Full Auto Business, Episode 100
Android Performance (2)
The company’s back mountain.
Not many people were passing by the hiking trail as the sun began to set.
However, if I summoned an Undead here and someone discovered it, the rumors would spread instantly. So, we briefly left the hiking trail.
“Uh, uh? Where are you going?”
“I’m not going to eat you, just follow me.”
“Do we have to go into these wild mountains?”
“What if someone sees us?”
“That’s…”
Even Lee Seul-gi thought what I was saying was absurd. But if someone were to see me summoning an Undead, they would surely faint from shock.
What if that fact leaked to the press? What if, by some terrible chance, someone filmed it with their phone?
Then the situation would spiral out of control.
That’s why I had to summon it secretly, if possible.
Lee Seul-gi immediately understood.
“Well… If what you say is true, President, it would be a world-changing event.”
“That’s why it can’t happen.”
“Oh, and President, now that we’re so close, can’t we drop the honorifics?”
“Hmm… Should we?”
Lee Seul-gi had become my person.
Although we were the same age, she had become a close aide whom I personally had a deep friendship with and kept under my command, so there was no need to use honorifics. It was also more comfortable that way.
A wild mountain shrouded in darkness.
A gloomy aura began to circulate, and Lee Seul-gi shivered for no reason. The atmosphere was unusual.
‘Could it be that this secretary also senses Demonic Energy?’
I thought that might be possible.
People with a talent for Black Magic were extremely rare, but it wasn’t impossible to find them among ordinary people. It was just that they didn’t have the opportunity to encounter it because it was an unfamiliar field.
I released Black Magic.
“Ugh!”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s warm today, but I feel cold. It’s not just my body that’s cold, it’s…”
“It’s the source of the power I use.”
“The source of power?”
“Yes.”
I drew a sign in the air and spread Black Magic.
I wasn’t trying to summon an Android right now, but an Undead. I was just trying to show her that there was another way.
The Dummy required a Black Magic Stone.
There were plenty of Black Magic Stones on the deserted island, not here, so I couldn’t create a Dummy in this place.
Before long, a woman began to crawl up from the ground.
“Heok!”
Lee Seul-gi was so surprised that she fell backward.
She sat on her butt with her mouth open, unable to say anything. She was completely speechless.
“Ugh. Keueu. Euhuh.”
Lee Seul-gi’s words were completely blocked; she could only move her mouth.
“Say hello. I’ve taken her as my subordinate this time.”
“Hello, Little Master.”
“Ugh! It even speaks!”
It was an Undead that wasn’t wearing a single thread.
Despite that, it looked exactly like a human, and it even spoke, and its movements were very natural.
Should I say it was natural since I summoned a Mage?
No, all the Undead I summoned directly moved like this.
“How is it?”
“Did you really create something from nothing?”
“Of course.”
“Or did you plant it here?”
“Hahaha! You’re so suspicious. Would I ever lie?”
“I don’t mean to imply that you’re lying, President…”
Lee Seul-gi even started rambling.
Well, anyone who saw this would be shocked to the point of almost fainting.
“Go in.”
“Yes, Master.”
Sssseut!
The Undead that had just been summoned went straight into the ground.
It was absurd for a human to come out of and go into the ground. However, Lee Seul-gi needed time to accept the current situation.
“Wow.”
It was a long time before she came to her senses.
“What did I just see?”
“Android.”
“Is that how they come out!?”
“Well, that’s the worker I use, and Androids are similar. Unlike that, Androids can be transferred.”
“Then, could it be…”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“You should see that the incredibly fast demolition and what happened in Syria last time are related to this power.”
“That’s amazing. Is that science or supernatural power?”
“Somewhere in between.”
“You were destined to succeed!”
Lee Seul-gi gave me a thumbs up.
She was a little surprised, but she seemed to have accepted the situation to some extent.
Wouldn’t Lee Seul-gi have completely made up her mind at this point?
She would think that if she stayed by my side, she would make tremendous progress.
“Shall we go out for a drink somewhere?”
“Sure! I’ll pay today.”
“Can that be? A boss has to buy a drink for their subordinate.”
“Yes, Boss.”
We head to a nearby bar.
I briefly called home and told them it was a company dinner.
It wasn’t a fancy company dinner.
I was looking for a bar and started to get hungry, and the smell was leaking from a charcoal-grilled pork belly restaurant, so I headed there as if possessed.
“I’m good at grilling meat.”
“Really?”
Cheeeek!
Charcoal-grilled pork belly is placed on the grill.
Looking at the thick pork belly reminded me of the old days.
I could see my family, who used to smack their lips every time they passed by a meat restaurant when they were having a hard time. Now there was no need to do that anymore.
“I heard you had a hard time, President.”
“To be exact, I grew up in a wealthy family and tasted failure in business. It was right after I got married.”
“You lived in a shantytown.”
“Ah, I did.”
It hasn’t even been a year.
But looking back, a lot has happened. How did I endure those years?
“I couldn’t have endured it without my wife.”
“You must love her a lot.”
“My wife is the only woman for me.”
“Hehe. I’m a subordinate you’ve taken in, and I’m a woman of the same age. Won’t your wife be worried?”
“Worried?”
I stopped eating and looked at her.
Lee Seul-gi’s face turned slightly blank.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“I’m sorry, but even if I make an objective assessment, your appearance is…”
“Tsk. I know.”
My wife was so beautiful that you couldn’t see her as a mother who had given birth to two children.
Lee Seul-gi was also decent, but if you put her next to my wife, she could be compared to an Orc and a beauty.
It wasn’t because she was a woman and had a decent appearance that I wanted to take her as my subordinate.
“I evaluate people purely on their abilities. Gender doesn’t matter.”
“Really?”
“Tsk. If I was going to chase after women, wouldn’t I have done it with a younger woman?”
“Wow, that’s kind of hurtful, you know?”
“I mean your gender doesn’t matter. If that’s the case, isn’t Rin, who can be said to be a close aide, also a woman? She also has a Western appearance and a very ideal body.”
“Ah, Ms. Rin.”
Thinking about Rin makes my head hurt.
She was truly a woman who brought death.
There must have been more than one or two men who were fascinated by her beauty and became experimental materials. Even now, I was stopping her from killing, but if I didn’t stop her, she would have gone around collecting materials indiscriminately.
“What kind of person is Ms. Rin?”
“Rin? Just think of her as a crazy woman.”
“Isn’t she capable for someone who’s crazy? I heard she’s doing all the deserted island development by herself.”
“She has the ability. Ability and personality are separate.”
I was already thinking about starting the modification work on Lee Seul-gi.
It wasn’t bad to have a conversation like this once in a while.
The soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] went down smoothly, and the drinking party deepened.
Lee Seul-gi drank one glass while I drank three.
There were five bottles of soju piled up on the table, but I wasn’t drunk. Considering that I used to get tipsy after drinking just one bottle, I had to see that my body had improved that much.
My body gets better as I learn Black Magic. It sounds like it would eat away at my body just by hearing it.
As I drank, I naturally started talking about work.
“President, shall we start by acquiring the lunchbox company tomorrow?”
“Secretary Lee is capable, right? You have to handle things at the same time.”
“Then, please give me some people. I don’t have two bodies.”
“People, huh.”
Were there any people I could trust besides Rin and Lee Seul-gi?
It was unfortunate, but I wasn’t a person with a wide network. I was just managing a few important connections.
When I used to run a restaurant, I knew countless people, but if you asked me to find talent among them? ‘I’m not sure.’
So many connections were no different from skimming the surface, and I hadn’t met anyone outstanding among them.
In the end, that meant my connections were also a failure at the time.
“My network is a bit weak.”
“Ha. Are there so few people?”
“Yeah. You can give me a recommendation.”
“Then, can I recommend my colleague who joined the company at the same time as me?”
“Colleague?”
“She’s in the general affairs team now. Was her position a manager? She’s talented in three languages and has two degrees.”
“Hmm. Really?”
I wasn’t impressed by the fact that she was fluent in three languages or had two degrees.
First of all, Sujeong was fluent in five languages. In addition to that, I couldn’t even count how many foreign languages she wasn’t fluent in.
She was still young, so she didn’t have a degree, but she was proficient in many fields.
If it weren’t for her age, I would have wanted to involve Sujeong.
But I couldn’t help it.
“Don’t you believe me?”
“How can I trust your eye for talent? But bring her in for now. I’ll know if I give her a few tasks.”
“Is that a promise?”
“I promise.”
I didn’t expect much, but she was the first talent my subordinate had recommended, so there was no way I couldn’t meet her.
Anyway, it was certain that there was a lack of capable people I could trust right now.
The next day, in the morning.
I prepare to go to work in a good mood.
From today, business preparations will begin in earnest. Now that funds have started to circulate, I should focus on expanding and broadening the business.
“Honey, you look happy.”
“Ah, I’m going to get a recommendation for talent today.”
“Talent?”
“I’m using the secretary general as talent, but I’m too short-handed. So I decided to get a recommendation from her colleague who joined the company at the same time as her. I wish it was a manly talent.”
“Why?”
“Because I feel like there are only women around me?”
That’s right.
Not to mention my wife and children, but the secretary general and Rin are also women. At this point, I was hoping that a friend-like talent would appear who I could open my heart to.
“I have a feeling she’ll be a beautiful woman.”
“Why do you think so?”
“My mother used to say that you’re the type of person who will be surrounded by beautiful women.”
“Did Mom say that?”
“Yes. Wouldn’t it be nice if she was pretty and young? If it’s more advantageous to do business, it’s much better to be pretty under the same conditions.”
I never thought my wife would say that.
But there was nothing wrong with what my wife said. I was a businessman, so it was better to have someone who was advantageous to me by my side.