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After signing the contract,
Baek Young-hee volunteered to show us around the guild facilities.
Baek Young-hee said with a face full of pride.
“People call this building the ‘White Castle.’ It’s like one giant castle.”
The entire building was owned by the White House Guild, and hundreds of people worked there in addition to superhumans.
It’s practically like a huge corporation.
As the successor to the company, Baek Young-hee’s pride was immense.
“I will guide you through it one by one, starting from the first floor.”
We followed Baek Young-hee to tour the guild facilities. She added detailed explanations.
“This is the training room. You can train while checking your physical condition regularly with state-of-the-art equipment.”
“This entire floor is the personal quarters of the superhumans. You two can move in whenever you want.”
“This is the operations control room. Operators are always on standby to support the superhuman team.”
“This is the monster corpse storage room… Excuse me? Are you listening to me?”
Baek Young-hee, who had initially taken the lead with a proud expression, looked increasingly embarrassed as we both showed indifferent reactions.
When I had guided her halfway through the facility, Baek Young-hee asked me with a look of incomprehension.
“Why aren’t you surprised at all?”
“Huh? Should I be surprised?”
When I tilted my head and asked again, Baek Young-hee answered with a confused expression.
“Well, when you first see such a state-of-the-art facility… you’re usually surprised or impressed.”
Ahh. I was wondering what it was.
To the average person, these facilities would probably be quite surprising.
You’ll probably be wide-mouthed in amazement.
I reacted belatedly like a normal person.
“Wow! This is really amazing. Is this floor made of marble?”
Then Baek Young-hee made a dumbfounded expression.
“The acting is really obvious. And the surprising point is that the marble on the floor is barely there?”
I made a puzzled expression.
“I got caught.”
I couldn’t help but be surprised.
Everything here is old-fashioned to me.
There’s no reason to be surprised by equipment that’s 20 years old.
“I’m the type of person who doesn’t get surprised easily.”
At my words, Baek Young-hee sighed as if she had given up.
“That’s right. Team Leader Lim is an expert at surprising others.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
We took the elevator to the next floor.
Now, Baek Young-hee explained indifferently, with an expression that showed no expectation.
“This is a restaurant. There’s nothing special about it, but we hire excellent nutritionists and chefs to run it for the health of the superhumans. It’s a 24-hour buffet, so you can come anytime…”
That was when the intense reaction that Baek Young-hee had wanted erupted for the first time.
Of course, it didn’t come from me.
“Huh!!”
I looked around and saw Lily with the look of astonishment on her face, like an atheist who had just witnessed heaven.
Nose flaring. Gulp gulp.
slap!
If I hadn’t grabbed him by the scruff of the neck right away, he would have jumped straight for the food.
Lily, who had her neck grabbed, looked back at me with pitiful eyes.
“please···.”
I shook my head firmly.
“No. It hasn’t even been an hour since I ate chicken.”
He ate three of them by himself.
How on earth did the stomach come to be?
I’m worried that if this continues, it will evolve into a fire pig rather than a fire witch.
I lifted Lily’s neck up so that she was facing me straight in the face.
And he gave a stern warning.
“If you keep doing this, you’ll end up obese. If you get fat, you won’t be able to have a boyfriend.”
My realistic warnings were of no use.
“I’ll just eat a little bit! Just a little bit! Just let me eat a little bit!”
When I didn’t let go, the little boy started throwing tantrums, waving his hands and feet wildly.
“I’m going to eat it-!”
“ha···.”
I let out a deep sigh of frustration, and Baek Young-hee spoke next to me.
Even if you don’t understand Gaian, if you have a little bit of insight, you can figure out why the kid is acting like that.
“How about stopping by for a bit?”
“Oh my.”
In the end, I, a good person, had no choice but to give in.
I said as I lowered Lily to the floor.
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“I’ll let you go if you promise to eat just one plate.”
“huh!”
After a while, I was able to experience with my own eyes the physical limits of how much food can be contained on one plate.
It’s like,
“The Leaning Tower of Pisa···.”
What was even more surprising was that as the tower tilted, it became smaller at a terrifying rate.
After a while like that,
“Remember~”
We took Lily, who was barely able to appease her hunger, and headed to the next floor.
“This is the equipment manufacturing workshop. Most of the guild’s superhumans custom-make their equipment here.”
Inside the workshop, dozens of technicians were busily moving about, making something.
In addition to basic weapons such as swords, swords, and spears, there were also armor and equipment optimized for specific environments.
Considering its time, its technology was considerably ahead of its time.
White House. It wasn’t a major guild for nothing.
“This place is quite impressive.”
Baek Young-hee smiled brightly at my compliment.
“If you tell us what weapon you want, the technicians here will make it. We’ll have a fake in two days, and a finished product in a week. Our workshop’s technical skills are unmatched anywhere…”
I cut off Baek Young-hee before her explanation got any longer.
“I’m done.”
“yes?”
The facilities in this workshop were certainly excellent.
But not to the extent I want.
“There is a separate person in charge of manufacturing the equipment.”
I know the best tailor in the world, so why bother getting your clothes tailored at a ready-made store?
“Until then, I’ll just use this.”
I took the two short swords that were on one side of the workshop.
The center of gravity was well-balanced and the weight was just right. It was enough for me to use for a while.
“Have you seen all the places there are to see now?”
“······.”
Baek Young-hee had a somewhat dissatisfied look on her face, but soon sighed and nodded.
“There is one last place left.”
***
The place we arrived was the representative office.
As we opened the door and went in, Baek Chang-soo, who had been busy working, raised his head and looked at us.
“Ah, you came.”
···That look somehow seems like a production.
Regardless of my suspicions, Baek Chang-soo got up from his seat and walked towards us with brisk strides.
“Welcome, Team Leader Lim. You won’t regret choosing White House.”
Baek Chang-soo opened his arms wide and hugged me.
I answered awkwardly while lying in his arms.
“I look forward to working with you in the future.”
At that moment, Baek Chang-soo whispered softly in my ear.
“Would you like to spar with me later?”
This guy still hasn’t given up.
“I politely decline.”
“You really are going too far···.”
Baek Young-hee, who was standing behind us, sharply questioned her father.
“What did you just say, sir? You didn’t say you wanted to spar again, did you?”
Baek Chang-soo jumped.
“No way! I was asking when the welcome party would be held! Team Leader Lim, is this weekend free?”
“Me… maybe?”
“That’s great. I’ll call the other team leaders too, so let’s have a welcoming party then!”
Somehow, the date for my welcome party was set.
Baek Chang-soo, who had barely let me go, bent down and made eye contact with the little boy next to me.
“Pretty little girl. Your name is Lily, right? Please take care of me.”
Lily asked me in Gaier with a curt expression.
“Is this guy a pervert?”
“My younger brother also asked me to take good care of him.”
Baek Chang-soo laughed heartily at my smooth interpretation, and Lily hid behind my back and cursed in Gaia.
Baek Chang-soo invited us to sit down.
“Then let’s talk more about personal matters at the welcome party···.”
He still gave off the impression of being a nice guy, but the atmosphere had changed a little.
“Shall we talk about work from now on?”
“great.”
“First, let me briefly explain how our guild works.”
The story that followed was quite long, but since it was almost all a familiar story, I listened to it with one ear and let it go out the other.
“···This is how it goes back.”
Of course, I pretended to listen carefully.
“Hmm. It’s more complicated than I thought.”
Baek Chang-soo nodded and said.
“I acknowledge your skills, but since this is your first time living in a guild, it won’t be easy to adjust. If you have any difficulties, please tell Manager Baek Young-hee next to me at any time.”
“All right.”
The story was almost over.
“Well, today is my first day at work, so I’ll take a look around the guild facilities a bit more and then leave…”
It was definitely time to say ‘get off work’.
Beep-!
The emergency bell rings like an ominous sign.
-Sir! This is the Operations Control Room!-
“What’s going on?”
Baek Chang-soo, who had urgently received the call, gradually became more and more stern.
“···What? Hmm. This is difficult.”
Perhaps thinking that I was flustered by this sudden situation, Baek Young-hee whispered in my ear.
“This is the direct line to the Operations Control Room. Something must have happened. For example, a sudden gate opening or something…”
I knew it even without you explaining it to me.
···But this makes me feel uneasy for no reason.
Baek Chang-soo was pacing around the office with a serious expression on his face while talking on the phone.
At one point he cried out in a startled voice.
“What?! A new type of monster? Why, when all the teams were out on the scene···.”
Excuse me, sir?
Why are you looking at me instead of speaking?
Since it was my first day at work, weren’t they letting me leave work early?
Baek Chang-soo met my eyes and smiled brightly as he spoke.
“Yeah. Not all the teams were on site.”
I sighed and got up from my seat.
In this situation, I didn’t have much of a social life to the point where I could just sit there and not notice anything.
As soon as I nodded, Baek Chang-soo gave instructions to the operation control room.
“Send 7 teams to the scene. Prepare vehicles immediately.”
Baek Chang-soo hung up the phone and looked at me.
“Team Leader Lim. I’m sorry for starting from day one, but I have a favor to ask. The current situation is···”
I said, tilting my neck slightly from side to side.
“It seems urgent, so I’ll listen on the way. Where should I go?”
***
About 10 minutes later.
Arriving at the scene, I got out of the vehicle and checked the ear microphone.
“This is Team 7. Operations Control Room. Can you hear me?”
-This is the Operations Control Room. The reception is good. The filming team and medical team will arrive on scene in about 5 minutes.
The voice heard through the earphones was Baek Young-hee.
Team 7 was still without a dedicated operator, so she was filling in for them.
“Can we just go straight to the scene?”
Baek Young-hee thought for a moment about my question and then said.
-Can you explain the current situation first?
“The situation is···”
I briefly described the scene unfolding before my eyes.
“It’s a total mess.”
< The End >
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