Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 177

Episode 177. Don’t Fight, Study, Study (2)

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The store manager paid for the cigarettes and handed them over. I haven’t even received the handover yet. The store manager handed over the card inserted into the reader and spoke calmly to the officer.

“It’s been a while, Officer. Are you working around here now?”

“It’s temporary. It will last about a month.”

“I think there will be just as many of us. How long have you been here?”

“It’s been 30 minutes since I moved.”

“Huh. Oh my… .”

After hearing the officer’s answer, I looked outside again at the students lined up. The number I could see outside the window was 10 people in two rows. If I included the numbers I couldn’t see, there would be a lot more.

When this elf officer worked at the intersection, he had been subjected to all kinds of bullying. I think the number of departments he was assigned to under the pretext of promotion was 8 or 9…

It seems like that pent-up energy has followed me here. Judging from the fact that they’ve arrested that many people in just 30 minutes since moving to a new workplace.

The officer, who had been following my gaze and looking outside, spoke as if mumbling while opening a pack of cigarettes he had just bought.

“I will just transfer those students and come back.”

The officer stuffed the opened package into his back pocket and went out. I looked at his back and asked the store manager about something I needed to check.

“Store manager. They said they were dragged in after fighting with those guys outside. Do you have any idea why?”

“Um… Ah. Are you afraid that there will be a fight at the store?”

“Yes, I guess.”

As I was looking at the guys standing in line, I noticed something suspicious. The guys standing in the second row were wearing two different types of uniforms. Maybe there was a fight between students from different schools.

For this reason, this store could easily be selected as one of the brawl maps. The store manager seemed to think about my question for a moment, then pointed outside the store and said.

“If you go out and look, you’ll be able to get a general idea. They probably didn’t go far.”

“Even though the police took him away?”

“Those kids aren’t going to the police station. You’ll know it when you see them.”

I went out and looked around, half in doubt, because he had emphasized it twice. As the manager had said, I could see these guys not far away, and the situation was quite serious.

“Students, have you lost your mind!!”

“Kids… Fever!!”

Just a few steps inside the main gate of the academy district, they were all lying face down. In front of them, two Doberman pinscher dogs wearing red hats were screaming loudly… .

I was so shocked that I watched the rest of it, but everything he said and did was outrageous.

“Why are you bringing out what happened at the training ground? That’s why you’re learning magic!!”

“Hey!! I should have warned you clearly about the extracurricular conflicts with students from other schools!! If you fight and lose, you die if you win!!”

“We will repeat from now on!! We!!”

“we are!!”

“I’m a hunter, not a thug!!”

“I’m a hunter, not a thug!!”

Then, he started to bend and straighten his arms with his clasped hands in time with the mood, and only after seeing this far could I roughly guess the situation.

Those guys were magic cadets. Or maybe that’s the weird thing. Well, since there are so many schools here, I guess there could be a military academy there too.

I don’t know why he had to do that in the middle of the night, in front of a brightly lit shopping mall. While I was watching, I heard the front door bell ringing behind me.

“Eww!! Eww!!”

“Why is the spirit like this, add 5 times!!”

The store manager came out with two cans of coffee in his hands, perhaps because he was bored. He handed them to me without saying a word, so I took a sip and asked him what came to mind.

“They have a separate PX inside their school?”

“PX? Is it like an order?”

“It’s not an order, but in the world I live in, there are convenience stores in military bases. They’re called PX.”

“Aha. There will be. Because they live in a dorm.”

It’s fortunate that we won’t have to accept those guys as guests. But why does the manager know that these guys probably haven’t gone far and that they live in dormitories?

“Store manager, did you wear a red hat in your old days?”

“I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard about it a lot from Yoon-ha.”

“Your sister was doing that? With a cable tie around her wrist?”

“No. It was Yoon-ha who wore the hat.”

“I’m a hunter, not a thug!!”

“I’m a hunter, not a thug!!”

Judging from what they were saying, they must have been trained as hunters, so my sister must have gone through a similar process. Just as I was imagining the process, I saw a police officer walking out from the scene.

While walking, he glanced behind me and explained to me what I was curious about.

“June is a month when conflicts between students entering their final year often occur. This is because it is the period leading up to exams.”

Upon entering, there is an additional explanation. In this world, in addition to the aptitude test held at the beginning of each month, there is also an annual test held in early to mid-July.

Since it is a very important exam, it is a very sensitive time for graduating and job-seeking students, and during this time, students from the same school or other schools, regardless of whether they make eye contact, start fighting or something.

After hearing this, I felt a little relieved. It’s not like the school culture in this area is a battle between youth academy students. If it’s just a brief fight between graduating seniors, well… .

“That’s why, during this period, the jurisdiction regularly requests personnel support from other jurisdictions. They are mainly in charge of transporting students who have been involved in incidents outside of the school to the campus.”

It wouldn’t be a good thing for the person who has to deal with it, though. The officer glanced outside as if he was craving a cigarette after finishing his speech. I quickly spoke.

“If you’re looking for a place to smoke, there’s a smoking area inside. Just inside the main entrance―”

“I just got back. I remember seeing it before.”

“Oh, yes.”

“This area is good in this regard. There is no need to look for a smoking area.”

Officer Iruel is discriminated against by the people he deals with, and even his fellow police officers, because he is an elf.

When I think about it, the change of workplace this time was probably more due to inevitability than volition. You can tell by the fact that half of my hair has turned black from stress…

“Officer.”

As I was watching, the store manager suddenly spoke up.

“Yes, go ahead.”

“Did something good happen to you? Your hair color has brightened.”

I followed suit and looked. It was ambiguous, but it seemed like the hair color was brighter than when the store was flooded last week.

What good could there be to change your work location in just a few days? I was wondering, when the officer, who had been silent for a moment, took out the flashing light from his waistband.

He answered slowly, tapping his head with the light stick.

“I was thinking that if you move… there would be no place to buy cigarettes.”

“Where can I buy cigarettes?”

“Yes. When I heard that my place of work was changed to this jurisdiction, at least my mind was at ease.”

Well, this isn’t the only place in the world where you can buy cigarettes.

“… It was a joke.”

The officer said that and pulled down his police hat on his head. I thought it was a joke, so I decided to take it literally. I felt relieved that I could come here again. Hmm…

“Officer. Are you leaving work today?”

“… Are you talking about work?”

“Yes. I think you’ve been very busy lately.”

I deliberately changed the subject of conversation. It was because I thought the officer was embarrassed right now. He was a blunt elf, so I wasn’t entirely sure about that…

I started talking thinking that if he wasn’t embarrassed, he would know how to react. But then the officer answered as if he had been waiting for me to say something.

“I’m not busy. I just got assigned to the position, so my superiors only gave me instructions to check the surrounding terrain.”

What I just said was strangely fast. I guess I was right to be embarrassed.

“While we’re on the subject, I have something I’d like to ask you both. Is that okay?”

The next words returned to a blunt tone, and his expression became serious. As soon as he said that he could ask anything, the officer took a machine out of his front pocket and put it down.

It looks exactly like an MP3. I never thought I would come to another world and see something I only saw when I was a runny nose in my own world. But why this?

“I went to see the goblin who was in charge of transporting the money bag before.”

The brief excitement had completely dissipated. Before the gate burst and I went down the sewer, a goblin had fled the store after throwing a bag containing an estimated billions of dollars.

The shop manager had figured out the identity and location of that goblin, and he guessed that he was hospitalized. This was because I had removed the spell that was on him.

“Really? At the hospital like I told you before?”

“Yes. As the owner said, I asked around at a few hospitals, and I found one that admitted an unconscious goblin.”

“If you’re unconscious, are you okay now?”

“He is still hospitalized, but has regained some degree of consciousness.”

It’s fortunate that he’s conscious. Even though he’s a guy I don’t even know and he just threw me work, I feel complicated when I think about how I almost sent him to the goal.

It’s the same now. The reason I took out this MP3 recorder that you just saw is not for another reason―

“Well, I recorded that. When I listened to it myself, it didn’t seem like the goblin was lying….”

There are quite a few areas that are difficult to judge on your own, so I would like to get confirmation from the two of us. This is an area that should be handled by someone who is well-versed in theory as well as practice.

I looked down at the store manager without saying a word, and the manager asked me just one thing.

“Is there anything sensitive recorded? Like who was seriously injured, or the exact amount of money?”

“There’s no such thing. Would you be okay with it right now?”

“I’m fine. I was planning to stay a little longer after work anyway. What about Chani?”

“Yes, please tell me.”

I hesitated for a moment, then immediately blurted it out. I’m a person who has never had any connection to this kind of thing… .

That’s a story from the world I lived in before. Since I came here with a strange constitution, I guess I’ll have to get used to strange things by now.

The officer immediately turned on the recorder as we spoke, and a slightly noisy conversation flowed out. His voice was even more blunt and hoarse than when he spoke to us.

[ … I understand that you have agreed to be recorded and interviewed on the condition that you do not mention any personally identifiable information, so may I begin asking questions? ]

[ sun. ]

[ What transaction did the money come from? ]

[ I don’t know. They handle a lot of things. ]

[ Who ordered this ? ]

[ I don’t know. I just do what I’m told. ]

I had guessed that the store manager or the police officer was ‘the lowest level of the organization’, but even to my untrained ears, this goblin only spoke low-level words. Especially the words he spouted out here and there.

[ If I had known I would end up like this, I would have hit him a long time ago. I didn’t even have insurance. The doctor called me for the hospital bill. ]

[ Please answer only the questions. The conversation will be long. ]

[Okay. What else?]

[ Have you received any further instructions? ]

[First Saturday in June, 12:00 AM.]

This part was especially careful. After receiving the bag and note at the restroom in the park in Block 6 of the academy district, take the bag to the address written on the note.

Burn the note. After a moment of silence, the goblin finished speaking.

[ This week’s story, Miss Police Officer. This week. ]