Chapter 31:… Are You MonsterCam Guy?

Chapter 31: 31:... Are You MonsterCam Guy?

"What do you mean, something else?"

"You know... over the weekend."

"Over the weekend? Did something happen?"

Ed tilted his head as if he genuinely had no idea what she meant.

Why...?

Why are you pretending you don’t know, Ed?

You knew.

You knew it was me from the start...

"That... That evening, I mean..."

Selena remembered everything that had happened that night with painful clarity.

Following him even though she’d known it was Ed.

Ed openly bringing her all the way back to this office.

...Having sex at her own desk.

And more than anything else...

It had been so intense that she still couldn’t get it out of her head.

They had called it role-play.

But anyone could see it hadn’t really been role-play at all.

The office.

Their relationship as boss and subordinate.

Even the way they had addressed each other.

Every part of it.

It had all been about the relationship between her and Ed...

Somewhere inside, she had already realized it.

She had used role-play as an excuse...to have sex with Ed himself.

And she hadn’t merely accepted that fact.

Even now...her body still wanted him...♡

"We... met that night, didn’t we?"

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Selena felt her heart squeeze tight.

Ed was going out of his way to protect her secret, and here she was, bringing it up herself.

It felt as though she were laying everything bare before him.

"Met? That evening?"

"Yes..."

She fidgeted as she answered under her breath.

Ah... Why is this turning me on so much?

"Hmm. I’m not sure."

Ed still played dumb.

But you know, Ed.

You know what it means for me to bring this up first.

I’m saying I don’t care if your identity is exposed.

No—I’m saying I want you to reveal it.

Not as MonsterCam Guy.

I want you, Ed Roth, to do the same things to me again...

"Manager Selena, I don’t think this is something we should discuss here."

"Here?"

"Look around."

Selena glanced around at his prompting.

"Good morning."

It was the morning rush.

Employees kept filing into the office one after another.

Soon the desks around hers would be occupied, and everyone nearby would hear their entire conversation.

"Don’t you think?"

Ed leaned slightly closer.

Close enough to whisper in her ear.

Ah... I can feel his breath...

"Y-you’re right, Ed."

"If it’s a personal matter, we should probably talk somewhere else."

"Somewhere... else?"

Where... exactly?

Where are you going to take me...?

"I’m sure we can find somewhere. This is an office, after all. Somewhere the two of us can talk in private."

"The two of us... in private."

That meant...he already knew what she wanted to talk about.

Her heart pounded harder.

Alone together. Somewhere quiet.

She understood perfectly well why Ed wanted to take this conversation somewhere like that.

She knew what they would talk about there.

And what he might do to her. All of it.

"R-right. Then..."

Her chest tight with anticipation, Selena quietly rose from her seat.

"Could I... see you for a moment, Ed?"

***

"Morning~! Huh? Where’s Manager Selena?"

Rhea arrived late and stopped when she saw the manager’s empty desk.

Assistant Manager Barry, who was sitting nearby tapping at his phone, answered her.

"Oh, Rhea. She stepped out a little while ago."

"This early? What am I supposed to do? I have something that needs her approval."

"Beats me. Judging by her face, it looked like something important."

"Something important?"

What kind of important business would Manager Selena have first thing in the morning?

Could it have something to do with what she’d said before—about maybe having a boyfriend?

"Manager Selena left with Ed a few minutes ago," another employee called from across the office.

"Ed... Ed?"

If it was Ed, then this probably wasn’t about her boyfriend.

He must have screwed something up again.

"Yeah. She looked pretty serious. They went toward Conference Room Three."

"Conference Room Three..."

Rhea immediately remembered what that room was used for.

It was tiny and barely had any chairs, so it was usually reserved for one-on-one meetings.

And while people called them one-on-one meetings, everyone knew what it usually meant when a superior summoned you there alone.

"Is Ed’s contract being terminated?"

Rhea drew a finger across her throat.

Ed was a contract employee. If the company chose not to renew him, that was the end of his job.

Assistant Manager Barry answered without much interest.

"Who knows? I haven’t heard anything about his contract yet."

"Oh... really?"

"But you never know. He’s only a contractor. If he gets on the wrong person’s bad side, he’s gone."

"Right?"

The idea of Ed being fired put Rhea in an oddly good mood.

They had joined the company at the same time and once encouraged each other to do their best.

But the gap between them had widened little by little.

Rhea had used her natural sociability to build connections and secure a permanent position with ease.

Ed, meanwhile, did whatever work he was assigned like a slave and nothing more.

He was still a contractor.

Seeing a man amount to so little made him seem pathetic.

At some point, Rhea had started thinking of Ed as beneath her.

In her eyes, a weak, incompetent, unimpressive man wasn’t worth treating well.

Men like that irritated her.

Were there no decent men anywhere?

"I can’t stand it. I’m going to take a quick look and see what’s happening, Assistant Manager Barry. I want to know if he’s really getting fired."

"Oh, will you? I was curious too. Let me when you get back."

"Yes, sir!"

Rhea slipped out of the office with a faint bounce in her step.

Conference Room Three, right?

Maybe Ed was already in there bawling as Manager Selena told him his contract was over.

Manager Selena was exactly the kind of person who would coldly cut loose an incompetent man like him.

Rhea desperately wanted to see the look on his face.

Barely suppressing the smile tugging at her lips, she headed toward Conference Room Three.

***

The room Selena led me to was tiny.

There was only a single table, and because it was tucked away in a corner of the building, almost no one used it.

The only time people came here was for private meetings with department heads—which were usually little more than pressure to resign voluntarily.

That was why everyone considered it an unlucky room and avoided it whenever possible.

Put another way, it was the perfect place for two people to be alone without anyone knowing.

"Come in... quickly."

"Yes, ma’am."

I obediently followed her inside.

Click.

The moment we entered, Manager Selena carefully locked the door.

Then she pulled the blinds shut so no one outside could see in.

Only after meticulously checking that the room was sealed off did she take a seat.

"Sit down, Ed."

"Yes."

I sat beside her instead of across the table.

"Ah..."

The moment I settled into the chair next to hers, Selena flinched and drew up her shoulders.

"What’s wrong?"

"I meant... over there."

"Does it matter where I sit?"

"..."

She gave me a slightly displeased look.

A look like that deserved a smile in return.

The instant our eyes met, she startled and looked away.

"W-well... I suppose not."

Cute.

In the end, she allowed me to stay beside her.

The room was so cramped that our bodies were nearly touching.

What was this, a couple’s seat?

Manager Selena couldn’t bring herself to raise her bright-red face. She only kept twisting her fingers together in her lap.

"Haah..."

After one long, deep breath, she finally spoke.

"You know... don’t you, Ed?"

"Know what?"

"Why I brought you here."

Of course I did.

I’d deliberately avoided mentioning what happened over the weekend at work.

Not because I wanted to hide it, and not because I was trying to spare Selena’s feelings.

Quite the opposite.

I wanted to confirm her desire.

I’d made it painfully obvious.

There was no way she hadn’t figured out that I was MonsterCam Guy.

She’d already looked suspicious when we first met at Old town Station.

And even though she knew— even though she knew MonsterCam Guy was really Ed, her subordinate—she had still followed me and had perverted sex with me.

She’d even gone along with role-play that mirrored our real relationship.

At the end, she’d called me by name herself.

Manager Selena...

No, Selena...was already too far gone to escape me.

Even knowing that I was MonsterCam Guy, she had still given me her body.

In that case...

I could push things a little further, couldn’t I?

"Yes. I know."

"...I thought so."

When I answered without hesitation, Selena gave a small nod.

"You remember... everything that happened that day?"

"Of course."

"Even what we did in the office?"

"Yes."

"So I wasn’t imagining it."

Selena drew another deep breath.

"Then... can I ask you something?"

Her voice dropped to a cautious whisper.

"Ed... are you MonsterCam Guy?"

I answered without a moment’s hesitation.

"Yes. I’m MonsterCam Guy."