Chapter 38 \n<h1>I Don’t Want to be an Ojakgyo (38)</h1>\nMAY 1, 2021~MOONLIKETRANSLATIONS
TW: Child endangerment, physical abuse, mentions of murderTL;DR down below!
A handsome middle-aged man with slightly darker orange hair than Yves’ own sat in a chair in the middle of the room.
He had the same soft, yet dangerous feeling that Yves had when he smiled. He looked kinder than Yves, even. I tried my best to match the cruel actions that he’d done with the face in front of me.
One third of the children in here were his children, did he say? Well, seeing how handsome he was, no wonder he spread his seed here and there. I barely made myself acknowledge it.
“Are you two the new children we brought in? Who said you were allowed so far down?”“Oh, I’m sorry. I think we came in the wrong place. We were just looking for the leader…..”
The leader focused on Yves and walked closer.
“I’m the leader. It seems that the person who was supposed to guide you isn’t available at the moment.”
The leader said, in a surprisingly kind voice. Yves made me take a step back as he stepped forwards.
Now, it was Yves’ job to get the attention of the leader. I was supposed to find the document in the meanwhile, then teleport that to the safe.
When I took hold of the stone to cast the spell, Yves smiled a smile full of childhood innocence and sweetness as he spoke to the leader.
“Wow, you’re the leader? Thank you so much for taking me in when I have nowhere to go. It’s an honor to be able to work under you.”“……..”“I came after being introduced by Raven. Do you know Raven? He was a friend who begged on the streets me with me, and he bragged so much about how he got a job and a place to sleep here! I really respect you, leader! I was really scared for the future. You’re my savior!”
He didn’t look like Yves, and he didn’t speak like Yves, either. For a moment, I really thought he was somebody else. He even made up a fictional person named Raven to grab the leader’s attention. Yves stood, hands held politely in front of him. The leader looked over, gaze crooked.
When the leader approached Yves, he yanked him by the hair. With Yves’ hair in his fist, he turned Yves’ face around left and right. He peered closely at his face, then threw him down onto the floor.
“I was hoping to get a more serious and obedient child this time. Tsk.”\nFor a moment, I worried that he’d figured out it was Yves in disguise. Thankfully, that didn’t seem to be the case. Yves had been thrown a bit further away, but kept acting.
“What…….!”
Yves made an expression as if shocked by the sudden physical abuse, then pretended to tear up.
“Hmm….. Doesn’t seem like you’ll survive for long, anyway.”
The leader put a hand on his chin, seemingly deep in thought. Then, he kicked Yves in the stomach. A resounding thud rang in the air. Yves, who had already rolled on the floor, rolled again. When he coughed a few times in pain, red blood dripped out of his mouth.
It was difficult to see Yves being hurt, so I put the spelled glasses back on. I couldn’t let myself be shaken. When I put on the glasses, Yves’ blood turned into hearts. My heart, which had been beating restlessly from worry and nervousness and fear, calmed down slightly at the censored image in front of me.
Yves spit out saliva and hearts. The leader watched, pleased, as Yves continued to be in pain.
“I like you a lot more without that smiling mug of yours.”
Yves tried to get back up, one arm grabbing onto the floor. The leader stepped on his head.
Like that, Yves continued to get the attention of the leader as he kept talking to him.
To get his attention, Yves would flatter, then attack the leader. He spoke as much as he could to gain more time. The beatings continued.
Yves couldn’t attack and continued to just let himself be hit. That was because of the contract. If Yves retaliated against the leader with the intent to betray, the poison would begin to spread from his neck down. That was why he allowed himself to be in such a one-sided fight.
I didn’t just stay there, watching as Yves continued to sacrifice himself.
I focused as much as I could on the magic while checking on Yves’ state every once in a while. I was scared that he would turn into a cute teddy bear soon, so I made sure to not focus on him completely. I just kept wrinkling my nose more and more because of how much I hated the leader.
Even as he was being hit, Yves made sure to move so that the leader would be turned away from me.
I used my search magic to figure out where the documents were. They were laid on top of his desk. I cheered at how fast we found the documents and went into the room. I tried my best to stay completely silent as I headed towards the desk.
My heart was beating so hard that I could hear it in my ears. If I coughed right now, I felt like my heart would jump out.
It was when I was almost at the desk. When I stretched my arm to grab the documents, the leader had turned his faze towards me.\nI held my breath, then naturally took a seat on the sofa next to the desk.
“Oh, what is it this time. Is it another new kid?”
The leader left Yves in the corner and calmly headed towards me. Yves tried his best to buy some more time, but the leader had already gotten bored of him.
Since earlier, I had continued to throw stop spells and slow spells. But none of the magic worked. One of the rings that the leader was wearing was an artifact that protected the wearer’s body.
“Oho, black hair and black eyes. Seeing that you look foreign, you’re not a royal, and seeing how flat your face is and your lack of eyelid folds, you seem to be a child from the Eastern continent. Did you come in with that othe4r child?”
Yves watched as the leader approached me, the innocent look wiped clean off of his face. Currently, Yves looked a mess. The beige clothes he wore were turning red, just like the color of his hair. But even when he looked so messed up, the loathing and rage in his eyes were vivid. The leader couldn’t see it because he was looking at me.
“You look so weak. You’d probably die soon. But it would be a waste to just leave you to die so easily.”
He looked at my face as if intrigued. Just like he was inspecting a product, he grabbed my face from under my glasses. Then, with his thumbnail, he kept poking at my eyes. I reflexively closed them.
“I should raise you separately. You’re rare. There’d be some merit.”
He seemed to think for a moment. Then, he opened his mouth.
“Hmm. Should I just taxidermy you to look at?”
He said as he spread his hand towards me.
Hearing that he would taxidermy me made me breathe deeply. It felt like my heart, which was beating relentlessly, had suddenly turned to stone. It felt like someone had slapped me on the back of my head.
I remembered the leather, the taxidermized monsters and magical species that I’d seen on the way here.
The person in front of me looked so disgusting. I wanted to slice him with the dagger I had hidden on me, but I held it in. I didn’t want Yves’ betrayal to go to waste. Moreover, I wasn’t sure if I could kill somebody.
“….!”
The moment I felt disgusted by the situation, the leader’s face shifted to a cute teddy bear.\n“……”
The leader fiddled with his attack magic ring as he came closer to me. I scowled from where I landed. If I just had enough magic, I could use it to get enough power to fight back. But I only had enough magic to get away from this place.
TL;DR: Yves goes in to distract the leader. He tries to butter him up (“You’re so great! I respect you so much!”) but because his father is just abusive and stupid and cruel, he just physically attacks Yves. Yves lets himself be attacked because he would die if he tried to fight against him (the magic tattoo that would poison him from the inside out would activate).
Shushu goes in and locates the documents. When she’s almost there, the leader sees her. He sees that she’s obviously foreign-looking (Western society with an East Asian girl) and thinks he might taxidermy her instead. He grabs her by the hair to drag her away somewhere and Shushu just chops off her hair with her hidden dagger. The fact that she has a weapon on her alerts the leader, and he tries to call security. A fight ensues. Shushu is kinda in danger because she’s in the body of a ten year old girl trying to fight off a grown man. The leader asks if Yves ordered her here, because he’d been acting suspicious recently.