Chapter 32 \n<h1>I Don’t Want to be an Ojakgyo (32)</h1>\n
After Yves bought me the chicken skewers, both of us fell silent. I leaned on his back and gave my best efforts to eat the chicken skewers. I tried not to get any sauce on his back, but it was impossible for me to not spill any so I just gave in and spilled as much as I had to. It was okay. I could just magic it away later. I’d even magic it to make it smell like fresh laundry, so he didn’t have to worry.
As we slowly headed away from the city, there were less people around us as well. The silence between us felt larger than before. Yves, who seemed deep in thought, opened his mouth as if to say something.
“Originally, I never thought of dragging a kid like you into this.”“What?”“Because I lied about dying. Tell me when you think you can’t help me anymore. The information you got for me until now is enough. I’ll make it so that you can take requests like before.”
At Yves’ sudden words, the chicken skewer I had in my mouth fell to the ground. What, what was this all of a sudden? When I stared at Yves with a confused, blank expression on my face, Yves kept quiet before speaking again.
“Because the situation is what it is……. I was originally going to force you into some serious situations until I achieved my goal.”“……?”
Wait, I even wrote out a contract stating that I could leave when I wanted. As expected, Yves knew another way to make me unable to leave if he wanted. As I thought, he had plans. But now he was revealing those plans himself.
Yves seemed deep in thought before speaking again.
“I changed my mind.”“Huh?”
I raised my head off of his back. What was Yves saying right now?
“You’re not suited for dirty work.”
Yves took some time before speaking again. I expected to hear some more details, but he was telling me what I should do after I washed my hands clean from this work.\n“When you get requests again, you should probably stop digging after companies.”
I was thinking about doing what he was talking about. Jobs like those were in a complicated net kind of formation. I didn’t realize that the Lunaasha guild was going to be connected to any of the companies I had exposed to the world. I had taken the underworld too lightly.
If everything that Yves was saying was true, I would’ve been in a lot of danger if it wasn’t for Yvnes. It was only because of his way of helping that I was probably able to be safe until now. This was something that I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t dig after him.
There wasn’t anything wrong in his words, and I quietly listened because I was reflecting on my own actions like that. Yves continued speaking.
“For dirty jobs like this, you’re bound to lose however much you’ve earned. The companies that you’ve exposed that much are just as eager to capture you and expose you. There are lots of people who are just hoping to rip you apart. And there’s just as many people who would put those words into action.”
…..I was aware, but hearing Yves tell me how it really was kind of shocked me. I had thought that those people would never find me, and that was true. But I did become more fearful after hearing that they were looking for me with the intent to kill.
“Even if money is important right now, what’s the use if it ruins you forever? Nobody would even know. If you get hurt while working so hard by yourself, the only thing you’re going to hear from others is that you’re an idiot.”
His advice was harsh but realistic. Hearing him curse made it really hit home. An idiot.
I felt the night breeze as I listened to him. The slow pace of his walk as he held me on his back, every word felt sincere. I quietly nodded.
At this point, I was confused by Yves’ character. I had first thought that he didn’t have an ounce of tears or blood in his body because of how callous he was. But seeing how he was suddenly treating me with emotion made me realize that he was a real person. He wasn’t as horrible as the original novel. Who was the author? Why were they writing the characters all wrong?
Right before Yves sent me home via carriage, he sat me down somewhere. He took out medicine and bandages from who knows where and began speaking as he treated my swollen ankle.
“You have a home and a good family. You can enjoy that while acting like a child. You’re still young.”
I didn’t say anything as I watched Yves treat my ankle. Yves finished and stood up.
“You have things that other people can only dream of having, so enjoy it when you can.”
Yves brushed my hair back. It suddenly hit me that Yves really was around my age.\nYves stopped a carriage and dragged it towards me. Then, he held me and put me in the carriage. I didn’t reject his touch this time. Normally I would say it’s okay and argue that I could ride on my own, but I just wanted to stay still right now.
“Good work.”
Yves said, voice nonchalant. He turned away after settling me in the carriage. Yves disappeared from my sight, but I just looked at where he last was.
Oh, right. I forgot to spell his clothes clean.
The next day, I apologized to Yves for dirtying his shirt as soon as I saw him.
Yves was surprisingly understanding. It was embarrassing, but he told me that he had assumed that I would dirty his clothes and forget to clean it. Because I was a total mess yesterday.
Yves said that he had on another shirt under it, so he could just take it off anyway. I spelled the cleaning spell, fragrance spell, and every other useful magic spell on his shirt that I could. It felt like I was only showing him the embarrassing parts of myself, so I was ashamed.
When I didn’t tell him that I was quitting, Yves gave me work to do as usual. Yves told me to quit when I felt like it, but I didn’t feel like it right now. It was because he paid so well. It was probably the best pay I’d ever gotten.
Getting out of the underworld was going to happen after Yves achieved his goals. His goal was emptying the pockets of his father, right? Then getting out of the guild, out of the guild. Getting out of the guild…………..what did Yves want to do? Was it earning more money?
After observing him for a few days, I found that Yves wasn’t that much of an underhanded person as I thought. He wasn’t unsalvageable trash like the novel described him.
I didn’t know how he was as the leader proxy of the Lunaasha guild, but he was efficient when he worked under his own name.
Moreover, he had a surprisingly honest side to him. If it wasn’t related to the leader, he never really bothered anyone else.
He just, as he told me, wanted to get out of the underworld.
I decided to trust him this once. When I told Yves that I would keep working with him, he didn’t show anything but seemed slightly relieved.\n“I did, but hand it over. So annoying. I’ll eat it myself.”
I pretended to take the juice back, but Yves didn’t stop me as if it didn’t matter for him. Cold bastard. I returned the juice back in front of him on my own.
“If you’re not going to eat it, throw it away on your own.”
I finished organizing the documents and pulled my chair back to take out the sandwich. Then, I calmly took out the lunch Yves gave me and ate it.