After leaving Jimin’s company, Dongin and Hyunwoo got into a luxury foreign car parked in the parking lot. Dongin sat in the backseat, and Hyunwoo in the driver’s seat.

As if he felt uncomfortable, Dongin opened two buttons on his shirt. Then, he spoke in an apathetic manner.

“Did you clean up after yourself?”

His eyes were sharp as a knife, and his voice sounded like an agitated rattlesnake. An ominous murderous intent was clear in his words.

By comparison, Hyunwoo’s lips had curled to make a big smile. 

“Of course.”

It was the mocking laugh of a puppeteer who thought about his broken marionette.

“In truth, there was nothing to clean up. I had just nudged him from the back. He lost control and ambushed Woo Sungyoon. There’s all there is to it.”

The words he spoke were shocking.

“The scenario had been mostly set prior to all of this. In the beginning, Jimin’s company provided many high-rank Gems to check on Soobin's growth. However, he continued to fail in activating them. Of course, Kim Soobin came under the impression that he had reached the limit of his growth. In his obstinacy, he continued to gather high-rank Gems. But, he didn’t check the progress of his growth. It seemed his growth had merely slowed down, and not stopped. However, he was cut from his company and was having a hard time getting hired by other companies. Due to the desperation, he tried to activate the...