I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

“Excuse me.”

A gentle-looking handsome man with a distinctive monocle hanging from a long silver chain entered the room.

Since he was speaking formally, he probably wasn’t the lord, but just in case, I stood up from my seat.

The man approached me without making a single footstep sound, slightly lifting his monocle as he looked me over.

Despite his gentle appearance, his gaze was cold.

“You’re Miss Eileen, correct?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m Noah Roheim, the lord’s aide.”

So he wasn’t the lord after all.

“I heard that the Hunter’s Village safely weathered this rainy season thanks to Miss Eileen. Is that true?”

So that’s why they called me here.

“It’s thanks to the villagers working hard to prepare. I just suggested that there was this method and asked if they’d like to try it.”

“Miss Eileen is quite modest. Very good.”

What’s so good about it?

“The lord will be entering shortly. This is your first time meeting him, isn’t it?”

“Yes. It’s my first time.”

“Then I’ll teach you the proper etiquette and precautions. If you happen to displease the lord and get your head cut off, it would be troublesome for me, so please listen carefully.”

…Did I just hear something incredible?

When I looked at him in shock, Noah Roheim smiled with his eyes curved prettily like crescent moons.

Cold sweat ran down my spine at that smile, which made it impossible to tell whether what he’d just said was a joke or serious.

“First, when you meet the lord, bow deeply enough that your head nearly touches the ground.”

Since my life was at stake, I memorized his words without missing a single period.

Starting with greetings, then how to respond, where to look—it wasn’t difficult, but there was quite a lot to learn.

Since I absolutely couldn’t make any mistakes, I kept reviewing what I’d learned.

“Is there anything you don’t understand or are curious about?”

“Please tell me the lord’s name.”

At my question, his eyebrow rose at an angle.

“You were born in Belheim and have lived here until now, yet you don’t know the lord’s name?”

I wasn’t born here, and I’ve only been living here for barely two months.

I swallowed the words that had risen to my throat and smiled awkwardly.

“I wanted to confirm that what I know is correct. I can’t make any mistakes, you know.”

Fortunately, my hastily made excuse seemed to work, as he nodded.

“His Grace, Grand Duke Callix Crowbell.”

A grand duke—that’s the highest rank after royalty.

“Getting the lord’s name wrong would be the greatest discourtesy of all, so remember it well.”

“Yes. I’ll keep it in mind.”

Callix Crowbell.

I repeated that name over and over so I would never forget it.

But the more I mulled over the name, the more I felt like I’d seen it somewhere before.

Where had I seen it? In a novel? Or maybe a movie?

While I was thinking hard about it, the door suddenly opened without even a knock.

“Have you arrived, my lord?”

When Noah Roheim, the lord’s aide, bowed his head in greeting, I hastily bowed deeply as well.

Because I bowed immediately, I couldn’t see who had opened the door and entered.

“You may raise your head.”

A low voice flowed down from above my head.

I, who had been staring at the plush carpet of the reception room, slowly raised my head.

The first thing I saw was a pair of jet-black leather shoes so polished I could see my face reflected in them.

Smooth trousers without a single wrinkle and a vest accented with silver buttons. Buttons fastened all the way up to the neck.

A jawline as straight as a blade, and above it a straight nose bridge, and the moment I met those grayish-blue eyes, my breath stopped.

‘Scary.’

My breath caught, and an oppressive feeling washed over me as if my shoulders were being crushed.

Even though it was sweltering summer, a chill filled the reception room as if the air had dropped below freezing.

‘I need to run away right now.’

Just as my instincts screamed and I unconsciously tried to step backward.

‘He was handsome enough to be called a creation that God had put great care into making, but people felt his overwhelming presence first and became intimidated.’

A sentence from some novel struck my mind like lightning.

‘So people feared Callix Crowbell and tried not to get close to him, but Anabella Lizeren approached him without hesitation.’

I hadn’t known what I’d been reincarnated into until now, but I finally realized.

It was a mass-produced romance fantasy novel titled “The Light that Consumed the Imperial Palace.”

This novel was about the female protagonist Anabella Lizeren going out to subjugate monsters and falling in love with the male protagonist, Crown Prince Cedric von Lucebel.

Callix Crowbell was the sub-male lead in this novel, and also the final boss who became corrupted by dark magic after suffering from unrequited love.

Moreover, Callix even committed the atrocity of turning the people of his domain into monsters in order to fight Cedric, who had come to rescue the kidnapped Anabella.

In other words, if I stayed here, I would become a monster too.

‘Absolutely not! I have to avoid this at all costs!’

Quest or whatever, surviving came first.

Usually when people are reincarnated into novels, they use their knowledge to change the future, but I had no intention of doing that.

When there was the easy option of leaving the final boss’s territory, why would I be crazy enough to make a life-or-death gamble?

“It’s my first time meeting you. My name is Eileen. It’s a great honor to meet Your Grace, Grand Duke Callix Crowbell.”

In the midst of all this, I greeted the lord with proper etiquette as Noah Roheim had taught me.

It was an action born from the instinct of absolutely not wanting to die.

Callix Crowbell nodded indifferently and sat in the head seat.

When Noah Roheim, standing beside him, said something, the lord looked me over as if finding me interesting.

As expected of the final boss, his presence was no joke.

I had been fine dealing with construction workers who had been through all sorts of hardships, but just making eye contact with Callix made my heart tremble.

“Explain how you managed to weather the rainy season safely.”

I didn’t like giving away my technical knowledge to others for free, but it was dangerous to defy the lord.

Especially when the opponent was the final boss from the original story.

The moment I displeased him, my head could be chopped right off.

“It would be easier for Your Grace to understand if I explain while drawing. May I borrow a pen and paper?”

At my words, Noah Roheim quickly brought me a pen and paper.

“If you make a roof slanted, water doesn’t pool but flows down…”

Wanting to get out of this place as quickly as possible, I immediately began my explanation.

“…Like this, I created waterways by varying the height according to the terrain, allowing rainwater to flow out of the village.”

As soon as I finished explaining and put down the pen, Callix Crowbell took the paper.

And he stared at the paper so seriously that I wondered what I had done wrong.

Noah Roheim was the same way.

“Um… is there some kind of problem?”

When I asked anxiously, Noah Roheim smiled brightly.

“There’s no problem at all. However, I’m curious—have you ever studied architecture or design before?”

I studied it to the point of being sick of it.

Not only did I frequent construction sites from a young age following my carpenter father, but I handled saws and hammers since middle school.

I graduated from university with a degree in architectural engineering and got a job in urban planning.

But that was when I was ‘Han Seon-ah.’

“No. I’ve never learned it.”

‘Eileen’ would have never learned such things, so I played dumb.

“Then how did you come up with something like this?”

“I was thinking about how to solve the problem of rainwater pooling and it just came to me… Is there some kind of problem?”

I asked back with an innocent face, pretending to know nothing.

Then Callix Crowbell looked back and forth between me and the drawing I had made, before giving instructions to Noah Roheim in a voice I couldn’t hear.

“Yes. I’ll prepare accordingly.”

Wait, hold on! Where are you going, leaving me alone with this terrifying boss!

A scream erupted inside me.

I wanted to follow Noah Roheim out immediately, but unfortunately I didn’t have the courage to do so.

“Can you install this triangular roof on all the buildings in Belheim?”

After Noah Roheim left, Callix Crowbell held out the paper and asked.

“Since each building has a different shape, we’d need to make some adjustments, but most should be possible.”

Callix’s eyebrow raised slightly.

“What about the waterways?”

“That would also require checking the condition of the ground. If the waterways are too close to the houses, it’ll become damp, so we need to keep some distance…”

Wait a minute. I think I answered too much like an expert?

“You said you’ve never studied architecture, yet your knowledge is impressive.”

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