Bab 1 first night shift

"Hmm, I'll ask again, is it really okay?"

"yes?"

　While skillfully spinning a ballpoint pen with his finger, the one who asked me with a sweaty face was my interviewee──"Niko Nico Mart", the manager of a slightly minor convenience store.

　In order to get a part-time job at a convenience store in a certain prefecture, a certain city, and a certain place, I just had an interview with this bar-code-headed old man whose face was shining with sweat. Was there a problem? At the end of the interview, he asked me with a somewhat apologetic look.

　What is it?

“No, I think you probably also applied for a part-time job because you were attracted by the hourly wages here.”

　Hoho, this old man knows all too well. However, I feel that nodding honestly may be subject to deduction of points, so I try to make a well-behaved smile.

"No, no, that kind of thing."

"It's okay, it's almost like that. Everyone, it's not a city here, and an hourly wage of 1,300 yen is attractive, isn't it?"

"Haa"

"But it's about a week, for the average person."

"yes"

"If you want to stop, now is the time."

　The store manager said with his right hand flipping the resume I wrote with great care.

　I don't know what to say, I can't read the story at all. The bar code store manager stopped being pretentious and slammed me straight into the face as if I didn't understand what was going on.

"Well, here, it's going to come out a lot."

"Go out?"

"Ghost"

　Call me a ghost, the mouth that wanted to saylieTsuguI let out an unconscious voice. Yeah, the place is the place.

"Are you scared?"

"Haa"

"Aren't you scared?"

"I don't really believe that."

"Yeah, that's what everyone said at first."

　The store manager nodded as if to say that he had heard it many times.

"But everyone quits in about a week, so we're looking for part-time jobs all year round, but it's a repetition of joining and quitting. Well, it's hard to settle down."

"Really"

"That's right. Strange things are especially easy to happen late at night, ah, there's nothing to do during the day, but there are very few people who buy things like ropes... and kitchen knives."

　Hey, hey, that's not something you say while laughing.

“I don’t know what to say on the day you came to the interview, but if you feel disgusted or disgusted by hearing that kind of thing, I think it would be better to do it somewhere else.”

　Those words seemed to be saying not only to me, but to many people who have visited so far.

　I don't think it's a threat or anything like that, there really is something without jokes .

　the store managerwatchUkagaHe stares at my face as if to say no. It's smarter to pull it here. I'm sure they thought so, but I'm not smart enough to easily withdraw. Rather, it was a useless type that makes you want to push forward to the point of being stopped.

"No, I have nothing to do with that kind of thing, so I've never seen ghosts, and even if I see them, I probably don't care too much."

　In this neighborhood, which is not even a city, the hourly wage is ridiculously cheap.

　The hourly wage is 1,300 yen and there are few late-night customers, so it's too good to be able to earn almost anything just by sitting around. And I got a pay raise. Such a good job doesn't come along very often. Will there be ghosts? It's not the time to worry about that, it's an hourly wage, it's a high hourly wage.

　If you can do this part-time job, there is no doubt that your life will be enriched even if you quit your other low-paying part-time job. As the store manager said, the hourly wage of 1,300 yen was really attractive.

"yes"

“Yes, I definitely won’t quit after a week.”

　I feel like it's uncool to say that it's fine after being told about ghosts and strange phenomena. I know it's a girl, but I'm a bastard.

“We don’t have enough manpower.

"I don't mind at all"

　You are most welcome, sir.

　When I smiled as if to say no, the store manager hit me on the head with a ballpoint pen two or three times.

"Nn. Then, by hiring."

"... Seriously!?"

　Hello.

　They probably didn't have enough manpower. I was hired on the same day. He asked me to come from tomorrow, and I gladly accepted.

　My new part-time job is a convenience store in a certain city in a certain prefecture. Let me clarify some more details.

　It is a convenience store facing near the sea of ​​trees, which is also called a suicide spot.

"thank you"

　But. I didn't know it then.

　That I ended up doing a part-time job in a ridiculous place. She thought she had nothing to do with such things, but her common sense was greatly overturned, and the most terrifying experience awaited her in the summer of her 25th year.

　A fool lured by an hourly wage of 1,300 yen.

"Nice to meet you, Hakamada-kun."

　I became the second person that day.