"Manager..." Kawatani, the clerk, had quite the headache over Manager Yamato's baffling obsession.
"This is completely one-sided slaughter!" Manager Yamato stared at the various machines wildly spewing out tokens. "C-Could it be that my title as King of Challengers is nothing but a joke before those two?"
"Manager, there's no need to panic yet. Legendary players never redeem their tokens. We still have a chance!"
"..." After a brief daze, Manager Yamato said in delight, "Kawatani, you're right. Legendary players only claim the prizes that come with the games. So what if they have lots of tokens? I have absolute confidence in the claw machines here. I've also set that dart game to super nightmare hell mode, impossible to beat... Even legendary players won't be taking a single prize from my arcade. Kawatani, if this place breaks the legend right as it closes down, then all my efforts won't have been in vain!"
Clerk Kawatani: "..."
If the manager were not so stubborn, this arcade could probably have held on for a while longer.
While the manager and clerk were talking, Mashiro Shiina and Ako Tamaki, who had already used up their tokens, came over to the Doma siblings.
"Sogo, Umaru, don't you think this arcade has a strange atmosphere?" Recalling the manager clutching his head and muttering earlier, Ako could not help asking.
Even Mashiro nodded at that, though she did not really understand why.
"The atmosphere is strange? What do you think, Onii-chan?" Before Sogo could answer, Umaru asked with a puzzled look. She looked around. Hmm, a manager who looked utterly dead inside yet was forcing himself to keep going, plus a clerk constantly cheering him on... Umaru thought carefully—what was strange about that atmosphere?
Hadn't every arcade she used to visit been like this? Of course,