President Lee HyunJi thinned her eyes and asked. She was about to go crazy thinking about what KangYoon was going to say next. But as she had the position of President, she could only tightly grip her fists.
“It’s because, even if we don’t do it ourselves, their comeback stages won’t happen.”
KangYoon proclaimed. To the Directors, his words were a continuous chain of surprise. They listened to numerous plans until now, and even did them themselves, but such an easily changeable plan like this was a first for them. Everyone was being attracted to KangYoon’s side.
KangYoon pointed at the woman with the huge telephoto lens in the photo with a laser pointer.
“There, you can see a woman who’s holding a 1000mm diameter camera lens. The angle and direction all point towards Ryuuji and Rita. Moreover, if it’s that position, she would have secured enough lighting for the two of them to be recognizable from the photo. Even if a rumor spread around, it will be fatal. The conclusion, is a scandal. The scandal, in the end, will stop their comeback stages.”
The Directors were all noisy. Each of their opinion was different. Will a scandal article really show up, won’t the comebacks happen forcefully even under the scandal, etc – they all thought about the possibilities and opinions were split.
The one who stopped all this noise was Chairman Won JinMoon.
“Seems a bit similar to ‘making two enemies fight each other’. To procure information like this, amazing. But it’s not reassuring. There are too many possibilities. Whether a scandal article will happen or not is doubtful in itself, and even if it does, whether the comeback stage will be stopped or not is even more doubtful. If they don’t do it, then that’s the same as admitting that the scandal is true, but will this really happen?”
“Yes. It will definitely happen. And they won’t have a comeback stage.”
“Your reason being?”
The reason he could procure the photo was because he knew the ‘past’ but it also had elements of luck. He knew the location of the scandal but he didn’t know the time, In the end, all he did was to wait in front of the hotel where the scandal occurs. The result – he procured a photo and could provide sufficient reason.
Now was the time to bring up the real deciding card. The ‘future’ KangYoon knew, the other didn’t. The effect of the scandal was so big that they had to postpone their comebacks by one week. To others, it may sound like a bet, but to KangYoon, it was obvious. What was left now was persuasion using evidence.
“First, I will tell you the reason why a scandal article will appear. The newspaper in which the scandal article will be published is Sakeda Shinbun.[1] It is reputed as the newspaper agency with the most public trust. The scary thing about this agency is that although they are late in publishing scoops, they bring out reliable information. In other words, they don’t negotiate.”
“You mean that even for the 2 big companies to suppress them will be difficult.”
“It will be hard to suppress the article from going public. If the article is made public, the ‘pure’ image Eiden and Hydrea built up until now will need time to get it under control. If, they forcefully do a comeback stage, there’s a high chance that it will have an adverse effect. There’s less damage if they postpone the comebacks.”
“……”
Chairman Won JinMoon fell into thought. No, it was the same for everybody else who heard KangYoon’s words. KangYoon was speaking with clear evidence. And in the end, everybody was persuaded. Of course, they had worries.
As their representative, President Lee HyunJi asked.