Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 31

Episode 31. The Thinking Pyeondol

I’m not good at eating salted fish.

Because, you know, that’s kind of like, that thing. It’s called a chicken heart.

But because my older sister suddenly took out my heart, I almost fell backwards. Fortunately, I was able to hold back my screaming, but upon closer inspection, there were many things that seemed a bit odd for a heart.

There was no blood flowing, it was purple, and it wasn’t beating… No, it would be strange if a heart that was taken out was beating, but even though it looked like a heart, it wasn’t a heart. So… .

“This is the devil’s core.”

“Why are you suddenly bringing up nuclear weapons and Daepodong?”

“What is Daepodong?”

My older sister tilted her head. Oh my, I was so surprised that all the words in my world came out (laughs).

Anyway, why did my older sister bring this up?

“I don’t like it.”

“Hey. Can’t you listen to what I have to say and then decide?”

“What can I do if I don’t like it? I told you this smells like chicken shit right now.”

“Don’t worry about the smell. It’s not harmful to your health.”

It’s harmful to my mind, to my mind… .

But I don’t want to get more frustrated and be suspected. So I decided to just listen to the story.

Demons. Monsters that pop out from the gate.

These monsters pop out and cause trouble in the world, but if you catch them and process parts of their bodies, they become great resources that can be used in the outside world.

For example, catching dozens of slimes and concentrating them to make wax to hold dwarves’ beards in place, or pulling out golem joints and using them as conveyor belt gears…

And in the case of this demon nuke, it is said that if you use it as a power source for a train, the speed will double, but it is quite expensive. My sister explained that the demon nuke that she caught is for display after being stuffed, but there was no need to attach the invisible heart, so she left it out.

“But, I really can’t trust my business partners.”

“okay?”

“This is literally a lump of magic power, so we have to do some purification work. My business partner says they worked hard on it, but do you remember those guys messing up the scales before and giving them to me?”

Of course I remember. If they had done their job properly, I wouldn’t have had to put my hands in and out of the dragon’s pus, I wouldn’t have had to receive a gold bonus, and I wouldn’t have known that my constitution was so bizarre…

And I wouldn’t be doing this right now. My sister was looking at me with eyes full of anticipation, but no matter how much I tried to think positively, I couldn’t help it. Why should I, a picky person like me, have to fiddle with my tongue?

“Of course I’ll give you a separate bonus. If I deposit it into your account, there’ll be a problem, so I’ll give it to you through my older sister. What do you think?”

Are you trying to buy me off with money?

The amount my sister offered was exactly one month’s rent, so I couldn’t refuse. It was a fairly large amount by my standards. In some ways, it was a request, and in some ways, a favor, but I asked back with the intention of being asked.

“What happens if I don’t do this?”

“I have to wake up and work a few more hours of overtime. Nuclear weapons are particularly sensitive material.”

“… Give it to me, then.”

All you have to do is touch it. And you said you just came home from working overtime, but people need to rest on weekends.

Even though this nuclear weapon went through an untrustworthy business partner, it was still touched, so there shouldn’t be any problems… .

“Oh. Are you concerned about me?”

“What are you nervous about? I’ll try, but don’t expect too much.”

After taking a deep breath, I grabbed the magic nuke my sister had handed me with both hands. There was no reaction right away, was there?

“What is this, why is it like this?”

The core of the demon had two large blood vessels sticking out of it, which seemed to carry blood, and these suddenly began to spit out purple smoke. Yes, the meerkat had been fooled again.

“You said there would be no problem, you said there would be no problem!!”

“The business partner said so, but it turns out it wasn’t true.”

I held it far away from my head and it started beating like a real heart, and it felt like it was at a BPM of around 180. I felt like I was going to get really f*cked if I dropped it, so I grabbed it so tightly that I even added my thumb to it.

The palms opened and closed repeatedly to the beat for a dozen seconds. Finally, it became quiet, as if all the smoke had been exhaled. After counting to ten more seconds in my head, I asked my older sister.

“Isn’t this purple smoke harmful to the body?”

“I don’t mind drinking, but Lee Chan, don’t you feel dizzy or anything?”

“I don’t know if it’s dizziness, but it smells like chicken poop, right? Is that it?”

“It’s natural, really.”

The smell was so bad and it stung my eyes, so it didn’t seem like a very good smoke for my body. I opened the front door of the convenience store, got a broom, and swung it around to get rid of the smell.

Afterwards, I returned to the table and looked at the magic core. It didn’t look much different from before, but there was no reaction when I poked it with my finger.

As I shrugged my shoulders looking at my older sister, my older sister picked up the nuclear weapon, turned it over here and there, and spoke.

“I really need to cut ties with my business partners.”

“Is this something that wasn’t done properly, or something that wasn’t done at all?”

“Both. The smoke that just escaped is the magical power that was trapped inside, and if left alone, it will condense and catch fire in the air. I only worked until that time.”

I guess it’s something like LPG gas.

“So there’s no problem now?”

“It needs to be verified separately at the workshop, but… there shouldn’t be any problems. You did a good job with the scales, didn’t you?”

Sister Yoon-ha, who had put the nuke in the pouch at her side, began to look at my face with a meaningful gaze, and her gaze was even more burdensome.

“… No matter how I look at it, it’s still really strange.”

“what.”

“He said he changed jobs because the company went bankrupt. I just wondered why a company that hired someone who knew how to do this kind of thing went bankrupt.”

Well, that’s because I’ve been doing things that have nothing to do with this in a world that has nothing to do with this. I was able to see the tobacco fairy, and I have no idea why I have this talent or constitution…

And I don’t really want to talk about things I don’t know much about, or topics that are unpleasant. My sister happened to yawn loudly at that moment, so I said something to change the subject.

“Sister, are you sleeping well?”

“No. I stayed up all night the day before yesterday, and I stayed up all night yesterday too… But I think I’ll be pretty free starting the day after tomorrow.”

“Why from tomorrow?”

“Statistically, the gate doesn’t open very often in May.”

Is it because it’s Family Month, or is it because the monsters have pollen allergies?

“So, even if I don’t have work, I’ll come visit often. I miss you too, unnie.”

“Why?”

“What can I do when I have no one to hang out with? I’m thirty and I don’t have any friends to drink with. Is it because I only work?”

I can’t say that’s the reason, but it was quite surprising that she didn’t have any friends. My sister didn’t have the same age as the store manager, but I thought she looked good enough to hear people ask her, “What university do you go to? Are you a sophomore?” about 20 times a day.

“Then come and play. I won’t stop guests from coming.”

I feel this way again, but working here, I feel like I’ve met a lot of the best beauties in the province. But I look like a Cheolsu Semi who’s been using it for half a year.

“Even if you stop me, I’ll still come. Oh, and while I’m at it, I should probably buy some beer. Do you have any recommendations?”

“Well, I don’t have anything to recommend….”

When I think of beer, something comes to mind. After telling him to wait a moment, I took out two cans of wheat beer that I had stored in the beverage storage and handed them to my sister. My sister’s face brightened up a little.

“Oh. I’ve always wanted to try this.”

“Since the bill has been paid, just take it and drink it. It’s a beer that depends on your taste, so don’t expect too much.”

“What did you finish calculating? Did you buy it to eat?”

“No, that’s not it. Some crazy Chihuahua threw it at me and told me to eat it.”

“?”

I thought he was curious, but it’s a bit of a shame to tell this story to someone who’s about to die from sleep.

When I said I would tell her tomorrow, my sister stuck out her lips but accepted two cans of beer, put them in a pouch on her waist, and waved at me.

“See you tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

After that, I put on my raincoat, tightened my belt, and flew off into the darkness on Pegasus. I watched it until it disappeared from view, then called the store manager.

The store manager answered the phone after two rings.

[ Yeah, Chan-ah. ]

“Store manager, we received the goods well.”

[Thank you for your hard work. Were there any problems this time?]

“There were no problems with logistics, and about what my older sister was talking about earlier.”

[ huh. ]

He brought me a demon nuke and asked me to do some purification work, so I did it. He said he would give me money, but he said it would be sent to the store manager’s account. He said I would come often in the future. When I briefly summarized the three points, the store manager said, “Hmm…” and then asked me back.

[ Mainly what? ]

“Uh… I haven’t heard that yet.”

[ … But I don’t think Yoon-ha will bring anything dangerous… ]

Now that you mention it’s dangerous, I’m suddenly feeling anxious. Aren’t you going to bring a living hell horse and ask me to comb its mane later?

Of course, it’s not like worrying about it now will solve the anxiety… This isn’t like I’m receiving an official request or anything, it’s just a favor. If I don’t like it, then don’t do it.

Money won’t come in in the millions or anything. That’s burdensome in its own right. Any relationship involving a lot of money is bound to go wrong somewhere…

“Are you okay, store manager?”

[ Yeah. But still, if you quit your part-time job, tell me in advance. Okay? ]

What is this?

“Why should I stop here?”

[ Well… you can get a job somewhere else from here. ]

“I don’t know because it hasn’t happened yet, and if I want to get a job here, I have to come to this world first.”

[ …huh. ]

“Yes. But, I don’t have any other way to get here besides the front door of that convenience store.”

Right now, neither the store manager nor I know how I can get to this convenience store.

Even if I asked anyone in this world, there didn’t seem to be anyone who would know. If there was such a way, there would have been other races wandering around my world long ago. Since I haven’t seen anything like that, I guess it’s safe to assume that it doesn’t exist yet…

Since this convenience store is the only way to enter and exit another world, I have no choice but to visit this convenience store to earn money, and whether I allow that is entirely up to the store manager. To put it bluntly, if the store manager hates me and throws salt at me, can I come back here? I don’t think I can.

So I wanted to maintain a good relationship with the store manager, and the store manager was a person who was worth it. He was a good person, after all. Who would hire a high school graduate as a part-time worker and give him ten thousand won?

If I were to list them all out, they would all just be a bunch of words that sound like scraps of paper, so I’ll just summarize them in one sentence.

“It’s called a conflict of interest, sir.”

[ … Thank you for saying so. ]

“Thank you. I could just work for a year and earn some money before I leave.”

[ Oh, really? ]

The store manager asked me with a smile, but I also felt like I had no idea. Even though this experience won’t help my portfolio, if I save up and save about 3,000, I think I could open a convenience store in my own world…

The front door bell rang and a guest arrived.

“The customer has arrived. Go to sleep soon, manager.”

[ huh. ]

He hung up the phone and looked at the guest. A one-eyed cyclops.

The buttons on his jacket were so tight that they seemed like they would burst because he was so big, but now I didn’t think much of it. This Cyclops didn’t do anything that required special thought. He came and asked me.

“Where are the eye drops?”

“Could you take a look at the bottom corner of that reflector over there?”

He nodded and went under the mirror to get some eye drops, paid for them, and sent them off. After that, he sat and waited quietly for 30 minutes, an hour, or several hours, but no customers came.

So I had a lot of time to think alone, and maybe it was because of the rain. I had a lot of gloomy thoughts. I thought I was doing all sorts of things while wandering around.

Even if I do it for a few hours right now, I’ve touched the monster’s heart, received a cigarette genie, and dealt with a f*cking Chihuahua. When I think about it, I don’t know what I’ve done.

But work is work anyway, and I earn a salary of ten thousand won every hour without fail.

In addition to this, if I continue to do my sister’s favors, after a year, I might really be able to do something in my own world. Without worrying about finding a job, it would be a convenience store or whatever, and without worrying about making a living.

Of course, it is a full dream.

That’s my situation right now. 29 years old, high school graduate, no qualifications. In the midst of all this, you want to live without worrying about finding a job? Without worrying about making a living? That’s bullshit.

It was such a small, shabby dream that even a passing dog would laugh at it, asking if it was a dream… .

This is another world. A different world… .

In another world, maybe someone like me could live differently.