"Effective today, you're fired."

(...Huh?)

Kristin Angermüller, a fixed-term employee at the royal palace, was suddenly informed one day by her boss that she was being dismissed.

The reasons were utterly unreasonable. Fired on the spot, with no time for a handover.

When her boss confidently declared, "I'll take over your work," Kristin —

(Well then, let's see *them* manage.)

— made a clean and decisive break, washing her hands of the royal palace entirely.

The boss, delighted to have discarded his impudent, fixed-term subordinate.

The higher-up, now tearing their hair out knowing a capable individual is gone.

Colleagues plunged into a maelstrom of chaos and despair.

Oblivious to the various schemes and worries of others, Kristin Angermüller stretches, feeling utterly refreshed.

"Now, let's head back home."

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