episode_0003

Everyone has a different personality, but I basically don’t like hanging out with people.

The reason is simple.

Should I say that it sucks my energy?

That’s why people who always live with a lively attitude are the best to me.

“It’s fate that we met like this, so let’s start with our full names!”

“My name is Lee Ji-hoo.”

He said the name and bowed his head at a 30 degree angle.

It is usually better to greet someone you are meeting for the first time like this.

You can avoid unnecessary trouble.

“My name is Shin Ye-hwa!”

“Oh, yep.”

As we finished our declaration, the president’s older sister, who had been watching from the side, came over and slowly began explaining the work to us.

“Ji-hoo takes care of the accounting, and Ye-hwa takes care of the coffee. If there are too many customers in the middle, Ji-hoo also helps make the coffee.”

“Yep.”

The reason I taught you how to make coffee earlier was probably in preparation for an emergency.

The orc has a face that looks like it could be made of meat and is delicate.

I felt a sense of disconnect.

After giving instructions on such small details.

“Then let’s go. Take care.”

“Yep.”

“Enter.”

Since I’m here, I’ll help out at the cafe.

With such a thought in mind, I put on my apron, neatly arranged in a corner.

“Jihoo.”

“Yes?”

“It’s not time for guests to arrive yet, so how about we chat among ourselves?”

I wanted to say, “I don’t want to,” but I had to start living in society, so I answered with a friendly smile.

“Then I’ll do it until the guests come. I’m bored too.”

Actually, I was planning to sit in a chair and watch some videos that I missed from yesterday before the guests arrived.

But since we’ve decided to have a conversation, it’s better to do it properly.

My goal was to work at this cafe for as long as possible.

So we started chatting.

In the process, I learned some interesting information.

The most interesting piece of information is that the scary-looking owner of the cafe not only owns a cafe, but also has six other stores nearby under her name.

And information that a former part-timer was caught stealing money from a cafe and was fired, and then legal action was taken.

“But if you sneak money or something, won’t you get caught? They steal it.”

“That’s right. Sometimes there are people who lack intelligence.”

At first glance, he seemed very gentle, but the more he spoke, the more I felt like he was holding back something inside him.

Perhaps after my part-time job ends, I will be walking down the street in a different way than I am now.

While we were chatting like that.

Tiring-!

I heard the first customer coming in.

*

“No, I clearly ordered an iced cafe latte, why is it hot?”

“Looking at the record, it says it’s a hot cafe latte, not an iced cafe latte.”

“You must have misheard. Anyway, right.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t make this mistake again, anyway. This is why young people these days are useless.”

“Yep.”

One thing I realized while working part-time at a cafe is that there are more truths than you think.

Although it is said that many female students come here because it is located near a girls’ high school, the main customers are locals before school ends.

Most of those people were older.

“Jihoo, are you okay?”

“Yes, well. I’ve seen a lot of people like that before.”

I didn’t feel particularly annoyed because I remember seeing a lot of people like that in the past.

To the extent that I thought, “There are people who talk like that.”

It’s not like they’re slapping me with a stick, so this is pretty okay.

At that moment, I was sitting on a chair resting during the short break that I had.

“…Jihoo, I think you should get ready.”

“Ah.”

Shin Ye-hwa speaks with a solemn expression.

It seemed like ‘it’ was about to start.

I only heard about it, so it didn’t really feel real, but I could roughly guess what it was like.

At that time, when I was preparing so desperately.

Tiring-!

Girls in school uniforms start to rush in, accompanied by the sound of paper hanging on the door fluttering.

The weather was a little cool, but there was still some sunlight, so it seemed like everyone was flocking to the cafe.

With that in mind, I stood at the counter and mechanically took orders.

“Can I help you order?”

“I’ll drink three iced Americanos and go.”

“Yes, I understand.”

At that time, I was taking orders like that.

“What is it?”

“Ah.”

I ended up running into Lee Ye-ram.

To be honest, I expected we would meet.

Well, I heard that Lee Ye-ram comes here often.

I didn’t know it would come this quickly though.

Well, that’s that.

Receiving the order came first.

“Customer, would you like to order?”

“Wow, you’re ignoring me?”

“If you are still hesitating, please order later. ”

In this situation, pretending to know Lee Ye-ram was like shaking hands.

If you pretend to know something for no reason, you might draw aggro from those around you.

Let’s talk while thinking like that-

“Ah, six, I’ll eat them and go.”

Lee Ye-ram glanced at me and completed her order.

Now that I think about it, it was strange.

I’m not the type to give that much allowance.

You come to the cafe so often that the cafe owner knows about it.

“Hmm.”

I thought it would be better to ask after all the customers had finished ordering.

As time passed, finally no more customers came in.

That was fortunate.

I was confident that if I came in any further, I would just collapse.

By the way.

[it’s me]

[Me: Don’t tell your friends]

[Me: Come out]

I didn’t want to get attention by pretending to know Lee Ye-ram when I had friends, so I sent a separate text message.

Then, after a while.

“Hey, brother. Come here.”

Lee Ye-ram looks at me straight in the eye and gestures.

I think I need to cut my allowance by 10%.

How can you not listen to the words of your heavenly brother?

I really didn’t want to go, but I forced myself to move my legs and headed towards where Lee Ye-ram was.

“I told you to come out separately. Why are you telling me to come here?”

“My heart.”

“Oh, really.”

I can’t even swing the hammer.

At that time, I was talking to Lee Ye-ram.

“Is Ye-ram your older brother?”

“Yeah, what… ”

From then on, the authors who were friends of Lee Ye-ram continued to ask me questions.

Does Lee Ye-ram really go home and study hard?

Do you know how many strange things Lee Ye-ram does at school?

etc.

I asked a lot of questions.

“Mostly true.”

“Wow, you really go home and study? I thought you were going to go home and study.”

“Am I you?”

“Yes, next Korean history 8th grade traitor.”

My friends were saying the same thing as me.

It seems that Lee Ye-ram’s Korean history grade has been revealed to the world.

At that time, we were talking like that.

“But why are you working here? It’s time to play games at home.”

“You could say that you are temporarily stopping interacting with people online and doing productive work in the real world.”

Although I’m confident about playing games, I still feel a bit awkward telling others that I play games at this time.

Anyone can see that he’s unemployed.

“Do you play games, oppa?”

“I just do it as a hobby, I’m bored these days.”

I cosplay as a normal person as much as possible.

If I knew how much time I’ve spent on games so far, I’d probably avoid them and say, “What the heck is that?”

“Where does someone spend a thousand hours playing soccer games as a hobby? You have to lie to some extent.”

“Soccer game?”

“Wow, bro. I play soccer too.”

“But I guess it’s a soccer game. It’s so addictive.”

What’s wrong with soccer games?

It’s fun.

Even though I’m not good at real soccer, I’m still good at games, right?

By the way, it was now time to go back to the counter.

There aren’t any customers yet, but I still have to work during working hours.

“Then I’ll be going now. Have fun.”

“Wow, your speech is so fake.”

I went back to the counter, thinking that I had to shake Lee Ye-ram like a threshing machine at home.

Then, Shin Ye-hwa asks us slyly, wondering what our relationship is.

“What’s your relationship with those kids?”

“Oh, that’s my little brother. The one with short hair over there.”

“Somehow, I thought I’d seen Jihoo’s face somewhere.”

By the way, I was going to ask Lee Ye-ram where the money came from, but I forgot.

I guess I can ask when I get home later.

How much time has passed like that?

“Then I will go now.”

“Enter.”

I left work first.

It looks like Shin Ye-hwa is here almost all day.

How do you stay there all day?

I quickly left the cafe, thinking, “That’s amazing.”

“Wow, that’s hard.”

Maybe it was because it had been a long time since I had done a part-time job, but I felt a little tired.

Still, whatever.

It’ll get better as you keep doing it.

With that thought in mind, I sent a text message to Lee Ye-ram.

[Me: My dear little brother]

[Me: Don’t restart the game, I have something to tell you.]

Now it was time to talk about the price of coffee.