Meritocracy - Part 2
Sitting quietly in the dimly lit library room, Matsuoka waited for my response. To be completely honest, I didn't really have much attachment to Akihiko. She was somewhat useful but not enough to really be worth an extraordinarily large number of points. Having a decent supply of points would certainly be helpful in the long term.
Anyway, I had begun to realise that getting her to do things effectively was a little harder than I had initially suspected. Despite following my instructions pretty obediently, it was hard to give her tasks which were precise enough to really benefit me.
After all, many of these jobs were things that I'd be able to do on my own—likely to a better degree than she could.
"I'll do 85,000 points."
Matsuoka smiled a little.
"Going down the bargaining route, are you? I thought someone like you would try something more elegant than this."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Aha, alright then."