>>5535812With that the man returns to his work, completely ignoring Kinzou. You receive a transmission. 「..Uh... what should I do?」You pause. <span class="mu-i">...Just follow his instructions I suppose. Some math could scarcely hurt.</span> Hesitantly, Kinzou walks into the next room over. What can be seen is a slightly less cluttered office, where two men and two women are currently poring over papers. Several desks lay empty next to them. Seeing that he's been ignored, Kinzou walks up to one of the desks and starts working.
「...What's this word?」 "Oil." 「...And this?」 "Perfume." Before Kinzou can ask again, you remind him of the next one. <span class="mu-i">That refers to paper.</span> With that another few sums are calculated. You leave that task to Kinzou, only interfering when a mistake is about to be made. Eventually the afternoon rolls around, and everyone else in the room stops working. Kinzou follows their lead. 「...This is harder than I thought.」 <span class="mu-i">It is to be expected. You can barely be said to have 'read' a single book. Better than most, but still lacking. Full literacy requires a great deal of reinforcement.</span>
Work paused, the man next to Kinzou finally addresses Kinzou directly. "Yer...?" 「Kinzou.」 "I see. I'm Brynn. You just get hired on?" 「I think so?」 Brynn nods knowingly. "Makes sense. Mao doesn't explain shit." The door to the room opens.
"Brynn, you disrespecting me again?" The messy-haired man glares at the man next to you. "Only s'much as you deserve to be." After glaring for a bit longer, the both of them break out into laughter. "Alright, show me what you have." The messy-haired man nudges past you and grabs your work. As he goes over it, he address a question towards Brynn. "He bother you?" Brynn shrugs. "A bit. N'more than any newbie really. Knew part of what he was looking at at least."
The messy haired man just nods. After a couple minutes he looks at Kinzou. "You're slow and you need to learn more. That being said, your math isn't off, which saves me trouble. You're hired. You report to Brynn. When a caravan comes through help with the crunch, and when not just do whatever he tells you to." His brows scrunch as he thinks. "That's about it. Oh - one more thing. I'm Jing Mao. Nice to meet you." Jing Mao leaves the room immediately after saying that, not waiting for a response.
Brynn nods and offers a handshake. "He's always like that. Welcome abroad."
