I Hear Strange Noises in the Health Room. 8

Chapter 8 – 2. Half-Hero, Lee Ha-Yoon (2)

“Me? I’m working part-time. You wouldn’t know it if you looked at it, right?”

Lee Ha-yoon said, looking quite arrogant for a part-timer.

I couldn’t quite understand how he was sitting with his legs crossed even though there was a customer in front of him, but I just ignored it for now.

It’s not because I think I’m an old man, but that woman, Ha-yoon Lee

1. We talked about it.

2. No.

Because she was a woman whose distance of intimacy changed quickly with just this.

So, I think that’s why he acted like that in front of me because he thought it was in front of a ‘close junior’.

… Okay. I think that’s it for now.

Since Lee Ha-yoon is a part-timer at this convenience store, isn’t there one thing that can’t be clearly explained?

“… Shall I give you a piece of trash? Why are you standing there so blankly?”

“…”

“Do you like tuna mayonnaise? Where… Ah, there is also Jeonju bibimbap.”

… Robbery.

How on earth did I hear that?

8

“What time do you work until?”

“11 o’clock. One hour left.”

I figured I would still have time anyway, so I sat down at the convenience store for a while and talked to Lee Ha-yoon.

It was difficult at first because we only talked about things that were difficult to exchange, such as what cosmetics were like or how intense the training was, but it was still worth talking about food.

Lee Ha-yoon’s taste in food was useful information to me.

“Any type of cotton… Yes.”

“I am… Sweet red bean bread! Sweet red bean bread with whipped cream!”

“… ?”

“Don’t you know? This is delicious.”

“… I’ll try it next time.”

During the story, a food I had never heard of called whipped cream red bean bread was mentioned, so I kept it in my head for now.

The boundaries have already been relaxed, but if you build up your favorability, the options you can choose from will increase.

I looked down at Lee Ha-yoon’s bright smile as she said that there were 59 minutes left, and then I looked away from her before she could ask her questions.

It was boringly quiet outside the convenience store.

I think the convenience store near my studio always had one or two customers even during these times.

Surprisingly, there was no floating population here for about 20 minutes. Even though it is a convenience store located between residential areas.

At least there should be customers who come to buy cigarettes, right? Is it a neighborhood with a lot of non-smoking grandparents who go to bed early?

After thinking about it for a while, I asked Lee Ha-yoon.

“Are there usually no customers like this here?”

“Um… Generally? “They’re not around this time?”

Okay, Lee Ha-yoon stretched out and said, tearing off a carton of cigarettes and putting them one by one on the display stand.

“I’ve been working for about half a year now, but strangely, there’s no one around at this time. I’m not sure why.”

“…”

“Last time, there was a time when no one came for an entire week? Between 10 and 11 o’clock. Just at this time.”

Lee Ha-yoon continues to organize while humming an unidentified song.

… Is it because I saw him wearing a T-shirt that was wet and clinging to his body from the rain a few hours ago?

A puffy hoodie. Even though I’m wearing an extra layer of convenience store uniform on top, I can at least roughly imagine what the inside is like.

This is not the time.

Quietly so that Lee Ha-yoon can’t hear. I swallowed the saliva that filled my mouth.

“Sister.”

“Yes.”

“I’ll leave soon. I ended up here after working out.”

“… Aren’t you here to buy something? Should I just go?”

“Ah…”

Come to think of it, I didn’t think about what to buy.

If the part-timer wasn’t Lee Ha-yoon, he would have just looked at the items and left.

After thinking for a moment, I picked up a throat lozenge that was visible right under the counter.

Beep, beep, mechanical sound.

Immediately after, the card comes out of Lee Ha-yoon’s wallet, one step ahead of me who was trying to take it out.

A picture of a strange animal… Anyway, it was an impressive card.

“Now. The price you pay for playing with me.”

Lee Ha-yoon smiles brightly, with the corners of his mouth pulled up as always.

After briefly remembering that she talked a lot about money, I left her convenience store with a thank you.

*****

I lightly ran about 200 meters as if I was returning home.

Are there any gazes you feel?

Do you sense any hidden signs of popularity around you?

Take a quick look, go around a few corners and wait 3 seconds.

Then, I turned in the exact opposite direction and started heading back to the convenience store.

Approximately 1 minute. At this point, the criminal who was watching around the convenience store would have had enough time to commit the crime.

There is no end to waiting and waiting. When the opportunity arises, you have to finish it right away.

Therefore, if the criminal had been hiding and waiting nearby, he would have passed through the automatic convenience store door by now.

I wonder what would happen if it were a robber with a knife… Because the risk of an evolutionary transcendent like Lee Ha-yoon being stabbed by a sword wielded by an ordinary person is not particularly high.

Still, I’m a little worried about what would happen if it were a transcendental with the same intensity.

I can treat you, but I don’t want Lee Ha-yoon to smell like someone else.

As I approached the convenience store again, I silenced my footsteps to avoid making a mistake.

The convenience store seen from afar was still shining brightly. There is no particular difference from before.

Fortunately, the residential area was crowded with cars parked here and there. I carefully moved between the baskets, stopped at a place where I could easily see the convenience store, and hid myself.

… Unfortunately. Nothing has happened so far.

All you can see is Lee Ha-yoon counting the amount of money inside the POS machine to see if the amount of money is accurate before changing to the next worker.

Umm. I thought the criminal might have been unable to commit the crime because I was inside the convenience store, but was it just a delusion?

Maybe I gave up on the crime because I had already been in the convenience store for a long time.

I put one of the throat lozenges I received as a gift into my mouth and looked around.

Alleyways visible on both sides.

An alley in a diagonal direction.

No matter where I looked, there was no sign of popularity at all.

It’s unpleasant, as if a ghost has appeared.

“…”

As a rule of thumb, 50 minutes.

Let’s just stay until Lee Ha-yoon shifts.

If it’s someone else, it doesn’t really matter if they get stabbed by a robber.

I pulled up my neck warmer a little more, melted the neck candy, and watched the alley.

*****

10 minutes passed.

Rustling, small footsteps were heard nearby.

I ended up watching the alley as if I were Lee Ha-yoon’s stalker.

I immediately shifted my gaze to the point where the sound came from.

There, a woman who looked a little nervous was walking through the alley with cautious steps.

I think it’s around 170. For a woman, she is quite tall.

Another characteristic is that the glasses he is wearing are quite thick.

The body type is normal. I don’t feel like I’ve been toned through exercise at all, but I’m not too thin or fat either.

If I had been walking normally, or at least smoking a cigarette, I wouldn’t have paid much attention.

The ribcage moves up and down as you take several deep breaths. When I see the suspicious behavior of constantly looking back, my thoughts naturally turn to one side.

That bastard. Robbery.

But, what should I say?

It’s confusing not only because she’s a woman, but because she looks a bit gentle to commit a bold robbery.

As she watched for a moment more, her toes, which had been walking in a straight line, changed direction.

It was none other than the direction of the convenience store.

Tinkle, tinkle. The convenience store door opened and the woman went inside.

Unlike when I entered, I can clearly hear a lively voice greeting me, saying, ‘Welcome!’

Nothing much has happened so far. The woman didn’t suddenly pull a knife out of her pocket, she just entered the middle aisle of the convenience store as if she was shopping.

Maybe I was judging people too much based solely on their appearance.

Around that time, the evaluation of women was changing.

She lifted her shoulders once as if she had made up her mind, took off her glasses, and put them in her pocket.

Sometimes there is such a transcendent person.

A type of person who can use abilities only when a few minor conditions are met.

Or, the type that intentionally limits their abilities.

With an ominous premonition, I cautiously walked out of the darkness.

Would it have been better to have sat a little closer?

Because I was watching from about 15 meters away, the woman who approached the counter holding a snack was much faster than me.

The woman was looking straight at Lee Ha-yoon’s face with a nervous expression.

Even when Lee Ha-yoon was taking her barcode.

Even when she was taking the card and helping her pay.

Even when the calculation was over and Lee Ha-yoon was about to return her card.

It’s strange that the woman stays still, even when Lee Ha-yoon tilts her head.

Continue.

She was looking at Lee Ha-yoon’s face.

… Well, if that woman is a big fan of prospective hero Lee Ha-yoon, then that might be the case.

─Tingle, rattle.

“Hey.”

“… ?”

When I see Ha-yoon Lee, who had been making eye contact with her for a while, roll over as if she was asleep,

It looks like he’s not a fan.

“I misunderstood…”

Boom.

As long as the human head is not broken, it tends to make a sound that is much clearer than expected.

I immediately grabbed the woman by the head and slammed her into the floor of the convenience store, and when I saw her flinch and crawl like a bug, I approached Lee Ha-yoon.

At first, it looks like he’s just asleep.

However, due to the nature of the magic world, where you cannot know exactly what the ability is until you open all the cards, it may be a slightly more difficult type.

For example, a powerful ability that causes the caster to fall asleep for life until it is canceled.

Or maybe it’s not the original ability to put one to sleep in the first place, but the actual ability is hypnosis.

Anyway.

It didn’t seem like the woman had come to the convenience store just to buy a snack.

Either rob the money box.

Or maybe we can steal the organs of the sleeping girl here.

It must have come with that purpose.

I laid Lee Ha-yoon down in a comfortable position on the floor for a moment and then approached the woman I had just defeated.

The twitching was still there. There were some traces of blood, as if his head had just hit the floor and broken, but it didn’t really matter as long as he could communicate.

“Fuck… Fuck…”

“Release the magic first.”

“I can’t release it… You idiot… 1 hour… Has to pass…”

A woman waving her hands, drool flowing out of her mouth.

She grabbed her hair tightly and pulled it up to my eye level.

He’s scratching my arms and the back of my hands trying to get me to let go, but that’s all he can do.

Her her toes her her her wobble pitifully as she struggles to touch the ground.

“Is it true?”

“Why would I…” ” Tell such a lie…”

Although I was not a combatant in front of the battlefield, I learned a few things from looking over the shoulders of the villains. Especially over Yozora’s shoulder.

The point is that people are easier to be honest than you think.

Especially if it is related to your life.

So I.

Boom.

He slammed the woman’s head into the ground once more.

Perhaps because her feet were not on the ground, the sound was louder than before.

“Whoa…”

I guess it’s because it’s been a while since I used my strength. It was quite hot.

After taking off her her neck her her warmer and putting it on the counter, I put my hand on the woman’s head her and quickly started to treat her wound her.

As the magical power rips through the woman’s body, the ugly gurgling sound from earlier quickly quiets down.

However, what came back was a very displeased look.

A gaze full of anger, determined to kill you at any cost.

It looks like he hasn’t been honest yet.

Boom.

Blood and an unidentified liquid splattered together on the floor where the sound echoed.

It looks like I took the wrong direction this time and broke my nose.

Pooh, I sighed and went back to treating the woman’s wounds.

The same popping sound from before subsided, and this time a slightly different gaze turned towards me.

A dull, gunless gaze, like a fish that has been taken out of the water for a long time.

I think it finally occurred to me to talk about it.

“Magic. Release.”

“…”

A moment of silence.

Afterwards, the woman took out her glasses with her trembling hands and placed them in front of my eyes. She’s the fat glasses you saw earlier.

It was right after that that Ha-yoon Lee opened her eyes.

“… Hmm?”

The sparkling dark green eyes, which don’t quite match the harsh situation just now, are hidden behind the eyelids.

“… Huh?”

Lee Ha-yoon got up from his seat and walked shakily towards us.

She said, looking back and forth between me, who was standing up fine, and the trembling woman on her knees on the floor.

“… Customer. Did you fall?”

“…”

It’s a reaction typical of Lee Ha-yoon, though.

Why does she sigh?

“Hmm… ? Why do I feel dizzy… ? Woojin, why are you here again?”

“Sister. Make the phone call first.”

“Phone? Suddenly? Where?”

“112. And where can I check the CCTV?”

“112? Uh, well, there’s a computer in that warehouse-like place…”