“Really. I’m your secretary, Director. Even though you’re three thousand times worse than that person.”
Cheche’s answer was quite serious, and Evil was now even dumbfounded.
“Why would I be three thousand times worse….”
Evil used telekinesis to stand the desk back up, then leaned against it.
“You’re driving me crazy.”
“…….”
“Why… why can you talk back to me so readily, but you couldn’t say anything to that trash and were listening to harsh words.”
“What harsh words did that person say?”
“…Right, that much isn’t even harsh to you.”
Evil wrinkled the bridge of his nose.
He quietly tried to feel Cheche’s emotions. At the same time, Cheche also felt Evil’s emotional changes.
The anger had subsided. But frustration remained, along with disgust toward humans. Mostly negative emotions flowed out. Surely there were positive emotions inside Evil too, and that’s why his anger had somewhat dissipated, but the emotions Evil released were mostly negative ones.
As an SSS Soul Aura User, Evil could control the release of emotions as much as he wanted. Hiding only positive emotions while not hiding anger, contempt, hatred, and disgust was Evil’s will.
Cheche, who had been quietly feeling Evil’s emotional changes, frowned again as his chest throbbed once more. Evil, who keenly noticed, stretched out his hand toward Cheche while spewing curses.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“…….”
Cheche unconsciously stepped back.
At this action he’d never shown even once until now, Evil’s eyes widened greatly.
“You….”
Cheche’s eyes were also surprised, as if he’d recognized his own action.
‘Why did I step back?’
Both people had the same question.
If Cheche’s emotions had contained even a little fear or terror, the action from moments ago could have been understood. However, fear and such didn’t exist in Cheche.
As they faced each other in silence, something rustled and caught at Cheche’s toes. When he lowered his head, he saw the remains of the completely shattered telephone. Glass shards were scattered around.
‘I should clean this up.’
Cheche, who had just done an action he himself didn’t understand, chose escape.
Just as he was about to bend at the waist, something suddenly intruded.
“What the hell… are you trying to do now.”
Even bending at the waist was blocked. Evil’s solid arm touched his chest with only one layer of clothing between them. Cheche placed both hands on the solid forearm that seemed like it couldn’t be pierced even with an ordinary needle. It was an action asking him to move aside, but the muscle beneath his palm tip twitched once and stopped. Evil didn’t take his eyes off Cheche, but Cheche couldn’t look at Evil.
“I’m your secretary, Director. It’s my job to do this.”
“It’s the janitor’s job.”
“The person who cleans the 201st floor is elderly. It will be dangerous.”
“And you’re not in danger?”
“Yes, I’m….”
All the debris including glass shards floated into the air. Broken into small pieces and clumped together as one in midair, they soon fell into the trash can in the corner of the office. When they couldn’t all fit in the trash can due to their size, Evil simply turned them into powder.
“Done?”
“…….”
Evil smirked with one arm extended toward Cheche. Cheche, who had inadvertently looked up and met that magnificent smile, flinched slightly.
Evil’s emotions changed very steeply. Just a few minutes ago he was furiously angry, but now he was leisurely smiling as if it had all evaporated. He really was like a child.
Positive emotions flowed from Evil… and only then did Cheche recognize his surroundings.
If it had been the usual Evil, he would have had plenty left over after smashing not only the sofa and table but all the furniture here including the orchid pot and coat rack, but now only the table and sofa were broken. Even so, because Evil had cleared everything away with telekinesis, the office even looked somewhat empty at a glance.
Evil shifted his posture and shook his arm slightly.
“Press harder and massage it. I can’t even feel it.”
Ah.
Cheche gripped Evil’s forearm with strength. Because Evil had rolled up his sleeves when he got angry, it was bare skin. Beneath his fingertips he could feel a warm and solid body.
“Hey….”
Though he himself had asked to be massaged, when Cheche actually grabbed him with force, he flinched as if flustered instead. As he wriggled trying to pull his arm away, Cheche released the strength from his hands.
“You asked me to massage you.”
“This makes it so I can’t even joke. With your tiny hands massaging, what… I can’t even feel it.”
Evil rubbed the part Cheche had touched with his palm.
“And just because I asked you to massage doesn’t mean you should just massage anyone. Usually you reject all kinds of things, but you don’t reject what you actually should reject.”
“You’re not just anyone, Director.”
“…….”
“If you desire it, Director, I’ll massage you as much as you want. Just say the word.”
Evil stared at Cheche with his eyes wide open—no, it should be described as having bulged open rather than just opened.
Cheche was smiling faintly.
Evil brought his palm to his chest. Now the heart’s pounding had transferred from Cheche to Evil.
Even while calming his chest, Evil looked at Cheche with eyes that said he couldn’t believe it.
Even when James belatedly came pulling a cart full of all kinds of gem-cutting tools, when boarding the private helicopter departing for Armal where an earthquake tsunami warning had been issued, and when Cheche sitting opposite opened a book on his lap, Evil couldn’t concentrate the whole time because of his pounding heart.
***
Today’s scheduled plan had been to let the refugee experience Luzem gem-cutting in the office. To be precise, the plan for today was to elicit admiration by showing his perfect Luzem gem-cutting.
Though he’d completely deviated from that schedule, Evil didn’t regret it at all. Anyway, Cheche would have had to undergo psychological healing someday, so only the order had changed.
Besides, he’d heard from that refugee’s mouth ‘You’re not just anyone, Director,’ and he’d also seen a smile pretty enough to make his head ring with a dong-.
He was really cute, wasn’t he.
As that fairy-like face came to mind, his heart began to pound again.
‘I should hurry up and finish what I need to do, then go to the beach. The beach here is famous, so the refugee will like it too.’
“We’ll be landing.”
At the pilot’s words, Evil lifted Cheche’s body with telekinesis. Cheche relaxed his body skillfully. Occasionally when they took the helicopter to go eat lunch, Evil would use Aura after seeing the small body shake especially violently during takeoff and landing even with a seatbelt on, and it had become a habit.
When they got off the private helicopter, the waiting people of Armal all bowed in unison. The person standing at the very front approached with an honored expression.
“How is it that Evil User-nim has come in person? I never even thought….”
“It’s Armal’s Vice President.”
James said quietly from behind. It was a mutter to himself that others wouldn’t have even heard, but it was heard clearly by the person who needed to hear it.
“What time is the earthquake tsunami scheduled to arrive?”
“In three hours, but only ten percent of the residents have been evacuated. The roads here were flooded not long ago, and since it’s before restoration, the situation is very bad.”
“We came too early. Hey, since we’re here, let’s go sightseeing at the beach. Armal’s beach changes ocean color depending on the time. A refugee like you will faint if you see it.”
Evil spoke lightly and grabbed the wrist of Cheche, who was standing slightly behind.
‘Too early? Beach sightseeing?’
The Vice President blinked in dismay.
With only three hours left until the earthquake tsunami arrival and only ten percent evacuation achieved, this was a quite serious matter. However, this kind of thing actually didn’t require an SSS Multi User to personally come. Three or four S-rank Aura Users would be enough to safely evacuate everyone.
At the news of an entirely unexpected VIP visit, the Vice President had to cancel all schedules and rush to the area where the earthquake tsunami warning had been issued, but Evil Devil, as soon as he got off the helicopter, said such things.
As expected, just as expected.
He came to sightsee under this pretext. No, perhaps he came to watch people dying. He might have come to watch people struggling to live.
The Vice President, knowing reality well, gave up quickly. It was just then as he was turning around to give orders to request other S-rank Aura Users.
“Director, resident evacuation comes first.”
The fearless person who dared to block Evil’s way was none other than Cheche.
The young hero of Tar was a very famous figure in Armal as well. In Alcity, the decisive trigger for popularity was one photograph uploaded by a war correspondent, but in Armal, articles about Cheche had appeared even before that.
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