Vixon's Manipulation of Xan and Their Falling-Out

Vixon's relationship with Xan is a short-lived alliance organized around a scheme to separate Kazumi from Yohan. Vixon supplies the plan and the target, while Xan carries out the risky confrontation; when it goes wrong, Vixon treats Xan's injuries and lost job as a joke. Their falling-out makes the imbalance plain: Vixon is willing to use Xan to pursue his own interests, but the evidence shows no corresponding loyalty when Xan bears the consequences.

The Scheme and Its Unequal Stakes

Vixon describes the plan from his own point of view. He and Xan are to drive Kazumi and Yohan apart, with Vixon claiming Yohan for himself and assigning Kazumi to Xan. Yet Vixon explicitly distinguishes his interest in Yohan from affection: he wants him for money, says he does not like him, and regards money as more important even than his stated interest in Kazumi. The arrangement is therefore transactional at its center, not a shared romantic project. Vixon parcels out people according to what he wants from them, while Xan is given a role in achieving that aim.

The immediate circumstance Vixon cites is that Kazumi and Yohan have been returning to Yohan's Mansion under the same roof. He sends Xan there and tells him to insult Yohan, expecting the provocation to make Kazumi reconsider her closeness to her boss. Vixon's instruction is specific, but the risk falls on Xan: he is the one who must confront Yohan, while Vixon waits elsewhere. The scheme depends on Xan provoking a rupture between two people, although Vixon's account gives no sign that he has secured any protection for the person he sends to do it.

The Confrontation and Its Cost

When Xan returns to the hiding place near Yohan's Mansion, Vixon sees that he is bruised and covered in blood. Vixon reacts with contempt and asks what happened; he suspects Yohan beat Xan, but the scene does not establish exactly how Xan received his injuries. His response nevertheless shows where his attention lies: he complains that Xan has failed at a simple task, rather than expressing concern for him. The physical damage turns the risk built into Vixon's plan into something visible, but it does not make Vixon reconsider the plan or acknowledge his part in it.

Xan then tells Vixon that he has lost his job and that Kazumi is angry with him. Instead of taking the consequences seriously, Vixon laughs and calls the outcome a double success. The remark recasts Xan's job loss and Kazumi's anger as points scored in a game, even though they are costs borne by Xan. Xan objects that Vixon is joking and that the whole situation is Vixon's fault. Their disagreement is not merely over whether the scheme succeeded: it is over responsibility for the damage Vixon's instructions helped set in motion.

Blame and the Falling-Out

Xan's accusation is supported by the plan Vixon has already described. Vixon does not deny that he sent Xan to confront Yohan or told him to insult him; instead, he asks how the outcome could be his fault and challenges whether he and Xan are even close. That appeal to distance sits uneasily beside the earlier account of a coordinated plan. Vixon wanted Xan's participation when it served his purpose, but, once Xan objects, he treats their connection as too slight to create any obligation.

The later confrontation at Yohan's workplace gives Xan an opportunity to state his version directly. Kazumi overhears him pleading with Yohan for another chance and naming Vixon as the person responsible, saying that Vixon forced him to act. Xan repeats the claim that Vixon compelled him when Yohan questions him. His plea is self-interested—he wants to keep his job—but it also confirms that he understands the confrontation as something Vixon directed rather than an independent choice. Vixon's earlier admission that he assigned the task corroborates the central part of Xan's accusation, though the evidence does not independently establish the extent of any coercion.

Consequences and Significance

Yohan refuses Xan's plea and dismisses him. In doing so, he also rejects Xan's attempt to place the entire episode on Vixon: he questions why Vixon would force someone he was supposedly close to, and challenges Xan's own conduct toward the women seated near him at work. Yohan says he had noticed Xan's behavior and had changed the seating arrangements so that men, rather than women, sat beside him. He further accuses Xan of presenting himself as kind to Kazumi while intending to use and discard her if she accepted him. These are Yohan's judgments of Xan, not facts established by Vixon's account, but they show that Xan's conduct had drawn attention beyond the failed provocation.

The relationship's decisive outcome is thus not a partnership strengthened by a common enemy, but an exposed chain of blame. Vixon admits to devising and assigning the plan, mocks Xan when it costs him his job, and then disclaims responsibility by denying that closeness obliges him to answer for Xan. Xan, in turn, identifies Vixon as the instigator when pleading for his position. The evidence does not show a later reconciliation between them. Their brief alliance matters because it reveals the practical limit of Vixon's cooperation: he can enlist Xan as an instrument, but the moment the plan's consequences become inconvenient, he leaves Xan to face them alone.