Tokyo Rebirth: Start From Picking Up Sayu

"I have the next guest."

"Welcome, do you have a point card?"

Tanaka, who had just arrived at the store, asked the customer while scanning the products.

"Hi."

The man replied.

"Okay." Tanaka nodded, "Please show me."

"……Hi."

The man spoke again, but did not act.

Tanaka looked up and repeated it with a professional smile on his face.

"Please show your points card."

"...English please!"

The guest said hesitantly.

"Ah." Only then did Tanaka react, and while thinking, he scratched his head and said, "That... Pointou Carter please!"

"..."

It doesn't matter if Tanaka understands it or not, but the person on the other side definitely doesn't understand it, otherwise it wouldn't be a confused expression.

The two stared at each other with wide eyes.

Seeing this, Yusuke Kato, who had just put a discount label on the bento, came up and asked politely to the Asian-faced man.

"Do you have a point card?"

The articulation is clear and the pronunciation is standard, just like a repeat machine.

"Oh! No no no no."

The man suddenly realized, shook his head again and again, and then asked Kato Yusuke.

"How much are they?"

A total of two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of water, Kato Yusuke glanced at the price displayed on the machine and replied.

"1000."

The man nodded, handed out a thousand-yen bill with a portrait of Hideyo Noguchi from his wallet, put away the cigarettes and water, and nodded to Kato Yusuke.

"?????."

Then he left the convenience store.

"Ah? What did he say? It sounds so familiar."

Tanaka stared at the man's back and asked.

"That's 'thank you' in Korean."

Kato Yusuke walked into the cashier while talking, and put the discount label in the counter.

"So it is!" Tanaka clenched his fist with one hand and knocked on the other palm with a "dong", "No wonder I feel familiar, my wife loves watching these Korean dramas all day long, so that I can only watch late-night animations. I can watch the recording secretly.”

Kato Yusuke's movements stopped. Watching the late-night animation was nothing, but watching it sneakily was very fascinating.

"Mr. Tanaka, aren't the animations you recorded in a graded system?"

"Huh? Isn't that of course, adults should watch what adults should see." Tanaka said as a matter of course, and then looked at Kato Yusuke suspiciously, "But why are you asking this? Could it be that you want to borrow it?"

After speaking, Kato Yusuke spoke again.

"Okay, it doesn't matter if it's lent to your kid."

Tanaka said so carelessly.

"And since you want to borrow it, I recommend you choose this animation adapted from the game - "The Prism of That Snow", the delicate expression in it is simply amazing!"

Frankly speaking, at that moment, Kato Yusuke really felt a little bit moved, but unfortunately...

"No--!"

With a coquettish shout, Takada Shiori suddenly jumped out from behind a certain row of shelves.

"Tan! Zhong! Sir! Sir!"

She said word by word, angrily walking to the cashier counter.

"Little, Little Takada!? Why are you here!?"

Tanaka was taken aback.

"I've always been here!" Takada Shiori said with his hands on his waist, "Compared to this,

It's a crime to lend such unhealthy things to minors! "

Takada Shiori glared at Tanaka aggressively.

"Yeah... what are you talking about, why can't I understand it at all? A crime? How could I do something like that?"

Tanaka touched the back of his head and said, pretending to be stupid.

"real?"

Takada Shiori looked at Tanaka with scrutiny, his tone full of suspicion.

"Of course!"

Tanaka Yoshihisa said rhetorically, and while talking, he pushed Kato Yusuke with his elbow and asked.

"Isn't it Kato? Do you think so too? Ahaha, ahahahahaha."

(This person can't lie at all.)

Looking at Tanaka with an embarrassed smile, Kato Yusuke twitched the corners of his mouth, but he still said cooperatively.

"...Well, that's right."

"is that so……?"

Takada Shiori cast a suspicious look.

"Then what were you talking about?"

she questioned.

"This..." Tanaka faltered for a while, his eyes kept wandering around, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind, "It's this—!"

Tanaka said loudly.

"What, what? It's so loud all of a sudden?"

Takada Shiori was taken aback.

"Because today is the day of payroll, that's what we were talking about just now!"

Tanaka said firmly.

"Then why do you say borrowing or something?"

Shiori Takada asked.

"Ah...that."

Hearing Takada Shiori's question, Tanaka couldn't help sighing, first glanced at Kato Yusuke with sympathy, and then said to Takada Shiori.

"I didn't want to tell you, but since you heard it, there's nothing you can do..."

There was a sense of disappointment in his tone.

"Actually, this kid Kato asked me to borrow money just now. He said that the family has had some difficulties recently, and he has not eaten for several days..."

"Is that a lie?"

Takada Shiori interrupted him directly: "Isn't the cooked food in our store free to eat?"

"And I just got paid today, how can I use up all that money?"

Takada Shiori said coldly.

"This is... that, it's actually because Kato was scammed by the phone."

Tanaka hesitantly explained.

"……real?"

Takada Shiori looked at Kato Yusuke with questioning eyes.

It happened that Kato Yusuke also looked over, and the two looked at each other in the air. Takada Shiori couldn't help but think of what happened in the afternoon, which made her cheeks slightly red, and her expression became a little unnatural.

"Do not……"

Kato Yusuke opened his mouth and was kicked in the foot just as he was about to deny it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tanaka is winking at him desperately.

So he sighed, reached out and made a gesture under the table.

"5000 yen".

Tanaka was stunned for a moment, then immediately shook his head and returned a gesture.

"500 yen".

Kato Yusuke raised his brows, turned to look at Takada Shiori and said, "Of course it's fake..."

Tanaka's face changed drastically, he grabbed Kato Yusuke's arm and made another gesture.

"2000 yen".

"OK"!

"Fake? What fake?"

Takada Shiori looked over suspiciously.

"What did you just say?"

"Um……"

Kato Yusuke stared blankly, then cleared his throat and said.

"Sorry, it's exactly what Tanaka-senpai said, blame me for being too careless."

His tone was full of self-blame, Kato Yusuke first lowered his head, as if he didn't want people to see his weak side, but immediately raised his head again and said in a stubborn tone.

"But it doesn't matter, I'm fine by myself!"

His voice trembled slightly, and the young man gritted his teeth, as if no amount of difficulty could destroy him.

At this moment, let alone Shiori Takada, even Tanaka looked at Yusuke Kato with a look of astonishment.

"Could it be true what I said just now!?"

This thought came to Tanaka's mind, and the emotions of pity and remorse filled his heart, and he couldn't help reaching out his hand, wanting to comfort this strong and unyielding boy.

result……

"brush--!"

Takada Shiori held Kato Yusuke's hand tightly with a distressed look on his face, then put his hands on his chest, and said to Kato Yusuke with tears in his eyes.

"It's okay, I'll take care of you!"

Tanaka: ? ? ?

Kato Yusuke: ? ? ?

(I wish there was a rich woman who could see through my stubbornness and protect my frailty... a ghost!?)