I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 1

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Prologue + Chapter 1

Early morning, just as dawn was breaking.

The workers who had gathered for the drainage construction weren’t preparing for work at all—instead, they were smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and doing other things.

The reason was obvious.

“Does this thing actually work?”

Bram Gus, the work foreman, had clearly ordered that there was no need to prepare.

“How many times do I have to tell you it works? During last summer’s rainy season, our village didn’t flood thanks to this drainage system!”

Back then, it was such a small waterway that it was embarrassing to call it a drainage system, but I had to convince him, so I said it anyway.

“It could have been a coincidence. Does it even make sense that flood damage was reduced by digging up some dirt like kids playing around?”

“It wasn’t kids playing around—it was a waterway created through systematic design.”

I said through gritted teeth.

“The Lord also acknowledged that the drainage system was effective and approved the construction.”

“The Lord doesn’t know any better, so he fell for your sweet talk. That won’t work on me.”

Bram Gus looked me up and down with an unpleasant gaze.

“Not only did he approve this unheard-of construction project after listening to some clueless girl, but he even sent her as a supervisor. Tsk, tsk.”

From the way he called it “unheard-of construction,” it was clear that this world had no concept of drainage systems.

Yet this large city had managed to survive until now without drainage systems—probably thanks to magic.

“Your delicate hands might get ruined, so go home quietly. If you want to play in the dirt so badly, go do farm work instead.”

Ha, even here I’m being looked down on for being a woman.

My hand holding the hammer trembled with anger.

I understood not believing in its effectiveness since they’d never seen a drainage system before.

But bringing up gender to belittle my abilities—that I absolutely couldn’t understand.

“So you’re saying you won’t do the construction?”

“It’s not that we won’t do it—we can’t do it. It’s obviously going to be a waste of effort, and I don’t want to suffer for nothing.”

“Then go tell the Lord right now that you can’t do the construction. Tell him that drainage systems are useless.”

I stepped aside, meaning for him to hurry up and go tell him, but Bram Gus only flinched enough to make his long beard shake—he didn’t move a single step.

‘So he’s afraid of the Lord?’

He was a typical bastard—tough on the weak and weak before the strong.

Whether in reality or in novels, bastards like this always exist.

‘Then I’ll have to leave it to the Lord.’

If this were reality, as a powerless office worker, I would have somehow appeased the foreman and proceeded with the construction.

But here, there was no need for that.

He wasn’t the type to listen no matter how much I explained anyway.

Just as I was about to retreat, thinking it would be better to leave dealing with this guy to the Lord—

[Q. Strike the annoying work foreman on the back of the head.]

[Reward: 0/10,000p]

A Quest window appeared before my eyes.

I was very surprised when I first saw it, but now I was used to it.

‘So I can earn points based on the intensity of the strike?’

After reading the additional explanation written in the Quest window, I smiled wickedly.

I had been wanting to hit that bastard anyway, so this was a heaven-sent opportunity.

‘I should hit him with a weapon rather than my hand for greater impact, right?’

My gaze naturally turned to the hammer I was holding in my right hand.

[Warning. Murder prohibited.]

Then a red warning window popped up.

Well, hitting someone on the back of the head with a hammer would kill them.

I didn’t want to become a murderer because of a guy like this either.

So what other weapons were available?

As I looked around, my gaze stopped on a shovel in the corner of the construction site.

…If I hit him with the shovel handle, he wouldn’t die, right?

Chapter 1

It was another damn day like any other.

At the construction site, they were clamoring that this budget wasn’t nearly enough and they needed more, while my superior Manager Park scolded me, saying that even though I was a deputy manager, I couldn’t even coordinate something like that.

A shitty situation where only I, stuck in the middle, was dying.

It was also the reason I was working overtime today.

“Once I finish this, I’m going to throw my resignation letter in Manager Park’s face and quit.”

I’ll go down to the countryside with good mountains and water, tend a vegetable garden in a house I built myself, raise a puppy, and read all the books I love to my heart’s content.

I repeated this resolution for who knows how many times while pounding the keyboard as if it might break.

“Ugh…”

How much time had passed like that?

Suddenly, my vision became hazy and dizziness hit me.

“Ah, a nosebleed.”

When I even got a nosebleed on top of everything, I hurriedly plugged my nose with tissue.

To think that I, who had been healthy as a horse since childhood except for that, would have a nosebleed from overwork.

Well, I had been working continuously for ten days without even weekends—it would have been stranger if I were fine.

I tried to close my eyes for just a moment and then get back to work, but…

“Did you sleep well, Eileen?”

When I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a strange world, and in the body of an unfamiliar woman at that.

* * *

At first, I thought it was a dream.

I thought I would wake up if I closed and opened my eyes, but I didn’t.

Even when I pinched my cheek and slapped myself hard, I didn’t return to reality.

Only after three days did I finally accept it.

This was reality, and I had experienced “possession” that I’d only seen in novels.

The name of the body I had possessed was Eileen.

The place I lived was a small village in the outskirts of ‘Belheim’, the largest city in the northern Monola Empire, and all the people in this village, including my father Tabin, were hunters.

I had learned various other things, such as the existence of magic and the imperial family, but I still couldn’t figure out which novel I had been possessed into.

“Did I get possessed into an extra who wasn’t even mentioned by name?”

It felt overwhelming to have to live in this unfamiliar world so removed from reality.

As if representing my feelings, heavy rain was pouring down outside.

Drip, drip—

“…”

The rain was pouring so hard that raindrops were falling into the room through the wooden ceiling.

“What a mess.”

Just how was this house built that water was leaking in?

As a temporary measure, I placed buckets and towels where the water was dripping.

“Sigh…”

Thinking I should tell the homeowner about this, I went outside and was faced with a shocking scene.

Water was leaking in the living room, kitchen, and even the bathroom.

While others get possessed into noble daughters like princesses or dukes’ daughters and live luxuriously, I just had to get possessed into someone whose path of hardship was obvious.

As I was sighing deeply, Tabin came out of his room.

“Water seems to be leaking from the ceiling.”

“I know. Still, this is pretty good condition.”

“What? This is considered good condition?”

Water is leaking throughout the entire house?

Then what happens when it’s not in good condition?

When I stared at him in disbelief, Tabin chuckled with a hearty laugh.

“Don’t worry, Eileen. When the rain stops, I’ll cover the roof with grass and leaves.”

“What? What kind of nonsense is that?”

It was so absurd that my voice rose without me realizing it.

“The roof could collapse, so absolutely don’t do that.”

“But then the water will keep leaking…”

“It’s better to just let the water leak. So absolutely, absolutely don’t do it.”

As I emphasized repeatedly, Tabin nodded his head while looking bewildered.

* * *

The next day, as soon as the rain stopped, I climbed up to the roof and clicked my tongue.

“It’s amazing this hasn’t collapsed yet.”

The planks had gaps between them with holes everywhere, and the leaves and grass were drooping down, soaked with rainwater.

On top of that, the roof was square-shaped, so water had no choice but to pool up.

What was even more shocking was that all the roofs in the village were exactly the same.

The village’s condition was also a complete mess.

“I want to buy eyes that haven’t seen this.”

To think I have to live in a place like this from now on. Just thinking about it was horrifying.

“Let’s fix this place first.”

Since this is the house I’ll be living in from now on.

Then after that, I’ll think about what to do with this village.

Because of my chronic personality trait of not being able to turn a blind eye, I absolutely couldn’t ignore this and move on.

“Even when I’m transported into a novel, I’m destined to do this kind of work.”

Is this the fate of a K-office worker?

“Eileen, what are you doing up there?”

While I was grumbling and diligently clearing away the wet grass and leaves, Hanson from next door approached and asked.

“Why are you clearing that away? Tabin worked hard to put it up there during the last rainy season.”

“…There’s a rainy season here too?”

“Of course. It comes every summer.”

Hanson laughed, asking why I was talking like it was my first time experiencing it, but I couldn’t laugh.

A rainy season means heavy rain continues for several days, and if we leave it in this condition, it’s only a matter of time before the house collapses.

We’d be lucky if only the house collapses—the entire village could be flooded.

‘I have to stop it.’

This is a place I’ll continue living in, so I absolutely had to prevent such a disaster from happening.

“Tabin, Eileen is doing something strange up there. Why didn’t you stop her?”

“I want to stop her too, but…”

“I have a favor to ask!”

Just then, as Tabin came outside, I shouted loudly.

“Please gather all the village people!”

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