I'm really unnerved in Tokyo

Chapter 8 Secret Secret Techniques

"Reserve store manager? You're a good kid, work hard."

After placing the goods, the two chatted for a while, Uncle Iwae and Sosuke Araki waved their hands, and then drove to another store to deliver the goods.

And Araki Sousuke also started the work in hand.

The night shift at a convenience store is definitely not what you imagined, just standing around and doing nothing.

Receiving, ordering and replenishing goods, updating products according to the requirements of the headquarters, pasting various event signs, regularly cleaning the oden cooking machines, making simple food in advance, etc.

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

Soon, he was busy with the work in hand, and stood in the blind corner of the surveillance and flipped through the "Super Familiar".

During the period, he also took time to sneak a few glances at the "severe COSPLAY patient" who was concerned.

The other party was still sitting there quietly, as if closing his eyes and resting his mind. Even the corner of the convenience store where she was located faintly exuded a sacred aura.

It seems that I don't plan to go back... It's the first time I've seen a homeless person return so confidently.

After about one o'clock, the girl seemed a little sleepy and fell asleep lying on the small table.

Araki Sousuke walked over gently, and put a steamed stuffed bun on the opponent's table.

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

"Fresh and expired meat buns, please, eat them while they are hot."

After leaving this sentence, Araki Sousuke also walked to the monitoring corner under the cashier, took a meat bun and started to chew.

"Ah...thank you."

Touching the hot meat bun in her hand, the girl froze for a moment, and expressed her gratitude very politely, then picked up the bun in her hand, and ate it gracefully.

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

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

Gently pressing the button on the electric door, the old lady walked into the store tremblingly, and went straight to the corner shelf.

"A regular customer who lives nearby?"

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

Araki Sousuke glanced at the clock above his head, it was almost two o'clock.

He was not surprised by this trembling old man.

Japan is a super-aging society, and it is also the country with the longest life expectancy. The population over 65 years old has exceeded 10% of the national population, and there are many people who are still working at the age of 75.

But I went out to buy things late at night, probably because I have urgently needed supplies.

Thinking of this, Araki Zongjie blushed and continued to flip through the magazine in his hand.

The old woman quickly got the product she wanted and walked slowly to the cashier.

Sousuke Araki held the book in one hand, and took the product on the table in the other, and quickly scanned it on the desktop scanner.

The other party bought a box of maltose.

This is a very traditional yellow transparent candy.

"The total is 365 yen, thank you for your patronage, welcome to come again next time."

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

The reason why this kind of change tray is used is to facilitate receiving and counting the coins taken out by customers, and to avoid physical contact when handing 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 pop-up cash box and was about to put the coins in, a trace of black air poured into his body from the coins.

He suddenly discovered that the coins in the change plate were not the common Japanese yen, but several oval coins with square holes that were so damaged that the writing on the surface could not be seen clearly.

"What is this?"

This old woman must be confused. She took out such messy things at home and paid for them.

Araki Sousuke immediately chased him out.

The slow-moving mother-in-law had already reached the dark alley, her thin figure stopped in the shadows.

"Hey hey..." Without looking back, the old lady laughed in a slow and gloomy tone.

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

"Mother-in-law..." He put his hand on the old woman's shoulder lightly.

Endless darkness covered the old man's face.

The other party turned his head slowly.

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

Turning around was the old woman's sunny, slightly white smiling face.

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

"Is there something wrong? My granddaughter likes to eat the malt candy I bought for her the most." The old woman said to Araki Sousuke with a smile.

"Really...it's okay, it's just that it's too late, so be careful on the way home."

Seeing the old man's smiling face, Araki Sousuke was taken aback for a moment, then bowed obediently to him.

"Thank you." The old lady folded her hands together, saluted him back, then turned and continued to walk into the darkness.

Under the illumination of the street lamp that had fallen to the ground, her body seemed to be glowing with a layer of faint white light.

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

Just a moment ago, he changed his mind and decided to pretend that he didn't know that the other party had given him the wrong money.

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

The girl in the maiden costume stood dully 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, and gradually turned into white light spots floating in the air.

A bag of maltose fell on the empty alleyway.

Back at the cashier, Araki Sousuke took out the change from 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 cashier, looked at him with complicated eyes, and summoned up her courage to ask.

"Excuse me... how did you do it?"

"How did you do it... Are you asking, that thing?"

Hearing the other party's question, Araki Sousuke thought for a while, his eyes became serious.

Seeing the other party's expression, the girl also lifted her expression and nodded slightly.

"Since you noticed it...although this is a secret technique that I usually don't want to tell others..."

While saying this, Araki Sousuke slowly opened the incubator on the cash register...

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

(End of this chapter)