Chapter 77

Every time Nathan added another role to Oscar's list of responsibilities, he would butter his friend up a bit. "Capable people always do more work." "Only you can do this. I don't trust anyone else to do it." "Oscar, my friend. After careful consideration, the organization has decided to further promote you and assign you a more challenging job." And so on and so forth. At any rate, he would employ all sorts of strategies and didn't ever use the same trick twice. Oscar was honest and simple-minded, so he quickly found himself lured in by Nathan's honeyed words. By the time he regained his senses, he realized that many of the tasks involving the management of the arcade that should have been Nathan's job had fallen to him. Every day, he would be so busy that he barely had a moment to rest, while Nathan was so free that he could usually be seen either flirting casually with the girls in school uniforms who came by the arcade or flirting with Lily over WhatsApp. Nathan even found