Necophilia

Chapter 20: Breaking promises

rachel's curiosity was unfounded, as the house was just an ordinary house that the landlord would immediately evict.

rachel checked every part of the house. It was true it was just an ordinary hut without anything interesting.

"we have to get back soon. The back door will be closed if it's 15 minutes."

"why is that..?"

"because I set a trap to catch the wayward citizens.if closed inevitably we have to climb or pass through the ruyuk." said arqan.

did not want to linger longer rachel immediately out of the house, but her clothes were stuck when passing through the door gap. he closed the torn part by hand then walked back to the stacking house.

arqan saw rachel's torn clothes. "no need to be covered," said arqan. "let me stitch it with the machine." he continued.

rachel turned down the offer and she wanted to sew it herself.

unbeknownst to arqan and rachel, there was someone sitting on the porch of the house.

the back door is back closed. Arqan accidentally does not tell rachel the reason why the house was not evicted. arqan plans not to tell her as long as she does not ask.

rachel picks up the phone from someone. That person is a senior translator who gives rachel a job every day. if rachel doesn't finish her stacking job then rachel will get fired and not get a weekly paycheck.

rachel sees her clock.There is still plenty of time to work on it. Arqan reminds her not to put off work.

"lately I've had too many drakor marathons. Can you help me? my schedule is tight today." rachel pinta.

"what schedule...?"

rachel detailed her agenda today. "morning to be your assistant, noon doing banner design, afternoon watching-I mean taking Nein for a walk, night translating comics. I honestly wasn't sure I could finish everything at once."

rachel gave a code. she stared at arqan expectantly.arqan looked back at the girl's eyes.

arqan blinked first. rachel laughed at him. It turns out they play each other face to face.

"alright rachel, it's fitting that I have it."

arqan turned on his laptop and opened an application called AI maker. shortly after the loading process completed AI that rachel saw when going to register work appeared.

the AI was named minerva. arqan introduced minerva as its digital assistant.The task of minerva is to select important messages to put into a special folder.

"just leave your design tasks to the minerva. Just write a sentence and the minerva will make it design by blending all the elements."

rachel types the writing that must be in her design and then let the minerva work. arqan has rachel finish all her work. That order cannot be rejected because currently arqan is rachel's boss.

"well boss,"

rachel edits comics per chapter very quickly thanks to the help of arqan. Translator's work is like turning the palm for arqan. English language skills that she can from studying hard and playing games.

when arqan is tired rachel will take him a drink. when rachel is tired arqan will give him a drink and massage his shoulders.

"keep your eyes arqan. don't look down." rachel teases arqan. Arqan also looks up so as not to misunderstand.

As he was busy translating chapters that were piled up, the door to rachel's room was knocked by someone. When it opened it turned out to be security sir. He came to reprimand arqan and rachel because they were too often alone in the room.

Arqan did not understand why he was being reprimanded. He asked permission from security and landlords. Mr. Security explained that someone sent me a photo of arqan and rachel doing something indecent.

The photo in question is a photo taken by Marry when he saw arqan and rachel hugging in the room.

The security guard stared intently at Arqan. The security guard didn't believe the picture. That's why he wanted to hear the explanation of arqan and rachel separately.

Arqan explains that the event in the photo happened after he expressed his love for rachel.

Rachel said the same thing. He hugged Arqan without a second thought so happy to be proposed.

"so you guys hug each other because you like each other. It's close to zina."

"sorry, I was wrong. Arqan pushed me straight after that. So nothing happened."

The security man rubbed his forehead. He pulled Arqan's shoulder and took the boy away from rachel. In a soft tone of voice, the security officer told Arqan not to be alone with rachel too often. A girl as beautiful as she can get a man out of control. And if arqan comes to his house, it's good to leave the front door open.

Arqan. The security guard also asked Rachel to be careful. Because the security guard heard the woman who gave the photo kept rebuking rachel while talking on the phone.

In order not to arouse suspicion, rachel moves to her cctv's existing arqan room. Shortly thereafter, the design of the rachel banner was completed.

Rachel was quite surprised to see the results. The design made by the minerva is equivalent to the quality made by a professional desaigner although there are still some empty parts.

"what is the application..?" ask rachel.

"coreldraw, it costs 10 thousand..!"

Rachel is shocked suddenly asked for payment, but Arqan is just joking. Rachel also hits Arqan's arm.

The design made by minerva there are 3. Everything he did in just 2 hours. Two of the 3 designs were picked up and modified again by rachel, after which she was sent to her boss.

The printing boss liked the design rachel had delivered, made into a minerva. The printing boss even offered rachel a permanent job at her office.

"look arqan! your work is liked by big printing bosses. Do you want to hire a minerva there...?" rachel has no interest in being a permanent worker. That's why he offered it to arqan.

"no. I don't think printing should use AI to create customer designs. That'll narrow our jobs."

"so yeah. Then I'll turn down the offer."

Rachel rejects the boss' offer, then returns to serve her young boss. Rachel edited the translated chapter. Arqan was looking for the person who shared the photo. That guy must have a copy of that picture.

The security officer said the person who gave it was a woman. The blonde-haired young lady who often comes here. There is only one woman who matches these traits.

The person who shirked with him when at school. People who don't like it when Arqan becomes a champion. And the man lived in the same bunk house as Arqan. He lives on the 4th floor across from. The name of the woman is a rose.

"the rose..! It's me, arqan...!!" arqan said, knocking on doors and windows.

"brother roses are not at home..!! " his twin sister rose, jasmine replied from inside the house.

"i knew roses were in jasmine. His favorite shoes are here. Hurry up and get him out...!"

The rose finally came out of the house. He was afraid to meet arqan because the last time they met a rose accidentally spilled a drink onto his laptop. Arqan knows that the real target of the rose is his shirt. But due to tripping the woman turned the drink to her laptop.

"what's up..? Don't you like going up to the 4th floor..?"

The rose folded both his hands. The look in his eyes was inevitable.

"i want to ask. Did you take this photo?" arqan showed me his picture and rachel.

"not me. But whoever took it I like it. Because she already showed your true face." the rose smiled with satisfaction then turned to her house.

Arqan quickly clasped Marry's hand and corner the girl against the wall. The rose was surprised not to be treated like that. If it's another man then the rose can understand. But now it is Arqan who does the gentle action.

"you're great too. My heart skipped a beat because of your actions." said the rose.

"i'm not done with you yet." Arqan's angry expression tends to make him look more alive than when he's making things.

The rose was a little afraid of looking at arqan. He yelled a little at arqan. "what's your business..!?"

"last noon security hit my house. I was accused of doing indecent things to my assistant because of this photo. The characteristics that the security sir spoke fully refer to you. So don't dodge any more..!!" arqan raised his voice.

"swear, it's not me...!!! If I had intended to slander you, I would have done so much more than that." rose defended herself and came out from the scowl of Arqan.

"you can't have time to do it and just take photos..!!"

"your accusations are unfounded..!! Did you check the cctv camera...?!!"

Arqan jerks. He forgot there were cctv cameras on every floor. Arqan went straight to the security office to check with the roses. However the cctv footage of the day was removed.

Because the cctv has been removed arqan would not want to have to go to the security sir who was eating at the stall across the street.

arqan patted security sir on the shoulder.

"sorry sir, is it really the woman who gave the photo?"

"no! no, mbak rose. I'm sure he's not here. he looks like your girlfriend who often wears fart clothes."

arqan gasped.Could it be that marry.arqan thought, if it is true why marry why he could slander himself and rachel.when it should be Marry who knows the most about arqan.

arqan walks lethargic.Roses fuss over arqan as a form of venting his anger. "eat it, don't just accuse people! you're messing up my birthday!"

"sorry," his voice was not powerful.

"sorry to ruin your birthday.I'll give you a cake as an apology."

the rose took off the earlobe of arqan and went home without saying anything while the arqan met the marry at the gate.

"do you know that?" marry asked. The stages were cold and serious, not as usual.

"why are you slandering me?" arqan asked back.

"i'm not slandering. You're doing it with that woman, right?"

arqan patted her forehead.he did not expect marry would do such a thing to her. Arqan told the true events to marry.but until the end of the story the cold expression of marry did not change.

arqan and Marry stood around. Marry opened his lips and the drama began, "you used to reject me my love in 3rd grade.he said you had a promise with your late parents not to date. but now you're engaged to a woman. Why didn't you ask me to get engaged back then?"

arqan could not answer it. The idea of getting engaged was only thought of by him now.

marry was disappointed. After being rejected by arqan, marry was betrothed by his parents with rico. The engagement made him hurt but he tried to stay strong.

"did I lose beauty to her..?! why do you like it more than I have supported you all this time..!!!" shouting marry.

the cry of the marry was heard by the landlord who was coffee in front of the house, slowly the landlord approached the location of the war.

"i once harbored feelings for you, but the longer we were friends and the more often we were together, I fell in love with your smile, but I was self-aware of my status. there was no way a young man like me could hold your hand." arqan looked at Marry in amazement as if looking at a large figure.

arqan continued, "rather than fantasizing about being your lover, I feel better suited to be your friend or business partner." arqan lowered his gaze.

"that's it. So you thought my proposal used to be just playing games, you didn't know that I died fighting to get my parents' blessing."

"you must have thought I was just whining and rolling on the floor, didn't you?"

arqan was silent a thousand bases.in front of the girl who shed tears because arqan still had time to answer the phone from rachel.

[wait a minute rachel. I'm talking to Marry here.]

arqan immediately turned off his phone.he walked closer to Marry intending to wipe his crown.

"he's always happy when I wipe his head." inner arqan.

"you like feminine girls dressed in a cover, yes, then I'll change my appearance" said Marry, shaking off Arqan's hand.

marry strengthened his heart.he showed his firm side to arqan. Marry's cold face shook the heart of arqan.The girl nicknamed the tomboy queen now showed an expression as cold as the ice queen.

"wait for marry,"

"don't follow me..!!" shouting marry.

"oh yes," Mary turned and threw a white cloth.

"it's my mom's vanilla cake. Take it easy. Even if you hurt my heart, I won't hate you. meet me whenever you need arqan's help." after giving clarification, Marry returned to his car. then go home with a driver.

arqan stared at the white packet and opened it. The beautiful vanilla cake was neatly wrapped inside a transparent plastic container.

"if it's this beautiful I don't have the heart to eat it." murmured arqan.

arqan was a little sorry about what happened to Marry, but he did not feel completely wrong.but still Arqan felt guilty for breaking his promise.

"i'm a really bad guy. I hurt women as much as Marry. I reneged on my promise."

while passing through the landlord's house, Arqan met the landlord who directly held his shoulder.

"i overheard your conversation."

"well, we were too noisy earlier."

"apologize if you break your promise. Besides, my wife often meet the girl.she is a cheerful girl to this day came. Despite being hurt she still considers you her friend right. that's why don't blow your face and keep looking at him. Maybe he's the one who needs your help."

the advice of the landlord settles in the memory of arqan.arqan is determined to take a temporary break from his future ambitions.

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