Monster Company Tycoon - Chapter 39

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Monster Company Tycoon
Chapter 39
I waved the Resume I’d been holding in my hand throughout the conversation.
“Well then, shall we proceed with the formal employment contract?”
This was part of my official duties.
Normally, I should have taken Sabira back to the Office alone to confirm the work conditions one by one and finalize the contract.
“Would it be alright if we witnessed the process as well?”
“The contract process?”
“The very concept of hiring a Monster as an employee is unfamiliar to us. I’m curious how such a contract would be arranged.”
“Yes, I’d like to know as well.”
Both of them seemed eager to watch the process of hiring Sabira.
Surely they weren’t planning to supervise me in case I tried to pull off some fraudulent contract…?
“Well… in principle, employment contracts involve details like work conditions and wages that the parties need to confirm privately, so we don’t usually have outsiders present.”
Of course, this wasn’t a modern company either — it was a Dungeon hiring Monsters.
I might have been fussing over procedures the way I did at my previous job, but perhaps that was unnecessary here.
“Still, if the parties consent, observation should be acceptable. What do you think, Sabira?”
“I don’t care.”
Sabira answered indifferently, as though the matter hardly mattered to her.
“Now, regarding your Weekly Wage…”
The moment I broached the subject, Luadis fixed me with a sharp gaze.
I flinched.
“Ah… well, it seems Monsters and humans have different economic concepts, so I had no choice! Honestly, if I had more operational funds, I’d gladly pay more…!”
I hurried to defend myself while deliberately avoiding Luadis’s stare.
“I really don’t care how much I receive. Money isn’t my concern.”
“But every labor deserves compensation! Even if you have no use for money right now, you can save it for when you do need it.”
“No wages! You said money isn’t necessary — just contract her at no pay!”
Ignoring Brownie’s outburst, I managed to bring up the wages.
“I really wish I could offer more… but once the Dungeon grows, I promise to increase your salary. I can offer 1000 Kors per week….”
“But you said you could go up to 1500 Kors, didn’t you?”
Luadis interjected abruptly. You remembered that?
Though I had said I could match it, nothing was finalized then….
“Ugh… I’ll make it 1500 Kors.”
I confirmed the wages with tears brimming in my eyes.
“Yes, do that.”
Still, for a Durahan of level 40 like Sabira, the hiring cost should have been astronomical — so this really was an incredible bargain.
I was essentially getting one Sabira for the price of three lesser Monsters.
With such a powerful boss now, we could fend off most challengers!
I could envision our Dungeon’s bright and hopeful future.
“Wow, Monsters really do live in poverty, don’t they?”
Ragnar’s casually dropped truth bomb struck right at my heart.
“Now that you know, please don’t torment them too much… especially the lesser Monsters. It’s heartbreaking. They all work so hard.”
“Are you taking the Monsters’ side right in front of me?”
“All my coworkers are Monsters — of course I have to take their side!”
In the past, I would have been terrified he’d drag me away as a heretic for saying such a thing.
But now I was certain he wouldn’t.
After all, his childhood friend was already on our side!
Hadn’t the two of them just shared tears and a solemn oath moments ago? Could he callously abandon the home where his friend was living?
Heh heh, we have the princess. We’re never letting her go.
Of course, that was the practical reason.
But what I learned about Ragnar today — that he wasn’t nearly as cold-hearted as I’d thought — made it possible for me to feel this way.
His hot tears had melted the wariness in my heart.
‘I want to see that crying face again.’
So as long as he didn’t get too presumptuous, I’d let it slide.
“Now then, everyone. This is how we conduct contracts.”
I drew out the Dungeon Authority Seal that had been hanging around my neck. The moment it settled in my palm, it transformed into a stamp.
“This is the Dungeon Authority I possess. When I use it like this….”
I pressed the stamp down hard onto the bottom of Sabira’s Resume.
Hiring Complete
As the bright red stamp mark appeared, the paper gleamed with a scarlet radiance.
“The contract is sealed. The Durahan is now bound to my Dungeon. Wherever you are, I can summon you directly into the Dungeon!”
As I waved the paper lightly, it dissolved into the air like mist and vanished.
The Dungeon itself would keep the contract, and even if it had disappeared now, I could retrieve it whenever I needed to.
“You don’t have to do all that—whenever Boksil calls, I’ll come running.”
“Please don’t say such things in that beautiful voice…”
I shuddered visibly. No matter how many times I heard it, I couldn’t get used to that extraordinary voice.
“Well then, since you’re officially one of our staff now, I suppose we should provide some benefits, yes?”
I gestured toward Brownie.
“I’m the director and you’ve got me running errands!”
Brownie approached, hoisting a bundle several times the size of his own body.
And that’s when it happened.
Sabira, who seemed to recognize its contents instinctively, spun around sharply.
“I’ve located your lost item.”
It felt a bit like a con, presenting something I’d actually found long ago…
“At last…”
Sabira murmured, her voice trembling with joy.
I was intensely curious about what would happen once the Durahan recovered her lost head.
Sabira reached out with both hands and took the cloth-wrapped head. She was about to unwrap it when I cried out urgently.
“Wait, hold on!”
I quickly removed my glasses and tucked them into my collar.
“All right, now…”
The cloth slipped away and fell to the ground, revealing a dark spherical object that appeared to be a helmet.
‘So that’s Sabira’s head…’
Unlike me, who was squeamish, both Ragnar and Luadis stood motionless, watching calmly and steadily. I truly envied their composure.
Sabira grasped the head firmly in both hands and slowly lifted it toward her shoulders.
Thump-thump.
And then…
Finally, the head was placed where it belonged.
Whoosh!
In that instant, the head was engulfed in blue flame.
“What—what’s happening? What’s going on?”
Brownie, who had fluttered over to my side, explained.
“It’s a Death Knight. It’s the evolved form of a Durahan who’s recovered her head.”
“Evolved?”
Sabira turned toward me.
“Eeeek!”
A skull wreathed in blue flames where hair should be stared down at me.
Even without my glasses, the flames burned so vividly that I could see everything far too clearly.
Beneath the black helmet, crimson eyes blazed with an eerie light.
“Ahhh, this! This overwhelmingly rapturous satisfaction! This is it! Kehehehe!”
Sabira burst into wild, ecstatic laughter, unable to contain her excitement. Each time she laughed, the blue flames rippled and her burning gaze made my skin crawl.
“So you’re going to be a Death Knight from now on?”
I asked hesitantly, and Brownie shook her head.
“No. Once a Durahan, always a Durahan.”
“What? Why? She found her head.”
“Because a Durahan is cursed to forever lose her head. The desire for her head is the very essence of a Durahan’s power. She can probably maintain the Death Knight state for at most an hour.”
That was quite an absurd condition.
Not long after hearing this from Brownie, I came to fully understand what that curse meant. Painfully so.
“Manager, Sabira lost her head again.”
“Again!? She just has to keep it on—why does she keep losing it?”
Though her head had no legs of its own, Sabira seemed to lose it at the most random times.
At this rate, I suspected the owner herself had absolutely no intention of keeping track of it.
Or perhaps losing her head was actually a hobby of hers.
“There’s a head rolling around in the 3rd Floor Corridor. Go retrieve it!”
“How does it even roll up to the third floor? That’s going uphill!”
“Imagine if we ended up with multiple Durahans in the Dungeon—that’d be funny, right? They wouldn’t even know which head was theirs.”
Brownie chuckled mockingly.
[Please manage your own head responsibly.]
Notices began appearing in various corners of the Dungeon.
[Lost Head Collection Box]
Dreading the moment I’d encounter a severed head, I had even created a dedicated collection box on the 1st Floor in an out-of-the-way corner.
“Ahhhhh! Sabira! This is intentional, isn’t it!? Why on earth is there a head on my bed? You put it there, didn’t you?”
……Sadly, it proved rather ineffective.
In the end, I had to remain constantly vigilant to keep Sabira’s head from invading my private space.
“What was that? Did it just move? Sabira! The moment I try to change clothes, why does your head turn to face me perfectly!? What have you done to it?”
I was beginning to wonder if I ought to tie a string to the severed head.

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