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“then… Am I going to work tomorrow?”

“yes.”

“Aren’t you getting fired?”

“yes.”

“really?”

“yes. Do you want to quit your job? If that’s the case, I’ll pass it on to the captain.”

“No, so. Is it okay to just move on like this?”

“It’s not just passing. I haven’t been able to get a bonus for a while.”

“yes. Because of the floor tiles. I heard Other than that? Is there any problem?”

“yes. Everything is fine.”

really?

The car asked once again to confirm.

“So, it’s okay if I get into a fight with a customer or cut off the customer’s hand.”

“yes. are you okay. If there are similar people in the future, do the same. Avoid one-on-one fights, and if you think you will lose, call the captain.”

“However… Are you customers?”

“The truth and the customer must be separated. This is not a hotel restaurant. You knew that and didn’t you do it on purpose? Like the last Fallen Angel, and this one too.”

“It wasn’t like that on purpose… yo. this.”

Saying my timid excuse, Sei spoke expressionlessly.

“It wasn’t on purpose that Man Hunter came to fight you, it must have been purely coincidental. But your actions in dealing with the dispute were thoroughly calculated.”

I always feel it, but those gray eyes seem to have the magic to penetrate people’s hearts.

“After he tapped you, you started to look weak to anyone looking at you. During transport of the chainsaw to the warehouse, the trend was exacerbated.”

“It’s really hard… .”

“But then you weren’t as exhausted as you seem. You must have left some leeway.

In order to create the optimal conditions to subdue the real customers. To lure the Manhunter in, to make sure the situation ends when you have a weapon in your hand.”

“… .”

A cold sweat ran down his back.

Did this person even watch all of my actions in the midst of his busy schedule?

“I don’t mean to point out. Rather, it was the right decision. There must have been no other way to impress upon the unannounced Ronin that you were equal to them.”

When I couldn’t say anything, Sei said as she twisted her dark blue hair with her fingers.

“If there were any problems or accidents that could be called an accident, it would be that, as the captain said, I was not able to clean up other Ronins due to lack of stamina, and that I was not able to participate in subsequent duty because of fainting.”

“… .”

“Other than that, there were no problems. You acted according to your judgment at your discretion in accordance with the rules of the bar. So there’s no way you’ll get fired.

Except for the kicked out Bratva gang, all the customers liked it, and there were a lot of orders coming in, so there was no adverse effect on sales. Did you understand?”

“Uh, yes.”

Did this person talk so much in the first place? He seems a little angry at the strong tone of voice.

The raised eyes, asking if they understood it, felt even more terrifying today.

Pressed by the momentum, Sei nodded her head awkwardly as she opened the door to the break room.

“If you don’t believe what I’m saying, when the boss comes back later, talk to him directly, and if you want to ask more questions, go ahead and talk.

Your biggest problem right now isn’t cutting Jin’s hand or breaking tiles, it’s because you’re holding me here.”

“Are you going? Where?”

In response to my stupid question, Say rarely sighed, expressing his emotions.

“Home. Aren’t you going to work?”

Oh right.

I have to go to work.

* * *

I can see why Say looked angry.

He didn’t look angry, he was actually angry.

Even like me, the assistant shooter suddenly collapsed, so I was delayed by two hours to take care of it.

After waking up, I have to go to work to find out what I have so many questions about, but it seems like I can’t help but get annoyed if I keep asking questions.

Sei, who did not show her emotions with her facial expressions and actions to the extent that she doubted that it was Ever, an android hired by Dragon CEO, is an office worker who is bound to go to work and leave.

shudder-

The sound of lowering the shutters on the front door of the bar is heard. It was kind of awkward to do the work routine I used to always with Dragon boss with other people.

It’s not even Tony, who is the friendliest, but the chief bartender, Sei, who is the most estranged person at the bar.

I have never had a conversation outside of work, and my gender is different… I can’t speak well.

Unlike usual, there are only the two of us in plain clothes, not in uniforms, so I can feel the suffocating atmosphere of having one-on-one lessons before the opening.

Said hesitantly as he followed Sei, who was striding down the dark iron stairs.

“sorry. I’m late for work because of me… You could just leave it alone.”

“I was just about to leave. I would have done it if it hadn’t been for the captain’s request.”

After all, as an honest and cool person, even in empty words, ‘I couldn’t just leave it alone.’ I don’t make noises like that.

“Are you the boss?”

“yes. I told you to take care of me until you wake up and go home with me. He says he’s busy because he has to go clean up the Red Mafia.”

When the road to this slum was dark, it was very dangerous, so I used to go to work with Dragon President to the bus stop, but today he seems to have asked Sei to do it for me.

… It feels strange to be a frail child who has to travel with a guardian, or a main character who is escorted by a bodyguard.

I usually wear a big, hard, and colorful exosuit and go with the Dragon President, who looks stronger than me, so I didn’t think much about anything other than being thankful.

If the bodyguard is a slender and beautiful woman like now, or a senior at work that is difficult to deal with, it is quite embarrassing.

No matter how in a world where stereotypes of gender roles have become completely meaningless, a man who has to travel with a woman because he is afraid to go alone at night.

It was a bizarre situation.

I’ll have to come up with a way to protect this one body somehow, even if I’m embarrassed.

It was just in the middle of kicking the pavement, grumbling inside.

“Originally, I was going to entrust you with Tony. You’re more comfortable with Tony than me. But Tony also had a job, so he left first.”

I paused at the sound of Sei muttering.

How did you interpret the question on my face? She answered before I even asked.

“I don’t know exactly what’s going on. Like the captain, he may have gone to deal with something related to this case, or it could be just a personal matter.”

I didn’t mean to ask that.

I was confused because of another part.

‘You’re more comfortable with Tony than me.’

When he hesitated and asked what he meant, Sei opened his mouth indifferently.

“Why not?”

… I honestly can’t say no.

It was true that Tony was easier to deal with than Say. We have the same gender, we have a humorous side, so we can talk well, and we met the most often.

In many ways, it is the opposite of Sei.

If Say has a somewhat difficult and scary image, Tony feels relatively comfortable and easy.

However, apart from the fact that it was true, it could have been a bad feeling for the person concerned.

Did I tease you that much?

Unable to answer, Sei mechanically shrugged.

“No. Oh, Tony wants you to tell him he’s sorry. He should have been concerned, but he didn’t know because he was thinking about the Man Hunter doing strange things. Thanks to you, I was able to come back to my original state earlier than I expected, probably because my mind has been refreshed.”

“Ah yes.”

Then there was silence for a while.

Dark night street, blurred lights from broken lights.

A man and a woman walking down that narrow alley,

A man from the 21st century, a woman from the 22nd century.

Two people who don’t really get along.

Even the gait doesn’t match the stride length.

Rather than being together, it seems to be seeing strangers who happened to walk the same path.

Because of the use of a mask, only a single flow of conversation in the air, which felt unusually heavy, continued and interrupted repeatedly.

“It’s all here.”

As I walked at Sei’s fast pace, I came out of the dark and maze-like outer alleys.

When I came to my senses, I saw a bus stop on the route that was flashing blue neon.

It was a sight that calmed the mind and body every time I looked at it. I think I even came to the Pokemon Center.

“Then thank you… .”

stop saying goodbye

Like Dragon President, Sei thought he would drive me all the way here and return, but he calmly entered the bus stop and sat down on a white plastic chair.

After hesitating, I approached him and sat with a seat spaced apart in the middle.

Sei explains how I am.

“I’m going this way too. I don’t ride the bus very often, but I’m going to take the bus today.”

I see The house is in the same direction.

I’ve never been to work together, so I don’t know.

“… … .”

And it was still dark.

As usual, Sei sat expressionless and looked up at the sky full of artificial light, and I was looking down at the floor of the stop where various advertisements were flowing through the display coating.

[RBA, Robot Boxing Arena is about to start its 7th season. Will the new rookies be able to survive the fierce competition between steels and sparks? Will the champion be able to win the fourth titanium belt? Don’t miss out and get a reward for watching the opening week… .]

Along with the dizzying narration, a slow-motion video of a three-headed three-headed robot hitting all three parts of the face and collapsing with a continuous power jab that fires like a lightning bolt flows.

When I saw the ad, something immediately came to mind.

yesterday… So, those guys who played peek at the bar on Friday.

Those amateur robot boxers who almost turned me into blue panda eyes.

At that time, Sei handed me a bionic ointment while I was applying a cooling pack to my swollen and beaten eyes.

When I put my hand on the corner of my eye, there was no sign of bitterness, as it was almost healed now.

I opened my mouth carefully.

“I used the ointment you lent me last time. Thanks to you, I got well soon. It worked well.”

I looked at her for no answer, and she had a long mechanical stick in her mouth that glowed in purple.

When you take the stick out of your mouth and exhale, white smoke comes out.

The familiar scent was filtered through the mask filter and brushed against my nose.

… Was this the essence of the subtle grape scent?

I opened my mouth slightly in shock.

I thought I was looking at the night sky, but I was smoking.

I feel it every time, but it doesn’t quite fit. I am a non-smoker.

When I looked at her with trembling eyes, Sei spoke again, spitting out the smoke from between her red lips.

“You don’t smoke?”

“Yes. I don’t smoke.”

“I knew it.”

Then inhale and exhale again.

“I am the only smoker in our bar. Captain and not even Tony.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Even though the captain is like that, Tony is surprised. It’s an image that doesn’t seem very solid.

It’s not that smoking is always bad, but… It’s true that it’s bad for health, and Tony was always tired, so it looked like he was smoking something.

But on the other hand, Sei must have been a smoker.

It must have been because of cigarettes that sometimes I went out to the back door of the break room to get some fresh air. There is a ban on smoking indoors in the bar.

It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a woman smoking, but something was surprising. I guess it’s hard to imagine that disheveled figure Sei smoking a cigarette.

However, the scene with his head raised and holding a stick with his fingers while drinking smoke is strangely suited.

At this time, the languid eyes and thick eyelashes fluttering between the smoke.

Steam and hair are blown together in the breeze. A deadly red-purple color shone brightly between the nails.

A very natural shape.

Seira’s human form was right in front of her.

He looked at him as if possessed and opened his mouth.

“… Thank you for your help.”

she paused He pulls his finger off and asks.

“A wound healing ointment?”

I shook my head.

“no. Of course, I was grateful for that, but I’m talking about today.”

He said while looking at his swirling gray pupils.

“You saved someone who was caught by the ronins of the Bratva gang and almost had their hands cut off.”

After cutting off the manhunter’s hand, he was caught by his subordinates and was in danger.

What I was waiting for was the help of President Dragon.

According to my calculations, there was no way he couldn’t hear the chainsaw roar, and if he did, he wouldn’t be able to sit still in the boss room.

I believed that he would appear, and if he did, he would see my situation and help me.

I didn’t even think in the first place that the Dragon President would lose to the Ronins.

It seemed that Man Hunter’s subordinates could be lightly knocked down even if the function of the powered suit he wore all the time was properly utilized… .

Unless you’re an idiot, you can’t help but notice the unusual aspects of him that are hidden in his ridiculous behavior.

In addition to wearing a military powered suit that cannot be obtained in the private sector, he has the power to throw at least three or four people lightly.

A bar manager with a questionable amount of money who willingly invests large sums of money in special facilities and cares too much for the welfare of his employees.

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Moreover, it is even the person who has been ordered by the president to keep an eye on it.

Sasha Dragon was a tycoon whose true identity had not yet been clearly identified. I can’t even imagine the sight of him being beaten by the truth.

Therefore, cutting off the manhunter’s hand was also a gambler who believed that he would save him if something went wrong.

In fact, the Dragon boss showed up nicely and knocked out the Red Mafia.

It was a very moving scene, but did he really save me… If you did, it was awkward.

It helped, but not saved.

He was one step late.

It wasn’t Sasha Dragon who saved me in the moment of crisis when I was about to be hit by the hand blades of the Ronins, but something or someone unknown that appeared in the blink of an eye and broke the necks of the two Ronins and disappeared.

At first, I thought it was what Dragon President did.

But after thinking about it, it wasn’t.

“If the boss had moved, there would have been a red or yellow afterimage, but it wasn’t. What I saw was black and blue.”

In the midst of all blur in front of him, the manhunter’s men collapsed and something black and blue passed by.

Even though his consciousness was hazy, he didn’t miss it. It wasn’t a hallucination, it actually happened.

Not only was the color completely different, but if that was what Dragon President had done, there would be no reason to disappear and reappear.

It would be much nicer to appear with Ronin’s neck twisted like a beam of light, but there’s no reason to hide it as if it wasn’t what you did.

In other words, it wasn’t the dragon’s boss that saved me, but the action of another person.

There were not many candidates.

The other ronins at the bar, and two bartenders.

The closest thing to me was one.

Dragon’s Rare’s chief bartender, Sei.

A suspicious woman with blue hair and a black bartender uniform. Like the Dragon President, it is clear that he is hiding a secret.

To be honest, I was skeptical until just a moment ago, but I am convinced by that look in my eyes now.

she saved me