I decided to take a quick look around.

Just as I was secretly lifting the towel covering my face…

Swoosh-!

Kkamang shot a spider web at my eyes.

“Ah!”

The widely spread web covered my vision.

Thanks to the good aim, the web didn’t get into my eyes.

“K-Kkamang…”

Even Kkamang was trying to block my view.

What on earth was going on?

As I was about to remove the web stuck to my eyes, Levinas pulled the towel back down.

“King! You can’t take off the towel!”

“Why…?”

“Y-you need to train…!”

Saying this, Levinas covered me with something else.

A thin waterproof cloth came down to my waist and stomach.

Then Kkamang wrapped it tightly with spider webs so it wouldn’t fall off.

This doesn’t suffocate… I can breathe well.

It seemed the children had made breathing holes.

“…Kids, where are we now?”

“We’re about to go up.”

Creak-!

I heard a hinge sound.

From the auditory information, I could tell Saebyeok was leading, opening a door.

“Is it stairs?”

“Yeah. We need to go up slowly.”

“Okay.”

We followed Saebyeok up the stairs.

Saebyeok, who reached the upper floor, grabbed the doorknob.

Creak-

Just as I thought the door was opening, all sounds suddenly disappeared.

Was someone outside the door?

I instinctively realized it was time to hold our breath.

We all hid behind the door as if we’d planned it.

“Our company gives us this crap as a bonus…?”

“It’s better than nothing. What can we expect?”

I heard two men talking outside the door.

Did they receive something worse than nothing?

What kind of gift did they get to be cursing the company?

I couldn’t help but be curious.

“What did they get?”

“Canned tuna…! They’re holding two each…!”

Levinas answered in a small voice only we could hear.

Canned tuna was among the top-tier gifts.

And they gave two of them.

My mouth watered at the thought of the unique taste of canned tuna.

To curse at canned tuna, which would be appreciated even if they only gave one.

It was a situation I couldn’t understand.

“Canned tuna is really good though.”

“That’s right.”

Saebyeok agreed with me.

And even at that moment, the two men continued their conversation.

“Where did the money from the Yeomyeong subcontract go?”

“Who else? All of it…”

Just as the man who snorted was about to continue, an angry male voice was heard from far away.

“What are you doing there!”

“…We were just taking a short break.”

“The target?!”

“We’ve almost met it.”

“Almost means you haven’t finished yet! Why aren’t you working?!”

“…Yes.”

The man who answered late clicked his tongue.

Unfortunately, it seemed I wasn’t the only one who heard it.

“Did you just click your tongue?”

“……”

“Don’t want to work? If you don’t, just quit.”

“…No, sir. I’m sorry.”

After the man’s words, silence fell for a moment.

In the strange atmosphere, the man who had been angry spoke up.

“Follow me to your office.”

“……”

The footsteps of the three men faded away.

We held our breath behind the door and only came out after the three had disappeared.

“Phew…”

The atmosphere was intense.

By the way, wasn’t there talk about our guild?

As I was thinking about this and that, Saebyeok, who was leading, started walking after the three men.

“Saebyeok, let’s go another way.”

“I think we need to go this way to get out.”

“Is that so…”

“Let’s pass by as quietly as possible.”

“…Okay.”

We moved forward, minimizing our footsteps as much as possible.

We had to pass by the ‘office’ the angry man had mentioned.

“King, now your eyes…”

Just as Levinas was about to tell me something, the voice of the angry man from earlier was heard right next to us.

“Kids these days think about resting first! Finish your work and then rest! Don’t you think I’d let you rest after you finish everything?!”

“……”

“Didn’t I let you rest for a day during the holidays?!”

“But holidays are usually four days…”

“Shut up! What company gives three full days off! Even big companies don’t give that much time off, you idiot!”

Within the sharp voice, there was quite plausible content.

It was enough to make me listen without realizing it.

‘That’s right.’

You shouldn’t rest until you finish all your work.

It was even better to work hard on red days without resting.

It was an extremely natural thing to say.

‘It’s much better to work than to rest.’

Resting too much makes people lazy.

That’s why I at least tended to my vegetable garden even on red days.

‘What an amazing person.’

You’d think someone in a position to manage people might loosen up a bit.

To give such sharp words for the sake of his juniors.

Aside from his harsh personality, he didn’t seem like such a bad person.

‘I should work without resting even a day during the holidays.’

Just as I was making this resolution.

Thump-!

“Ouch!”

Lost in thought, I failed to avoid an obstacle.

I couldn’t see what I’d bumped into because my eyes were covered.

“Was that a child’s voice…?”

I heard the footsteps of the angry man approaching.

Creak-!

I also heard the sound of a door opening right in front of me.

It seemed I had bumped into the doorknob.

—

—

Huff huff.

Gaeul was running endlessly.

Though her speed was slow due to being out of breath and her feet feeling heavy, she was still running.

“Master…”

Returning to the park after completing her mission, what Gaeul saw was her master and the others riding away in the back of a car.

Was the master going somewhere again?

Gaeul ran tirelessly, even though she felt like she might collapse from exhaustion.

It was because she didn’t want to be separated again.

Yeoreum chased after Gaeul.

“Gaeul!”

She immediately hugged the child who was about to collapse from exhaustion.

Why did she run to this extent?

Yeoreum patted Gaeul’s back.

“Gaeul, where are you going?”

“Master…”

“Gyeoul?”

Was she chasing after Gyeoul?

There was no mention of going to the dungeon today.

Yeoreum ran to where Gaeul was pointing.

After some time, they arrived at the factory that had recently been subcontracted for feline mana stones.

“Ah.”

“Oh, w-what brings you here?”

“Ah… I just came to see something.”

The factory people who spotted Yeoreum showed signs of panic.

From their perspective, it must have felt like a director from the big company that subcontracted them suddenly showed up.

A director who could determine the fate of the company.

She didn’t really like this kind of thing.

Yeoreum avoided the eyes of the factory people for no reason.

“Um, could I perhaps take a look inside the factory?”

“Of course!”

Even though she didn’t ask, someone stuck close to her side.

Even if it was a subcontract, it was someone else’s factory.

She couldn’t say she wanted to look around alone.

Yeoreum could only smile awkwardly.

“Gaeul, is Gyeoul really here?”

“Master.”

“…Really?”

There are a lot of feline mana stones here, aren’t there?

Gyeoul might faint if she sees them.

Yeoreum walked around the factory interior with a worried heart.

Then she noticed Gaeul’s ears perking up.

“Master!”

Gaeul could hear what human ears couldn’t.

Knowing this, Yeoreum moved in the direction Gaeul led.

That’s how Yeoreum discovered Gyeoul standing in the hallway.

‘What’s going on…?’

A middle-aged man sweating profusely, and Gyeoul wagging her tail in front of him.

The children just watching these two nervously.

She couldn’t even begin to grasp what was happening.

She decided to call out to Gyeoul first.

“Gyeoul?”

“Ah!”

Gyeoul came running with small steps.

Then she clung tightly to her leg.

“What were you doing here?”

“I met an amazing person.”

“An amazing person?”

“Yes. He makes people come to work even on holidays, and scolds them if they rest without finishing all their work.”

“What…?”

That’s not amazing, that’s garbage.

Yeoreum’s gaze turned to the middle-aged man.

Sweat was streaming down his cheeks continuously.

Yeoreum glared at him fiercely, then put her hand on Gyeoul’s head.

“What’s amazing about that…?”

“Working without resting. Actually, I’ve been a bit lazy recently.”

Work is good.

This was already ingrained in Gyeoul’s mind.

It was because she knew better than anyone the desperation and despair of not being able to work.

“But isn’t it good to rest when you need to…?”

“Resting feels nice and comfortable, but working is still better.”

It’s hard, but it’s better to work rather than rest.

If people only rest, they’ll have regrets later.

That was the conclusion Gyeoul had reached, and Yeoreum tore at her hair.

She pulled out several strands of hair.

“This…!”

After all my efforts to make Gyeoul rest, she meets some crazy person and…!

Yeoreum glared at the middle-aged man with ghostly eyes.

He was just looking down at the floor.

“Hey! Do you know that’s illegal?!”

“I-illegal…?”

The one who answered Yeoreum wasn’t the middle-aged man, but Gyeoul.

Is it illegal to work without resting in this world?

Gyeoul’s pupils shook violently.

“T-that, Gyeoul, I didn’t mean you were illegal…!”

I heard it was a good company.

Were they just pretending to be good on the surface?

Yeoreum clenched her fists.

“Hmm…”

In the dark atmosphere, only the two men who had been scolded by the middle-aged man were smirking.

They were enjoying seeing their superior get in trouble.

Scold him more, they thought to themselves.

Just then, Yeoreum turned to look at the two men.

“You two, just a moment.”

“Yes…?”

“How many days off did you have last month? You received a hefty bonus, right?”

“…We had about five days off. And the bonus…”

The middle-aged man looked down at the envelope in his hand.

Inside the crumpled envelope were two cans of tuna.

Seeing this, Gyeoul exclaimed with delight.

“They gave two cans of tuna as a bonus! Isn’t that amazing?”

“G-Gyeoul…”

That’s not amazing.

Yeoreum felt like crying.

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