Weirdos

I left the Minister's room and descended the stairs.

"Come on..."

"You can do it!"

"Hehehe..."

The loud cheers of a few people came to my ear and I couldn't help but facepalm. After all, I recognized the owners of these voices.

They were 1st manager, 3rd manager, and 4th manager. The troublesome people of the office.

I deliberately walked slowly and reduced the noise of my footsteps to almost zero. I was going to be away from the Inspection Office for some time, so I decided to scold them for the last time before going away. Scolding them always reduced my stress. It was my only hobby, albeit a twisted one.

When my foot stepped into the room that was booming with cheers, I stood frozen.

In front of me were the 2nd and 5th managers. They were sitting in front of each other and holding each other's right hands, wrestling with their arms.

It wasn't just plain old arm wrestling.

If it was normal arm wrestling, I would just pretend to not see and return to prepare my things, however, there was nothing normal that could happen when the managers were involved, especially the 2nd and 5th managers.

After all, the 2nd manager was a bonafide sadist while the 5th manager was similar to the mad researchers of the mage towers.

I lowered my eyes to the table where they were arm wrestling, only to see two long spikes.

If one of the managers were to lose to another, their arm would be pierced by the spike.

'Damn, lunatics. Can't I leave them be for a minute? How the hell did they even find adamantium spikes? Oh right, these are the 2nd manager's tools…'

I approached them without making any noise and stopped before the cheering managers.

"Who was it?" I asked, and all of the cheers stopped immediately.

The 1st, 3rd, and 4th manager slowly turned their head towards me with panic-stricken faces. Then they awkwardly greeted me.

"H–Hello, Chief Manager..."

"Chief Manager?"

"Why are you guys talking about that basta– Chief Manager!?"

'This bastard 4th manager was about to call me ''bastard'', right?' I put on a smile and lightly patted the managers' shoulders. Though, I applied more strength to the 4th manager.

"So, who was it?"

All of the previously cheering managers' eyes turned to the 2nd manager, who was the owner of the adamantium spikes.

Cold sweat slid down her forehead to her side as she lost her concentration and force when she saw me.

"C–Chief M–Manager..."

Blood drained from the 2nd manager's face as her pale blue eyes shook slightly when they met with my eyes.

"Couldn't you find another victim instead of choosing among us? There are many people you can satisfy your sadistic urges without guilt, you know?" I asked and karate-chopped the 2nd manager and 5th manager on their heads.

"Agh..."

"..."

the 2nd manager didn't let out a sound while the 5th manager cried out a little. His high-pitched voice definitely wasn't suitable for his mad researcher tendencies and bushy beard.

"Anyway, don't cause trouble. I have work to do."

I turned to leave but my eyes caught on the adamantium spikes.

'These bastards will play around with these after I'm gone, right?'

I grabbed both of the spikes with my hands and pressed my thumb to their sides.

Creak!

The adamantium spikes' sharp tips that were directed to the sky bent 90 degrees like toys with the pressure of my thumbs.

the 2nd manager who saw this froze. Her eyes moistened and a few tears fell from them. Her favorite torture tool was damaged, it wasn't hard to understand her feelings, but I didn't care.

"You can still work with your victims with these, you know. They are adamantium spikes after all."

What I said wasn't a lie. The spikes were still in good shape.

"S–Sob! Yes, chief manager. Sob... Sob...!"

A small arc found its place on my lips as I couldn't help but find the 2nd manager cute. Her crying face was especially adorable. Tears suited her.

"Alright, take care, 2nd manager. Let your sadistic tendencies be on criminals, not our people."

After saying what I needed to say, I turned my back to leave.

"Damn bastard....."

The corner of my lips twitched with annoyance after hearing the 4th manager curse me while I was going, but I let it be. I already got what I wanted, there was no need to torment the managers more. I could always give a hellish job to the 4th manager because of his disrespect today.

'That is how merciful I am to my subordinates. I hope my superior, the Minister, will also learn to be merciful towards his subordinates like me, and give me a vacation.

***

While Chief Manager Caelum was leaving, 4th manager cursed at his back.

"Damn bastard of a Chief Manager. He must have gotten a boring and tiring job from the Minister, and now he takes out his displeasure at us!"

While the 4th manager was fuming with anger and cursing, the 2nd manager stopped crying and her eyes sharply turned to the 5th manager. In the hands of the 5th manager were bent adamantium spikes, which he was using to clean his nails.

In an instant, the 2nd manager took out a black dagger from her sleeve and hurled it towards the 5th manager, though the blade missed the target because the 5th manager suddenly disappeared from the office.

The 3rd manager who saw this laughed out loud. It was a very easily discernible fake laugh.

"Hahaha...!"

Then the 3rd manager carefully looked around like she was about to do something forbidden, and after confirming that there wasn't anyone to see what she was about to do, she fished out a small flask between her breasts and took a sip from it.

Immediately, her face turned red and her crimson eyes slightly lost their focus. Then she released a satisfied sigh and put back the flask where she took it from.

All of this was a considerably normal sight for the 1st manager, who was standing in a dark corner while watching them like a creep. On his face was a wide smile.