Yohan's workers

Yohan's workers are the collective staff surrounding Yohan's company, and their decisive significance lies in the way they turn private loyalties and workplace authority into concrete protection. They are drivers, organizers, assistants, and witnesses, but they also become the people who enforce secrecy, build ceremonial spaces, intervene in violence, summon the police, and sustain contact after crisis. Through them, the company operates as both an employer's organization and an intimate community shaped by Yohan's relationship with Kazumi.

Identity and Workplace Function

Yohan's workers are presented as a varied staff rather than as a single undifferentiated crowd. Their practical duties include transportation, scheduling, event preparation, office work, and assistance during emergencies. When Nestor is ill and cannot drive, a phone message identifies Delphin, Crusio, Dan, Kanor, Sander, and Falley as the remaining available drivers, leaving the company short by one. Yohan responds by going to find another driver himself, showing that the workers' labor is essential to the company's daily logistics and that staffing shortages immediately affect executive plans.

The staff also participate in the company's recruitment structure. A prospective worker asks whether an available position exists in Yohan's company, and Yohan confirms that there is one. The exchange places the workers within an expanding employment network rather than treating them merely as servants who appear when the plot needs assistance. Their presence represents the company's capacity to absorb new labor, while Yohan's direct response confirms his control over access to that institution.

Collective Organization and Service

The workers become especially visible when Yohan uses company resources to arrange a romantic surprise for Kazumi. They are already assembled in the park, dressed and smiling, when Yohan guides Kazumi inside and removes her blindfold. The park has been transformed with roses, hearts, and a table for two, and the workers have helped make that transformation possible. Their coordinated appearance converts Yohan's private gesture into a collective production: affection is expressed through schedules, design, labor, and spatial preparation.

Their work continues inside the same setting. After Kazumi approves the arcade, Carl announces that it is ready, and Kazumi and Yohan go there with the workers' arrangement already in place. At another gathering, Yohan's garden is selected as the venue after four hours of discussion and planning. The workers propose ideas while Yohan listens and takes notes from Vixon, and they agree to handle the design themselves. This collaborative process gives the staff an unusually active role in shaping company events: they do not simply execute a finished order but contribute suggestions, negotiate a plan, and assume responsibility for its realization.

The same collective appears in the office when planning begins for a proposal. Their presence places major personal milestones within the company's shared workspace. Food and seating are also organized for them during the garden celebration, with tables for four workers and a central table for Kazumi and Yohan. The arrangement distinguishes the couple's intimacy from the staff's communal participation while keeping both within one designed social environment.

Secrecy, Authority, and Loyalty

Yohan's workers are entrusted with sensitive information about Kazumi's pregnancy. Yohan instructs them not to tell Vixon that Kazumi is pregnant, and they obey, leaving Vixon unaware even while Kazumi's visibly large abdomen becomes difficult to conceal. Their silence is therefore an organized workplace policy, not an accidental omission. It protects Kazumi from Vixon's knowledge but also demonstrates how Yohan's private obligations penetrate company communication and determine what employees may disclose.

The workers also function as a buffer around Kazumi's working conditions. Kazumi continues to appear in the office wearing clothing that no longer hides her pregnancy, while Vixon is kept largely away from the office. Yohan manages operations, asks Kazumi to handle his schedule, and assigns Vixon to meetings, so the staff operate within a hierarchy rearranged by the pregnancy and by the conflict surrounding Vixon. The company becomes a controlled environment in which information, visibility, and physical proximity are all managed through workplace decisions.

Their loyalty is not portrayed as passive obedience alone. When Xan speaks about Kazumi in a way Yohan considers insulting and manipulative, Yohan invokes the fact that Xan has remained in the company despite his arrogance and orders him to leave. The scene reveals a disciplinary model in which Yohan's authority is personal and openly protective, while the workers form the surrounding institutional audience. Their presence helps define the boundary between acceptable company conduct and behavior that threatens Kazumi's dignity.

Intervention in Violence and Crisis

The workers' most consequential action occurs when Vixon attacks Yohan. Vixon strikes him with a computer and cuts his long hair, leaving Yohan physically weakened. The workers enter and stop Vixon, with Yukim shouting for Vixon to stop and comparing his conduct to that of an animal, while Carl supports Yohan. Their intervention changes the scene from a private assault into a collective emergency in which the staff physically protect the employer who has organized their workplace.

The workers then call the police. By the time Yohan returns to the office, he learns that Vixon has been arrested and will spend two years in custody. Their action produces an immediate institutional consequence: the staff do not merely comfort Yohan or separate the combatants, but transfer the crisis to law enforcement. Yohan feels some relief because Vixon is imprisoned, although he still recognizes that Kazumi and he must remain careful. The workers' intervention therefore creates temporary safety without erasing the danger that preceded it.

The company also becomes a place where the workers witness the physical and emotional aftermath. Yohan is left to manage the office without an assistant, but the staff's earlier action has removed Vixon from the workplace and made ordinary operations possible again. Their labor is consequently both protective and infrastructural: they help preserve the company's continuity after violence has disrupted its hierarchy.

Aftermath and Narrative Role

After Vixon later attempts to kill Yohan and dies, the workers again become a channel of collective response. They learn what happened and ask about Yohan in their group chat, including whether Vixon is still alive. The answer is that Vixon has died. This communication shows the staff maintaining a shared network beyond the immediate scene, and it places Yohan's survival within a community that actively checks on him rather than treating the incident as a private matter.

Across the plot, Yohan's workers move from background labor to decisive social actors. They make transportation possible, help admit new employees, design company gatherings, maintain the pregnancy secrecy policy, participate in the public rituals surrounding Yohan and Kazumi, restrain Vixon, contact the police, and remain concerned after the final confrontation. Their collective identity is deliberately broader than any one named employee: the group embodies the company's capacity for coordination and moral alignment. At the same time, their obedience to Yohan's instructions shows the limits of that independence, since their care for Kazumi and their response to Vixon are shaped by the CEO's authority. The workers thus reveal the book's recurring fusion of employment, intimacy, discipline, and protection, making the workplace one of the principal structures through which private conflict becomes public action.