I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47

 

“My Lord.”

 

As we exited the castle tower, a manager who had been waiting approached us. Behind him, a carriage was standing by.

 

“Are the preparations ready?”

 

When Callix Crowbell asked, the manager bowed his head and answered.

 

“Everything has been prepared.”

 

“Good. Sir Roheim.”

 

“Understood.”

 

Noah Roheim approached me and took the luggage bag I was carrying.

 

“You can take that carriage home, Miss Eileen.”

 

“No, it’s fine. I can take the public carriage.”

 

“You have luggage, and you must be tired from the long journey, so please take that carriage and return home comfortably.”

 

Saying this, he loaded my luggage into the carriage trunk, so I had no choice but to board the carriage.

 

The carriage quickly left the lord’s castle.

 

Since there wasn’t much to do on the way home, I was checking my sub-quests when I suddenly looked out the window.

 

“What?”

 

The carriage was heading in a completely different direction, not toward the city gate.

 

“Excuse me, I think you’ve taken the wrong route.”

 

I opened the window connected to the driver’s seat and spoke to him.

 

The coachman rustled around as if checking something, then answered.

 

“The address the attendant gave me is in this direction.”

 

“What? What address did Sir Roheim give you?”

 

“He told me not to say until we reach the destination.”

 

What kind of situation is this?

 

While I was bewildered and just blinking, the diligently running carriage stopped in front of a fairly neat wooden house.

 

Getting off the carriage, I looked around.

 

‘This is District 7.’

 

It was a district where average commoners lived—not wealthy, but not poor either.

 

‘Why did they bring me here?

 

They told me to take the carriage home, but why on earth?

 

While I was puzzled and continued looking around, the coachman handed me a note.

 

“The attendant told me to give this to you when we arrived at the destination.”

 

I immediately checked the note.

 

[The Lord has granted Miss Eileen new lodgings for her convenience. From now on, you may stay here.]

 

“Huh?”

 

What kind of unwanted consideration is this?

 

“Well then, I’ll be going now, Miss.”

 

While I was flustered and staring blankly at the note, the carriage departed.

 

Left alone, I looked up at the wooden house. It was a two-story house, modest and neat. It seemed to be the nicest house in this area.

 

It was certainly much better than Tabin’s house in the hunters’ village.

 

‘So what? I have no desire to live here.’

 

More precisely, I didn’t want to be indebted to Callix Crowbell.

 

Above all, I knew that such kindness doesn’t come without a price.

 

“Excuse me, where should I go to catch a public carriage to the city gate?”

 

That’s why I didn’t even open the arched front gate and headed to my original home.

 

* * *

 

“Miss Eileen, the Lord is looking for you.”

 

The next day, I was summoned by the lord as soon as I arrived at work.

 

Since I had something to say to him anyway, I immediately headed to the nobleman’s office.

 

Perhaps because he had many things to do after returning after a long time, documents were piled up like a mountain on his desk.

 

“Where did you commute from today?”

 

Callix Crowbell asked while keeping his gaze fixed on the documents.

 

“I came from my house in the hunters’ village.”

 

Only then did he look at me. At his clearly displeased gaze, I unconsciously clasped my hands tightly together.

 

“I’m grateful for your consideration for my convenience, but I would like you to withdraw that kindness.”

 

I spoke as politely as possible.

 

“Why?”

 

Callix Crowbell leaned back crookedly against his chair.

 

“The house I gave you should be better than the one in the hunters’ village, shouldn’t it?”

 

That was true.

 

“And commuting would be much more convenient too.”

 

This was also correct. While it took over two hours to commute from the hunters’ village, I could come from District 7 in just one hour.

 

“Still, my original home is more comfortable. I also need to live with my father.”

 

“Then just bring your father to that house.”

 

“That won’t do. I can’t take away my father’s livelihood for my convenience.”

 

The hunters’ village was the hometown where Tabin had lived his entire life. Leaving that place would be close to losing his entire life, not just losing his job.

 

“So I’ll continue living in my original home.”

 

“Do as you wish.”

 

I expected him to refuse and insist that I must live in that house, but he gave permission surprisingly easily, which was bewildering in a different way.

 

“Still, if you ever need it, just let me know anytime. That place will remain empty.”

 

It was also surprising that he continued to consider my convenience until the end.

 

“Do you have anything else to say?”

 

“No, I don’t.”

 

Callix Crowbell waved his hand dismissively, telling me to leave.

 

‘What, I got nervous for nothing.’

 

Well, there’s no reason to force me to live in that house.

 

I returned to the City Planning Department office with deep relief.

 

“Oh, Miss Eileen. Where have you been? We’ve been looking for you for a while.”

 

“About this triangular roof blueprint. This should work, right? Do we need to make a scale model?”

 

“We want to build a drainage system in the 10th District. Could you look at the map to see if this would work?”

 

Having been away for a whole ten days and coming to work after so long, the employees competed to ask me questions.

 

I was the only one who knew well about drainage systems and triangular roofs, so it couldn’t be helped.

 

“Of course you need to make a scale model and test it. And for the 10th District’s drainage system, along this road…”

 

I was spending a hectic time answering the flood of questions and frantically handling backed-up work when the nobleman’s attendant came with documents.

 

“What is this?”

 

“This is work the Lord has assigned to Miss Eileen.”

 

“To me?”

 

I checked the documents I received.

 

[Emergency Survey of Buildings and Streets Throughout Belheim.]

 

Throughout the territory meant including not only the inner castle but all the outer villages as well.

 

“Isn’t this kind of survey something that should be done by the administrative officers in charge of each district?”

 

No matter how I looked at it, this wasn’t work for me to handle, nor was it a scale that could be done alone.

 

When I asked in puzzlement, the attendant shrugged his shoulders.

 

“I don’t know the detailed circumstances either, but the Lord instructed that Miss Eileen should do it personally without receiving help from other employees.”

 

Me, personally.

 

“The deadline is by the end of this week.”

 

The time constraint is tight too.

 

‘Anyone can see this is meant to mess with me.’

 

When I was Han Seon-ah, I had seen several times how workplace colleagues or superiors would dump a pile of work on subordinates they didn’t like to make them submit, so I knew this well.

 

‘I never thought it would happen to me though.’

 

The reason was probably because I refused the house.

 

I wondered why he agreed so readily, but he was planning to pull this kind of stunt.

 

‘So that’s why he said to let him know anytime if I needed a house.’

 

I thought it was unusual for him to offer such convenience, but there was a reason for everything.

 

‘What good is being handsome when your actions are petty and narrow-minded.’

 

I clicked my tongue inwardly and skimmed through the documents again. No matter how I looked at it, handling all this alone within the week was impossible.

 

‘Then I just need to get help from other people, right?’

 

He only said not to get help from ‘other employees,’ not that I couldn’t get help from ‘other people.’

 

Of course, what Callix Crowbell wanted was for me to give in and accept his proposal, but I had no intention of doing that.

 

‘Let’s see who wins.’

 

I didn’t like fighting, but I had no intention of avoiding a fight that was brought to me.

 

I hated losing this kind of fight even more.

 

So I glared at the documents, determined to win no matter what.

 

* * *

 

“Teo!”

 

“Oh, sister?”

 

Teo, who had been playing marbles with the kids in the alley, ran over as soon as he saw me.

 

“What brings you here?”

 

“I have a favor to ask you.”

 

“Me?”

 

Teo tilted his head but looked at me with expectant eyes.

 

“Before that, there’s something I want to confirm first. You’re friends with kids from other districts too, right?”

 

“Of course.”

 

Teo put his hands on his hips and said proudly.

 

“I know most of them from Districts 6 to 10.”

 

“Good.”

 

He was the perfect person to ask for this job.

 

“Then could you distribute these to each district, to the kids who act as leaders like you, and bring back the parents’ answers?”

 

I handed the survey forms to Teo.

 

The kids who had been playing with him also gathered around and peered at the survey forms.

 

“What is this?”

 

“It’s to investigate whether the streets and building conditions are okay before building the drainage system.”

 

I stayed up all night making this.

 

“Tell them to write down anything inconvenient, even the smallest things.”

 

“Didn’t we do something similar before? And this doesn’t seem like something you should be doing…”

 

“I ended up being assigned to it somehow.”

 

I couldn’t bring myself to say that damn lord made me do it, so I gave a vague answer.

 

“I’ll give you candy if you do well.”

 

At the mention of candy, the eyes of Teo and the other kids sparkled.

 

“Just trust me, sister.”

 

Teo thumped his chest and spoke confidently.

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