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Chapter 590: The Unlucky Newcomer
Chapter 590: The Unlucky Newcomer
Hmm?
As she hurried back to the first floor, she saw a slender woman pacing outside the duty room, her face filled with hesitation. The manager lady couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Miss Lara? Shouldn't you be helping out in the kitchen at Doug's Restaurant right now? Why are you back so early?"
"I... I'm sorry..."
Hearing the question from behind, the woman, who was around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old and wearing an old velvet dress, stiffened slightly. She turned around and said embarrassingly:
"I was just... fired by the boss over there..."
"..."
Fired again?
Upon hearing this, the manager lady couldn't help but pause, then sighed with a helpless expression:
"Miss Lara, if I remember correctly, this is the third time you've been fired this week, right?"
"I'm sorry... but I really didn't mean to..."
Facing the kind person who had found her three jobs, but had them ruined by her three times in a row, the slender woman, covered in coffee stains, couldn't help but lower her head in shame and explained:
"This morning, while I was making red vegetable soup, the sour cream ran out, so I wanted to get a new can from the pantry. But as soon as I turned the doorknob, I saw the head chef and Jenny... the waitress from the restaurant... doing... doing that..."
"Doing that kind of thing?"
"Mhm..."
"..."
"Then... I lost my job..."
With a strange look on the manager lady's face, the delicate-looking woman covered her burned arm and said bitterly:
"Although I was startled, I immediately assured them that I didn't see anything and wouldn't say anything. But in the afternoon, when Jenny was serving coffee to customers, she accidentally bumped into me.
I tried to support her, but the entire pot of freshly brewed hot coffee was poured onto the heads of the customers at that table. Then the head chef rushed out from the kitchen, scolding me, saying that I was always clumsy in the kitchen and that the ingredients I handled were always a little short. So, Doug fired me..."
"What about you...?"
"I was wronged..."
The slender woman cried with red-rimmed eyes:
"I cherish this job. I've been working over ten hours a day these past two days, basically doing twice as much work as others. And I didn't steal any ingredients or anything. I just pack some of the leftover food from the customers, which we had agreed upon beforehand.
But... but the head chef wrongfully accused me, and no one dared to speak up for me. He's just angry that I interrupted him and Jenny. I really didn't steal anything, please believe me!"
"Lara, don't worry..."
Seeing the almost broken-down woman, the manager lady couldn't help but comfort her with a gentle voice, then sighed helplessly:
"I know what kind of person you are, or else I wouldn't have kept finding you jobs. But... why do you keep running into these situations?"
After recalling the slender woman's experiences over the past two weeks, the manager lady's expression turned strange as she said:
"Your previous job cooking for the construction team was going well, but the scrap paper you used to line the soup pot happened to be the foreman's fake price list;
And the job before that was at a hotel, where you accidentally slipped and bumped into the next room while cleaning. You just happened to see the boss bribing a city councilor, and this time, you interrupted the head chef and the waitress again... Don't you think this is a bit too coincidental?"
"I... I don't know what's happening..."
Wiping away her tears, the slender woman said:
"Since I was little, I've always been unlucky. I always seem to stumble upon things people don't want known. At home, I caught my stepmother and neighbor having an affair. At the academy, I witnessed the principal taking bribes. Even when I worked as a maid at Lane Manor, I encountered...
In any case... I really didn't mean to, and I've never dared to expose anyone. Even when I was bullied and driven away, I didn't dare speak up. I just want to find a job to support myself and my younger brother, but... why does this keep happening...? It's so hard to just live a decent life..."
"Sigh..."
Looking at the slender woman in front of her, sharing her string of unlucky experiences and finally breaking down in tears, the manager lady couldn't help but feel a mix of amusement and sympathy.
"Go ahead and cry, it'll make you feel better."
Approaching the thin woman with her own handkerchief, the manager lady tended to her scalded arm and gently patted her back, comforting her in a soft voice, "These things are not your fault. Don't worry, I'll think of something else. I'll see if I can find you another job... Don't worry, people won't always be this unlucky."
...
No, she was probably going to be this "unlucky" forever.
Standing in the stairwell on the second floor, Lyon listened to the entire conversation between the manager lady and this "Miss Lara" and couldn't help but fall into deep thought as he looked at the review form in his hand.
【Name: Lara Roberts】
【Charges: Espionage, Disclosure of Royal Secrets】
【Punishment: Arrest and Interrogation, Secret Execution by Hanging】
【File: Suspected ace spy from a foreign country, has appeared in multiple important occasions since six years ago, resulting in the loss of numerous secret documents and evidence.
The Secret Investigation Bureau investigated 29 locations, totaling 571 personnel lists, and after a 19-month-long tracking, they finally identified this deeply hidden spy. In her apartment, they found a small portion of the missing secret documents and evidence, listed as follows:
- A secretly signed 'Auxiliary Grain Price Control Document' with the Aurelon Kingdom, carefully folded and placed under a wobbly dining table.
- The remnants of the 'Seventeen-Point Joint Defense Agreement' with the Hesse Kingdom's envoy, trimmed and disguised as a book cover, with the agreement text facing inward, wrapped around a 'Children's Storybook'.
- An engraved porcelain bottle, a private alliance gift between the previous Lane Manor and the Kuko Family, now chipped and damaged, with a slightly wilted wildflower bouquet, placed on the apartment windowsill...】
【Objection: The acting director of the Secret Investigation Bureau, Isa Hill, investigated and questioned the espionage charges, reporting it as a suspected 'Special Case 3', and transferred it to the Police Department's Cleanup Bureau for review】
【Cleanup Bureau Review: ...】
"..."
My review is... the female police officer was right, this person indeed possesses an anomaly.
Looking at the long list of secret documents and evidence in the file, and the rather "ordinary" handling of these deadly items, Lyon couldn't help but display a peculiar expression similar to the manager lady's.
Under normal circumstances, it's highly unlikely for so many coincidences to occur, so this Miss Lara must possess an anomaly related to "exposing secrets." The more others want to keep something hidden, the more likely she is to stumble upon it.
As for the missing secret documents...
If Lyon's guess is correct, Miss Lara is probably living in poverty, and like himself, has developed a thrifty habit of reusing waste, possibly due to illiteracy or limited literacy. That's why she collected such a large pile of dangerous items.
For instance, the engraved porcelain bottle from the Lane Manor, it might have been discarded by a careless servant or someone else, only to be picked up by Miss Lara and used as a flower vase.
【Confirmed as Anomaly Holder】
Spreading the review form on the stair railing, Lyon furrowed his brows in thought as he jotted down his initial judgment with a charcoal pencil.
Miss Lara indeed possesses an anomaly, meeting the bureau's recruitment criteria. But the question now is, is someone like her suitable for the role of a cleaner?
(End of Chapter)
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