"D-D-Doma... L-L-Lord!?" Maya Matsumoto, who considered herself an ordinary person, had always possessed a healthy degree of self-awareness. She had never fantasized about crossing paths with important people—especially the important people admired by the eccentric manager and the others, such as a certain Sogo Doma!
It should be said that, in her pursuit of normalcy and dedication to being ordinary, she fundamentally did not want anything to do with important people. Unlike the masses who complained every day about—
"Boring."
"Can't something interesting happen for once?"
—while actually hoping nothing would change, Maya Matsumoto never complained aloud about being bored. Even working in an environment packed with eccentrics, she only wanted to live an ordinary, unremarkable life as an ordinary person. Therefore, becoming involved with an important person was no different from a nightmare to ordinary Maya. After all, countless stories had shown that getting involved with important people meant trouble, meant becoming the focus of the public eye, meant being unable to remain ordinary or live an unremarkable life... Such a departure from an ordinary, unremarkable daily life was nothing less than heresy!
Therefore, Maya Matsumoto could not cross paths with important people! Yet what had she done today? She had actually contradicted someone close to an important person. Granted, the other party had looked down on ordinary people first, saying ordinary people could accomplish nothing. How could someone who pursued ordinary life possibly accept that?
But so what? In Maya Matsumoto's eyes, important people represented the extraordinary. They represented the unusual. Wasn't it perfectly normal for them to look down on ordinary people?
Maya Matsumoto regretted it. Why had she been so impulsive? What if what she had just said angered these important people...? Sure, she had only spoken two sentences before being refuted into silence, but when