Chapter 283 – Beggars (6)

I listened to the stupid conversations of the people around me and thought nothing of it, as if I had been hit by something.
These people are usually smart, but why do they talk about it as if they left their hair at work… ?
Could it be that if I come to visit you, you have told me in advance that you will harass me like this… ?

“…I have something else to tell you, but I couldn’t reach you, so I came here. That’s Okay?”
“Look at this, from what you’re talking about, you’re here to stalk!”
“Yes?”
“That’s what a stalker would say!”

I obediently explained the purpose of my coming to finish the stalker story before it bothered me even more.
However, for some reason, the female employee insisted that my words were the same as the stalker’s.
…What is it?
I wonder what happened to the structure of the brain.

“Ha, really…Really presumptuous…Does the team leader think that he was good to you when he was at the company?
“Uh…Yes?”
“Can’t you tell the difference between public and private?”
“Yes… ?”

I was confused over and over hearing stories that I couldn’t figure out why this was happening.
It seems like he only said yes…The talk is going his own way.
The female employee continued to act as if I was delusional about doing something to Grape, that she had to get me away from him.

“Ah~ Mr. Anger heard rumors somewhere that the team leader was meeting a very nice man, so he became desperate and tried to do something strange… Are you waking up from your dream?”
“Ah, yes…So did Grape go to work today? Or are you going to do it?”
“Wake up your dreams.”
“Did you go to work? If you’re not going to talk, just go.”
“Wake up!”

I gave up further conversation and decided to ask only the questions I wanted.
Then, the female employee repeated the same answer to me and sent me a look of ridicule and contempt.
I asked the last question, glaring at the female employee, with the thought that if she didn’t answer again this time, I wanted to beat her to death.

“Go to work, did you?”
“Heh… Hee… ?!”

Then, the female employee made a strangely frightened expression and shook his body.
The unfocused eyes unfocus more seriously, shaking fast enough to feel that something is definitely wrong.
The female employee clenched her teeth and answered my question obediently.

“Oh, oh, oh, you came…You came…Just now, thirty minutes ago…”
“Huh?”

The female employee became calm as if she had forgotten what she was doing a moment ago.
I was annoyed, but after hearing the answer I was looking for, I thought that Grape had already come to the company, but a question popped up in my head.
Why all of a sudden…You’re not answering properly?

It’s not just female employees.
Everyone around me, who had been noisy, became quiet.
Something… Strange.

“…So, Team Leader, if we give you the rest of the report while we eat…”
“I must have contacted you on the way to print it all out on paper so that I can look at it during my lunch break, right?”

At that time, the door to the company building opened and a familiar voice was heard.
Grape’s voice is clear, although I can’t see him yet because of the people who have surrounded me and the female employee in a circle.
The people seemed to have noticed that Grape had left the company, and they gradually parted ways to the left and right and gave way to Grape.

“Don’t do that… The content that can’t be properly reported on paper…”
“I’ll tell you a few times that I have something else to do for lunch.”
“So I’m helping you with that business…”
“I told you it was something I couldn’t help you with.”

Grape appeared, walking fast with a voice that was unusually angry and nervous.
His gaze was fixed on the vision phone in his hand, as if he didn’t care at all about the odd number of people around him.
Calling somewhere, hanging up right away, and sending a message over and over again.

“No, why are there so many people at the entrance…”

Beside Grape, the section chief with his head raised like grass is bewildered, walking right next to Grape.
The manager looked around at the crowd of people around him, gave me a glance at the female employee, then looked away as if he hadn’t noticed who I was, and moved closer to Grape.
The manager stopped just in time to put his hand on the shoulder of Grape, who was sending his message.

“Don’t do that… Oh, he doesn’t look good and seems like he’s having a hard time, so he said he’d help…”
“Chief, I clearly warned you not to touch my shoulder.”

Then, Grape immediately slit the chief’s wrist and glared at him with a sharp voice.
The chief, frightened by Grape’s eyes, silently nodded his head and stepped back from him.
Grape jerked his head away, focused his eyes on the vision phone again, and bit his nails into his mouth.

Grape let go of the exaggeration and, without even making eye contact with me, turned sideways and walked past me.
Her gait, which usually looked feminine because she was cautious as if she was walking on glass that would break if she made a mistake, is now rough and violent.
Grape put on his shoes and walked, making a clicking and clicking sound, stopping and calling, walking again and stopping to cry.

Did something bad happen in D city?
I don’t know what’s going on…I have to talk to Grape first to borrow money to buy a vision phone and stay at a motel.
I gulped at the frighteningly sensitive figure of Grape and moved closer.

“Excuse me…”
“Aaaaahhhhh…”
“Grape… ?”

Even though I called close to him, he didn’t respond as if he couldn’t hear me at all.
I tapped Grape’s shoulder again as he was calling somewhere.
Then Grape grabbed my wrist and twisted it at breakneck speed, then turned his head and glared at me with fearsome eyes as if he were going to kill me.

“Tell me several times not to touch my body!!”
“Ahhhhh… ! Cow, wrist… !”
“Who else are you…Wu?”

Grape stopped, twisting my wrist, and slowly frowned at him.
Grape, who had stopped for a few seconds and looked at my face, suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Grape, who let go of my hand and grabbed it again, said in a frightened voice.

“Uh…? Um… Geuh uh?!”

Grape looked at my hands, took his arms, examined his clothes, looked at me with a worried face, and cupped my face with both hands.
He touched his chin with a rough beard as if to check it, and combed his thick hair with his hand.
Grape clung to me and touched my body as if he didn’t care at all about the gazes around him, and let out a completely different voice from the sharp voice he had just a moment ago.

“What… No, the clothes… Huh? This outfit…No, what’s with the hair?! Beard…Why couldn’t I reach you, do you know how worried I was?!”
“No, wait… Grape, wait…”

I grabbed Grape’s shoulder and pushed him away as he kept pressing his chest and touching his head.
I know it’s not intentional, but I feel like I’m going to get an erection.
Grape, who was overexcited in a not-so-good sense, blinked as if he had calmed down a bit when I opened the distance, and belatedly pointed at the large bag on my back.

“Why are you wearing a backpack?”
“Uh…”
“…What happened?”

The thing I was wearing on my back was oversized and full of things to say I just brought it out.
If anyone didn’t think of me as a beggar, I was wearing clothes that anyone could see that something had happened.
Thinking there was nothing to say about it, I fixed my backpack and said.

“…The house is on fire.”
“Yes?! Fire…?! Why?”
“Short circuit.”
“Ah, no…Fire…Was it a fire? How did the fire…?”
“Electric short circuit…I don’t know, I only heard that after a fire broke out, it seemed that the fire was caused by a short circuit… The bag came out with all the stuff because the house was on fire.”

I sneakily showed the bag on my back.
Grape shifted his gaze from me to the bag and stood there blankly, then nodded slowly.
Maybe it was because my outfit was different from what I usually wear, and I think they obediently believed that there was a fire in the house.

“I guess there was a fire and we couldn’t reach you… Haaa…I see…Ah! Oh, you’re not hurt?!”
“Uh, yes… I’m not hurt… But my vision phone is burnt…”
“The fire was enough to burn the vision phone?! Woah, aren’t you burned?!”
“Wait, wait?! For a moment?!”

Grape suddenly unzipped my sweatshirt and lifted up my shirt to make sure there were no cuts to my stomach.
I hurriedly grabbed Grape’s wrist as he reached down with one hand and stopped me.
If it wasn’t dried, it seemed like he would have pulled his pants and checked the inside as well.

When her abs were revealed, a female employee who had been standing behind Grape for some time wow… And make a sound of admiration.
Hearing the female employee’s voice, Grape pulled my shirt down so quickly that it made a popping sound.
Perhaps realizing that this place was in front of the company, Grape raised his head and looked around.

“That, no, that person can’t be…”
“No, it won’t…No…”
“But… That… Just… That… Chest rubbing, too close…”
“No… It won’t… !”
“I feel good…”

Everyone at the company, who had been making a lot of noise about Grape, was chatting while looking at me and Grape.
Grape, who was watching the people in the company, seemed to be thinking about something, and then he turned his head to me again.
And he acted as if nothing had happened and no one was around.

“Are you really not hurt? There’s a place that hurts, but you’re surprised you can’t feel it, right?”
“Because I’m not hurt.”
“Haaaaa…”

Grape let out a sigh of relief and put his forehead on my chest.
I feel the complex emotions leaking out mixed with the sigh.
Grape grabbed my clothes and buried his face in me, taking a deep breath. I awkwardly raised my hands and stood there, then met the manager’s eyes.

“T…Team leader…? Anger…?”

The section chief was shaking his unfocused eyes unusually fast.
I don’t know how to close my mouth after seeing an incredible sight.
I laughed at the chief who was blinking as if he would lose his mind right now, then met the eyes of a female employee standing across from him.
The sight of her frozen and blank eyes makes me feel a low level of pleasure.

“Ah, Grape…I have a favor to ask of you.”
“What is it?”
“Lend me some money.”
“How much is it?”

Having thoroughly enjoyed the faces of the female employee and the manager, I took Grape off again and told him why I had come to find him.
I came to see Grape to borrow money to buy a vision phone, and to borrow money for a place to stay for a while until the card is reissued.
I don’t know exactly how much it will cost, but it’s not a small amount of money.

“A little too much… ?”
“Are you out of money because the house is on fire?”
“Huh.”
“All right.”

Grape replied that he would lend me the money obediently.
He didn’t even say how much, but he said that he would lend it so simply…
I will pay it back after the vision phone is restored and the card is reissued anyway… But this answer without hesitation is amazing.

“Anger…Then you didn’t even eat?”
“Huh? I see… You didn’t eat.”
“…Would you like to eat together first?”
“Hmm…”
“I haven’t seen you in a while and there are many things I want to say… I’m worried, and there are things I want to ask… I think it would be nice to eat while talking…”
“No, I don’t have money…If Grape buys it, I’ll eat it.”
“I’ll buy you!”

Being chased by Riff, being kidnapped, being tortured by Ash, and the house on fire… Maybe it was because I was distracted while being chased by various incidents, and I completely forgot that I hadn’t eaten.
I calmly asked Grape to buy me some food.
Then Grape replied in a bright voice that he would buy me food.

“Chief, I like men…”
“Pillar West…”
“Nonsense…”