I Am No King's

Chapter 171 – New Personnel

~Lugalgin's POV~

　

　

"So, Yuan, can you start working right now?"

"Ah... are you sure?" The white-haired woman in front of me, Yuan, asked.

Right now, I was at the Ease cafe with a woman in front of me. His name was Yuan, with no last name or surname. Yuan has long white hair with bangs. Not only her hair, but her skin is white. She has purple eyes, whether they are her real eyes or wearing contact lenses. In my opinion, his face looked so innocent, as if he was not the one dabbling in the black market.

A bright purple pin of hair stuck to his left head, matching the color of his eyes. Yuan was wearing casual clothes that showed cleavage. Standard chest size, but looks smaller than Emir and Inanna.

By the way, Emir and Inanna are not here. I met this woman before I went to the office.

"Why?" I asked back.

"Well, said Jin, you are one of the most strict and disciplined people he has ever met. I thought, at least, you'd interview or even interrogate me."

"Just take the power of the insider" I replied lightly. "And again, even if you make trouble, what I will attack and cause trouble is Jin. He recommended you."

"Ah.that's..."

Right yeah. If this woman makes trouble, what I will attack is Jin. Even if Yuan is a double agent of a black market organization that does want to damage my relationship with Jin, the wrong one remains Jin because he already trusts this woman.

Another reason is I need a secretary. I will not put Emir or Inanna as secretary. If Emir or Inanna were to become secretaries, I'm afraid I can't be objective if they make a mistake. I would feel guilty if I scolded them. On the other hand, if the secretary is someone else, I can be objective if he makes a mistake.

"So?" I asked for confirmation again.

"Yes, I can start working right now."

"Since your cake and order are up, come with me."

"Ah, just a minute, let me pay for my order first."

"No, just come with me."

Yuan stood up and followed me out of the Ease cafe. We left without stopping by the cashier. Kisu did not appear in the shop, so I went straight out. Some waiters greeted me when I came out. Yuan was curious when he saw me who went straight out without paying but was still greeted by the waiter.

Before Yuan asked, I gave a brief explanation.

"I'm the owner of Ease Cafe. The food you ordered will be directly put on my bill. If you're going there, just say my name, so there's no need to pay."

"Ah... um. I'm not sure I can carry this much trust."

"It's just a bill of food and drink at the cafe. It has nothing to do with trust."

While walking towards my room, we had a little light chat. As it turned out, Yuan was a bit worried about the right to order at the Ease cafe because he was a hobby of eating cakes. And, coincidentally, Ease also served a cake. In fact, lately, Ease released a limited edition cake schedule that has limited stock and can only be purchased on certain dates or seasons.

If you want, I can have Ease's cafe staff drop the cake to Yuan. However, Yuan refused. The real reason was that she was afraid of her weight going up due to eating too much cake.

I will not force.

Finally, we arrived at my office. Inside the room were only Mulisu and Shu En. They asked when they saw Yuan with me.

"This woman will be working as my secretary from today."

"Oh...."

While Mulisu responded lightly, Shu En did not respond. Shu En did not flinch, looking surprised.

While I was sitting on a high-legged chair, Yuan was standing beside the table. I gave a map to Yuan.

"This map contains a complete list of intelligence divisions along with their phone numbers and rooms in this building. Your first task is to contact the staffing division and register yourself. Then you also have to memorize the entire phone number and room of each division."

"I have to fill in the data?"

"Data yourself is up to you what you want to fill. You as a person who used to work on the black market know what to do."

"Good!"

Yuan received the documents swiftly and immediately walked away.

"Yuan,"

"Yes?"

Yuan stopped before reaching the door.

"Before making a visit, call first the division concerned from here." I pointed at the phone on my desk.

Yuan obeyed my orders. He made a phone call from the front of the table and said he was ordered by me to take care of the staffing status. In a short while, Yuan ended the phone and left this room.

Yuan worked fast. If he comes right in and introduces himself, I'm sure the staffing division will doubt him even if he mentions my name. By making a call from my study, the staffing division will know that he is truly my messenger.

Just like the Agade members I brought here, Yuan's status is not a schneider agent, just an intelligence officer. If he's registered as a schneider agent, I have to take care of the procedural and seek approval from the King of Bana'an, Fahren.

Although in writing their status was only an employee, I also gave a job as a schneider agent, gathering information on the black market. The negative impact is that they are all only paid as employees, not as schneider agents. The solution? Part of my salary as intelligence chief was transferred to them.

Going forward, I will create a new division under intelligence where their work will include as employees and schneider agents. The salaries of employees in this division will be higher than that of schneider agents and other employees. However, their status was not a schneider agent, only an employee, so I did not need to ask Fahren for approval. This I do to accommodate the people of Agade and Akadia.

To establish a new division, it took written permission from Fahren, who was the King. Is he just going to give this permission? No way! However, I'll make sure he approves.

"Gin, what's he–"

"No, he's not a member of any black market organization." I interrupted Shu En. "Instead, how does the selection progress of prospective intelligence students? Have the selection invitations been sent directly to each prospective student?"

Mulisu replied, "at this time, 30 percent of prospective students have been visited. And, the response we get is arguably quite positive. Less than 5 percent refused or did not pass early stage selection."

"Five percent of the total or five percent of the provisional amount?"

"Five percent of the temporary amount." Shu En answered.

I think that number is too high.

The invitations in question are of course not sent to the house or post. The people from the staffing divisions scattered throughout the kingdom came to these children one by one and gave them offers while showing the papers. Only employees, not schneider agents.

The offer given was, arguably, very suspicious. These prospective students were only told that they were chosen to attend the intelligence school that the kingdom would build. It would be perfectly normal for them to refuse or ignore him.

If you agree, prospective students will be given a small smartphone that will provide a list of instructions. If they follow the instructions until they are finished, they are declared to pass the initial stage and are asked to wait to be contacted again. If they try to hack or tamper with it, the smartphone will instantly explode and send a notification to the staffing division.

On the other hand, I was worried to see the height of the child who complied. I mean, they're obeying the utterances of strangers who are completely unknown. In fact, obey instruction after instruction obediently. Aren't they worried that they're a black market organization looking for members or just organs? Well, I don't care either.

I had originally planned to use a schneider agent to send out invitations, but Shu En rejected the idea. According to Shu En, it would be dangerous if the identity of the schneider agent was known to anyone other than me and Fahren. However, now I am grateful for not using the schneider agent. If you use a schneider agent, a new traitor can appear later. I'm lucky.

Right now, I see a written report on a prospective student who passed the initial, failed, rejected test, along with the reason.

"Gin," Shu En called out. "Are you okay here? You're not worried about your sister? He ran away, didn't he?"

"I'm worried. But unfortunately, I won't be able to find it even if I search. And again, I've asked Agade, Akadia, and Guan to look for Ninlil's whereabouts."

"You trust the black market organization more than the royal intelligence you're leading?"

"I've been busy with the establishment and recruitment of this intelligence school. I don't want to add to their burden anymore."

Shu En showed a sour face after hearing my answer. He must have been annoyed by my evasive response.

"Rather than that, what about the news about last night's attack? I haven't seen the television or heard the news, so I don't know the information."

Mulisu gave a detailed explanation of the news. The news spread is quite simple, which is a brawl between students that occurs around the settlement complex. Schneider's agent went to the news agency and made sure none of the reporters were investigating the attack last night.

For residents whose homes have been damaged, the kingdom will compensate up to twice what they suffered on the condition of silence. In addition, we provide them with an application form for the hearing to the King if they want to complain further. The form given is of course a priority form.

Good though. Everything seems to be going well.

Seriate

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