Otherworld Company Chapter 11.3: It’s Rather Typical to Be Short of Workers When You’re Working Hard

“It’s more like a very large condominium.” (Jiro)

The shared rooms were located on the first and second floors of the dormitory.

I’m in one of them right now, and just a quick look shows that there are three to four times as many rooms as my current one.

There was a nap room, a kitchen, a shower room, a living room, and a storage room, and judging from the furniture, it looked like I could use it right away if I bought some more items.

I wondered what I should do with it, but the problems kept coming up.

I sat down on the four-seater sofa in the living room and placed the flyer and the tablet I had brought from my room on the table.

“Well… how will I recruit?” (Jiro)

The tablet had a map of the area, or to be more precise, it picked out the places where there were a lot of people.

I’ve never done recruitment, but the point is that there should be no difference between the procedure of scouting idols by promoting the name of the company and the name of affiliated idols.

If I dress badly, I might be mistaken for a suspicious person, so I need to dress decently, but I’ll leave that aside for now.

It’s not the way I’m worried about that procedure.

“How many of them have no aptitude for magic?” (Jiro)

The problem is the nature of this flyer.

At first glance, it looks like a normal Hello Work leaflet, but without magical aptitude, it looks like a blank sheet of paper. [T/N: Hello Work is a job hiring service run by the Japanese government’s Employment Service Center.]

Suddenly, I handed over the leaflet and asked if they would like to work part-time.

Well, I would look like a weird person.

I have to take that into consideration when I recruit them.

“What should I do?” (Jiro)

The more I think about it, the more confusing it gets, but for now, I can imagine a few ways.

The first is to distribute them like pocket tissues.

It’s an easy way to get a few hits, but it should be easy even for a beginner like me.

It is probably best to be near the station where there is a high number of people coming and going.

“This is a job ad, please take a look.” (Jiro)

Okay, so far, so good.

I’m in a suit, handing out flyers to passersby, and I’m doing pretty well.

“Sometimes it’s a blank sheet, don’t worry about it.” (Jiro)

It’s the truth, but can I be honest about it?

It’s obvious that I’m going to have problems after this, so I’ll put this method on hold and go with an alternative method.

Second. Post it on the bulletin board.

It’s a conventional way.

It is commonly called, “I read the notice and came here.” (Jiro)

This is also a method often used in convenience stores and family restaurants.

The advertisement says that they are looking for part-time and full-time employees, and all you have to do is wait and see what happens.

“No, wait, is this some kind of supernatural phenomenon?” (Jiro)

But then I noticed a blind spot.

I took out my phone from my pocket and took a picture of the flyer.

“I knew it.” (Jiro)

Sure enough, what I saw on my phone was a blank sheet of paper with no print on it.

I wondered what the person who saw it or rather found it, would call it.

Therefore, I might see a mystery “I can see it, but I can’t see the flyer” message, and I would have to abandon this method.

“It would be treated as spam on the Internet. Moreover, I wouldn’t know the aptitude of the magic power. This is the bottleneck.” (Jiro)

The third idea was to use the experience I had gained at my previous job, the bitter experience of designing websites, but in the end, I couldn’t do this job without having a magical aptitude.

That’s what I need to solve.

“What a pain!” (Jiro)

I knew I would have a hard time, but I didn’t think I would have to worry about the insane fantasy factor.

“It would be nice if we could find out who has magical aptitude just by looking at them.” (Jiro)

I know I’m asking for the impossible.

It is unclear if there is a way to do this in a world without magical power, unlike the world full of magical power called Ithar.

“Oh, I don’t want to do it, but I have to do this.” (Jiro)

However, there are few roads left for me, methods I thought were bad.

“I hope I am not mistaken for a strange cult recruiter.” (Jiro)

I had to go back to the basics. The point was not to hand out or post messages, but to invite people directly.

Normally, I would be able to do my job with a sales smile on my face, but I’m not sure if I can do it with the amount of fantasy I’m going through.

To be honest, I’m worried that the words I said earlier will become too much like reality and I’ll be reported to the police.

However, there is no choice for me not to do it, as I am worried about my future progress if I don’t solve the problem.

The air was filled with anxiety about the future.

“Hmm? A chime sound?” (Jiro)

It was the sound of the doorbell that broke the tension surrounding me.