I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

Sure enough, suspicious gazes pierced down at me. Cold sweat trickled down my spine.

“I saw it in a book.”

In times like this, I had to stay calm and act confidently.

“There’s a book with that kind of content? What’s the title?”

“I’m sorry, but it’s been so long since I read the book that I can’t remember the title.”

“Then can you go home and bring it?”

“Unfortunately, it was washed away during the last rainy season, so I don’t have it anymore.”

Callix Crowbell’s eyes became sharp.

But I’d dealt with far worse bastards than him, so it didn’t faze me.

“Well, fine.”

Callix Crowbell placed the paper I had drawn in front of me and said,

“From what I can see, you seem to have considerable knowledge in architecture. How about working at the City Planning Department?”

“…What does the City Planning Department do?”

Just from the name, it seemed like a place that handled city-related work.

“It’s a department responsible for everything from city design to construction and maintenance.”

Callix Crowbell added a kind explanation that didn’t match his blunt voice.

“It’s the perfect place for someone with extensive architectural knowledge like you to work.”

So it’s a place that does similar work to what I did when I was ‘Han Seon-ah.’

“So how about entering that place and working for Belheim.”

Ding-

[1-2. Accept the Lord’s proposal.]

[Reward: 5,000p]

Why does a Quest have to pop up right now of all times?

It wasn’t even a sub-quest, but a main quest.

Usually in games, you had to complete the previous quest to unlock the next main quest.

‘But I don’t want to do it.’

I liked architectural work, and I was happy to help people.

But since I died from overwork, I didn’t want to do anything that would give me headaches this time.

I wanted to enjoy the healing life I’d dreamed of and live leisurely.

I also didn’t want to work under the final boss from the novel.

[If you fail the main quest, you will receive a penalty and lose a life.]

I was about to refuse the proposal when a warning window appeared before my eyes.

[First penalty: You will lose all your points.]

These were points I had painstakingly collected by running around until my feet were swollen throughout the rainy season, and I’d lose them all?

This is crazy…

[If your life is reduced three times, you will die immediately, so please be careful.]

“What?!”

At the terrible word about dying, I screamed without realizing it.

Then the Lord frowned.

“Did you just speak informally to me?”

“Huh? Oh, that’s not it, I was just thinking about something else for a moment…”

“Oh ho, you dare to think about other things in front of me.”

Ugh, no matter what I say, it seems difficult to just let this slide.

In the midst of this, the system warning about death was annoying.

Wait a minute. If I have to do the main quest no matter what, I can just change the conditions, right?

“By any chance… would working temporarily be possible?”

Having thought of a suitable solution, I cautiously suggested.

“Temporarily?”

“Yes. It seems you need my help with creating the triangular roof and waterway, so I’d like to help only with that part.”

This way, I could achieve the main quest while avoiding working under the Lord continuously.

Even though I thought of it myself, it’s quite brilliant.

“I refuse.”

The problem was that the Lord had no intention of changing the proposal.

“If I continue working under you, my Lord, people will point fingers.”

“Why?”

“Well, I’m only twenty years old now, and I lack the experience to become a manager.”

“Everyone has a first time. And age doesn’t matter when it comes to skill.”

I tried to appeal to change his mind somehow, but it didn’t work at all.

By the way, this is different from the people over there.

Manager Park and the bosses all claimed that age equals skill, and even newcomers should have experience.

“My father is unwell, so I can’t be away from home for long.”

“Did that sick person go hunting yesterday too?”

Huh, when did he investigate that?

“I’m timid by nature, and I don’t particularly like mingling with people…”

“For someone timid, you speak quite well.”

Ugh, nothing I say gets through to him.

“Stop making useless excuses.”

While I was wondering what to say, Callix Crowbell spoke firmly.

“You seem to be seriously mistaken, but you don’t have the right to refuse. If I say you’ll do it, you’ll do it.”

Ha, trying to control people at will just because you hold power is the same here and there.

“What if I still don’t want to do it?”

Remembering the past days when I was thoroughly mistreated by Manager Park for being a woman, I got angry without realizing it and asked back.

I realized too late, but I couldn’t take back words already spoken.

“Then I’ll have to hold your father responsible for raising his daughter wrong.”

What… did he say?

“Is it okay for a Lord who should protect his people to threaten them with their lives?”

“If you’re worried about your father, work at the City Planning Department.”

In other words, if Tabin dies, it would be entirely my fault.

As expected of the final boss, what a damn nasty personality.

As I thought, this bastard wasn’t corrupted by dark magic and turned evil—he was originally a bad guy.

“I hope you make a wise choice.”

His attitude of threatening someone’s life and then speaking as if I had a choice was disgusting.

The quest window urging me to quickly accept the Lord’s proposal and flickering in front of my eyes was also quite annoying.

“I will… do it.”

I didn’t want to see an innocent person die because of me, and I had to complete the main quest anyway, so I reluctantly accepted his proposal.

“Good thinking.”

Then the final boss smiled with annoyingly satisfied pleasure.

[1-2. Quest Success! You receive 5,000 points as a reward.]

[Achievement Unlocked: Rookie Newbie Architect.]

The system window sparkled so brightly it hurt my eyes, as if mocking me.

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Late afternoon, with dusk settling heavily.

Normally, it would have been time to finish work and prepare to go home.

But the City Planning Department employees had been working overtime for days, having to restore buildings and roads damaged by the rainy season.

They were working hard, having roughly settled for sandwiches for dinner, when a scrawny man hurriedly entered the office.

“Did you all hear the news?”

“What news? Did another building collapse somewhere?”

“Maybe a road collapsed this time. I hope it was in front of your house.”

“That’s not it—the Lord has hired a new employee for our department!”

The employees who had been exchanging trivial jokes all turned to look at the man at once.

The City Planning Department was an important department that designed and managed buildings within the territory.

But since there was a lot of work rolling around construction sites, everyone was reluctant to come here.

As a result, they always suffered from staff shortages, and even when they managed to hire someone, they would quit frequently.

But the Lord had personally hired a new employee.

“What, that was good news after all.”

“But why are you making such a fuss? I thought something big had happened.”

“Which family are they from? They must have graduated from the Academy, right?”

“They’re a commoner who’s never even been near the Academy, let alone graduated!”

At the man’s following words, the office that had been noisy like a marketplace became quiet as if cold water had been poured over it.

The absurd story didn’t end there.

“And it’s even a woman. A woman!”

“…A commoner and a woman? How did someone like that get in here?”

“Right. It’s not work a woman can do. Did he send her to organize documents?”

The office became bustling again.

Everyone was making all sorts of speculations about the mysterious woman the Lord had appointed.

“Maybe that woman, you know, flirted with the Lord… Ow!”

Toma Harens, the team leader of the City Planning Department, hit the head of the employee who had said something nonsensical.

“Say something that makes sense. Is the Lord someone who would fall for a woman’s seduction?”

“Right. Her head would fly off right there on the spot for such nonsense.”

Another employee giggled and agreed with the team leader.

“Then you could just say it with words, why did you hit me!”

Smack—

“Ow! You hit me again!”

“Don’t be so noisy, go find out what kind of woman she is.”

“What difference would it make if we find out? Since she’s someone the Lord appointed, we can’t just kick her out carelessly.”

“Then we have to make her give up and leave on her own.”

Toma Harens smiled, tilting his lips crookedly.

“I’ll make sure she doesn’t last even a month, just wait and see.”

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