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Episode 176. Don’t Fight, Study, Study (1)
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I woke up around 9 o’clock, took a look around the house, and then immediately called the landlord. He must have been waiting for my call, because he picked up without a ringtone and told me what he wanted to do.
[ How’s it going? Can you catch that devil? ]
It’s not hard to catch. I looked around to find where the cat guy was, and there was a hairy stick swinging back and forth at a height of 10cm. It seems to be stuck on that stick.
I tried to secretly grab the back of its neck, but as soon as I got up, the guy ran away to the corner with the fur stick in his mouth. I looked at him and answered.
“It’s not hard to catch, but it might take some time.”
[ How long will it take roughly? Can it be resolved? ]
“hmm….”
If you lure them with a snack, it won’t take long to catch them, but it won’t end with just catching them. I thought about it for a moment and then answered.
“I can’t give you a definite time frame, but I can find a solution.”
I can’t tell you exactly what that guy is. It’s obvious that the reaction will be, ‘Was this a big deal over a mere magical cat?’ But that guy’s not just some ordinary furball, is he?
He’s a guy who reacts to magic and will not just quietly accept being used with magic to capture him. Up until now, he’s just been begging to be taken out of his territory, but if he feels like he’s being captured, he’ll react completely differently…
At that point, it won’t end with just the shower hose breaking. Rather than sending a bunch of people to solve it quickly, wouldn’t it be better for me to take charge and solve it moderately?
I explained this to make it seem as real as possible, without mentioning the word cat. As I finished speaking, the landlord gave me his thoughts in a tone that was half positive and half regretful.
[ I don’t know when it will be, but I’m glad that we can solve it. The authors I called as experts were all busy saying they couldn’t do it and sending me the commission fee. ]
“aha….”
[ Are you going to stay there while we work it out? ]
“Yes. I plan to try it while staying at home.”
[ Then let’s do that, and about the commission fee for this job. ]
Commission fee. Commission fee… That’s right. This is something you usually do for money.
[ If you plan on staying there, I’d like to consider it as two months’ rent. Is that okay? ]
“Uh… yes. I would appreciate it if you did that.”
I answered, but I’m not sure if this is really a good answer. How much of a contract fee did the other half-wizards receive besides me?
[ Okay, let’s do that. I’ll bring the tenancy agreement with you shortly. Thank you for your hard work. ]
Then, I looked at my phone screen that was turned off and decided to think positively. This was actually the first time I had ever received an outsourced job, so I guess I got paid a lot if I was paid 400,000 won per case.
It didn’t feel real since no cash came and went. I looked at my phone screen for a moment, then checked the time. It was 9:30.
I think I should start getting ready for work soon, but since I don’t have anything in the house, I can’t prepare anything. No change of clothes, no toothbrush, no towel. Even the water hose broke, so I can’t even shower.
After pondering what to do with this, I decided to go to work first. After hastily putting on my clothes, I spoke to the fur stick still floating in the corner.
“If you cause an accident worth more than 400,000 won, then you and I both die. Do you understand?”
“… … .”
“I got the money to solve this problem for you, so I’ll let that slide.”
I told him, but he didn’t even answer because he was busy pulling out his hair. I don’t know why I kept talking to him when he probably wouldn’t understand anyway.
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I arrived at the store at 9:40. There was one customer paying at the counter, and the glass guy must have gone home, so there was only the store manager.
Since I hadn’t washed up yet, I slowly looked at the manager while bringing my uniform, and he seemed strangely tired today. He didn’t respond even when I greeted him first.
“Hello, store manager.”
“… … .”
“Store manager?”
“… Ah. Yeah, hi. Chan-ah.”
“Yes. Yuri, that guy went back?”
“Yeah. I learned the work until 1pm and went home… I went back… Haaam.”
He even yawns while talking. The store manager is someone who worked 30 hours straight and still felt great. If he was tired, it would be because the store manager would have taught him how to do his job when I left work… .
“Did that guy Yuri ask you some weird stuff? Like, ‘Why do convenience stores exist?’”
“No. I asked about that in the middle, but I figured it out along the way.”
The reason he was convinced was because business was going so well. It wasn’t just going so well, it was so good that the store was overflowing.
Then, I thought, “That’s a good thing, isn’t it?” But when I thought about how busy he must have been, I couldn’t bring myself to say that it was a good thing. Children come here, not adults.
“These days, kids are so energetic.”
“yes….”
“You can also throw your indoor shoe bag really high.”
The details were as follows. From 1 PM to 7 PM, students from elementary school to high school came and caused a ruckus.
Among them, children who were estimated to be in the 5th or 6th grade of elementary school came and played by throwing bags of indoor shoes in front of the store, and one of the bags ended up on top of the convenience store’s awning.
The store manager couldn’t check this right away. He was so distracted by the fact that half of the store was filled with kids. While he was calculating, he suddenly heard a loud ripping sound.
“Where did the kids get that stick? It was really long and sharp.”
He poked the awning up from underneath with it, ripped it open, and then grabbed the bag of indoor shoes that had fallen and ran away without me knowing. This happened at 1:00 in the afternoon.
“Well…then at 2pm.”
“A kid went out to charge his transportation card, and then he came back and said to me, ‘Someone stole his bike. What should I do?’”
If you ask us how to do that, we’ll know?
The store manager gave the classic answer, “I’m sorry, but there’s nothing I can do,” and from that moment on, the child started crying bitterly in the store lobby, saying that she was being scolded by her mother.
The problem was that she was a siren, or a race with siren blood. The child’s crying didn’t rupture the children’s eardrums or anything, but the sound wasn’t quiet.
“I think it was roughly the sound of an airplane flying nearby.”
“Then it’s not that it’s not small, but doesn’t it mean that all the windows will break?”
“It’s a metaphor. But still, the kids all cried because their ears hurt. It was a sea of tears.”
It was 2pm when I finally managed to coax this kid out and calm the store staff down. If I had been there, I would have cried too.
After that, incidents continued to occur at 3 PM, 4 PM, and 5 PM… .
“… Anyway, seeing that you’re busy, Yuri said, “Convenience stores are places you can’t live without~” and was convinced.
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“What happened at 3 o’clock in the afternoon?”
“I don’t want to talk about it because it makes me depressed.”
“yes.”
Still, my point was well conveyed. The difficulty level of the daytime school district is incomparably harder than before.
At the intersection, nothing would have happened during the day. Even if the truth came, it would have been around 7 or 8 PM, right after work, when a few drunk office workers would have stopped by.
“Would you like to change time zones, sir?”
After the glass guy’s training is over, the store manager will be in charge of the time slot from 2 PM to 10 PM. I asked because I thought it would be the perfect time to kill someone, as he just said, but the store manager immediately shook his head.
“No. Chan-i would definitely die if he worked during this time.”
“Then, please let me know when you think the store manager will pass away.”
“Yeah. Still, I feel a little better after complaining to Chani.”
“Then that’s good.”
I’m uncomfortable in reverse, though. I can only hold out until around 1AM at night, and after that, I’m free. I feel bored and tedious when I see a deal coming.
The store manager doesn’t say anything about the hardships, so I’ll have to bring it up later and have a conversation then. While I was checking the sales figures on the POS machine, the store manager asked me.
“By the way, Chan-i, did you change your clothes and come out?”
“no.”
It seems like the question of whether or not you washed up was omitted. After all, if a 29-year-old guy works all night and doesn’t wash up, it would be obvious, right?
Instead of taking care of the cat food, I should have taken care of my body first. I had nothing to say, so I just lowered my head, and the store manager was holding a spray bottle in his hand. It wasn’t the kind sold in stores.
“I knew this would happen, so I prepared for it. Turn around, Chan-ah.”
As I turned my back as instructed, a squelch sound followed by the scent of flowers began to vibrate around me. After spraying a few more times, the store manager continued talking after blowing the spray nozzle like a cowboy.
“It’s a bit of magic mixed in, so don’t loosen your constitution.”
“Aha. When did you get permission for this?”
“Back in the day, I got permission to spray air freshener in the store. But some people didn’t like the smell, so I stopped.”
There were many complaints from customers who preferred meat, such as Minotaurs and Orcs. They asked if they could spray an air freshener that smelled like meat, or something.
“But the effect wears off and the smell doubles later on, so be sure to wash up when you go in and buy some clothes.”
“…I’m sorry, store manager.”
“What? It’s natural to be absent-minded since you moved in a hurry. But Chan-ah, I have a question.”
“What are you talking about?”
“When you were leaving earlier, I said I wouldn’t be able to teach you how to receive guests today.”
He said that he had personally done it once through me. Perhaps because it was his first experience, he went into detail about everything he had done, and a large part of it was making customers look good.
“I heard that you have a Chihuahua Cobalt guest. Chan is a regular customer. Did you come to see Chan?”
That guy is coming to see me, it’s scary to even imagine. There’s a customer who follows me to a convenience store that moved 30 or 40 minutes away from my house, swears at me, and plots to assassinate my boss? Oh…
“Probably so. But why him?”
“Rather than what he said, it was just very interesting. Were there any other people who came to see me besides him?”
I find it strange, too. I thought that these gentlemen, who are old enough to eat well, would really come just because they were asked to, but they really did come?
But this is still my first time with that Chihuahua. I was about to change into my uniform and answer when a group of people suddenly appeared on the left side of the store window.
With his wrists pressed together and his head bowed like a criminal, while he was looking away for a moment, the front door suddenly opened and the person leading the group appeared. No… .
“hello.”
The elf officer came. He stopped in front of the main gate and saluted me, so I answered him first. He did answer, but… .
“Yes. Hello, Officer Iruel. By the way, what about those guys standing behind me?”
“Please speak.”
“Why are they doing that?”
I could clearly see several people lined up outside the main gate, all of whom were wearing school uniforms. Their wrists were tightly pressed together because they were tied with cable ties.
There was another strange thing besides this. There was a bruise around her eye, and her uniform was torn, and there was something that wasn’t normal. It was as if she had been in a fight or something…
“We are taking students involved in a school-outskirts brawl into custody. We have no choice but to restrain them due to the risk of them fleeing.”
“What the hell is a brawl? Sir, isn’t this area not under your jurisdiction?”
When I asked the police officer on duty at the intersection why he was wearing his police uniform here, the officer answered in a dry tone.
“They said they were short on staff.”
“How many people?”
“Yes. I stopped by to recruit more personnel.”
As he spoke, the officer took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and opened it, as if he was craving a cigarette. He stared blankly at the open pack and spoke to me.
“Please give me just one pack of red.”