"Yeah. Scared me half to death first thing in the morning," Senba Gari said helplessly, while pulling open a desk drawer with one hand.
When the drawer had been pulled out a certain distance, Senba Gari's eyes suddenly flew wide open. A moment later, he abruptly shoved the drawer shut in a slight panic.
There was a sudden bang! from the drawer, and the startled Ms. Yamauchi looked at Senba Gari, whose expression seemed a little flustered, in confusion.
"What's wrong, Mr. Senba? That came out of nowhere. You scared me."
"Uh, no, it's nothing." After Senba Gari quickly got himself back under control, his voice seemed to go slightly off-key. "I just suddenly remembered that a limited-edition game I wanted to buy was apparently only being sold at noon. Though at this point, I probably can't get it anymore."
"Really? I didn't expect you to like playing games too, Mr. Senba," Ms. Yamauchi said, seeming a little surprised.
"Uh, no, not really. It's just that a certain... person? asked me to buy it." Senba Gari suddenly hesitated when he mentioned that certain someone. After all, whether a robot counted as a person was a question.
"I see. Ah, I can't keep chatting. I still have to pick up my child, so I'll be going. Goodbye." Suddenly remembering that her child was still waiting at school for her to pick them up, Ms. Yamauchi hurriedly said goodbye to Senba Gari.
"Goodbye. Say hello to your child for me."
"No problem."
—Click.
After Yamauchi left, Senba Gari warily looked around. Only after discovering that no one had appeared did he let out a breath of relief and pull open the drawer from earlier.
Inside the drawer lay a familiar object in silence—a pitch-black Beast Soul Driver. Unlike the Beast Soul Driver