I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86

After Eileen left, a heavy silence settled over the inn.

Anabella looked at Silas with anxious eyes. He was a person with tremendous pride, and there was no way he would remain still after receiving such humiliation.

Sure enough, Silas’s face was flushed red with anger. His hands placed on the table trembled violently.

“Right now, bring that bitch back right now!”

Soon after, his voice filled with rage echoed loudly throughout the inn hall.

The holy knights were about to leave the inn to carry out his orders.

Bang-

The inn door was violently thrown open from outside. The holy knights hesitated and stepped back.

“I wondered where everyone had gone, and here you all are.”

It was Callix Crowbell.

He glanced around the inn hall and chuckled.

“If you needed a place to pray, I would have personally provided you with a room. What’s the reason for coming all the way to the outskirts and huddling together like this?”

His tone was gentle, but his eyes were fierce. Everyone who met his gaze bowed their heads deeply.

“This makes me suspicious even when I don’t want to be. Don’t you think so?”

No one could answer his question, keeping their mouths tightly shut and only reading the atmosphere. A silence heavier than when Eileen had caused a scene and left descended upon the inn.

“…I think it’s understandable that you might misunderstand.”

The person who broke the silence was Silas.

“We were simply looking around Belheim and resting briefly at this inn.”

At the pathetic excuse, Callix chuckled and tilted his head.

“Is that also why you called Eileen here and told her you’d give her money to leave Belheim?”

Silas’s complexion instantly turned pale.

“Th-that is…”

“I’m not asking out of curiosity, so there’s no need to make excuses.”

Callix looked at Silas with cold eyes.

“Whatever scheme you’re harboring, I have no intention of letting that woman go.”

“…”

“And I have no intention of forgiving what you bastards have done either.”

As soon as his words ended, the lord’s knights in iron armor burst into the inn. They instantly surrounded the temple delegation including Silas.

“W-we are a delegation representing the temple!”

Silas shouted with a trembling voice.

“To treat us like this means you’re prepared to make an enemy of the temple. Can you handle the consequences?”

“You’re the ones who started the trouble first, so I don’t see why I should worry about the temple’s feelings.”

As if he had lost his words, Silas closed his mouth again.

Callix slowly looked over the temple delegation again.

He wanted to immediately cut off their heads and hang them in front of the city gates, but doing so would make enemies not only of the temple but of the entire empire.

Most of the citizens of the Monola Empire were faithful believers who worshipped the gods.

‘That matter’ which would soon explode also held him back, but the biggest reason was still…

“…”

Callix’s gaze fell on Anabella Rizeren, who was trembling in a corner of the inn.

After taking a short deep breath, he clenched his fists and spoke to Silas as if spitting out the words.

“Before my patience runs out and I kill you all, get out of my territory right now.”

* * *

“Eileen, the lord is calling for you.”

Just as I returned to the office after inspecting the construction site, I received a summons. Since it was almost quitting time, it was even more unwelcome.

I grumbled inwardly as I headed to the lord’s study.

“Did anything happen today?”

I naturally expected him to ask whether the construction preparations were going well and when we would start the actual construction in earnest, but his question completely defied my expectations.

I just blinked at the incomprehensible question, but the moment I met his red eyes, I realized.

This man knows everything and is testing me.

“A high-ranking priest named Silas called me to an inn on the outskirts.”

In this situation, trying to dodge around would obviously be found out, and there was no reason to do so anyway.

So I told him everything that happened at the inn, including how Anabella had brought me the letter.

Callix Crowbell, who listened to my story to the end, raised his eyebrows as if surprised.

“I didn’t expect you to tell me everything.”

“Should I not have?”

“Not necessarily, but usually people would brush it off saying nothing happened.”

“I didn’t do anything wrong, so there’s no reason to hide it.”

When I answered confidently, his lips curved up slightly.

“I quite like that personality.”

It’s definitely a compliment, but why does my spine feel so chilled?

“I’ve driven them all out, so they won’t bother you anymore.”

“What? Is that okay? I heard there’s nothing good about making enemies with the temple.”

“Those bastards crossed the line first, so they won’t be able to say anything.”

Callix Crowbell leaned back deeply in his chair and continued.

“I never intended to keep those bastards in Belheim for long anyway. They obviously came with impure intentions. I was looking for an excuse to kick them out, and a perfect pretext just presented itself.”

Haha, so I unintentionally helped.

“From now on, if anyone tries to cause trouble, do exactly what you did today. Tell me everything.”

“Understood.”

Callix Crowbell waved his hand dismissively, telling me I could go now.

‘That’s it?’

Isn’t he going to ask anything about the construction?

I was puzzled, but since I really wanted to get off work quickly, I left the office without complaint.

* * *

I was about to leave work immediately, but the District 2 administrative officer came to see me and persistently clung to me, asking me to reconsider just one more time, so I couldn’t.

I was worried I might miss the stagecoach, but fortunately Anton Brown came just in time, so I could hand things over to him and barely catch the stagecoach.

Outside the window, darkness had already settled thickly. Every time my body swayed with the rattling vibrations, my whole body ached as if I had muscle pain.

“Ah, I’m dying.”

After being tormented by so many people today, I was completely exhausted both mentally and physically.

“I want to take a bath.”

If I could fill a bathtub with hot water, add bath salts, and soak my body, the fatigue would melt away.

The problem was that there was no bathtub at home. There was a wooden tub that could barely accommodate a half-bath, but no hot water came out even when I turned the faucet.

So I had to boil water in the kitchen and carry it to the bathroom.

‘At times like this, I miss when I lived in the lord’s castle.’

The lord’s castle had a bathtub and hot water flowed freely. It was all thanks to magic.

‘It would have been nice if I could use magic too.’

Last time, when Raellion smoothly planed boards without a planer in the elf village, and magic had many practical applications in daily life.

Later, when the system appears, I should casually ask if I can use magic too.

While thinking about this and that, I arrived home before I knew it.

“I’m home.”

“Welcome back.”

Tabin greeted me with a bright smile as always.

After seeing only people who made me tired, seeing Tabin’s smiling face relieved some of my fatigue.

“Eileen, a friend came to see you.”

“What? A friend?”

A friend at this late hour?

More than that, this woman actually had friends.

Since I hadn’t seen any even once during the past year, it was a bit fascinating yet bewildering.

If she really was Eileen’s friend, there would be memories they shared, and if she talked about them, I would have nothing to say.

“What kind of friend is she?”

“She’s a child I’m seeing for the first time too, and she said her name was Anabella.”

The moment I heard the name, my heart sank with a thud.

Anabella… that’s the original female lead!

I hurriedly headed to the living room where she was supposedly waiting.

“Huh?”

Anabella was really sitting on the sofa.

“Hello… Miss Eileen.”

She also spotted me and awkwardly stood up.

“Why are you here?”

The Lord must have thrown you out, right?

I was about to ask that but couldn’t, because Tabin came with warm tea. There was also bread baked this morning.

“I know my visit is sudden.”

Anabella also glanced at Tabin and slowly continued speaking.

“But there’s something I really want to say to Miss Eileen… If it’s not too rude, could we talk for a moment?”

Instead of answering, I glared at Tabin. He must have sensed the awkward atmosphere flowing between us, as he looked puzzled.

“Let’s go to my room and talk.”

Whatever purpose she came here for, it seemed like something Tabin shouldn’t hear, so I took Anabella and entered my room.

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