Unlike those who wanted to shine, Maya Matsumoto clung to the ordinary and believed herself to be nothing more than an ordinary person. Even while working in a restaurant full of weirdos, she remained convinced that she was simply too ordinary to fit in with her strange coworkers... Though working in an environment full of weirdos was itself rather strange, Maya Matsumoto still firmly believed that she was ordinary!
"Heh, heh heh, Miss Matsumoto is pretty strange herself..." Manager Otoo said with an awkward laugh in the kitchen break room. "This isn't Wagnaria. Why call Kyoko just because someone's causing trouble?"
"Isn't Manager Shirafuji strange too? Why did she run out the moment someone called for her?" Takanashi chimed in. "Someone who didn't know better would think she was yakuza..."
"Little Takanashi!" Before he could finish, Yachiyo Todoroki solemnly said, "Kyoko isn't some delinquent biker gang yakuza. Even if she occasionally says 'Yoroshiku,' and even if battered baseball bats sometimes turn up in the restaurant, that doesn't prove Kyoko..."
"Huh!?" Takanashi froze. "I-I was only making an analogy. Wait, are those baseball bats at Wagnaria the manager's?"
"..." Yachiyo Todoroki, who had put a long sword back on her shoulder, fell silent for a while before pointing at the ceiling. "Um, Kyoko used to be a key player on the baseball team. The kind who almost made it to Koshien. Though she ultimately didn't get there, Kyoko's love for baseball was no less than anyone else's! When you think of it that way, isn't it perfectly normal for the restaurant to have those baseball bats?" Takanashi: "..." Stop trying to fool him. How could someone who loved baseball bear to see baseball bats covered in scars? There were even nails hammered into them. Did they think he didn't know? That