Mr. Oda and his friends

"Ah, Brother Oda, thanks to you, I'm so—thank you! Hahahahahaha!"

The fish seller uncle picked up the towel and wiped it from his forehead to the back of his neck in one go, wiping away the sticky sweat stains.In summer, the temperature is high and the humidity is high. It is difficult to sell so many live fish as soon as possible if there is no one to help deliver the goods to distant places.

Once the live fish that cannot be sold become dead fish... the price will plunge with time, and finally become garbage that is given away for nothing and no one wants it.As for those fish that are already cut, there will be pathogenic factors beyond the storage time limit, and conscientious merchants can only bear their own risks.

So, having a handyman who works hard to help run errands and deliver goods is really a big help!

Especially the red-haired guy standing outside enjoying the cool and drinking water, it is really rare.

Although he has a slightly dull personality, he is surprisingly clever in his actions.Coupled with fast legs and good luck, even if he crosses the scene of a violent club fight, he can return to the shop with all the money. The boss observed for several days, and finally had the idea of ​​developing him into a regular employee.

Oda Sakunosuke squeezed the plastic bottle and drank half of it in one gulp. Even after hearing the boss's compliment, he still had an unmotivated expression on his face: "Well, it's nothing."

The sun is about to rise overhead, so we have to hurry back.The guy I picked up... I'm afraid no one will look at it, and I will be hungry for nothing and don't even know how to eat lunch.

Really, I wanted to do good deeds every day, but who knew that I fell into my hands.

The fish seller is still thinking about how to speak to keep this hard-working red-haired boy: raise salary?Or allow him to borrow at home?

Confirming that it will be noon soon, Oda Sakunosuke withdrew his empty eyes from looking at the sky: "Boss, I have nothing else to do, so I'm off work."

"Ah! Well, wait a moment, I'll settle the wages first. I'll have to rely on you tomorrow morning, little brother." There are good and bad odd jobs for running errands. Compared with other shops, fish stalls can be said to be extremely The nasty kind.

It's not that the pay is poor, but it's something no one wants to do if they can find other work.

In order to ensure freshness, the delivery of fish stalls often starts at three or four in the morning on the first day, and it is not terminated until noon.The temperature was high in the afternoon and there were few customers, so the owner and his wife closed the door and hid in the store to escape the heat.Naturally, the handyman does not have to come again, and can go home to rest and prepare for work at night.

It’s fine if it’s just this bit of upside-down day and night that bothers you, but the problem is that you have to come in and out with a fishy smell, and it’s the hottest season of the year... To be honest, if it weren’t for the salary paid by the boss It's hard to refuse, even Oda Sakunosuke doesn't want to do this part-time job.

——The easy job in the convenience store can't compete with those local migrant students with degrees, but isn't there still countless odor-free fresh food to deliver!

Well, maybe, this...is life.

The boy sighed deeply in his heart with an expressionless face.

"Okay, here, your salary today, and this!" The fish seller handed out a few banknotes through the white line gloves, and after Oda Sakunosuke took the salary, he stuffed him with a plastic bag: " Don’t worry about the meat quality of salt-grilled tuna belly, it can’t be used as sashimi, but it’s definitely fine to eat cooked.”

"Well, thank you, bye."

He took the plastic bag without thinking about it. After waving goodbye, he packed his wages and picked up extra vegetables, and walked away slowly with a fishy smell all over his body.

"He's such a nice guy, and he will grow into a great man in the future! Hahahahahahaha!" The fish seller, who is burning 360 days a year, laughed inexplicably with his hips on his hips, while the proprietress held a large pot of processed octopus Standing behind him: "Hurry up and give way! What are you doing stuck here!"

As she spoke, she put an elbow on her husband's back, and the self-proclaimed masculine man almost jumped into the fish pond with an "ow".

"I said you bitch, you can't be gentle!" He opened his throat and yelled at his wife dissatisfied.The middle-aged woman glanced over, and all the discordant noises disappeared quickly: "Well, I kind of want to keep Oda, what do you think?"

"Hmph." The proprietress walked to the other end of the aisle with the tray, and while deftly plasticizing the scalded octopus for bagging, she replied without raising her head: "You will think of good things and leave this young man to work. In the future, I can entrust my daughter and the fish stall to him."

She wielded the scissors and trimmed deftly. After a while, the octopus was trimmed into a beautiful shape that could be placed in the center of the plate.The fish seller didn't dare to offend his wife, so he secretly rolled his eyes behind her back: "What's the matter? I think Zhitian is a nice person."

"That's why people like the girl from the fish seller's family!"

The sound of plastic bags clattering stopped, and the proprietress said with a bit of pique, "Haven't you heard? Oda is willing to work in our fish stall just to support his wayward little girlfriend at home."

"Huh? Really!" The boss was so frightened that his fish scales fell off: "Oda is only fifteen or six, so even if he looks a little anxious, he has a girlfriend who lives with him?"

Are girls these days so poisonous?

"I heard it from the dry goods store next door, the dry goods store heard it from the beef store, the beef store heard it from the grocery store, the grocery store heard it from the bakery, and the bakery said it saw Oda taking his girlfriend for a walk outside ..."

The proprietress stopped what she was doing, and her eyes became a bit dazed: "I heard rumors that she is a very beautiful little girl, and she is the kind of good-looking girl who is willing to be a daughter-in-law even after she dies."

"You... how good-looking do you have to be for a mean woman in a bakery to say something like that?"

The fish seller uncle picked up the fish scale brush in the long list of "heard" and turned away from participating in the topic of "how good-looking other people's children are".Anyway, the two of them have no sons, so there is no need to think about the daughter-in-law. Besides, it doesn't matter how beautiful other people's daughters are, and she doesn't come to buy fish!

About 10 minutes later, the red octopus was neatly arranged in a row waiting for the reserved customers to come to pick up the goods. The proprietress and the proprietress sat back to back on a small bench to rest.

"Mother...would you like to ask Oda to keep him as a full-time job?"

"If you want to ask you to ask, I'm afraid it's useless."

"Ugh……"

The customer who ordered the octopus came, and the proprietress hurriedly got up with a smile on her face and walked to the front to take care of the business, leaving the boss to rest behind the counter alone.

After a while, he snorted and whispered, "This kid, I really didn't see it."

By the way, is it really that pretty?

——Hmm...it's pretty nice.

Oda Sakunosuke sat on the floor of the small private room with his shirt sleeves rolled up.The thinness during the growth period made him look light and fluffy, and the back of the shirt was blown up by the old electric fan, and the fabric was thin and transparent.

The boy threw his coat aside casually, tore off the sealing strip and poured the semi-solid contents of the bag on the freshly cooked rice. He checked left and right where there was no spillage before pushing the plate to the opposite side: "Eat."

The girl sitting opposite him clasped her hands together and said stiffly, "I'm starting", then picked up the chopsticks and ate delicately in small bites.

She was wearing another men's shirt, which was a little too small for Oda Sakunosuke, but it looked like a straight skirt on her body, with loose shoulders and crooked sleeves, and it was obvious who made it at a glance.

"By the way, this." He suddenly remembered the good ingredients sent by the fish seller, turned to the "cabinet" close at hand, fumbled for a while, took out a plate, and arranged the salt-grilled tuna belly in a plastic bag piece by piece. Only after being pleasing to the eye did he push forward: "The boss gave it to me when I got off work today."

The girl put down her chopsticks, stared at the plate for a while, raised her chopsticks again, took the most beautiful piece from the top layer, put it on the plate, crushed it, and slowly put it into her mouth one by one.

Elegance is indeed very elegant, and beauty is also really beautiful, but... it makes people feel anxious.

"I'm full, thanks for the hospitality."

Almost a century later, she let go of her chopsticks, and awkwardly picked up a handkerchief to wipe the corners of her mouth, and Oda Sakunosuke looked relieved—very, very good, I learned to wipe my mouth today, a big improvement!

It was a disaster when I picked this guy up from the fighting scene half a month ago... He couldn't refuse other people's requests, he couldn't use household appliances, and he couldn't take care of himself at all.

It just happened to have such a face again.

That day... I just wanted to fish in troubled waters and pick up some cheap ones.

As PortMafia's battle with other violent groups shifted to another area, clearings shadowed by tall buildings were littered with dead bodies waiting to be recovered.

He lurked in the shadows, making sure that he was the only living intelligent creature in the entire area.Then...unbelievably, as if a meandering river of golden sand appeared out of thin air, the girl in the crimson kimono sank slowly as if she was drowning, her black hair streaked across the air leaving a string of golden ripples.

Soon the magical river disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared, leaving only a girl like a lost goose.She looked about eleven or twelve years old. If no one reached out, such a beautiful life would soon disappear in this wild place of Yokohama.

By the time he reacted, he had already brought him back to the small residence.

Fortunately, the girl quickly woke up from unconsciousness, and opened her eyes to look at the troubled boy.

Black hair like ink and silky like waterfall, white to transparent skin, mellow and distant purple eyes like garnet, slender and handsome eyebrows slightly raised, thick eyelashes trembling slightly as if resting on a flower branch Butterfly.

Oda Sakunosuke raised his head and saw her appearance clearly.

The heartbeat stopped at this moment.It's not the feeling of the power being activated, it's completely different from that, it's like, like a flower suddenly blooming in the chest.The boy turned his head and waited for a while, [Tian 1 Clothes Seamless] remained motionless as if dead, without any reaction. He scratched the back of his head, thinking that such an accident happened only because the girl was so beautiful.

She was wearing such clothes, her fingers didn't show any signs of labor training, and she didn't look like a person who should appear in this kind of place.

Has the ability gone wrong?

"Oda Sakunosuke, my name." Facing the sun, her appearance became clearer, as lovely as being favored by a god.The red-haired boy couldn't help but scratched his hair again, feeling a little burning behind his ears: "What's your name?"

"..."

name?

The girl waited a moment before realizing that no miko would ask her to remain silent again: "Miyata, Hiyori."

Not a code name, but a real name with a name and surname.