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Business Trip

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Hier ist Geerta Esben, the Deputy of Criminal Law Department of Pravnich Law Office, and this is my business trip experience few weeks ago.

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Our office offers various legal services--- be it attorney services, legal drafting, consultation, legal opinion, you name it. In carrying out our duty, we are required to meet clients, the opposition, coordinating with stakeholders, even site visit. Meeting people or coordinating with other institutions is a piece of cake--- I mean, they are people, so we can easily compromise about how and where we meet. We can manage and control or order them somehow.

But site visit?

It's a pain in the ass!

Because site visit combined all three--- we have to keep in touch with the client(s), preparing paperwork for our visit, making reservation, asking permission, so-on, so-forth, and still have to think about the substance of the case. You can't ask a disputed land to literally 'come' to our office, can you?

I HATE SITE VISIT.

"Wild Boar, you'll accompany Shitty Lady to Praedo,"

Emperor knows that I hate it, but that piece of shit just rubbed it off on my face. Oh, by the way, that 'Shitty Lady' is another reference he made for Freya--- beside 'Four Eyes', of course.

"Why?" I inquired.

Shrugging off his shoulder, he answered before taking a gulp of a canned black coffee in his hand, "simple, because you haven't gone to any business trip this year. Consider it workation." Workation--- work in vacation. A term we usually used for business trip.

Getting that answer made me literally face palming and smirked in front of his face. Why? Just why? Sigh... Yeah, sure, whatever. I can't say no since he's my superior and because the Director has given his approval. Furthermore, I can't reject the offer since these people keep saying about how threatening and dangerous it is to let a nobility like Freya roam around in such dangerous neighborhood like Praedo. They just won't shut up and keep ghosting on me.

Though I said I hate it, an order is an order. Gotta carry it out, like it or not.

Anyway, it was a corruption case. While my capacity as criminal law expert is needed, the client was actually seeking on the maladministration part--- hence, as a master of constitutional and administrative law, we decided that Freya will take over the subject matter whilst I'm taking care of the paper work, coordination, and permission. Basically all the simple and trivial work--- but there's much more to it. Great.

The client was a government official named Mrs. Eka. She acts as whistle blower--- notifying law enforcements about the corrupt act conducted by her superior. Everything went well. She's cooperative and fast to respond too. Judging from her social media profile picture, how she address herself as 'sis', and how Freya described her as 'fashion police', I expected her to be a young, sassy lady--- someone close to Cheyenne or that girl-band lawyers from Minerva.

Two days before departure, I realized that Freya put a more edgy-look make-up on her face--- something I rarely seen from the poised noble lady. When I asked her, she told me: "You'd better put some make-up on--- because the first time I met her, she told me 'how will you get a boyfriend if you're not preen?'. This look is a preparation. So, yeah, that's the gist of it."

I startled and smirked nervously while Freya looked herself in a mirror on her phone, wondering whether her make-up was too much since I noticed it right off the bat.

If you rule out sunblock, perfume, and hand-body from make-up group, then... "I only have powder and lip-balm," I told her.

"I can lend you some of mine," she answered almost instantly. She even offered her help to dress me up.