Guild Boss's Ambition

But Miss Lannong doesn't have those relevant racial characteristics!

Is it possible...

Could it be that Miss Lannong and Tris are both some kind of unusual creatures? !

I was born with a special intuition about supernatural events. On certain special days, I can see the activities of ghosts and monsters, such as monsters like Tracey. Sometimes I can also distinguish their breath, as if there is an invisible force leading me away from danger all the way, allowing me to grow up healthily despite my ill-fated life.

But now I don’t feel anything unusual from Miss Lannong.

Intuitively, she looks like a very ordinary human girl.

"Ms. Lannon looks really mature. How old are you this year?"

"13 years old, the same age as your class."

In answer to this question, Miss Lannon gave a strange smile, then she looked around and continued: "Is the work done? I have something personal to give you."

Have something for me? Something personal? Something about Lian Er?

With doubt in my mind, I straightened the bed sheet that Miss Lan Nong had sat on, turned around and answered, "Although the work has basically come to an end, it seems a bit inappropriate to do personal things during work, right? Well, no! You seemed to have said that you are one of the shareholders here, right? Since you are the boss, there is no problem!"

While I was answering my own questions with a split personality, Miss Lan Nong gave me a gentle smile, which meant that I should follow her. So I hurriedly threw all the sundries in the room onto the auxiliary cart for work, and then quickly pushed the cart to catch up with Miss Lan Nong who had left first.

After turning two corners on the second floor and walking for a while, we stopped in front of a room.

The room's doorplate reads Miss Lan Nong's name.

"Put the cleaning car outside first. Even though it's not dirty, it feels weird."

"Oh, okay."

I answered her request in a simple manner. She took out the key, opened the door, and led me into the room. The room was quiet and fragrant. Apart from us, there was only a black cat sleeping on the dressing table. I heard that its name was Augustus. Miss Lannon did not seem to expect its existence. She smiled in surprise and tenderness, but did not go over to disturb its sleep.

I was silently watching Miss Lannong, and was unconsciously fascinated by her every move.

Click, click, click, click...

The sound of footsteps alone made my heart tense.

Miss Lan Nong is more fascinating when she is silent than when she speaks. It’s not that I dislike Miss Lan Nong because she is very noisy when she speaks, but it is a transition from cute and lively to elegant and quiet. I never thought that I have a girlish heart that appreciates beautiful things, but at this moment, I can't help but immerse myself in it.

Oh──

When the black-haired girl opened the wardrobe, a series of unsmooth, shrill sounds were heard, and she frowned in displeasure. She looked at the mechanical joints connecting the cabinet doors, and I followed her gaze and saw that the mechanical joints were rusted. My solution was to grind off the rust and then re-apply oil.

Miss Lannong did not immediately take action to deal with this little unpleasantness in her life. She bent down and buried herself in the pile of clothes. The girl's closet was very deep, enough to bury her entire upper body in it. After a rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other, the girl came out of the closet with a whoosh, her cheeks flushed, and a shoe box.

I had a hunch.

I was a little flattered by that premonition.

"Branni said you were short of a pair of shoes, and it just so happens that I have some extra ones here," she said with a smile.

"How much?" I asked, quickly taking out my wallet.

The black-haired girl chuckled and opened the lid of the shoe box. The black shoes in the box were shining with a beautiful glossy luster. No matter how you looked at it, they were too new and shiny to look like a pair of second-hand shoes, and the entire design seemed to be very expensive.

"It's free and I'll lend it to you indefinitely. A while ago, a silly girl who was also thirteen years old gave it to me as a return gift, but she didn't realize that my feet had grown bigger and the size was not right. Now I have you, which is perfect. The right shoes should be worn by the right people. If it keeps growing mushrooms here, the shoemaker who made it will curse me behind my back."

Since the other party has such good intentions, as a poor person I can only thank and accept it.

I took the shoes with great care, hugged them in my arms and said gratefully, "Thank you, Miss Lannon."

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24. Types of work (Taimi)

(Taimi-Moni)

During my second week at the Stone House, I began to understand Miss Lannon's confidence in the bet.

Although most of the dormitories in our stone house are rented by contract adventurers for a long time, there are also many short-term travelers who stay in the guild every day. Unless it is a busy day, I usually work alone most of the time on duty. During those times, I rarely have the opportunity to talk to others. I just routinely clean up the guest rooms one by one.

I have to say that this working model is indeed efficient.

Compared to the slow self when I first started working, the time it takes me to tidy up one guest room is now enough for me to tidy up three guest rooms. As my personal efficiency improves, I am gradually able to get a little free time from my busy work. During this free time, I can do my homework for school or sneak back to my dormitory to take a nap.

These days, I sometimes feel bored.

Even by yesterday afternoon, I had mastered the technique that Senior Berlane used when laying out the sheets. The most important thing was the control of force. When stretching the sheets, the force had to be evenly distributed in different directions. Then, the sheets had to be fixed decisively and neatly with the weight of the mattress. In this way, the final effect would naturally be clean and bright.

There is a great sense of accomplishment when you succeed, but it is also accompanied by a deep sense of emptiness.

I realized that I urgently needed a goal to improve myself.

I am still very young, and what this job can bring me is not only salary, but more importantly, practical experience.

I hope to learn more.

The Stone House Adventurer's Guild is a treasure trove of knowledge. As long as I take the initiative to ask seniors Annie and Blanny, they will be happy to arrange work for me other than housekeeping. In fact, the so-called housekeeping is often only done full-time by the newly hired housekeepers. Everyone always hopes to learn a skill in the future.

Cleaning a room isn't a skill—it's a shared understanding.

If I want to earn more money or learn more in the future, I must give up my current housekeeping job, which means that I will lose the bet with Miss Lannong.

"But cleaning the room is fun..."

"Oh, it's the new poster girl I haven't seen before!"

When I was doing my homework in the lounge alone, biting my fingernails, a woman who did not belong to the group of poster girls walked in. She was a goddess-like beauty. The so-called goddess-like was a mixture of elegance, sexiness and eroticism. Due to the evil nature of the human race, girls of this type were easily hostile to their own sex, but this woman was probably a special exception.

She is very beautiful, so beautiful that it cannot be compared.

Having stayed in this stone house for more than two weeks, I have already developed 100% aesthetic fatigue.

Just a beauty, no big deal.

"Hello, who are you?" I asked lazily, holding my chin.

"Mafeluna, have you heard of this name?" the beautiful woman asked, pointing at the tip of her nose.

Thinking of someone who had said something similar before, I jokingly replied, "Sorry, I don't really know you, but I feel vaguely familiar with you. Are you also one of the shareholders of our Stone House?"

The pretty woman was really confused by what I said: "Shareholders? What do you mean by that?"

Feeling a little satisfied that my prank was successful, I apologized and said, "It's nothing. I was just telling a joke to myself."

Hearing this, the woman who called herself Marfeluna made an awkward sound, touched the back of her collar and asked, "It seems that you really can't remember the name Marfeluna. Is it because the new logo I designed is not eye-catching enough? Is there a problem with the color? Or is it the lines of the letters at the end? Oh, it's all your fault! You've almost destroyed my self-confidence!"

Maybe the beauty's sigh had a miraculous effect, and I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the name Mafeluna.

It's not quite right to call it a name. To be specific, it's something similar to calligraphy, or an exquisite embroidery sewn on a small piece of cloth. There's such a small piece of cloth on the inside of the collar of all the poster girl uniforms. Because it looks a bit prickly on the back of the neck, when I got the uniform, I specifically asked senior Blanny what it was used for.

"It's used to hook clothes."

I remember that senior Blanny answered like this.

I cried out in joy when I remembered the little thing: "Oh, I remember! It's the little piece of cloth used to hang clothes!"

Mafeluna smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, that's it. The words on it are not bad, right?"

I smiled and nodded, answering without thinking, "The font is nice, but the piece of cloth is very prickly, so I cut it off! And if you want to hang the uniform, it will be neater to use the hanger directly."

Only after I had spoken out my inner evaluation did I realize belatedly that I seemed to have said the wrong thing.

Mafeluna narrowed her eyes and said, "You really mean what you say! And you even changed my design without my permission!"

Hey, hey!

Is this another important person whom I cannot afford to offend?

Come on! When did I become so speechless?

I shrank my chin as the beauty stared at me, and said with a flattering smile, "It was an unintentional mistake, so... that..."

puff.

It is said that beautiful women love to laugh. In just two seconds, the angry Marfiluna in front of me turned into a smile. She relied on her height to rudely grab the tip of my nose and said with a chuckle, "Ignorance is not a crime. I'll forgive you this time, but next time you are not allowed to mess with my design. If you are not satisfied with anything, just tell Xiaolan and let her come to me directly. Do you understand?"

I unnoticeably removed my hand from my nose and said with a smile, "I understand! Now I understand everything! But, Miss Marfiluna, who are you? How can I help you?"

Marfiluna stepped back, startled and said, "Oh, I almost got caught up in the business. Have you seen Xiaolan? Or the adventurer Miss Baiye? I have something I want to talk to them about."

"I don't know where Miss Lan Nong went, and although I haven't seen Miss Bai Ye, I heard from Lian'er that she will accompany her sister Bai Ye to the market to buy things this afternoon. Calculating the time, they should have gone out."

"Oops, it's a bad time."

Mafeluna sighed in distress, then turned her curious eyes to me and asked, "Forget it, since Lord Bai Ye is not here, my work is over. So what about you, little janitor? You looked so sad just now. Did you encounter any difficulties? Do you need my advice?"

"Opinions? I think... the bet between me and Miss Lannon is not something that others can help with."

Even after hearing my refusal, Mafeluna still did not give up her curiosity and continued to ask: "Then, even though I may not be able to help, can you please share the matter with me? After all, the things that Lord Lannong does are usually very interesting, and it should be good to just listen to them as stories. Or is this a secret between you two?"

"This isn't really a secret..."

Thinking that the bet between Miss Lannon and I was known to almost the entire guild, I did not hide it any further and immediately told the whole story to Maleficent. After learning about my situation, this beauty slowly put on an intriguing smile, and finally reached out and touched my head inexplicably.

"Miss Lannon is really mean--don't you think so, little Taimi?"

"Little...Little Taimi?"

Regardless of whether Miss Lan Nong has good intentions or not, please don't add words in front of other people's names without permission, okay?

Mafeluna didn't care much about my surprise at the title. She smiled slyly, put on the kind of persuasive tone that adults use to deceive children, and said softly, "Hehe, when you start thinking like that, you have actually fallen into the misunderstanding of this gambling game, which is almost equivalent to confirming Miss Lannon's opinion."

"What do you think, Miss Lannon?" I retorted decisively. "I don't think I'm an impatient person."

Mafeluna shook her head and said, "The point of the bet is not to test your patience, but whether the housekeeping job itself is a disgusting job. Even though the work in the bar area is always about mixing drinks and entertaining guests, your Annie never gets tired of it. It's not because she is a patient person, but because the job itself is very interesting and meaningful."

I see……

So, this isn’t a problem that can be solved by strength alone?

If I want to win this bet, I have to prove that housekeeping is a job that will not be boring even if it is performed for a long time?

But the truth is, I'm already feeling a little obsessed with cleaning my room.

It's not that the chores themselves are particularly annoying, but there are other more interesting jobs in the guild.

"I say, little Taimi, have you ever thought about making your work interesting by yourself?"

When I was halfway through my contemplation, Mafeluna's voice rang out again. She gently touched my body with her fingertips from top to bottom and said with a smile: "Nothing is truly lonely. As long as you broaden your horizons and dare to break the rules, I firmly believe that there are always infinite possibilities for everything in the world."

Nothing is ever truly alone? Make your work interesting yourself?

Mafeluna didn't say much, but what she said was rich enough. What her fingertips wanted to touch was not my body, but the clothes she designed herself. Because they were things she created with her own hands, she naturally gave them special attention, just like the tenderness of a mother when she nurses her own child.

"Little Taimi's pelvis is the same as Little Blue's, which is the type for safe childbirth! When she grows up, she can wear more beautiful clothes──"

The preface is dismissed, this beauty is just a perpetrator of sexual harassment.

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25. June th (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

June 30th, a typhoon afternoon.

The rain was pouring down on the whole house, making loud noises. The adventurers who were sleeping outside the guild were unwilling to go out to work.

The closer it was to Lian'er's school trip, the more nervous I became. If this continued, I wondered if I would develop a disease like cirrhosis of the liver. But then again, I had never really studied the body structure of a fairy in detail, and Bai Ye, who had opened me up to see what was going on, had never told me the results of his observations.

I don't really want to study my body.

Judging from Bai Ye's attitude, she probably wouldn't recommend that I know too much about my condition.

That's like Pandora's box. If I don't want my current peaceful life to be interrupted, what I should do is suppress my curiosity. Since I'm already satisfied with the current situation, there's no need to continue taking risks.

"Let's go check on the classmate's progress? Judging by the time, she should be giving in soon, right?"

Taking advantage of the fact that I had no free time, I said goodbye to Mr. Nanbert who was also very idle, and walked to the lounge on the first floor with a feeling of victory. I thought that Taimi should be idle like me at this time, but when I went to the staff lounge, I only saw a certain Gu Shan lazily flipping through a fashion magazine.

"Free? No need to work?"

"It's raining so hard that no one wants to go out."

"Then it's enough to leave one person outside, right? Everyone take time to take turns to rest, don't save money for the president."

"Don't act like you're not one of the shareholders, okay? Even though there are no customers, we still have a lot of work to do. Isn't this quiet time the best time to do the cleaning?"