Chapter 495 Tamao
The doorbell of the 24-hour convenience store rang to welcome customers. The faint sunshine outside the window shone on the red welcoming mat at the door. The few sounds of traffic on the street were brought into the store by the fresh air, and mixed with the people who walked into the store. There was a man wearing brown overalls and a peaked cap. His long, uncut hair stuck out of the brim of the cap. It was obvious that this man had not taken care of himself for a while.
Two clerks behind the counter in work uniforms and hats said in unison, "Welcome." One of the female clerks' eyes lit up when she saw some men with lowered eyes who appeared to be lacking energy and walked in. "Mr. , are you here again?"
"Good morning." The man agreed casually without raising his head.
The convenience store is quiet, unlike supermarkets in big cities. Convenience stores in this small town are always like this. The small color TV hanging on the wall shows the same soap operas and TV commercials. The customers between the shelves remain quiet. The selection of goods, shopping, and checkout do not disturb anyone. Therefore, men like to come here to shop and come almost every day. Rather than disturbing others, he should be more concerned about others not disturbing him.
"It's late. It's already noon. Do you still have the same bento today? It's not nutritious. Occasionally, you have to buy your own food and make some fresh dishes!" The female clerk put her hands on the counter and looked in front of her. The man passing by said with a smile, and the male clerk next to her seemed to shrink back in awe when the man walked by.
"I don't have time to do it, it's very troublesome." The man responded briefly, took a shopping basket from the passing counter, walked to the convenience store and disappeared around the corner.
This is probably the only troublesome thing about this convenience store, that is, the female clerk is unusually enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that it makes people a little uncomfortable. However, if you ignore this problem, this convenience store can still score an eight in the hearts of men. By the way, one thing that can never be surpassed is the unmanned supermarket, because even the necessary communication process of paying the bill can be omitted there.
"What?" The male clerk behind the counter dared to mutter softly after watching the man's back walk away.
"What?" The female clerk heard her colleague's complaint and turned to look at him and asked.
"That attitude, Meijia, don't you think this person has always been a little strange?" the male clerk whispered, "He comes here to buy lunch every day at noon. He is so slovenly and has been living in a shabby rental house in the shabby building next door. His face also looks a bit sinister, and he doesn’t feel like a good person.”
"Is it vicious? It seems a little bit." The female salesperson scratched her neck, "But I feel like it's the Tamao type."
"Tamao?" The male clerk's face was full of questions.
"Serizawa Tamao, (Tamao Serizawa), the movie role played by Takayuki Yamada, haven't you seen that movie?" The young female clerk looked at this colleague who was about the same age as herself, and was suspicious of his viewing volume. manner.
"Well, I usually play PS games." The colleague looked a little embarrassed. From time to time, he glanced at the back of the man in the distance who was wandering in front of the freezer food area and carefully selected. He was thinking about the "Asasi boys" like him now (referring to Japan). Have manga-style gentle male protagonists such as Kamijou Touma and Kamado Tanjiro fallen out of favor? Everyone likes the more handsome bad guy type?
"But he doesn't seem like a good person. He always feels like a bad person who smokes things." My colleague lowered his voice and said, "Many residents in the building next to me reported that there were some bad people in society walking around there. Ah, and this all happened in the last month or two. Didn’t this man move in during this time? I actually kind of suspect that he is secretly selling those bad things!"
"Impossible, someone who can't eat well won't have the fighting power like him! Tamao is a man who is called the king of beasts in Lily of the Valley!" The female clerk raised her arms and rolled up her sleeves. It’s an action to show off her biceps, but there are no muscles on her slender arms, which only makes her action a little cute. “But the most important thing is that he is very poor. He always buys a 389 yen bento. If If he really did bad things, he wouldn’t be so depressed.”
"Don't get too involved in movies and TV shows, Meijia!" The male clerk was a little dizzy and didn't want to see his obedient colleague come into contact with some weird people.
"I'm not substituting this. I saw him fighting on the street when I came home from get off work. One person can fight three or four gangsters, and he can kill those gangsters with sticks with his bare hands. He is really brave." The female clerk put down her hand. , "That's why I paid attention to him after that. Although he comes to buy lunch every day and doesn't pay much attention to the quality of life, as long as there is a girl willing to take care of him, everything will probably be fine, right?"
"Hey, Meijia." The male clerk sensed the danger. This is a man's natural vigilance in choosing a mate. Although he has not yet had any formal pursuit of his beautiful and well-behaved female colleague, now the cabbage has something to turn over. The pen feeling is always not a good sign. At least you have to look through the vegetable patch for a strong and handsome porcupine. Finding such a sluggish guy will always make him feel like he is a miserable loser and not so convinced.
"Do you know his name? You haven't had a formal conversation with him since he's been here for so long, right? He always ignores you and me. I feel like he has a social disorder. This kind of man is the worst. It’s difficult.” The male clerk tried to put some distance between his female colleague and the weird regular customer in the store.
"I really don't know his name." The female clerk sat behind the counter with her face raised, looking at the back of the man in front of the crisper, weighing the two lunch boxes in his hands and thinking about a choice, and said, "I'll ask later."
"He won't pay attention to you." The male clerk said.
"I won't pay attention to you, haven't you noticed? The two of us have been chatting with him in the past month or two, and he has never answered you, but he often answers me. Although he is so precious about his words, but At least you talked to me head-on." The female clerk proudly pushed out her small breasts. After all, it would take a few years for the temporary workers who had just graduated to fully develop. However, the male clerk still turned his face away and said Carefully peek with side eyes.
"Just talking to you, Meijia, doesn't it mean that he is just a simple and lonely pervert? He may not even secretly ask girls who have fallen behind to come to his home for service, and he may even quietly harass other girls on the train!" The male clerk could only think about this in his heart without saying it out loud, because what he said was too malicious and he could not bear the possible consequences. He was just a clerk and had no right to pick out and criticize his customers. Even if the customer is really a drug addict or a gangster who comes to their store every month to provide sales, he must continue to maintain a business smile and fulfill his duties obediently.
While the two were chatting, the store door was pushed open again, and another customer walked in. Welcome was shouted again. After the customer entered the convenience store, the female clerk looked at the male clerk and said, "You must be here." Jealous of Tamao, I can see it."
"Jealous? I'm not jealous." The male clerk denied, "How could I be jealous of someone like him?"
"Judgment based on appearance is never reliable. What if he looks ferocious but is actually very capable of fighting, but behind the scenes he is actually a super gentle and kind person who loves dogs and cats?" The female clerk tilted her head and looked into the distance. said the man who came over after selecting a lunch box.
"Situations like this are so rare." The male clerk smiled bitterly and didn't know what to say. When he saw the man approaching, his face immediately tightened, and he didn't say a word. He didn't even dare to think about the same thing as before. Malicious speculation about others.
"Is today's lunch a 'Juicy Fried Chicken Bento'? It seems that you like this flavor of bento very much. If I remember correctly, you also chose this bento yesterday and the day before yesterday, but I just saw Have you ever picked up the 'Makuuchi Bento'? It's actually a good bento with the same price and a variety of dishes, from tempura to grilled sausages. Why not try new flavors? "The female clerk skillfully took the bento and scanned the QR code to pay. She looked sideways at the man and started talking to him once a day.
"Please heat it up." The man did not answer the female clerk's question, but just asked what he had said countless times.
"Is it because there are too many types? That makes you afraid to try new things?"
"Please heat it up." The man repeated his words, but in a more serious tone.
"Okay, please heat it up." The female clerk casually threw the lunch to the colleague next to her, folded her hands and looked at the man in front of her, looking at him with an extremely aggressive look, and the man also stared expressionlessly. He placed a bento in the microwave not far away and showed no response at all to the female clerk's rape.
"Sir, do you like dogs?" The female clerk asked this question after thinking for a long time.
The man slowly turned his head to look at her, and then said, "I don't like it."
"So do you like cats?"
"dislike."
"If you had to choose between a cat and a dog, what would you choose? It would be cheating to choose neither!"
"cat."
"Oh why?"
"Because cats are quieter than dogs and don't talk much." The man said calmly.
The female clerk was slapped silently, and the thirty-second heating time of the microwave oven had just expired. She turned around in disgrace and continued to complete her work. When she handed the convenience store to the man, she couldn't help but complain, "You guys are here." We have been in the store for such a long time and we have met dozens of times. I still don’t know your name?”
"Why do you care about this issue?" The man put away the lunch box, picked up the plastic bag, and took a second look at the young female clerk, who was probably in her teens or 20s.
"I'm just curious." The female clerk pressed her hands on the counter and laughed and shrugged, "Nowadays, among young girls, decadent uncles are more attractive than gentle and sunny handsome men! Don't you know?"
The man glanced at the reflection of the mirror on the shelf behind the female clerk behind the counter, wearing a peaked cap and looking very bad. Without saying anything, he took a handful of change from his trouser pocket and put it on the counter, turned around and Walked towards the door of the convenience store.
"It really failed." The female clerk sighed, held down her arm and did a simple stretch. She sighed, but immediately cheered up, bent down and shouted to the man who walked out of the store, "Thank you for your patronage. , welcome to visit next time!”
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