Chapter 99
At first, I thought it was an enemy invasion.
Then I realized how crazy it was for so lunatic to do such a thing, and when I saw a being appear after the light that tore through the space vanished, I was even more stunned.
“…Teller?”
The one who showed up with the light was a woman who looked like she was in her mid-twenties.
She was hovering about 50cm above the ground, and she was clearly a teller like .
Her suit fit her body perfectly and was so neat that there was not a single wrinkle.
Her skin was so pale that it seed transparent.
Her hair was braided and tied up in a neat bun, shining with a brilliant golden hue.
But the most peculiar thing about her was the strange wings that glowed like magic circles behind her back.
I knew of a race in the mixed world that had wings like that.
“A Wing Clan?”
At the sa ti, the Winged-like woman’s gaze t mine.
Her eyes, which stared at intently, were translucent erald that reminded of the sea at a resort.
She landed on the ground and bowed her head to .
“Are you Mr. Kang Yuhyeon, an assistant manager of the Teller Departnt?”
“Yeah, that’s .”
The fact that she addressed with respect ant that she was lower in rank than .
But what surprised more was her existence.
Before I could ask anything, the Winged-like woman introduced herself.
“Nice to et you. I’m Celine, a teller from the Support Departnt. I’ve been assigned to assist you with your teller work from today.”
Yeah.
That’s right, her na was Celine.
She was exactly like the one in my mory.
“The Support Departnt?”
“Yes. Is there a problem?”
She looked at as if she didn’t know anything and asked.
I hid my confusion and shook my head.
But inside, I wondered how this could happen.
“I’ve never heard of the Support Departnt before.”
The Support Departnt existed to assist the Teller Departnt.
I knew that too.
The tellers in the Teller Departnt would get help from the Support Departnt as they rose in rank.
But usually, the Support Departnt only sent people to tellers who were at least in the middle of their assistant manager level.
I had only been an assistant manager for a few days.
There was no way I could get support from the Support Departnt already.
But then, she suddenly showed up like this? Without any official notice?
“This is a special case.”
Celine answered without hesitation.
“A special case?”
“Yes. You are an unprecedented case in Celestial Corporation who beca an assistant manager at an incredibly fast pace. This is almost the first ti ever, and because of that, the higher-ups decided to make so ‘exceptions’ for this case.”
“So that’s why they sent a teller from the Support Departnt?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Hmm.
I stroked my chin and carefully analyzed the situation.
I was a teller who beca an assistant manager at an unheard-of speed in Celestial Corporation.
It was natural for the headquarters to pay attention to .
So they sent a teller from the Support Departnt under the na of a special case as soon as I beca an assistant manager.
It would normally take a teller who was in the middle of their assistant manager level to barely get help from the Support Departnt.
This was almost an enormous privilege.
‘But it’s too sudden to accept it happily.’
In this situation, Celine’s appearance was welco to , but I wasn’t soone who would easily accept such a perfect coincidence.
It might seem like they were generously supporting because they found an excellent teller in their company.
But I didn’t think Celestial Corporation, which forced competition, would give such a one-sided benefit as an individual.
‘There must be so kind of deal behind this.’
They sent Celine from the Support Departnt without any notice to , and it felt like they rushed things.
Maybe it was because I cleared Ghost Land with Kwon Jia and made a na for myself again in the mixed world.
I showed them a teller work that drew great reactions from the spirits.
They had no choice but to be interested in .
‘Are they watching ?’
They wouldn’t have sent help out of pure goodwill.
If I were right, they would surely have her monitor as well.
An unintended involvent.
Maybe she was pushed out by the company politics and assigned to soone like .
She didn’t hide her dislike and spat it out.
‘I guess this will be interesting.’
She was so bold to say that in front of .
She probably knew that she was involved in sothing political and didn’t like it.
“Okay. Nice to et you, Celine. I was a bit surprised because it was so sudden. But, well, since it’s a privilege, I should be grateful.”
“I’d like to tell you in advance.”
Celine said, with a hint of tension in her eyes.
“This is purely because of the order from above, not my personal will at all. I hope you don’t ask to do anything unreasonable using this as an excuse.”
“Huh.”
Did she really say that to ?
Looking at her tone and attitude, she must have hated being here and blad for it.
An unwanted entanglent.
Maybe she was pushed out by the company politics and assigned to soone like .
She didn’t hide her dislike and spat it out.
‘I guess this will be interesting.’
If Celine was suspicious, I wouldn’t mind kicking her out.
But since the support room had already decided to help, sending Celine away would only bring another support room teller.
Whoever ca would surely be under the strong influence of the higher-ups.
Rather, it was much better to keep Celine with .
‘Besides, Celine is a teller I know.’
I recalled the past.
The face of a teller who taught various things with a blank expression and a stiff tone.
A teller who was cold on the outside, but strangely sentintal on the inside.
‘Is this fate too?’
More than anything, this was an opportunity that I could use to my advantage.
Hiding my intentions, I smiled brightly and offered her a handshake.
“Sure. Can I call you comfortably as a junior? Celine junior. Let’s do well from now on.”
“…I look forward to working with you.”
Celine shook my hand with a rigid expression.
The people in our office who were watching the situation made a slightly disgusted expression.
“No matter how I look at it, that expression. Surely, there’s sothing fishy.”
Especially Baek Seoryeon, who had a keen eye, seed to have read sothing from my smile and shivered.
Hey, can’t you be quiet?
“Is there anything I need to do?”
“Is this your first ti doing this?”
“I received so basic training from the support room.”
“So this is your first ti in the field.”
“…You could say that.”
The teller they sent as a favor was practically a rookie.
Well, I was also practically a rookie in terms of my experience as a teller.
Only my rank was higher, but my skill level was very low.
In a way, Celine, who had just started working in the field, might be the most suitable teller for them to send .
“Well, you must have learned this and that from the support room, right?”
Celine nodded at my question.
“Yes. You don’t have to worry about that part. I proudly ranked first in the basic training.”
“Oh. I thought so.”
“Huh? How did you…”
Celine was puzzled by the answer that slipped out of my mouth.
I quickly added an explanation.
“Of course, because you ranked first, they sent you to . No matter what, I just beca an assistant. What support room teller would want to work with a teller who has only a higher rank and lower experience than them? If they have to send soone, they would send a rookie who just started working in the field. But they can’t just send anyone who is incompetent, so they sent the best one among them.”
“…”
For the first ti, I saw a slight fluctuation of emotion in her emotionless eyes.
She must have looked at again for deducing the situation from just that.
“Anyway, I’m glad you ca. I was having trouble working alone and needed so help.”
“I am…”
“Don’t be so stiff. It’s not good to be grumpy from the start, right? I won’t make you do anything you’re worried about, so relax.”
The support room tellers usually do the dirty work of the field tellers when they first get assigned.
It’s called dirty work, but it’s basically handling all kinds of annoying and hard chores.
That’s what Celine was worried about. Of course, I didn’t have such intentions.
‘I can’t trust soone who doesn’t trust yet.’
First of all, simple tasks.
I only planned to make her do things that were reasonable and convincing to her.
My eyes naturally turned to Kwon Jia and Kang Hye-rim.
They were flustered by Celine’s appearance, but they quickly realized what was going on.
I could only move with one collector at a ti.
There was quite a gap between Kang Hye-rim and Kwon Jia’s levels, so we couldn’t move together as three.
That ant that one of them would be left out if I chose one.
But now that Celine appeared, there was no need for that.
The important thing was that depending on who I chose, the collector that Celine would take care of would naturally be decided.
They both looked tense.
I smiled slyly and asked.
“So, who wants to go to the world of thoughts with ?”
Kwon Jia and Kang Hye-rim raised their hands at the sa ti.
Only Celine looked confused by the situation without understanding it.
***
To put it simply, the person who was chosen by this ti was Kwon Jia.
It was an obvious result. Kwon Jia was still weak.
Her skills, experience, and knowledge were certainly more impressive than those of an upper-class collector, but the problem was her specs.
She barely achieved the basic conditions with the points she borrowed from , but it was not enough considering the future tasks.
She needed to beco stronger than she was now.
‘Besides, she needs to pay back the points she borrowed from as soon as possible.’
She earned a lot of points from clearing this Ghost, but it was still not enough to pay off my debt.
She also needed to get new weapons and equipnt, and the huge amount of points she earned from her first fieldwork soon ran out.
It was a pity that the points were consud so quickly, but there was always a return for the investnt. Kwon Jia was able to wield her sword in a much better condition than before.
“How do you feel?”
“…Not bad.”
She was about to say good, but maybe the filter of the cold tone that was typical of returnees kicked in, and she gave a curt answer.
Not bad for her ant very good for ordinary people, so I shrugged my shoulders lightly.
‘By the way, how is her condition now?’
I glanced at Kwon Jia’s status window.
Na: Kwon Jia
Trait: Infinite Regression
Title: None
Stories: [Liberator of the List] [Tough Outside, Soft Inside] [Drear]
Skills: [Fate Perception] [Sensory Amplification] [Unstoppable Will] Sky-Biting God Style
-Stats-
Strength: Low
Agility: Low
Stamina: Low
Intelligence: Low
Magic(Ki): Low
Even if she was a returnee, she was still at the beginning stage, so her skills and stories were lacking.
Her stats were almost at the bottom, and she only had one trait.
But even if it was just one trait, that [Infinite Regression] alone was enough to overpower any other protagonist-level trait, and there was one more skill that caught my interest.
‘Sky-Biting God Style?’
‘It bites the sky.’
It was a skill that I had never seen before, even with my knowledge of the future.
I didn’t know everything, but if it was such a skill, I should have heard of it sowhere.
‘Baekryeon.’
[What?]
‘Do you rember the skill that Kwon Jia used in the Ghost island?’
[Oh, that.]
Baekryeon seed to recall that ti and clicked his tongue.
[That was the most vicious skill I’ve ever seen in my life. Even if I don’t rember much from the past, I can tell by the feeling. That skill is definitely one of those absurd martial arts.]
‘Really? I guess returnees are returnees after all. They still have their ultimate skill left.’
[But, she seems to have trouble using it. And on top of that, there aren’t many weapons that can handle that kind of energy. I managed to endure it because I’m , but diocre weapons will easily break.]
‘I see…’
Even if she was a returnee, everything was reset at the point of regression.
But she still used such a skill, which ant that she either received so kind of special favor or it was one of the effects of the trait of regression.
I wanted to ask her directly, but she didn’t seem like the type to easily reveal her secrets. It was also rude to ask such things even if we were allies.
“Hmm. Anyway, let’s go. Let’s finish this world of thoughts quickly.”
“Let’s do that.”
As I was about to open the library with her answer, I rembered sothing that I had forgotten.
“Ah, right. Wait a minute.”
“Hm?”
“I haven’t opened the gifts from the spirits yet.”
The incident in the Ghost island was so big that I forgot about the gifts for my promotion to assistant.
They would surely ask how the gifts were when I opened the library, but I still hadn’t opened them yet.
‘I should check them out beforehand.’
I imdiately moved to [The Room of the Observer] and opened the gift window to check the contents.
Michael and Satan.
I opened my eyes wide as I saw what they had sent .
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