Negotium

Kit Pucino is twenty-three years old. He has a Business degree, one friend, and a suit that doesn't fit. After eighty-seven rejection emails, he has been hired as an intern at a company that occupies a skyscraper which is, on the inside, significantly larger than the outside should allow. Nobody else seems to find this remarkable. The company has departments that function like character classes. A skill matrix that tracks your abilities on a grid. A rank system where each promotion unlocks new floors, new meetings, and new enemies. Business cards are sacred objects. Suit cuts are a language. The boardroom is a battlefield, and the annual team-building day is a tournament arc. Kit doesn't know any of this yet. He just knows he has a white lanyard and an empty skill sheet, and for the first time in four months, someone has given him instructions. Negotium follows one earnest, over-sincere graduate from intern to the C-suite across a series that treats the corporate world as a genuine isekai — complete with levelling up, boss fights, party dynamics, and mythology — without ever breaking the surface realism of the setting. The comedy is deadpan. The question of whether any of the fantasy framing is real is never answered. What to expect Progression through a corporate rank system (Intern → Junior → Consultant → Senior → Principal → Managing → C-Suite), one tier per book. A visible skill matrix (CPD) with rank-gated information asymmetry Interdepartmental politics rendered as factional warfare Boardroom confrontations written with the pacing and specificity of shonen fight scenes Resignations and firings treated as death scenes An ensemble cast with rotating focus and genuine side-character arcs A protagonist whose defining trait is sincerity, not power The gap between the immaculate surface of corporate life and the absurdity beneath it Suits described in excruciating, reverent detail  Book One covers the internship arc.