Chapter 14 – Not Human?
“Okay, everyone ready?”
“Yes!”
“I’m ready!”
Today, Elena, Sylvia, and I were all wearing vests, the convenience store uniform, and making up our minds.
The reason why Sylvia, who normally would not have come to work at this time, came to work.
It was because of the Imperial Knights’ convenience store dinner held once a month.
The Imperial Palace Knights are famous for thoroughly managing everything from training to diet.
Did the first knight commander insist that knights eat cleanly and efficiently, making healthy food a staple food?
In fact, it is true that the level of the imperial palace knights has improved thanks to this.
In any case, unless they went out to work in the imperial capital or went on a business trip to a rural area, all they could eat was healthy food.
Those who can’t even drink a drop of alcohol are given one day to drink as much as they want, and that is today, once a month.
The knights went to restaurants or gathered in small groups and dispersed throughout the empire.
And the place where most people gather is our DG convenience store.
Last month, over hundreds of people came.
Because it overlapped with work time and was very busy, Sylvia also added her hands on days like today.
“It’s coming slowly now.”
From afar, a group of people dressed in a harmonious combination of blue and gold, the symbolic colors of the empire, were approaching.
“Please make sure to get your allowance!”
“Of course.”
“Manager, how about having a company dinner after we finish?”
Elena and Sylvia must have been busy, so they were calm even when they heard that a lot of customers were coming.
Well, it’s a regular visit from a group of knights, like a monthly event, so it’s time to get used to it.
When they first encountered the group of knights, their expressions were still vivid.
It wasn’t like I was getting grumpy or making a calculation mistake, and it was a mess.
When we are resolute in battle.
Rattle!
The knights came in dressed in activewear with golden lines drawn on a blue background.
Although there was no uniform to show solemnity or armor to symbolize their military power, I could feel their strong spirit.
“Welcome! It’s a DG convenience store!”
They looked inside the convenience store with eyes full of excitement, like privates visiting PX for the first time.
Even though I only had time, it was the first convenience store I visited in a month.
Wouldn’t it have felt like a golden carriage coming to the GOP for them?
I have never worked for the GOP, but my friends say so.
The golden carriage that came every month was like Santa Claus carrying a bundle of gifts.
They will do the same.
Even if you handle mana and have the status of a noble, there is no difference in status when it comes to eating.
“Unlike outside, the air is cool! A magic air conditioner…”
“Oh! Ice cream! Isn’t this the snack that sells like hot cakes in the capital’s summer?”
Some of the new recruits were also mixed in, and there were knights running around like kids in a toy store.
I’m getting busy now.
We didn’t even have time to talk among ourselves.
The sales amount was clearly recorded on POSGI.
Oh, is this what the restaurant owner’s face looked like when he saw the wrestling team attack?
I am happy.
The corners of my mouth keep going up.
Beep! Beep! Beep!.
The sound of a barcode stamping a product.
“A total of 37 gold.”
“Next guest! Please come this way!”
“Please keep order.”
The sound of my staff and I are paying for customers’ items and handing them over.
“Wow, isn’t the employee over there pretty?”
“The employees at the DG convenience store are quite famous in the capital.”
“Is that so?”
Even the drivers whispering to our employees while waiting in line.
Elena and Sylvia, who were busy greeting guests, focused on their work as if they hadn’t heard.
Are they famous in the capital?
I don’t know?
While scanning the barcode with my hand, I focused on the drivers’ conversations with my ears.
“She is said to be the prettiest of all the employees working around here. You probably won’t have any trouble with the nobles studying at the academy over there or the noble ladies who appear in social circles.”
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
“There won’t be any? But if you’re thinking of confessing, stop.”
“Why is that so? I know that Elena is a commoner. “If it’s because of the difference in status, it’s okay because I come from a fallen noble family anyway.”
“It’s not that, it’s the store manager next to him…”
I made eye contact with the senior driver who was speaking.
Oops.
“Manager, don’t you pay?”
Is it because I focused too much on their stories?
The hand that was scanning the barcode stopped, and without realizing it, I raised my head and made eye contact with the driver who was standing in line.
When he made eye contact with me, the senior driver hurriedly avoided my gaze.
Silence fell between them again.
I also busily moved my hand to scan the barcode.
And by the time the procession was reduced by half.
“Keuhumhum! “Over here.”
The knight with short, light blue hair cleared his throat and held out an item to Elena.
“Yes?”
“Drink this.”
What he presented was not chocolate sold at our convenience store, but handmade chocolate sold at a famous dessert shop nearby. It was a thoughtful box of chocolates that even included a letter.
“What is this?”
“This is a letter filled with my heart. I’ve also written my crystal ball address below, so if you’re interested…”
A shy confession from a fledgling knight.
The knight, whose face was red, hesitated and continued his next words.
“Please contact me at the address listed here.”
How dare this bastard work.
“I’m sorry, customer, but it would be difficult for you to approach our staff like this.”
I stood next to Elena and pushed the knight’s chocolate away.
“Um, store manager?”
Elena came out and looked at her article in a puzzled voice.
“If you want to confess, please come later when you have free time or after work. “It’s difficult to do this when you’re so busy.”
“Then at least chocolate!”
I saw Elena.
In the sense of what to do.
“Sorry. I don’t think I can get it.”
Elena smiled embarrassedly and lowered her head.
In the end, the rejected knight’s confessional chocolate and letter returned to his arms.
Sorry. By trampling on your innocence.
But then.
Our Elena can’t hand over her brain to the knights of muscle.
If you watch the house alone all the time and lose your life in battle, you become a widow.
Cancer, you can’t do that.
At least she wanted to introduce her to a man with a decent job.
The head of the merchant guild over there had a nice personality and personality. Maybe if I get married, I won’t have to go through any trouble.
“Okay then, let me help you with the calculations.”
I held the confessional article in my arms and headed to the checkout counter.
Even in the past, there were many people who confessed to Elena.
At that time, everyone from back alley gangsters to well-established guild employees confessed.
I guess it’s because of her beautiful looks and good-looking body.
Even seeing him smile innocently at customers every day made people’s hearts melt.
Because of their status as commoners, many people confessed without pressure.
I blocked all of that.
How dare you.
Just six months ago, she was a minor!
She confesses her love to a minor?
I don’t know what it would be like in this world, but for me, who lived in modern society, it was something that was absolutely impossible.
Why are you doing that now?
It just became a habit.
There were many people who took advantage of Elena’s good nature as she could not be easily rejected.
Of course, I had no intention of interfering with her if she wanted to.
I’m just giving her the opportunity to say no on her behalf because she can’t say no.
What if she accepts here?
Even if it is an imperial knight whose brain is muscle, even if it is a crazy magic tower scientist who is crazy about experiments, even if it is a killer who was raised only for slaughter.
I had the heart to give permission with tears in my eyes.
Isn’t this the father’s heart?
Ah, father, how did you live like that?
“I got cut today again.”
“Poor guy, so don’t do it.”
“I prepared with all my heart, but it was useless in front of the ironclad store manager.”
Iron-clad store manager?
Are you talking about me?
These kids, why are they giving me nicknames?
I’ll have to have an interview sometime soon.
Thinking that the knights would be horrified if they found out, he calculated the items.
“I’m sorry. Because I didn’t receive any special contact. “I’m busy with my own work right now.”
Sylvia smiled and blocked it cleanly. She was so merciless that I thought I would get cut too.
As expected, these articles are full of male hormones.
Are they also nobles?
The guests, who were commoners, scolded him for taking on an unthinkable challenge.
The liver is also big.
“As expected, the Fire Witch, you’ve already killed two people today.”
It seems that Silvia also has a strange nickname among the knights.
The witch of fire.
I thought I suited her quite well.
This made her curious.
‘What is Elena’s nickname?’
Unfortunately, she never found out.
***
“Whoa, it’s finally over.”
All the drivers who stormed the convenience store like a storm returned.
I can’t tell you how busy it was, as workers from nearby guilds came in at the same time as they were leaving work.
“Everyone worked hard.”
“Thank you for your hard work, store manager!”
If guests had come for just one more hour, I would have died.
When there are a lot of customers, you shouldn’t say hello. It won’t work.
“I asked the store next door to get food for the company dinner in advance, so let’s eat.”
I changed the sign at the entrance from OPEN to CLOSE.
There’s no way the people in the empire knew about Open Close, but since they’ve been putting up signs for 3 years, they kind of figured it out.
-It’s a word from the store manager’s hometown.
If I didn’t have to tell the people of the empire the difference between English and Korean, I just roughly answered it.
King Sejong, I am sorry.
The food I received was steak and salad made from beef, and stir-fried meat and vegetables, which are popular in the Empire.
“Enjoy your meal. Since you are off work, if you want, you can bring some alcohol like beer or wine.”
However, Elena rarely lifted a fork.
Why does she like to eat?
“Elena, are you okay?”
“Yes?”
“Why aren’t you eating? Is it because of what the driver confessed earlier?”
“Oh, that’s…”
Elena delayed answering.
Sylvia, who was caught in the middle of her, turned her head and looked at Elena and me with her eyes wide open.
Her eyes sparkled.
“Is it because I stopped you? Did you have feelings for that friend?”
“Ah, um…”
“If there’s someone you like, say you’ll get it. “Don’t bother rejecting me because of me.”
“Yes?”
Elena asked back in surprise.
It was the same for Sylvia, who was caught in the middle.
“Don’t look at me. “If it’s uncomfortable for me to stop you, I won’t do it again from now on.”
Elena, who had a strange expression for a moment, shook her head.
“It’s not because of the manager.”
“Then?”
“I want to focus more on work now. You know. “I saw myself in a back alley on the verge of starvation.”
“That’s right.”
Is there really going to be one more body on the streets at that time? I wanted to.
“If you don’t want that to happen, you have to work hard in advance. If I save money like that, I will find something I want to do. And… “I really want to date someone I like.”
“Is that so?”
Elena also had a lot of worries.
She lived a difficult past.
Since she is now living a somewhat stable life, she would like her current life to be a little more stable. When I become stable like that, I can do what I want to do.
She is someone I like, by the way.
Is it really necessary for someone to like it when they see you say that?
Well, in Oscar, the capital of the empire, handsome men and women from all over the continent live together.
It’s even a convenience store right in front of Changgwanin Lake.
There are so many good-looking and well-spoken guys at the lake there.
‘No way… ‘Is it one of the ones in the lake?’
But you can’t do it.
You can’t be charmed by a guy just because he’s handsome or good at speaking!
It’s better to date a wizard.
If that’s really the case…
I took the host into my own hands for her happiness…
We don’t know yet.
There may be no one you like.
There was no need to find out that fact from her.
“Then why was your expression so dark?”
To Sylvia’s question.
“Oh, that’s actually…”
Elena, wringing her fingers, spoke carefully.
What makes her so depressed?
“I wanted to eat those Ozzie cheese fries…”
Huh?
“Is that all?”
“Yes. “Why not?”
“Will Aussie Fry stop?”
“It’s better to show in person than to say. Just wait a moment. I’ll make you one. “I put that on the side and eat all of that too.”
“Thank you. Manager!”
While I was choosing snacks and cheese, Sylvia shouted urgently.
“Well, I don’t eat!”
“Why?”
“Please charge an additional fee for the dinner party. For your information, I didn’t even touch this!”
“Sylvia, we should eat together. What does that mean?”
“I still need to save up a lot of money. I can’t eat this. How much is this if you eat it…”
Sylvia becomes sullen.
Her red hair, tied in pigtails, hung down.
Oh my, money is important.
By the way.
“If you don’t eat this and starve again and collapse, who will make up for your empty time? Of course, I would have to fill it in. “I have no intention of working 24 hours a day.”
“However, if you don’t eat this, you will earn an additional 5 gold.”
Yes, this food set costs 15 gold, so if you do 1/3 of it, you will feel like earning 5 gold.
“Sylvia, do you really want me to ask you to pay for my hard work because I ate a meal? “This is what I buy, so just eat it.”
“Umm…”
“Besides, if you collapse, you won’t be able to make any money, so are you going to keep eating like that?”
How much does it cost to miss a day of work?
After completing her calculations in her head, Sylvia pursed her lips and lifted her fork.
“Well, I’ll eat it. Because the store manager lives there. Even if you look at his sincerity his…”
Meanwhile, I made a simple fried egg and put it on the table.
The look on Sylvia’s face when she took a forkful of it with her trembling hands was like
“Ah…”
It was the same as the scene in the famous animation that shouted “Mimi (美味)”.
“It’s really delicious!”
Sylvia ate meat and fries alternately with her fork her, sputtering words that were too vulgar for a nobleman.
“I will eat well!”
Elena and I both lifted our forks and tasted the food.
Ah, it was really delicious.
After all, the food you work and eat is Jinttobaegi.
***
“What’s going on?”
Luna, disguised as Jane, visited the convenience store for the first time in a long time.
“I found it.”
“What?”
“Who spread the magic circle in the forest?”
Luna’s expression hardened.
“What kind of guy is this?”
“This guy is not human.”
Not human?
