Vixon's Hiring

Vixon's Hiring is the deceptively small decision that brings Vixon into Yohan's company and converts a private attraction into an institutional relationship. Vixon approaches Yohan for employment after losing a job and going hungry, while Yohan's reluctance to reject an application from someone he has a crush on makes the hiring both an act of compassion and a personal compromise. The appointment creates the workplace connection from which later tensions over access, rank, secrecy, and discipline can develop.

Request and Immediate Circumstances

Vixon does not enter the company through an established professional introduction in the available scene. Instead, he directly asks Yohan whether there is an available position. The request is framed by financial desperation: Vixon explains that he has been fired, does not know where to find money, and has been starving for several days. Employment therefore appears first as a practical necessity rather than an opportunity for ambition.

Yohan's response is shaped by more than the application itself. He is surprised that Vixon is seeking work and admits internally that refusing would be difficult because Vixon is his crush. The decision consequently joins two motives that should ordinarily remain separate: an employer's judgment about staffing and a personal desire to keep someone close. The text presents the hesitation comically, but the result is consequential. Yohan's private preference is allowed to enter the company's formal structure.

The Improvised Appointment

When asked what position Vixon might fill, Yohan answers, "Ano, um. Assistant". The wording shows that the role is improvised under nervous pressure rather than presented as the outcome of a carefully described recruitment process. Yet the improvised answer immediately becomes an appointment. Yohan tells Vixon, "Okay, you're hired," and the application ends with a clear employment decision rather than a trial period or further negotiation.

The exchange gives the hiring an uneven emotional texture. Vixon's need makes the offer materially important, while Yohan's attraction makes it personally charged. Yohan smiles sweetly when he gives the answer, and Vixon reacts with visible surprise before asking whether the decision is real. The position thus arrives as unexpected relief for Vixon and as an impulsive act for Yohan, binding economic dependence to an already complicated interpersonal interest.

Position Within the Company

The later office arrangement identifies Vixon as an assistant and shows that the role carries enough standing to place him within Yohan's operational circle. Yohan and Kazumi share an office on the sixth floor, while Yohan considers moving Vixon to a vacant room on the eighth floor. The proposed relocation is discussed as a workplace solution, but its significance lies in the hierarchy it makes visible: floors, offices, and physical proximity become instruments for managing who can remain near Yohan and who must be kept at a distance.

The company is not presented as a neutral setting separate from private life. Yohan later manages operations while Kazumi organizes his schedule and Vixon attends meetings, demonstrating that assistants occupy different practical positions within the same administrative network. Vixon's hiring is therefore the starting point of a divided support structure rather than merely the addition of one employee. The role gives Vixon access to the company and to Yohan, while later arrangements show Yohan using organizational decisions to regulate that access.

Institutional Consequences

The hiring also establishes the conditions for workplace secrecy. When Kazumi's pregnancy becomes visible, Yohan instructs the workers not to tell Vixon that Kazumi is pregnant, and the workers comply. Vixon remains unaware even as Kazumi stops wearing oversized clothes and her large abdomen becomes obvious. Because Vixon has been incorporated into the company as an assistant, the concealment is not only a private omission; it becomes an organizational policy enforced through the staff.

Other episodes reveal how broad the company's operational network is. When Nestor is ill and cannot drive, Yohan receives a report listing Delphin, Crusio, Dan, Kanor, Sander, and Falley as the available drivers and decides to go find another one. This logistical scene places the assistant role inside a larger system of workers, drivers, and management. The company functions through delegated labor, but Yohan retains the authority to make sudden personnel decisions, as seen first in the spontaneous creation of Vixon's position.

Foreshadowing Later Conflict

The employment decision gains darker significance in retrospect because the workplace eventually becomes a site of intimidation and violence. In a later confrontation at Yohan's mansion, Vixon holds a gun taken from the police and demands that the household staff reveal Yohan's location, threatening to shoot them if they refuse. That later act is not part of the hiring scene itself, but it sharply contrasts with the vulnerable applicant who initially asks for work because he has been starving.

This contrast makes Vixon's Hiring a foundational reversal in the relationship between Vixon and Yohan. Vixon first appears as someone seeking rescue through employment, and Yohan appears as the employer whose sympathy opens the door. The same door ultimately leads into a structure where employment, personal attachment, secrecy, physical proximity, and coercion cannot be cleanly separated. The event's decisive significance lies in that transformation: a nervous offer of an assistant position becomes the institutional beginning of a much more dangerous bond.