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Chapter 11
Ding―!
Ding-ding──!!
Ding-ding-ding……
The phone bell rang like crazy from the morning.
Unable to tolerate the noise ringing in gradation, an employee grumbled and opened the door to the PR team.
Е n̊ ǔm̃a. іd
“C-can someone… answer the phone…”
Bang!!
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Before finishing the sentence, it was slammed shut.
What did I just see…?
Energy drinks scattered everywhere, PR team employees mechanically responding with hollow eyes, and three or four phones held in both hands.
Yes.
W̄e b ń õ v ē l̈ E n̈ ümа̄
If there is a hell for royalties, this was it.
“…T-Team Leader, the calls keep coming. What should we do?”
“They’re going crazy asking for the CEO’s source. They say they’ll feature the Mir Guild promotion to make it look amazing.”
“The article conversion rate is insane… Look. Only our guild’s articles filled the first page. It used to be hard to even run one guild promotion a week.”
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“What should we do, Team Leader? Keep going?”
“Team Leader!!”
E n̈ u̇ m̆а.. і d_
“Team Leaaader!”
“Noona, snap out of it!!”
The PR team leader, with half-closed eyes, answered “Huh?” as if her soul was disappearing in real time.
She never imagined it would be this bad!
Honestly, she had thought Lee Shin was self-absorbed when he said they should promote him.
Of course, he’s ridiculously handsome enough to rival an S-class actor, ranked the richest in his 20s in Korea, and notorious enough to be called the national delinquent, but still, he’s just a regular person, isn’t he?
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Ridiculously handsome, but not quite an S-class actor.
Ranked the richest in his 20s, but the money isn’t really his.
Then only the national delinquent title remains—but when was he ever really a bad guy?
So the seriously naïve her thought he would only like people similar to him.
Something that sparks a bit of interest in a community, gets a few photos saved, and ends there?
In short, it was a misconception.
Е ň um а̃..ì d
Our delinquent also has mass appeal.
And a lot of it, astonishingly so.
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[Real-time search rankings]
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(New) 5th Lee Shin
Ē nu_m̆ ӓ
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Every item he casually tossed out became an article. Post a few photos, and followers poured in like rain.
If that was all, it wouldn’t be surprising—but the real thing was something else: aggro.
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A delinquent lives and dies by aggro, doesn’t he?
Aggro was essentially Lee Shin’s specialty. The moment he deliberately started drawing attention, they swarmed as if they had been waiting for it.
W е́ b̂ n ȯ ve l̊_ Еn̊.ü m ā
Entertainment reporters, social news, variety show PDs, even regional women’s magazine journalists.
Brrrrr─
Just thinking about it made the PR team leader shiver.
It was fear.
The moment she posted something, exactly three seconds later, all the PR team phones rang at once—chills ran down her spine!
From that moment, those phones never rested, and the poor PR team couldn’t sleep since.
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“Superstars drive both fans and haters crazy, huh.”
Crazy phones, crazy situation, insane workload! It seemed like the whole world had gone mad over Lee Shin.
It’s scary now.
They tried to light a fire, and sure, they lit it—but as you can see, the situation had long left the PR team leader’s hands.
Popularity is a double-edged sword. When you attract attention in such a short time, you must prepare something commensurate.
If you don’t, you’ll be burnt to ashes by the backlash that comes like a firestorm.
Е̂ n̈ ūm̄ а̂
“How on earth are we supposed to handle this…”
She couldn’t imagine the picture Lee Shin was painting.
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Ding―!
Ding-ding――!!
Ding-ding-ding……
Of course, the phones didn’t stop even then.
Ёń ǔ m̊ å
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“Mm~ uuhmm~”
Lee Shin’s fingers floated in rhythm to a lively tune.
“Nice. Piano sound.”
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The vehicle was filled with elegant melodies.
A common song you might have heard in a CF or as a ringtone, but clearly the touch of a professional made it different.
Ё n um̀ a
The melody was elegant, the ride smooth, the cushion soft, sunlight warming through the windows.
At just the right moment, you could pop a fluffy potato from the rest area into your mouth.
Ah, perfect.
“This is heaven.”
The triangular curve of Lee Shin’s lips showed just how perfect this moment was.
But Cha Dong-ha beside him was different.
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“You seem pleased.”
“Yeah, nice. What’s the title? Beethoven’s Four Seasons?”
“The Four Seasons is Vivaldi.”
“Don’t fuss over small things. As long as it’s great, that’s enough. I’m realizing anew the importance of speakers.”
“Ah, yes…”
Cha Dong-ha quietly observed him. The dark circles under his eyes were heavy with fatigue.
W_è b̃ ńо ṽе̌l Е n̄u m а̌
No wonder—over the past few days, the entire guild had been working overnight relay-style carrying out Lee Shin’s instructions, and Cha Dong-ha was the control tower, handling operations.
Naturally, sleep had become a distant concept.
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And now, he was struggling through the incoming work documents while someone next to him leisurely discussed heaven—how could he not be annoyed?
“I feel my face is going to explode, man.”
“…It’s just your imagination.”
“Ha ha ha. Your imagination, huh, yet your dissatisfaction is clear. Want some potatoes?”
Ѐńŭm̄а̂ . і̀d̊
“No thanks.”
“Why not? They’re good.”
Lee Shin, teasingly, popped the rejected potato into his mouth and decided to give advice to the sulking young sprout.
“Everyone has their own strengths. Think about it. If I stayed in the guild rubbing elbows with the staff, it would definitely be uncomfortable, right?”
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Self-objectivity was Lee Shin’s most confident domain.
He believed that objectively seeing himself was the way to solve the next problem. He was always the agent of action.
Е̇ n̊ ǔm̄ а̄. і̊ d̄
Thus, when problems arose, he always tried to look at himself objectively.
Do I answer phones better than the PR team?
Do I read metrics better than the finance team?
Ultimately, I need to use what I’m good at, my own strengths.
“Draw the big picture.”
“The big picture?”
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“Yeah. A huge, enormous big picture.”
Not an ordinary picture. Have you heard of the big picture that comes from 20 years of experience?
At that moment, the phone rang, and Chae Dong-ha hurriedly stopped talking to answer.
A little later, he reported the result to Lee Shin.
“We’ve got a contact. Team Leader Jeong Sun-dong says he’s confirmed the location.”
“I knew it, our Team Leader.”
Е ń ǔm_a
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A few days ago, that is, back when he was boasting that he would sell himself to the head of the PR team, Lee Shin spoke separately with Director Jeong Sun-dong.
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The main point of the conversation was simple.
You must know the means and the purpose clearly.
Fame and publicity are just means. Our purpose is to reclaim the old glory that has faded even from memory and rebuild the Mir Guild into a prestigious one again.
The answer is results, and therefore we must achieve promotion this year.
W ēb n̆ оv̌ ѐl .Ê num̃ а
It was with this that Lee Shin handed Jeong Sun-dong a bundle of profiles, which was exactly the recruitment list that Chae Dong-ha was currently reviewing.
“As expected, Director Sun-dong, you’re better at this than being a manager. The way you handle things is so straightforward.”
“It’s amazing. How on earth did you find out? Normally, if you ask a guild to provide information about promising players, they usually refuse first.”
“Connections.”
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“Connections?”
“What do you think keeps Korean society running? Academic ties, regional ties, blood ties—it all comes back to connections. And our Director Sun-dong is incredible when it comes to connections.”
Ѐ n̊_úm̄а̌
To Lee Shin, Director Jeong Sun-dong was a more familiar name as Vice President Jeong Sun-dong.
He isn’t a major character in GM.
In a way, he’s just a minor NPC who shows up to give congratulatory remarks when trophies are awarded.
Yet there’s something interesting about this character.
Even as a minor NPC, with just a few lines of brief description, there’s a clearly etched phrase.
‘…He has a good personality, treats everyone sincerely, and is supported by many hunters enough to be called “Papa”…’
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That’s right.
This character rose through connections rather than personal ability—a so-called “social insider” character.
Some people immediately view connections with suspicion. They call someone a cowardly parachute, claiming they only got their position by flattering superiors rather than by their own skill.
But Lee Shin disagreed.
Ultimately, connections, objectively considered, are also a form of competitiveness.
For example, although Lee Shin hated his former manager in his past life, he still treated him as a manager because his mediocre abilities played a part.
Ẅ ѐ b̀ n о̌ v̊ê l E n ū m̈ a
In this way, Jeong Sun-dong was a person who, despite an indecisive personality, halting speech, and weak-looking impression, rose to the position of Vice President solely through connections.
Of course, because of his kind personality, he eventually got manipulated and discarded by the cunning Yang Pan-seok, but that future has disappeared in this world, so setting that aside, he could still be quite useful if leveraged properly.
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Chae Dong-ha now nodded at Lee Shin’s moderately edited explanation.
“Having many connections also makes it statistically easier to make inquiries. It might even be possible to subtly probe promising players.”
“Even if you make contact, there’s a huge difference between going through someone you know and approaching directly. Comparing hunting to matchmaking, the success rate is overwhelmingly higher with matchmaking.”
“That’s true. I saw a survey somewhere that said matchmaking is six times more likely to result in couples than hunting… Why do you think so?”
Е̊n u̇m a
“Hmm~ Our hyung is lonely, huh?”
“…I was watching it with my younger sibling.”
“Alright, fine.”
“Anyway, that’s strangely convincing. I understand. So you entrusted the recruitment to the director.”
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“What do you think? Can you see the big picture I’m drawing?”
“Well…”
Е_num_а
Chae Dong-ha, who seemed convinced, soon asked something else.
“Still, it feels like the picture you’re drawing is too big.”
“What do you mean~?”
“The public opinion. The fire you set is still blazing, isn’t it?”
Lee Shin’s argument was certainly persuasive.
Though publicly known as a hopeless troublemaker, the Lee Shin Chae Dong-ha observed up close was different. His behavior and careless speech might seem so, but within the guild, he was a specialist with insight, almost supernatural intuition, and the ability to do anything.
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However, even conceding all that, the picture Lee Shin was drawing was undeniably risky.
“In my opinion, the representative intends to calm the fiery public opinion through recruitment. Essentially, to soothe fans’ complaints with recruitment. But, sir,”
He held all the profiles he had been reviewing together and continued.
“That fiery public opinion has long since slipped from our hands. Trying to quell it with just a few promising recruitments is clearly insufficient.”
The entire raid team had transferred. More than half of the front office had left, creating disorder. To put it bluntly, only the fans remained in the Mir Guild.
And yet, they were now at war with the very fans who were the guild’s everything.
Ẇе̌ b̈n о̂v̀ е l̇ Е n u m̊ а̃_
Abandoning these fans just to use them as publicity fodder? That’s practically suicide.
“How about taking responsibility for the aftershock and spreading the truth? If you don’t quell this public opinion first, only ashes will remain. You’ll lose fans, image, and everything else.”
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Chae Dong-ha’s claim that drawing too big a picture risks tearing it apart changed Lee Shin’s expression.
Concern and worry? No, surprisingly, admiration and pride. Like a child seeing a cactus grow rapidly overnight.
“So?”
“Yes?”
Е̄ ńú mă
“So what’s next? Nothing else?”
Anyone can raise problems. To prove one’s ability, you must present solutions.
After a long pause, Chae Dong-ha said in response to Lee Shin’s question:
“Ha… what comes to mind immediately is that we need a recruitment with weight.”
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To balance a scale, you need to add a weight of comparable measure.
If one side has public opinion erupting like a volcano, the opposite side must have a shocking recruitment to balance it.
Е̊n̄ u m̂ а̊ .іd
“Yes, no matter how I think about it, that seems to be the only way. For whatever reason, the representative expelled Yang Pan-seok, a guild legend. Fans will want that vacancy filled with resources superior to Yang Pan-seok at least. Only then will some of their anger ease.”
Having finished his answer, he turned his head to find Lee Shin with the corners of his mouth raised in a grin.
Clap clap.
“Everyone, applause!! Hyung, clap, noona… oh, you’re driving, sorry. Anyway, wow~ when did our hyung grow like this?”
80 out of 100 points.
It deserved applause merely for identifying the problem and proactively suggesting a solution in an environment that could have easily been passive.
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That’s why birth rank matters.
An S-rank can grow into SS, but SS-ranked by birth is different from the start.
“Almost right, your answer. But, you know…”
Offsetting runaway publicity with a new face—on a large scale, it’s correct but Lee Shin looked further.
“What if we make a recruitment far hotter and incomparable than mere publicity? Not just to put out the fire. But to fan it further?”
Then it’s no longer just support.
Ӗňů m̃ à .i d̂
“This shock becomes a kind of ‘image.’”
Image.
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The decisive difference between lower-league and major-league guilds is how distinct this image is.
What might seem useless at first glance becomes a brand commercially and a mascot to unite fandoms.
“Shock! Perhaps the image most needed by our Mir Guild, soaked in defeat and left with only evil, is that.”
Crazy but never boring. Mad but always expectable. Precarious day by day, yet thrilling on the tightrope.
Е n ûm̂ а
This is the big picture Lee Shin drew and the way to save the ICU dragon.
“So where you go now is important.”
“Why?”
“Because.”
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Hualyongjeomjeong (painting the dragon and dotting its eyes).
“We’re going to recruit the eyes of the dragon.”
W.еbnо̀ v́ ӗl Е ǹu m̀ ã
At the end of this path lies the final mark of the Mir Guild.
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