Yohan's Clash with Xan and Xan's Dismissal turns Kazumi's private living arrangement into an open confrontation: Xan follows her and Yohan to Yohan's Mansion, accuses her of encouraging his courtship, and then insults her pregnancy and Yohan's gay identity. Yohan answers with physical violence and threats to fire him. The confrontation makes his promise to take responsibility for Kazumi and her child tangible, but it also leaves the distinction between personal protection and an employer's power pointedly unsettled.

Causes and Background

Yohan had already told Kazumi that he would take responsibility for her and that she could live at his home for the time being. That arrangement, made in response to her pregnancy, is the immediate fact Xan discovers. He says he had often seen Kazumi ride home with Yohan and assumed Yohan was merely giving her a lift; after following their car, he saw her enter Yohan's Mansion. His arrival at the gate is therefore not a chance encounter: he has deliberately traced the pair to learn where Kazumi is staying.

Xan treats the shared home as evidence that Kazumi has concealed something from him and has led him on. Kazumi rejects that account. She says she had already told him she was pregnant and had asked him to stop pursuing her, warning that his persistence would only leave him hurt. Her answer makes the conflict more than a dispute over what Xan saw: it is also a clash between his interpretation of her boundaries and her insistence that she had stated them plainly. His disappointment does not, in her view, make her responsible for his continued hopes.

The Confrontation at the Gate

Xan's accusation escalates into abuse. He claims Kazumi changed after becoming pregnant by a gay man, wishes death on the baby, and describes both the child and Yohan as burdens on society. Kazumi is stunned by the attack. The cruelty targets her pregnancy and Yohan's sexuality together, turning a disagreement about courtship into an attack on the family Yohan has agreed to support.

Yohan has been standing behind Kazumi without her knowing. He suddenly grabs Xan by the hair, slaps him, and punches him hard enough to bloody his nose. He threatens to make sure Xan loses his job the next day. The household staff try to restrain Yohan, but Kazumi tells them to let him continue, speaking calmly while her anger remains evident. Her response is not a separate physical attack; it is an explicit refusal to intervene on Xan's behalf while Yohan retaliates.

Protection, Power, and Xan's Motives

Yohan's intervention is both personal and professional. He acts after hearing Xan wish harm on Kazumi's unborn child, yet he invokes his control over Xan's employment as part of the confrontation. The threat of dismissal is thus bound to Yohan's protective anger: the same scene that establishes his willingness to defend Kazumi also shows how readily his position as employer enters a private conflict. The account records the threat and the staff's attempt to stop the beating, not a formal procedure for ending Xan's employment.

In a subsequent exchange, Xan begins to apologize, but Yohan cuts him off. He calls Xan's earlier remarks below the belt and says he had noticed Xan's arrogance but had not removed him from the company sooner. Yohan then accuses him of merely performing kindness to win Kazumi over, and argues that if she had accepted him, he would have replaced her, deceived her, and eventually tired of her. That prediction belongs to Yohan's accusation; the scene does not independently establish what Xan would have done in a relationship. Yohan nevertheless treats the contrast between Xan's apparent attentiveness and his cruelty at the gate as evidence that the attentiveness was false.

Consequences and Narrative Significance

The confrontation changes the terms of Kazumi's rejection. Before Xan appears at the gate, she has already told him to stop pursuing her; now Yohan's commitment and their shared home are visible facts that Xan cannot reinterpret as a simple ride home. Yohan's promise to take responsibility for Kazumi becomes more than private reassurance when he physically defends her and threatens consequences for an employee who attacks her and the baby verbally.

The episode's employment outcome remains narrower than its title's language of dismissal might suggest. Yohan threatens to fire Xan the following day and orders him to leave the confrontation; in the later exchange, he says he had not dismissed Xan earlier. The available account therefore confirms an employment threat and a forceful rebuke, but not that a completed firing occurred as part of this episode. That distinction sharpens the scene's central tension: Yohan's defense of Kazumi is unequivocal, while his use of workplace authority is expressed as anger and threatened punishment rather than a documented formal decision. The violence ends the immediate confrontation, but it does not erase the earlier dispute over boundaries or establish that Xan's employment has definitively ended.