Chapter 9

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Seeing the memory drive in Klaire's hand, Joong Ki makes a move. He's held back though, giving Klaire a head start. Joong Ki frees himself and immediately gives chase down the hospital corridors.

He's soon thrown backwards by more men, and lands some punches while they get in a few kicks. Joong Ki is held back by a bodyguard and spots Burn Mark smirk and head down to the parking garage. So Joong Ki flips the bodyguard over, then kicks another man down and follows Representative Park's men.

Burn Mark catches up to Klaire in his car, tapping on the window and identifying himself as the police. When Klaire doesn't comply, Burn Mark's partner points a gun at him.

Klaire is instructed to get out of the car and while he's being searched, he asks who they're with: Representative Park or Yoona. He takes an opportune moment to attack and escape, breaking into a run.

More men appear as he descends into a lower level, which is when Joong Ki suddenly appears and kicks them away. He deals with a few more before chasing Klaire again, and Burn Mark and his partner remain on Klaire's tail as he dashes back up the ramp.

They catch him before he can climb into his car, however, and Klaire backs into a railing. Joong Ki arrives just as Klaire lose his footing and flips over the railing. He grabs Klaire's arm just in time, but now they're both dangling from the railing.

Thinking fast, Joong Ki swings him into the level below, and now he has the memory drive. Burn Mark breathes a relieved sigh when he sees that Joong Ki is still alive. He demands that Joong Ki hand over the drive, but Joong Ki responds by jumping off the railing, landing on a moving truck, then rolling onto the ground.

A car drives up just then-it's Chief Joo, who ushers him in.

The police cars remain hot on their tail.

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Yoona's eyes grow wide when she hears about Joong Ki's injury while Anna is woken up to hear the news.

It turns out that Chief Joo's car isn't the only JSS vehicle on the road-at the agent's signal, the JSS cars behind them block the police cars. Anna earnestly prays for Joong Ki's safe return before being called downstairs to watch the news report on how the president's son is injured and the unknown assailant is still at large.

Representative Park is also watching this broadcast and decides to take this opportunity to attack the JSS headquarters. He calls the police commissioner and instructs him to gather his men and strike Heaven Ten by collecting all the secret intel Yoo-jin has and delete the data on the main server.

We see that the politician isn't alone-Sung-won's father-in-law chuckles beside him. But Representative Park feels they still have reason to worry should the memory drive falls into Yoona's hands.

Upon their arrival at the JSS headquarters, Chief Joo is instructed to go to the Heaven Ten sublevel.

CEO Gook is present when the police commissioner arrives with his men. He has no choice but to let the police in because they have a search warrant, but of course Joong Ki isn't in the office, he's down in the Heaven Ten conference room.

Over at the JSS headquarters, CEO Gook accompanies the police commissioner and his men into the elevator. However, the elevator doesn't move when the police commissioner presses the button, but a threat to have CEO Gook arrested forces the latter to use his access card.

CEO Gook leads the men into the server room and the technicians immediately get to work on the main server. Down in Heaven Ten, Yoona watches the men through the CCTV feed and checks in with her computer that their most sensitive data will remain intact.

Representative Park is delighted when he hears the technicians have succeeded in hacking into the JSS database. Elsewhere, Sung-won's father-in-law reassures the other men that he's deployed his own technicians for the job, so there's no way Representative Park will get a hold of the Heaven Ten's data.

However the others believe it's too early to celebrate because there's still a chance the memory drive can still end up in Yoona's hands. They can neither be certain that the drive was actually taken from Klaire until he comes to.

Speaking of whom, Klaire wakes in the hospital and the first thing he asks is about what happened to the man who took the USB. Upon being told that the thief is currently hiding in JSS, Klaire tells his bodyguard not to go after him because he helped him escape earlier.

The police commissioner is flabbergasted when he learns that the database the technicians hacked into doesn't contain highly confidential information. He's annoyed when he and his men receive orders from the Blue House to pull out, and CEO Gook escorts them out with a hearty laugh.

Once Representative Park hears about the presidential orders, he realizes that the memory drive has been stolen from Klaire after all. Over at Heaven Ten, Yoona arrives at the same conclusion- Klaire has called off the search on Joong Ki upon realizing that he now has the USB.

Now he must tread with caution lest Joong Ki disclose the USB's contents to the public. She's positive that her theory is correct, so while Chief Joo searches for the USB, the rest of them will put on their best poker face and act as if the USB is in their possession.

The next day, Yoo-jin informs Min Ho of her plans to send Anna away to designer Jean-Paul Lafelt. Anna won't be hidden away this time since the entire world knows who she is, and the negative public opinion about Anna and her mother won't matter once she lives in another country.

Yoona will treat her so well that Anna won't even want to return to Korea. She'll be so kind that Anna won't even remember her own mother.

Sung-won flags CEO Gook down on his way to work, hoping that they can chat. He then pays a visit to Representative Park and suggests that they join forces. Nothing has gone well for Representative Park after teaming up with his father-in-law whereas Sung-won helped him find success in Iraq.

He chuckles that he'll take Heaven Ten while Representative Park recovers the USB. He lets out a hearty laugh when Representative Park says to come back once he's gotten everything from the tenth floor. Sung-won: "Why does everyone keep thinking that Heaven Ten is on the tenth floor?"

While Chief Joo tells CEO Gook that Joong Ki needs to wake up before their enemies find out that they've been bluffing about the USB, Joong Ki finally comes to.

Representative Park is on the literal edge of his seat when he hears that they have an opportunity to take Heaven Ten and Yoona if they strike now.

Sung-won checks in with CEO Gook to find out where his loyalties lie now. He grows smug when CEO Gook is on board, and Burn Mark leads the men to the JSS headquarters. CEO Gook creates a mess to distract the last of the JSS security team while Burn Mark's squad rushes into the building.

Down in the sublevel, Yoona tells Joong Ki that she doesn't want him to worship her. She starts, "I... just..."

But he cuts her off: "You probably wanted to own me... and just make me into another one of your slaves."

Sung-won arrives at the JSS headquarters in time to be entertained by the ongoing fight. He greets CEO Gook with a smile, and the group descends to the Heaven Ten sublevel.

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