❝ WHO ARE YOU? WHO AM I?❞
In which two worlds with different perspectives collide
❝あなたは誰？私は誰？❞
異なる視点の2つの世界が衝突する
cover by @-trixlgy
storyline by @nightgate & @AEREII
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The atmosphere thickened when he turned around to send a tense glare to the new employee. "Repeat what you just said," he ordered in a flat voice. It was so flat that it ran chills down the employee's spine.
The employee's mouth opened to make a sound, "I-" his eyes shifted to every corner of the room, avoiding his superior's gaze.
"If you don't like the way, I run my company, please hand your resignation letter by the end of the day," Jae Kook suggested. His assistant -that has been always by his side- shifted in her place, disagreeing with his opinion, but left her mouth shut and followed her boss' once he walked away.
Once they were in his office, Nam Jae Kook, threw himself on the couch that was in front of his desk. He sat there in a total silence, until, his assistant, Kim Jia spoke up.
"I don't think there is a need to fire him, sir," she began, looking up to meet his gaze. The only employee that was under Nam Jae Kook, who wasn't afraid of him, was Jia. "What he said was, honestly, the truth and what he suggested, could benefit us," she paused to ask if she could sit beside him with.
When she took a seat, she continued voicing her opinion, "There is a reason why he got the job, and we shouldn't let him go because you are too stubborn to accept that you are wrong for once."
Jae Kook nodded his head, listening to what she's saying, and once she was done, he stood from his place. "I will think about it," he said softly.
The day was getting near for it to end, Jae Kook gathered his papers and stacked them into a neat pile. Not a moment later, when he was done, a knock echoed throughout his office.
"Come in," he answered, his voice was loud and clear. A familiar face entered the room, his small figure shivering under the Vice Chairman's intense stare. Jae Kook's eye ran over an envelope, clutched in the man's sweaty hand.
"Mr. Choi," he walked closer to the man, "if you ever overstep your boundaries, again," Jae Kook bent down until his lips reached to the employee's ear, "don't think you will ever find a job after this."
Once he was done, Jae Kook stood up straight with a tight smile, "Understood?" He asked, and held his hand out, waiting for the envelope. As Mr. Choi placed it on his hand with a bow, he watched as his boss tore the envelope. "This is your last chance," he opened the door and watched as his employee repeatedly stuttering 'thank you' as he left the room.
When he was gone, Jia appeared by the door. "I knew there was a heart in you," she said and poked his chest with a smile on her face.
Jae Kook can't stand just anybody, no matter how they tried to get closer and no matter how hard he tried to like them, he just couldn't stand them whatsoever. He never understood human's emotions and nobody ever understood his, the only expressions he could make was a blank look or a fake smile- that was so obvious a blind man can see through it-.
The only person who got the closest was Jia, but when she got too close, Jae Kook got confused and shut her out for a while until he reminded himself he needed her for work.
People who knew him, feared him. He fired about twenty-seven employees in his first week as a Vice Chairman. He accepted four people to work for the company since he started out almost six years ago. Although he can't understand human emotions, he can see through anybody.
Jae Kook pushed his assistant's hand away and sternly said, "Don't think you are my friend, you work under me, you are my assistant, act like it."
He headed back to his desk and took his blazer jacket from the chair and wore it. "Place the papers into their files and check everything is in its place before you leave," he requested.
Jae Kook was a confusing person, nobody knows if he likes their company or not, Jae Kook makes it easy for them to understand that he doesn't but they are way up in their dreamland that they cannot see it. Hoping that they will be the first person, he would like.
Even with his mother, Jae Kook treats her like anybody else. As cold as an ice.
Before he stepped outside his office, Jae Kook shut the lights off, even when Jia was still inside staring at her boss with a questioning look.
He reached to the elevator, where an employee was struggling with a pile of papers in her arms. When she saw who stood beside her, she bowed down, scattering the papers all over the floor. Jae Kook was unbothered and stepped inside the elevator once it reached the floor. His finger pressed on G and he watched as the doors closed.
The phone inside his trousers pocket, vibrated for more than a second, indicating that it was a call. He looked at the screen and Chairman shined. He answered the call, and the sound of his father's scratchy voice rang out, "If you are leaving the company's building right now, I am telling you to go somewhere, I already told your driver where to." With that instruction, his father hung up the phone. Jae Kook didn't question his father's order and just followed it.
The elevator reached the ground floor and when he stepped out of it, everyone who was in the main hallway, stopped what they were doing and bowed for the Vice Chairman.
Jae Kook looked ahead, with his head held up high. The security opened the doors for him and uttered, "Have a good night, sir." As soon as he stepped out of the building, he saw his car waiting for him, upfront with the door opened by his driver.
He entered the car and the door closed after him. When the driver reached his side and entered the car, he began, "I hope you are not tired, sir, the chairman requested for me to take you somewhere and it will take a while to reach the destination."
