"Would those who think they've done what I have described above step out, I'm not going to take any of your lives or anything, so please don't be afraid to hold some weight of your consequences. If any of you still do not want to come clean with your actions, I don't mind adding the weight you would have to carry if I find out who did it," Seunghyuk asked fiercely and waited for the people at the back of the crowd to raise their hands or at least show some indication that they looked down and made fun of people before, so Seunghyuk closed his eyes and repeated sternly, "If any of you still do not want to come clean with your actions, I don't mind adding the weight you would have to carry if I find out who did it."
Seunghyuk pulled out a chair from behind him and sat down, both elbows resting on the armrests on either side of the chair. Seunghyuk rested his head backwards and rubbed his temples like an old, experienced man even though he really was still a newly-awakened Conqueror given the rare chance to lead a company. Seunghyuk waited as he tapped his fingers on the wooden armrest of the chair, each tapping sounding louder as it repeats on, until Seunghyuk saw a single hand fling upwards and the figure squirmed through the crowdy traffic until he was standing in front of Seunghyuk.
"Han Richeong, female, I'm pretty sure that's your name," Seunghyuk stated out as he used his Eye of Detection discreetly, shocking every single member in the crowd once again, making them think that Seunghyuk actually memorised the names of every member here, "Thank you for admitting but there's no such thing as being let off without any punishment and with just a warning. I assume that was how Kim Seongwon was like?"
Seunghyuk questioned threateningly and the female, Han Richeong, shivered in fear as the cold seeped into her bones, rattling and shaking. She swiftly turned back like she was looking around her surroundings, but her main point was seen clearly by Seunghyuk, so he calmly asked again," Who looked down, bullied or spoke badly about somebody in Legendclad Company, or ConcCube, but that's soon going to be recorded as history."
Seunghyuk waited again, but a random hand flew up and a male's voice travelled into Seunghyuk's ears, "But...Mister...I am certain almost every body in this company would have at least done something like that once and I don't think..."
"Yeah, exactly, I was waiting for everybody to raise their hands, because that's exactly the nature of humans. Even the nicest of people have at least had the slight thought about someone being of a lower position that he or she is. Look, no one raised except for Han Richeong," Seunghyuk slowly stood up and stared directly to the back of the crowd and activated his Eye of Detection, "Is it because all of you don't associate yourselves with Han Richeong, Yang Sori, Im Baehyun, Park Yeongro and the gang?"
The whole crowd shifted loudly, many gasped out of shock that Seunghyuk knew so much about the company commotion and happenings, but the ones with their names called shifted uneasily, avoiding eye contact with Seunghyuk, especially the woman, Han Richeong standing in front of him, looking down completely.
"Okay, firstly, I am Choi Seunghyuk, 20-years-old this year. These are basic introductions done, now I want to say a few things," Seunghyuk stopped and continue, "If any of you still haven't grasped the situation yet, I would be your next leader and that the Company's name will no longer be ConcCube, but Legendclad. Secondly, since I'm here now instead of Kim Seongwon, I hope everyone would do their best to slowly change and adapt to the new surroundings I'm going to give to all of you."
Seunghyuk turned to Yumi and Yumi quickly jolted up and dismissed the crowd of members as they all go separate ways in deep conversations and discussions.
"Are you sure you should be doing it like this, Seunghyuk? You'll only make the members hate you more?" Yumi asked concerned but Jisung shook his head and placed a single hand on Seunghyuk's shoulder like he intentionally wanted to show Seunghyuk again that he was tall enough as he replied to Yumi's concern, "Yumi-noona, you think too much. I believe in Seunghyuk-hyung's methods. Kim Seongwon was a bad leader that only took after his own rights and benefits without caring to even take care of the simplest things like the member's discipline."
Seunghyuk smiled at Jisung and Jisung awkwardly smiled back when he realised Yumi was also glaring at Jisung for siding with Seunghyuk for the umpteenth time that day.
"Thank you both of you for helping me along this short journey," Seunghyuk said and took his eyes off Jisung and Yumi, looking around the company's interior and smiled, "To be frank, I am still in shock that I've been given such an opportunity like this. All of this wouldn't have happened if I didn't go head to head with Kim Seongwon in the Obelisk, would it?"
Hence, it's worth it.
Seunghyuk thought aloud in his brain but he did not voice it out, however both Jisung and Yumi had understood Seunghyuk's underlying meaning within those words and inferred his thoughts. Seunghyuk looked at the company once more, then he told Jisung and Yumi that he had to leave for his home as he left some things back there that are important. Jisung, obviously "sided" with Seunghyuk and let him go easily but Yumi talked and talked about how dangerous the outside was in that moment of time and how she was worried for Legendclad's future leader, but Seunghyuk shook his head slightly.
"Noona, I'm fine, " Seunghyuk told Yumi and Yumi shuddered again when called with the word "noona" and flicked her wrist outwards in an abashed manner, signalling for Seunghyuk to go, "Okay, I'll go now. I'll see you guys a few hours later, I guess..."
Seunghyuk walked out and looked back up at the moderately tall building with the newly put up sign of "Legendclad" instead of ConcCube which made him smile to himself knowing that Yumi actually thought things through thoroughly. Seunghyuk placed both hands into his pockets and walked back to his apartment, the old, messy and dirty one, which made things ironic. Seunghyuk had a clean, spacious and new room, or rather a leader's room to live and stay in, but with the excuse that he had to take something from his home, Seunghyuk only wanted to return home to look at the apartment he had led almost 6 years of his life when he moved out of his family's main household. Even though Seunghyuk turned the small apartment into a stinky rathole throughout the past 5 to 6 years, a rat still missed the mess it created, so Seunghyuk still had some sentimental value towards the apartment.
Seunghyuk turned into the short and narrow alleyway where he would cross to reach the bushy area where he fought his first Conqueror due to his first mission. Seunghyuk breathed in the familiar air in the atmosphere and prepared to climb over the relatively tall wall and roll himself over. However, Seunghyuk immediately stopped pulling his body up against the wall and merely released his hand grip on the wall and landed back down on the floor, turning his head behind abruptly to spot a shadow zipping past.
"Who is it?" Seunghyuk asked, his heart starting to beat rapidly to how quickly he was panting in and out, then the shadow figure materialised in front of Seunghyuk, "Impossible...This isn't even in a Battle space..."
The man who had just risen from the shadows laughed through his mask, visible from the crease formed and immediately stalked closer to Seunghyuk quickly took his steps of caution back as well.
"Who are you?" Seunghyuk asked again but he only received three ominous words from the masked man,
"To kill you."
Seunghyuk leapt backwards upon hearing the masked man's words, his back touching the wall behind him and he cursed under his breath. Seunghyuk conjured a fire ball in his hands and shot it out in the form of a beam, but the beam seemed to slowly lose all its embers and lost all its energy before it hit the masked man like a cat's gentle touch. The masked man laughed out loud, and Seunghyuk was clear that the masked man was an assassin that was asked to take his own life for whatever reason.
"Who ordered you to do this?" Seunghyuk asked but the masked man did not even take the chance where Seunghyuk was unprepared to attack, he simply answered Seunghyuk's question with a sarcastic tone, "Order? Yeah, I can definitely be ordered. Of course not, I was requested to take your life and I would be given nearly a hundred thousand dollars! I mean I could spare your life if you give me a hundred thousand, that's simple enough, right?"
Seunghyuk heard the assassin's deal and choked out laughing daringly and the assassin's mask's top region creased slightly with the furrowing of his eyebrows. Seunghyuk knew he was angering the assassin but he had no choice, because he had one big problem, and it was the biggest problem of all existing problems he currently had.
"Eye of Detection is unable to be used on this target as the Conqueror's level is of too big of a difference from your stats to be accurately detected."
Yeah, Seunghyuk knew at that moment that he was dead meat.