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2024-10-29 19:42:56For the next day's part-time job, I left home at my usual time and headed to the convenience store late at night.
After going through the tunnel on the way, I was mentally prepared, but in the same place as yesterday, there was the dead cat, its intestines and organs dried up, and countless flies.collectionfalconwas I looked directly at it and only had a few seconds to pass by, but the terrible stench of putrefaction mercilessly pricked my nostrils. Just as I thought, if it was left in a place like this under the scorching heat of the summer sun, it would rot in no time. That being said, there's no way someone would bury it in the ground in a place like this, and who would deal with such a messy, dried-out, tragic corpse? I wonder if I should contact an animal welfare organization and ask them to do something about this... Abandoned cats are pathetic, but see
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“Hakamada-kun is not good at people like that.”"Well, I don't want to get involved with it as much as possible... it's troublesome..."“But to me, Hakamada-kun also looks like a bad yankee."No no no no no!!" I do bleach and have ear piercings though!"It's just the way it looks! Even if I say so myself, I'm still quite the chicken!" I don't even have the guts to get my nose pierced!"Yeah, I felt like I was going to yancha when I was in high school."“He was a pretty healthy high school baseball player, he had black hair and glasses…..but when he retired, he changed to contacts and dyed his hair.”"Oh, what a great makeover" By the way, the reason for the makeover was because I didn't like the black hair and glasses because people around me would give me nicknames such as "Serious-kun" or "Garden-kun" that I don't remember. Even if I changed my appearance, my inside didn't change at all. I can't help but like those guys who
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"Nao" There was that spotted cat. Everything flew away in an instant. Why is that cat here? Sitting in front of the garbage dump, keeping an eye on the darkness, the cat slowly wagging its tail in a steady rhythm is definitely the cat that stood in front of the white cat's corpse last night and stared at me with resentment. rice field."Naao" An eerie voice that gave me goosebumps. Meow is far from a normal cry. Cats meow like this."Naaaaaa" With its mouth wide open like yesterday, its alarming cry is clearly strange. What is this cat telling me? However, I can't understand what the cat is trying to say, and it's strange how this cat appeared in front of me yesterday and today. When I thought that something bad was about to happen again, my bo
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"You guys aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" An unfamiliar thick voice rushed in from the side. It wasn't just me, maybe the man who was holding the chest was surprised by that, he got startled for a moment and stopped moving. what……. I stretched out my neck from the man's shadow and looked.“If you don’t let go of your hand, you know what will happen, huh?!?” At the entrance of the store, Mr. Aoyama was yelling with a terrible sword. I mean, Aoyama-san…. The tone, no, the quality of the voice, but it's very manly, or rather, it's powerful, it's full of spirit, and it's like a beast, and it glares up at the motorcycle gangs and threatens them. To be honest, even I get goosebumps when Aoyama-san does that. Who is this person? Aoyama-san's tra
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Stand users, onee-types, rotten girls... How thick is the night shift group? My existence is disappearing, isn't it?"I don't think I'm that dark.""No, Mr. Hirai's depth is already competing for twelve..." Mr. Hirai, who has an innocent face and a smile, is usually cute when he does that. However, with such a pretty appearance, the inside is a beast hungry for delusions... it's all about the gap."It's okay, you don't have to worry about it, the late-night group will naturally have unique personalities, so Hakamada-kun is already a member of the late-night 'unique four heavenly kings'.""S-Four Heavenly Kings!?"Well, now that Hakamada-kun has joined, I, Aoyama-san, and Takenaka-kun are finally four people. The Four Heavenly Kings who protect this convenience store with their individuality!""No... even if the three of us were individualists, I'm just an ordinary person... or maybe I'm fl
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I wondered if it was time to throw away the trash, but I glanced at the clock and thought, but they were still sitting outside and there was no sign of leaving. I don't want to be the second dance two days ago, but... it can't be helped. I have nothing else to do.... When I made a big decision and tried to leave the counter, Mr. Hirai left first.“Hey, Mr. Hirai!”"I'll be there today, Hakamada-kun, wait for me.""No, no, no, I usually go here! Mr. Hirai.""Okay, it's fine."“Those guys are drunk and will definitely get involved. If something happens when I turn around..."What?""No... see." If they gather together, Hirai-san's slender arms are likely to break. As a man here...“Then Hakamada-kun will help you in style then.”"No...!" Mr. Hirai! Please understand!
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"I'll bury it now." After that, we spent about an hour cleaning the area around the convenience store. It was all over when the sky was faintly white. Mr. Hirai gently spoke to the dead cat lying on the concrete. I carefully transferred the cat's corpse to the cardboard I brought and wrapped it in newspaper. I handed rubber gloves to Mr. Hirai, who tried to do it with his bare hands without any hesitation. Because of the cat's pained expression, Mr. Hirai pulled out the offal stuck in his mouth, which would normally be unpleasant even through gloves. Since we can't move it far away with two people, we decided to bury it in the woods near the convenience store. As I dug up the soil with a shovel, Mr. Hirai also dug with his hands and managed to create a hole large enough to bury the cat."Um... just now, that" Before
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The night after that. I put rubber gloves, a shovel, newspaper, and a small cat can I found at the supermarket in the luggage compartment on the rear wheel of my bike, and then I flattened and cut some cardboard I had at home and tied it with a string. I got on. All of them were prepared to mourn for cats. As expected, I can't touch it with my bare hands, so I guess I'll have to wear gloves and carry it in a cardboard box. Thinking about burying my cat, I left home early. What happened to that cat? Yesterday it rained all day, and today it was sunny as hell. From that point of view, the corpses of cats that have absorbed the rainwater and have been scorched by the sun must have become a tragic event again. I shudder at the thought. Let's return it to the earth as soon as possible. At the exit of the tunnel, slow down and park your bike
working in a scary shop bab 39 Mr. Hirai's Secret (9)
"--Don't knead in vain." A voice as sharp and cold as ice. He grabbed my raised right arm and my left arm, which was tightening my neck. It's also very powerful."Uh-huh" Raise your tear-soaked face and look ahead. Hirai-san, who should have had an anguished expression on her face, was staring at me with eyes that were so sharp that I thought I was a different person."Hirai..." For a moment, the strength of the arm that had been caged up loosened. She didn't miss it, and with a slight gap, she pulled my left hand from my neck and pushed my arms back. Perhaps in reaction, the scrunchie that she was bundling rolled down to the ground, and her glossy hair was pulled down. The air flow has changed. The aura surrounding Mr. Hirai has changed. And something inside me stopped moving."It's about time to give up, because he didn't mean anything bad." Hirai-san spoke in a masculine tone while still holding his arm.
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"- So, that's all the story I experienced." If you say so with the feeling of folding a picture-story show after reading. Right and left of me, dozens of shaved heads lying down in front of me or sitting on the futons, like, huh. Whoa. Uhi or something. Hawa or something. I let out a sigh at the same time. Phew……. She seemed satisfied at last, and she was relieved. I never thought I would tell this story from beginning to end... I remember that horrifyingly. A strange and unusual story that I experienced in the summer of my 25th year that I will never forget. I've been telling this story over and over again to my lovely students who are members of the baseball club. It all started on the night of the summer training camp, when we were talking about ghost stories. Even though my way of speaking and the content of the story are scary, they are very popular with Chubo who loves such stories. As a result, the annual big event of the summer training camp has become the rule of "Direc
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