Chapter 83 It’s like meeting you for the first time
Night falls quietly, the temperature brought by the sun gradually fades, and the cool evening breeze blows through the entire city.
A police siren sounded not far away, seemingly in the direction of Shinjuku—perhaps to drive away those young people pretending to be homeless.
Groups of office workers in suits and ties passed by outside the convenience store. Some of them bought bento boxes in the store and planned to heat them up before eating them at home. Some of them wanted to go to an adult izakaya to relieve stress.
Qing Keisuke bid farewell to Longchuan Shunye at the door. Her girlfriend is a student at a nearby university and is already waiting for him outside the door.
"Goodbye, Qinggui-kun, Kobayashi-chan will be here soon."
His girlfriend didn't dare to look directly at Qing Keisuke's face. It wasn't until the two of them walked away that Longchuan's girlfriend couldn't help saying "Hey~!" and marveled at how beautiful Qing Keisuke's face was.
Qing Keisuke leaned at the door of the convenience store and looked up at the sky. The dark sky was so far away that it seemed as if it was blown so high by the cool evening breeze. Even the few sparse stars became small and dim, as if they were touching.
Out of reach.
The moon will soon rise slowly from the east, shining its gentle and equal moonlight on the world.
Aoi Keisuke likes to look at the sky from the ground and see the moon just rising, as if emerging from the gap between high-rise buildings.
Whether it is a new moon or a full moon, the light and shadow at that time are very beautiful.
"Ah! Handsome guy!"
While he was waiting for the moon to come out, a girl appeared at the corner of the convenience store. As soon as she saw him, she spoke out her thoughts uncontrollably.
Qing Keisuke heard the sound and looked over, and the girl immediately blushed.
This is a very sweet-looking girl with fair skin and big eyes. When she covers her mouth, a pair of cute dimples appear on both sides of her cheeks. She has fluffy bangs and the hair at the back is tied into two ponytails.
, with some curly hair extending to the lower back.
The girl has a slim figure and wears a beautiful and lively black suit for the evening, paired with a small and cute green frog head crossbody bag.
"Huh? No, why are you wearing clothes from our store?"
The girl stepped on her small leather shoes and rushed to Aoi Keisuke. She seemed to be looking at her clothes, but in fact she took a few more glances at Aoi Keisuke's face.
After a long time, he looked away with satisfaction and slapped his palms as if he understood: "I know, you are a new employee of our store, right?"
"Um."
Qing Keisuke looked at her, feeling the kind spirituality in the girl, and couldn't help but smile knowingly: "Are you Reina Kobayashi? The store manager told me that I will work the night shift with you tonight."
"One, start, row, night shift?" Rena Kobayashi checked every word and confirmed it again.
"Um."
"...Wow."
At this moment, Rena Kobayashi wants to give a kiss to the store manager, Uncle Yoshida.
"I'm going to change clothes! The handsome guy is waiting for me!"
Rena Kobayashi rushed into the convenience store warehouse in such a hurry that she even forgot to ask Keisuke Aoi's name.
"She seems to have spoken out her heart again...
Maybe it’s because of many previous experiences in simulating creatures that you like to talk?”
Qing Keisuke glanced at the girl's bouncing back, and he became more and more curious about what Reina Kobayashi really looked like.
Maybe after tonight’s observation, you will have a different perspective than your original self?
"Let me formally introduce myself! I am Reina Kobayashi, a first-year student at Kukai High School! Because I joined the job earlier than you, you can call me senpai. Of course, my friends all call me 'Nana'. You can choose one!"
Qing Keisuke looked strange when he heard this and wanted to laugh a little, but he still obeyed and called "Senior".
"Oops!" Kobayashi Reina glanced at him reproachfully, secretly annoyed by his lack of integrity. Didn't she hint that he would call her Nana?
"What a coincidence, senior. I am Kukai's second-year student. My name is kept secret for the time being. Just call me junior."
"Nani?!" Reina Kobayashi coughed repeatedly after hearing this: "Are you my senior?"
"Really?"
Rena Kobayashi wants to retract her preamble - if her friends find out that she has accepted a senior as a junior, she will be teased until the next semester.
And what should you do if you are bullied by a handsome senior in school?!
"I was joking just now. Senior, just call me Xiaolin."
"That's okay." Aoi Keisuke admired Reina Kobayashi's vivid expression and agreed without hesitation.
"By the way, why should the senior's name be kept secret?" Rena Kobayashi asked again in confusion.
"Hmm...because handsome guys need to maintain a certain sense of mystery?" Qing Keisuke made nonsense.
"Yeah! It makes sense." Reina Kobayashi nodded in agreement: "Then what should I call you?"
"How about calling me 'Ulysses'?"
"It's very cool. It looks a bit like the setting of a medieval aristocrat!"
In short, because there happened to be a guest at the door, the issue of the two people's titles was settled.
Rena Kobayashi took the initiative to assign the night shift tasks to the two of them, and took on the harder part - being responsible for the cashier and reception.
In the following time, customers came one after another to buy wine and snacks at night. The two stopped chatting and got busy.
The time soon reached 9 o'clock, and the two of them had been working for three hours.
After seeing off the latest wave of customers, Reina Kobayashi couldn't help but stretch her body: "Your Excellency Ulysses, your performance is very good! Why do I feel that the customers want something, and you know where it is better than me?"
Qing Keisuke smiled and said, "I have better eyesight."
"Really?" Rena Kobayashi expressed her admiration: "I couldn't find anything at first, and I was criticized a lot by customers."
Reina Kobayashi slumped down, put her head and hands on the cashier, and sighed: "Does this thing also depend on talent?"
"Practice makes perfect," Qing Keisuke said, "Of course you have to remember it carefully."
"Huh? I feel like I've heard this sentence before!"
Rena Kobayashi's twin ponytails are like antennas, standing up: "Speaking of which, Ulysses-dono has always given me a strange sense of familiarity, but I have definitely never seen such a handsome face!"
"Oh? How do you say that?" Qing Keisuke expressed interest.
, it also feels like a familiar face. Don’t you think it’s strange?”
"Huh? I feel the same way about Kobayashi-san." Qing Keisuke pretended to be confused and said, "Could it be that you have forgotten me?"
"Impossible!" Rena Kobayashi said firmly.
Then her eyes sparkled and she said, "How do you feel about me? Like a little deer bumping into each other?"
"I think what I just expressed in context was 'familiarity'."
Qing Keisuke corrected her: "I mean, in my mind, there seems to be a girl who looks very similar to Kobayashi-san and likes to call me 'senpai'."
"Senior~?" Rena Kobayashi's face turned slightly red, and she complained: "Humph~ That girl must like you!"
"How can you see it?" Qing Gui asked curiously.
"Intuition!" Reina Kobayashi seemed to have regarded Aoi Keisuke as a handsome boy who had fallen into her trap, so she had the intuition to catch the thief cat.
The way she gritted her teeth was very cute, but if this anger was caused by a handsome guy she just met, it would be a bit exaggerated.
Qing Keisuke shook his head and laughed, but did not remind her of this. Instead, he said: "The girl in my impression likes hippopotamus very much."
"Eh?"
"Xiao Lin-san also likes hippos?"
"That, that...is such a coincidence? Haha."
Rena Kobayashi blushed again. She was thinking - did this senior find out where she was working here, so she came here specifically to pursue her?
Ouch, so you are so popular?
"Uh huh huh!" She cleared her throat and said, "I'm a little tired. Mr. Ulysses, please come and stand guard at the cashier!"
"Okay, you can take a rest."
Reina Kobayashi ran into the warehouse with her ponytails swinging, leaving Keisuke Aoi to look after the store alone.
She took out her mobile phone from her personal cabinet and hid in the bathroom, preparing to ask the store manager about the newcomer.
If he was really her suitor, she couldn't give him away so easily!
"Store manager! Store manager!"
"Oh? Is it Xiaolin?"
"Hahaha, have you reconciled with Qinggui at this time? Are you here to thank me?"
"Oh, you don't need to thank me too much, even though I specifically left him here tonight."
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Before Reina Kobayashi could ask a question, Miao Yoshida fired several messages in succession like a barrage of bullets.
Rena Kobayashi was suddenly stunned when she saw the word "Qinggui".
"Qinggui...Qingguisuke...?!"
She felt her heart suddenly beating violently. Could the name she had been calling turn out to be the handsome guy outside?
——Kobayashi Reina, you are indeed a hopeless face-controller!
She covered her face in shame, a little afraid to face it, but she had countless doubts in her heart that needed to be answered urgently.
"Store manager, I'll talk to you later! I'm busy!"
She rushed out of the bathroom and threw her phone on the table in the lounge. She had to ask Ulysses for her true identity first!
"you……!"
Rena Kobayashi suddenly saw a customer in the store and immediately suppressed her words.
The girl was impatient, but God seemed to be against her. The customers who entered the store came one after another, giving her no chance to have a private chat with Qing Guisuke.
But she has to change her shift at 10 o'clock!
She puffed up her cheeks and stared at each customer equally from behind the shelves, mentally asking them to leave the convenience store in 30 seconds.
Unfortunately, her request did not take effect.
Aoi Keisuke saw the way she winked at him, but because Rena Kobayashi's facial expression system was too rich, he couldn't understand it.
Fool!
Rena Kobayashi's eyes rolled and she had another idea. She took out a stack of sticky notes from her pocket, wrote her question with a ballpoint pen, and then stuffed it into Keisuke Aoi's hand when no one was paying attention.
"Is your name Qing Keisuke?!"
Qing Keisuke opened the note and looked at it. He was a little surprised, but then felt relieved. He took out his pen and wrote:
"yes."
Rena Kobayashi took the note back, and when she saw Aoi Keisuke's answer, she felt like crying for no reason, and she suddenly felt a lot more relaxed inside.
She confessed directly: "I don't know why, I keep calling your name! This is very strange... but you have to believe me, I seem to be looking for you!"