Ash Wants to Apologize?
"Boss."
"Mm, what is it, Yuri?"
Hearing the call from his cute employee, Ash closed the Kamen Rider 913 comic in his hand and looked toward Yuri, who had just finished cleaning the café.
Setting down her broom, Yuri pointed at her nose.
"Boss, here...?"
"Ah."
When he raised a hand to touch the bridge of his nose, a piercing pain shot through it. The wad of tissue stuffed in his nostril was visibly soaked red.
It was not just his nose. His jaw was still clicking, and several of his teeth had nearly been knocked out.
"Boss, I was only gone for a week. What happened to you? Don't tell me you fell in the restroom again."
"I'm happy that you're concerned about me, Yuri." Ash brewed himself a cup of coffee and helplessly stirred the suspicious black liquid that kept bubbling with a silver spoon.
You already said the excuse I was going to use. What else could I say?
"It was because of a woman."
That soft feeling definitely had not been fake, so she really was a woman... I actually failed to recognize her at first. How embarrassing.
"A woman..."
Yuri fell silent at that answer. With a woman's sharp instincts, her thoughts immediately began to wander.
The boss meant a woman beat him up? Could it be... retaliation for playing with someone's feelings? Was the boss the playboy type?
All the family melodramas she had watched with her mother during her break came flooding into Yuri's mind.
This somehow made her feel really unhappy.
"So this is the consequence of hurting someone?"
"Hey, hey, why are you assuming it was my fault?!" Ash became flustered. What was going on? Why did Yuri seem to be getting more and more black-hearted? Give