Sir Mage, You Said We Would Only Hold Hands! Chapter 3 - Crazy Terrible Guy

 

“Miss Birkin, you’re really going?”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

Birkin began putting the items on the desk that she had used for a long time into boxes one by one. It has been a week since the announcement of her appointment was made.

 

“Goodness. I thought I would finally work with Miss Birkin. It’s a shame, so what should I do?”

 

I guess so.

 

The person who spoke to her was Helene, who was sitting diagonally from the Birkin. Helene, who had now become Birkin’s boss, stuck her head out to look at Birkin’s place as it was being organized and kept saying things that she didn’t even mean to say.

 

“But the air in Deepdale is good. Miss Birkin, your skin is already good, but I hope it gets even better!”

 

At those words, Birkin’s hand that was picking up the calendar suddenly stopped.

 

Given Helene’s boastful nature, she couldn’t have meant well. Birkin packed up again and praised her decision to choose the Deepdale branch.

 

You don’t have to look like that.

 

If she had stayed here and watched Helene becoming her boss, her stomach, already weakened by stress, wouldn’t have healed. Birkin didn’t respond to Helene’s words and hurried to tidy up.

 

When Birkin didn’t answer, Helene went back to her seat, probably because she was no longer enjoying messing with her. It was when Birkin was about to finish organizing herdesk.

 

“Excuse me… Vice Redfield.”

 

“Yes, Miss Ailee.”

 

Birkin turned her head when she heard a voice calling her last name. Ailee, the newbie, stood quietly with her head down.

 

“Before you go… Can we have a chat?”

 

Considering how Ailee was looking at the surroundings, it seemed like it wasn’t something she wanted to say in front of everyone. Birkin nodded her head once and left her office first.

 

The office of Servic Division Team 1 was close to the break room. Perhaps because it was still morning, the lounge was quiet. Birkin asked, pulling out two of the paper cups provided on one side.

 

“What’s the matter?”

 

“Are you really going?”

 

“Yes, I really am going.”

 

“So you’re really…”

 

She filled a paper cup with hot water and placed it on a shelf. Then a teaspoon floated into the air and stirred up a paper cup along with a little coffee powder. It was an automatic coffee cooking item sold at Magic Tower.

 

When two cups of warm coffee were finished, Birkin handed them to Ailee. Ailee stood still, holding the coffee with both hands. It was when she wondered if the conversation was over.

 

“Vice, um… what kind of person is Chief Gendal?”

 

The moment she heard his name, Birkin could immediately guess why she wanted to see her alone. It seemed that Chief Gendal’s flirtation had gone too far.

 

“Say no clearly.”

 

“Y-Yes?”

 

“That person is pretending to be a normal person and maintaining his position. If you clearly say no, he won’t do anything more. He’s the type of person who will think that if you vaguely refuse, he will bounce.”

 

Ailee widened her eyes. But Birkin didn’t end there, she said, raising one finger.

 

“Ah, it’s inevitable that the flattery you get will disappear. You know, right? You do…”

 

“Your own!”

 

“Yes, you learned well under me.”

 

In fact, Ailee’s work ability wasn’t very good. Birkin and Ailee herself knew that. It was also thanks to the fact that she had been receiving so much attention from Chief Gendal that she didn’t need to do well.

 

So everything that happens afterward depends on Ailee’s choice. Is she going to live an easy life receiving constant flirtation and pretense, or is she going to cut it off quickly and choose to grow on her own?

 

For some reason, Birkin, who had said so much, felt sorry for Ailee. Birkin knew better than anyone how difficult it would be for a newbie at the moment.

 

[The coffee Miss Birkin serves is delicious. As expected, coffee tastes best when a woman makes it.]

[Miss Birkin, another designation inquiry? I envy you because you’re pretty, you know?]

 

Although she didn’t become a mage or magic engineer at the Magic Academy, she was an honor student at the Academy. That’s why she was able to enter the Magic Tower, which was difficult to enter, at least as an employee.

 

Yet the way she was treated here was that she was at best a coffee maker.

 

She thinks she cried in the bathroom for three months after joining the company. Not only the actions of Chief Gendal, but also the harassment of the vice at the time, and the envy of Helene, her colleague.

 

Birkin went through it all and climbed to the vice position. Birkin, looking at Ailee’s innocent face, smiled bitterly as she remembered her old days.

 

“Miss Ailee.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“There is no one you can trust in the Magic Tower. That is why you should remember what I said. You do your own.”

 

Ailee nodded her head with determination on her face. When she saw that rabbit-like figure, she had no confidence, but she felt that she had done all she could do.

 

“To think that Vice Redfield is leaving, haa. Honestly, I can’t believe it.”

 

“What difference will it make if I go alone?”

 

“It will be very different…”

 

Birkin closed her eyes and smiled at Ailee’s pleasant flattery. She knew that everything she said was to impress her as her superior, but she still didn’t like hearing people say they were disappointed.

 

“We are all cogs anyway. When a new cog comes in, you won’t even think about me.”

 

“I wish I could…”

 

As the topic came to an end, Birkin stood up first. She gave Ailee a wave of hand and left the lounge.

 

Ailee felt sad for some reason and stayed in the lounge for a while even after Birkin left.

 

It wasn’t long before she saw Birkin moving through the window, carrying a large box with a magic moving box. Ailee let out a long sigh of regret as her back, which always wore neat pants, disappeared.

 

She has to go in now.

 

There were even a lot of documents to be submitted to the overdue consultation work. It was no exaggeration to say that Birkin Redfield was the only one who could handle the designated inquiries in addition to the overwhelming workload of the Servic Division.

 

“Ah, I really don’t want to work…”

 

Ailee, who had been muttering in the empty lounge, also stood up.

 

It was then.

 

Through the glass window of the break room, she saw an attractively tall and sturdy man entering the office of the Servic Division Team 1.

 

Is it possible that the staff has already been filled? Ailee’s pace became busier as she wondered if a replacement for Vice Redfield had already arrived.

 

Arriving at the office quickly, Alice was shocked to see the man’s face outside thedoor.

 

Crazy, what is that. Is it really alive and moving?

 

It would be no exaggeration to say that it was truly a god-given beauty. Was there a vice that looked like that in the Magic Tower…? As if Ailee was possessed, she opened the door to the office.

 

“…I told you there isn’t any?”

 

“There is.”

 

“What on earth…! There is no one like that!”

 

First of all, it wasn’t the vice she was expecting. This was because Helene, who always smiled in front of others, was screaming with her face scrunched up for some reason. It was when Ailee looked at it and thought, what if he was a customer.

 

“I told you, there is.”

 

“ㅡ!”

 

The man looked down at Helene with lazy eyes. However, despite that cheeky look, Helen couldn’t say anything. Because there was a strange atmosphere inside the office.

 

It was a 4th circle spell, Silence.

 

Ailee tried to open her mouth and make a sound, yet was met with the sound of the air being blocked. Looking around, it seemed like other people were doing the same.

 

But, if an entire office is filled with Silence, is it correct to call it a 4th circle spell?

 

In that quiet space, the man whispered with his languid face. There was no sound of wind, so everyone in the office had no choice but to hear his voice.

 

“The woman who recharged my mana three weeks ago.”

 

“…”

 

“Birkin Redfield. Where is she?”

 

Probably all the Magic Tower members in the office were thinking the same thing at this time.

 

We won’t be able to answer until you break the silence!

 

The man who asked seemed to have realized that fact too late, he smiled lightly and snapped his fingers.

 

Ailee, who was staring blankly at that scene, had this thought. He must be crazy. He was really, really crazy.

 

The man who was so pretty that it hurt her eyes was what is commonly called the ‘crazy terrible guy’.

 

***

 

Swooshㅡ

 

The sound of crashing waves rang in Birkin’s ears. She could also hear the sound of a seagull cackling somewhere. Birkin put her bag down next to the barbed wire that reached up to her waist and looked around.

 

The port city of Deepdale.

 

It’s actually a fishing village. Although it did everything, it wasn’t that rural of an area. In the first place, there was no way that the Magic Tower branch could be located in such a remote corner of the country. Deepdale was also a famous trading port.

 

“I like going to work while looking at the ocean every day.”

 

Although if you look at it, you might get tired of it.

 

Today was also her first day at work at the Deepdale branch. Although the announcement of the appointment was made five days ago, the start date was today, and Birkin only arrived in the city yesterday on the start date.

 

Birkin headed to the Magic Tower in a good mood, feeling the sea breeze. The tall purple and black spire building was clearly the Magic Tower, so there was no need to find the way.

 

“Hello.”

 

“It’s my first time seeing you, though?”

 

“Yes, I have been assigned to Deepdale from today. Please take care of me.”

 

When she gave a brief greeting to the guards guarding the Magic Tower, they, who appeared to be middle-aged, also smiled cheerfully. Birkin put her pass on the doorknob and the door swung open.

 

The spire looked like a narrow building from the outside, but once inside, a huge hall unfolded. The door she came through was an entrance for officials only, so it was quite far from the entrance through which regular customers enter and exit.

 

Birkin first headed to the desk on one side of the hall.

 

“Hello, this is Birkin Redfield, who has been assigned to Deepdale as of today.”

 

“Um, hello. Can you please wait a moment?”

 

The mage at the desk was hurriedly leafing through the parchment overflowing with letters.

 

“Ah! It’s Miss Birkin Redfield! You just have to go to the eighth floor.”

 

“The eighth floor?”

 

Typically, the Servic Division was located on the lower floors because there was a lot of customer service. To think that it’s the eighth floor. Although she had doubts, she didn’t ask any more and quickly headed to the magic moving box.

 

When she placed her watch on the wall of the moving box, the words ‘Birkin Redfield’ appeared in the air. Eventually, the magic moving box started moving toward its destination on its own with a roaring sound.

 

Birkin stood there quietly, organizing her work.

 

First, she’d like to say hello to the chief here… Let’s just wait and see, what did the chief’s name here say?

 

While she was thinking about it, the magic moving box stopped. Birkin thought that although the place might be unfamiliar, the interior would be similar, so she would come across a hallway that was familiar to her. All she had to do was find the Chief’s office, which would be deep inside.

 

However, when the door was opened, something strange came out.

 

The eighth floor was a huge hall. There was no hallway or anything.

 

There were glass cabinets lined up here and there along with several tables and beds. The table was full of traces of someone’s research.

 

Birkin immediately remembered the magic engineering lab she had visited during hierdays at the Magic Academy. It was a very similar space to that place.

 

Someone approached Birkin, who was standing blankly.

 

“Excuse me, are you the new recruit who was supposed to come from headquarters today?”

 

“Ah, yes! Nice to meet you. Assigned from headquarters, I’m Birkin Red…”

 

“That’s enough, come here and pick this up. The Item Development Division is busy.”

 

“Huh? Item Development Division?”

 

A man with little hair, similar to Chief Gendal, gestured with an annoyed look on his face. As Birkin approached him, she wondered if she had heard wrong and asked once more.

 

“Item Development Division?”

 

“So, is this the Item Development Division or the magic research division? Geez! I asked them to put in a new member who is good at using strength. How can you do anything if you’re so skinny?”

 

“I’m definitely from the Servic Division…!”

 

[Of course, you will be at the deputy level there, and staying for just three years will be a good opportunity for you..]

 

For a moment, she got goosebumps. Because she suddenly remembered what Chief Gendal said. Of course, deputy ‘level’. Why didn’t she realize that was strange?

 

The general top members of the Item Development Division also received a deputy-level salary. This is because it’s a division filled with elites who are all magic engineers.

 

“Oh my gosh, where did Liam go after giving us so much work?”

 

“Chief, wouldn’t it be better without him?”

 

“…That’s right.”

 

After that, there was a lot of casual conversation about a mad dog, a business trip to the headquarters, and someone getting chased, but it didn’t reach Birkin’s ears at all.

 

The only thing floating around in her head was the word ‘Item Development Division’… Then suddenly, one of the researchers looked at Birkin, who was standing blankly, and said,

 

“Ah, but this time the person getting chased is a woman.”

 

“What?”

 

“What did they say, it was someone at the Magic Tower headquarters.”

 

At the headquarters?

 

At someone’s muttering, the researchers all looked at Birkin.

 

Birkin, who was dazed, was startled by the attention focused on her, and her shoulders shook.

 

It was the moment when white hair peeked out from between Birkin’s lovely red hair.

— Wise Magic Tower Life TIP! —

The Deepdale Magic Tower branch consists of a total of ten floors. For reference, the headquarters is an 88-story building, and Birkin has only been up to the tenth floor of the headquarters.