In this monster-infested city is a cafe I work at. It's a cafe though I ain't happy with the job in the slightest. The pay is minimum wage, and most of our income is from tips. The job's only good if you're popular with the customers or a real moe waifu tier girl. Otherwise, if you like a guy like me who's pretty unpopular and average looking, I might as well live on peanuts than the money I get from the payment they give and I'm allergic to peanuts. I wish to be able to earn lots of money so I can escape the troubles of money floundering and debt stacking drowning me day by day.
He looked towards his younger female co-worker. That's Kimiko, an optimistic high school girl. She enjoys sweets and cute things so she cosplays as a cat maid making her one of the most popular waitresses in the shop. Showing customers glimmers of hope, and innocence while always working hard. In short, your ideal employee for the mob of weebs that crawl into the cafe. I wish I were as optimistic as that but I don't have anything to look forward to.
After about an hour or so my break started. Finally, I can rest just a few more hours then I'm out.
Seconds after, Kimiko enters the break room.
Kimiko: hey Kantaro, are you okay?
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Kantaro: I'm perfectly fine, super actually why would you say that?
Kimiko: well you looked pretty sad and I felt like the customers could see it. If you need someone to talk to you can talk to me okay?
Kantaro: Alright.
Kimiko gets called back into the cafe and leaves to continue working. Even though she also has a break she insists on working more. I wonder what drives her to work so hard for such little pay. Maybe, she earns more money because of her popularity with the customers. So she has more of a reason to work longer because of that reason. Hours later, after cleaning the cafe at closing hour, he and Kimiko are the only ones left to close the Cafe. Since it was late at night he decided to walk Kimiko home because walking at night is dangerous.
Kantaro curiously asks a question.
Kantaro: Kimiko, what drives you to work so hard?
Kimiko: Well, I like to see the smiles of customers, and I enjoy working with everyone at the cafe isn't that not enough? She says innocently.
Kantaro: Is that so then I guess I'll never understand.
Kimiko: understand what?
Kantaro: It's nothing you wouldn't understand. So Kantaro and Kimiko start to argue with each other. Kimiko is deeply frustrated, almost annoyed deep down she wants to learn more about Kantaro but it always seems like there was an invisible barrier that prevented her from ever understanding why. During this quarrel, the street lights of the alleyway began to flicker on and off. The tree's whispered as the sharp wind grazed the leaves of the trees as an eerie shadow lurked swiftly outside the field of vision of Kimiko and Kantaro.