Tanaka, who had just arrived at the store, asked the customer while scanning the products.
"Hi."
The man replied.
"Okay." Tanaka nodded, "Please show me."
"……Hi."
The man said again, but he took no action.
Tanaka raised his head and repeated it again with a professional smile on his face.
"Please show me your points card."
“…English please!”
The guest said hesitantly.
"Ah." Tanaka finally came to his senses, scratching his head and scratching his head as he thought, "That... please please!"
"..."
It doesn’t matter whether Tanaka understood or not, but the person opposite definitely didn’t understand, otherwise he wouldn’t have a confused expression on his face.
The two of them just looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
Seeing this, Kato Yusuke, who had just put a discount label on the bento, walked up and asked the Asian-faced man politely.
"Do you have point card?"
The pronunciation is clear and the pronunciation is standard, so I can express my emotions as accurately as a repeater.
"Oh! No no no no."
The man suddenly understood, shook his head repeatedly, and then asked Kato Yusuke.
"How much are they?"
There were two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of water in total. Kato Yusuke glanced at the price displayed on the machine and replied.
"1000."
The man nodded and handed out a thousand yen bill with a portrait of Noguchi Hideyo from his wallet. Then he put away his cigarette and water and nodded to Yusuke Kato.
"?????."
Then he left the convenience store.
"Ah? What did he say? It sounds so familiar."
Tanaka asked, staring at the man's back.
"That means 'thank you' in Korean."
Kato Yusuke said as he walked into the cashier and put the discount label away on the counter.
"That's it!" Tanaka made a fist with one hand and hit the palm of the other hand with a "thud" sound, "No wonder it feels familiar to me. My wife loves to watch these Korean dramas all day long, which makes me only watch late-night animations.
You can watch the recording secretly."
The movements of Kato Yusuke's hands stopped. It's nothing to watch late-night animation, but it's very fascinating to watch it secretly.
"Mr. Tanaka, are the animations you recorded graded?"
"Haha? Isn't that of course? Adults need to see something adults should see." Tanaka said matter-of-factly, and then looked at Yusuke Kato in confusion, "But why are you asking this? Do you want to borrow it?"
After finishing speaking, Kato Yusuke said again before he could open his mouth.
"Okay, it's okay if I lend it to you."
Tanaka said so carelessly.
"And since you want to borrow it, I recommend you to choose this animation adapted from the game - "The Prism of Snow". The delicate expression technique in it is simply amazing!"
Frankly speaking, at that moment, Kato Yusuke was really a little bit moved, but unfortunately...
"No-!"
A loud shout was heard, and Takada Shiori suddenly jumped out from behind a certain row of shelves.
"Tian! Zhong! Sir!"
She said word by word and walked to the cashier angrily.
"Little, little Takada!? Why are you here!?"
Tanaka said in shock.
"I'm always here, okay!" Takada Shiori said with his hands on his waist: "Compared with this, lending unhealthy things to minors is a crime!"
Takada Shiori glared at Tanaka angrily.
"Ah...what are you talking about? Why can't I understand it at all? Crime? How could I do that kind of thing?"
Tanaka rubbed the back of his head and said, pretending to be dumbfounded.
"real?"
Takada Shiori looked at Tanaka with a scrutinizing gaze, his tone full of suspicion.
"Of course!"
Tanaka Yoshimasa said eloquently, and while speaking, he bumped Kato Yusuke with his elbow and asked.
"Really Kato? You think so too, right? Hahaha, ahhahahahaha."
(This person can't lie at all.)
Looking at Tanaka with an awkward smile on his face, Yusuke Kato couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, but he still said cooperatively.
"...Well, that's right."
"is that so……?"
Takada Shiori cast a suspicious look.
"Then what were you talking about just now?"
she questioned.
"Well..." Tanaka was evasive for a while, his eyes kept wandering around, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "This is it——!"
Tanaka said loudly.
"W-what? So loud all of a sudden?"
Takada Shiori was startled.
"Because today is salary day, that's what we were talking about just now!"
Tanaka said firmly.
"Then why do you say borrowing?"
Takada Shiori asked.
"Ah... that."
Hearing Takada Shiori's question, Tanaka couldn't help but sigh, first looked at Kato Yusuke with a sympathetic look, and then said to Takada Shiori.
"Originally I didn't want to tell you, but now that you've heard it, there's nothing you can do about it..."
There was a certain sadness in his tone.
"Actually, this kid Kato just asked me to borrow money. He said that his family has been having some difficulties recently and he hasn't eaten for several days..."
"That's a lie, right?"
Takada Shiori interrupted him directly: "Aren't the cooked foods that have been taken off the shelves in our store free to eat?"
"Besides, I just paid my salary today. How can I use all that money?"
Takada Shiori said coldly.
"This is... that, it's actually because Kato was defrauded over the phone."
Tanaka explained hesitantly.
"……real?"
Takada Shiori looked at Kato Yusuke with questioning eyes.
It happened that Kato Yusuke also looked over, and their eyes met in the air. Takada Shiori couldn't help but think of the things that happened in the afternoon, which made her cheeks blush slightly and her expression became a little unnatural.
"No……"
Kato Yusuke opened his mouth, and just as he was about to deny it, someone kicked him in the foot.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tanaka winking at him desperately.
So he sighed, stretched out his hand under the table and made a gesture.
"5000 yen".
Tanaka was stunned for a moment, then immediately shook his head and returned the gesture.
"500 yen".
Kato Yusuke raised his eyebrows, turned to look at Takada Shiori and said: "Of course it's fake..."
Tanaka's expression suddenly changed, he grabbed Kato Yusuke's arm and made another gesture.
"2000 yen".
"OK"!
"Fake? What fake?"
Takada Shiori looked over in confusion.
"What did you just say?"
"Um……"
Kato Yusuke gave a vague look, then cleared his throat and said.
"Sorry, it's exactly what Tanaka-senpai said. I was too careless."
His tone was full of self-blame. Kato Yusuke lowered his head first, as if he didn't want people to see his weak side, but then he immediately raised his head and said in a brave tone.
"But it doesn't matter, it's okay for me to be alone!"
The voice was slightly trembling, and the young man gritted his teeth, as if no matter how difficult it was, he could not be destroyed.
At this moment, not to mention Takada Shiori, even Tanaka looked at Kato Yusuke in astonishment.
"Could it be that what I just said is true!?"
This thought came to Tanaka's mind, and emotions of pity and regret filled his heart, causing him to reach out his hand in an attempt to comfort this strong and unyielding young man.
result……
"brush--!"
Takada Shiori held Kato Yusuke's hand tightly with a distressed look on her face, then put her hands on her chest and said to Kato Yusuke with tears in her eyes.
"It doesn't matter, I'll support you!"
Tanaka:???
Kato Yusuke:???
(How I wish there was a rich woman who could see through my bravery and protect my fragility...what a ghost!?)