Chapter 17.1: Alone at the Convenience Store

Chapter 17.1: Alone at the Convenience Store

Sorry for the abruptness. Well, take care of yourself.

Yeah.

Its up to you, Masa. If you ever think youd like to do this, let me know. The boys will be happy to have you.

Okay.

Call me anytime you have any problems. Ill be waiting for you.

After parting ways with Kinoshita, who waved at me until I was no longer in view, I went back to my place to have a nap.

Coach huh

I becoming the coach

To be frank, it would be impossible. How could I possible carry the weight of an entire team? As much as it pained me to flout the expectations of those pure-eyed middle-schoolers, me being me, I didnt have the luxury of letting their imagination run wild by getting the wrong ideas right now. I wouldd rather settle the matter at the convenience store than be distracted by something else.

Going to another place without clearing things up was Perhaps it would be tantamount to running away.

I had yet to face it. Despite discovering that I was the source of Hyugas death, I still hadnt faced Hyuga, who lingered in this world, appearing and disappearing at random.

Even though I knew that she bore a vendetta against me, she might kill me if I approached her. Regardless of thatI must make sure that she would be liberated properly.

I stretched out widely in front of the counter.

As expected, not a single customer showed up.

If anybody was present, it was a ragged-clothed woman who was once again staring at me from against the magazine sections glass wall.

Thanks to Takenaka and Yagura, the woman could neither intrude into the store from the outside nor interfere with the people coming in and out of the store, so nothing would happen to me like before.

Seriously, that kind of staring.

Even if I turned my head in the other direction, her gaze only pierced me from directly to the side.

Manager, please hurry and arrive; if I werent alone, I wouldnt be so disturbed. Unless I got distracted by your barcode head, her gaze seemed to puncture my head.

Phew

I wondered if Takenaka was relaxing at his parents house right now. What were the other two doing now?

Perhaps Hirai was drawing thin books or whatever again. As for Aoyama well, what was he doing in his private life? I couldnt imagine.

Throughout the store, only the classical music that was playing in the late-night zone was replayed. Clouds were thick tonight with no moon. Not even a car passed by on the road. The boundless, seamless darkness created by all kinds of trees in the sea of trees.

Having never been in the convenience store alone until now, I realized now that it was indeed pitch-black here, and that the convenience store stood alone in a place that was overly quiet.Updated from novelbIn.(c)om