Starting a Night Shift Part-time Job at a Convenience Store-Chapter 8.2: Hirais Secret II
“Hakamada,
i
you’re not good with people like
i
that, right?”
“That’s
i
because I try not to be
i
involved with people like that… dealing
i
with them is a
i
hassle…”
“But
i
to
i
me, you
i
look like a
i
badass delinquent, Hakamada. You
i
don’t look that different from
i
them, you know?”
“No,
i
no, no,
i
no!!”Translator: MadHatter
For
i
sure, I
i
bleached my
i
hair and
i
had my
i
ears pierced,
i
but!ges
“Isn’t mine
i
just a
i
look! Even
i
though I say
i
so myself, I am
i
quite a
i
coward!”
I
i
didn’t
i
even have the balls to get my nose
i
pierced!
“Is
i
that
i
so? You
i
give me
i
the feeling
i
that you
i
used to be
i
a rascal
i
in high
i
school.”
“I
i
was a fairly
i
healthy high
i
school baseball player
i
with dark
i
hair and
i
glasses… I
i
had contacts
i
and dyed
i
my hair after
i
I retired.”
“Oh
i
my, that’s an exceptional makeover.”j
Incidentally, the
i
reason for the
i
makeover was
i
that I was fed
i
up with
i
people labeling me
i
as “serious”
i
or “studious” when
i
I had black
i
hair and glasses, something
i
that I had no image
i
of myself as. Despite
i
the change
i
in appearance, my
i
inner self remained exactly
i
the same. I
i
didn’t like the
i
punks who caused
i
a commotion in the school, nor
i
did I want
i
to hang out
i
with
i
them.
I
i
never
i
liked those who
i
stayed out of the
i
community, yet
i
clustered together and
i
stirred up trouble. The
i
same applies
i
to the neighborhood nuisance gang
i
of delinquents and girls
i
who were adept at forming substandard relationships with
i
their fuzzy eyelashes.
Or
i
perhaps the truth
i
was that I was
i
simply intimidated.
“But
i
it would
i
have been terrible if Hirai
i
had been with
i
us today.”
Hirai
i
would have unarguably been
i
frightened. Moreover, Hirai
i
was petite… and… had
i
a bewitching body. It
i
was customary for someone to
i
accompany another for the night shift job, but I was sure she
i
would have been
i
terrified… On top
i
of that, we
i
were in this
i
kind of place.
“Oh
i
my, that girl
i
will be fine!”
“What!?”g7tuy
“Hirai
i
is rather
i
fearless.”
“But she’s a
i
girl, and inwardly, she
i
must be…”
“At
i
least she’s tougher than
i
you, Hakamada.”
“For
i
real?”Not shared on lightnovelreader.me
“For
i
real.”Not shared on aggregator websites
Tougher
i
than
i
me… Then
i
how much
i
of a weakling
i
was I being
i
viewed as?
Oh, speaking
i
of which…
“Aoyama,
i
did you see that… on your
i
way here?”
“That?”Not shared on aggregator websites.
“The cat… the cat’s…”
That
i
sprang to mind when I brought
i
up Hirai. Aoyama raised an eyebrow when I
i
inquired about whether he
i
noticed it and lightly smacked me on the
i
head.
“Hey! Don’t remind
i
me of that!”
Oh, so he
i
did see it, after
i
all. His reaction
i
was exactly what
i
I
i
had expected, and
i
I chuckled inwardly.
“Every
i
now and then
i
there’s an animal carcass
i
lying around, but
i
that almost made
i
my heart
i
stop!”
“Me
i
too. It was right
i
after passing through the
i
tunnel.”
“Takenaka
i
would have had
i
a stroke if he
i
had seen
i
it.”
“Ah,
i
haha, Takenaka had a
i
hard time yesterday.”
Time
i
passed as the
i
conversation carried on, and Aoyama and I
i
went about
i
our usual late-night tasks of adding and organizing merchandise, placing orders, cleaning, and
i
the like.
However…gwrb
“Those
i
guys, they’re
i
still there…”
The
i
delinquents were still out there
i
having fun.
Riding
i
around outside all the time on
i
their bikes was
i
a nuisance, but staying in front of the store
i
was even more disturbing. Thanks to them, not a single customer had arrived at the store since
i
then. Even
i
within the store, the unceasing laughter could be heard echoing from
i
outside. Perhaps they have had a lot to drink, some of them were clapping their hands
i
and emitting strange noises.
I was
i
watching them incredulously, but Aoyama
i
admonished me, “You shouldn’t do anything. It’s best not to be concerned about them.”
“But those
i
guys, they’re definitely the ones
i
who litter.”
“It can’t be
i
helped. The
i
place is what it is, and sometimes there are people
i
like that.”
“…”piomg4r
I
i
didn’t get what he was talking
i
about, but I didn’t want to get involved, so I
i
stopped gawking at them.
That was
i
my thought, but unfortunately, there
i
was still trash to be disposed of, so I
i
gathered up the trash
i
and stepped out of the safe zone of the store
i
and into the danger zone. The
i
hot and humid
i
August night
i
wind swept over me, and I
i
was almost staggered by the sound of vulgar laughter
i
that stimulated my eardrums.
“Oh, the staff
i
is coming out.”grh3
“What the
i
hell, did you come here to complain?”
Nonetheless, I
i
ignored it completely and went
i
around to the rear side of the store.
Oh, if I had
i
been a little stronger in a fight, I would have
i
protested without hesitation.
Good
i
grief… Being young
i
must be good―
To
i
be able to
i
do anything and have fun, even if you
i
were aggravating people
i
without even realizing it, must b
e
i
a blessing in a sense.
What
i
a breath of fresh air it
i
would be if I could say it to them. Impossible, though.
I walked
i
to the building’s back with a
i
large garbage bag as frustration
i
began to set in. After
i
all, listening to that foolish
i
laugh made me furious. You know, that smile on your face like not knowing
i
even a millimeter of the harshness of society… you should be working, damn you!
The
i
spark that was
i
steadily igniting in
i
the pit of my stomach
i
cooled off when I
i
reached the garbage
i
dumpster in the
i
back
i
of the store.
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