The Crazy Mercenary Commander Goes to Work in the Entertainment Industry

Translator: Dreamscribe

Around midnight, Kang Jae-ha was at the 'MEG' office. Given the late hour, the 'MEG' office was empty, with only Kang Jae-ha and Lee Chan-hoo present, just the two of them.

How to put it, the office was quiet and the world was still.

The hour when the press and the public had all fallen asleep. And yet Kang Jae-ha was directing a silent war from the front lines. No, rather than a war, should it be called quietly slitting the throat of some massive organization's leader without a single soul knowing?

Naturally, this was about 'Matsuda Hideo', the godfather of the Japanese entertainment world.

The atmosphere was quiet in the extreme, yet without a doubt an enormous storm was breaking loose. Narrow-eyed Lee Chan-hoo watched Jae-ha's dry expression, looking as if he were waiting for something. Just then, a short vibration buzzed on Kang Jae-ha's phone.

-Buzz.

Lee Chan-hoo immediately leaned in toward the Commander, his eyes brimming with curiosity. Kang Jae-ha, meanwhile, calmly checked the message that had come in. The sender was Ha Yeon-ji, over in Japan.

-Commander. Matsuda Hideo, just took his head clean off.

Having read it, Kang Jae-ha smiled faintly. It was a short message, but it carried a great deal within it. It meant she'd stopped Matsuda Hideo's moronic act and rescued the newest victim as well. Lee Chan-hoo immediately let out a breath tinged with relief.

"Phew... looks like it got sorted out one way or another."

Lowering his phone, Jae-ha crossed his legs, thinking of Ha Yeon-ji.

"She was the ace of the Scout Unit. Something like this would be a breeze for her."

"I know that, but this is a whole different world now, so I was worried just a teensy bit. You're not going to call her right away, are you?"

"No. The scene'll be chaos. I just need to text her to slip out at a good moment on her own."

Finishing his words, Jae-ha sent Ha Yeon-ji a text, and Lee Chan-hoo, after checking the time, voiced another worry.

"So the raid went off fine, but what if that old bastard 'Matsuda Hideo' buries the whole thing? He's a huge deal over in Japan, after all."

It wasn't a wrong thing to say. 'Matsuda Hideo' had been sexually exploiting male trainees for decades. Surely, more than once, a victim would have come forward, or the matter would have risen to the surface. But every time, it would have been buried.

The Japanese entertainment world had corners even murkier than Korea's.

Matsuda Hideo's overwhelming power reached beyond the entertainment world alone.

'It's probably reached the press, even into politics.'

That was surely how 'Matsuda Hideo' had covered up his shame, his weaknesses, all this time. But he'd dragged his tail far, far too long. Stagnant water is bound to reek, and once that stench grows foul enough, no amount of dirt shoveled over it can hold the smell back.

More than anything, there was one enormous difference between the past and the present.

'As long as I know about it, hiding it is impossible.'

It was the existence of Kang Jae-ha.

At that, Jae-ha gave a short laugh.

"I know, you know, and 'MEG' is in on it. Think he can wriggle out of this?"

Before he knew it, the corners of Lee Chan-hoo's mouth were twitching upward too.

"No chance. Of all people, he got caught in the Commander's sights."

Kamijo Yuu was Kang Jae-ha's subordinate and a member of the Mercenary Corps. She was also a comrade to his other subordinates. Which meant, in effect, that 'Matsuda Hideo' had laid a hand on 'MEG'. Of course, 'Matsuda Hideo' would never know it for as long as he lived. He probably wasn't even sparing a thought for some rostered actress named Kamijo Yuu.

In any case, Kang Jae-ha had already laid out his plans around 'Matsuda Hideo' in double and triple layers.

"Even if that old man throws money at it to bury it, it'll pour straight through his fingers like water. If we keep the case front and center through articles, social media, forums, and the rest, the old victims who've kept their heads down will come out too."

"Once it starts spreading, there's no stopping it."

"We get the Korean press moving as well to blow it up bigger, and once the snowball's rolling, we detonate the dirty money too, Mirai Stage's tax evasion and all of it."

The speed of a snowball grown that big would be terrifying. And on top of that, Kang Jae-ha had one more blow to land.

"I'm going to tip off the foreign press as well. The prep's already done. All that's left is to pull the trigger."

He meant to alert even the overseas media. Lee Chan-hoo, who hadn't realized the plan reached all the way to the foreign press, was quite surprised.

"Whoa... you'd thought this all the way through to the foreign press?"

"If we're going to scale it up, we've got to take it international, don't we?"

"W-well, true enough."

Watching the Commander's crooked smirk, Lee Chan-hoo felt a faint shiver run through him.

'Terrifying man. Not that sending someone to their grave is any trouble for him, but the sheer thoroughness of it.'

Among Matsuda Hideo's victims there were surely minors as well, and while sex crimes involving minors were treated as grave everywhere, they were an especially raw nerve abroad. Kang Jae-ha had judged that the foreign press would be the highlight of all these bursting fireworks.

"Once foreign outlets like BBN pile on, no amount of money will move the Japanese press or the politicians. Every last one of them will turn their backs on 'Matsuda Hideo' cold. And at that point, well, 'Matsuda Hideo' is no better than a death-row convict waiting on his execution."

When that happened, 'Matsuda Hideo', who had been called a titan, a giant, a myth, a legend of the Japanese entertainment world, would be nothing more than some criminal old geezer who'd chewed through way too many years.

"Once the leader's head rolls, 'Mirai Stage' will fall apart all on its own."

Or the once colossal 'Mirai Stage' would be cut down to a fraction of its size in an instant.

"And then pulling Kamijo Yuu out is no trouble at all."

Finishing his words, Kang Jae-ha rose smoothly to his feet and made a suggestion to Lee Chan-hoo.

"Want to grab a late-night bite? I'm craving chicken and beer."

Meanwhile, Japan.

The Japanese police had come storming in just before 'Matsuda Hideo' could commit his 'moronic act' on the young boy. They'd been dispatched on an already-filed report of sexual exploitation, and in the eyes of the police, the scene itself was as good as evidence.

'Matsuda Hideo', the entertainment godfather reeking of booze, and beside him, the pretty-boy trainee with reddened eyes.

To anyone's eyes, it was open and shut.

On top of that, 'Matsuda Hideo' had quite a track record of trouble in the past, sexual harassment and the like.

The officers who'd moved in protected the boy first.

Whether his emotions had boiled over or it was the officers' protection, the boy's sobbing only worsened. The flustered officers worked to calm him down for the moment.

"You're safe now."

Two 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters, acquaintances of Ha Yeon-ji, snapped away at the whole scene like mad. Catching on, the police moved to block them.

"You'll need to leave now."

In the end, Ha Yeon-ji and the two 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters had to clear out of the scene. But by then they'd already gotten everything worth getting. Meanwhile, 'Matsuda Hideo' wasn't arrested by the police right away.

Once the panic and the reality of it sank in, 'Matsuda Hideo' spent the whole time busily rattling off excuses.

"Sexual exploitation?! Look here, I'm 'Matsuda Hideo'. Are you telling me it's a crime for me to have a word with a trainee from my own company??"

Having secured the boy's statement on the scene, the police arrested 'Matsuda Hideo' on the spot. Partly the drink, partly his legs seeming to give out, 'Matsuda Hideo' was dragged off practically slung across the officers' backs.

It was past midnight in front of the upscale mansion, yet a fair crowd of onlookers had gathered.

Little wonder, with all the commotion and the police cars that had suddenly packed the street. A dozen or more people, some of them come out from the mansion, ringed the cars, and their phones vividly captured 'Matsuda Hideo' being loaded into a patrol car. The same, of course, went for the phones of Ha Yeon-ji and the two 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters.

'Matsuda Hideo' hid his face as best he could, but as one of the most recognizable figures in Japan, it was next to impossible.

Soon the police cars, the victim boy aboard one of them too, pulled out one after another.

Watching the patrol cars recede, Ha Yeon-ji asked the 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters standing beside her.

"How do you think this'll play out?"

Her Japanese was clumsy, but the two 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters caught her meaning just fine, and both smiled at the same time.

"Sexual exploitation of a male trainee. There are definitely more victims than just that kid, and there's a hundred percent chance minors are among them. This is going to set off a scandal past nuclear-bomb level."

She checked the photos they'd taken. Every last one was usable, more than enough to reel in the public's attention. Nodding, Ha Yeon-ji sent the photos she'd taken to Kang Jae-ha and asked the reporters again.

"When are you thinking of breaking it?"

The reporters' answer came fast.

"Right this instant."

After that.

When the photos of 'Matsuda Hideo' taken by the two 'Weekly Archipelago' reporters were made public to the people of Japan...

《'Matsuda Hideo', CEO of 「Mirai Stage」, in Male Trainee Sexual Exploitation Scandal! On-Scene Photos Revealed!》

It was exactly one hour later. Perhaps because it had been thrown up in a hurry, the content was sparse. It amounted to little more than "the scene where 'Matsuda Hideo' was about to carry out sexual exploitation on a male trainee". But perhaps because the headline and the accompanying photos were so lurid.

《'Matsuda Hideo', Sexual Exploitation of a Male Trainee? A Look at the Released On-Scene Photos》

Even in the dead of night, the article was copied and spread in no time.

《Shocking! Entertainment Godfather 'Matsuda Hideo', the Filthy Hand He Reached Toward a Male Trainee!》

It was more than warranted. The sexual exploitation of a male trainee alone would raise a tremendous outcry, and the suspect was none other than that 'Matsuda Hideo'.

The first to react to the nuclear bomb that had gone off was Japan's number-one social media platform.

[@__22HKL__]

[(article link)Is this article for real!!!? It just blew up out of nowhere and I can't believe it even seeing it with my own eyes!! Matsuda Hideo sexually exploited a trainee!?? If this is true, this is beyond insane, he's the devil himself!!]

The article spread in a flash. Shares and comments multiplied exponentially, and in a single sweep the top three keyword rankings were overturned. 'Matsuda Hideo', or sexual exploitation, or 'Mirai Stage'.

There's a saying that fame determines the speed of the snowball.

In Japan, 'Matsuda Hideo' commanded fame nearly on the level of a national hero, and so his moronic deeds getting laid bare across everything from social media to YewTube took no more than the blink of an eye.

By the time the dead of night gave way to morning, the Japanese press was covering nothing but 'Matsuda Hideo'.

《「Matsuda Hideo」 Slaked His Lust on an Underage Male Trainee from His Own Agency!》

The exclusive headlining the morning news across every broadcaster was 'Matsuda Hideo' as well.

"Last night, Mr. Matsuda Hideo, CEO of Mirai Stage and the man called the godfather of the entertainment world, was arrested. The reason was the sexual exploitation of a male trainee from his own agency."

Matsuda Hideo's name kept spreading beyond the online world and into the offline one, and as a result, come the morning of the 12th, all of Japan was in an uproar.

The interesting part was that the articles broke in Korea right away too. Naturally, this had begun at Kang Jae-ha's direction, by Ha Yeon-ji's hand.

《[Exclusive] Japanese Bigwig Matsuda Hideo Sexually Exploited a Male Trainee? On-Scene Photos Released in Japan / Photo》

It would soon be the talk of Korea as well.

Meanwhile, Kang Jae-ha, having arrived at Leon for work, checked on the situation in Japan first thing. From Japan's number-one portal site to social media and forums and the rest. It was all packed with 'Matsuda Hideo' and his moronic deeds.

A satisfied smile playing on his lips, Kang Jae-ha picked up his phone.

Meanwhile.

Kamijo Yuu, back at her dormitory, was staring at her phone, her eyes blown wide. The flush that had bloomed on both her cheeks ran deep too. Then a ringtone. A call, from Commander Kang Jae-ha. Steeped in shock, she snatched up the phone.

"Yes, yes! Commander!!"

Soon Kang Jae-ha's plain, matter-of-fact Japanese came through from the other end.

"Kamijo Yuu, you can go ahead and terminate your contract with 'Mirai Stage' now."

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