Chapter 38 – Teacher (1)

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I went to work earlier than usual to return the doll key ring to Grape, and I saw Grape already at work and said hello.
I was going to just put it on my desk secretly, but I think I have no choice but to return it myself.
However, when he returned the key ring right away, Grape’s condition looked a little strange.

“Hello…”
“… Yes.”

For some reason, Grape had come to work much earlier than I, who had arrived earlier than usual, and was cleaning the company.
It’s a look I’ve never seen before.
He walks around sweeping the floor with his broom and dustpan, bending over like someone looking for spills, and clearing the seats for others to sit on.
It’s very strange to see her big butt shaking.

Grape answered in a low voice, glanced at me, and immediately lowered his head and trudged to sit down.
He lay on the desk with his arms wrapped around his head, as if falling asleep.
Unlike usual, her hair was not neatly tied up, and her eyes looked slightly swollen.

On rare occasions, Grape, who surprised the staff by not wearing any makeup at all, appears to have clumsily applied makeup around his eyes.
It is unnaturally white.
It seems like he tried to match his skin color as much as possible, but it’s not natural and he’s too clumsy, so it’s obvious that he tried to cover up something with makeup.

Did you have trouble sleeping last night?
I don’t know if I didn’t come early, but maybe I just went to work because I couldn’t sleep.
No, thinking about it, I don’t think so.
I’m sure there are other reasons.

In the past, Grape could sometimes be seen leaving for work early in such a tired state, but before, he thought that he hadn’t slept as well as before, had a boyfriend, or stayed up all night hanging out with someone else. .
But after Grape finds out that she is a magical girl, she sees her again and she looks different than before.
Apparently, it was tired because Negative attacked and fought at night, or because he slept late after rescuing other magical girls.

High-ranking, powerful magical girls like Rapid, Ash, and Grape focus on dealing with negatives that rip through dimensions like a riot squad, and sometimes rescue magical girls.
Although no official statement has been made by the National Guard, those who focus on these special missions are magical girls ranked 1st through 7th.

It is these seven magical girls who fight the most and take on the most dangerous missions.
If an executive level appears, there is no way to stop it without a magical girl within 7th place.
Currently, the 3rd place Esther is infected with negatives, the 4th place Lily is retired, the 5th place is only revealed to be recovering from an injury, and the 7th place is… Missing.

There is no need to be anxious about that.
Anyway, the 8th place will rise and occupy the 7th place at the next judging time, and the 5th place will recover, and decisively… Because there is Ash.
I don’t know how strong it is, but no matter how serious the situation, if Ash appears, it will end in an instant.

For that reason, the three most busy among the top magical girls are Ash, Rapid, and Grape.
Grape deserves to be tired from work.
Looking at Grape’s tired look, my thoughts drifted to a slightly different place, but aside from that, I have something to give back to Grape.
The moist inside the bag is a doll keyring.

Looking at the old and burnt condition, as if she had touched and kneaded it several times while bringing it, she thought about throwing it away for a while, but in the end, she decided to return it.
I don’t know why they keep wearing keyrings made of characters with a strange sense of cute mascots of the main monsters of the hostile forces.

When talking to other people, he said that he was only wearing it because a subordinate gave him a gift, but to say that, there was no way he was wearing this unusual and strange character that was so worn out.
If you think about it coldly, there must be another reason.
It’s clear that you like this character.

I thought my taste was very peculiar, but the seniors who studied programming with the members of Majinsa told me several times at drinking parties that originally women’s tastes were unknown.
It’s such a pity to like this kind of thing, but… Preferences must be respected.
It’s a character I like so much that I must have worn it this far.
I have to give it back.

“Here, chief.”
“Please don’t talk to me.”
“Yes.”

I put the key ring in my pocket and approached Grape, but I was immediately kicked out.
I’ve been angry before, but I’m still angry at that time… Or maybe I’m angry because I’m tired, I don’t know.
The important thing is that Grape is angry.
It was an angry voice.

I don’t know why he was angry, but it’s true that Grape was angry anyway.
A handful of female members at Majinsa told me that women sometimes get angry suddenly for no reason.
It’s a waste of time trying to figure out why Grape is upset.
I don’t even have to try to release my anger.
Grape and I are just company colleagues, so it’s natural.

But at the same time, for the same reason, Grape and I are co-workers, so it’s hard to be angry all the time.
Grape, as my boss, the dispatch team leader for this project, has the authority to instruct me on my work and give me feedback, and like the manager, he has the power to annoy and annoy me.
I’m not doing that, so I’m a good boss now, but in the end, a boss is a boss.

So at least I wanted you to not get angry with me, so I hypnotized you that if you looked at my face, your anger would go away, but it is no use at all.
He buried his face in the desk and did not raise his head.
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have said that the more I listen to your voice, the more I get angry, but I made a mistake.

Grape and I have an awkward time in the office.
It was still before rush hour, so no one was there except for the two of them, but it was hard to leave because of the stiff air.
After thinking about it for a while, I thought I had to return the keyring, so I went back to Grape’s seat and talked to him.
If I get angry again, I will just stand there and hypnotize him.
I’m going to hypnotize him so he doesn’t get angry and let Mokshok get his keyring back and then get ready for work.

“Manager.”
“Why!”

But when I approached Grape and talked to him, I was frightened by Grape’s appearance with his head raised.
The momentum is great.
There was an image of him as a person who is usually kind, but if you treat him harshly, he is a person who can be brutal.

The concentration of that dangerous feeling is different from when he was simply thinking of him as a team leader.
Now Grape is mad at me for knowing that he is a magical girl.
As a magical girl, not a team leader, she uses all her strength to generate her magical powers, send bloody energy, and get angry.
It’s so scary that your body stiffens.

“No. You just look tired. What’s going on…”

It would be difficult to hear the hypnosis application and be subdued immediately.
Grape, who was fighting the tentacle monster and fighting Esther, moved at a speed that I couldn’t even see.
Even if I held out a hypnosis app, I would be able to get my hands off it much faster than I did.
If you want to hypnotize, it’s better to hypnotize when it’s a little safer, when Grape is off guard.

“Sorry for bothering you.”

I just shook my head and decided to go back to my seat.
But Grape suddenly banged the desk and slapped it with the palm of his hand, got up and grabbed my clothes.
She is a slender and straight beauty, but she grabs my sleeves with more force than a man and twists them to keep me from moving.

“You seem to have something to say, will you?”

I froze when I heard the first ferocious voice I had heard from Grape’s mouth.
This is scary.
Why didn’t I hypnotize Grape beforehand that he couldn’t attack?
Next time I hypnotize, I’ll have to start with that.

“No… Excuse me… Doesn’t exist.”
“Is there really not?”
“Yes.”
“… Not even one?”
“Hmm…”

While making eye contact with Grape, who had a fierce expression on his face, I belatedly relieved when I saw that the ferocity slowly faded away.
The hypnosis that anger is relieved by looking at the face is working properly.
His eyebrows are drooping and he looks like he’s about to cry for some reason, but it’s certain that he’s relieved his anger.
But looking at it like this, I can see that I’m definitely a little more tired than usual.
Still, I spoke to Grape in a worried voice for the idea of ​​being a team leader and basic communication in company life.

“If I had to say something, I was worried because he looked a little tired, so I started talking to him.”
“… Yes?”
“Eyes look tired… The hair tie is also different from usual… Looking at it now, you also buttoned it up wrong.”

Hearing my words, Grape hurriedly released his hand from my sleeve and covered his chest.
He turns around, unfastens a few buttons, puts them on again, and looks at me again with a slightly reddened face, probably embarrassed.
As it was, for some reason, Grape frowned and said in an angry voice.

“This is the problem, Mr. Anger!”