Anime: Desolate Darkness

"Manager, why are you closing so early today?"

Several employees in the coffee shop were cleaning, and one of them couldn't help but ask curiously.

Although the store usually closes early, today it’s not even lunch time yet and I’ve only been working for two hours.

Ryunosuke Ichisuke stood in front of the mirror inside the counter, fixing his appearance, and responded, "I have a very good professor friend at the University of Tokyo, and he asked me to come over to see him, saying that he wanted to catch up with me.

I have nothing to do, so I might as well go to Tokyo and play for a few days."

"Eh? Are we going to close the store again for the next few days?"

"What else? If the store manager isn't in the store, why are you still running a store?"

As soon as he finished speaking, worried expressions appeared on the faces of several shop assistants.

Ryunosuke noticed this and was very confused. He asked, "Why do you look so unhappy?"

One of the shop assistants replied: "Nothing, but I feel a little guilty when I think about not having to work for several days but still getting paid as usual."

This employee's words seemed to express the thoughts of other employees, and everyone nodded in agreement.

Ryunosuke looked at them helplessly and said, "Then according to what you said, should I deduct your salary for the past few days?"

Hearing this, everyone opened their mouths in shock.

"Manager! I was just joking!" the employee who spoke earlier hurriedly explained.

……

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you agree not to disturb us?"

Back in the apartment, Sakurajima Mai angrily questioned her sister in front of her.

Fenghama and Hua curled up on the sofa, hugging a pillow tightly, their faces puffed up. In the face of their sister's accusations, they said nothing and just sulked.

Her intuition told her that Kimura Takumi was a very deep person and her sister couldn't possibly control her. She was obviously doing this for his own good and didn't want him to get too deeply involved, so she messed things up.

Unexpectedly, the other party not only did not appreciate it, but also kept talking about himself!

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Sakurajima Mai covered her eyes and sighed heavily.

Just before, whenever she and Kimura Takumi wanted to get a little more intimate, Toyohama Kazuka would either interrupt them with a cough on purpose or suddenly make strange noises.

These actions made Sakurajima Mai very angry. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and asked Kimura Takumi to send Toyohama and Hana home.

Unexpectedly, when Kimura Takumi returned here, he found many missed calls on his mobile phone, so he made a call and left in a hurry.

The originally wonderful plan of traveling around the world was ruined, and the culprit even looked aggrieved!

……

As for Kimura Takumi, he drove to Futaba Rio's residence.

The girl who had been squatting at the door waiting for a long time stood up quickly to greet it when she saw the familiar car approaching.

"Futaba, what exactly is the serious matter you mentioned? Why do we have to talk about it face to face?" After Kimura Takumi parked the car by the side of the road, he got out and asked.

Because the weather was too hot and Rio Futaba had no plans to go out, her outfit at the moment looked very homely and cool: a pair of orange shorts on the lower body and a small off-shoulder T-shirt on the upper body.

When the distance between the two people shortened, from Kimura Takumi's perspective, he could clearly see the other's snow-white breasts through the collar.

Seeing this spectacular scenery, even Kimura Takumi couldn't help but swallow his saliva subconsciously.

"Um... Mr. Kimura, please come in first." Futaba Rio carefully pulled his wrist and led him into the house.

Kimura Takumi looked confused, but when he saw Futaba Rio's sincere expression, he decided to follow her in to see what was going on.

After entering the house, Kimura Takumi sat on the sofa in the living room as arranged by the other party, wondering what had happened.

Just as he was about to ask again, Futaba Rio had already walked into her room and took out the damaged suit jacket.

"I'm sorry... Teacher..." Futaba Rio's voice was a little trembling and guilty as she explained, "I saw that your suit was a little wrinkled after I wore it, so I wanted to help you iron it to make it smoother.

But I didn’t expect that I would accidentally burn a hole in it…”

She stood in front of Kimura Takumi, raised her suit with slightly trembling hands, and showed the hole to him.

Kimura Takumi was silent for a while, then asked doubtfully, "Futaba-san, could this be the big thing you're talking about?"

Noticing the other party's brief silence, not knowing his true mood at the moment and thinking that he was angry, Futaba Rio pursed her lips and nodded.

She checked online and found that suits of this brand were extremely expensive, and judging from the model, Kimura Takumi's suit was most likely a custom-made one. Not to mention that she was a student, even her family would have difficulty paying for it.

When she thought of this, Futaba Rio lowered her head even more, her heart filled with self-blame and anxiety.

"It's just a piece of clothing. There's no need to go to so much trouble to apologize in person. You can just tell him about this over the phone." Kimura Takumi took the suit and said with a wry smile.

"Eh? But, isn't this suit very expensive?" Futaba Rio was surprised.

"Expensive? That's true." Kimura Takumi affirmed.

After all, this was a suit tailor-made for him by the old man. Given his personality, he wouldn't believe that the suit didn't cost hundreds of thousand dollars.

"Teacher! Please don't worry! Although it will take a lot of time, I will definitely save up the money to compensate you!"

Futaba Rio mustered up her courage and promised seriously.

"Then there's no need. The teacher doesn't need money."

Facing Kimura Takumi's understatement, Futaba Rio became more serious and said solemnly, "How can that be possible! It may be a small amount of money in the eyes of the teacher, but it's different in my opinion! I can't accept such a big kindness from the teacher with a clear conscience!"

"This..." It was the first time that Kimura Takumi saw Futaba Rio so excited. Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, he sighed softly, "Well, if Futaba insists on doing this, I can't stop you."

"Uh-huh!"

Seeing that he agreed, Futaba Rio breathed a sigh of relief.

……