Chapter 285 – Pillar West (2)

“…I’ve never put anything other than Anger’s in there?”
“Uh? Dildo… No, no.”

I’m not saying I didn’t put anything in it, but I’m just saying I’ve never put any cock in it except mine.
I braced myself not to make any more slips of the tongue.
Grape glared at me, who was very nervous, then suddenly smiled as if he had been relieved of his anger, and he took my arm again and said,

“Really… If you say something weird like that one more time, won’t you let go?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want something for lunch? I’m dispatched this time and come back and get money, so it’s okay even if it’s a little expensive!”
“Even if you say that, I only eat sandwiches every day, so I don’t know of any restaurants.”

Rather than that, do magical girls get extra money when they go on a dispatch?
I first knew
Grape heard my answer, took the vision phone out of his pocket, thought for a moment, and turned on the map.

“Then how are you? It’s a restaurant with a lunch course… This is the place I was going to take Anger when he hadn’t left yet…”
“Me?”
“Before that, when I asked to have a meal together and he refused… The atmosphere is nice and delicious.”

When were you going to take me… ?
I don’t know where, but if Grape asked me to go, it’s guaranteed to be delicious.
I gave up remembering and nodded.

“I’m sorry… But, what’s the matter…”
“Are you here to eat?”
“…Are you talking to the person next to you?”

Just like that, Grape and I were denied entry at the restaurant we arrived shortly thereafter.
The clerk stood blocking the entrance and looked at me, then looked at Grape and distorted his face.
I don’t know why the two of them are together.

“That…Beggar…Can’t enter.”
“Are you a beggar? What to the guest now…”
“Ah! I’m sorry, that, the outfit…Anyway, it’s difficult to enter.”
“To treat normal people as beggars, now this makes sense…”

Grape stopped being angry with the employee and turned his gaze to me.
Grape, who remained silent, made a very subtle expression.
And after a while, Grape smiled awkwardly and said to me.

“Anger…Would you like to eat somewhere else other than here…To buy clothes first?”
“Clothes… ?”
“Well, leave your bag at the nearby luggage storage for a while! Oh, do your hair… You said the vision phone was burned, right? Shall we go to the shopping center and eat?”
“Uh…I don’t care…Are the grapes okay? Will it be past lunchtime?”

I asked if the grapes were okay with the suddenly increased schedule.
I have nothing to do anyway, and after eating with Grape, I got the card and was thinking that I should go alone and buy a vision phone, so it doesn’t matter if I go with you… But if I do this and that, I’ll run out of lunchtime… ?
As if he already knew what I was thinking, Grape took out his vision phone and sent a message somewhere.

“What are you doing?”
“I’m asking the manager to send the report by e-mail…And to take care of the leave.”
“To me on vacation again? Is that okay?”
“Yes.”

Is it really okay to just take a vacation like this…
I’m the manager, so I’ll take care of it.
Grape reluctantly abandoned his vacation and took my arm again.

“Shall we go?”

# # #

“Look at that…That…”
“What? Why beggar and…”
“A beautiful woman and a beggar… What’s the situation with that… ?”

Arriving at the downtown shopping center next to District 10, where companies are concentrated, Grape took me to the storage room for my luggage.
It is a place where shoppers who go to and from the shopping center and various shops on the road receive money and store their luggage for a while.
I went straight to the counter and took the bag off my back and lifted it with one hand.

“Uh, welcome… Ugh.”

As soon as I handed out the bag, the employee who was about to greet me with a smile sniffed at the musty smell of water.
For a moment, the employee, who seemed to be contemplating whether or not to put his hand on him, closed his eyes tightly, picked up the backpack, and fell down.
It must have been too heavy for the staff, and they are struggling to lift it.

“No, the weight…”
“I will move it.”
“Uh?”

Seeing this, Grape lightly lifted the backpack with one hand and went over the counter to put it down.
It seems strange that Grape casually carries a heavy backpack.

“Look at that… He looks like an unemployed man, but the woman he carries next to him…”
“Wow…He must be a rich unemployed man.”
“I envy you.”

When I left my bag at the storage room, the eyes of the people who saw me as a beggar changed.
I think the biggest reason I looked like a beggar was because of the old, big, smelly backpack that I had stuffed randomly into it.
Having risen from a beggar to a wealthy jobless man, I started eating with Grape.

The meal was a food truck sandwich I found while walking towards the shopping center.
A sandwich composed of bread, meat, and vegetables that can consume carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins at once is a complete food.
When I asked for a sandwich, Grape held out his card even though he was reluctant.

“I can’t help it because I’m very hungry… But are you really okay with this?”
“Why? Not good?”
“No…It’s just a street sandwich…”
“It’s good because it’s several times as delicious as the sandwiches I usually eat.”

I sat at an outdoor table with grapes and ate a sandwich.
Mine is ham, cheese and bacon, and grapes are chicken sandwiches.
Grape took a small bite of the chicken, closed his eyes, and chewed it savorably.

“Um…The ingredients…I used something that wasn’t bad…But doesn’t Anger really like sandwiches?”
“It’s delicious and convenient.”
“…Didn’t you buy strange things while I was away just because it was convenient?”
“I didn’t eat.”

The strange things Grape refers to are mainly fried.
I lied to Grape casually.
Since I was kicked out of the house anyway, I can’t smell the fries, and I can’t check the trash that came out after eating the fries.

“I’ll go home and check later.”
“What are you talking about? Are you saying I’m kicked out and homeless?”
“Yes?”
“You said it earlier.”

Grape had already told me that the house was on fire, but he reacted like a stranger.

“I didn’t tell you! The only thing left to say was that there was a fire… So, he wasn’t carrying his luggage during the repair period, he was kicked out and he was carrying it?!”
“Yeah, I brought all my stuff with me.”
“No… No, the house is on fire, so why are you being kicked out?”
“Lack of management?”
“That makes no sense, it is illegal. It is against the Disaster Citizenship Protection Act to forcibly evict people due to poor management due to a fire accident. .”

As for the fire, as Grape said, if you talk well, you can be protected by the Disaster Civil Protection Act.
However, intentional damage to residential facilities is an obvious reason for forced eviction.
My room was full of traces that seemed to have been broken on purpose.

“It wasn’t because of the fire, but because of the fire, the landlord came and was kicked out because the house was a mess.”
“Every time I go, I clean it while Anger is sleeping, but it can’t be that messy just because I’ve emptied it for a few days…”
“You have that? The broken floor and the wall… Grape’s.”
“Ah…”

When Grape heard me, he blushed and shut his mouth, probably thinking of the animal-like sex traces that filled my room.
After talking, I have a feeling that if I put it this way, it sounds like Grape was the reason I was kicked out.
However, I didn’t say anything because I didn’t think it was wrong.

“Well, that needs to be repaired…”
“The rent was delayed…Well, so I was sent out without getting my deposit back.”
“Why is the rent delayed again? Is that why you want to borrow money?”
“No, I thought you were just trying to take care of it without paying a deposit?”
“Repairs…Cleaning…The landlord is a good person.”

I agreed with Grape’s words and nodded my head.
If I really follow the law, I have to pay the landlord all the overdue rent.
It’s just that I felt sorry for him, so he’s definitely a kind person that’s hard to find in this day and age.

“Anyway, I’m going to borrow some money from Grape because this and that are on fire… Oh, I’ll return all the money if you buy a vision phone and get a new payment card.”
“…I’ll buy you a vision phone, since I got the money this time…As a gift…”
“Huh? Really?”
“Because Anger doesn’t work… He won’t have much money.”
“No, no money…”

I stopped talking because of a sudden thought.
The reason I didn’t have to worry about money even after I left was because I was able to raise money by selling Rapid’s hair to Marjin.
Now, there is no old-generation laptop to connect to Majinsa, and there is no leaf, a regular customer who buys Rapid’s hair.

“Yes, buy it. Thank you.”

I was going to give money, but if Grape insists on buying it, I can’t help it.
He said he wanted to buy grapes because he had money, but wouldn’t it be polite to accept them?
I think I’ve heard somewhere that it’s not good to refrain from giving presents too much.

“Then… Did you throw away everything except the one you packed in your bag?”
“No, things that got wet from the sprinklers, things that looked unusable, things that I didn’t need were thrown away, so I didn’t have much luggage… So there weren’t many things that were burnt. Wallet, multi-tab, nutritional supplement, vision phone…”
“…Nutrients?”
“The one Grape bought, the one I used to eat… That one.”
“That?!”

When Grape heard me, he jumped up from his seat in a fright.
Grape felt the attention focused on him and sat down slowly, blushing, and placed his hand on his forehead.
I am in quite a lot of pain.

“I don’t know why… I put it on the sink, but why…”
“Ah… I think there was a short circuit at the sink. I often put my wallet there, too, because I rode with it.”
“Why…Haaa…”
“You ate a lot… ? I can’t eat any more.”
“Even if I just sold the leftovers after eating, how much would it cost…”

Grape put his hands on the table and let out a sigh.
He struggles by tapping his statue with his fingertips.
Most of the nutritional supplements had already been taken, but the price of the remaining medicines seemed to be a waste.

“Haaaaa, but it’s good that Anger wasn’t hurt…Huh?”

Grape, who was still sighing and feeling upset about the medicine, suddenly stopped talking and said in a slightly trembling voice.

“… Then, where will you sleep in the future?”
“I have no place to sleep.”
“No?”
“Yeah, so I was going to ask you to borrow some hotel bills.”

I swallowed the sandwich, licked the sauce off my fingers, and asked for money.
The problem with the vision phone was resolved well after Grape said he would buy it for me, but anyway, what I need right now is a place to sleep today.
I plan to borrow money from Grape to stay at a hotel and do something when X wakes up.

Whether hacking and asking for money, picking up broken wreckage and selling it, asking for another way to connect to Maginsa and uploading Leaf’s data at a low price… There are many ways.
If you can’t help it, you can make a room on one side of Leaf’s secret laboratory and sleep.
Until then, I have no choice but to borrow some money from Grape.

“Hotel fee… Ah, ah, do you need a hotel bill? But we can’t stay at the hotel all the time, can we?”
“I’m just going to stay for a few days and find a place to sleep separately.”
“Are there any empty rooms at A these days…?”
“Well, it will work out somehow…Anyway, at least for a week or so…”
“Ah! Come to think of it, I think it will be a little difficult for me to pay the hotel bill because I am behind on money to pay somewhere…?”
“Uh?”

Grape abruptly declined my request.
Are magical girls suffering from debt… Well, for a top-notch magical girl, Grape was also known for always having a hard time saying she was short of money.
No matter how much she went to the dispatch and received money… No, the fact that she went to the dispatch so suddenly might have been because of the money she had to pay.

“Uh…Then…”
“Then~ Today first! My… How about sleeping at my house?”
“Huh… ?”