episode_0399

Mr. Negi is surprised when he checks what I wrote.

“Why aren’t you doing business? “A lot of stuff is selling now.”

“Originally, the business started when school started after vacation. “It’s not strange.”

“You already opened it, can’t you just keep going? I’ll do all the work! The boss can just sit there. Or you can go somewhere else to have fun.”

“I also like making money. It’s not a bad thing to do that. “The sooner you open, the more money you will make.”

“yes!”

“But these people didn’t come here to buy anything.”

“… … .”

Mr. Negi must have been speechless at my words and kept his mouth shut.

Being nice doesn’t mean being tactless.

If the situation has reached this point, it is impossible to know what caused this situation.

This means that she also knows that men who are attracted to her looks are coming to the general store under the pretext of buying things.

Mr. Negi asked, biting his lip as if he realized that I was viewing the current situation negatively.

“… Did I think wrong? Whatever the reason, I thought it was a good thing because I could make money.”

“Once again, I like making money. “There is no one who hates money.”

However, money has been a low priority in my life for a long time.

Among the things piled on top of each other was Fran’s biological mother, Negi.

“But I don’t want to make money using Negi. “If I had that in mind, I shouldn’t have opened a general store.”

“!!”

“The bar industry should have changed.”

“Yes, boss… .”

“Did I seem like someone who was that desperate for money and crazy about it?”

“no. “You’ve never done that.”

“thank god. “It would have been sad if there had been such a misunderstanding.”

It wasn’t just sad, it must have been very sad.

What an image to use when it is not enough to show your mother-in-law well!

‘Could it be that my image was ruined to that extent?’

He said it wasn’t that bad, so I decided to be clear and tell him not to do something like this again.

“I will tell you clearly. “I don’t want to make money that way.”

“yes. I understood.”

“Of course, since you’re pretty, you can’t completely stop men from coming to see you. “There is no way, and there is no way to know a person’s inner thoughts.”

“yes.”

“I guess I’ll go as far as that, but I can’t see Negi trying to sell things to men who don’t want to talk back to him.”

“!!”

“That’s why I decided not to do business. If the man next to me hadn’t stopped me, I would have told him his name because I was a customer even though I didn’t want to. “If you are an employee of our store, you should be able to tell them to fuck off.”

“Swearing at a customer?!”

“A person who does that is not a customer, but a customer.”

Mr. Negi seemed impressed by what I said and said,

“From now on, please respond by clearly distinguishing between customers and guests. I refused because I didn’t like it, but they keep giggling? We don’t sell our products to people like that. Get them kicked out of the store right away. “If you try to do something by force, tell Damon.”

I should tell Damon in advance.

If there’s a guy like that, grab him by the scruff of the neck and throw him away.

“Reputation must be important to run a store… .”

Mr. Negi’s point is correct.

Just because we live in a world without social media, we shouldn’t take our reputation lightly.

Rather, because the world is not widely spread, rumors are spread secretly and closedly.

There are many people who know each other, so if you get the wrong picture, you could lose dozens of customers.

“does not matter. “If he’s that kind of guy, he’ll hang out with his friends, so it’s better not to even meet anyone he knows.”

Only then did I hear the answer that they would do it, as if they knew that my thoughts were firm.

“If that’s what the boss wants, then I have to follow it. “I will do that.”

“If you don’t think you can do it, find Damon or me. “I will solve it.”

“no! “I won’t let the boss inconvenience me.”

He said he would solve it, but I didn’t think Negi, who was weak-hearted, would be able to solve it properly.

However, that was a hasty judgment that did not take into account Negi’s experience of fighting off countless men’s advances throughout her life.

The next day, without fail, Negi showed the men who came to see her what it means to clearly draw a line.

“excuse me.”

Even though there was a sign saying “No business, no inquiries”, there were more than one person knocking on the door of the general store.

“ah! “There you are.”

“What’s going on? “The store won’t open as it is posted on the front door.”

“It’s not because of things. I was doing business until yesterday, but I was worried because they suddenly said they were no longer doing business. “I thought he didn’t open the store because he was sick.”

I didn’t close the door because I was sick, but even if I had, there was no reason for that man to care or worry about it.

because.

“I didn’t close the store because I was sick, but even if I couldn’t open it because I was sick, why would the customers care?”

“yes? uh… Well, I was going to become a regular at this store. so… The employee must be healthy for business to be successful and the store to be open… .”

“It doesn’t hurt. And even if it hurts, the store will be open. The boss will be in the store at that time. So I don’t think it’s anything for customers to worry about.”

There would have been nothing to refute Mr. Negi’s words.

Perhaps that’s why the guest became so sullen that his size didn’t match his size, and left.

“I’m glad I was able to persuade him with words.”

The guy who was verbally beaten and then turned around obediently was better off.

There was a guy who persistently asked me why it was closed, and when I finally came forward and told him that I closed it because of the owner’s will, there was a guy who immediately started an argument with me.

He was a neat-looking nobleman, but when he told me he was the owner of a general store, it was clear that he took it easy and started a fight.

I stepped on that guy and sent him to the treatment center.

If he woke up and came to his senses, I would just let go, and if he showed up again without me coming to my senses, I planned to deal with it properly then.

‘A guy who isn’t even single… .’

Perhaps because it was decorated like nobles, most of the men in line were nobles.

I can’t even find a decent nobleman named Oh, and all the guys who are talking in front of him are bastards.

‘I am three lovers.

After taking some time to reflect and feel confused, I spoke to Negi.

“You’re surprisingly good at it.”

“I’m embarrassed to say this, but when I was younger, I was much prettier than I am now.”

“You are still beautiful.”

“Hehe, they’re all old, but they’re pretty. “You’d be surprised to see what he looked like when he was young.”

In fact, it wasn’t difficult to imagine it, as long as you think of the franc.

“Actually, it wasn’t a good thing for a commoner to look like a noble. There was a lot to endure. “If I couldn’t clearly refuse, they would force me at some point, so I needed to clearly state my thoughts.”

If I had talked about this with Erintina, I would have sympathized with Negi a lot.

She also went through a lot of hardships because of her beautiful appearance.

“So you’re good at drawing lines.”

“It’s such a useless ability, isn’t it?”

“It is not a useless skill, but a necessary skill. “Thanks to you, things are still going well.”

“I’ve never had anything like this happen while I’ve been here. When the boss is around. “I guess that’s why I was too relaxed.”

I wonder if Damon felt a little unfair in this part! And he cried.

-I tried hard to block it! I didn’t know you’d show up like a guest and do something like that!

He knew that the situation was beyond Damon’s control, so he nodded and focused again on Negi’s words.

“Actually, I thought I was no longer interested because I was older. “But I was embarrassed when this situation suddenly occurred.”

It was completely my fault for making him feel at ease and leaving him in the middle to surprise him.

“So, I think it would be a good idea to wear clothes and makeup like before. Instead, I will keep it neat and clean so as not to cause trouble to the store.”

Mr. Negi seemed to think that the sudden change was because he was wearing properly dressed clothes and putting on makeup.

But this has been happening even before she decorated it.

This just happened.

However, it happened at a bad time and the situation got a little bigger.

“Do you think something like this won’t happen if you don’t decorate it?”

“… “Isn’t it true?”

There was no trace of confidence in his hesitant appearance.

You can have low self-esteem because men follow you around because you’re pretty.

The world is wide and all kinds of things happen.

“Even if you don’t dress up, Negi is beautiful. “It’s not that I’m okay with it because I’m older, it’s just that I didn’t bother to tell you.”

“??”

“The people who have been following Negi and spying on him. “I kicked those people out.”

“!!!”

“The bad commoners were chasing him around and trying to embellish Mr. Negi. “I thought that if I wore proper clothes, I would look noble and would not be easily messed with.”

I did that, but it didn’t work properly.

Is it because of the spatial characteristics of a general store?

Among the customers in line were both nobles and commoners.

It has become an unanswerable situation in which both the nobles and the commoners are confused.

So I decided to just reveal the secret I was hiding.

If I kept hiding it, it would only lead to misunderstandings and everything I had tried to fix would be undone.

“The boss?! Why would you do something like that…?”

“I think the staff will be in danger, but of course we can’t just leave it alone. By the way, the reason I didn’t mention it was because I thought it would be as burdensome as it is now. And it was Damon who kicked out the men who were chasing Mr. Negi.”

“Is this this kid? ah! “I guess that’s why you left Damon in my care while you were on vacation?”

match!

Mr. Negi, who quickly grasped the situation, clapped once as if he had realized it.

“It also explains why problems arose when the boss wasn’t around.”

Since there is no one to stop it, it is natural for problems to arise.

It may be unfair to Damon, but since Mr. Negi, whom he had told him to take responsibility for and protect, is now in an awkward situation, it’s as if he didn’t do his job properly.

“So this incident has nothing to do with makeup or clothes. Even if we go back to the past, nothing will change.”

“…I see. “It wasn’t something that could be solved this way.”

Negi continued speaking with a tearful expression on his face.

“So what now?”

That was something to think about after weeding out all the people who were making modifications.