I Was An OP Demon Lord Before I Got Isekai'd To This Boring Corporate Job! Episode 3: You Mean The Cops Are Demons, Too!?!? by Watts Regina

Author:Watts, Regina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Corporate isekai adventure
Publisher: Painted Blind Publishing
Published: 2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

MY DRINK WITH Mike passes in a blur of bitter disappointment and ugly betrayal.

“Turns out management’s had its eye on me for a while,” says Mike cheerily. “I never really pictured myself as the managerial type, so we’ll see how it goes…it’s only my third day, after all. But so far I think I might like it!”

I knew that the engineers had a new manager, since Gabe and Raphael were let go due to their no longer being angels…but for it to be Mike?

Mike, my friend from back when we were hired?

Mike, the guy in the cubicle beside me, who drank with me after work and more than once drove me home?

Mike—who must be, like all the other management at Helcom, an angel?

I feel like a fool because I didn’t see it. The incomprehensibility of Mike’s promotion is not that he does not deserve it; it is that he has lied to me for the duration of our relationship, much as Melody refrained from revealing her nature as my guardian angel.

And I am beginning to feel like a fool because I have at last seen the sharp, well-defined flaw in my own plan. My harem’s plan.

After all…it’s Baphomet and Gretchen who are most hell-bent on seeing me climb the ladder at Helcom. I wasn’t the one who came up with the idea on my own.

And now that I think about it, it’s one I would never suggest.

I look blankly through Mike as he talks my ear off about his first few days of this surprise promotion. Suddenly I understand that no matter what happens—no matter how hard I work, what department I’m in, who I brownnose, how I excel—I will never be promoted into the higher ranks at Helcom, because I am not an angel.

I am not “management material.”

But, apparently, Mike is, and always has been.

And I don’t know how to deal with that.

“Well,” I say at the end of my beer, feigning what I think to be a pretty successful smile as I leave my tab on the bar, “that’s really great, Mike! They made the right decision. You wanna meet up again this day next week and tell me more about it?”

“Sure! Keep me down to earth, please…I don’t want to end up like Gabe.”

Yeah.

I don’t want that, either.

I’ve just pointed the car toward home when I realize that I promised my mother I’d come by for dinner.

My bad mood compounds.

Fantastic. After the annoying turn this day has taken, I can’t think of anything less enjoyable than the thought of a lecture from my mother all dinner long.

Since I have to turn around anyway, I pull into a parking lot and make a quick call. Melody picks up, her voice cheerful.

“Hi, Vic! Hope you’re not in trouble again.”

“You heard the details, huh?”

“Despina told me all about it. I’m glad your mother got you out!”

“I’m very lucky. Speaking of my mother, I’m going to dinner at her house tonight—”

“You’re such a good son.”

“—and I don’t want everybody to worry,” I tell her, rolling my eyes a little at her angelic praise.

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