usenovelgroup Chapter 8 Free Lunch
Chapter 8 Free Lunch
Kiryu Yaya's gaze lingered on the three options.
Fork one, 3000 yen.
Fork two: Free lunch.
Branch three: Romance.
He wasted almost no time on Fork 3.
Dating won't lift him out of poverty; a promotion and a raise will.
This belief had been etched into his bones from the very first day he transmigrated.
As for branch one and branch two...
He quickly did a mental calculation.
If Mizuna Yayoi were to book lunch, even just the most basic buffet, it would cost 200 yen per meal.
Ten days is two thousand, twenty days is four thousand.
If it takes more than fifteen days, it's more cost-effective than the 3000 yen for the first one.
What's more, it also comes with ten bottles of Red Bull.
While I don't know exactly what the effect of "maintaining 24-hour energy" is, it might still be useful in a place like a bank where overtime is often required.
Kiryu Yaya put down his chopsticks and looked at Yayoi Mizuna.
"Yayoi-san."
"Yes, yes!"
Yayoi Mizuna immediately straightened her back and placed her hands properly on her knees, like a primary school student being called on by the teacher.
"You said you often make mistakes when organizing receipts and documents, right?"
Mizuna Yayoi's expression immediately darkened, and she nodded.
"The section chief said that the documents I handled were always a mess when they were sent to the account manager... The account manager had to rearrange them himself, and then he called the section chief to complain..."
She didn't finish her sentence.
Kiryu Yaya did not ask any further questions.
He picked up the miso soup, took a sip, and then spoke in a slightly relaxed tone.
"Yayoi-san, would you like me to teach you?"
Mizuna Yayoi raised her head.
"I'll teach you the skills of organizing materials. From classifying receipts to arranging them in the correct order before delivery, to how to place the stamp so that they won't be returned. There's actually a set of methods for these things; once you master them, you won't make mistakes..."
A glimmer of light appeared in Mizuna Yayoi's eyes, but she quickly hesitated again.
"My senior is so busy with the fundraising class, and the fundraising class is already very demanding. Their work is definitely more important than mine... How could I ask them to take time out of their schedule to teach me such basic things... That's just too shameless..."
She spoke softer and softer until she was almost talking to herself.
"It's no trouble at all."
Kiryu Yaya smiled and said in a somewhat indifferent tone:
"After all... I have one condition."
Mizuna Yayoi blinked and quickly said:
"Please speak, senior!"
Kiryu Yaya smiled, his eyes narrowed:
"From now on, you'll be in charge of my cafeteria lunches. In exchange, I'll teach you how to organize the materials, okay?"
Mizuna Yayoi was stunned.
The food in the cafeteria is already very cheap after subsidies, costing only two or three hundred yen per meal.
Even if Kiryu-kun eats in the cafeteria every day, it will only cost him five or six thousand yen.
Compared to the troublesome task of teaching her how to organize materials, this reward is almost negligible.
Perhaps the senior made this condition so that I could accept his help with a clear conscience.
senior……
I genuinely wanted to help her.
Mizuna Yayoi lowered her head, her eyes feeling a little hot.
"Well... then I'll leave it to you, senpai. I'll definitely prepare lunch carefully and make sure you enjoy it. I... I may not be very good at my job, but I'm quite good at cooking... I promise!"
Seemingly realizing she'd spoken too definitively, the tips of her ears turned even redder, and she added softly:
"...At least when it comes to cooking, I shouldn't make any mistakes."
Kiryu Yaya nodded and put the last piece of Chikuzen-ni into his mouth.
"Let's start tomorrow then. I'll teach you some basics during lunch break today."
"Huh? It starts today?"
"Or what?"
Mizuna Yayoi immediately shut her mouth and then chuckled softly.
……
There are forty minutes left in the lunch break.
Kiryu Yaya led Yayoi Mizuna back to the financing review department's office area on the third floor.
At this time, most people are still in the cafeteria or lounge, and the office area is very quiet.
What types of files do you usually organize?
Kiryu Yaya pulled up an empty chair next to his workstation and gestured for Yayoi Mizuna to sit down.
Mizuna Yayoi sat down carefully, placing her hands on her knees, as if she were attending a very important interview.
"It mainly consisted of materials that the account manager asked me to submit to various departments. These included loan applications, guarantee documents, copies of property registration certificates, tax payment certificates, and various contracts signed by the clients..."
Kiryu Yaya nodded, pulled a stack of blank A4 paper from his desk, and took three ballpoint pens of different colors from the pen holder.
First, the first point of knowledge:
"The materials sent out and the materials used for archiving are two completely different logics."
He divided the A4 paper into three stacks and labeled each stack with a number in the upper right corner using three different colors.
"The archiving uses a 'customer logic'. All materials for customer A are put together, and all materials for customer B are put together. This way, if you need to find information for a specific customer in the future, you only need to flip through one folder."
"But what the recipient needs from the materials sent out is 'time logic'."
He rearranged the three stacks of A4 paper, stacking them together in numerical order.
"For example, when you submit a loan application to the financing review department, the account manager needs to verify that the client has first signed the application, then provided tax payment certificates, then provided property registration certificates, and finally signed the contract. This process has a specific order."
"If you put the contract on top and the tax certificate at the bottom, the account manager has to go through the whole stack of materials again to figure out what stage the client has reached."
Mizuna Yayoi's eyes slowly widened.
"So that's how it is..."
"The reason you were complained about before wasn't because you weren't careful. It was because no one explained the timeline to you. Your section chief asked you to categorize by customer, and he was referring to the filing requirements. You treated the filing requirements as requirements for all scenarios."
Kiryu Yaya pushed the stack of neatly arranged A4 papers in front of her.
"So from now on, remember one principle."
"Yes."
"Materials sent out are arranged in chronological order. Archived materials are arranged by customer category. These two principles do not conflict; they simply apply different logic to different scenarios."
Yayoi Mina nodded vigorously, took out a palm-sized notepad from her pocket, and quickly scribbled on it with a ballpoint pen.
Kiryu Yaya glanced at it and said:
"And the place for the seal."
Kiryu Yaya took out a sample of an invalid application from the drawer and spread it on the table.
"The bank's seal isn't just stamped on and that's it. Each document has its own way of being stamped. For application forms, a 'Seal of Seal' must be stamped next to the signature section, at the boundary between the signature and the adjacent paper, half on the name and half on the paper. This way, if someone tampers with the signature, the seal will break off."
He drew a circle on the sample with a ballpoint pen, marking the position where the stamp should be placed.
"The contract must be stamped with a 'correction stamp' at each point of revision. Every change, whether it is a single word or a single number, must be stamped directly above the point of revision. Any changes without a correction stamp are legally invalid."
"..."
Mizuna Yayoi's pen moved rapidly across the sticky notepad, the tip of the ballpoint pen almost smoking.