Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 139

Episode 139. Regular Customer Assembly (2)

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I agree with what Chihuahua said to some extent. Why did this damn gate show up right in front of my workplace, where I haven’t even received my first paycheck, and start causing trouble?

The reason I didn’t say this out loud was because I wondered if it would make any sense to anyone. If I were lucky enough to meet a god later on, I could probably complain to him a little about why he did that to me…

What can’t be helped can’t be helped. So what can be helped? We should do something about it. After finishing his speech, he waited for someone to speak for several seconds, and then Chihuahua spoke for the first time.

“If you help me, will I be able to take a shit then?”

“I’m not sure about that, but if you don’t help me, the toilet in your house will always be flooded.”

“f*ck.”

And then there was silence. I decided to take it as agreement. Next, sir.

“My partner has a hobby of growing flowers, sir.”

“Huh? A flower?”

“Yes. He’s been worried since this morning. He said that if this weather continues, the flowers might wither.”

The old man, who had been staring at the dark clouds outside, turned his head and smiled as he spoke.

“It seems like you are trying to stop the rain, so I will do my best.”

What a romantic poem. Miss Elena seemed to have been touched by the old man’s words, as she exclaimed, “Wow…” and began to clap her hands softly.

Then, as if he had come to his senses, he spoke while raising one hand to his ear.

“I, Chan-i. If there’s anything you need, I’ll do whatever I can….”

“You don’t have to worry. I’ll just do what I can.”

“…yes.”

I tried to make it as comfortable as possible for him, and he answered quietly and lowered his head again. Considering his shy personality, it took a lot of courage for him to do that.

The police officer, who had been staring blankly at Ms. Elena, adjusted his police hat and asked his older sister.

“Ms. Yoon-ha. May I do as you requested earlier?”

“Yes. I think it would be okay if you just leave it as is.”

“What are you talking about, sis?”

“When we went down, I asked you to take care of the store. Not all the customers here know how to use magic.”

The staff at the store can now be divided into two groups: those who can protect themselves and those who cannot. The former are the store manager, older sister, elderly people, and police officers.

The latter is a Chihuahua, a succubus, a puppy, and me, four of us. My older sister said that just a moment ago, she was going to ask the old man and the policeman to take care of the four of us.

“If I try to leave the store now, it looks like there’s nothing I can do but float away… .”

My sister was quietly listening to the sound of the rain while talking. So I listened in. The sound of the rain seemed to be a bit louder than before.

“… If we go out and it gets worse, we’ll be in real trouble. It’s better to stay here.”

“That’s what I’m talking about, isn’t there a way for the store manager to do something with magic?”

The store manager just teleported here. As I looked at the store manager, my eyes met with his and he slowly shook his head.

“I was allowed to use magic nine times today, Chan-ah.”

“You said earlier that I could be invincible for the next seven times.”

“Yeah. Once I use up all those times, I’ll just become an ordinary store manager.”

What kind of magical girl is this?

“So I’ll leave this to the officer and follow Chan and Yoon-ha to help them.”

“I can use magic too. To some extent.”

The officer who received the call on the way. He was already taking out a notebook from his back pocket, but it had a completely different design from the notebooks I had seen before.

In navy blue, there is a large magic circle drawn on the cover.

“I need to use this to cast it properly….”

“Are you okay?”

“Yes. Because this is not a situation where we are chasing a fleeing suspect.”

It seems to mean that it is possible, as long as it is not an urgent situation like running at full speed or jumping over barbed wire. As we were talking, the area between my thumb and index finger gradually began to feel moist.

When I looked down, the puppy in my arms was licking my hand with all its might. I spoke to the puppy.

“Let’s think about what you have to do later, puppy.”

“Heh, heh, heh.”

“Did that crazy guy get rainwater up his nose? Why is he talking to the dog?”

“Why are you being so prickly? We might have to talk to an animal that doesn’t understand our language… .”

“What’s the use of talking to him if you can’t communicate with him, you piece of shit?”

I didn’t give a separate answer here, but I asked my older sister while scratching her head.

“Sister. I think I’ve gotten the general agreement… .”

“uh.”

“But what do we do now?”

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From here on out, it seemed like an area where experts should step in. My sister seemed to think about my question for a moment, then looked at the Chihuahua with a very disgusted expression and asked.

“What is your name?”

“What the hell, you want me to sign a petition or something? Why are you asking for my name?”

“Okay, then. You seem to be good with computers. Can you contact the Magical Agency? Within 10 minutes?”

“No, how the hell am I supposed to contact you when the signal isn’t working? Or lend me a pigeon or something…”

“That guy.”

The moment I heard this, my older sister bent down as if she was going to take off her shoe and throw it at me. Fortunately, the store manager intervened at a good time.

“If I can help you solve the transmission problem even a little, can you contact me then?”

“What do you plan to do?”

“Just in case, I brought the thing I use to contact the Magic Agency staff.”

As he said that, the store manager took out a small magic stone from his pocket. The color was not much different from the magic stones he had seen so far, but the surface was much smoother.

“It’s for emergency contact, so it can only be used by Magic Agency personnel. Will it be of any help?”

I guess that’s a high-performance magic pocket Wi-Fi. Or maybe it’s a radio that can only transmit and receive radio waves. The Chihuahua, who had been staring at the magic stone for a moment, immediately opened his mouth.

“cord.”

“A3FK9027, yes.”

“Just wait a minute.”

He immediately opens his laptop, places it on his lap, and begins typing so vigorously that the laptop monitor starts shaking.

After about ten seconds, the Chihuahua suddenly starts talking to the store manager.

“Hey, you little shit. These guys are f*cking talking to each other on the phone right now, the line’s full.”

“yes.”

“I’ll cut it off once.”

After spitting that out, he pressed Enter without a moment’s hesitation, looked up at me, and pointed at the side of the laptop with his claws.

“Plug in the phone cable.”

There wasn’t one right away, but I remember seeing it floating in the rain near the snack corner. I ran over and ripped open the cable packaging, plugged one end into my phone, and plugged the other end into the socket on the side of my laptop.

“You will now be connected to a Magic Agency guide, so speak.”

“Already?”

“f*ck, are you saying that something that wasn’t supposed to be done was done?”

This guy is so talented, so why is he suffering under a beagle boss at work?

A question crossed my mind, but I figured I’d have a chance to ask later. I held the phone up to my ear and asked the Chihuahua something else while the call was connected.

“It may be funny to ask this, but is this okay?”

“If only that cop didn’t put handcuffs on.”

This may indeed be a violation of the Communications Security Act. I glanced at Officer Iruel, and he briefly tapped my head with his light stick before speaking indifferently.

“It’s an emergency right now, so I’ll see you later at the west.”

“what?”

“Seolleongtang is delicious.”

The call was cut off as soon as the Chihuahua made a shit-eating expression. Perhaps because they were using the emergency contact line that they shared among themselves, a voice was heard right away without the ARS sound.

[ Yes, I received a call. Which department contacted you? ]

The woman’s voice was polite but slightly flustered. The Chihuahua had just disconnected the entire line, so the call she was on before must have been disconnected.

Since you said you were using an emergency contact radio, it would be suspicious if you received a call from outside. If so.

“I’m not a member of the Magic Agency, but….”

[ yes? ]

“… My name is Professor Decard, and I am an advisor to the Temporary Countermeasures Committee. I am contacting you using the magic stone borrowed from the Magic Agency staff member accompanying you.”

[ Professor Decard. Confirmed. ]

I guess what I said first got through. Since he volunteered to be my shooter, I’m sure he’d figure out how to handle a newbie’s mishaps like this.

Since you have a professorial title, it would be disadvantageous to have long phone conversations in terms of the length of your backpack. I think it would be better to just get to the point… .

[What brings you here, Professor?]

“……that is.”

I took my ear off the phone and looked at my sister, and she immediately told me what happened.

“Tell them that you’ve found the key gate and that there are a little over two hours left until it naturally disappears. Ask them to allocate a budget, and then ask the association to provide support as soon as they have more personnel.”

“What else?”

“They’ll take care of the rest.”

After saying everything as my sister had listed, I waited for a response. After a brief pause in the typing sound, I heard a hesitant voice.

[ You have discovered the key gate. Can I just pass it on to you? ]

“Yes. This is a very sensitive situation, so I would appreciate it if you could handle it quickly.”

It was a nuance of not believing it, but I hung up, thinking that you could do whatever you wanted with it. Anyway, since I reported it, I hope you won’t hear that I handled things arbitrarily.

“This kid, selling other people’s names is an art.”

“What is it? Anyway, thank you.”

“In the time you have to be thankful, unclog the toilet. And, you little punk.”

“Yes, go ahead, sir.”

“Use some more magic stone.”

After speaking, the Chihuahua walks into the corner, holding his laptop and magic stone in both hands.

I don’t know where it’s used, but I understand it to mean something like erasing traces of a disconnected line. That’s what they all do in movies.

“Sister. Where else can I contact you?”

“None. Anyway, I reported it, so that’s enough… Miss Elena?”

“Yes? … Ah. Yes!”

Perhaps because her appearance was close to that of a model, when Elena was called by her name, she seemed very nervous and straightened her posture. My sister’s wit is inhuman.

“The situation is very unfortunate. Normally, we would make a formal statement and talk about miscellaneous things… .”

“yes yes….”

“I need some magic potions. Could you please help me with them?”

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Miss Elena opened her swimsuit bag and poured out all its contents on the table in front of the window. There were flasks of various shapes, stands, a dozen vials of reagents in a bag like crayons, a tripod, a bundle of herbs, etc.

Perhaps because the situation was so uncomfortable to see in a convenience store, all the customers except the Chihuahua gathered around. As a result, Miss Elena shrugged her shoulders and crouched down.

“… … .”

How can I relieve this tension? I was trying to think of a way, but the store manager spoke to me first with a tone of slight admiration.

“Wow, you’re really serious about it for a hobby. You don’t even use a scale?”

“Ah… Yes! I’m used to adjusting the capacity without any tools, so I don’t carry one around separately.”

“That’s right, once you get used to it, it just takes up space in your bag. You’ve made a lot.”

“Does that look like that?”

“A little bit. I studied it for a little while in the past too.”

Miss Elena clasps her hands together as if embarrassed, but I wonder if she can stop at being embarrassed even after finding out that the store manager is a former great wizard. Isn’t this the store manager’s way of acknowledging her?

After a brief conversation, Elena seemed to have relaxed a bit and looked up at me and my sister and asked.

“Um… So, what do you need?”

“That’s right. Sister, since it’s going into the sewer, don’t you need something that can be used underwater?”

“It would be nice to have one. If you get stuck in the sewer, you’ll have about an hour to get out.”

“There’s something like that? It just grows gills?”

“Ah. I can’t make gills because it’s illegal. I’d have to pay a fine.”

There was a time in the past when a racial discrimination issue related to the fishery kobolds almost caused chaos in the world. In this world, if you think you can understand something, something incomprehensible will pop up one by one.

“Still… I think I can make a substitute.”

“Do they breathe differently besides through gills?”

“Yes, Mr. Chan. It’s a potion that you take by spraying it into your nose. After you take it… um…”

It is said that it creates magic air bubbles that act as oxygen tanks inside the lungs, so that even if you don’t breathe, there is no problem in supplying oxygen to the body. The effect lasts for 30 minutes with one dose.

He gave a somewhat disorganized explanation, but I didn’t understand it, so I stayed quiet. After a while, the store manager muttered in a tone that was a bit more admiring than before.

“This is a bit difficult for me to make….”

“The store manager too?”

“Yeah. Elena, do you know how to make anything else?”

Ms. Elena answered the store manager’s question with an enthusiastic voice.

“Just tell me! I have all the qualifications I need.”