Vixon–Kazumi Separate-Office Arrangement

The Vixon–Kazumi Separate-Office Arrangement separates Vixon from Kazumi within Yohan’s company after their shared office becomes unacceptable. Yohan proposes moving Vixon to another vacant room because placing Vixon beside Kazumi would be awkward after Vixon had been Kazumi’s former crush and had proved to be a deceiver. The arrangement is therefore more than an administrative convenience: it is a spatial punishment, a boundary around Kazumi, and a visible sign that Vixon’s access to Yohan and Kazumi has been reduced.

Origin and Rationale

The arrangement emerges in the aftermath of Vixon’s exposure as a manipulator and betrayer. Yohan treats the former shared office as an intolerable reminder of Vixon’s conduct toward Kazumi, describing the situation as awkward because Vixon was not merely a colleague but someone Kazumi had once liked. The proposed solution is to find a vacant room, redesign it as an office, and furnish it rather than force Kazumi and Vixon to continue working in the same space.

The emotional logic of the rule is inseparable from the corporate hierarchy. Yohan is able to convert personal discomfort into an official workplace decision because he manages the company’s operations and controls office allocation. His response to Vixon’s wrongdoing is expressed through architecture: distance, relocation, and restricted access replace the former proximity. The company thus functions simultaneously as a professional institution and as an extension of Yohan’s intimate loyalties.

Implementation on the Sixth Floor

After finishing work, Yohan asks Kazumi to inspect the available rooms with him. They walk around the entire sixth floor and identify a vacant room for Vixon’s relocation. Yohan then oversees the change, remaining with Kazumi while the room is prepared and transformed into a separate office. The process makes the decision material rather than merely verbal: furniture and design are arranged so that Vixon will have a workplace distinct from Kazumi’s.

The selected location also carries an element of deliberate irony. Yohan first considers a vacant room on the eighth floor, but Kazumi points out that a sixth-floor office for both of them would place Vixon on a higher floor if he were moved there. The discussion shows that the office assignment is being negotiated through both practical considerations and the social meaning of rank and proximity. The final decision keeps Vixon elsewhere on the sixth floor, close enough to remain within the company but no longer inside Kazumi’s immediate working environment.

Rules, Secrecy, and Enforcement

Yohan does not initially present the relocation to Vixon as a collaborative arrangement. While resting in the office after supervising the preparations, he says that Vixon will be told only when he enters the office and discovers that he no longer belongs there; he will have to find his assigned office himself. This deliberately humiliating enforcement turns relocation into a disciplinary spectacle. Vixon is not simply transferred; he is made to experience the loss of his former position through exclusion from a familiar space.

The separate-office rule also exists within a wider system of controlled access. The fifth floor is treated as a restricted area, and Kazumi is the only person said to know what is there; she sometimes sleeps in a room on that floor. Elsewhere, Kazumi secretly observes Yohan speaking with Xan from behind a large doorway, while Yohan’s mansion and garden become similarly important spaces for concealment, surveillance, dates, and danger. These recurring spatial boundaries give the office arrangement a broader function: separation can protect people, but hidden rooms and controlled movement can also conceal information.

Consequences for Kazumi and Vixon

For Kazumi, the arrangement reduces direct contact with the person whose betrayal has made the shared office unsafe or emotionally oppressive. The separation allows Kazumi to continue working with Yohan while Vixon is assigned a different place. It is especially significant because Kazumi’s pregnancy is concealed from Vixon: Yohan instructs the workers not to tell Vixon that Kazumi is pregnant, and they obey. When Kazumi later works alone in the office after lunch while Yohan attends a meeting, Vixon appears at the door with what seems to be a harmful intention, demonstrating that physical separation does not eliminate the danger.

For Vixon, relocation marks the collapse of professional and personal access. Vixon had sought a position in Yohan’s company, but the employment relationship later becomes defined by manipulation, accusation, punishment, and exclusion. Even after being moved away from Kazumi, Vixon continues to threaten the household. He eventually reaches Yohan’s mansion with a gun, demands to know where Yohan is, and confronts him on the staircase. The office boundary therefore proves limited: it can regulate ordinary workplace proximity, but it cannot contain a determined antagonist whose conflict with Yohan has escalated beyond the company.

Narrative Significance

The Vixon–Kazumi Separate-Office Arrangement turns workplace geography into a record of changing allegiance. Earlier, shared professional space enabled proximity and manipulation; afterward, the same space becomes evidence of a relationship that must be dismantled. Yohan’s decision protects Kazumi in the immediate sense, but its theatrical enforcement also reveals his desire to make Vixon feel demoted and expelled from the circle of trust.

The rule’s ultimate irony is that separation creates safety only within the limits of the institution that establishes it. The company can relocate a desk, redesign a room, and control what workers disclose, yet it cannot prevent hidden knowledge from accumulating or violence from crossing into the mansion. By separating Vixon and Kazumi, Yohan draws a boundary around Kazumi’s working life; Vixon’s later armed return shows that the boundary has become part of a much larger struggle over access, secrecy, and power.