How to Survive in a Good Small Guild - Chapter 78

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How to Survive in a Small Good Guild
Chapter 78
“Well, so during your probation period, Asha, I’d like you to handle the document work. Once the probation period ends, you’ll move into proper Information Guild duties, so I hope you understand.”
“Yes, I’ll do my best….”
I answered in a small voice.
Besides, they wouldn’t give important tasks to a fresh recruit anyway, so there’s nothing worth extracting. And if I leaked information for no reason, I’d only end up in legal trouble myself.
My only goal is to become a problematic coworker and give these people hell….
All the difficult coworkers I’ve met across my past and present lives—lend me your strength!
“Asha, about those documents you asked me to copy earlier?”
“Oh, um….”
I spoke in a shy voice.
“I never learned how to use the copy machine….”
“…What? But you worked somewhere else before.”
“Back then, other people did it for me….”
“No, then…!”
The guild member seemed to swallow her anger, but she soon collected herself and spoke to me in a patronizing tone.
“You can just ask if you don’t know, right?”
“I’m so sorry….”
Problem Employee Type 1: Don’t ask about things you don’t know, then later claim you didn’t know when asked if it’s done.
“Um, I finished copying it….”
“Thanks, I appreciate it. Oh, right.”
The guild member pointed toward the trash bin.
“Would you mind emptying the trash?”
“Um, my mom never taught me how to empty the trash….”
“What?”
The guild member’s face twisted into disbelief.
“Your mom? Anyway, you can learn and do it now, right?”
“But emptying the trash is dirty…. My mom never makes me do things like that….”
“No…!”
The guild member began pounding her chest in frustration.
Right on cue, a phone call came in. The guild member, desperate to escape me, rushed to answer it.
“Yes, Darkness Leon Guild speaking. …Pardon? What did you say?”
The guild member’s face went pale as she looked at me.
Hmm, things are unfolding exactly as we planned.
“Ah, Asha’s mother?”
By now, Susanna would be mimicking a middle-aged woman’s voice on the other end, asking if I’d come to work on time, urging her not to give me too much to do.
Problem Employee Type 2: Mama’s boy, mama’s girl.
“Asha, your mother called….”
“I see….”
“…Don’t you feel anything?”
“Why would I…?”
“Sigh….”
The guild member’s sigh grew deeper.
Concluding that I was hopeless, she abandoned me and threw herself into her own work.
But there was no way she could ignore me forever.
Lunchtime came, and several guild members approached my desk.
“Asha, want to grab lunch?”
“Sure….”
After all, you couldn’t just leave a new recruit to eat alone, could you?
We arrived at a plain restaurant serving stew. We each ordered a bowl and the guild members began to chat.
“Our guild building is nice, isn’t it? It’s brand new.”
“Yes….”
Only the guild member who’d been in charge of me earlier stared with a face rotting from the inside.
Hmm, so the other guild members’ patience hasn’t worn thin yet.
“By the way, do you all have boyfriends?”
Since the people eating with me were all female guild members, it was a natural question.
“No, I don’t.”
“Me neither.”
“I have a boyfriend.”
The moment those words came out, my eyes gleamed and I spoke to one of them.
“My, how lovely you are… have you given no thought to dating?”
“I haven’t really considered it….”
“I know someone who’s genuinely wonderful, and he’s not seeing anyone at the moment. Shall I introduce you?”
Before she could cut me off, I plowed ahead without pause.
“He’s got a reassuring, bear-like presence, and while he’s a bit older, he has a mature air about him.”
“…That’s quite enough.”
From that point on, the other guild members began to regard me with open disdain and started watching me like prey.
Villain Type 3: Forcing unwanted introductions to men.
After that, once I returned to the guild, I proceeded to make a string of blunders. They were far too grave for the scope of work I’d been assigned.
By the time I clocked out, every guild member had heard the tales of my infamy.
“That new recruit is really….”
“I know.”
“Can’t we just fire them during the probation period?”
“Apparently the contract stipulates we have to wait a full week of probation before we can let them go.”
“Ugh….”
The guild members’ faces were already flushed with exasperation over me.
When I came in the next day, I received this directive:
“From today forward, please assist the Guild Master and Vice Guild Master with their duties.”
It was a way of saying that since the ordinary members couldn’t bear it any longer, they were dumping me into menial work under the very ones responsible for hiring me in the first place—the Guild Master and Vice Guild Master.
“Yes, understood….”
I shuffled over to my new post, putting on a dejected air. It was a position assisting Anna Maria.
“Sigh… what on earth is this about….”
Anna Maria, having heard rumors of my misdeeds, exhaled heavily—but didn’t call me out directly. She must have been thinking that someone of my caliber might report this as workplace harassment.
“Just review these numbers for me, would you….”
Anna Maria thrust what appeared to be unimportant documents at me. I accepted them meekly.
And an hour later….
“Haven’t you finished yet?”
“Not yet, I’m afraid….”
“What, WHAT?! Why are you calculating by hand?”
“I don’t know how to use a calculator….”
“What are you talking about!”
Anna Maria was practically falling backward in her chair.
“I’m terribly sorry….”
“No, no more apologies!”
“Sorry—yes, of course….”
At last, Anna Maria’s face turned a shade of barely contained fury.
Over the course of that day, I had driven Anna Maria completely mad. Now everyone in the Darkness Leon Guild except Leon himself was suffering because of me.
But the finale was yet to come.
That day, just before leaving, I submitted my letter of resignation—timing it deliberately so all the guild members would witness it.
“I-I’m r-resigning!”
“Is that so? That’s very… wait, why?”
Anna Maria asked while struggling to suppress a smile.
“I’m sorry. I’m so incompetent at this job, I feel I’m just a burden.”
“I see.”
“I-I can’t stay any longer knowing how much I’ve troubled my uncle!”
With that cry, I turned to look at Leon standing in the corner. The room fell silent, shock flooding every face.
“What? Uncle?”
“The Guild Master’s niece?”
“What in the….”
“Eh… eh?”
Before a bewildered Leon could even attempt an explanation, I was already slipping out of the guild.
The members had suffered at my hands thus far, but now the blame would shift to Leon for having hired such a charlatan on the Guild Master’s authority.
Of course, the truth would come out eventually… but this wasn’t the end.
I gazed with satisfaction at the documents I’d taken from the Darkness Leon Guild as I made my exit.
I hadn’t actually stolen any real secrets. That would’ve drawn too much attention and wouldn’t have matched the scale of my revenge anyway.
Instead, what I’d brought with me was this:

I wanted to renovate our guild’s building, but even as the head of an Information Guild, it was no trivial matter to identify a trustworthy construction firm.
By extracting this intelligence from the Darkness Leon Guild, I had obtained valuable information on reputable construction companies!
“Hehehehe….”
I returned to the Aklyte Information Guild and waved the documents triumphantly, unable to suppress a grin.
“There goes the Guild Master with that wicked smile again!”
“Now that I think about it, Susanna’s judgment was spot on.”
“Exactly. I kept telling you the Guild Master has a devious side.”
Ignoring their remarks, I leafed through the documents.
After spotting a construction company that matched our specifications perfectly, I made my announcement.
“Starting now, we’re going to build our Guild headquarters. We’ll finally have a proper conference room and break room!”
“Hooray!”
Susanna, as though she’d never criticized me a moment ago, did an about-face and cheered enthusiastically.
“A truly proper Guild building is finally coming into being.”
Even Sedrick, who seemed to suffer from Stockholm syndrome, nodded in complete agreement.
“While the construction’s underway, we’ll be working remotely.”
“Finally, from the comfort of my own home!”
The moment I announced remote work, the staff grew even more delighted. Only Sedrick seemed to have any reservations, though he’d always been peculiar anyway.
After explaining the remote work arrangements, I fell into thought.
‘While Guild operations are on pause, I should use the time at the Temple.’
Since becoming an Intermediate Priest at the Temple, my activities there had been sparse.
I needed to accomplish more, build up trust — then I could extract information.

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