Chapter 239 – One Day at the Receptionist
“Yes, I checked.”
When the mercenaries process the request and report back, their performance is recorded, and the completed request is collected in one place for disposal. It’s just a simple job that’s just repeating the same task every time. Elina looked over her papers and nodded her head with a fairly artificial sales smile.
As if she was satisfied with the contrived response she made, the mercenary put her dirty hands between her knuckles and fingernails on the reception desk and pushed her upper body abruptly.
There was an unpleasant smell of sweat.
“I made a lot of money because of the request, Mr. Receptionist. How is this evening… Any alcohol?”
The mercenary seems to have said it with a smile in his own way, but the stench from his mouth and dirty yellow teeth were just disgusting.
It wasn’t the first time that a man who didn’t even know the name of the man who tried to work on it was not the first one, so Elina didn’t change her expression and didn’t even look at the mercenary who was flirting and shouted at the long line behind her.
“Next person, please come.”
“Hey, hey. Still my words…”
“Hey! Get out of the way! Can’t you see the line behind you?!”
“What?”
The mercenary, who had been flirting with the annoyed voice of another mercenary coming from the far end of the line, turned his head away in embarrassment. Then, receiving countless stares from the long line of mercenaries, he hesitated and retreated.
After finishing the request, I came back and was already tired, but standing in line among people was quite a chore.
He must have wanted to finish his report and rest as soon as possible, but if the person in front of him was wasting his time and did not step out of the way, the ignorant, violent, and impetuous mercenaries would burst into anger without hesitation.
And the long lines of mercenaries do not hide their fatigue and stress from the mercenaries who, as expected, flirt and eat up their time.
Then you have no choice but to leave.
This was her own know-how to cleanly solve the irritating mercenary who was cheating on her, which she had learned while working as a receptionist for a not short period of time.
If the mercenary leaves, the mercenary standing behind will come and hand you his request and tell you about his business. Since it was self-evident, Elina was waiting for the next mercenary to hand out her request without taking her eyes off the documents she was recording.
“… ?”
It was a subtle time, a time that lasted only three to five seconds, but she raised her head in wonder as she didn’t hear anything.
“Ah…”
“You look busy. I’ve been waiting for a while. How have you been doing?”
Polite speech.
Elina was momentarily at a loss for words.
As usual, most of the people standing in front of it smell unpleasant, dirty, or violent, just like the mercenary they were flirting with just before.
However, the man standing in front of me now is different from Hansung.
It smells good, it’s clean, and it’s polite. Normally, I would have been able to treat him like an official.
As usual, if nothing happened.
But it wasn’t that nothing had happened to him.
The other day, she had witnessed his tryst with her older sister in the bathroom of her house, and accidentally splashed semen on her body, and shared a deep, deep kiss with him for the first time in her life.
After work, she masturbated until she went to bed to relieve the stress of the day.
So she was a little late in answering his greetings.
“Are you okay? Your face looks a little red.”
“Yes? Oh no it’s okay yes… It looks like you finished the job safely.”
“Thanks.”
Elina suppressed the strange pounding of her heart at his sweet smile, and she whispered to herself.
Hansung is dating her older sister. The happening that day was nothing more than a series of accidents. The reason he shared a hot kiss with himself was because he mistook himself for her sister.
Wake. I’m at work now.
Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he checked the contents of the request he handed over.
He was out with his party on a special commission. It was a quest to find traces of an unidentified monster.
Among the many mercenaries who went out for this special request, he was the first to return, so I became a little interested in the contents of the request.
“Seeing that you came back, you seem to have figured out the identity of the monster?”
“Yes. It’s Drake. He’s such a huge guy, but how fast he moves.”
“Hey…”
Most of the commissions he undertook had good results.
Of course, it’s a first-class mercenary, a mid-level necromancer. It may be because the aristocrat Alexander Natalia is with him.
But such connections are also a skill. In the first place, when he registered as a mercenary, it was Alexander Natalia who stood as a guarantor. If that’s the case, it must be that he also has outstanding skills.
From the point of view of the guild, it was only necessary to process the commissions they were entrusted with neatly and without punctures.
“Hmm… Yes. Has confirmed.”
Even while thinking about other things, his hands and mouth go through familiar procedures to write down and process his request records.
Near the end of the record, he changed the topic.
“Oh, and what I said before.”
“Yes?”
It was such a sudden change of topic, so when I asked again with my eyes wide open, Hanseong said again with a polite, friendly smile.
“I mean the party. Party. Elena’s celebration party.”
“Ah…”
“It opens soon, so you can’t miss it because you’re busy?”
Party… I had offered to join her for a surprise party to surprise her sister, who had apparently made her first achievement as an alchemist.
“Ahaha… Yes.”
“It’s good. Then I’m fine.”
When he replied with an awkward smile and nodded his head at his suggestion, Hanseong smiled contentedly and disappeared from the line without hesitation among the crowds of mercenaries.
He saw the back of his eyes and felt a little regretful.
Apparently, he must have said he had a crush on him before… However, at some point, all of that crush became towards his older sister, not himself.
Her older sister who gets that crush is a bit… Maybe not a little bit, but I felt envious of that.
*****
Arpagon’s gates close around 7:00 p.M., When the sun begins to set and the sky begins to turn indigo.
After the entrance to the city is completely blocked, when the time comes when there are no more mercenaries to come, the mercenary guild ends the long day.
I don’t like winter because it’s cold, but the fact that the days are shorter and I can leave work earlier than usual is a good thing.
“Um… Is this the end…”
Elina stood up from her seat and went upstairs with her pile of papers and walked into her familiar hallway. Walked in and entered the room where her father, the head of her branch, was.
“These are the papers processed today.”
“Well, leave it there and go.”
“… Are you going to sleep in the guild today?”
“It doesn’t matter because there is a bed here too.”
“Ha…”
Small sigh.
My father had been like that for a long time, but lately, he has been spending more and more days at work in the guild instead of coming home.
“How about dinner?”
“I haven’t eaten yet.”
“Eat at least rice and do it. And then your health deteriorates.”
“Don’t take care of it.”
Returning to worry is a blunt answer.
We know that it is difficult for a family that has lost an important puzzle piece to regain a harmonious smile.
Every year at this time, my father clings to work as if trying to drive away gloomy thoughts.
Even after several years, being unable to comfort such a father and taking the same course must be the problem of one’s own shortcomings.
His rebuke for his own inadequacies is naturally directed to his older sister, who has the same face and the same position as herself.
The only one who always comforts his father is himself.
He started working as a receptionist for the first time because he wanted to help at least if he couldn’t relieve his father’s burden.
I know it’s hard for both my father and my sister. But it’s hard for me too.
“Stop going to work. Good job.”
“Yes…”
What came out of his mouth was a resolute refusal to get involved with himself. It was a word that cut off further conversation, so Elina weakly replied and left her room.
She exits the guild and heads home on a familiar path. The road to home was very dark, but it didn’t matter if it was dark or bright on the road repeated every day. A road so familiar that you can walk even with your eyes closed.
The light was on when she got home. To be precise, the light in her sister’s room was on.
After that day, unlike herself who went out of her house to help her father, her sister became more and more confined to her room.
She could vaguely know that her older sister, who had stayed up all night every night and was immersed in some unknown research in her room and didn’t communicate well, had strangely brightened up recently.
At first she didn’t know what was the reason for her sister’s brightening.
But she found out. She looked away
Squat down in front of Hansung in the bathroom… She saw him, she watched him suck his cock, and she saw him jump on top of him through the open slit in the door and shake him violently.
Her stimulating figure of her male and female naked and mingling with each other was so stimulating to her as a virgin that when she closed her eyes, the scene came to mind easily.
It’s good that her older sister lights up. After that day, the faces of her family were overshadowed and no one smiled. It would be a good change, she thought, if she brightened even one.
But that change
“Ah… Hehe… Haha…”
“Oh…”
As soon as she opened the front door and came in, her body flinched and trembled at the sound of her sister’s voice, and she put aside the various thoughts that came to her mind step by step.
It wasn’t hard to imagine what was going on in her sister’s room, just from the heightened tone of her voice.
Even though she knows that this is something she shouldn’t do, her body naturally moves in front of her sister’s door.
Then she cautiously, silently opened the door and peeked through the gap.
