It was too early to celebrate with just winning custody over the Neutral Zone.

'There’s a reason the auction opened 2 months in advance.’

They were hit with a storm of work.

While they didn’t know how many would enter, they still had to prepare for a maximum of 525 people, so there weren’t just one or two things they had to procure.

The problem was that they couldn’t only worry about the Neutral Zone.

Step 1. Personnel Recruitment

This was the first on the list of things Valhalla had to urgently resolve, which Kim Hannah emphasized as a ‘must’.

Actually, Seol Jihu didn’t want to recruit more people at the moment. Rather, it was correct to say he didn’t have the time or energy to do so.

While he acknowledged the need for it, he was so swamped with work that the thought of, ‘Do I really have to do it now?’ was inevitable.

However, Kim Hannah was adamant about Step 1, even if they couldn’t do Step 2 or 3. Her reason was that they were unable to leave the Neutral Zone for at least three months once they entered.

"Representative. We will not be able to do anything for three months once we enter the Neutral Zone. We can’t, even if we want to. Were you thinking of remotely working from inside the place? You know that all forms of communications with the outside world will be blocked, don’t you?”

"…"

"You’ll have to work when you come out too. You know this. The more work you finish now, the easier it’ll be later.”

"…"

"That’s not all either. We’d be able to form contracts that are more advantageous to us with the condition of allowing them to enter the Neutral Zone with us. Also, the new members would be able to bond with the existing members during the three months in the Neutral Zone.”

"…"

"I know it’s hard for you, but there’s not much time left. Let’s work a little harder, okay?”

"Alright, alright. I got it."

In the end, he couldn’t endure Kim Hannah’s imploring and reluctantly nodded his head. These were all correct words, so Seol Jihu didn’t have anything to say against them.

Even so, his cooperative relationship with the Assassination Guild was a stroke of fortune amid...