Chapter 359: Reiner – An Impossible Task
In this day and age that most things were electronic and no longer paper-based, it was surprising to see so many documents gather and well arranged all in one place. I bet whatever Reiner was looking for must be quite old. Perhaps it was some documents from the time when computers and everything digital wasn’t popular yet.
“Excuse me. I’m Knight’s secretary. He told me that you have some documents for him...” I said to the muscular old man who was seated behind a counter.
The old man peered at me through his thick-lens glasses as he squinted his eyes. I wondered if it was a requirement to be this muscular to guard an archive. I smiled at him a little nervously as he continued to stare at my face. Finally, he seemed satisfied enough and nodded at me in acknowledgement. Without saying a word to me, he slowly got up from his seat and waved his hand at me for me to follow after him.
He led me a little further into the archive and the smell of old paper and books filled my nostrils. It wasn’t an unpleasant smell, but I wouldn’t want to spend an entire day down here either. After a little while the man came to a stop in front of a large pile of documents. Documents in folders was piled up almost as high as my waist.
“All of this is for Knight?” I asked.
I eyed the tall pile of documents in front of me. Did Reiner request for all this? I couldn’t imagine how I can possibly carry this many documents back to his office. Did he expect me to carry all this back on my own? Really?
As I stood there in shock, the old man stood silently to the side and watched me as if he was waiting to see what I was going to do. Effort, Natalia, perseverance, and endless effort. I flexed my fingers and bent down to gather as many documents and folders as I could carry into my arms. If I can’t carry all of them back at once, I’ll just make multiple trips.
“Thank you!” I called out to the old man as I started walking out of the archive with a large pile of documents in my arms.
After just making it out of the archive, I quickly realized that I must have bitten off more than I could chew. The documents in my arms rose up higher than my chin and it felt so heavy in my arms that my arms started feeling numb. It was also a little hard for me to balance myself and walk straight. Miraculously, I made it back to the elevator that connected the underground archive to the first floor. Back at the lobby, I had to change elevator to the one that would go up to Reiner’s office.