Return of the 10th Circle Archmage

Chapter 35 21. Building a full-fledged skeleton

“The meal has arrived.”

Ari and I stayed in an oriental room for a week after the cresty auction was over. We walked the streets of Manhattan in New York together, and we ate together at every meal. In doing so, the two of us grew closer and closer to being more than just business partners.

“Pizza, spaghetti, chicken, salad…. Wow, so many have come.”

Ari was lying on the bed in a comfortable sweatshirt, admiring her as she covered her mouth with both hands. We were late until lunch, and when we saw the food the chef was bringing, we quickly removed the blankets.

tak, tak.

The chef pushed the movable table toward the dining table and arranged the trays of food he had brought.

From steaming freshly baked pizza, freshly boiled spaghetti with fresh noodles, to oven-baked smoked seasoned chicken, to salads tossed with plenty of fresh vegetables.

The two of us quickly grabbed our forks and spoons and ate as much as we could. After spending a long time in oriental medicine, Ahri also lost her stinginess and ate comfortably as if eating in front of her family.

It was a family development.

“Chicken is always right.”

“Recognition.”

Ari praised the stretched chicken in an adidas sweatshirt with three pink stripes. Of course the pizza was delicious, and all the hotel food was delicious.

“Now there is only one thing left to do is enter the black market.”

Ari felt like floating on the clouds for a week, and she always sang ‘Rainbow, Rainbow ~’.

Watching it from the side, I also thought, ‘How can you like me more than me?’

Anyway, among the world jewel auctions that have been held in the past, it was certain that it broke a new record. Although it did not lead to a sale, the all-time high was an all-time high.

The price was nearly six times higher than the 59.6-carat pink diamond sold for 80 billion won at Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong last year.

It is a record that will probably not be broken for a while, Ari was proud of her work.

“Junhyuk, what do you think?”

“Well···. Do you want to go home?”

“I already made a lot of money in my head and came to Kimchi soup with the intention of returning home to gold~?”

“Hahaha.”

Ahri put a piece of chicken in her mouth with a fork and teased me like that. The two of us spent a week without any hesitation, joking around like lovers and friends, as long as we didn’t cross the line.

We ate together, watched TV together, and read books together, but we always slept separately. We are still cautious about each other in that area.

I was very excited as I was going abroad for the first time, and I was very satisfied with the variety of different food and street scenes I tasted here.

In addition, it was good to return to Earth, and to be close to Ari, the only friend I have been close with for a long time, and it was good to feel excited and eccentric.

However, rather than acting hastily because of the business relationship, we decided to wait and see. I was thinking of making a formal confession when I have some money and my base is on a stable track.

However, it was true that Argen, who had left behind in another world, was still being trampled on by his eyes.

‘Ari, Argen….’

Now, Ari’s name came to mind before Argen’s name. Does this mean that when her body goes away, her mind goes away too?

Comparing the similar but slightly different Ahri and Argen in my head, I stared at Ari blankly.

As Ari stared at an American variety show streaming on TV, her smartphone was also occasionally glanced at.

squeaky.

After the two of us have been filling our stomachs to some extent, when we are cleaning the table.“Hey, Chairman. Madam~”

“Huh?”

Ari, who was about to go out to the front door with her dishes, was startled to see the person coming in.

“James Park?”

“How are you? Miss Choi!”

James Park stood at the door, wearing a barbary coat and a round brim hat. He took off his brim and bowed his head politely toward Ari, like a British gentleman.

“You said you were in the US, so Yongke also came to see us.”

“Hahaha. I feel so sorry for taking away the sweet time of lovers.”

“Huh”

Ari turned her head away, her face blushing at James Park’s teasing remarks.

“Come in, James Park. I was waiting.”

I raised his hand to greet James Park as he entered the front door.

James Park was now chasing around the world for me.

He was hesitant to set up a tax evasion company in Delaway, USA, and even open a secret account in a Swiss bank.

“These are the food we left behind as we endured our hunger for James Park.”

It looked like Ari was waiting for James Park to come with pizza, chicken, spaghetti, and salad on a large plate.

“After all, the only person who thinks of me is Miss Choi. I will enjoy this food.”

James Park rushed to the table without any special specifications, with an expression that the market went well. Judging by the look on his face, it seems he came here after skipping breakfast. Her face was half-faced and she looked very hungry.

Me and Ari decided to leave their seats for a while so that he could eat comfortably. The two of us held hands and went round and round the park built in front of the hotel.

“James Park did a great job for Junhyuk.”

“Yes, really.”

I nodded my head vigorously, affirming Ari’s words.

No matter how much superhuman magic I had, it was true that I was far behind in this professional area.

This is not something you can study, but it is something you can learn with long experience and connections.

It was as if I had bought the years and efforts that James Park had accumulated with money.

“If the jewelry sells well this time and I really have more than 600 billion won, I plan to entrust the investment company to James Park.”

“Good idea.”

James Park had a sad jinx that would go bankrupt if he invested his own money. However, when he gave investment advice to others, he was sober and sensible, and he made successful investments hundreds of times more.

Perhaps, if an investment company was established with Lee Jun-hyeok’s money, he could be said to be a very suitable person for that person.

“And when I return to Korea, I will do my best to help you with what Ari asked for.”

“Please?”

The question on her face was, ‘What do you want me to do?’ Ari raised her right hand and scratched her lips with her index finger.

“You asked her to help her father in any way.”

“Ah···.”

Ari closed her eyes blankly, then forcedly nodded her head.

“How are you going to help?”

Seeing her expression of dying in curiosity, I answered with her playful face.

“Secret.”

“Chi~”

Ari patted my arm as if vomiting and turned her head away. It was an unspoken protest, ‘I’m crazy!’ Suddenly, my heart ached and I wanted to hold her chest.

‘Perhaps if we get involved politically, we might even have a fight with the lawmakers…’

During that time, we got to know Ari a lot, and we talked a lot about our family history.

Our family was no different from ordinary Korean families, so there wasn’t much to talk about, but Ari was different.

In her family, her father was the president and her mother was the president of a jewelry company.

Ah-ri’s father, President Choi Jong-hwan, was running for office with the newly established Sunjin Neutrality Party three years ago. Originally, the political world in Korea was a three-way war between the Daehan Party, the Hannuri Party, and the New Millennium Party.

However, many people felt too skeptical of politicians who were either too biased or in an ambiguous formation.

Politics ignorance, political starvation.

The Korean people wanted a new and innovative person who was neither right nor leftist.

And then the person appeared.

It was Ari’s father, Choi Jong-hwan.

He was a model student who had been steadily following the elite course since childhood. Since both of his parents were teachers, his school studies were second to none, and he took the senior course and entered the most prestigious Korean University of Law.

After that, he passed his youngest bar exam at the age of 19. He entered school a year earlier than others, so his youngest record was over a year earlier than others. Before that, the youngest person to pass the bar exam was Woo Byung-woon, a senior civil affairs officer during the Park Geun-ae administration.

Anyway, after that, Choi Jong-hwan’s youngest record update continued.

He left countless records and records while serving as the youngest Chief Justice of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, the youngest chief judge, and the youngest Supreme Court Justice.

Hearing that he is a judge of the common people and a judge of justice, he made a fair judgment in front of the law regardless of the chaebol and politicians, and shook the whole nation.

He was always famous for making just judgments on the side of the poor and poor commoners.

When he ran for president, many floating people started moving. Many talented people gathered under him, which soon united into one party.

Advanced Neutral Party.

conservatives and progressives.

right and left.

Without being biased in any one place, we will innovate the Republic of Korea by combining the strengths of both sides! A purple flag fluttered under the new slogan:

Purple was created by combining the blue of the conservatives and the red of the progressives.

On the day of the presidential election, Gwanghwamun Square was dyed with purple waves, overwhelming the colors of blue and red.

-Korea has now entered a new turning point.

-The birth of the first president who protects the middle road, neither the left nor the right!

– The first neutral president to save the collapsed economy!

When the purple revolution, which started without any support base, succeeded splendidly, the media, which had been pouring out strange articles under political pressure, changed their stance all at once.

And he entered the second year of his tenure.

Economics and security, welfare and people’s livelihood in the first place.

A number of cabinets were formed from the beginning of his administration to catch the four rabbits.However.

– Independent lawmakers, as a group, oppose the policy of the Progressive Neutral Party!

-Boycott the National Assembly all at once!

-Hannuri Party, the president’s impeachment protest in front of Gwanghwamun Square today!

– The New Millennium Party and the Hannuri Party to protest the president’s impeachment!

Opposition for the sake of opposition began to pour in.

Besides.

– Advanced Neutral Party. Party leader Lee Joong-koo, Narsha holding the royal seal over the nomination within the party!

The party that should support the president was divided into the pro-presidential faction and the party representative faction, and a bloody family fight broke out.

In the end, the people gradually turned their backs on the Progressive Neutral Party.

Moreover, externally, China’s economic-political abuse and external pressure from Japan and the United States continued. The North Korean nuclear threat continued. Korea, a weak country, was facing great difficulties both internally and externally.

Inflation continues to rise, and jobs in the country are gradually disappearing.

‘Will these problems be solved if I go out?’

I remembered the complicated political situation for a moment, then shook my head and grabbed Ari’s hand vigorously.

“Can I just go in? I think James Park also finished his meal.”

“okay!”

Ari nodded his head in a lively voice. A worry-free expression. For some reason, he seemed to believe that I was the only one.

*

“The amount of the jewelry auction will be deposited into the account of an overseas company under Jun-hyeok’s name, and the withdrawal will be made using the master card of a secret Swiss account linked to the company under the name of Jun-hyeok Lee.”

After finishing the meal, James Park took out his briefcase on the neatly cleaned table and broke his luck first.

“Is MasterCard prepaid like a credit card and repaid in the next month?”

“No, like a debit card, it will be used in Junhyeok’s company corporate account. Well, unless you bet tens of billions of dollars, 600 billion won is money that you can’t spend all your life.”

James Park shrugged his shoulders and gave me the account number and password, and MasterCard, after detailing the account that would receive the gold from the sale of the jewelry sold at the secret auction.

“And the investment company to be established in Korea decides to invest in blue chip companies with growth potential first, and why not start with an investment of 50 billion won? A modest 10% annual return goal.”

I nodded at James Park’s suggestion. I was going to propose first, but he figured it out and hit the player. Judging from his facial expression, he seemed confident that he would make more than 100% of his profits, but he seemed to be talking stably just in case.

In addition to investment companies, I also raised the issue of establishing a pharmaceutical company, which is being pushed forward with ambivalence and perseverance.

“Like I said last time, you know that an investment company and a pharmaceutical company are also established under the Matop Company, right?”

“Hmm. You are pushing too hard.”

James Park shook his head as if tired. However, it didn’t stop me as ambitious as before.

It seemed that I felt my strong will to set up a pharmaceutical company.

“Then shall we formally discuss the project role? For a pharmaceutical company to return to work, would it have to hire more than a certain number of research personnel and labs?”

After explaining the structure of a pharmaceutical company that he has seen through his many investment careers, James Park drew a blueprint for the company on A4 paper.

“Let’s start with a capital of 30 billion won. After all, Jun-hyeok is setting up the company with the technology, so it’s a one-top system, subsidizing the surrounding researchers.”

“okay!”

It was exactly what I wanted, so I did ok.

In that way, the skeleton of a new business system centered on me began to be built up slowly.