Chapter 30

“Hey,

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Hakamada.” Translator: MadHatter

“Thanks

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for

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your

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hard

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work.” wfyyg

“So it’s time

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for the shift

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change huh. By

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the

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way, Hakamada, you arrived early

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today.”

“Oh,

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yes, well, a little

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bit.” Not shared on aggregator websites

After

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entering the store, I exchanged familiar greetings and bowed

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as I entered the back room, where I

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was met by Nagase, who glanced at his

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watch.

“It had

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been a while since my friends and I had gotten together but I figured if I stayed

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too long, I might get

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really drunk.”

“Haha, so you left

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early.”

“Something

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like

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that.” fwegaqa

I didn’t

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want to be the victim

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on that road’s curve.dwf

“Right, if you disappear, Hakamada, we

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will have fewer people to work the night

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shift.”

This barcode

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manager was a bad

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omen. As if what

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he said was on point, Nagase started to laugh

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too. Ugh… even

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Nagase.

With their laughter behind me, I went to the back

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room and changed into my

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uniform.feo

Speaking

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of which, Takenaka was supposed to be here

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but I hadn’t spotted

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him yet

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today. I

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thought he

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might be rearranging the shelves again, so

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I peeked out from

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the back room and

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checked around the store, only to find no one who looked

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like Takenaka.

Oh, well…Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“Takenaka

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is

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coming, isn’t

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he?”fwerg

“Yeah, he’s

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coming. I mean, he’s

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here.”43he4

When I asked the manager about it, he responded

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with a meaningful

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phrase.

“Takenaka is in

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the toilet.”

“Oh.” Not shared on aggregator websites

He

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was cleaning the

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toilet huh.

“He’s

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throwing

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up, though.”fcewgv

“…What!?”fvtweguybvv

Why!?bvyefwgyuv

At

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the same time I said that, Nagase suddenly burst out

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laughing excitedly without any warning. It astonished me

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and a few other customers who had accumulated in the store.

“Hyahahahahahaha! Hahahaha! Ahahahahaha!”fev

“Nagase…?!” Translator: MadHatter

No good, Nagase was twisting his stomach

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while laughing as though he were on fire. What

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specifically transpired for him to be amused in this

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way?

“Buhahahaha! Hahahahi, ihihihihi!!”

Although the

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manager rubbed Nagase’s back and tried

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to calm him down, he kept

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laughing in an eerie manner, so much

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so that one of the customers fled to the

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exit.

“Nagase, it’s time to

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settle down, you’re leading the customers

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away…!”

“Ugh, uhi, phew… e-excuse

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buhaha!!”

Wow, Nagase

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was even more destructive than

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those guys who

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had an inseparable relationship with me

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when it came to pressure points.

I

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mean, Takenaka throwing up in the toilet… what did

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that mean?efwv

“Um…

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manager.”Not shared on aggregator websites

“Ah, actually, you

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see.”fcwebgvr

When I

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asked him about it, this was

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what happened.

“In other

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words, Takenaka got grossed out when he saw the

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carcass of a cat that

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had been

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run over on

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the road.”

He was apparently puking

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in the toilet of the convenience store

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where he worked.

For

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real?fewgrvh

No, no, no, we were

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talking about that Takenaka.

That

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same

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Takenaka.tyfersh

The

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Takenaka that was the guardian deity of this convenience store.

He drove away the

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malevolent spirits that flocked

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to the convenience store and single-handedly

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attempted to protect the newcomers who swept in here time and time

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again.

We were talking

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about Takenaka, with his stern

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guardian spirit in armor

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and helmet, you know. Such a cool, adversary-free, and seamless (in my image) Takenaka was… at the

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mere sight of a cat carcass…

As I was mulling this

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over, the door to the toilet in the back of the store

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opened. Takenaka

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staggered out of the door, his body swaying.

“Hakamada, hi… Good

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evening.”

Takenaka’s white

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face turned pallid immediately after meeting

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me and greeted me. He was

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evidently out of his element. Never before had I seen Takenaka looking so

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vulnerable.

“A-Are you alright?”grhnjt

When I inadvertently rushed

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to him and said so, Takenaka showed me a look that

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said, “About what?”

“Oh, you see. The manager told me

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that you were in the back. He

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said that you got sick at

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the sight of the cat carcass on

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the road, but Takenaka, you would never…”

…do that

, I added

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with a wry smile and at the moment I did so, Takenaka’s face

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tightened up.

“Ugh!!”grbgeew2

He

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put one hand over

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his mouth and leaned forward when I thought a strange voice was emitting from his

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throat.

His complexion

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was extremely poor. On

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top of that, both of his shoulders were

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quivering and the corners of his eyes were incredibly moist.

“Um…” Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“…”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“Takenaka… the cat

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carcass on the road…”

“Ugh!!”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“…”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“…”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

“Takenaka, did

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you

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perhaps… the

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cat.”

“Ugggghhhh!!”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me

Was

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this

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for

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real…!!