I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

I got fired on my first day!

I asked with a joyful heart, but for some reason, Toma Harens frowned even more and turned around abruptly.

“Didn’t I get fired?”

I asked again, but there was no response.

The team leader glanced at me sideways, picked up a rolled bundle of papers, and left the office again.

‘What, I guess I didn’t get fired.’

He just wanted me to get lost from his sight.

But since I didn’t understand, he couldn’t contain his anger and left himself.

‘He’s more mentally weak than he looks.’

Then if I provoke him just a little more, I should be able to get the answer I want.

Although I failed to get fired on the first day, it seemed I succeeded in being hated.

If I repeat this a few more times, won’t I get fired?

My deflated expectations swelled up again.

I looked around, hoping that day would come as soon as possible.

Anyway, since I came to work, I should sit somewhere, but I couldn’t see any empty seats.

“Excuse me, where is my seat?”

I asked the nearest employee, but they didn’t even pretend to hear me.

The other employees were the same. They didn’t even glance at me and completely ignored me.

‘Well, then there’s nothing I can do.’

Unable to find a seat, I sat back down on the sofa.

When I took off my shoes and half lay down, the employees finally looked at me. They all had bewildered expressions.

“What are you doing right now?”

A man whose face was gaunt enough that his cheeks looked sunken, but who had quite a bit of muscle on his body, stood up abruptly and asked.

“No one told me where my seat is, so I thought I’d wait until someone tells me and take a little nap.”

“What, what?”

The man opened his mouth wide as if dumbfounded.

Even I found it ridiculous after saying it, so how much more so for them. I understood completely.

“Ha, you’re not even a child, do we have to tell you where to sit?”

“If you don’t want to tell me, you don’t have to. I can just keep sitting here.”

“W-wait!”

When I pretended to lie back down on the sofa, the man shouted in panic.

“The desk and chair you’ll use are in the basement storage, so go get them yourself!”

Wow, no matter how much they dislike a new employee, they usually prepare a place to sit at first, but telling me to go get it myself.

[Q. Go get a chair and desk from the storage room.]

[Reward: 500p]

I was about to refuse like a useless new employee, but a new sub-quest appeared.

‘Ah, really. How annoying.’

Well, continuing to act out would make it too obvious that I’m desperately trying to get fired, so I need to pace myself appropriately.

“I understand.”

I obediently went down to the basement to receive the reward as well.

“…It’s locked.”

I regretted it as soon as I came down to the basement storage.

They couldn’t have not known the storage door was locked, but not telling me meant they did it to mess with me.

“How childish.”

Both sides are all big in size but act like children.

On the other hand, thinking about what I did, I thought it was understandable.

I clicked my tongue and asked a passerby where I could get the storage key.

The passerby kindly told me I could get the key from the Management Department on the first floor.

I headed straight to the Management Department.

“Hello, I’m Eileen, a new employee who just joined the City Planning Department!”

As soon as I finished speaking, the office started buzzing.

“A woman joined the City Planning Department?”

“That stubborn team leader allowed it?”

Looking at the Management Department employees’ reactions, it seems the City Planning Department team leader doesn’t have a good reputation.

Well, he did seem to have quite a personality.

Thinking of Toma Harens with his unkempt mustache, I understood their reactions even more.

“Oh, isn’t that the rumored woman?”

Then, one employee pointed at me and shouted.

Instantly, the atmosphere in the office turned cold.

“That’s right. The Lord…”

“Wow, I didn’t know she’d be such a young girl.”

Everyone glared at me and whispered, and some shook their heads disapprovingly.

What kind of rumors spread to cause such a reaction?

I was curious, but they probably wouldn’t answer if I asked.

Right now, getting the chair and desk was the priority, so I received the storage key and went back down to the basement.

When I unlocked the padlock and entered the storage room, I could see a desk and chair among the messily piled belongings.

I could carry the chair alone, but the desk was impossible. Even when I pushed with all my strength, it wouldn’t budge.

“I think I need someone else’s help… who’s available?”

I should exclude the City Planning Department employees.

They probably thought this far ahead when they told me to get it myself, so they wouldn’t help.

“Looking at their reaction earlier, the Management Department employees probably won’t help either…”

The only person I could think of was the security guard who was stationed in front of the annex building.

He had a good build and seemed strong.

“Let me move the chair first and then think about it.”

Just in case, I should casually bring it up with the City Planning Department employees.

I picked up the chair and climbed the stairs. It was fine when walking on the flat corridor, but it was so difficult my arms were getting sore.

“Huff, huff. I’m dying.”

Having barely made it to the first floor, I collapsed onto the chair I brought and gasped for breath.

“What did they make this chair out of, rocks? Why is it so heavy?”

While catching my breath and complaining, I suddenly looked at my reflection in the window.

Reddish-brown hair. Blue eyes reminiscent of the sea and freckles scattered across the bridge of my nose.

“…I still can’t get used to it.”

Even though it’s been almost two months since I entered this woman’s body, it still felt strange.

When I woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror in a dazed state, I’d be startled every time.

When will I be able to adapt?

“Miss Eileen?”

While I was staring intently at my reflection in the window, I heard a familiar voice.

“Hello, advisor.”

It was Noah Roheim, the Lord’s advisor.

When I stood up from my seat and bowed politely, he smiled gently.

“You don’t need to greet me so formally. But what’s with that chair?”

Noah Roheim stepped closer to me and pointed at the chair, asking.

“It’s the chair I’ll be using from now on.”

“What? Where?”

“At the City Planning Department, of course. They told me to get my desk and chair from the storage room myself, so I was in the process of moving them.”

Noah Roheim’s face hardened instantly.

Seeing someone who always smiled make such an expression made my spine chill, even though I hadn’t done anything wrong.

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

Noah Roheim swept his hand down his face and smiled again.

The way his expression changed like flipping a palm was even more chilling.

“Hmm, Miss Eileen seems too young to understand, but this is the City Planning Department employees being territorial.”

As if I don’t know. I know it all too well, which is the problem.

“So I’ll go to the office and have a word with them…”

“Wait!”

When Noah Roheim acted like he was about to go to the City Planning Department right away, I hurriedly grabbed him.

“No! Please don’t do that!”

If the lord’s aide got involved, it would disrupt my plan to get fired as quickly as possible.

I absolutely have to stop him!

“I’m fine, so please don’t do anything.”

“But…”

“I’m really okay. And if this is territorial behavior, they’ll acknowledge me someday if I do well.”

When I spoke firmly, Noah Roheim let out a short sigh as if he had no choice.

“It won’t be easy.”

“I know. But I want to try. When you think about it, this is also part of working life, so I want to try solving it myself first.”

“Miss Eileen…”

Noah Roheim looked at me as if he was moved.

I’m struggling to get fired, but seeing him look at me with that expression made my conscience prick.

“Well then, I’ll be going.”

“The chair must be heavy, let me carry it to the office for you.”

“No, I can handle this much.”

As I picked up the chair, I remembered the desk in the storage room.

I needed someone to help anyway, so this worked out well.

“Could you possibly move a desk for me? I can’t lift that by myself…”

“Of course. Should I bring the one from the storage room?”

“Yes. But it’s heavy, so it’ll be hard to carry alone, so let’s go together.”

“No, I can do it alone, so please wait here for a moment.”

Noah Roheim answered confidently and went downstairs.

“I don’t think he can carry it alone.”

That desk is so heavy, with Noah Roheim’s scholarly build, he absolutely couldn’t…

“Is this the right desk?”

…I thought he couldn’t carry it, but he brought it up?

He wasn’t even struggling; he was smiling leisurely.

When I stared in surprise, Noah Roheim tilted his head.

“Is this not it?”

“Oh, that’s right. Isn’t it heavy?”

“Not at all. To serve the lord well, this much should be basic.”

I don’t know what serving the lord well has to do with being strong, but.

“Right.”

When Noah Roheim spoke with a harmless smile, I found myself agreeing without thinking.

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