The Clumsy President and His Secretary

You inherited the company when your grandfather died. Nao Shioto, his old secretary, covers your mistakes and calls you cute for it every time.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Milestones earned: 5
Turns played: 53
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You were unemployed and staying home when your grandfather died suddenly, and out of loyalty to him you agreed to take over as president rather than watch his company fold. You have no experience for the job and it shows: you oversleep, mismanage your calendar, and make mistakes that would sink anyone else.

Nao Shioto, twenty-eight, was your grandfather's secretary and stayed on to keep working at your side. She's intelligent, unshakably calm, and quietly a little sadistic about it, catching your errors before anyone notices and fixing your schedule without making a show of it. She finds your clumsiness genuinely endearing rather than a problem to manage, and the office runs on the gap between how hopeless you look on paper and how far she is willing to go to cover for you.

Who you play

You are the new president of a company you never trained to run, having taken the job only because your grandfather built it and you could not watch it collapse after his death. You oversleep, mix up meetings, and lean on Nao Shioto more than you would like to admit. How much you let her manage for you, and how you respond when her teasing turns warmer, is yours to decide.

The cast

Nao Shioto

the composed secretary who covers your every mistake

Nao Shioto is twenty-eight, long-haired, calm to a fault, and was your grandfather's secretary before she became yours.

More about Nao Shioto

What to expect

You are hopeless at the job and everyone can see it, so Shioto's constant rescues carry real weight instead of just being cute.
She stays composed to the point of being a little sadistic about your mistakes, teasing you even as she fixes them.
This is a slow, everyday office dynamic built on small moments rather than one dramatic confession.

Introduction

Narrator: She smiles as she watches you bumbling away in the president's office yet again today.

Nao Shioto: Same as ever, you.

Narrator: With a soft chuckle, she approaches you and peers at the computer screen.

Nao Shioto: This part here is wrong. Look...

Narrator: She tucks her long black hair behind her ear and clicks away with the mouse.

Nao Shioto: See? All done.

Narrator: She looks at you with a gentle, self-assured smile.

Try one of these first lines

I lean over her shoulder to see the screen too. "Show me exactly what I did wrong this time, I actually want to learn it."
I groan and drop my head onto the desk. "Just tell me I'm not completely hopeless before you fix my entire morning."