12 - First mission [4]

We started walking toward the elevator as I did yesterday. As we were walking, Richard? Sir? started explaining what my job would be.

"Well, you could probably imagine what your job will be, but I am going to explain it to you anyway."

"Umm, what should I call you? Sir?"

When I asked that, he laughed and put on a friendly smile.

"Haha, no need to be so formal with me. You can call me Richard."

He seemed like a very nice person. He had the typical stereotype of a nice and kind old man. It felt a little sad at the thought that I would only see him until the mission was finished.

"Let's not waste time. The job is pretty simple. You won't have to do the same every day, since every morning an email will be sent to you with the instructions, but there may be instructions that last for several days. You have to be careful and do all the tasks before they send you the next ones since..."

He then approached me and whispered to me.

"...they don't care if you ended the other ones. And you also don't want tasks to accumulate that will affect your salary."

"Why are you whispering?"

"Mmm, you never know who could hear that. They get annoyed with little."

"Haha, I will be careful then."

When he saw me laughing, he put a smile on his face.

"You should relax. You were tense."

When I heard him say that, I put on a surprised face. I didn't know I was tense, but now that he mentioned it, I could feel my shoulders stiff, and my movements were rather rigid. As I noticed this, I looked at Richard and smiled at him.

"Yes, thank you."

"You are welcome. Anyway, we should start working."

And with those words, the first day of the mission started.

...

"Hmm, it's already 3:00 pm. We are done for today. You should go eat something."

Richard said that after looking at the clock he was wearing on his wrist. We had been working since the morning, having only small breaks. What we did was sweep all the floors, and even though it sounds easy, it became significantly difficult having to do so on more than twenty floors. Actually, we only managed to clean twelve of them. With that I understood what Richard said earlier about tasks that last several days.

"Yes, I will. Thank you for your guidance today."

"Haha, don't be so formal, but you are welcome. Now go and don't waste more time."

"Then, I will be going."

"Alright. I will see you tomorrow."

With those words, he turned around and walked somewhere. Without losing more time, I went toward the elevator and went down to the reception. I greeted the receptionist, Megan, and left the building.

When I started thinking about where I should go to eat, a voice greeted me from the side.

"Hi, are you going to eat?"

I looked there and saw Rachel standing there in formal clothes. She seemed to be waiting for me.

"Hi. Yes, I'm going to eat something. Were you waiting for me?"

"I just finished my job, and I thought of waiting for you."

"I see. Do you have by any chance a place you want to go?"

After I asked that, she put on a thoughtful expression, and then she looked like she had an idea, so I waited for her to talk.

"Actually, I have a place I want to go. Let's go."

"Okay."

Saying that, she started walking toward some street, and I quickly followed her.

...

After walking for 10 minutes, we finally reached what seemed like a restaurant. It was a simple one-floor store. There was nothing remarkable about the building at first sight.

We entered the restaurant, and the same as the exterior, nothing was out of place. There were several people already eating, so I guess this is a good place.

"Is this where you wanted to eat?"

"Yes. Mrs. Allen recommended this place earlier, so I thought of trying it."

Oh, I see. If I am not wrong she is the receptionist, right?"

"Yes."

As Rachel answered my question, she started walking towards a table to sit at. When we finally found one table, we sat down, and not much later, a waitress came and asked for what we wanted.

After we ordered, we kept silent. Then, Rachel took out her phone and started looking for some things, until she seemed to finish and handed me the phone, which I accepted with a dumbfounded expression.

"Sigh, don't make that face. See all the photos that are there."

Without bothering to answer, I looked at the photos she mentioned. They were all images of papers, but after looking more closely and reading some of them, I realized it was some data about the company. I could see sponsors, and I didn't know any of them except one that I already saw earlier, 'Aufhellender Mond'. I could also see statistics, branches, and other things I couldn't understand.

I looked up with a surprised face and stared at Rachel as if asking her to explain.

"I guess you already realized what those papers are, and I will send them to you later. And if you are asking how I got that, let's say that I was lucky and managed to see these papers."

"Sigh, you will have to explain it to me. But anyway, didn't we already have this information, since the Boss gave it to us?"

"We had some of this information, but not all, so this is a very good discovery."

"Alright, I won't say more now, the waitress is coming."

As I said those words, I could see the waitress coming here with some plates. But while saying that my mind couldn't stop thinking about the papers Rachel found and how she managed to get them. I somehow knew that there was something more hidden there than what was seen. But it was useless thinking about something I didn't know. So for the moment, I put those thoughts aside.

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