I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 18

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Chapter 18

If Toma Harens had shown even the slightest hint of remorse, I might have modified my plan a little.

But seeing him act sarcastic instead, I decided to completely crush that shameless face of his.

“I have something to say before we begin.”

When I raised my hand, all eyes focused on me.

Thinking I was going to surrender, Toma Harens was grinning smugly.

“To properly prove my skills.”

I looked straight at that irritating face and continued.

“I think it would be better to show you by making it directly here rather than bringing a pre-made triangular roof scale model.”

Perhaps flustered by my words, Toma Harens’ face stiffened slightly.

“What nonsense.”

That was brief, as he twisted his lips and spoke.

“You’re just trying to pull tricks because you couldn’t make it in time.”

“Is that what you think?”

“Are you going to make excuses and say otherwise?”

“Ah, so that’s what you think.”

When I shrugged my shoulders as if expressing regret, the space between Toma Harens’ eyebrows narrowed.

“What do you think, my lord?”

Callix Crowbell checked beside me and raised his eyebrows.

“Did you really fail to complete it in time?”

“Of course not. I already brought it here.”

When I clapped my hands, Tabin, who had been hiding, appeared carrying the triangular roof scale model I had made.

“…That’s impossible.”

Seeing it, Toma Harens muttered as if he had received a great shock.

“What’s impossible?”

I looked at Toma Harens with a sly smile.

“You’re speaking as if you were certain I would fail.”

“…Still nitpicking as always.”

Toma Harens flinched, then snorted and turned his head away.

Who started nitpicking first, and yet he says such things.

“Well, since both sides are ready, let’s begin the experiment.”

Noah Roheim stepped forward as if to mediate.

“Who would like to go first?”

“I’ll go first.”

That way, when Toma Harens fails, it will remain in people’s memory longer.

Toma Harens nodded as if to say do whatever I want.

“Then please prepare, Miss Eileen.”

I placed the triangular roof I received from Tabin on the building scale model and secured it with nails I bought from the system shop.

Using this felt like cheating, so I originally didn’t plan to use it.

If only Toma Harens hadn’t pulled such stunts.

‘I’ll crush him thoroughly.’

So he can never hold his head up again.

“I’m finished.”

When I stepped back, Callix Crowbell gestured to Noah Roheim.

Then Noah Roheim stood in front of the model.

‘What is he trying to do?’

He’s not holding anything in his hands, so it doesn’t seem like he’s going to spray water.

When Noah Roheim raised his hand over the model, wind suddenly began to blow.

A blue light spread from his fingertips, and soon large water droplets formed.

‘What, he was a mage?’

I thought he was an ordinary aide, but he was a mage.

No wait, just assisting that foul-tempered lord isn’t ordinary either.

Anyway, this was my first time seeing a mage in person, so I couldn’t take my eyes off Noah Roheim.

When Noah Roheim muttered something, the large water droplets broke into smaller pieces and fell onto the architectural model.

‘It really looks like rain.’

I had been secretly worried about how to express monsoon-level rain with this era’s technology, but it was needless concern.

The water droplets that fell like rain slid down the roof and dropped to the ground.

The water flow gradually intensified, but the triangular roof remained unshaken.

After a while, when the experiment ended, Callix Crowbell personally checked the condition of the building model.

“The exterior walls aren’t wet at all.”

“There are no signs of water seeping into the building interior either.”

Noah Roheim added with admiration.

‘Of course it would be like that.’

I calculated the angles precisely so rainwater wouldn’t touch the building.

I smiled proudly to myself and looked at Toma Harens.

He squinted his eyes as if displeased, but still seemed to have some confidence left.

“Now it’s my turn.”

Toma Harens confidently stood in front of the building scale model.

He tried to secure the triangular roof to the building model, but it wasn’t going as planned, so he frowned deeply.

“Is there some problem, Team Leader?”

“N-no. There’s no problem at all.”

When Noah Roheim asked, Toma Harens was startled and shook his head.

He moved the triangular roof this way and that, then wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stepped back.

“I’m ready.”

Noah Roheim cast magic the same way as before.

While rainwater flowed down without staying on the triangular roof I made, water pooled at the edge of Toma Harens’ roof.

As the water flow gradually intensified, the roof shook, and soon lost its balance and collapsed.

Because of this, water poured into the interior, and the building scale model crumbled miserably.

“Th-this is impossible!”

Toma Harens screamed and crouched in front of the collapsed model.

“Something’s wrong. Yes, something must be wrong.”

He muttered while examining the ruined model this way and that, even picking up the triangular roof.

“Hers is fine, but there’s no way only mine would collapse…!”

“What do you mean by that?”

I approached behind Toma Harens and asked.

“I’m really curious about what my model being fine has to do with yours collapsing, Team Leader.”

Toma Harens hesitated, then slowly turned to look at me.

“Ah, could it be.”

I clapped my hands as if I had just remembered and continued.

“Are you the one who stole my triangular roof blueprint, Team Leader?”

Instantly, Toma Harens’ pupils shook greatly.

“What nonsense!”

Toma Harens jumped up and shouted.

“Why would I steal your blueprint!”

“How would I know? The person who stole it would know best.”

“What?!”

“Now, now, please calm down.”

Noah Roheim mediated.

“Miss Eileen, what do you mean someone stole your blueprint?”

“Two days ago, someone secretly entered the temporary storage and destroyed the triangular roof I made and stole the blueprints.”

Except for the part about Anton Brown secretly entering, it was all lies.

The triangular roof was perfectly fine, and the blueprints he took were ones I had given him directly.

Of course, they weren’t real blueprints.

They were complete fakes made as a trap, filled with modern architectural terms and deliberately incorrect angles and measurements.

“Give this to the team leader and tell him you did as instructed. Then I’ll overlook what Sir Brown did today.”

I didn’t forget to threaten that if he had other ideas, I would go straight to the lord and tell him everything.

The lord must have been quite frightening, because Anton Brown moved exactly as I instructed.

Toma Harens’s triangular roof, miserably destroyed, was proof of that.

“Such a thing happened. Why didn’t you tell us sooner?”

“Looking back, the calculations in the missing blueprints were a bit wrong. Since I’d have to remake them anyway, I just let it slide at the time…”

I smiled slyly as I looked at Toma Harens’s broken triangular roof model.

“But why does the triangular roof that the team leader made look so remarkably similar to the triangular roof I designed incorrectly?”

The atmosphere instantly turned cold as if doused with ice water.

All eyes focused on Toma Harens.

“What’s going on, Team Leader Harens?”

The lord, who had been quietly listening to our conversation, asked.

“It’s, it’s a coincidence.”

After stammering for a long time, that was the excuse he came up with.

I thought he was good with words, but apparently not.

“Then please show us the team leader’s blueprints.”

When I made the request, the color drained from Toma Harens’s face.

“That would be good. Bring the blueprints, Team Leader Harens.”

When even the lord made the request, Toma Harens awkwardly stepped back. Cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

“What’s wrong, Team Leader Harens? Anyone would think a thief’s feet were tingling.”

Wow, hitting the nail on the head with that expressionless face made it even more chilling.

“I’ll ask one last time, Team Leader Harens. Did you really not steal that woman’s blueprints?”

Toma Harens opened and closed his mouth, but in the end couldn’t say anything and hung his head low.

It was tantamount to confessing that he was indeed the culprit.

“I don’t need to hear an answer.”

Callix Crowbell spoke coldly and gestured with his hand.

Then knights with swords appeared from somewhere and grabbed Toma Harens by both arms.

“Lock Toma Harens in the underground prison.”

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