Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 135

Episode 135. Our store is open for business as usual (2)

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Huh? Why are you here…?

―After thinking about it for a moment, I immediately grabbed the front door handle.

Because the tin trash can floating down looked like it would tip over at any moment. The words that the dog was shouting were also content that made people’s hearts explode… .

“Your Majesty, I can’t stay here for too long. I have a benefactor whom I must visit!”

As I forced open the clogged door that was up to my knees in rainwater, the rainwater that had been seeping in through the cracks began to pour in.

I ran out with the mindset that whatever happens will happen, and as soon as I walked out in front of the store, I shouted.

“Hey! Hey, pup! Hey!!”

Because of that damn double rain event, I couldn’t see ahead. I couldn’t see anything but my tears. Why, why did it have to be this much right in front of my workplace?

In addition, the rain was pouring down like a waterfall on my head and shoulders, and I was so scared that I could die from the rain. Immediately after, a rumbling voice was heard.

“Boss! Boss, are you there?! How did you know that the original owner was here and came looking for him!!”

“It wasn’t me who came here, it was you who drifted here, Inma! Right in front of the store!!”

A voice came from the right. I jumped into the road where the water was rushing and barely managed to see the trash can floating down the center of the road in front of the convenience store. The water was flowing like a torrent.

The torrent is not something to be overcome, it is something to be calculated.

The rapids were half thigh high. If I fell here, I would be swept away. I lowered my center of gravity as much as possible and stood in the middle of the first lane of the road, crouching down.

After a while, I hugged the trash can that had floated up to my nose and I heard a voice mixed with sadness and emotion from inside.

“As expected of the boss, you came to save me!”

“No, I’m trapped too.”

“What?”

It’s not wrong to say that I couldn’t go anywhere because of the heavy rain. I immediately opened the trash can lid and grabbed the soaking wet dog’s body and took it out.

He took it out and went up to the sidewalk, wading through the water with his other arm, and grabbed the front door handle. He pushed in with his shoulder and placed the puppy on top of a stack of ramen boxes on the counter.

Immediately afterwards, I lay down next to him and gasped for breath with all my might.

“Ugh. Keuk. Guk.”

The rainwater I inhaled through my nose seemed to be as much as a bottle of water. While I was catching my breath, the puppy spoke to me in a cautious voice.

“I’m truly sorry, sir. I didn’t mean to cause any trouble…”

“… Cough.”

After wiping the water off his face with his hand, he looked at the puppy. Its fur was soaked with rainwater and shriveled to half of its usual size. Its face was completely covered by its bangs.

I was about to show off by saying that I almost fell into a hole while trying to save you, but when I saw that your tail was tangled between your legs, I lost all desire to do so. I took a deep breath and answered.

“Let’s forget about this, Inma. There are days like this in life.”

“Kkiing… .”

“But don’t shake your body. If you get your cigarette wet, you know you’ll get it all out. Okay?”

“… Cigarettes? Isn’t the original image standing on the floor right now?”

I personally pulled back the hair on the front of the head. The puppy looked around the inside of the store on the verge of drowning and muttered in a shocked voice.

“Oh my god. Even this store ended up like this….”

“What are you talking about? Are you saying that it’s pouring down rain somewhere else right now?”

Without saying hello, I got straight to the point. When I met this guy, I was going to ask him what he and the winged horse guy talked about all day.

As a fellow spirit, I was curious about what advice he had given me. This guy knew that it wasn’t the time to talk about that, so he started explaining by comparing it to what had happened this morning.

“The park where the original was was like that. The dark clouds outside were the same.”

He said that he had been sleeping soundly under the eaves of the security office until the morning, but he was startled awake by the sound of pouring rain. He looked up at the sky and saw something exactly like the dark clouds on the street in front of the store.

In an instant, the rainwater reached up to his feet, and he instinctively thought it was dangerous, so he held his breath and walked through the rain.

“I managed to get out like that, but the moment I did, I thought of you, boss. If it was raining like this all over the city, I thought even you wouldn’t be safe…”

I ran without stopping, splashing through the rain, and sometimes even dog-wrestling, and unfortunately, the dark clouds that had been in the park were pouring down rain on this street.

“I tried to muster up my courage, but I couldn’t bring myself to paddle out in this rain.”

But he couldn’t give up, so he searched around carefully and found an attachment trash can that could be used as a substitute for a raft.

I immediately pushed it over with my front paws, checked that there was nothing inside the trash can, and then got in. It was nice that I was able to close the lid with my magical front paws and snout control, but I didn’t think about what would happen next.

“I guess I couldn’t see outside. I had no way of knowing where the object had drifted away… ”

“Ah. So you were talking to me like a dog, and you were screaming at the top of your lungs, begging me to spare my life?”

“… … .”

He groans and curls up his tail, as if he has nothing to say. After thinking for a moment, I pat his head a few times. It’s soaking wet, so it doesn’t feel the same as before.

“I met someone this morning, and he was really worried about you too. He was wondering if you were okay since it was raining a lot.”

“Uh, Miss Hana, you too… .”

“Yes, Inma. So I want to tell you to please stop doing this, but since I said I came because I was worried, you won’t say anything. For now.”

With the weather being this bad, it would have been equally dangerous no matter where I went. It’s a good thing I came here and showed my face.

Of course, it wasn’t like there was anything better here. It was fortunate that I saved this guy, though…

“… By the way, how do I really do this?”

First, I tried the happiness circuit. Now, the sound of rain is constant.

Even though the dark clouds outside are gushing water like a fire hydrant that has been hit by a bomb, the rainfall is not getting any heavier. I don’t know what will happen later.

As long as this pace is maintained, it seems unlikely that we will have to stay with the store until it sinks or run away and abandon the store.

The problem is, if this pace continues, it’s a problem in its own right.

It took me 30 minutes to empty the first floor of the display case, but after just 10 minutes, the second floor was completely submerged in water. The estimated loss due to damaged products is well over 1 million won?

Everything that can float on water, from snack bags to boxes of snacks, is floating around like buoys with their ropes cut off. Right now, rainwater is dripping down from under the counter that Mongmong has placed on top of it… .

“… A plague. I don’t know…”

“Kkiing… .”

As if my face was out of place, the puppy staggered over to me and started to jab at my arm.

I tried to push him away, telling him not to lick the mud. It was a little comforting to know that I wasn’t the only one struggling, and something came to mind as I watched him.

The store manager said earlier. No matter what happens, hang in there.

That wasn’t just empty words, I really had an inkling that something was going to happen to the store. I don’t know if I had any inkling that the store would be half water and half air, but…

Of course, he would have gotten permission to use magic in such a situation. That’s what he would do. When he told her to hold on, he didn’t mean to tell her to guard the store well, but to keep her alive until he returned.

The promised time was 3 hours. It’s been exactly 2 hours now. I can still hold out.

However, I don’t know if my tear ducts will last another hour. Since the Wi-Fi won’t work, I can’t use magic, and I’ll just have to watch things float around…

“… Hey, hey!! Lee Chan!!”

“what?”

“Are you alive!!”

Suddenly a scream was heard from outside. Wasn’t that my sister’s voice?

“Boss, didn’t you hear Miss Yoon-ha’s voice just now?”

As soon as the dog spoke, a familiar woman wearing a jacket and goggles appeared from the far right of the shop window, walking through the rainwater that had risen to her waist without any difficulty.

It’s as if there’s no resistance from water at all. He walks over to me, grabs the front door handle, and opens the door I had struggled to open with great ease, as if opening a screen door.

As soon as we entered, my sister took off her goggles and smiled at us.

“Are you alive and well? I think so too, Puppy.”

“Nice to meet you, Miss Yoon-ha.”

“It looks like you’re going to die soon, but why are you here? Aren’t you busy?”

“I’m so busy, but I sent you a message saying that something might happen at the store.”

“Ugh… .”

“So, please stop complaining. Can I use this?”

As he spoke, he pointed to the display window table with his finger. I said I knew how to use it, but my sister grabbed the table with one hand and lifted it up without even swaying.

My older sister, who had been holding the water and plopping it down in front of the main gate like a dam, muttered while rummaging through the front pockets of her jacket.

“I made this weigh about 5 tons, so just in case you crush your little toe… Ah.”

What did you immediately pull out after stopping your hand? A sponge?

“No, what are you going to do with a sponge?”

“If you look, you’ll know it, so go up to the cash register. Don’t even dip your feet in it.”

As I stood on the counter, half in doubt, my older sister immediately soaked the yellow sponge she was holding in water.

Then, all the water inside the store began to be sucked into the sponge.

The sponge’s suction power is so great that a whirlpool is forming around my hand. The products floating in the water are constantly hitting my sister’s body.

My sister’s expression, which was receiving intense love from the bagged snacks and cup ramen, was a half-relieved expression. I guess these were the things that had happened to her when she had been told to die. My sister lowered the sponge height to match the water level for 1 minute.

The sponge touched the floor of the store and sucked up all the remaining moisture, and my sister, who had been kneeling on the ground with one knee pressed against the ground, got up and said.

“I’m going to put this in a corner, if you touch it you’ll be in big trouble. Do you know why?”

“Oh, is that a magic sponge?”

“This sponge is also magic in price. Each one costs over 1 million won.”

“Can we use that expensive thing here? We don’t have any money.”

“Hey, don’t talk about that. It’s already making me mad.”

When I asked my older sister, who had a puzzled expression, she said that there was a huge flood in the city right now. There were dozens or hundreds more dark clouds in front of the store.

Since there are more than one or two places to be repaired, the priority of the places to be repaired was given as a guideline through the district office. The first was the parking lot in front of the district office building. The second was the apartment complex where high-ranking public officials reside.

“The third was the lobby of a venture-level company building. No one came to work, so why are they asking us to clean up the water there? And why are they asking us to clean up the water in the parking lot? It keeps raining.”

“Could it be that my brain cells have become diluted because I got rained on so much?”

“I don’t know. Anyway.”

They were busy trying to salvage the drifting things of different races, but the district office started making noises, so my sister lost her temper and shouted, “You take care of that, and I’ll do what I have to do.”

“These sponges were supposed to be used to empty the parking lot water, but they were just taken away for us to use. We won’t be able to use them anyway.”

Because the sponge’s weight increases as it absorbs water, it cannot be used at all unless you are a wizard who can handle the weight.

After finishing speaking, my older sister looked outside and muttered.

“Lee Chan. Sorry, I have to go out again.”

“Where else do I need to empty the water?”

“No. I’ve filled up my sponge, so I can’t provide public support even if I want to. I’m going to do something else.”

“What kind?”

When I asked, my older sister answered while biting her lower lip.

“Finding the key gate.”

“…uh….”

“The Countermeasures Committee sent an official letter asking me to cooperate if the Anti-Magician requests it. I secretly brought the sponge, so I’d like to do something about it, but I can’t hear who made the request. The transmission is cut off.”

My sister said she was planning to climb up to a high place in the building and immediately go find the ones using magic. Then, my sister, who was muttering about cursing the district office, added as if she suddenly remembered something.

“Lee Chan, have you heard anything from me? You’ve only been working for a month, but you still have a half-wizard license.”

“That’s what I’m talking about, sis.”

“uh.”

It was a serious face that seemed ready to listen to even the smallest words. He said it right away.

“I think I know where that key gate is now. Can you help me out?”