I Became an Officer in Another World in Just 5 Minutes - Chapter 91

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Episode 91

Lieutenant Garen who asked me made a truly excellent choice.

“A gold necklace? Won’t she find it a bit burdensome?”

“That’s exactly what makes it good. Even if she says she doesn’t like it because it’s burdensome on the surface, they all love it deep down.”

“Is that so?”

“Absolutely.”

Lieutenant Garen nodded as if he understood.

“Is there nothing else besides that?”

“Hmm.”

As if he wanted to think about it a bit more, Lieutenant Garen asked about other candidates.

‘Something women like besides gold necklaces.’

Malatang came to mind, but unfortunately I don’t know how to make it or what ingredients are needed.

“How about a luxury bag?”

A luxury bag was the second candidate I desperately came up with after much thought.

This also has basically a 0% chance of failure.

‘If men have computers, then women have luxury bags.’

Receiving this and not liking it?

That just doesn’t make sense.

“I wonder if Lieutenant Orpia would like such luxury items.”

“Come on, where in the world is there someone who doesn’t like luxury goods?”

What does luxury mean?

Good items made by craftsmen.

If you don’t like that, there’s something wrong with you.

“But why a bag specifically? For people like us, a sword would seem better.”

At Lieutenant Garen’s words, I almost let out a sigh without realizing it.

‘Sir, not everyone in the world is as crazy about swords as you are.’

He really doesn’t understand women’s hearts at all.

This is why he’s still single in a world where people usually get married by their mid-twenties at the latest.

Lieutenant Garen is truly being saved by meeting someone like me.

“Lieutenant Garen, this is just a formula. One that cannot fail.”

“Is… is that so?”

“Yes, I’ll contact the guild and quickly prepare the best luxury bag for you.”

“You don’t need to go that far.”

“Come on, are we just ordinary acquaintances? We’re master and disciple, aren’t we?”

Although the lessons are painful, he’s a connection I need to maintain.

“I can only say thank you. Please be sure to let me know the cost.”

“Yes, of course. That way it’s a gift from you, Lieutenant.”

As far as I know, a Special Forces lieutenant has quite a good income.

‘A luxury bag should be light work for him.’

And even if it’s a bit heavy, well, it’s not my money.

‘If I send a letter today, it should take at most two days.’

Since he has to stay here until the bag arrives anyway, a perfect favor came to mind.

“By the way, Lieutenant Garen, there’s something I’d like to ask of you.”

“Feel free to say anything!”

A hearty voice that seemed like he’d grant any request.

He looked exceptionally pleased.

“Among my juniors, there’s Lieutenant Aisa. Could you perhaps give her some swordsmanship guidance?”

“You mean that lieutenant from the Linton Marquessate?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I do have to return in a week, but I can certainly look after her until then. If it’s a captain’s request, I should do it.”

“Thank you.”

With just one question, I found out about both the favor and when he’s leaving.

“Come to think of it, I was supposed to look after the captain once too. When would be a good time?”

Lieutenant Garen asked me about timing first for almost the first time.

‘I do need to complete Hamus’s assignment before he leaves.’

I quickly went through my schedule in my head.

“How about 3 o’clock tomorrow?”

“That would be perfect – train and then go for dinner.”

At Lieutenant Garen’s words, I got goosebumps without realizing it.

‘We usually eat at 6, so is he planning to train for three hours?’

Just imagining it was beyond terrible – my legs started trembling.

“How about… starting at 4 o’clock.”

“Would a man go back on his word once spoken? I’ll be waiting at the training ground at 3.”

Was my intention too obvious?

The kind face of Lieutenant Garen briefly peeled away and he started returning to the person I knew.

“Yes… I’ll see you at 3 o’clock.”

“Haha, let’s do that. Thanks again for helping. Good work.”

“Yes, sir.”

Lieutenant Garen left the company commander’s office with a good-natured smile.

“Phew, 3 o’clock tomorrow.”

I turned my head to look at the documents still piled up on my desk.

“Looks like I won’t be sleeping early today either.”

After writing a letter to send to the guild and handling paperwork, I could barely leave work at 11 PM.

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“Branch Chief!!!”

Early in the morning, an employee burst through the door of the Oclo Trading Guild Vollibre Branch headquarters office.

“What is it, what’s wrong?”

Branch Chief Pennel looked up from his ledger and glared at the employee who entered without knocking.

“A… a letter has arrived from Young Master Paran Oclo.”

“Is that really true?!”

At the employee’s words, Pennel shot up from his seat.

“Here it is.”

As soon as he received the letter from the employee, he tore open the seal and pulled out the contents.

‘I was wondering if it would ever come, but fortunately it did.’

Actually, Pennel had been waiting for a letter every single day since Paran said he was coming to the 32nd Division.

After all, when he needed the guild’s help, this would be the closest branch.

‘I really waited too long.’

When no letter came even after several months, he worried that Paran might not know about the Vollibre Branch’s existence.

It was all unnecessary worry.

“I wonder what the contents are.”

Pennel read through the letter’s contents carefully with great anticipation.

-Thank you for your hard work managing the increasingly busy Vollibre Branch. It’s nothing major, but I’m thinking of setting up a barbecue place at the battalion recently. It won’t be very profitable but the meat…

-Please get me a luxury bag popular with women in their 30s. I’d prefer if the price doesn’t exceed 20 gold based on purchase price.

-Oh, and please also research barbecue equipment prices and places that make them well. Always working day and night for the guild…

The letter’s contents were neither long nor short.

To summarize, there were three things: meat delivery sales, barbecue equipment research, and luxury bag purchase.

‘These are all things I can handle right away.’

Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any difficult requests.

However, Pennel wasn’t someone who would easily waste an opportunity that might come once in a lifetime.

‘I need to score some extra points here.’

Everyone now knows that Paran Oclo will be the next guild leader.

The next guild leader.

This means that if you get on his good side, it’s not impossible to go beyond branch chief to headquarters chief.

“For now, the bag is something we can handle immediately, and if we’re talking about what’s trendy right now, Ottique would be the best.”

Ottique, the luxury brand that women debuting in high society line up and wait to purchase.

The problems are stock and price.

“Go ask Britt if he has any Ottique bags in stock and come back up.”

“Yes, sir!”

The employee who brought the letter left the room, and shortly after, Britt, who was in charge of inventory management, entered the room.

“You called for me?”

“What I mentioned.”

“For bags, we have exactly one mini bag and one shopper bag each.”

“What’s the price? At the price we purchase from Ottique.”

“Then the mini bag would be 30 gold, and the shopper bag would be 40 gold. This is the cheaper line, so it’s not that expensive.”

“Hmm.”

He says it’s not that expensive, but it exceeded the 20 gold that Paran requested.

“What’s wrong?”

“Isn’t there an Ottique bag for around 20 gold?”

“If we go to the really lower line, there might be. Should I try to get one?”

“How long would that take?”

“If we do it quickly, about three days…”

“No good.”

A merchant whose time is life spending three days just to get a bag?

This would be no different from asking to be fired.

“But Branch Chief, wouldn’t it be fine if it’s lower than 20 gold at purchase price?”

Britt spoke up to Pennel first, as if he had a good idea.

“That’s right.”

“I don’t know the exact details, but I understand that Ottique VIPs get discounts.”

“Really?”

Since there was no chance for commoner Pennel to become a VIP of a luxury brand, this was completely unknown information to him.

“And if you’re lucky enough to get various discounts, wouldn’t it come to about 20 gold?”

Words that glossed over quite a lot of details.

Normally, he would have said “what nonsense is that,” but right now it sounded very plausible to Pennel.

“Right? Just because it’s luxury doesn’t mean they don’t give discounts.”

“Of course. During off-seasons when high society events aren’t held, they do it as regularly as eating meals.”

Ultra-luxury brands like Ottique don’t have off-seasons, but that’s not what’s important to these two right now.

“Excellent. Okay. Then let’s go with this for the bag.”

After that, Pennel also called food manager Nelt and others to relay Paran’s requests.

“He wants us to sell meat within the military camp. Would that be possible?”

“It’s possible, but if we go there just to sell meat, we’ll definitely incur losses.”

“Hmm.”

No matter how much it’s a request from the future guild leader, it’s not time yet.

If they did business at a loss in such circumstances, there’s a slight chance problems could arise.

“Or Branch Chief, I have one good idea.”

“A good idea?”

“Yes, we take over the contract of the guild that supplies food ingredients to that military camp. We can sell meat while we’re at it.”

“Is that possible?”

“What problems could there be if we just negotiate? The military wouldn’t oppose it either.”

“Okay. Good. Look into it right away.”

“Yes, sir!”

The branch began moving more busily than ever to fulfill Paran’s requests.

They were already doing more than what was contained in the letter, but Pennel was anxious.

‘What more can I do here to make a good impression?’

He absolutely had to somehow imprint his existence on Paran.

“Phew, let’s go see him in person for now.”

Though it was late evening, Pennel packed his bag and personally got on the carriage to go even an hour earlier.

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Swish.

“Compared to your other skills, this one thing is quite excellent.”

Lieutenant Garen, checking the cross-section of the cut scarecrow, gave rare praise.

“Is that so?”

Since he naturally expected to hear the usual “terrible” kind of talk, he was even a bit flustered.

‘There’s no way the effect of choosing gifts even during training would work, so he must be sincere.’

Come to think of it, I haven’t put as much effort into anything recently as making this cross-section flat.

“Not now, but when I first saw Lieutenant Derick, he was exactly at this level.”

“Oh…”

This is high praise.

“Even so, do you want to develop further here right now?”

“Yes. I want to raise it to Lieutenant Garen’s level.”

“Hmm, how did you suddenly become fixated on this? Captain, you have many other lacking areas.”

Lieutenant Garen made an expression showing he found it hard to understand.

‘This is homework, so what can I do?’

I’d like to tell the truth if I could, but that’s not possible.

“I want to raise at least the basics to a decent level before learning swordsmanship. That way I can progress without bad habits, right?”

“Oh…”

I had plausibly explained logic that applies to all fields in a way, and Lieutenant Garen opened his mouth in admiration.

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