Chapter 25: Ed as MonsterCam Guy? I’ve Lost My Mind.

Chapter 25: 25: Ed as MonsterCam Guy? I’ve Lost My Mind.

"Manager Selena! Over here. Here!"

"Haa..."

Selena sighed the moment she saw Ed.

He was waving both arms from a table in the café like an excited child.

No wonder he was still a contract employee.

She walked over and sat beside him.

"Have you been waiting long?"

"Not particularly. I arrived ten minutes early."

"You could try doing that on workdays too."

Her irritation came out as another lecture.

What was she doing with her precious Saturday afternoon...?

Still, as his manager, she couldn’t ignore a subordinate who asked for help.

...And she had no other plans anyway.

"So what happened that made you ask me?"

"Ah, it’s an issue-response matter for a service launching today..."

It wasn’t anything major.

If no problems arose, they might simply sit there until it ended.

But wasn’t this someone else’s responsibility?

"As far as I know, this belongs to Assistant Manager Barry. Why are you handling it?"

"Well, Assistant Manager Barry is very busy with wedding preparations..."

"Haa... Him again?"

Apparently Barry had dumped his work on Ed again.

And Ed had accepted a task he barely knew how to perform...

"I don’t really understand it, but I can’t just abandon the work."

"..."

He was more conscientious than she had expected.

He looked different today.

If only he were always like this.

"All right. I’ll help, so don’t worry too much."

"Really? Thank you, Manager Selena. I knew asking you was the right choice."

"...No one is going to criticize you for trying to work hard."

She pulled her chair closer.

Together, they examined the laptop and prepared for possible issues.

While she reviewed the material, Ed returned with a cup of coffee.

"This one is yours, Manager Selena. You drink Americanos, right?"

"Thank you."

He knew what she normally drank?

Her mood eased a little.

"My treat, to thank you for coming."

"...I’ll enjoy it."

The coffee smelled good.

Honestly, she had resented being dragged out on a weekend.

Now that she was here, though, she felt strangely better.

Why?

She had never thought of Ed as a man.

Even if she did, she had never considered him a particularly appealing one.

So why did her body seem to relax around him without her realizing it...?

Selena could not understand the subtle feeling.

"The service launches at eleven, Manager Selena."

"Thirty minutes left?"

"You can rest until then. You came all the way out on your weekend."

"No. I’m fine. I’ll review the documents."

Selena continued working through Ed’s laptop.

Yes...

Work might help her forget the other thoughts crowding her mind.

"Haa..."

MonsterCam Guy had not read her DMs yesterday either.

Three days now.

At this point, either he truly disliked her...

Or something had happened to him.

If he disliked her, he could say so. If he was busy, he could say that too.

The silence was the worst part.

"Haa..."

"Are you all right, Manager Selena? You don’t look well. You’ve been sighing since you arrived."

"Have I?"

"Yes."

"Sorry. I didn’t sleep well last night."

She had waited past midnight, telling herself a DM might still come.

All she could do while waiting was imagine what she had done with that man...

Or watch the thirty-second clip he had posted online.

Each time, the memories of that pleasure returned.

In the end, she had masturbated for nearly four hours again last night.

She had barely slept.

Now everyone who saw her thought she looked exhausted.

Her self-control was falling apart.

And still she couldn’t stop.

If I don’t at least masturbate... I can’t stand it.

Meeting him had taught her what it felt like.

The thrill that someone might discover her perverted nature.

The pleasure of exposing her indecent side and nearly being caught.

The sensation of turning fantasies she had only vaguely imagined into reality.

And the feeling of an overwhelmingly large cock piercing her.

In only two days, he had changed her completely.

Now she spent her life waiting for one man to contact her.

Her ordinary routine was already beginning to suffer, all because of him.

Yet she could no longer turn back.

Even knowing her life was being disrupted, she wanted to meet him more than ever.

She wanted to expose herself again.

The pounding terror of nearly being caught.

The blackmail after someone discovered her.

She loved all of it...

Selena found herself tugging the skirt away from her thighs.

A little higher.

Then a little more.

Ah...!

It was the middle of a weekend afternoon. They were in a café full of people.

Ed sat directly beside her.

And she was lifting her skirt next to him...

’I’m insane. I’m insane...!’

Something she would never normally do.

Something she had only imagined and never acted upon.

The hem slid higher.

She was truly raising her skirt beside a man...

"Come to think of it, Manager Selena, that outfit looks very nice on you."

"Mm!?"

"Manager Selena?"

H-he almost caught me...!

Her skirt had been nearly high enough.

Another moment and her panties would have shown...!

He hadn’t seen, had he?

Selena forced the tremor out of her voice and turned toward him.

"Y-yes? What did you say?"

"Your clothes. I only ever see you in business suits, so this feels new."

He didn’t see...?

His gaze had not even dropped.

He really seemed to be looking only at her outfit.

"Why don’t you dress like this at work sometimes?"

What she wore today was closer to a date outfit, like the one before.

"...Thank you, but the company has a dress code."

"This would still be fine."

"I wouldn’t be fine with it."

Because it doesn’t suit my image...

Still, the compliment did not feel bad.

"Thank you. Your clothes look... nice too."

Her voice trembled slightly.

"Really? I thought I dressed about the same as always."

"...A little better than usual."

Ed wore an ordinary casual outfit.

Something understated, the kind of thing a boyfriend might wear on a date.

Selena studied him from head to toe, conscious of where his eyes were going.

Fortunately, he hadn’t noticed her lifting her skirt...

But if he had...

What would have happened?

Would Ed have blackmailed her...?

’A smart young lady understands what I mean, doesn’t she?’

"...!"

What am I imagining...?

She had pictured Ed acting like MonsterCam Guy.

Holding her weakness over her, laughing at her, forcing her to obey.

"Thank you, Manager Selena. I dressed carefully because you were coming. I was worried you’d criticize me."

Wait...

Why didn’t the voice sound wrong?

Ed and MonsterCam Guy were obviously different people.

Their builds were a little similar, but many men had similar builds.

But their voices...

Could their voices really be similar too?

"E-even I wouldn’t criticize your clothes on a day like this..."

"Really? You seem like you would. You’re strict."

"I don’t think I’m that bad."

"Rules and principles. Thorough about everything. Isn’t that who Manager Selena is?"

"...Are you making fun of me?"

The more she listened, the more alike they sounded.

She had vaguely thought so before.

Now that she was paying attention, the resemblance only grew stronger...

Selena turned and looked at Ed.

The two men seemed to overlap more and more.

Ed and MonsterCam Guy.

If he wore a mask, he might look exactly the same.

And when she saw the bulge in his pants before...

"Manager Selena. One minute until launch."

"What? Ah. Right."

She was here to work.

No. Focus on the job.

She slapped both cheeks.

Ed as MonsterCam Guy? She had lost her mind.

It was impossible.

"...Ed?"

"Yes, Manager Selena?"

"Nothing."

It was impossible... wasn’t it?

Throughout the work, Selena repeatedly stole glances at Ed.

Especially at his pants.

***

"That should finish the issue response."

"Yes. I’m glad nothing serious happened."

Fortunately, the work ended around the afternoon.

No major problems emerged. They only had to wait on alert and answer a few questions by consulting the manual.

"I’m going to the restroom for a moment."

"Mm. All right."

Ed walked away.

"Haa..."

The tension left her body at once.

Even while working, her eyes had kept drifting to his pants.

She had spent the whole time secretly staring at a man’s crotch...

Her subordinate’s crotch.

She felt guilty, as though she had become a perverted manager.

But she couldn’t stop wondering.

She had seen the front of Ed’s pants jutting out before.

Today it was less obvious... perhaps because the pants were looser?

Or maybe she had mistaken something in his pocket for a bulge.

Unless...

Bzzzt—bzzzt—

"...What?"

The vibration felt different.

Not a call or a text.

╭─ [TwiXter — Direct Messages]

│ Would you like to meet tonight?

╰─

"It came...!"

A DM from MonsterCam Guy.

At last. From the man she had been waiting for.

’Of course. Of course I’ll meet you...!’

That was what her heart screamed.

But she had to stay calm.

She couldn’t look too desperate.

Maybe she should pretend to hold back a little...

’Yes. I think I’m free tonight.’

That didn’t sound too hungry, did it?

╭─ [TwiXter — Direct Messages]

│ Good. Let’s meet at seven tonight.

│ All right.

╰─

Her fingers shook as she typed.

Selena was too busy carefully composing the DM and suppressing her joy to consider why it had arrived at the exact moment Ed went to the restroom.

***

That evening—

The moment Selena met MonsterCam Guy, her body went rigid.

His clothes are exactly the same as Ed’s...?