The Ultimate Reason Not to Learn Japanese

"Say, junior, before your teacher brought you all out here, did they tell you what to do if you got stranded abroad without a penny on you?"

At the supermarket checkout exit, after the busiest part of the day had passed,

the number of shoppers suddenly dwindled, and there were no longer long lines like before.

Free behind the register, Fang Ran casually asked as he looked at the labels Tang Bing had stuck on the various coins to keep him from mixing up their denominations. At the same time, he checked whether the cash and receipts in the machine matched up.

Though this was only a temporary job to tide him through the current situation, Fang Ran did not want to cause trouble for either himself or anyone else.

Behind him, Tang Bing was also checking whether her cash counted correctly, though she was mostly afraid of having to pay out of pocket. Delighted that she did not have to run herself ragged today, she hummed a song.

Then, just as she took out and opened her notebook, she blinked blankly at his question.

"Huh? Without a penny?"

Wait, hadn't I heard Senior ask something like this before?

"What else could you do? Go to the consulate."

After thinking about it for a moment, Tang Bing rolled her eyes speechlessly.

Then she heard Fang Ran sigh behind her, for some reason sounding deeply melancholy.

"Just as I thought."

"But I've seen online and heard people say that the staff at consulate and embassy windows have terrible attitudes, and they're inefficient too. Though I've never been there myself."

As expected, normally there was only one solution. Fang Ran sighed inwardly as Tang Bing quietly added that, seemingly because she was speaking ill of others.

"By the way, junior, why did