I Was Possessed By An Unknown Manga - Chapter 385



385 – Minami’s Decision

A week later,

As soon as Minami returned to work after a long vacation at home, she went straight to her president’s office.

Knock!

“Please come in.”

After hearing the lady’s voice coming from beyond the door, Minami carefully went inside and saw the lady doing her work in a semi-formal suit.

“Minami!”

She turned her head half-heartedly, and when she saw her face, Kumiko’s face suddenly brightened.

Before she inquired about her young lady’s well-being, she asked about what bothered her most during her week of rest.

“Was work at work okay while I was away?”

Then Kumiko blinked her eyes with a blank expression, then smiled bitterly and said.

“Can I be honest?”

“Yes.”

“Minami’s empty space felt too big.”

Saying that, Kumiko put down the document she was holding in her right hand on her desk.

“Originally, the secretarial department sent someone to temporarily work in Minami’s place, but it was too much to handle the schedule on her own. So we added one more person, but she said it was still difficult, so in the end, we had to bring in three secretaries. What that means is that Minami was doing the work that three people would normally do by herself.”

“Uh… I didn’t mean to ask that question.”

When Minami said that with a puzzled expression, Kumiko said she knew and laughed.

“But thanks to her, she realized once again that Minami is working hard in places that are usually invisible to her.”

“…”

When Minami blushed and didn’t know what to do at her sudden praise, Kumiko looked at her as if she loved her and said.

“Thank you, Minami. For always being by my side.”

“… “I just did what I had to do.”

As she said that and lowered her head to hide her embarrassment, she decided to turn the conversation to another topic before Kumiko praised her further.

“That!”

“… ?”

“This is the suggestion you gave me last week.”

“Ah, have you decided?”

“Yes. I have decided.”

Fortunately, Lady Kumiko showed interest in her story, so Minami made eye contact with her with a serious expression, sighing in relief.

“She asked me if she would become Kim Yu-seong’s concubine.”

“That’s right.”

“…Honestly, I don’t know how I feel either. I definitely think I should get married, but I’ve never really liked anyone. But when I look at Shinji, the young lady, and the people around me, They all seem happy.”

After hearing her words, Kumiko nodded her head.

“Marriage does not necessarily bring happiness, but people are animals that can easily become happy just by being able to grow old with the person they like. I wanted to let Minami know that joy as well.”

After hearing that, Minami nodded her head and said.

“As the young lady said, she would definitely be happy if she could grow old with someone she likes. But I don’t particularly like Kim Yu-sung. And the same goes for Kim Yu-sung.”

The premise was wrong from the beginning.

Just as Minami never really felt like Kim Yu-seong was the opposite s*x, she probably never really felt like Minami was like her.

Although she feels a strange sense of kinship in the sense that she acts for the young lady, she is only her friend.

Unless she was getting married alone, it was a separate matter whether Kim Yu-sung would accept her even if she decided to become his concubine.

After hearing Minami’s words, Kumiko tilted her head and said.

“Then shouldn’t we just get to know each other from now on?”

“Yes?”

“It’s not like I knew anything about Yoosung-kun from the beginning. Doesn’t Minami know that better than anyone else?”

“That’s right… That’s right.”

In the first place, when she was a high school student, she was the one who gathered information about Kim Yu-sung and passed it on to her young lady.

“Not everyone was in a romantic relationship from the beginning. You start with other people and take the steps slowly. I heard that quite a few of them develop from friends to lovers.”

Kumiko said that and looked at Minami.

“Minami, has she really never felt favored by Yooseong-kun?”

No, she couldn’t say for certain.

That’s because Kim Yoo-seong is a good guy.

No matter how much of a rock she is when it comes to relationships between men and women, she has been defeated at least once.

To be specific, there were several times, such as when he saved her life, when he accidentally held her in his arms, and when they fought back to back.

Just then she said she shouldn’t and she came to Tyler herself.

“…”

When Minami couldn’t answer right away, Kumiko nodded her head and said.

“That’s enough. If I was mistaken, she was trying to back off the offer she made to Minami, but I don’t think she needs to do that.”

While saying that, Kumiko looked straight into her Minami’s eyes.

“If Minami is willing to do that, I will tell Yusung-kun. “What should I do?”

The final choice was again in her hands.

Minami opened her lips, which were difficult to separate, and spoke.

“I am—”

***

“… So you brought Minami to her house?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

After hearing what the chairman said, I felt my hair turning white for a moment.

Being a concubine in today’s world.

Of course, I know this isn’t something a person with nine wives would say, but it’s still a relationship we built with mutual consent.

On the other hand, Minami, unlike Rika, who was overtly showing favor, didn’t even have a hint of it, and was like a completely rolled stone.

“Is this a story you also accepted?”

When I asked Minami, who was sitting motionless next to the president, she nodded and said.

“I also agreed. If you are willing, I hope you will accept me as your concubine.”

“Ha-“

In the end, I couldn’t bear it anymore and let out a deep sigh.

How on earth do I explain this situation to other wives?

Moreover, since Minami was the chairman’s right-hand woman, she was somewhat acquainted with everyone.

Just last week, he came to my house to play.

“Why are you suddenly trying to take Minami in as my concubine?”

Even if I refused, I wanted to know the reason.

And the chairman, who received my question, nodded his head and spoke with a calm expression.

“Minami also needs to get married soon, but there is no suitable man around. Rather than marrying off Minami to a peddler, I will marry her to Yooseong-gun and keep her by my side for the rest of her life.”

“Lady…”

Minami looks at him with a touched expression after hearing the president’s words

As I watched the close master-servant relationship that could not live without each other, I began to understand a little why the Chairman wanted to make Minami his concubine.

Since he likes Minami as much as he likes me, he probably wanted to keep them both by his side.

I thought he was truly greedy, but it was a behavior like that of a chairman in that he would do anything to achieve what he wanted.

“And I also heard that Yooseong’s younger appearance suits Minami’s taste in men.”

“…”

In the end, it also reached the chairman’s ears.

They say there is no one in the world they can trust, and it seems that one of the wives told the chairman about the side effects of ghost pills.

“Are you satisfied with this?”

In the end, when I gave up trying to persuade the chairman and asked Minami directly, she looked thoughtful for a moment and then answered my question.

“To be honest, if you asked me if I could like you right now, I would say no. But I would at least try to like you.”

And not all couples in the world get married out of love, right?

As you live together and gradually get used to each other, things start to appear that weren’t there before.

“… I see.”

I sensed Minami’s determination in this answer, so I nodded at her with a serious expression.

“So, Yuseong-kun, what are you going to do now? Are you going to accept our poor Minami as her concubine? Or are you going to let her grow old and die as an old maid for the rest of her life?”

“… It seems like the leap is too extreme.”

But the chairman was adamant.

“If it’s the Minami I know, it’s a very likely scenario. She will keep her virginity all her life under the excuse of being a workaholic and then die lonely in her later years.”

“Miss, I don’t know that much… “

Minami timidly protested, probably because she thought her words were too harsh, but the president did not seem to listen and urged me on.

“Now! Please give me the answer!”

“Huh? Huh?”

Before I knew it, I was cornered.

Anyway, I felt like this was going too far, like roasting beans in a flash of lightning, so I tried to rebel in my own way, but looking at the chairman’s crazy eyes, I felt like he would never give up until I accepted the offer.

In the end, losing momentum, I closed my eyes tightly and spoke.

“Ha, I will.”

That was the moment when mine and Minami’s engagement was decided.