Jeong Gilgaon stared intently at the two letters carved into the wall near the ceiling, then turned his head.
Across from him, his friend’s thoroughly crumpled expression was quite a sight.
He snorted softly.
“Considering I obediently went along with it when he dragged in a college student who hadn’t even graduated and forced him into this seat, haven’t I already done my duty as a son?”
“The Chairman won’t just sit back and let you. You know your father has this strange fixation on you.”
“I’m not leaving entirely, so it doesn’t matter. I’ll keep my roots in Seongjin. Why would I cut ties and make someone else happy?”
“Still, now that you’ve produced results like this, even if you said you wanted to move to Electronics or Trading, no one could openly oppose you. But you’re abandoning the royal road and suddenly founding a guild…. Everyone’s going to think you’ve dropped out of the succession race.”
“The royal road was impossible from the moment I was born an illegitimate child~.”
“Haah… Forget it. Why…