136 Miss Maruta still has an extra 1,000 yen in the store.
After the fake sick leave was used up, Kamiyagawa returned to his daily life as a Tokyo high school boy.
Work-study.
Go to school during the day and work part-time at night.
That night.
convenience store.
After more than a week, Kamiya finally started working the night shift with Okamura-kun again.
"Ms. Maruta still has an extra thousand yen in the store."
Okamura said this while checking the products on the shelves.
"Ms. Maruta still has an extra thousand yen in the store."
Okamura said this again when he was cleaning up the bento that had passed the tasting period.
Finally, he walked to the cash register at the counter and began to sigh again: "Miss Maruta..."
"Stop! It's okay, I'll get bored if I talk about it anymore." Kamiyagawa on the side interrupted the spell cast angrily, "You've been talking about it all night, please let yourself go and let me go, okay?"
"But Kamiya-kun. Why hasn't Miss Maruta come to the store tonight?"
Okamura obviously did not intend to end this topic so simply.
"She doesn't need to come to the convenience store every night, right? Aren't she allowed to eat anything other than oden for dinner?" Kamiya said with a black line on his face.
After hearing this, Okamura nodded: "That's right. Kamiya-kun, there is one more thing. Miss Marui invited me to drink yesterday."
"Oh." Kamiya responded casually, and then started pouring cold water on her like a widowed store manager, "So what, when I stood in front of the cash register and my eyelids were fighting, she also invited me. You don't want to
Tell me, do you think this is love?"
I love you Mahuaqing.
Where did you, a frequent visitor to the red light district, find love?
"That's not... I just don't understand why she is so nice to us." Okamura scratched the back of his head.
"Don't understand?" Kamiyagawa looked at his colleagues around him with an expression like "You're fucking kidding me."
Sure enough, after you get emotionally involved, your mind won't turn around, right...
After complaining in his heart, Kamiya said helplessly: "She is willing to convey goodwill to us, of course because of that incident..."
That thing was just a small thing.
It happened several months ago, when it was still spring, not long after Kamiya had just picked up "Kaitan Monogatari".
That night, Kamiyagawa and Okamura were still working the night shift at the convenience store together.
At that time, the two of them met Miss Marui for the first time.
Marui appeared in the convenience store dragging a large suitcase with his face tired and his eyes red and swollen. He sat down in the dining area and just sat there in a daze for a long time.
I found out later when I went up to ask.
That day was Miss Marui's third day in Tokyo.
She was very unlucky. She was defrauded of money by a rogue agency, and then she didn't get the job as promised.
Kamiya was quite free that night, so she casually comforted Marui with a few words. Later, Okamura gave her another bento that had expired.
Then, there is no more.
Ms. Marui is an excellent and hard-working person. A little setback cannot knock her down. After being frustrated, she adjusted her mood and began her journey of survival in the reinforced concrete and neon jungle.
People can't be unlucky all the time.
After that, Marui successfully found a job that he could settle down in, and rented an apartment near a convenience store, officially establishing a foothold in Tokyo, a bustling yet indifferent metropolis.
After Kamiya's reminder, Okamura also recalled this little incident and said in an uncertain tone:
"But it was just a small thing. We just talked to her for a few words and treated her to a bento that was past its expiry date."
"Why, is it a big deal for her to treat us to a refreshing drink when we stay up late at night?" Kamiyagawa asked back.
At this moment, Okamura was speechless.
Both the Widow Store Manager and Kamiyagawa were clear-headed, and after taking turns speaking frankly, Okamura-kun regained some of his sanity.
Yes.
The good-looking and hard-working OL who would invite Okamura and Kamiya to drinks probably has nothing to do with the good feelings between the opposite sex.
It's just a small reward that a kind person can make to those who have shown kindness to him after his life has stabilized.
"So, stop thinking nonsense and work hard." Kamiyakawa deliberately put on a look of vicissitudes of life and reached out to pat Okamura on the shoulder. "Love may betray you, but making money will never."
The latter sighed and nodded.
In fact, Okamura himself knew that a person like him who loved visiting custom towns was not worthy of that girl.
But...oh, speaking of custom towns...
Okamura: "By the way, Kamiya-kun. Speaking of the custom town, several custom girls have disappeared there recently. Do you know? It seems that the Metropolitan Police Department has been alerted. I now feel that the one who was familiar with me before
The custom girl is probably missing too."
Kamiyagawa:???
No, wait a minute.
Who told you about Custom Town?
Your chatting style is a bit stream-of-consciousness.
The topic jumped too quickly!
One second I was feeling sad about spring and autumn, but the next second I was thinking about romance, right?
Seeing that Kamiya didn't reply, Okamura continued: "Kamiya-kun, don't you live very close to Fushu Town? You have to be careful during this period, especially when you go home from the night shift."
Kamiyakawa waved his hand: "I'm not a customary girl."
"You can't say that." Okamura said seriously, "What if, I mean what if. There really is a bad guy wandering around Fushu Town, and you happen to be unlucky and bump into him on the way home from work.
If you do, wouldn’t that be dangerous?”
"Thank you very much for reminding me."
Kamiyagawa said this, but what he was thinking in his heart was——
If a bad person really encounters me while walking at night, it's hard to say who is unlucky.
I worked part-time at a convenience store tonight and had a pretty average life.
After that, Okamura talked about something about the missing custom girl.
Kamiya understood clearly that according to Okamura, all of the missing girls were young and beautiful.
Therefore, Kamiyakawa kept an extra thought in mind:
"Speaking of which, is it possible that the person wandering around in the custom town and causing the disappearance of the custom girl is not a 'bad guy', but a strange story about a foreign visit or a spirit descending?"
This possibility exists, and it is not small.
Kamiyagawa continued to think:
"The strange rumors about attacking young and beautiful girls...hey, if this is the only information, it's still too little."
"However, Okamura also said that the matter in Fushu Town has already alerted the Metropolitan Police Department. Even if it is really caused by strange rumors, there is no need for me to worry about it."
The official organization of exorcists, affiliated with the Metropolitan Police Department.
Kamiya already knew this from Yuuki Makensuke.
Therefore, even if it is really a ghost story, once the Metropolitan Police Department intervenes, it means that the official exorcists will intervene.
Kamiyakawa felt that as a small folk spirit exterminator, he didn't need to worry about it.