New Pairing

“I wasn’t planning to…” I murmured.

“Regardless of what you say, you’ll have to pick another project. What about this one?” Ace suggested as he took out a small pile of paper and placed it on the table in front of me.

I flipped through a couple of pages and found that it seemed to be another advertisement for a clothing company. There wasn’t anything outstandingly interesting about the project. At least that was what I thought until my eyes landed on a particular name.

“Oh…” I muttered.

“Work with Richard instead. He’s nice and strict so I’m sure that there are many things that you can learn from him. You didn’t really get a chance to work closely with him on Project Alpha, so this is a good opportunity,” Ace said quite seriously.

I felt like the words ‘nice’ and ‘strict’ shouldn’t really go together. Ace was surely half right when he said that Richard was ‘strict’. Richard was probably one of the strictest person that I knew in my life but I wasn’t sure if he was also ‘nice’.

“You’