IW: Chapter 158 - Sadako: I think my boss is a pervert !
"But I can't do anything."
First of all, she hadn't provoked anyone!
Why should a free ghost like her be forced to stay and work?
Secondly, Sadako also realized that besides cursing people to death, she couldn't do anything else at all.
So, staying to work didn't seem like a very good option for Sadako.
More than that, it was an unwillingness in her heart, because in Sadako's eyes, he was a devil.
"Then if you don't want to work, how about you recommend a little sister to take your place, and I'll let you go?"
"Ah?"
Sadako's eyes widened, and she pondered for a moment. Find a little sister to pay off the debt?
But who should she find?
"Miss Sadako, as a female ghost, you don't even have female ghost friends in the ghost world, do you?" Bai Ye shook his head, his eyes full of amusement: "Sure enough, ghosts who live in wells every day have no friends!"
He was discriminating against her!
What did he mean, ghosts living in wells have no friends?
"It seems you don't have a female ghost to pay off the debt. How about this: sign your handprint here, and you can work hard here from now on, as compensation for the mental damage you caused me. Once you've paid it off, I'll let you go, how about that?"
Saying that, Bai Ye placed a contract paper in front of Sadako, and then said, "Come on, make a V sign."
Bai Ye pulled a camera out of his pocket. Miko, standing beside him, watched her eyelids twitching non-stop. Can you really pull anything out of your pocket?
Looking at the familiar labor contract, Miko couldn't help but feel a hint of pity for Sadako, but then she remembered that she had also signed this labor contract, and suddenly felt a different kind of sympathy for herself.
Did she still have the leisure to pity others now?
She put away her pitiful sympathy and looked at Sadako, who was subconsciously making a V sign.
Click.
Bai Ye looked at the photo with satisfaction. Teacher Bai's photos were getting better and better!
"Eh, why did I make a V sign?"
Sadako suddenly realized a problem and immediately retracted the gesture she had made!
Wait a minute!
She hadn't even agreed to work yet, and everything was being said by Bai Ye. She hadn't even decided, but how did everything get decided for her by Bai Ye!
"I don't want to work, please let me go, okay?"
Sadako died with resentment. She was pushed into the well from behind while looking at the wellhead, and just died there.
Carrying resentment, Sadako's soul had always been seeking revenge.
When Sadako decided to set out, she thought it would be the same as before.
"You don't want to work, and you don't recommend a female ghost. How can there be such a good thing?"
"Then how long do I have to work?"
Sadako thought about it and finally decided that if the time wasn't too long, she would stay.
Anyway, as a ghost, she had a very, very long lifespan, and she could outlive Bai Ye sooner or later.
"Given your previous performance, I originally only wanted you to work for one month, but now I've decided to make you work for ten years!"
"Ten years!!?"
Sadako almost thought she misheard. What? It was originally one month, and now it's ten years. Isn't this span too long?
"Can it be less?"
This was ten years!
How many ten years does a female ghost have anyway!
"Then let's make it seven years, just for the seven-year itch." Bai Ye said, noticing Sadako's slightly grateful, yet pitiful look, wanting to continue pleading. He knew he needed to ruthlessly shatter her illusion: "If you're not satisfied, then it's ten years!"
"Okay, seven years!"
Sadako mumbled, seven years it is, at most she would just muddle through.
After signing her name, Sadako felt that something was off, but she couldn't quite pinpoint it.
"Alright, I'll give you an employee mark. This is to prevent you from running away!"
Saying that, Bai Ye carved the Flying Thunder God Mark onto Sadako. The contract itself had no binding rules, and if Sadako ran away, he might truly not be able to find her.
Bai Ye didn't want the employee he had tricked over to just disappear.
The mark of degradation!
The Flying Thunder God Mark, in Miko's eyes, was already Sadako's first step towards degradation.
When would she suffer the same fate?
She thought anxiously, she was like a flower swaying in the wind and rain, seemingly unable to resist no matter what.
So, as a secretary, wouldn't she still have to be in this Office?
If he also had some special fetish and asked her to get married...
The future truly looked bleak, and her life seemed to be seen to its end. Her future life would probably be clearly arranged by Bai Ye.
"Why are you trembling?"
Bai Ye picked up the contract with satisfaction, turned around, and was about to give the contract to Miko to keep when he saw her inexplicably trembling.
He hadn't said anything just now, had he?
"Boss, you have to remember what you said before. If you lay hands on her, you can't lay hands on me!"
Miko's voice carried a hint of pleading. Remembering what Bai Ye had told her earlier, it seemed he had said he wasn't interested in her, right?
So, could she relax a little now?
"Eh? Wait? I'm just working, I don't provide that!!!"
Sadako initially thought she was just simply working. She believed that one day, when Bai Ye discovered she was useless, he might no longer demand anything from her and would terminate the contract early.
To deal with this, Sadako already had six ways to slack off in her heart.
But what did 'lay hands on' mean?
What she hadn't lost as a human, would she not be able to keep as a ghost?
This world was truly too terrifying!
Mama, she wanted to go back to the well.
"Sadako, you believe whatever she says? She's an old employee, she's afraid you'll take her job, that's why she's saying that!"
"Really?"
After hearing Bai Ye's words, Sadako looked at Bai Ye blankly, then secretly thought, 'Darn it.'
What terrifying workplace competition, to even resort to this kind of tactic.
"Naive! Is this female ghost so naive? What was I so afraid of before?"
Miko had been so afraid before. If she knew Sadako's IQ was so low, unable to see through Bai Ye's simple trickery, she wouldn't have been afraid at all.
But now she felt that anything she said would be futile.
Sadako would probably take everything she said as despicable workplace competition!
"Alright, to welcome our company's new employee, Miko is treating tonight!"
"No? Why am I treating when the company gets a new person?"
Miko's face immediately fell. She had originally been happy to hear that Bai Ye was treating for a new employee joining the company, thinking, 'Anyway, life goes on, eat when you can, who knows what will happen later.'
She wouldn't think too much. Ever since she gained Yin-Yang Eyes, she had adopted the mindset of 'live one day at a time, but live if you can'.
"Because you're an old employee. Aren't you happy to have a new person accompany you to work?"
"But you're the Boss. Shouldn't you be even happier with an extra subordinate?"
Oh!
The rebellious phase has arrived.
Miko used to be honest and didn't dare to speak up, but now she seemed to have a bit of a rebellious streak.
"Alright then, as the Boss, I'll treat you two to a good meal. Wait here while I order some takeout."
Saying that, Bai Ye picked up his phone and ordered three portions of takeout. The economy wasn't very good recently.
Although he had acquired gems before, Bai Ye hadn't sold them yet. As for the money Gin had given him earlier, it had long been used to buy firearms.
Initially, he would ask Bai Ye from the Pirate World for some money, but later Bai Ye gave up. After all, when out and about, one had to rely on oneself. Ability was one thing, but if he couldn't even get money, then he would truly be a bit useless.
So he had been earning money himself recently, but because the Office had only been established for a short time and didn't have much reputation, plus it dabbled in various things, this also led to the Office appearing like a 'four-unlike' in the eyes of others, not specializing in anything.
Incense and two bento boxes.
Miko took the bento box from Bai Ye, while Sadako took the incense. Both looked at Bai Ye in disbelief and asked, "Is this all we're eating?"
"What? The company's performance hasn't been good recently. It's good that we haven't had layoffs!"
With no business coming in, Bai Ye really wanted to eat something good. Did he have to go out and work again?
Recently, there haven't been any good artworks to steal, and Gin, perhaps still annoyed by the last incident, hasn't bothered to contact him even now.
So, if Gin doesn't come, Bai Ye naturally won't go looking for him, and with only one source of income, maybe he should expand his detective business.
Why does it feel like there are so many opportunities to make money in anime, but nobody comes to him in real life?
The ones who come to him are either broke students or a female ghost living in a well.
Noticing Bai Ye's gaze, Miko and Sadako both felt offended, and secretly cursed him in their hearts, thinking, 'This guy is probably talking about us in his mind again!'
"But I don't eat incense."
Where did he even get the idea that she needed to eat incense?
"Then what do you eat?"
As Bai Ye finished speaking, Sadako's gaze fell on Miko, and that look made Miko, who was honestly picking at her bento, instinctively shuffle two steps closer to Bai Ye.
So you don't eat incense, but you eat people, huh?
She had a feeling that one day, she, an old employee, would be eaten.
"Souls?"
"Mhm, souls can make me stronger."
Sadako didn't actually need to eat anything, but with a living person right in front of her, their soul was constantly tugging at her heartstrings.
However, thinking that Miko was also an employee of the Office like herself, eating her didn't seem right, but if Bai Ye agreed, then maybe it wasn't impossible!
"Hey, you wouldn't actually agree, would you?"
In this eerie atmosphere, Miko felt that if she didn't say something, she might really be eaten.
"No, I'm just thinking about something. Sadako, from now on, you cannot arbitrarily eat other people's souls without my permission!"
Bai Ye suddenly realized that he found Sadako cute because he had the Soul Summoning Banner and various means to restrain her. So, to him, Sadako didn't pose much of a threat.
But other people were different; Sadako was, after all, a ghost, a victim of an unjust death, and she harbored, more or less, thoughts of harming people.
That would only cause him trouble. He wasn't forbidding Sadako from eating altogether, but rather, he wasn't allowing Sadako to eat other people's souls without reason.
"How did this involve me?"
Sadako was originally watching with a mentality of enjoying the show, but when the drama involved her, it made Sadako very uncomfortable.
But upon seeing Bai Ye's sharp gaze, Sadako also put away her little schemes.
"Alright, I'm not forbidding you from eating later, I just don't want you to become one of those monsters who eat just to eat. If you encounter bad ones, you can devour them."
In Miko's worldview, there were actually many evil spirits. Since Sadako could devour souls to grow stronger, then he could let her devour those evil spirits.
"Mhm, okay."
Both of them were quite satisfied with this outcome. Miko didn't have to worry about her safety, and Sadako could still continue on the path of eating souls to become stronger.
"Ahem, actually, I have something here that might also carry a soul, would you like to try it?"
"What?" Sadako asked, then suddenly realized something and shook her head repeatedly: "No, no!!"
Damn it!
Her boss was constantly eyeing her.
How could that kind of thing possibly have a soul!
"How do you know if you don't try?"
Bai Ye said teasingly. Why did her little brain suddenly get so sharp?
Bai Ye had originally thought Sadako wouldn't notice at all.
It seemed he had underestimated Sadako.
"Perverted boss!"
Miko complained in her heart.
Just as Bai Ye was about to say something, the notification sound of a text message rang out, interrupting Bai Ye's words.
His fun interrupted, Bai Ye uninterestedly pulled out his phone, glanced at the message, and calmly sent back a question mark.
"Meet?"
"?"
On the other end of the phone, Gin's brows were tightly furrowed, looking as if he was about to explode at any moment. He was very annoyed right now.
He had already decided that he would no longer cooperate with this guy who had toyed with him.
But he had searched for a long time and couldn't find a suitable person.
There were hardly any capable people in the entire organization!
In an instant, Gin felt very exhausted. Even the capable ones wouldn't listen to him.
This forced Gin to turn his attention to the person who had once played him.
If it was that guy, he should be able to get what he wanted.
"Big Brother, did that guy refuse?"
Vodka leaned forward, wanting to see, but after seeing his Big Brother's sharp gaze, he couldn't help but shrink his head back, deciding not to look.
He felt it might be better if he didn't get involved in this matter?
"Shut up."
After Gin spoke, his fingers tapped on the screen for a long time, but in the end, he didn't know what to send.
Finally, he turned off the screen, turned his head, and asked Vermouth, "How is it? Have you investigated that guy's background?"
He didn't like being so passive, but the current situation was that he didn't even know anything about the other party.
This kind of cooperation felt very insecure, just like last time, after he transferred the money, Bai Ye didn't give him the jewel.
Although the price of the queens tears did indeed exceed the mission price he had given, the other party really made him feel like an idiot, but there was no integrity at all. He felt that if he continued to cooperate, he would be no different from a fool.
However, the other party's ability was good. If he could thoroughly investigate the other party's background, then Gin was still thinking about pulling Bai Ye into the organization, as the organization was severely lacking in talent recently.
Vermouth, who was beside him, shook her head, then lit a lady's cigarette: "It's as if he suddenly appeared. There's no information about him at all."
She had investigated the several phantom thieves from last time on the black market. The others, more or less, had some information, though not much and not comprehensive, but at least there was some.
But that phantom thief seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere.
"Do you think there's a possibility that guy is a mole they planted?"
Gin lowered his head, deep in thought. He had found too many moles within the organization, and now he was somewhat reluctant to recruit anyone else.
But now, there were too few people in the organization who could get things done, so they still needed to recruit.
"Who knows? As long as they can get things done, isn't that enough?"
Vermouth exhaled a smoke ring, leaned back in her chair, and tossed her hair back onto the chair back.
"You're right. If he's a traitor, I'll personally kill him, so let's still absorb him into the organization!"
Gin thought about it and felt that Vermouth's words made sense. Even if a traitor emerged, he would personally deal with them at that time.
"Big Brother, Sherry's recent condition is very unusual."
Ever since Akemi died, after Sherry found out, she had been in a state of giving up, no longer caring about the organization's various research.
"Heh heh, just keep her locked up."
A cold sneer flashed across Gin's face. If that woman wanted to leave the organization, he could only kill her, and this foolish woman also had a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship with that man.
"Okay, Big Brother, I'll tell the people over there!"
Vodka nodded, then told the guards to keep her locked up and not to release her.
Sherry was different from Miyano Akemi; her role was much greater.
"Vermouth, I'll arrange to meet that guy. You try to make contact with him."
Gin originally found it hard to humble himself to approach Bai Ye.
Just contacting the other party was already his limit, but then the other party responded with a question mark, and Gin felt like he was going to explode at that moment.
"Hmph, just a thief. Is it really necessary?"
The so-called phantom thief just used some small tricks to steal. In Vermouth's opinion, Gin seemed to be overly concerned.
Moreover, for an organization like theirs, the other party might not even join.
"We need this kind of talent. Don't forget, we still need to find that jewel!"
"I think it's not just that jewel, is it?"
Vermouth said faintly. It wasn't just that thing; recently, many extraordinary things seemed to have been discovered.
It seemed that 'that person' also had some other intentions.
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