Chapter 55 – Going to Work (4)

By the way… Chokki put the key ring back on.
It seems that he made me pay attention when he saw me throwing it in the trash right in front of his eyes.
Well, it wouldn’t be easy to feel comfortable because the person who gave it was caught throwing away the gift.

I was using other character keyrings well, but I feel a little sorry that I forcibly forced them to switch to a keyring with a bad mood again.
Why did you bother to pick up a trash keyring that you had already discarded from the trash and reattach it just because you found out you threw it away…
It could be because Grape is nice, but I’m worried that he forcibly put on a strange key ring.

Alone in the office, I laid down on a chair and closed my eyes for a while.
During my lunch break at work, I always fall asleep strangely, so I get a good night’s sleep even if I’m not tired.
The strange thing is that even though I had a good night’s sleep, I woke up at the right time.

After sleeping for exactly 20 minutes, I woke up and went to the bathroom before lunch break was over, brushed my teeth and returned to the office.
I sat in a chair and turned on the hypnosis app to confirm that Rapid was still with Ash in Area 0. I was thinking about what kind of hypnosis to use and what to experiment with the magical subway girls, and suddenly the staff started talking about nutritional supplements. I remembered what I had done.

Apparently Grape brought it to the pantry room to share with the staff.
I still consume a lot of protein these days, so I need nutritional supplements.
I got up and walked to the bathroom.

In the kitchen, which was made by cleaning out a warehouse-like place in the corner of the office, there were coffee, an all-night energy drink, a small amount of snacks, and nutritional supplements brought by Grape.
I thought it was simply a pill-type nutritional supplement, but it was a form of extract of something inside the stick.
It says that medicinal materials are mixed here and there, and there is an explanation saying that it is especially good for men.
Once I slipped two sticks into my pocket, I held them in my hand to pretend I had only eaten one, and started drinking coffee.

After adding coffee and cream, I took it out to add sugar, and the sugar was hardened like a stone.
This happens because the manager opens the sugar every time and doesn’t close it, but when he puts a metal teaspoon there to scrape it off, he puts it in his coffee cup and uses it for personal use, so it can’t be used.
I don’t want to wash the dishes with the teaspoon the manager used, and I don’t want to use it even if I wash the dishes.
The teaspoon is already contaminated.
I opened the drawer and took out a disposable plastic spoon.

“Ahahaha~ Team leader, the restaurant was delicious, right?”
“Yes, I guess everyone’s favorite restaurants are similar?”
“I must have similar tastes with the team leader~ I think I went on a date with the team leader because we came back together again! Where shall we go to play next? Back then, not as a team leader, but as a friend! Aren’t we the same age?”
“… You have to be careful when working, but… It would be nice to go play together later after the project is over.”
“And! Then, is it okay if I call you sister?”

While I was drinking coffee, I heard the voices of the team leader and a female employee from the office.
As a team leader, I fight with the manager every day, so I look older, and as a magical girl, I do a lot of rescue activities. Grape is in his early to mid-20s like me.

She has a good body, somehow has a sexiness, works hard, but also has a kind side, so she is popular with both men and women.
The female employee seems to want to become friends with such a Gray Franc, but she always sticks around like that.
It was also the female employee who presented the new character keyring.

“No, but isn’t the manager too kind? Because you keep being nice to your employees like this, they confess to you…”
“Ahaha… Is that so…”
“Where is the team leader who cares about the staff and buys something like this during lunchtime~ I really like it, Team Leader, I hope you continue to be dispatched.”
“… I can see where you went.”
“Just put it in its place and it will use it!”

I overheard the team leader and the female employee unwillingly as I scraped it off with a weak plastic spoon when I saw that the sugar to put in the coffee had hardened.
The female employee continued to talk to the team leader, as if it felt good to be alone, and the team leader was arguing appropriately and smiling appropriately.

“By the way, manager, why do you keep using that keyring? I put on what I bought before…”
“Kid… This one?”
“Do you like that character?”
“No, not really… What I like…”

After adding a spoonful of hard-scraped sugar and scraping it out again, a female employee can be heard talking about the keyring Grape has attached to the vision phone.
I guess it wasn’t Grape’s taste either.
Well, there’s no way such a strange character would suit my taste.

“Wow, it’s a relief, it’s just us talking about it… That, strangely, that… Because it looks like a man… Male employees look at me strangely.”
“This is not that kind of character… Tentacle…”
“So, it’s just weird to have a tentacle monster around… Doesn’t it look bad? You seem to like that.”
“Oh, no.”

Sook-i is a long snake-like mascot with a cock-shaped head.
If you think about the legendary nutritional supplement that made the male organ really grow, which is a grand hit product of the pharmaceutical company that created the character Mokchok, it seems like it was made well because it was made with the meaning that it would grow that much bigger and longer, but it was originally said that it was a character made in the form of a male organ… Not a normal character.

The pharmaceutical company said that they made it thinking that since the drug was a hit, this too would be a hit, but no matter how you look at it, it only seems to be a failure due to excessive confidence that came from making too much money from drugs.
As the female employee said, if you don’t know that it is a character keyring called moist, it is a keyring that you would think of as a pervert woman who likes big and long cocks like tentacle monsters.

“I don’t really suit the team leader… Aren’t you too hot? Just change…”
“No, but… Still, this…”
“If the team leader likes a character, I’d think it was just a preference, but he said he didn’t like it.”
“I’m not liking this character!”
“Right? Honestly, it’s garbage, I’m a designer, but I really don’t know what I was thinking when I made it~ So just throw it away and put another character on it!”

The female employee keeps saying the right things and persuading Grape.
There is not a single word wrong. Grape’s moist key ring was too dirty, there were marks as if it had been sewn up, and the character itself was strange…
The cute character keyring that I wore for a while before is much more suitable.

“That’s how long I’ve been wearing it! So now just throw it in the trash, okay?”
“Trash… Ugh…”
“To be honest, you say you don’t like that character?”
“It’s a strange character, but…”
“I was always wearing it, so I wondered if the team leader would like it, but seeing that other characters wear it too… Team leader, don’t you like cute characters? Throw it away! Shall I throw it away?”
“No, there…”
“Or you don’t like the keyring I bought you… ?”
“No! It’s not like that! I’ll change! But… !”

After adding enough sugar to my coffee, I threw the plastic spoon in the trash and came out of the bathroom.
Then, Mokchok sees Grape holding the keyring in her hand, and a female employee grabbing Grape’s arm and pulling it as if clinging to it.

“Huh!”

Grape was startled to see me, widened his eyes and froze.
He must have been surprised because he didn’t expect that there would be people in the bathroom.
I looked at my vision phone and checked that there was still time for lunch, then quietly passed by Grape with the intention of sitting down and resting.

“Hey, Anger! Wait!”

But just as I was about to pass by, Grape urgently grabbed my shoulder and stopped me.
I looked at Grape with eyes asking what was going on, and Grape stuttered as he rolled his eyes in surprise.

“Oh, no… Excuse me… That is… That’s it… Anger, that’s not…”

The key ring swayed several times and hit the back of Grape’s hand, who was stuttering and shaking his arm.
I saw the keyring on the vision phone that Grape was holding in his hand and understood what he was talking about.
After taking a sip of my coffee, I spoke to Grape as kindly as I could, with a heart that understood everything.

“If you are doing that because of something I picked up again, you can throw it away and buy something else. I didn’t know you had really thrown it away so I picked it up.”
“Yes?”

I was caught throwing it away, and it was also discovered that I didn’t like the character… It’s as if he told me that he had been forced to wear it until now.
Grape, the good team leader, deserves a stutter.

“You don’t like the character, do you?”
“No no… No, that’s…”
“Don’t be trash, wear your favorite character.”

I turned around shaking Grape’s hand with the feeling that he didn’t have to worry about it.
Then the female employee encouraged Grape with an excited voice.

“Even Anger says that! Throw it away because the person who gave it is like that, okay?”
“Aaaaa…”
“I’ll buy you a pretty keyring!”
“I-over there… Wait, wait later…”

The lunch hour is about to end, and the staff start to come in one by one.
Grape saw the others pouring in, covered his eyes with his hand, and slowly went back to his seat, and I walked over to my seat and sat down.

“Huh?”

When I sit down, I see something I’ve never seen before on the desk.
Yogurt and vegetable juice for dessert… And a plastic bag with a patch and wound medicine.
There is a mark of a convenience store Grape used to buy drinks from time to time.

It’s not once or twice that he bought me a drink… When I looked closely, there were also drinks placed on the desks of other employees.
I think I was bothered by the fact that I bumped into the general manager a little bit today, and I was trying to pass a drink to the staff, and I was worried that I was hurt for no reason, so I even bought some medicine.
Seeing that both the wound medicine and the patch are sold at convenience stores, he probably just bought them because he saw them.

Grape must have given it to me, so when I got up to say thank you, Grape was asleep with his face buried in the desk and his arm cut again.
After sitting down again, I first ate the stick-type nutritional supplements I brought from the kitchenette.
It’s quite bitter, so the yogurt that Grape just bought for me is palatable.
I put the drinks roughly in the drawer to drink later.
Finally, after roughly attaching the patch to the arm and applying the medicine to the wound, lunchtime passed before I knew it.

“Chief, that… I made a mistake, so please relax a bit, that expression…”
“… Did you finish the paperwork I asked for earlier?”
“No, I will… Excuse me… Oh no…”

For some reason, after lunchtime, Grape’s eyes became more ferocious.
The manager sweats and works, and in the end, it is rare to apologize first and approach him.
Even in the company’s secret messenger, there are more and more people saying that the team leader seems to be having a really bad business, and it seems that the manager even said that the manager had another accident during lunch.
My period seems to have gotten worse.

It’s best to be quiet at times like this.
I turned up the music in my earphones and focused on my work.
If you open more windows for no reason and pretend to be busy while working, no one will touch you.
The manager seemed to be in a state where he had no choice but to care that Grape was angry, and the other employees were busy swearing at the manager on messenger, so no one cared about me.
Strangely, it feels like someone is staring at you, but it’s definitely because of your mood.

“… Everyone is leaving work early today. I will arrange the time.”
“Yes! Everyone has worked hard!”
“Thank you for your effort!”

I was concentrating on my work while listening to music, but when I saw people around me getting up, I pulled my earphones out of my ears.
Before work time was over, the manager jumped up from his seat and left work as if running away, and Grape seemed to have told the other employees to leave work since the manager also left early.
Seeing Grape angry, he seems to have run away because he was stabbed a lot.

This isn’t common… Everyone is not happy and is leaving work in a hurry, as if they are really running away.
I don’t hate leaving work early either, but the atmosphere is strange.
Immediately after packing up, I followed the other employees and was caught by Grape, who was slowly walking out in front of the elevator.

“Anger, hold on a second.”
“Yes?”
“You weren’t recognized for leaving work.”
“Oh.”

When commuting to and from work, you have to take a fingerprint on the fingerprint reader Grape brought to check from when to when you worked.
Grape can change the time later, but it is difficult to change whether to go to work or not.

“I’ll go down first~”

The employees went down the elevator first, and I tried to go back to the office to get my fingerprints taken again.

“Uh?”

However, Grape grabbed me by the sleeve and kept me from walking, and as soon as the elevator went down, he pressed the button to go down again and said something embarrassing.

“I was filmed after work.”
“… Yes?”
“You don’t have to take a picture and come.”

Then why the hell did he say that he wasn’t recognized for leaving work… ?
I didn’t understand what the hell this was about, so I looked at Grape, and Grape shook his arm by the sleeve of his dress, turned his head to the side, and said with his face blushing.

“Surgery… Let’s go get a drink.”
“Are you drinking?”
“They said let’s have a drink together! Let’s go get a drink! Today!”

I was subdued by Grape’s spirit and involuntarily nodded his head.