The primary day of his part-time job arrived.

As he was spending his now-back-to-as-usual college life with Shino, identical to that, it was now after college.

Lastly finally.

“Alright, as we speak’s the day, huh.”

“The day? Ah, I see, your part-time job? Do your finest.”

“It’s not prefer it’s an unreasonable job, and I positive don’t need to work that onerous. It’s simply cleansing.”

“No feeling like, ‘I’ll do my finest!’ in any respect?”

“Strive imagining me saying ‘I’ll do my finest!’ with a full face smile and displaying my tooth.”

“…Creepy, huh.”

“Proper? Properly, I’m comfortable you’re cheering me on, and I’ll attempt to do my finest in my very own approach.”

“You’re so lax~.”

“Isn’t it higher to be lax than to weirdly pressure your self? Whenever you see somebody overly tense, received’t you are concerned like, ‘are they okay?’ as a substitute?”

“Hmmm… that is likely to be actually true.”

“That’s how it’s—and isn’t it about time on your part-time job?”

“Ah, you’re proper. Okay, goodbye then.”

After having the time identified by Sandai, Shino hurriedly broke right into a run.

After seeing off Shino leaving, Sandai, too, headed to the aquarium, his office. His gait was regular, neither mild nor heavy.

After strolling for some ten-odd minutes, the aquarium got here into view.

Maybe as a result of it was its opening day, regardless that it was a weekday, it was crowded sufficient to have an honest line forming which may even be seen from a distance.

“An aquarium is surprisingly getting quite a lot of guests, huh.”

Though he had anticipated it to after all be not empty in any respect, it was additionally stunning for him for it to have a line forming, nonetheless.

“…It’s a weekday, although.”

On this world, there are lots of people with a schedule totally different from college, and there are numerous extra circumstances of days off on weekdays than Sandai thought.

Whereas trying on the shaped line with a sidelong look, Sandai went inside via the worker room’s entrance within the rear exit—solely to seek out quite a lot of employees shifting round busily.

“That’s the entrance for workers, so for a customer please from the entrance entrance…”

“I’m Fujiwara Sandai, a cleansing employees. I stay up for working with you.”

“Cleansing employees… I believe one got here earlier… ah, come to consider it, the cleansing employees was a bunch of two, was it? The vice director talked about one thing like that. Alright then, Fujiwara-kun, the opposite cleansing employees member has arrived, so go get modified and begin working collectively.”

Apparently they wished Sandai to instantly get to work, so he clocked in his time card, hurriedly acquired modified, and started making ready the cleansing gear.

And there, out of nowhere, Hajime confirmed up in his cleansing employees work garments.

“Hey, Fujiwara-kun.”

“Oh, it’s Saeki. Very long time no see, huh.”

“It’s not even been a month since we final met, so I personally don’t really feel prefer it’s been that lengthy, although… Didn’t you say one thing related earlier than? Perhaps your sense of time is bugged?”

“That’s not true. I personally really feel it’s been a very long time.”

“If I give it some thought positively, possibly it’s such as you had been so trying ahead to seeing me that each second simply felt so lengthy?”

“Nah, it’s as a result of I’ve been a bit busy recently, and issues taking place a short while in the past appeared like a very long time in the past.”

“…You’ve been busy? Did one thing occur?”

“I’ve been serving to Shino research to arrange for the finals.”

“Shino is… err… ah, Yuizaki-san, proper? Yuizaki Shino-san. That jogs my memory, you probably did say it earlier than; you mentioned she’s your girlfriend.”

“Yeah, that’s proper.”

Whereas having a chit-chat, they went about their work as they’d been taught beforehand in coaching—choosing up the trash exterior whereas the solar was nonetheless out, and when that was accomplished, all types of cleansing inside subsequent.

“There positive are extra guests coming than I imagined. Regardless that as we speak’s a weekday and all.”

“Properly there are an honest variety of individuals on day without work even on a weekday, after which there are most likely additionally many individuals who need to have a look as soon as because it’s a brand new opening.”

“Time off on a weekday… huh. Now that you just point out it, talking of jobs with days off on weekdays and setting apart part-time jobs, doesn’t it occur to be unpopular within the case of full-time staff?”

“Eh?”

“I noticed every kind of job provides earlier than discovering this one, however I noticed loads of job provides for full-time positions that closely marketed weekends off. As I assumed, isn’t that extra well-liked?”

“…Usually occasions and stuff are held on weekends, and the vast majority of individuals most likely need to actively have enjoyable, so aren’t days off on weekends well-liked then?”

“I see.”

“However quite the opposite, I believe there’s additionally lots of people preferring days off on weekdays, although. Each my papa and mama mentioned having days off on weekdays makes it simpler to go to the federal government workplace or the financial institution.”

“Nn? Do you seek advice from your personal dad and mom as papa and mama?”

“Is it bizarre?”

“How do I say it… I assumed it’s like a woman. Properly it’s merely simply me feeling that approach, and I believe I’ve instructed you earlier than, however I’m a loner dangerous at socializing. There are occasions I’m out of sync with society. Forgive me for that.”

Hajime was a man, he himself had mentioned—a man whose appears to be like, voice, and gestures already seemed like nothing however that of an entire woman.

Maybe the so-called femboy.

No misplaced feeling when recognizing one as a woman, however when correctly one as a man, there could be a sense of discomfort every now and then.

It’s such a sense.

“That form of self-deprecating comment of yours, looks as if it might make you enemies considerably.”

“Make me enemies? Why?”

“I believe there’s lots of people who’d find yourself considering you could have a foul persona at your ‘I’m a loner dangerous at socializing’ regardless that you could have a magnificence for a girlfriend, you understand? I do know what sort of a man you’re, so I can simply move it off, although.”

“I’m—”

“—Simply saying the reality because you’re actually a loner dangerous at socializing, proper?”

“That’s it. That’s the reality, so I simply say it as it’s so there’s no misunderstandings.”

“Mm-hmm. But it surely’s about how the individuals who’d get which might be solely individuals like me who clearly perceive you.”

Even when it’s a comment that states solely the reality, totally different individuals would take it in another way.

That was a good level, and one which Sandai ought to suppose a bit about.

Sandai didn’t actually care about how individuals he acquired little to do with would see him like, however alternatively… Sandai was conscious that being like that wasn’t all proper.

So he determined to actually take Hajime’s level.

“I see… I suppose you’re proper. Thanks.”

“Thanks?”

“There are occasions I don’t actually get widespread sense and all that stuff. So, thanks for pointing that out to me.”

At Sandai expressing his thanks whereas scratching the tip of his nostril, Hajime seemed shocked and bursted into laughter instantly after.

“Fufu… ahahaha!”

“W-Why’re you laughing, I used to be simply saying my thanks.”

Might it’s that… Hajime was making enjoyable of Sandai?

No concept.

Nonetheless, Hajime was a hard-to-grasp femboy, so what was in Hajime’s thoughts was not possible for Sandai to know.

Whereas doing all this and that, he reached the top of his first day of part-time job and not using a single hitch. All that was left could be to clock out and get modified.

When Sandai entered the workplace along with Hajime, virtually on the similar time, Komaki in a rubber go well with walked in from the opposite entrance.

“So chilly…” With quivering lips, she grabbed the distant for the AC with inconceivable velocity and raised the temperature directly. “Fast, fast, get hotter—huh? Fujiwara-kun and Hajime-kun? I see, it’s already time so that you can get off work, huh.”

“What’s with that outfit?”

“This? Since as we speak’s the opening day, I assumed I’d make the dolphin present a bit longer than deliberate, so I hurriedly modified the schedule. After which my physique acquired colder than anticipated. Since you understand, it’s a present the place I’m additionally going into the water.”

Apparently she herself had gotten into the water for a present manufacturing or one thing, and that had ended up extended.

Komaki appeared to be pushing herself, however since she was the vice director, he felt that it was not a place the place she must be like that, nonetheless…

Within the worst case state of affairs of her bodily situation deteriorating, it might affect many issues, so shouldn’t her job be to ensure it wouldn’t flip into something critical?

No, it is likely to be the alternative.

It was additionally potential that exactly as a result of it was a place with its personal weight, she was attempting to take the initiative, and present the staff that she was working exhausting.

“It’s beginning to get hotter… however… nonetheless chilly.”

The room temperature contained in the room was steadily rising, however Komaki was rubbing each her fingers whereas shivering, maybe she was nonetheless chilly from the within. 

Sandai pushed in his time card to clock out, purchased a bottle of heat tea from a merchandising machine put in on the premises, and handed it to Komaki.

“Please take this.”

“Tea? You’re giving me?”

“Sure.”

“Thanks…”

“…Wouldn’t it’s higher to not push your self?”

“I get that, however I’m the vice director. If I don’t present myself pushing myself, I would get instructed ‘you bought the nerve trying so pompous whereas doing nothing!’ you understand?”

Komaki scratched her cheek and smiled wryly. It appeared it was appropriate that she was intentionally displaying herself working exhausting to the staff exactly as a result of she had her place.

“It appears there’s a lot happening.”

“Properly, I’m positive the time will come once you’ll perceive, too. Yeah.”

“I really feel like I’ll spend the remainder of my life with out ever understanding it, although… I can’t think about a future the place I’m an individual with place.”

“You have got a girlfriend, proper? You confirmed me her picture within the coaching final time, didn’t you? She’s a extremely cute woman.”

“Err, sure.”

“Should you proceed to be in a relationship with that woman with none hiccups, you’ll grow to be an grownup, and it’s potential it’ll get to marriage and such. You then’ve gotta work exhausting and grow to be an enormous man.”

“Assuming we are going to get married, I ponder, is there a necessity for me to be an enormous man at the moment…?”

“Properly, it’s nice even in the event you don’t grow to be an enormous man, although… For the results of you working exhausting, it’s a simple to grasp indicator, like… hmmm… what I need to say is that, you must present her that you just’re working exhausting I believe… I simply hate my weak vocabulary. I ought to’ve gone to a humanities school as a substitute of the science one.”

Though simply someway, Sandai did perceive what Komaki wished to say. To sum it up, it was about: don’t neglect to work exhausting on your girlfriend.

What immediately got here up in Komaki’s thoughts, about what an enormous particular person was like, was: the outcomes of working exhausting at your job.

“I perceive what you do need to say.”

“Actually?”

“It’s simply someway, although… I’ve to choose my girlfriend up after this, so I’ll take my depart now.”

“Selecting her up, huh… I’d love a boyfriend who will come choose me up, too.”

Sandai wish to keep away from entering into an extended dialog and being late in choosing Shino up, so he lower the dialog quick.

Then instantly after, having been watching from the facet from the start, “Fujiwara-kun, you’re reasonably good at coping with ladies, huh?” Hajime spoke so, who is aware of what sort of a joke it was this time.

“In what approach does it seem like that? I’m dangerous with ladies as a substitute. I can’t even bathe compliments like a number in a number membership can.”

“Compliments alone don’t imply you’re good at coping with them, although…”

“I positive don’t fairly get what you’re attempting to say.”

“It’s nice, don’t fear about it. Yeah.”

Sandai couldn’t even fathom what the true which means of Hajime’s phrases was. That mentioned, Hajime mentioned to not fear about it, so it wasn’t an enormous deal.

“Talking of which, we’re nonetheless in our work garments, so we’ve gotta go get modified. Let’s head to the altering room collectively.”

Hajime’s approach of fixing the topic was so pure that Sandai virtually reflexively nodded his head. Nonetheless, he remembered that that was a proposal he should not get on board with.

If Sandai had been to go get modified along with Hajime, that will imply to finish up seeing that physique of Hajime. That may find yourself with discovering one thing that will by no means have the ability to get undoed… was what Sandai felt for the scenario.

Sandai had felt the identical factor earlier than, however he had gone to vary alone in the bathroom at the moment.

Sandai’s intuition was telling him to do the identical this time, too. Deep down inside him was telling him that he should not open the Pandora’s field.

“You immediately froze up, what’s up? Are you feeling ailing?”

“I’m feeling simply nice.”

“Then let’s simply rapidly head to the altering room.”

“No can do.”

“Eh?”

“I’ll go get modified in the bathroom.”

“…I get that you just’re embarrassed, and I additionally bear in mind you’re telling me you could have that form of precept, however don’t you consider mustering up the braveness a bit of? And I do really feel like we will get to know one another higher if we go get modified collectively.”

“I’m a person who received’t change his precept simply.”

“Wai—”

“—Sorry.”

Sandai grabbed his change of garments and ran to the bathroom with out ready for Hajime’s response.

Hajime wasn’t a foul particular person, and doubtless somebody who was near his no. 1 pal. Sandai did acknowledge that in his coronary heart.

However this and that had been a unique story.