Chapter 34 Part 9: Commission – Violence

I spoke softly to Haran, who was puffing out her cheeks and trying not to make eye contact with me, not hiding the fact that she was angry.

“Hey, Haran….”

“Hmph!”

“Oh dear.”

She’s sulking.

Her reaction was so funny that I played around for a little too long, and it seemed to have touched Haran’s nerve.

Was it because Eun-ji also threw in a few jokes and I got a little excited? I didn’t properly pay attention to her reaction, so it seemed like she got very sulky.

…What should I do about this?

“Ah, ha, ahaha…. I, I’ll go get my parents!”

“She ran away.”

Her judgment of the situation is really fast.

She noticed the awkward atmosphere in an instant, and tried to get out of this place under the pretext of her family.

Perfect timing.

I’ll have to give her a flick on the forehead later.

“Haran.”

“Yes?”

“Are you sulking…?”

“Well, do I look like I’m not angry?”

How angry does she look? To the point where I can see her huge breasts shaking… I was about to say that and make a joke, but I closed my mouth.

It seemed that the jokes from that world were too ingrained in my mouth.

Even though I don’t know what I’ll see if I say that in front of someone who’s very sulky after teasing them too much, this is what happens.

If I let my guard down even a little, sexual harassment will pop out of my mouth from time to time.

I have to reflect, reflect.

“I’m sorry. I’ll grant you one wish later, can you let it go with that?”

“…A wish?”

“Yeah, a wish. Just say anything. I can grant it right now too.”

It didn’t seem like she would easily let go of her anger, so I offered her a tempting suggestion.

A wish ticket.

A magical promise to grant you anything you want.

The person who hears this promise hesitates, thinking about whether they were that angry, and their anger subsides in an instant.

“Oh, well…. I, it’s not like I’m that angry….”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Think about what you want to ask for later.”

I’m not someone who easily makes promises like this.

So why did I mention a promise like a guaranteed check?

That’s because the Haran I’ve seen so far has a personality that doesn’t ask for absurd things.

It was obvious that she would come back to her senses the moment it became a story where only I would lose out.

In a way, I’m just putting the current difficulty off until later, but Haran, who has a strong petty bourgeois tendency, doesn’t seem like she would make such a dangerous request.

“Why? Are you going to ask me to kiss you?”

“Ye, yes?! The, there’s no way!”

“Aha, you want something stronger than a kiss? I don’t mind, but……. No, sorry. It’s a mistake, a mistake. Don’t get angry.”

This mouth of mine is the problem.

I forcibly suppressed the flames of anger that had forcibly evolved from the Neo City-style jokes that came out like breathing, and sighed.

I feel like I’ve become a section chief who sexually harasses a new employee.

It was a feeling I had never experienced despite having lived for a long time, so it was fresh.

Not to mention that it’s an experience that I shouldn’t have to experience.

“…Haa, I understand. As a condition of letting it go, I’ll make a wish now.”

“Huh? Really?”

“Why are you so surprised? Are you saying that you were lying about granting my wish?”

“No, that’s not it…. Now?”

I said with my own mouth that I could grant it right now, but I didn’t think she would actually ask for it now.

Did she have something she wanted from the start?

What on earth is she trying to ask for that she’s making such a determined expression, making me wonder if she’s planning to ask me for something with a big heart this time?

Surely, she’s not going to ask me to get some plastic surgery with the same parts that I’m giving Eun-ji this time, is she?

I said I would grant her anything, but Haran is quite pretty.

People like her, who were born like that without forcibly changing their skeleton with surgery, were rare.

“If you’re also trying to get plastic surgery, give it up. It’s good, but it’s irreversible. I don’t have any stock right now, and you should think about it with enough time….”

“What are you talking about? …It’s not that, please teach me Ms. Ella’s skills.”

“Skills?”

“Yes, skills.”

Haran asked me to teach her skills.

It probably doesn’t mean skills like shooting a gun…

Maybe she’s talking about Neo City’s technology.

“Why is that? I can teach you, but if you sell my skills to make money in this world where awakened people are running rampant, the world will be even more ruined.”

“It’s not that. …I, it’s like I don’t do anything.”

She doesn’t do anything?

I tilted my head at the contents of what Haran was stammering about.

Starting with housework such as cleaning, cooking, and laundry, and from organizing client documents, briefing, and explaining common sense, etc.

She’s handling most of the work except for combat by herself, so what on earth does she mean by not doing anything?

To be honest, I had even thought about passing on some of the work I had to do because Haran was much more capable than I thought.

I didn’t try it because I thought I would collapse from being overworked if I did that.

…Anyway, that means Haran is doing a good job.

She doesn’t do anything, there’s no way.

I comforted Haran, who seemed to be feeling an inexplicable sense of unease.

“You’re doing a good job? You’re doing most of the office work.”

“That’s not enough. The work I do is something anyone can do. There’s no expertise.”

“…That’s true, isn’t it?”

But, I also nodded at Haran’s statement that she muttered to me afterwards.

It’s true that there’s no expertise. It’s true that Haran is working efficiently by herself, but it’s also something that can be solved if you bring in a few household robots.

Could it be that Haran is also uneasy at the thought that machines might threaten her job?

The image of the homeless people who were sleeping rough by putting wooden signs on the streets of Neo City seemed to flicker before my eyes.

Homeless people who lost their homes because of artificial intelligence, begging for even a penny.

I tried to substitute Haran for that image, but I shook my head because it didn’t suit her at all.

…There’s no way. At least it didn’t seem like Haran would give up on everything like a homeless person.

Besides, it didn’t seem like artificial intelligence was commercialized here yet.

Then why?

“If someone who does chores better than me appears. Then Ella will abandon me.”

“Oh, not really….”

I tightly closed my mouth that was about to say, “won’t.”

Haran’s eyes didn’t contain me.

A gaze that is directed at me, but doesn’t contain me.

She was looking at someone else through me.

“So, Ella. Please tell me your skills. Skills that only you know in this world. So that I can be helpful to you. So that I won’t be abandoned by you.”

I scratched my head, feeling a headache starting to come.

Well, she was too ordinary.

Living in such a slum, she was so ordinary as if she had been painted, and she didn’t seem to have any trauma, so I even suspected that she was an artificial intelligence made by someone.

Fortunately, I don’t know if I should say it’s fortunate, but it didn’t seem like she was something made by a human.

It seems that there’s something unpleasant about being abandoned.

Presumably, wanting to climb to a high place is also a desire that manifested from her trauma.

Because the higher the position, or the more irreplaceable the person is, the less likely they are to become a discarded rag.

Haran doesn’t seem to have noticed it.

“Okay, I’ll teach you.”

“Really?”

“I don’t lie with promises. So, I’ll teach you. However….”

“However?”

“I don’t have any experience teaching someone, so my explanation might be strange. Would you be okay with that?”

“It’s okay. I didn’t think it would be easy anyway.”

“Okay, then.”

What should I start with?

Where…. What should I teach from the educational materials? 180 lines of coding that even a monkey can learn in 10 minutes? Hmm, is this not good?

I can’t teach coding that a monkey with an extremely evolved brain takes 10 minutes to learn to a beginner like Haran.

In the first place, she wouldn’t want that either.

Then what should I teach her? Even after worrying for a long time, I couldn’t come up with a plausible idea.

“Eunji, what on earth is this….”

“Really, is this the place you were talking about? The security is not good in this area. I’m anxious.”

….

“It’s okay. Just trust me once. Hello! I’m back!”

“Aha, I can do it with that. You came just in time.”

“Yes?”

And, the existence that I had forgotten until now appeared to me, who was worried about what to start the first class with.

Eun-ji, who I had promised to give a procedure to change her body into a machine.

She came with her parents.

“Welcome, Eun-ji. Did you explain everything to your parents?”

“Yes, yes! If that’s possible, nothing could be better…”

“Okay. Perfect.”

I had momentarily forgotten about her existence.

Yes, originally, education doesn’t work well with just verbal explanations.

It would be effective to actually show it.

And in front of me was a guest who I had promised to give a procedure.

Let’s start the first class right away. I’ll teach you how to change a part of the human body into a machine. It would be good for you to watch carefully, Haran.

“Yes, yes!”

Don’t close your eyes even if it’s a little shocking. You can rewind and watch it as a video, but there’s a big difference between experiencing it and watching it as a video.

Towards Eun-ji, who was looking at me with a slightly uneasy expression, I smiled brightly.

It doesn’t hurt, so there’s no need to be so anxious.

Although it doesn’t hurt, you might get goosebumps at the sight of your body parts being dismantled.

Author’s Word:

From next week, Eungae Writer will become Eungae office worker.

The update cycle will be switched to irregular, so I would like to apologize to all readers.

Actually, it was irregular in the first place.