The fake sick leave runs out, and Kamiyagawa resumes the daily routine of a male high school student in Tokyo.

Work-study.

I go to class during the day and work part-time at night.

That night.

Convenience stores.

After more than a week, Kamiya finally started working night shifts with Okamura-kun again.

"Miss Maruda has an extra 1,000 yen in the store."

Okamura said this as he checked the shelves.

"Miss Maruda has an extra 1,000 yen in the store."

Okamura said again when he cleaned up the bento after the tasting period.

Finally, he walked to the cash register at the counter and began to sigh again, "Miss Maruda......"

"Stop! It's okay, it's annoying to talk about it. Kamiyagawa, who was on the side, interrupted the spell irritably, "You've been talking all night, let yourself go, and let me go, okay?" ”

"But, Kamiya-kun. Why hasn't Miss Maruda come to the store tonight? ”

Okamura clearly didn't intend to end the topic so simply.

"She doesn't need to come to the convenience store every night. Aren't people allowed to eat anything other than oden for dinner? Kamiya's face was black.

Okamura listened to this and nodded, "That's right." Kamiya-kun, one more thing, Miss Marui invited me to a drink yesterday. ”

"Oh." Kamiya replied casually, and then began to pour cold water like a surviving store manager, "So what, when I stood in front of the cash register and fought with my eyelids before, she also invited me. You don't want to tell me that you think this is love, do you? ”

I love you twist love.

Where did you get the love of this red-light district regular!

"That's not it...... I just don't understand why she's so nice to us. Okamura scratched the back of his head.

"Don't understand?" Kamiyagawa looked at his colleague with a "you're kidding me" expression.

Sure enough, after the emotion is over, the brain won't turn, right......

complained in his heart, and Kamiya reluctantly spoke: "She is willing to pass on kindness to us, of course, because of that incident......"

That's just a small thing.

It happened a few months ago, and it was still spring, not long after Kamiya first started "Strange Tales of Things".

That night, it was still Kamiyagawa and Okamura who worked the night shift at a convenience store together.

It was at that time that the two of them met Miss Marui for the first time.

Marui appeared at the convenience store dragging a large suitcase, his face tired, his eyes red and swollen. I sat down in the dining area, and I sat there in a daze, and stayed for a long, long time.

Later, I went up and asked.

It was the third day of Miss Marui's first arrival in Tokyo.

She was unlucky, she was cheated out of money by a black agent, and then she didn't get a job as promised in advance.

Kamiya was quite idle that night, so he comforted Marui casually, and then Okamura took a bento for her to eat.

Then, there is no then.

Miss Marui is a good and hard-working person, a little setback can't knock her down, after the frustration, adjust her mood, and start her journey to survive in the reinforced concrete and neon jungle.

You can't be unlucky all the time.

After that, Marui successfully found a job where he could live and rented an apartment near a convenience store, which was a formal foothold in the bustling and indifferent metropolis of Tokyo.

After Kamiya's reminder, Okamura also recalled this trivial matter, and said in an uncertain tone:

"However, it was only a small matter, we just talked to her a few words and invited her to a bento that had passed the tasting period."

"Why, is it a big deal that she invited us to a refreshing drink when we were working up the night shift?" Kamiyagawa asked rhetorically.

At this moment, Okamura couldn't speak.

The surviving store manager and Kamiyagawa are both sober-minded, and after their outspokenness in turn, it can be regarded as allowing Okamura-kun to regain some of his senses.

Yes.

The good-looking and hard-working OL will invite Okamura and Kamiya to drinks, and it probably doesn't really have anything to do with the good feelings between the opposite sex.

It's just a kind person, after life has stabilized, to make a small return to the person who once released kindness to him.

"So, don't be cranky and work hard." Kamiyagawa deliberately put on a vicissitudes of life, reached out and patted Okamura's shoulder, "Love may betray you, but making money will never." ”

The latter sighed and nodded.

In fact, Okamura himself knows that a person like him who loves to visit the town is not worthy of that girl.

But...... Oh, speaking of the town......

Okamura: "That's right, Kamiya-kun. Speaking of Custom Town, there have been a couple of custom girls missing over there lately, you know? It seems that it has already alarmed the Metropolitan Police Department. I now think that the custom girl I was familiar with before is probably missing. ”

Kamiyagawa: ???

No, wait a minute.

Who told you about the town?

Your chatting style is a bit of a stream of consciousness.

The topic jumped too fast!

One second it was still sad and sad, and the next second it was thinking of the wind and snow, right?

Okamura saw that Kamiya didn't reply, and continued: "Kamiya-kun, don't you live very close to Custom Town? Be careful during this time, especially when you come home from the night shift at night. ”

Kamiyagawa waved his hand: "I'm not a custom girl." ”

"You can't say that." Okamura was serious, "If, I mean if." Wouldn't it be dangerous if there was a bad guy wandering around Folk Town, and you happened to be unlucky enough to run into someone on your way home from work? ”

"Thank you so much for reminding me."

Kamiyagawa said this, but what he was thinking in his heart was-

If a bad guy really runs into me on a night walk, it's hard to say who is unlucky.

Tonight's part-time job at a convenience store is a mediocre life.

After that, Okamura told a little bit about the missing custom girl.

Kamiya understood that according to Okamura, the missing girls were all young and beautiful.

So, Kamiyagawa kept an extra eye in his heart:

"Speaking of which, is it possible that it is not the 'bad guy' who caused the disappearance of the custom girl, but a strange story of a strange visit or a spiritual descent?"

The possibility exists, and it's not small.

Kamiyagawa continued to think:

"It's a weird thing to do with beautiful young girls...... Hey, if you only have this one piece of information, it's still too little. ”

However, Okamura also said it. The incident in the town has already alarmed the Metropolitan Police Department, and even if it is really a strange story, I don't need to worry about it. ”

The official Soul Slayer organization is subordinate to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Kamiya already knew this from Yuuki Shinkenyu.

Therefore, even if it is really a strange story, as soon as the Metropolitan Police Department intervenes, it means that the official soul slayers will intervene.

Kamiyagawa felt that he was a little folk soul killer, so he didn't need to worry about salty radish soup.