"Reserve store manager? You're a good boy, do a good job. ”

After placing the goods, the two chatted for a few words, and Uncle Iwae and Sousuke Araki waved their hands and drove to other stores to deliver the goods.

And Sousuke Araki also began the work in hand.

The night shift at a convenience store is definitely not something to do while standing as you imagined.

Receiving, counting, replenishing, updating goods according to the requirements of the headquarters, pasting various event logos, regularly cleaning oden machines, making simple food in advance, etc.

However, these are just a piece of cake for the extremely skilled Sousuke Araki.

Soon, he was busy with the work in hand, standing in the blind corner of the monitoring and looking through the book "Super Familiar".

During this period, he also took the time to take a few peeks at the concerned "cosplay patient".

The other party was still sitting there quietly, as if he was closing his eyes and recuperating, and even the corner of the convenience store where she was located faintly exuded a divine aura.

Looks like you're not going back...... It's the first time I've seen homelessness so justifiably.

About one o'clock later, the girl seemed to be a little sleepy, and fell asleep on the small table.

Sousuke Araki walked over lightly and put a bun on the other party's table.

The girl was immediately awakened, raised her head and looked at him in a daze.

"Fresh expired meat buns, please, eat them while they're hot."

Leaving these words, Sousuke Araki also walked to the monitoring corner under the cash register, took a meat bun and nibbled on it.

"Ah...... Thank you. ”

Touching the hot meat bun in her hand, the girl shook it for a moment, thanked her very politely, and then picked up the bun in her hand and ate it elegantly.

Just as the two of them were quietly eating the meat buns, a sound of "pop, pop" came from far and near in the darkness.

As the sound got closer, an old woman in a black kimono appeared in front of the store, and the sound was made by the clogs on her feet.

Gently pressing the button on the electric door, the old woman trembled into the store and walked straight to the corner shelf.

"Regulars who live nearby?"

The other party walked directly to the shelf, obviously familiar with the goods in the store.

Sousuke Araki glanced at the clock above his head, and the time was already close to two o'clock.

For this kind of trembling old man, he is not surprised.

Japan is a super-aging society and the country with the longest life expectancy, with more than 10% of the population over 65 years old, and many people still working at the age of 75.

But if you go out late at night to buy something, you probably have urgently needed supplies.

Thinking so, Sosuke Araki continued to flip through the magazine in his hand with a blush on his face.

The old woman quickly got the goods she wanted and walked slowly to the cash register.

Sousuke Araki took the book in one hand and the goods that the other party had placed on the table with the other, and quickly scanned it on the desktop code scanner.

The other party bought a box of maltose.

This is a very traditional yellow transparent candy.

"It's 365 yen in total, thank you for your patronage, and welcome to come back next time."

Sousuke Araki packed the maltose house in a small bag, respectfully placed it on the countertop, and took out the change plate.

The reason why this kind of change tray is used is to facilitate the receipt and counting of the coins taken out by the guests, and the second is to avoid physical contact when handing the change.

The old woman picked up the candy, put a few coins in the change tray, and went out tremblingly.

Just as Araki opened the popped cash box and was about to put the coins in, a trace of black gas poured into his body from the coins.

He suddenly discovered that the coins in the coin plate were not the usual yen, but several oval-shaped square hole coins that were so broken that they could not read the text on the surface.

"What's this?"

This old woman is confused, taking out such a mess at home and paying for it.

Sousuke Araki immediately chased after him.

The mother-in-law, who was moving slowly, had now walked to the dark alley, and her thin back stopped in the shadows.

"Hey, hey, hey......" Without looking back, the old woman laughed in a slow, eerie tone.

"Wait......" Sosuke Araki came from behind the girl's voice, and it seemed that the other party followed him out.

"Mother-in-law......" he reached out and gently put it on the old woman's shoulder.

Endless darkness obscured the old man's countenance.

The other man slowly turned his head.

A trace of black qi poured from her shoulder into Sosuke Araki's body.

Turning around was the old woman's sunny, smiling face with a faint white light.

Although it is covered with layers of wrinkles, it has a kind and kind atmosphere.

"Is there something wrong? My granddaughter likes to eat the maltose I bought for her. The old woman said to Sosuke Araki with a grin.

"Really...... It's okay, it's just that it's too late, and you be careful on your way home. ”

Looking at the old man's smiling face, Sosuke Araki was stunned for a moment, and then bowed obediently to the other party.

"Thank you." The old woman folded her hands in return, bowed him back, and then turned and walked back into the darkness.

Under the light of the street lamp that fell to the ground, her body seemed to bloom with a faint layer of white light.

Seeing the old woman walking away, Sousuke Araki also turned around and went back to the store.

In an instant, he changed his mind and decided to pretend that he didn't know that the other party had given the wrong money.

This old woman must have been a little confused, so she would take that kind of worn-out coin in the middle of the night and come out to buy candy for her granddaughter.

A girl dressed in a shrine maiden costume stood sluggishly outside the convenience store, looking at the dark alleyway in the distance.

There, the old woman with white light all over her body was walking slowly step by step, gradually turning into white points of light and floating in the air.

A bag of maltose that fell on an empty alleyway.

Back at the cash register, Sousuke Araki took change out of his trouser pocket and put it in the cash box at the price of maltose.

After a while, the girl walked into the store, stood in front of the cash register, looked at him with complicated eyes, and plucked up the courage to ask.

"Excuse me...... How did you do that? ”

"How...... You're asking, that thing? ”

Hearing the other party's question, Sosuke Araki thought for a moment, and his eyes became serious.

Seeing the other party's expression, the girl also looked uplifted and nodded slightly.

"Now that you've noticed...... Although this is a secret technique that I usually don't want to tell......"

As he said this, Sousuke Araki slowly opened the incubator on the cash register......

The girl's breathing was slightly rapid, and her eyes were focused on him.