Avoid Former Co-Workers

62 – 62. Festival (1)

Dalian boasted great expectations and splendor, but it soon ended in vain.

Because of this, someone swallows regret, and someone returns with anger and despondency.

Princess Ophelia was responsible for dispersing the crowds gathered on the campus. With the clever handling of work, there would be no gossip.

A person approaches Ophelia when she has time to rest.

“How was it? Senpai, don’t you fight very well?”

Mysteriously, another princess from the empire who seems to have known his skills earlier. It was Rhenias.

The conversation between the two princesses after a long absence was truly honest. The subject is, of course, the scene that I just caught my eye.

“Great movement, great performance. It was a good sight.”

“Isn’t that right? Aren’t there more?”

“Actually, I had expectations that it would have been better if I had gone all the way. That was a bit disappointing.”

“That’s right, that’s right! I felt like I was going through a hole in my stomach. It’s a pity that I was blocked in the middle. I thought you would show everything properly.”

Renias also agreed while taking a motion of punching the air from the side.

“Opie. Junon-senpai trains really hard. You’re messing with knights from a tolerable family?”

“Was that enough?”

“Yeah! Opie would be surprised if he saw it in person? You mean senpai? You spend most of the day training——”

Renias doesn’t talk about other people, but judging from how he talks about it, it seems that he was quite close to him.

Ophelia smiled as viciously as her fox and bit her prey.

“How are you two? Strange.”

“Eh?”

Then, a single strand of Rhenias’s hair stood on end. It means upset.

What is the reason for asking what kind of relationship you have? It was a pretty funny situation, so Ophelia covered her mouth for a moment and laughed.

“That!! Isn’t that the kind of relationship Opie thinks?! The seniors and juniors are just seniors and juniors, and I’m in a position where they receive advice from me in various ways, such as physical training…?!”

Rhenias was a person who was honest with his feelings. So sometimes Ophelia would tease her like this.

But today, I think I showed a particularly strong reaction.

She was afraid that the misunderstanding would grow. She couldn’t smile as usual when she saw Rhenias making excuses.

“Oh.”

Ophelia’s reaction is awkward, so she soon finds a single strand of hair standing up like Rhenias’s antenna.

Rhenias, realizing that she had been playing alone, puffed out her cheeks and glared at Ophelia with her eyes filled with displeasure.

“It’s too much, Opie.”

“Hmmm. Every time I meet Lenny, she has the taste of teasing me like this.”

“Opie is in a sweeter mood with Sir Mikhail?!”

“Oops. We’re actually married, aren’t we?”

“Ooh…!”

At best, she countered by aiming between Ophelia and Goden, but Ophelia deflected it with her wit.

As the saying goes, although they are very close, there is no way for Rhenias to follow her eloquent Ophelia in speaking.

But Ophelia was serious.

‘I never thought Lenny would open up to her this much.’

Rhenias has a bright personality, but few people know what she looks like on the inside.

Few people know that appearances aren’t everything, and Ophelia was one of the few people who knew that.

Rhenias treats people kindly, regardless of who is not a wicked person, and even if she is a wicked person, she is lenient towards those who repent of their sins.

Just. Beautiful. Good and pure.

A person who deserves to receive all kinds of modifiers, but in general, a person who is loved by everyone. That much is known to the outside world.

In other words, it means that you only show the same face to everyone. That is the inner heart and dark inner side of Princess Lantana, Renias.

In other words, Rhenias had never been so deeply interested in a single person.

-Opie, are you listening? If you inform the senior, I will get angry!

But isn’t it different now?

The fact that he shows such a different interest means that Rennias regards Junon as a very special person.

The number of love letters that Rhenias has received so far is enough to easily pass over an armful, but has Rhenias ever given this much attention to someone else? Ophelia tried to revive her memory, but the target was too limited.

‘Couldn’t it be…?’

It seems like they have a crush on each other, but…

This is the first time I’ve had such a different reaction to an outsider.

“I want to go. I hate Opie.”

Oops. When she came to her senses, she saw that Rhenias was swollen tightly with her cheeks puffed out.

“Okay. Sorry for teasing you Lenny.”

“Chi. You always make fun of me like this.”

“Whoa. Lenny looked so cute today. More than that, Lenny. Can you finish what you were talking about earlier?”

“Huh? Are you talking about Junon-senpai?”

“Yes. I would like to hear more.”

Seeing Renias expressing emotions with her whole body, including that stupid hair standing up, she couldn’t help but worry.

***

The dissatisfaction with the end-of-semester evaluation, which had been talked a lot, erupted again in the system of welcome Dalian.

It may sound nagging, but the items Professor Meuniher told me to be aware of were applied intact this time as well.

Patience. Judgment. Improvisational ability. Wariness. Practicality.

Because it is not a pair, the sense of cooperation is missing, and since it is a sparring, the directionality is excluded. Other than that, pretty much the same reason was added.

Since it is the same task, the results of the placement test were announced quickly.

Even though they were given the same opportunity twice, they insisted on elemental magic and firepower as if they were wearing clothes that didn’t fit their body, and were pushed to the lowest place.

‘That should have been enough.’

I finished about two in this match, but I expect it to be enough for show.

There were forces that would protest against this class assignment test, so it was perfect to calm their resistance.

Since we actually made a case like that, it will be quiet for a while.

Professor Meuniher will be able to easily start the next work.

From now on, the time has come for us to take one step ahead.

“It’s a festival…”

At this time of year, Les Brandt Academy always holds a festival, an annual event.

Welcome party for freshmen. A congratulatory award for students who have been promoted from the placement test. A car of encouragement for the students who suffered from disappointment and agony. Prizes for all students who took the exam and so on.

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Based on these reasons, students start this semester with a festival.

Until now, the students in the lower class, especially the students in charge of the avant-garde position, were stressed rather than encouraged, but this will not be the case this time.

“That’s why it’s even more of a problem.”

Professor Meuniher removed the academy’s bad customs and customs by proposing a test called welcome sparring.

Unlike Professor Meuniher, who sided with the Principality, the Noble Alliance would immediately oppose this move.

Of course, it is obvious that he will be dissatisfied and try to do something.

To seize power while maintaining customs and conventions so as not to lose the rights enjoyed only by nobles, rearguards, and mid-ranking positions. Maybe that’s why.

What you need to prepare for is actually simple.

“All it takes is for the top to arrive straight…”

The problem is that the top should be quite mystical… There isn’t much information.

By the time the corps, which had been disturbed by the Noble Alliance, arrived, it had already happened.

Although the Archduke departed late, it was because the corps did not arrive intact.

In addition, in the meantime, as the aristocratic union, who insisted that the festival could not be postponed any longer, hosted it, the festival fell into their hands again.

So what can I do? Should be avoided in advance.

The last few days of the festival. I had no choice but to use this hectic time to move secretly.

“Hello. Can you tell me where you have some work left that deserves an allowance?”

“Right now, I only have work at the top.”

“Okay, just tell me what to do on which top.”

Then you can use work as an excuse to naturally contact the upper ranks.

***

“I have a lot of things today.”

“Did you hear that too? I thought I was the only one who thought so…”

“This person has been working for the upper management for several years. Can’t you recognize something like that?”

“Well, that’s it too.”

“Even with all the staff of the upper division, I think my hands are a little short.”

Two executives who had spent quite a while at the top were looking at the details and tilting their heads.

“Hello.”

“What outsider? Did you call?”

“No. Neither am I. There’s no way I could have a relationship with such a young friend.”

Automatically, the two executives look to the boy for an answer. To this the boy replies.

“I’m here to work. The Merchant’s Office said they were looking for workers. Isn’t it?”

“If you called a worker…”

“The Lord Danju called.”

The two men said they would check with Danju about the workers they had hired from outside and ask them to wait.

After a while, two people who have been to Sang Sangju check the boy’s profile and ask.

“I’m sorry. I thought you would solve the manpower shortage with academy students. Your name is Junon, and you’re a 3rd year student at Levant Academy? Is that right?”

“Yes. Here is your student ID on your pass.”

“Looks like I came to work because I needed urgent money, but I have a lot of things today. I could give you a generous allowance, but it might be a little difficult. Will you be okay?”

“It doesn’t matter. Just give me time to rest and eat.”

“Maybe it’s because he’s young, so he’s energetic. Follow me. Let’s start by moving things. Why aren’t the other guys coming when they say they’re coming? Jeop.”

I followed him complaining and looked around.

‘Everyone is covering their faces.’

Lewen top.

As a guild in charge of supplying goods to the duchy, it is not very famous.

However, few of the policies issued by the upper management or confidential information leaked outside. That’s the weak point

Usually, if the upper tier state of the principality hired someone, he would check it out at least once before entrusting it to the officers. He could be a spy from another guild.

Does it make sense that people who make a living on trust and information do not even look at the face of a worker, a representative person? It’s all for a reason.

That’s why the importance of this top line goes up.

Belongs to the side of the principality, but even before returning, it was not possible to find out what happened.

Pretending to be looking for work on purpose, that was the intention of choosing this Lewen Merchant out of many, many merchants.

“Okay. Put this on, change your school uniform into work clothes, and come. You’re room 229 from now on. You can’t talk by name while working at the upper level. Okay?”

“Okay.”

Another feature of Leuwen’s top.

They have their own work clothes, and cover their faces with hoods and masks. And without calling his name, he answers with the number written on his work clothes.

Name, age, scale of strength, birthplace, presence or absence of disease, etc.

This is to completely cover the identity of the target while fixing the information related to the identity of the people belonging to the top.

The reason was unknown, but even if it was a custom or custom, it had the advantage of being able to hide its identity, so it was rather not a bad condition.

After changing his clothes, another man arrived next to the man who looked like an executive.

“Greetings. I will be your escort from now on.”

It may be ironic in that identity is covered and guaranteed, but an escort is attached.

It also meant that the Lewen Merchant Company was very particular about the protection of workers.

“Room 229.”

There is no particular problem, it was a title used by the upper ranks asking to be followed like rules.

But something is strange.

“…?”

Not me, but the other person.

I was planning on just exchanging simple greetings, handing over what to do and instructions, and then averting the escort’s eyes, but… The person who came out to escort somehow doesn’t even answer.

What is it? What’s the reaction like?