Fujino and two girls spent the night outside. Somewhere, a little grim reaper could not sleep late at night. Was this moral decay, or the distortion of human nature?
Fujino did not know. He only knew that he had slept quite soundly on the sofa.
Nothing happened that night.
The next day was a day off.
More specifically, it was Saturday.
In any case, Saturday and Sunday no longer made any difference to Fujino. This messed-up timeline did not follow any order anyway. If the girls went to school, it was a day off.
Since it was a day off, some matters regarding the new store could finally be handled.
Snow King Ice City's A2 branch in front of Beika Station.
The new Snow King Ice City store retained the old shops' decor: an overall modern style in white or off-white, paired with a small amount of red decoration, simple solid-wood tabletops and matching chairs, as well as wall-side sofas chosen for visual effect.
The store covered sixty square meters, with another floor upstairs, making roughly one hundred and twenty square meters in total. The annual rent was seven million yen, or a little over six hundred thousand yen per month. Considering the location, it was well worth the money. After all, Beika TR Station was right outside, so foot traffic was guaranteed.
It was practically a bargain.
If the owner of the burger restaurant that had operated here had not died, and the owner's son had not run off with his stepmother, leaving the place in urgent need of tenants, how could seven million yen possibly rent a location like this?
Inside the store.
Akemi Miyano sat at one of the finished sofa seats, talking about something with a woman with long brown hair.
Fujino looked at the woman