hwan and his gang, he would have come to see Jegal Jae-geol for a different purpose.

He would have planned something strange, like a surprise attack, in case they let their guard down inside the military academy, to entertain his strong homeroom teacher.

He also said to Jegal Jae-geol.

“Mr. Jegal Jae-geol, don’t dig into Namgung Group in the meantime. I’ll find out by other means.”

“Ah.......”

Judging from his embarrassed expression, he seemed to have tried to investigate on his own.

However, Namgung Group would still be paying attention to Jegal Jae-geol, so he couldn’t make them move for no reason.

Im Yeon-hwa also agreed, saying, “If Eui-shin didn’t want to say anything, I was going to do it.”

Instead, he added a clue.

“It’s okay to ask Team Leader Hong Gyu-bin"

“It’s okay.”

If Jegal Jae-geol contacts him, Hong Gyu-bin, who was resting after the school trip was finally resolved, will probably be very happy.

Even if there’s something else to do.

* * *

The gym where the basketball game is being held.

Fortunately, he arrived before the buzzer sounded to signal the end of the game, but Eun Kwang-go was losing and Gyeonggi-do lost.

I almost felt like I came to watch and lost.

Yoo Sang-hoon didn’t say anything about the game, but instead of leaving a message in the group chat where Jang Nam-wook was, he said something to him personally.

[Yoo Sang-hoon] What did you do?

There were so many spectators, I guess he saw me not coming.

I told Yoo Sang-hoon that I would watch the next game well and decided to start with my game.

Chess representatives Cheon Dong-ha and Eun-ho, who would be playing the team game together, had already arrived.

“I heard you were very busy, Eui-shin hyung.”

It was a little busy.

In fact, I still have to think about the numbers, but I can't neglect the game.

If I can't invest a lot of time, it would be better to borrow the wisdom of others.

I said to Cheon Dong-ha and Eun-ho.

"After the chess game, I have something I want to discuss."

If the two of them think together, my moves will become more solid.