Chapter 53 – Going to Work (2)

From threats to consideration, to the words of going to drink something you like, to the words that you will buy it… It might be a little burdensome from the point of view of the team leader and subordinate, but Grape should have been hard to refuse because he was found out about me as a magical girl.
But still rejecting it right away… Why?
Does it have anything to do with being suddenly angry?

I quietly went back to my seat while glancing at Grape, who was angry for some reason.
I don’t know why you’re angry again.
It hasn’t been too long since I found out she’s a magical girl, but after that, I think that Grape seems to be angry more often.
Then, as soon as one of the few female employees in the office opened the door and walked inside, she was seen walking up to Grape and greeting her.

“Chief~ I really lived thanks to you, haha… I was startled when it suddenly started…”
“… I just have something prepared. I’m glad I was helpful.”
“You saved me from a crisis… Like a magical girl! The manager is cool too! I love you~”
“Now, please go back to your seat.”
“Yeah~”

I was concentrating all my attention on Grape while watching the monitor of my office computer. When I heard the conversation between the female employee and Grape, a thought flashed in my head and I unknowingly slapped my palm.
I get it.
Menstruation

I’m angry because I’m on my period, and I’m in a bad mood.
I can understand why you took a vacation because you were sick.
It is clear that she took a vacation due to her harder-than-usual menstruation and the fatigue of being a magical girl.

It feels like lightning strikes in my head.
That’s for sure!
She must have been hypnotized and had sex right before menstruation, and after that, the fact that she seemed a little bad was because she was trying to menstruate and became sensitive.

“This…”

I can’t believe Grape is on her period.
I didn’t even think of it.
I wondered why he seemed so angry and nervous these days, but with this, everything is understandable.
She’s sensitive because she’s discovered to be a magical girl, but the burden of being a monster has increased… Since I’m on my period, I have no choice but to be sensitive.

Then, is drinking today a waste of time?
I was going to try hypnosis after the two of us were naturally together, but if this happens, I’ll have to think about another method.
As I typed, I started thinking about the timing to hypnotize Grape separately.
It’s okay to pretend to be working today, but the codes I’ve been stocking up are running out.
If you want to work while playing, you have to build up to a certain extent.

“Aigoo~ Aigoo~”

When I was about to concentrate on my work, the manager came in and made a sound of pain, but all the employees didn’t care.
It’s because it’s obvious what to say when you come in late anyway.

“Oh, I’m sorry, team leader~ I’m getting older these days, so everything else! I’m fine, but I’m having trouble with my intestines, you know what I’m talking about?”
“… Okay, I wrote down my office hours, so please work.”
“Yes, yes… Did you all hear? Work hard!”
“Does the manager have to work?”
“No, my job is to work when the staff are working… Huh? Anger! Did you hear Do it right!”
“Ah, yes.”

I was about to answer and continue my work, but at the moment I felt sorry for him and raised my arms to cover my head.
It is a movement based on experience, not animal intuition.
As expected, the manager hit my head with the blade of his hand and crossed his arms to block it.

“Put your soul into your answer! Soul, there is no soul! Answering the boss is also work! You have to do it right!”
“Ugh… !”
“Boss! How many times have I told you not to hit the staff… Uh?”

Unknowingly, I raised my arm to block it, but unfortunately, it hit me right in the skinned part.
Gripping his teeth in pain, Grape suddenly jumps up from his seat and sniffs him.
Just like that, Grape approached me again with the sound of his shoes, and he forcibly grabbed my arm and carefully rolled up his sleeves.

“The smell of blood… I thought it was someone else…”

All the staff around me look in my direction, bewildered by the sudden situation.
The gaze is burdensome.
The manager also took a step backwards, probably embarrassed when Grape suddenly pulled on my arm and saw bloodstains where he hit me.

“Hey, boss?”
“Wait for a sec… Open your mouth.”
“Yes?”
“Open your mouth, please.”
“Ugh?!”

I wondered why I was doing this, but Grape forcibly grabbed my chin and opened it up and down.
Did you brush your teeth properly today? The first thought comes into my head, and I see the employees looking at me with surprised eyes.
Grape looked at the little cut in my mouth and put his hand on my forehead.

“I think it hurt today, why is it hurt?”
“Uh… That’s it.”

I can’t bear to say that I got hit on the cheek while trying to have sex on the way to work.
I had no choice but to make up words and answer.

“That, I thought it was late and ran… Did you fall down the stairs a bit?”
“Ha…”

Grape looked at me with a slightly complicated expression, then glared at the manager and said,

“Chief, please take care of the industrial accident. Mr. Anger doesn’t know it on the outside, but in case he doesn’t know, he goes to the hospital…”

Although Grape is the team leader, he is the team leader who was dispatched after all.
The current team I was in was in a state where the authority of the team leader and manager who had been dispatched while working on the project was strangely divided.
Since Grape’s company has to report the progress of work-related matters within the team, Grape has more authority, but the manager has the authority to do what the company originally needs to do.
It is for the same reason that the manager did not allow him to go down to the shelter during the negative raid.

“What?! No, just scatter the injured ones?”
“For accidents that occur while commuting to work, industrial accident compensation is possible. Of course you should.”
“No, it wouldn’t be long even if it was scattered… Are you asking me to upload the documents for that?”
“Is it because of that? What do you mean?”
“At most what you can receive from scattering is the cost of treatment, right? There is no treatment fee for that, and you can just buy an ointment or a paste and stick it on. Do I have to do it? Only this? The labor cost for making the documents will be more than the cost of the industrial accident?”

Grape listened to the manager’s words and replied with a laugh as if it was absurd.

“Isn’t there a hospital diagnosis? And barely? Are you saying this is a company that can’t even do this due to industrial accidents?”
“No, I fell on my way to work!”
“This is legally possible industrial accident coverage! It’s not like the company’s industrial accident insurance premium is going up! Even if it’s not a big wound, of course you have to do it! Are you saying that you won’t be bothered to fill out the paperwork right now?”
“No, that’s not what I mean! Oh, you make me trash~ Of course I have to do it if I get hurt! But I’m not even hurt! In the first place, isn’t this going to be an industrial accident?”
“You’re not hurt? Are you bleeding?”
“Ah, that’s what the team leader sees… Hey Anger, can I not have an industrial accident? Aren’t you sick?”

It wasn’t a day or two for the team leader and manager to have a big fight because of a trivial problem, but it was quite painful and cramped because I was the cause.
I just nodded and replied, hoping it would go on like this.

“It’s not that painful…”
“Anger, stay still.”
“Yes.”
“Is being sick a problem? You’re hurt.

However, contrary to my mind, Grape doesn’t seem to have any intention of letting go.
If you really want to fight, you can’t help it.
Because I’m on my period, I seem to be angry today.
I immediately shut up.

“No, with that… I don’t know if the team leader is a woman, but a wound to a man is a medal. A medal! And the fact that you barely got hurt can’t even fit into the wound axis!”
“Does it matter how much you get hurt? Being hurt matters!”
“Aigoo~ This is why women! Do you see my neck here? Here! Well, this wound here, I met a demon dog on my way to work, and I did it with my bare hands! Grasp! This is what I hurt while catching it~ But I didn’t ask for a penny from the company! Because! I got hurt because I was wrong!”

I’ve heard this story over thirty times already at a drinking party.
But it’s subtly different from what I’ve heard before.
The story I heard before was that it was definitely not the time to go to work, and when he got home from work, he knocked down her demon dog to protect another pretty girl, and that girl wanted to date him, but she refused because he and her class were not in line.

“That’s because the manager acted foolishly, and there’s no way you’d get hurt like that if you were bitten by a demon dog or her claws?”
“Oh, when did you say you were bitten? It’s a wound that I met. Also, does the team leader know about the demon dog?”
“Uh… You probably know better than the manager, right?”

I quietly raised my hand and spoke.
Of course, Grape is a magical girl, so you must have seen countless things like demon dogs.
In fact, even though she didn’t go all the way to Grape, she didn’t look like a dog’s bite to me.

“Look at this! Anger Don’t you know when you see this snout? Is this not even a wound? If it hurts, Ji will keep his mouth shut.”
“Boss!!”

Finally, in a rare roar of anger, Grape took her vision phone out of her pocket.
The familiar keyring hanging from the vision phone shakes.
Grape wrote down a few of her numbers, and she bared her teeth, glared at her manager, and showed the screen, she said.

“Do you know what this number is?”
“… What?”
“You don’t even know the number of the Defense Forces reporting center, right? Are you supposed to contact me right away in case of a monster attacking the company or an emergency?”
“No, that…”
“Do you know what the punishment can be if there is an employee who disregards the shelter evacuation order?”
“… Uh?”
“Industrial disaster disposal is also in the same context, do you think I am doing this for no reason? You were outside Mr. Anger a while ago, and you were the one who lowered the barrier right away, right?”
“No, that… You said that day… Chief, why are you like this? What about other people?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to make a phone call?”
“Ah! I was in a hurry so I didn’t think about it!”
“You haven’t done the industrial accident that day yet, have you? Why did you treat Anger’s vacation, which he took the next day off, as unpaid leave?”
“Ah, I will! I’ll do it! I’ll change it! I’m sorry! What are you doing! Everyone keep working!”

The manager hurriedly raised his hands as if he had lost and went back to his seat, while Grape stared at the manager and then looked down at me with a bitter expression.
I stared at the moist key ring hanging from Grape’s vision phone, and Grape followed my gaze to the vision phone and was startled, covering the key ring with his hand and putting it back in his pocket.

“Oh, Mr. Anger… Please roll up your sleeves and work today, go to the bathroom and wash at least once, because you can get infected.”
“No, maybe it will be fine…”
“Don’t you know about the viral monster case? Just in case, wash up and come to work.”

The viral monster incident was an incident that happened in the past.
It is also an incident that came to my mind when I first saw the hypnosis application’s rapid and ash tracking functions.
Due to infection damage caused by the Pollution Monster, even after the negative disappears, the negative fluid and the monster’s special ingredients remain in the air, turning people into infectious agents or micro-brainwashing them into runaway incidents.

It is also the reason why people do not go back to their daily lives right away from the raid site, but go back after being inspected according to the guidance of the National Guard.
It was found that the cause of the virus’ spread in the first place was to pick up a piece of cloth torn from a magical girl’s clothes with a wounded hand, and afterwards it was found that the virus spreads faster through wounds rather than through the respiratory tract.
But now that a vaccine has been developed, we have already been hit… Case is over

In other words, it is an excuse for Grape to ask me to wash my hands now.
Just think of it as saying to take a break for a while.
It’s to take care of me, who was suffering from being caught between the manager and Grape.

“Uh… Okay, then I’ll wash up and come back.”
“… Excuse me for leaving, but please run some coffee errands. Here’s my card… Go and ask for it to be delivered to the company, and all of our employees have a coffee… Anger, please drink whatever you want.”

As expected, it makes me an excuse to take a break to see if my thoughts were right.
Distributing coffee is probably apologizing to the staff for fighting and making a fuss.
I nodded and took Grape’s card.
I told you to drink whatever you want, so I’ll have to order the most expensive one.