Rest of the week, Su Yeon learned many of the IT concepts and how they worked. While learning, she did come across some difficult parts, but messaged it to LKJ only after reading the basics of it. Though it happened only twice, both the time, she was amazed by his accurate, precise yet simple explanation.
On the last day of the internship, everyone was more energized. All of them had mixed feelings of freedom as well as longing… finally, they were going to be free from tedious workload but, at the same time, they didn't want to be separated from this company.
Su Yeon went to Assistant Lim's desk and greeted. While checking her work, an idea came in his mind, so he said, "Intern Yoon, since today is your last day, I will give you a test. You should be able to use all your knowledge and experience you got here while working."
'Why does this feel like calm before the storm,' Su Yeon thought. She agreed, "Yes Sir, I will do my best. What do I have to do?" her palms started sweating.
Assistant Lim looked at her through his gold-rimmed glasses for a second, and asked, "Do you remember yesterday, we started modifying the last part of the program?" Su Yeon nodded, "Yes, since it's a bit complicated, we have to explain each minor detail of our finance procedure to the IT team. Will it really get completed today?"
Assistant Lim interrupted, "That depends upon you." Looking at Su Yeon's confused face, he explained, "Today, this is your task-cum-responsibility. You have to explain them everything."
Su Yeon sighed inwardly. With a determined face, she accepted, "I am ready for the task!" Assistant Lim smiled, "Then I can attend today's meeting without any tension," and stood up to gather few documents.
Su Yeon's determined face fell, "Huh? Sir, where are you going?" Assistant Lim said indifferently, "For the meeting." Su Yeon widened her eyes, "Then… how can I explain them? I mean…" when the realization hit her, she asked, "So I have to do it… alone?"
Su Yeon froze when she got a nod as a reply. Assistant Lim packed his suitcase and patted her shoulder, "You can do it, all the best. I will come before lunch, till then, you have more than enough time for the explanation."
Su Yeon gave a short nod and agreed. When she came back to her desk, she slumped on the chair. "Wow… Intern Yoon, everything has happened already, you can't even change anything, so get up… 1, 2, 3…" Su Yeon whispered and stood up with a confident face.
This confidence balloon got flattened when she reached in front of the meeting room. The members whom she meets every day since the past week suddenly felt unfamiliar. She knocked and came in slowly.
"G-Good Morning everyone," Su Yeon greeted. The two members from IT stopped their typing and looked at her. Su Yeon took the main seat and explained, "Umm… Assistant Lim told me to hold today's meeting, so… shall we start?"
Without confirming anything, one member started, "Whatever, first we have a new issue." Su Yeon gulped, she was not prepared for this unexpected problem. When she nodded, he continued, "We are getting errors in the tax computation part, could you please explain?"
Su Yeon's heart sank. She had no idea what to reply, "That…" the other one interrupted, "Wait, there is also one more problem in the payroll software, this is also related to the tax system, I guess. You first look into it, then we will continue our remaining work."
Su Yeon's mind went blank… tax, payroll system… she had a basic knowledge of it, but now, nothing was popping up in her mind. She took a few deep breaths and words came out before she thought of anything, "Ok, I will do it."
The two members looked at each other. Su Yeon widened her eyes and thought, 'That's it! Now you have just dug your own grave…'
One of the members commented, "Brave move, intern Yoon!" The other one said, "Enough, the joke went too far, she might cry at any point of time," and the two members started laughing.
Looking at Su Yeon's confused face, he consoled her, "Don't worry, we were kidding…" The other one joined, "Right, we just wanted to scare you, but instead, you agreed and scared us!"
Su Yeon sighed in relief. After that, the atmosphere became a bit comfortable for her. She discussed with them and resolved everything.
Su Yeon remembered something so she asked, "Sir, do you perhaps know who was the creator of this project? His ID is LKJ."
One of them replied, "Huh? You mean senior Kang Jun? Of course we know him." Su Yeon prompted the name, "Kang Jun…" but was interrupted by the other one.
He shivered, "Don't mention the name of that Devil… see, even now I get goosebumps!" His colleague chuckled, "You are overacting… I mean, he does glare like a devil, but he is very intelligent. Don't you remember how he taught us advanced coding? At least don't forget that your skills got improved because of him."
"Ok ok, I agree, we should continue our work," he shrugged off that matter.
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Assistant Lim finished his meeting and managed to return Song Empire before lunch. While walking through the premises, he got a call,
"Hello,"
On the other side, the young man replied, "Good afternoon Assistant Lim, I called you for the follow-up. Does my presence need there?"
"I don't think so, everything is going well. The juniors you trained were working efficiently. The entire problem will resolve today, let me check if they have finished or not."
"What? You are not there? Then who is it? Don't tell me that young Intern…"
"You are right. Since it's the last day of the internship, so I gave that task."
"Do you think he will do well? He is still inexperienced."
"Don't worry, she can do this very well, I know her ability. Wait… do you know her?"
"Her? Whom are you talking about?"
"Of course, the intern, Intern Yoon. How do you know her?"
"Huhh? Actually I…" the young man was interrupted by his colleague. He continued, "I helped him… I mean her, over some doubts. Assistant Lim, something came up so I will hang up now."
"Ok," and the call was ended.
Assistant Lim reached the meeting room and got surprised by Su Yeon's work. She had successfully managed to explain everything without any mistakes. Su Yeon asked, "Since it's lunchtime, shall we have lunch together?"
The other three got confused. Su Yeon quickly continued, "Oh, it's ok if you have any other plans. I… I just suggested." One of the IT members asked, "It must be you who should have another plan… Don't you want to have lunch with your fellow members?"
Su Yeon shook her head, "It's not like that, since we all are here, so…" Assistant Lim agreed, so the other two also agreed.
When four of them reached the cafeteria floor, they saw Mr. Secretary coming in their direction. "Ohh… Mr. Secretary!" Su Yeon called him. Mr. Secretary smiled and stopped in front of her.
The other three gentlemen were shocked, even Assistant Lim raised his brows.
Su Yeon asked, "Good afternoon Mr. Secretary, did you have your lunch?" Mr. Secretary replied with a smile, "Good afternoon Miss Yoon, I haven't had my lunch yet." "Then, would you like to join us for lunch?" Su Yeon offered.
Mr. Secretary denied, "I would like to, but I have some work to do now." Su Yeon nodded, "Mr. Secretary, actually it's my last day today in this company, so I asked. It's ok then, but you shouldn't skip your meal for work. At least have a small sandwich and a glass of juice."
"Already?" Mr. Secretary amused.
"What already?"
"I mean, it's already your last day here?" Mr. Secretary asked with a hint of sorrow. Su Yeon chuckled, "Yes, I don't know when we will meet next time, so before going, I wanted to have lunch with you. You were my first friend in Song Empire after all."
The later part made the other three members shocked from the core… Friend? This Grim Reaper?...