Chapter 79 – Tailing (7)

“Because of being caught? Are you trying to get to know me? In terms of monitoring… ?”
“No… Not for that reason, I really just want to get to know you better.”
“Why?”
“Why… Can’t we get to know each other?”

It’s nice to be friends, but… I want to know the reason.
Of course, I like to be friends with the magical girl Grape, and I like to be friends with the team leader.
But this is too sudden.

Having sex with Grape… To Grape, it is nothing more than a mere accident and mistake.
There’s something strange about her wanting to be friends with someone she’s made accidents and mistakes in.
Wouldn’t it usually remind you of a mistake you’ve made and want to distance yourself?
Even I am a subordinate who I often meet at the company.

Although she did manage to get along with Grape, she was definitely not the kind of person to have sex with.
The hypnosis applied to Grape was that when she saw me, she would get rid of her anger, not the hypnosis that made her like me.
Although they share the secret of being magical girls, that is not a reason to want to be close to each other.
The fact that he almost made a mistake while drinking together is embarrassing and something he wants to forget, not something he wants to get close to.

But suddenly acting strangely to want to be close… Could it be that hypnosis is wrong somewhere?
Thinking that I should find out why Grape is behaving like this, I held the vision phone in her hand just in case.
The surroundings are dark, and it doesn’t even seem that strange that something is shining with colorful lights shining through.
If something goes wrong, you can always hypnotize Grape.

“Isn’t that right? The manager said that he would like to get close with me as an employee, but in private he said so.”
“Yes? When am I?”
“When I confessed to the manager at the first dinner party.”

After that, for a while, even when I ran errands for coffee and brought it to him, he was very wary and didn’t even make eye contact.
Later, after having dinner again and giving birthday presents, the relationship improved a little, but until then, it was a very awkward relationship.

“That, that…”
“Well, after working there, we became close friends… By the way, I like the team leader quite a bit, but the team leader has no reason to look good on me, right?”
“Yes?! No, that… I see… ? No, it looks pretty good… Is there?”
“If that’s the case, I’m glad, and it’s worth the hard work.”
“No… Ugh…”

Grape bit his lower lip and glanced at my vision phone.
Startled, I pulled out the vision phone, saw Grape’s gaze not moving, and slowly put it back into place.
It seems that he did not stare at the vision phone, but simply dropped his head in thought.

“Why… Why are you doing this…”
“I’m here now, but it’s a little strange that I came to have a meal with the team leader.”
“… Would you like to eat with me?”
“No? I came along because I like to eat with the team leader.”
“Then it’s nothing strange, right? What’s strange about it?”
“Yeah… Didn’t the team leader feel uncomfortable when I overlapped with me at the restaurant during mealtime?”
“Yes?! No, over there… That’s it…”

Grape was often the subject of strange nuisance to other employees because of his appearance.
It’s a male employee who takes a picture of a meal without eating while asking to take a picture so that Grape’s breasts come out, or taking a picture of grapes saying he wants to shoot a meal vlog…

After that happened a few times, Grape always ate alone or only with female employees.
If you accidentally go to the same restaurant as Grape, you might have a meal together.
And I am the one who never ate with Grape, even when the restaurants coincidentally overlapped.

At the first dinner party, I heard that Grape was the dispatch team leader, so I confessed as soon as the manager encouraged me, and then awkwardly avoided each other for a while.
After giving her a birthday present, we became a little closer at work, but we never ate together.
If the restaurants overlapped, Grape would keep glancing at me and giving me uncomfortable glances, so I would finish my meal first and leave in a hurry.

“If the person who made the confession is in the same restaurant, it would be a little like that.”
“No… That’s not that… Haaa…”
“I don’t even want to sigh… I understand, the team leader is not a bad person and cares about all the employees, so even the employee who gave me a strange gift like me is treated favorably, but you still want to keep your distance.”
“No, no, no… Now wait… Mr. Anger, over there… Uh?”

Grape pushed his upper body forward on the table, embarrassed as if he was surprised to find out that I had been caught all his actions.
Grape, who was still looking at my face, opened his mouth to see if he had something to say, then closed it again and sat down.
Then he suddenly drank the cocktail all at once, and bang! He said, putting down the glass to make a sound.

“Oh, okay, yes! I made a tee like that… It looks like me! Is that why you are doing this?”
“Are you doing this?”
“No, aaaaa… No, so far so… Once, I got it, haaaaa So, other than that, what else did I feel like keeping my distance from Mr. Anger?”

I was about to ask Grape why he wanted to be friendly with me and ask me to call him by name, but for some reason, Grape started asking me if I had noticed any of the things he was doing to keep his distance from me.

“Hey, I haven’t said anything yet… Anyway, what I’m curious about is why the team leader suddenly joined me…”
“Because it doesn’t matter now! Please tell me about this!”

Grape glared at me so ferociously that I couldn’t refuse, and he immediately rang and rang the order bell to call the staff.

“Give me more of the same!”

After receiving an empty cocktail glass from Grape, the staff strangely glares at me and takes the glass away.
After a while, the clerk came back and brought me a new cocktail, and Grape, who was staring at me, immediately pointed to the cocktail glass in front of me and raised his palm upwards with his hand.

“Quick, drink! Let’s talk about everything! What else did I do?”
“No, even if you ask me what I did… Were you trying to distance yourself from that?”

When I ask him what happened that seemed to suddenly distance him, nothing in particular comes to mind.
Did you try to keep your distance?
When I cut it off like that, I can only think that Grape was trying to keep his distance from me.

“No, I didn’t mean to distance myself! I never meant to do that, but that’s how it felt to Mr. Anger!”
“… Didn’t you feel that way? It’s just that the boss usually… Always… Didn’t you?”
“Usual… What? The act of leaving a distance is usually… Yes?”
“It’s just your usual behavior… ?”
“Aww! Why did this happen!”

Grape suddenly put his hands around his head and threw him down, laying his head right next to the taco.
After taking a deep breath, Grape raised his head again and said with a wide smile, the corners of his mouth twitching.

“Come on, come on… Mr Anger? First… It seems that there are a lot, a lot of misunderstandings?”
“Is it a misunderstanding?”
“Once, once I… Is it so! This! I never threw it away?!”

Grape suddenly took the vision phone out of his pocket and set it down on the table, revealing his key ring.
When Grape said he never threw away his keyring, I just calmly put the taco in his mouth and said,

“… You said you abandoned it?”
“Because I lost it! I’m sorry I said that!”
“Why are you sorry that I lost you? It’s just a weird keyring.”
“No, no… Ahhh… Okay, please know that for now, I never threw it away!”
“But wouldn’t it be better to just throw it away? This is too old…”
“Because you’re never going to throw it away?! Don’t touch me!”

When Chok tried to touch the seam that had been sewn up next to the key ring, Grape immediately took the vision phone back and put it in his pocket.

“Miss Anger… You don’t hate me, do you?”
“Yes.”
“That… Right? Of course~ Mr. Anger likes big breasts and a good figure.”
“Is there a guy who doesn’t like that?”

If you grab all the men on the street and ask them if they like big breasts and good bodies, everyone will say they like them.
Grape, who asked the obvious question, smiled broadly this time as if he was in a very good mood, then suddenly blushed and said, bringing his face closer.

“… Me, me and that, did… Did you hate it?”
“That?”
“Buy, buy, buy, buy… Friend…”

There are two things that Grape might call an accident: going to a motel and having sex on the roof, but what you’re talking about seems to be talking about having sex on the roof.
There’s no way you wouldn’t like having sex with Grape.
I shook my head and answered calmly.

“I couldn’t have hated what I did with the team leader… But why are you asking all of a sudden?”
“Yes?! Is it too sudden? Shall we have a drink? Drink and talk! Tada, now, here, cheers~!”

I don’t know why, but it definitely made me feel better.
Grape held a cold cocktail glass to his face as if to cool off his heated face, then held it out to me and forced a toast to the glass in my hand.
I stared blankly at the fluctuating grapes, then watched as he emptied his glass at once and quietly tilted the glass in my hand.

“Oh, it’s delicious.”
“Isn’t this like juice too? You can order more, so drink a lot!”