LOVE CATCH

"what happened?"

After being asked back, the president shook his head again.The wig tilted slightly to the right.

"I'm really sorry for calling you out when you're so busy. It's embarrassing for me to embarrass you. But I want to see your face no matter what..."

The president stood up suddenly, and then untied the cat rope tied to the foot of the bench.

"Well, see you at work tomorrow"

"it is good"

"Can I send an email tonight?"

"Can"

Leading the two cats, the president walked forward listlessly.The slightly curved back gives people a very lonely feeling, but even if he is called to stop him, he can't say sweet words, and he doesn't want to say them.

Shibuya was walking home from the park, only to receive an email as soon as he reached the corridor.It's a simple apology for my sudden visit, and because it's written, I can't feel the other party's feelings.Shibuya went to the kitchen and drank a glass of water.Tomoya came in, squatted down in front of the refrigerator, and took out a popsicle with "Tomoya" written on it with an oil-based pen from the bag inside.

The second son who likes light novels and thin notebooks has a strange style of painting, but he actually looks very decent.When he was in high school, Shibuya saw Tomoya walking alone with girls several times.

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

Tomoya turned around with a popsicle in his mouth.

"Not now"

"How long have you been dating that previous girlfriend"

"About a year. What's the matter, suddenly asking this?"

At present, Tomoya has more experience than himself.But he is the eldest.Usually he looks like an elder brother, but now he really can't bear to talk about love affairs with his younger brother.And my object is still a man, Ojisan who is nearly 50 years old in the company.

"Sorry, nothing"

"What's the matter?" Although the conversation ended unilaterally, Tomoya refused to let it go.

"Brother, don't you and your girlfriend go well?"

terrible.Why did Tomoya know when he obviously didn't say anything?

"I'm not dating anyone"

"Don't fool me"

Zhi also deliberately bumped his shoulder.

"Recently, you always pay attention to your mobile phone. I have long felt strange."

After confirming that the other younger brothers were not there, Shibuya pulled Tomoya to the corner of the kitchen.

"Have you ever done it with your girlfriend?"

"Almost." Tomoya nodded and looked away.Although the other party looked embarrassed, it didn't look like he was pretending to be a tough guy.My younger brother became a "man" before myself.And it was Tomoya who was originally a little brother, although he was a little bit shocked, but now is not the time to be emotional.

"How about after the first time?"

Tomoya remained silent, narrowing his eyes meaningfully.

"Have you been told by your girlfriend that you are too bad?"

"It's not about this, the problem is his attitude"

Looking at Shibuya who clasped his hands tightly, Tomoya snorted.

"You don't, did you become a 'man' in a custom shop?"

Tomoya's voice was cold.

"No, no. She's not a custom girl."

"Brother, you are also a male. I don't mean to blame you. As long as you don't cross the line, it's fine."

"And, it's not annoying"

Can't help but say it.

"But I don't like each other either, so it's very embarrassing"

Tomoya was silent, and Shibuya felt that this silence was terrible.

"Brother, you are not the kind of person who will force others, you are not forced by the woman, are you?"

...Although it is not forced, the current situation is already unavoidable.

"If you don't like the other person, it's better to apologize early and end the relationship. Brother, you don't like to owe favors to others, and you are easy to be led away. If it continues like this, the situation will not be controllable."

Facing his younger brother's advice, Shibuya could only lower his head.To be honest, although I really want to escape from this relationship, it is too late now.I don't know how to do it better, and I'm already thinking about it until my head hurts.

It usually only takes a few seconds to fall asleep when you lie down.Although a lot of things happened today, really a lot of things, and I was very tired. I couldn't fall asleep until dawn this day.

Although it has entered October, the sun is still very bright.After Shibuya retrieved the remains of his pet bird and pet dog in the morning, he returned to the office of the funeral center. Aoyama was talking nervously with a microphone in one hand, and then he confirmed the appointment for the afternoon on the whiteboard next to him with a serious face. Only then did I hang up the phone.

"The cat in Kenmachi, which was scheduled in the morning, was buried in the garden, so it was cancelled."

Aoyama stared at Shibuya.

"Why didn't you dig out the remains!"

"That is……"

Shibuya took a step back, Aoyama sighed "I'm just kidding"

"Really, since it's buried, you should call to cancel it. It will take time for us to go there."

"It's very close to the address of the second entrustment, so it doesn't take much time."

"It's a matter of attitude!"

Qing Shan opened his mouth wide like a cat.

"Sorry" Shibuya apologized first.

"Sorry, I took your anger out on you"

Aoyama, who had transformed from a cat back to a human, held his chin.

"On the complaint call just now, the other party kept chattering and complaining, it was so annoying."

"Why complain?"

Aoyama tilted his head to the right, making a creaking sound.

"Fang Lang made a mistake when he went to pick up the body, and he was late for a long time"

"It's really rare"

Each customer has a limited time to correspond. Although there have been incidents of being late when picking up the remains of pets in the past, this is the first time I have heard of the wrong time.

"You can't say that, things like this happen a lot these days."

Aoyama quickly scanned the surroundings, then gently waved towards Shibuya.

"Is there a problem?"

Sit down on the chair next to Aoyama.

"Don't you think Fang Lang is strange recently?"

"If you're talking about the wig being crooked, I think it's always been like that"

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about the spirit. It feels so dark all of a sudden. It's definitely being entangled by a woman. Although Fang Lang would exude my happy aura all over his body in early September, but recently But it makes people feel that there is a cumulonimbus cloud on his head. And he has been making low-level mistakes recently. If this continues, I am a little worried about the expansion of the funeral home.”

Aoyama sighed.

"Although Fang Lang is a good person, we would be troubled if his condition is so unstable."

In the afternoon, Shibuya went out to run business again. When he returned to the company at [-] o'clock, he passed by the president, but because the addition of SS's coffin was a little late, so he only talked about business matters with him.

When returning from the company, Shibuya noticed that he hadn't received an email that would normally arrive in the evening for four days.After having sex in early September, the president would send me an email every day inviting me to have dinner together, but I always prevaricated with various reasons and never accepted the invitation.

If I reply some lies about refusing the invitation, the president will not pester me.Although I think this is very good, it also makes me feel pressured to reply to such uninteresting content every day.

To put it more bluntly, even seeing the president in the company feels disgusting.As long as I see the president's face, I can clearly recall the sex that day.So even if I go out to work, I will deliberately take a long way to return to the company later to shorten the time I stay in the office.

Recently, the president's dinner invitation emails have gradually become one every two days, and one every three days. Just when I thought it was a good sign, I suddenly remembered what Aoyama said, "It's become very dark recently", so I didn't read it seriously. Of course the president, Shibuya, would not know about such a thing.

I don't want to have sex with the president anymore.I have already decided so.Although it is very comfortable, I will loathe myself afterwards, and I don't want to continue this kind of relationship without love anymore.It's better to fade away slowly than to end the relationship all at once and make the other person feel down. ...although that might be too cunning.

While thinking about these things in a mess, I bought special vegetables and meat in the supermarket, and started cooking when I got home.Waiting for the messy younger brothers to finish their meal, clearing up the tableware by myself, and finally calming down, I heard Jean say to himself, "I have to bring a rag to school tomorrow"

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

Jean lowered his head shyly: "Because Brother Shou, you seem to be very busy..." There was no way to get angry with such a younger brother, and he hurriedly took out the sewing machine from the closet only to find that the power could not be turned on, so he could only sew by hand, so I took out the sewing kit, but just then the needle broke.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and Shibuya rode a bicycle to the vicinity of the station, and went to buy a sewing kit before the [-]-yen store was about to close.

"Sakura—" I heard a familiar voice as I walked through the park to go home.There is a bad feeling.

"Sakura - Sakura -"

The grief-stricken voice was indeed the president's.Can't go wrong.Unable to ignore it, Shibuya got off the bicycle, parked the car and walked towards the direction of the sound.

"Sakura——Sakura—come out—"

Under the streetlights, the president in a suit walked around anxiously holding a flashlight.

"that"

When the president turned his head, he stood there motionless as if taken aback.

"Why, why do you..."

"I'm going back after shopping, what happened to Sakura?"

"It ran out from the crack in the door. Although I chased it out immediately, I don't know where it went..."

After roughly looking around, although there are street lights in the park, the places that are not illuminated are still dark.It's hard to find a black cat in here.

"It's far away from the president's house. If Sakura ran out, shouldn't she look for it closer to home?"