Starting a Night Shift Part-time Job at a Convenience Store.

Inireality, Yakumo, who had reached his physical limit, became docile after a while, as if the air hadibeen released from his body. He grumbled a lot, but eventually, with the help of his friend, the young man holding himiup by the shoulder, he settled down.

“Well, Akane, who’sithis?”

“He’s… theiguy who saved my life and who got caught up in this whole mess. If it weren’t for him, I wouldihave been devastated.”

“Eh? Really!? Youican’t do that! If you involve the public!”

“…Like I said. Whose faultido you think it is?”

Turningitoime, the young man in the black suit grabbed both of my hands tightly, as I wondered what he was going to do. Strangely enough, the moment I was gripped, the sluggishness that had been riding heavily from my hands to both shoulders blew away in one fell swoop.

Whatidid he just do to me…? I had no idea. But I felt so much better.

I wasiso startled that I froze, and he flashed a friendly smile at me with a benevolent look on his face.

“I don’t know whoiyou are, but it seems that this person has inconvenienced you deeply… and I am very sorry!”

“Hey! Half of it isidue to you… Buhoo!”

The youngiman in the suit bowed deeply and when Yakumo bared his double teeth next to him, the latter silenced him with a backhand blow.

Despite his smile, his actioniwas…

“Youican’t speak any further, or you’ll really die, Akane, don’t you know?”

“D-Damn you… I will remember this…”

“Is everythingiokay?”

“Yeah. Noiproblem!”

Theiyoung man in the suit gave me a thumbs-up with a smile.

“Thank you for saving my precious… friend, bro.”

“O-Oh… not at all.”

Being thanked once again, I didn’t know what to say in return. Even though I was only helping Yakumo because I didn’t want to feel uncomfortable, I would have gone out of tune if he had said it with such a look of goodwill on his face.

“I didn’t do anything particularly gratuitous, I was mostly just screaming… more importantly, take him to the hospital as soon as possible.”

All this time he had been running around the sea of trees in this directionless search for Yakumo, and the two of them unhesitantly did… what a pair of guys they were… I doubted if they were really human.

Well, he was going to be responsible for bringing Yakumo back with him, and I guessed I could leave the rest to him.

“Yeah. Understood, please leave the rest to me!” the young man replied loudly, bowing.

“I made sure I brought what was requested, you see.”

“Thanks for your hard work, Akane, and I’m really sorry I couldn’t help you.”

“Good grief, next time I’ll be counting on you. And… I’m going to have to come back here, I can only do a partial cleanup now, and even with your help I may not be able to manage it, there are more things here than I anticipated.”

“I see. If you say so, we better come back later.”

With a troubled looks on their faces, they stared back at the boundless expanse of the sea of trees. What they were discussing, I had no notion whatsoever.

I knew I shouldn’t interject so I refrained from speaking, and Yakumo, who was still wearing a difficult expression on his face, remarked to me, “Sonny. I am truly grateful to you more than ever. That’s why I want to say something to you, the person who saved my life, that you shouldn’t stay here for too long.”

“What?”Translator: MadHatter

“I won’t say anything bad. You shouldn’t stay here… it’s better for you. You are a good person. Don’t ruin your life in a place like this.”

He didn’t say what exactly would take place, but I supposed that was out of concern. Although I could tell that he was doing his best to repay me for what I had done for him this time, regrettably, I couldn’t nod my head emphatically enough to do so.

So instead, I responded simply, “I still have a reason to be here. Once I’m done with that… I’ll leave.”

“I see… but be careful.”Not shared on aggregator sites

“Oh, and you too, don’t be too reckless from now on, I don’t want you to appear as a specter again. If you do that, there won’t be enough bodies to go around.”

“…You’re giving me an earache.”

“Well, you know what? The next time I see you, as a way of your appreciations, I’m going to eat ramen noodles until death.”

I will eat for free to the extent that you would regret dragging me into this mess. Yakumo replied, “I’ll be waiting for you,” in response to my declaration.

After a beat, his abdomen let out a pathetic cry.

“…Ah, I am hungry.”

“How easy-going can you be at this stage…? Before your stomach, you should be in the hospital, Yakumo, you need to get a CT scan.”

“No… I want to eat something before going to the hospital. I haven’t eaten for dozens of hours now, and I feel like I could eat a lot.”

What? You still had the energy to eat a lot? Hah?

“Right…! Can’t we just go straight to a yakiniku restaurant…? Oh, and Sonny, you too.”

“Akane! What are you talking about? No, you can’t! At this time of night, no stores are open!”

That wasn’t the point.

“Forget it, just get to the hospital―!”

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