I Want to Be a Receptionist in the Magic World CHAPTER 19 Part 3
HARE EMPLOYMENT YEAR 1
Translator: Masakibluei
Harris
ne-san puts her hand on Zozo-san’s shoulder and peeks from behind to see my
face. She shakes her light brown hair away with a lively facial expression on
her face.
Nanari: “?”
Harris:
“When the Director has to share the information, she has to go personally to give the
report. You see, the Chief of the Chivalric Order and the Director are not in a
good term.”
Why does she look so happy about the fact that the Director will be in a bad mood? Her eyes behind her glasses are sparkling with excitement. But I have seen the Director in a bad mood so many times before, but I have never seen her together with the Chief in one place directly. If they met, will it be even worse? It may lead to other things beyond throwing bugs or salts.
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A few minutes later, the application process of the request is finished. In addition to the request form, we also wrote down Mr. Gouda Klein’s characteristics. A large build man with short olive brown hair and a mustache. We also wrote down every little detail like the clothes that he was wearing and the time of his disappearance. Mariah-san comes again to Hare before the sun sets down to check out the applications and sign it.
Beneath the “Searching for a Missing Person” words written on the paper, there is some footnote added with red color: Emergency with a demon on the area. If the paper is written like this, the exorcists will pick on it faster than usual.
When
we tell Mariah-san about the demon in the East forest, she is surprised at the
news but at the same time, she seems to have guessed that it might be the
case………She accepts the information very quickly.
Mariah:
“As I thought……”
As I thought?
Based on her answer, is there something else that she knows? Thus, I ask her for more information.
With
a frown on her face, she gives an apologetic face and tells me the reason.
Mariah:
“I didn’t get to tell you about this before, but lately the pockels have been
avoiding the East Forest. They don’t even want to get close to the fence. My
husband also told me so many times, that the forest seems to get even darker. I thought it was just a baseless talk because so far there were no harm
or incident happened. When I asked my Husband how the Pockel ran away from the
fence, he also did not know why and how the Pockel ran. Will you be able to
find him…?”
After
she signs the paper, she starts to cry and asks this question. However, she
immediately regains her composure right away and says these words with a lonely
tone in her voice.
Mariah:
“Who else can I believe in other than you, right?”
I
lower my eyebrows and sympathize with her. It can’t be helped that she will
worry about it. If it happens to my family, I won’t be able to hold my emotion.
I can’t even wait for a day. When I think about Mariah-san who has been waiting
for a day and a half without any news………Moreover, she also has a small child
with her. Although she smiles when she hugs her child, it’s very obvious that
she is forcing herself to be fine in front of her daughter. Furthermore, a
similar case that happened on the North Forest has not been settled and there
is no progress on that case up until now which makes her even more anxious.
Zozo:
“Even though we could not guarantee that everything will be fine, all of us are
praying for the safety of your husband. Let’s leave the rest of the matter to
the exorcists.”
Zozo-san
says those words to Mariah-san who is sitting on the wooden chair.
Nanari: “I hope they
will find her husband.”
After Mariah-san
left, I mutter those words while looking at the missing person paper that is
pasted on the bulletin board. I am merely talking to myself, but Zozo-san who
is right next to me gives out some response to my grumble.
Zozo: “We can only
leave this whole matter to the exorcists to solve it.”
I look at the window and see the sun is slowly setting down. As we see
the red colored sky, both of us let out a sigh together.
Zozo: “Nanari, you haven’t eaten yet, right? Shall we go to eat together? It will be my treat as I promised before. “
Nanari: “Yes……AH.”
My stomach is making a sound.
Zozo: “What’s wrong?”
Nanari: “No, Ehm, I have a plan after this. So, I’m sorry.”
Zozo:
“Oh, I’m okay, but……Is your stomach alright?”
I
have a plan with the Duke tonight……
Nanari:
“It’s alright.”
Although there is some time left before the bell of the morning star rings, but there is no time for dinner. No, actually there is some time, but no matter what, I want to eat to my heart content after everything is over. Even though I hate to refuse Zozo-san’s invitation, but nothing I can do about it. By the way, I haven’t look properly at the handkerchief that is given by the Duke. He told me to go somewhere, is the address written on the handkerchief?
In
order to avoid the lady next to me see the handkerchief, I stealthily take out
the handkerchief out of the small bag. I open the handkerchief as slow as
possible to avoid making any sound. On the handkerchief is written: ‘Behind the
Duke residence.’
Michael: “There
is something that I want to check. Accidentally I get to meet you, so I want to
ask for your help.”
That was what he said, but what is his real objective?
From
what I see, it’s undeniable that he was making this plan out of the blue.
Either way, it’s obvious that his request will be quite a hassle. But I’m quite
happy that he wants to rely on me. Therefore, regardless of the suspicious
circumstances, I want to do this task perfectly without any blunder.
But
truly, when I get involved with him, I get bad luck.
(When
I go there, I will pretend that I don’t see him)
I
don’t have any time to eat and I’m really hungry now.
Zozo: “Hei, Nanari”
Nanari: “Yeah?”
Zozo: “The place where we teleported by accident today, was that Duke Lockman’s residence, right?”
Nanari:
“Yes.”
Zozo: “I’m so jealous~. You were in the same year as His grace’s son, right? You are close friend with him, right.”
Nanari: “No! We are not friends! That’s for sure!”
Zozo:
“E? Is, is that so?”
Since we were teleported to Lockman’s
residence, she has not asked any questions about it. But she consoles me and
says, “Well, this kind of thing can happen too.”
However,
she still thinks that it was weird that we ended up at that place. Thus, she
becomes curious about the reason why we ended up there. Thus, she came to the conclusion that I might be close to Lockman.
Nanari:
“You see, in the first place……”
Since
it was not something that I especially want to hide, I start to tell her my
past with him. But rather than talking about all the detail of the back story,
I just want to explain my deep grudge to her.
I did not hide the fact that being the 2nd rank was a
humiliation to me, nor that he was my long arch nemesis. I tell her everything.
Zozo:
“Oh my, so that’s what happened when you were a student. I see.”
Zozo-san nods her head a couple times while she is listening to my story.
In the past, I talked about this to my closed friends like Nike, Benjamin and Marisa so many times. However, they only replied, “alright, alright”, or “My ears have grown some callouses”, or, “Rather than that, you are talking too much about this,” to my stories that I earnestly told to them. This made me cried out on my pillow so many times. No one seemed to willingly listen to my stories. Even Benjamin chose to ignore my stories and preferred to listen to any kind of information about Santanath. It would be better if we talked about her cute love stories, but even my personal stories were less interesting than a story about Santanath falling down on the corridor.
Perhaps
because this is the first time Zozo-san hears my story, she is listening to my
stories attentively from the beginning to the end. At this moment, Zozo-san
looks like a god in my eyes. Naturally, as human beings, we need emotional
support. From now on, I will be Zozo-san’s loyal devotee.
Zozo: “So, you are close to him after all?”
Nanari:
“It’s confirmed!”
I
renounce my faith in Zozo-san.
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