I thought I was only heading down the mountain to land a government job and coast into retirement.
Who knew that on my very first day, the cool, glamorous team leader would drag me off to handle an S-class incident?
I lazily spun my ancestral compass. “It’s nothing, just a thousand-year-old forbidden curse.”
She raised an icy brow, ready to challenge me, when the whole of Bureau 749 suddenly erupted in a piercing alarm:
“Warning! All core containment artifacts are out of control!”
I sighed and reached for my peachwood sword. “Team leader, this government job... comes with health insurance and a housing fund, right?”