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0.87% Card Apprentice Daily Log / Chapter 19: Modelling

Capítulo 19: Modelling

Date 20 Mar 2321

Time 10:55 

Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Guild Administrator office. 

Knock..knock... 

"May I come in sir?"

"Come in! " A hoarse voice sounded from the office, As soon the clerk entered the office the voice added, "John you know I don't like being disturbed at this hour."

"I am sorry sir, but it is urgent." Said the clerk passing an auction catalogue to him. 

"What is this? why are you giving this to me?" 

"Sir it's the catalogue of the girl you promoted as associate auction manager this morning to free up the last permanent staff spot for your niece."

"Oh! Are the items listed in the catalogue genuine? I think I made myself clear when I told her not to give her any assistance in regards to the items for auction?"

"You did sir and I checked the items listed are not from the auction house. She is providing them herself."

"Oh! Do you know who is providing her with items for the auction?"

"When asked she said it was from one of her clients. But I double-checked all her clients in association mall archives, none of her clients is capable enough to provide her with such good cards in such short notice."

"Then how the hell did she get these cards?"

"Sir, I think she is lying. Seeing how the catalogue has been able to create a small hype, I believe she is going to use this hype to rebel and tell her story knowing that she is going to be fired tomorrow."

"That's it, you disturbed me for this. You know that if she pulls such a stun then our legal team and media team will swallow her whole."

"I know sir, I am not worried about bad press or you but the young miss, seeing how she wants to start from the bottom, it will be hard once every staff in guild mall knows that one of them was fired to make way for her."

"Um... You are right! She is stubborn and righteous, if not for her insisting on starting at the bottom she would be the one with an associate auction manager title and with my pull in the association mall, she would not have to worry about anything, the items, venue, audience or the timeslot. 

 Good since the ant wants to fight back then I will help her! Send a whole team of our media and other popular press to her auction and also send this catalogue to all the stubborn prodigal sons and daughters of sky blossom city, I think some of them will be interested in the items mentioned in the catalogue."

"Brilliant sir, I will proceed accordingly."

Once these prodigal audiences knew that the auction was just a ruse then their anger will be directed at the ant for wasting their time, The audience was prodigal but knew whom to offend and whom not to. So they would rather stay silent than sympathize with the ant. even the media will choose to write a story about how an auction manager published the fake catalogue for popularity and offended the audience rather than how the guild corruption and office politics screwed over an ant's life. 

Although this was not a perfect solution it would mislead the attention of the netizens from his niece until all this cools down and is taken care of by the association's legal team and media team. 

… 

20 Mar 2321

Time 11:55 

Location Sky Blossom City, Guild association mall, Guild Card Lab

Admiring the 50 perfect F rank cards in front of me, I called Susan to come and get them. 

Having successfully created 50 perfect F rank cards in two hours, I was tired and had a headache, my reflexes and responses were slow. One would think it's affecting my decision-making and judgement but my mind was clear except I was feeling very sleepy. 

Maybe I should buy myself a card which can relieve this fatigue whenever I overexert myself, I should ask Susan to look for such a card. 

Susan excitedly entered the card room and said "Wyatt I didn't disappoint you, currently our auction catalogue is within the top 10 trendings. This will attract deeper pockets. We are rich! "

Susan's eyes shined with dollar bill signs, for every item auctioned the guild charges a 10% auction fee of which the auction manager gets 1%. But if the items are directly provided by the auction manager themselves but not by the auction house then the manager gets 5% of the 10% auction fee.

This is a stunt so that the auction managers are not passive and depend upon the guild for goods to auction but for them to actively search and bring many valuable items for auction. 

"Wipe your drool would you? This small amount of money is nothing, stick with me kid and I will show you what being rich looks like?"

Hearing my words Susan vigorous nodded her head but then, "Hey! Who are you calling a kid? you shorty! This is the last time next time..next time I will bite you."

Hearing the word shorty a vein popped on my neck as I thought 'control! control!' As my height was among one things that I was sensitive about in this second life. I consoled myself, thinking my body is still young and yet to reach its full growth. 

Even though I was not tall my height could be considered average but Susan was tall, very tall with a long neck and legs, slender waist with fair, smooth and glowing skin.

"Y-you! I am of the right height, you giantess!"

"Okay, that's it I am ignoring you." 

"You can't ignore me, I am your client, you have to pay attention to me!"

"Okay, sir, how may I help you?" Susan's height was her mental scar as her schoolmates bullied her calling names like the Big girl or Giantess or barbarian. One of the reasons why she chose to work after high school no matter how much her parents stressed on her going to college. 

Seeing Susan act all cold and distant I realised I said something wrong.

"Okay you win, I am sorry. Now can you talk normally!" 

Susan glared at me intently and snorted, "okay I can't stay mad at you! You are like the bratty little brother I didn't have."

'Be the big man! Be the bigger man!' I thought, trying to control myself from saying something which Susan will make me regret later. 

"Now take these 10 cards and feed them to your origin card," I said handing her 10 different F rank armour cards. 

"Why? Aren't these for the auction?" Said Susan, looking at the 10 cards in her hand each of them was perfect F rank cards with a 1-star rating and 100 durability rating. 

"No, I made 50 cards, 10 for you and 40 for the auction. With this, you can change into each armour when you are about to auction that armour card. So, the audience can see the flawless design of the armours. Try doing a ramp walk with each armour on, so that they can see how beautiful the armours are?"

"No! No! Auctioning the cards is one thing but to be a model and ramp walk I can't do that. That will be embarrassing."

"What are you saying? Don't tell me you didn't dream of being a model and ramp walked in your room when you were little."

"T-that, I am not …. It's too embarrassing for me to be modelling."

"What's so embarrassing about you modelling? You are beautiful and tall, with your long neck and legs, slender waist with fair, smooth and glowing skin, It's as if your body was chiselled for modelling."

"No! I am not beautiful, you are just praising me, to get me to model for you."

"Susan listen to me, look into my eyes."

"Why?! "

"Just look into my eyes."

"O-okay.."

"Do you know who is more beautiful than a beautiful lady?"

"N-no.." Said Susan with a red blush on her cheeks. 

"A beautiful lady who doesn't know how beautiful she is.."

".."

"Okay, you trust me right. Just do this, this once for me."

".."

"Pretty please!"

"Ok just this once I will wear the armours but I will not do the ramp walk."

"Okay, no ramp walk. But you will have to twirl once, deal?" 

"D-deal.."

Susan fed the cards to her origin card. And then activated it and changed into every armour while twirling for practice, in front of me. 

This was the first time I had seen her origin card in action and it was a sight to behold, especially the flash and little smoke that appeared whenever she changed into a new armour. It was just like watching a magic show. 

The colours of the armours I chose for Susan complimented her perfectly. She looked beautiful and heroic in each armour. 

Even her hairstyle changed with the armours. It was an effect of another card. 

Along with that card, she had many other special effects and item cards to help her with the auction, for example, the voice control card's fiction was similar to a microphone in the other world. 

"I have registered your name in the VIP guest list."

"Do I have to come, I mean I wouldn't buy my cards that would be stupid."

"You have to come. This is my first time conducting an auction. I wanted to invite my parents but they can't be here on such short notice. It would mean a lot to me if you came."

"Well you did agree to be a model for me, I will be there, not in the VIP room but in the front seat to cheer for you."

"You are the best! See you soon." Susan hurried to organize the auction as now she had the cards for auction.


Capítulo 20: Young Lady

20 Mar 2321

Time 12:23

Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association Auction House, Auction Hall no.13

Sipping on a coffee black large I entered Susan's auction venue. But to my surprise, the whole venue was crowded and buzzing with discussion. Especially the front row was filled with journalists and social media reporters. For some reason, there was no bouncer at the entrance to stop people from filling in. 

It seems I underestimate the catalogue being in the top 10 trending list. 'Sorry Susan looks like I can't cheer you from the first row' I thought as I turned to the VIP side but it was also crowded and the people in there seemed to be scolding the help for lacking space and seating arrangements. 

The problem was not lacking management skills but the venue in itself was small to hold these many people. The guild management never expected Susan's catalogue to be this popular and provided her with a small venue. 

Right, when I was considering not attending the auction, Susan called me, "Wyatt, where are you? are you here yet?"

"yes, I am at the venue."

"Come backstage!"

"Sure" Hanging up the phone I walked backstage. 

The bouncer backstage stopped me and asked "Mr Wyatt?"

"The one and only" 

"Turn left and go straight. Susan should be waiting for you there." I could see he had no respect for Susan, his immediate superior. I could smell something was wrong in the atmosphere. 

The backstage was empty, there were no staff here contrary to a working auction hall backstage. Soon I found Susan pacing back and forth in front of the stage entrance she did not seem to notice me walking towards her. 

"Susan!" I called nearing her. 

"You almost gave me a scare." Said startled Susan. 

"What's going on here? Where is everyone?"

"I sent them to manage the VIP section."

"Then, what about here?"

"I will somehow manage it here. I called you here knowing that you will not find a seat out there."

Every associate auction manager has a team of trusted staff ranging from bouncers, help, etc. Since Susan just became an auction manager she had no staff let alone trusted staff. So the auction management provided her with 10 staff, 4 bouncers and 6 help. Which would be enough for a small venue like auction Hall no.13. 

Two bouncers one each at the two entrances of the hall, one bouncer for the backstage and front stage while the last one for the VIP hall. Four help for seating arrangements and attending VIPs and the last two to help Susan backstage. 

But the audience expectancy exceeded anybody's expectations, it seems at the last moment for some reason the people, journalists registering to attend the auction increased in numbers especially the VIP people registering exceeded the number of occupancies.

Some of the social media influencers almost broke into backstage. So the bouncers from the entrance had to be called to guard the backstage. 

Now no bouncers were at the two entrances of the hall, as they were used accordingly. one for the backstage and two for the front stage while the last one for the VIP hall while all the six help went for seating arrangements and attending VIP's leaving no one to help Susan. 

Susan did request more staff to the auction management but they rejected her saying all the staff were allotted work and had no extra. 

"Why did you not close the entrance doors to the hall if the number exceeded the maximum occupancy range? "

"I didn't think of that! But I can't turn away all these powerful journalists and VIPs, right?!"

I slapped my head dumbfounded-ly 

"First, send one of the bouncers to close the doors of the auction hall as it's almost time to start the auction."

Many people who were not interested in participating in the auction were joining the crowd just for fun, so it was better to close the door now. 

Soon Susan instructed one of the bouncers guarding the frontstage to close the doors. As the entrance door closed the crowd grew rowdier and the whispers turned into a loud noise. 

"It is nearing the time to start the auction. How are you planning to control this rowdy crowd?" I asked.

Currently, the lack of staff was the last thing in Susan's mind as she did not know how to control the audience? 

Since the crowd consists of popular influencers, journalists and VIPs, crude methods to control the crowd were out of the question. 

… 

20 Mar 2321

Time 12:23

Location Sky Blossom City, Guild Association, Administrative office

"Sir not good! Not good!" Clerk John rushed into the administrator's office. 

"John!! What have I told you about knocking?!!" A voice thundered in the office. 

John bowed and hurriedly apologized "sir I am sorry but it's about the young lady."

Hearing the word young lady the voice seemed to have calmed down a little and asked "what about her?"

"Young lady somehow found out about the girl and is going to attend her auction." 

"How did she know? Why is she going there? What is she thinking?"

"Sir, I don't know who informed the young lady. Sir, please punish me as I could not stop the young lady!

But when I tried to stop her, the Young lady told me not to stop her from making amends. 

 I think she is going to apologize to the girl after the auction."

"Wtf! Those Journalists and Influencers will have a field day with her. That girl is stubborn and doesn't know how the world works!"

'Recently the young lady acting weird as if she is a completely different person and acting out without thinking. Master is trying so hard to keep her out of this, But she had to present her head to the enemy herself. Now any number of contacts or connections of master can't stop the rampaging netizens from ruining young lady's social life' John shook his head letting out a sigh, he was tired of managing this stubborn young lady. 


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