End of the World? I'm the Boss novel Chapter 438

Chapter 438 Anything Else

“Is there anything else you need from me–right now?”

He wasn’t slow.

He could read the room well enough to know the Oreos were a polite send–off.

He just wanted to make sure he hadn’t misread her.

“That’s all,” Robin said. “Get back to your shift. I’ll find you when I need you again.

“Of course, of course!”

Fished

Romulus gave a deeply enthusiastic bow and left with the energy of someone who’d just won a prize.

way that Robin stayed where she was and watched. The bearded man was clearly exhausted, and not in the came from a single bad day. His skin was dark and roughened from years of relentless outdoor labor. His beard spread wild and unkempt across his jaw, and everything about him radiated the particular kind of worn–down dishevelment that came from grinding, thankless work with no end in sight.

The guards watching over him showed absolutely zero interest in any of that. They just kept pushing. Finally, the bearded man’s body gave out all at once. He swayed once, heavily, and crashed to the ground. “Completely useless,” one of the guards said flatly. “What’s even the point of being built that big?”

There wasn’t a trace of concern in his voice. Just contempt.

He kicked the man twice with his boot. Nothing. Not even a twitch. The guard let out a sharp, irritated sound, then waved two nearby workers over. “Drag him off to the side. He’s in the way. And his rations for today are gone.”

One of the workers hesitated. Something reluctant moved across his face. “Sir, I think he hasn’t eaten in a few days…”

“So what?!”

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The guard’s eyes snapped wide. “Not eating is his own problem. Look at the size of him. Missing a few meals won’t kill a man like that. All that bulk and not a shred of usefulness to show for it.”

The two workers opened their mouths again. The guard cut them off with a cold smile. “Since you’re both feeling so generous, you could always donate your own rations to him.”

That shut them down instantly. Both men laughed quickly and nervously and shook their heads. “No, no, we weren’t suggesting anything like that, we were just talking…”

Giving away their own share to cover for someone else wasn’t something either of them was willing to do, and nobody could blame them for it.

The guard snorted. “Then move faster. A waste like him deserves exactly the kind of work he’s doing.”

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Chapter 438 Anything Else

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Robin watched the two workers haul the bearded man off to the side. Then she stepped forward.

She hadn’t gotten more than a few paces when a guard materialized in her path with sharp, suspicious eyes. “Hey! You know this is a restricted area. Nobody gets close to the garden without clearance.”

“I’m so sorry,” Robin said with an easy, pleasant smile.

“I’m brand new here and I was just walking around getting my bearings. I wasn’t paying attention and ended up over here. Pure curiosity, that’s all.”

“Is that right?”

The guard’s eyes traveled over her with a slow, sweeping scrutiny. He seemed to conclude that she was nothing more than a pretty, harmless girl who’d taken a wrong turn. The alertness left his face, and something far less professional replaced it, a faint, suggestive curve at the corner of his lips.

“New, huh… well, I suppose I can’t be too hard on you for that.” His voice shifted into something lower and more leisurely. “Still, you did wander into a restricted zone, sweetheart. I can’t just let that slide without reason, even for a newcomer. If I made exceptions for everyone, my job would mean nothing.”

Hidden somewhere behind Robin, the person assigned to shadow her broke into a cold sweat.

These people. Every single one of them. Thinking with the wrong part of their anatomy, one after another, like they’re in some kind of competition to see who could end up regretting their life choices the fastest.

Robin was almost amused, in the flattest possible way.

Two incidents in the same afternoon. She’d accumulated quite the collection.

She tilted her head, her expression caught between a smile and something far colder. “So what exactly do

want?”

you

The guard’s grin crept wider as his hand started drifting toward her. “I don’t necessarily want anything specific. It’s just that a man gets lonely, you know? Especially at night…”

Robin didn’t bother with words.

Her uppercut connected clean and devastating, snapping his jaw shut with a sickening frack. His lower teeth slammed into his upper teeth with bone–jarring force, and the tip of his tongue caught directly between them. The man’s whole body lurched backward, tears bursting from his eyes before he even registered what had happened.

The impact made enough noise to carry. The two workers who’d been moving the bearded man whipped around. Their eyes went wide at the sight in front of them.

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