Kyoto, in a family restaurant on a commercial street.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon, just after the busiest time for lunch, and the service staff was standing behind the counter, taking a break while looking at the customers who had not yet paid their bills.
This kind of cheap family restaurant should have few customers at this time, but there was a well-dressed man and woman sitting in front of him at the guest seat by the window.
Behind the counter, store manager Yuigahama Yui stared at the couple while talking in a low voice to the college student working part-time jobs.
"Shiba-kun, do you really want to resign?"
Yuigahama Yui looked at the young man in front of her, subconsciously a little distracted. No matter how many times she met, the slightly green young man in front of her always gave her a kind of throbbing that affected her heart.
The sixteen-year-old boy has grown into a twenty-two-year-old young man, and the once inscrutable and powerful person has become shy and inexperienced.
Perhaps the only thing that hasn't changed between the past and present life is her peerless appearance.
Yuigahama Yui looked at Yoshigoshi Shiba's face and had a lot of thoughts at the moment.
These past few days were like a dream. The memories in the depths of her mind kept flooding and gradually became clearer. She remembered many of her past lives.
She was so fragile in her previous life, but it was Shiba Yiyin's protection that allowed her to live a perfect life.
In this life, the two met again, but the world was different.
This world is not the world dominated by women, but dominated by men. Yuigahama Yui can feel at ease with her weakness, and once again sets her sights on the boy she once was, and the young man she is now.
To continue the relationship, Yuigahama Yui couldn't help but blush when this word came to her mind.
Although Yuigahama Yui had some affection for the young man in front of her before she recovered her memory, this affection was far from the depth, gratitude, and reluctance accumulated in her previous life.
But things are fickle. Just when Yuigahama Yui had just regained her memory and mustered up the courage to have something to do with Yoshihiro Shiba, a young man who worked in a restaurant, the other party proposed to resign.
Shiba Yiyin looked at the slightly embarrassed store manager in front of him, always feeling that the other person was a little different from usual, but he couldn't tell what was different.
He replied with a smile.
"Store manager, you know my situation.
When I was young, my parents were involved in a plane crash overseas. It was difficult for me to finish college just relying on the insurance compensation they left behind.
As a last resort, I had no choice but to work part-time.
Now that I have graduated from college, I want to find a formal job as a fresh graduate, so it is not suitable to continue working part-time for the time being."
In island countries, fresh graduates are an important identity because island companies have the habit of lifelong employment.
However, as the economy deteriorates, many companies are no longer willing to continue traditional lifetime employment and instead seek third-party dispatch.
There is a huge difference between whether a fresh graduate interviews and joins a large company to become a regular employee, or whether he joins a small and medium-sized enterprise with operating difficulties, or whether he cannot find a job and is eventually forced to become a dispatch worker.
Since Yiyin Shiba has graduated from college, he naturally hopes to become a regular employee of a large company, so he must prepare for the interview seriously.
Regular employees are not allowed to have part-time jobs, so he resigned.
Yuigahama Yui understood Shiba Yoshigan's choice, but she was reluctant to let Shiba Yoshigan leave just like that. She made depressed circles on the table with her fingers and said subconsciously.
"But I remember that Shiba-kun went to a third-rate university, not a prestigious school like Tokyo University and Kyoda. It should be difficult to get into a good company, right? Is it too early to consider resigning now?"
The corners of Yoshigami Shiba's mouth twitched, and he didn't understand why Yuigahama Yui, who was always easy to talk to, was so venomous today.
Although he was an ambitious and independent young man who had lost his parents, he was not really good at studying. No matter how hard he worked, he could barely get into a third-rate university.
As the saying goes, you never slap someone in the face, but Yuigahama Yui's words are a bit too much.
Yiyin forced a smile.
"I want to give it a try."
Yuigahama Yui saw Yoshigage's embarrassed face, came to her senses, covered her mouth, and kept apologizing.
"I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I didn't mean to belittle Mr. Shiba."
Yuigahama Yui, who was getting darker and darker every time she was painted, was already crying, and Yoshigan was the one who was in a hurry.
"It's okay. What the store manager said is true. There is no need to apologize. Anyway, please stop crying. There are still customers here."
Yuigahama Yui pursed her lips. She had just recovered her memory and had been flustered these past few days, speaking and doing things out of proportion.
"Anyway, there's no need to resign now. You can wait until you pass the interview before resigning, right?"
"The store manager is right, so please stop crying."
At this moment, looking at Yoshigan's handsome appearance comforting him, Yuigahama Yui blushed, holding the newly purchased movie ticket tightly with her hand in her trouser pocket, and mustered up the courage to say something.
At this moment, a man's loud roar suddenly came from the guest's side.
"That's enough!"
Yuigahama Yui and Yoshigin looked at the table at the same time, and saw a man and a woman sitting facing each other at the table. The man had already stood up, with an angry look on his face.
The woman was still sitting comfortably in her seat, relaxedly picked up the wine glass on the table, and took a sip of the orange juice in the glass.
That free and easy look is like drinking a cocktail elegantly in a bar, but it's a pity that this is a family restaurant and only provides cheap orange juice.
The man who was ignored by the woman became even more angry and accused loudly.
"How much I have paid for you, is this how you treat me? Oda Shiori!
Talking about coming here for a date, saying that you already have the man you like, are all excuses to lie to me, right?
I've been sitting here with you for four whole hours, where is the man you mentioned? Where is he?"
The woman named Shiori Oda raised her hand gracefully, her slender fingers slightly bent and waving.
"waiter,please."
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Yoshigan said softly to Yuigahama Yui.
"I'll go to the guest's place and take a look."
Yuigahama Yui grabbed the sleeve of the waiter uniform worn by Yoshiyin and said nervously.
"Be careful..."
Yiyin smiled.
"It's okay, it's just a dispute between the guests. I've dealt with it many times, it's no problem."
Shaking off Yuigahama Yui's hand, Yoshigami walked over with a professional smile.
Behind him, Yuigahama Yui seemed to want to say something more. The woman named Oda Shiori... looked a bit familiar...
Yiyin walked to the guest seat in a few steps and bowed slightly.
"Do you two need anything else?"
The man and woman in front of him didn't look like people who came to a cheap family restaurant. Their clothes were expensive, their appearance and temperament were outstanding, and they looked like rich people at first glance.
Especially the Oda Shiori in front of me. She is wearing a woman's suit. Her temperament is shrewd and strong, her appearance is outstanding, and she is as arrogant as the sun, making people feel like they can't look directly at her.
At this moment, Oda Shiori was staring at Yoshigami's face. After a while, he showed an inexplicable smile and said calmly to the man opposite.
"That's him."
"he?"
"I?"
The two men were stunned at the same time. The man glanced at Yiyin and sneered.
"Oda Shiori, even if you want to deal with me, you should find a better excuse, just this waiter?"
Without waiting for Yoshigan's reaction, Oda Shiori already nodded decisively.
"That's him, he's my date here, the person I like, and I'm sitting here just waiting for him to get off work.
And you are just an eyesore, please disappear immediately."
The man looked embarrassed and repeated through gritted teeth.
"I don't believe it..I don't believe it.."
Yoshigan didn't want to get involved in this kind of dispute between men and women. Just as he was about to explain something, the collar of his service attire was grabbed by Oda Shiori who was sitting and pulled hard.
Unprepared, Yoshigoshi leaned forward, his calf hit the side of the bench, staggered, and almost fell into Oda Shiori's arms, barely able to stabilize his body in mid-air.
And this seemed to be what Oda Shiori wanted. She kissed Yoshigoshi's mouth fiercely, leaving the man on the side stunned.
Yiyin's expression changed from astonishment to panic, because he found a tongue flexibly getting into his mouth, doing whatever he wanted.
For a long time, their lips parted, and a thin thread of liquid was still connected between them.