After school, the three of us go to a convenience store and enjoy the evening together. I pulled a cigarette from my pocket, Erii is looking at me because she also wants to smoke. I gave her one and we smoked while drinking our soda. Ryo asks,
"Aze, are you going to work tonight?"
I reply,
"Yeah, you wanna help me? I'll pay you for it."
Ryo replies,
"Of course! Who doesn't want money? Are you coming to, Erii-chan?"
She replies,
"I can't, I have to do my homework..."
Ryo and I are looking at each other. I ask,
"What homework?"
Erii is glaring at us and sighing. She replies,
"Japanese literature..."
Ryo says,
"Erii-chan, can I copy your homework tomorrow morning?"
Ryo is grinning while scratching his head. Erii replies,
"No way! Do your own homework!"
I ask,
"How about me? Can I?"
Erii replies,
"Yeah, sure..."
Ryo surprised and says,
"Wait, I can't but he can?! That's some discrimination right there!"
Erii replies,
"It's because Aze isn't from here, he just moved two years ago! Of course, I'll help him learn Japanese."
Ryo is mumblings. He says,
"How nice, Aze. Your girlfriend is always there to help you..."
Erii and I are raising our eyebrows, Erii replies,
"What do you mean girlfriend?"
Ryo says,
"I mean, you like Aze, right? And you like Erii-chan, right? Why don't you date? Maybe you both are meant to be together..."
Ryo is sulking and puts his chin on the table. He says,
"How nice..."
I do like her, she's beautiful and athletic. She's good at everything and she can act cute sometimes. I looked at her and she noticed that I'm staring at her. Somehow she's blushing and I ask,
"Erii, do you wanna go out with me? Sometimes I thought about asking you out because you're totally my type."
Ryo and Erii surprised. Erii replies,
"Don't play with me..."
I reply,
"I'm not, I'm serious. Do you wanna be my girlfriend?"
Ryo is looking at Erii, and he's nodding at Erii. Erii is blushing and replies,
"I-I like you too... No, I mean, I love you since the first time we met."
I smiled and for some reason, I feel very happy right now. Ryo stood up without saying anything and entered the convenience stores. He approached the clerk lady and he suddenly gets slapped so hard that we can hear it from outside. He left the convenience store and sit back. He sighs and says,
"I just got rejected by the clerk, she called me a weirdo and a pervert... I thought today is a lucky day since I witnessing two dense people finally confessing their feelings."
We both are laughing at him. He's just sulking on the chair. Then he says,
"Hey, isn't that guy looks suspicious to you guys?"
We both are looking at the guy Ryo is staring at. A guy wearing a black hat and black mask while putting one of his hands in the pocket. The guy entered the convenience store and went to the cashier. Ryo stood up and prepared himself if something bad is going to happen. As soon as the suspicious guy lifts his hand from his pocket, he's holding a knife and pointing it at the clerk. Ryo hurriedly approached the guy and beat him to pulps. The clerk immediately called the police while Ryo is holding the guy down. Everyone is approaching him and helping him to secure the suspicious guy. Ryo used to work as a construction worker a part-time job, his body and strength are no joke, even I once punched him in the face on accident and he's still standing still like it was just a baby's punch.
The police came and arrested the suspicious guy. The clerk is bowing at Ryo repeatedly and thanking him. Ryo is grinning and just brushed it off. Then he came back to sit beside us. He says,
"Ahh... it felt nice to beat someone."
Erii and I just laugh. Then we left the convenience store because it's getting dark. I went back home and change my clothes to go to work in my restaurant. Ryo came not long after that and helped me serves the customer.
We're on our break and we both are outside the restaurant. Ryo is busy cooling his body with a hand fan. While we're smoking outside, a hypercar parked outside my restaurant, it's my regular customer. A brown-haired lady wearing a black fedora hat and black fashionable glasses, a white blazer on her hand, and resting it on her back, she's wearing a white armless blouse and black leather gloves with grey trousers and black heels get off from the car. She's one of the top young models from Asia, her name is Ritsu Miyazaki and she's 19 years old. She's walking in and greets us,
"Good evening, Norl-Kun."
I reply,
"Good evening, Miyazaki-San. Please come in."
Ritsu asks,
"Are you guys on a break? If so, I can come back later."
Ryo and I stand up and I reply,
"Oh, no Miyazaki-San. We're about to get back to work."
Ryo nods with an agreement. Ritsu smiles and says,
"Excuse me for disturbing! (Ojamashimashu)"
We entered the restaurant and go back to the counter. Ritsu sits on her favorite seat that is in front of the restaurant counter. I ask,
"The usual, Miyazaki-San?"
Ritsu shakes her head and replies,
"Since I have a bad day, I would like to have... umm... Tonkatsu Ramen sounds nice. I would like that and make it extra spicy please!"
I nod and smile,
"One Tonkatsu Ramen coming right up!"
While I'm busy making her ramen, some guys are surrounding her and flirting with her. Ritsu ignored them like flies. Then one of them grabbing her hand and pulled her to his arms. I'm looking at Ryo and he nods with understanding. Ryo pulled the guy and dragged him outside the restaurant. His friends immediately left to help their friend. I finished cooking the ramen and put it in front of her. Ritsu didn't bother by what just happened and busy with her phone. I say,
"Miyazaki-San, the ramen is ready. Please enjoy it."
She smiles and nods. I say,
"Please excuse me for a minute."
Ritsu is tilting her head with confusion. I left the restaurant and they're still trying to help their friend from Ryo's hand. I approached them and taps one of the guys' shoulders. When he turned around, I punched his jaw and pulled his collar then kneed him in the face. I heard a cracking sound, I just broke someone's nose. One of the guys says,
"What the hell?"
Ryo is sitting on the guy's body and says,
"You guys are doomed."
Ryo lit his cigarette and exhaled the smoke on the guy's face Ryo's sitting on. Ryo accidentally farted on the guy's face and the guy is screaming in agony while Ryo is apologizing for being rude to him. The guy is wiggling his body trying to free one of his hands to cover his nose. With no hope of freeing himself, the guy is crying from the bad smells of Ryo's fart since Ryo is sitting on his chest, he has to take a breath every second because Ryo is squeezing his lungs.
I'm fighting the last three men. For some reason, I smelled something bad. Was one of the guys I beat just shat himself? I dodged their punches and blocked their kicks with my hands. I spun and hit one of them with the back of my hand and he fell unconscious. Then one of them throw punches at me, I dodged it and hook his liver so hard and he fell in pain. The last guy ran away on his own. I say,
"Whew... beating someone sure is satisfying..."
Ryo is still sitting on the guy's body while smoking. I say,
"I think one of the guys just shat himself, but I don't know which one."
Ryo asks innocently,
"Did you smell it a few minutes ago?"
I reply,
"Yeah, how did you know? Did you smell it as well?"
Ryo replies,
"Oh, then it was me. I farted a few minutes ago."
I reply,
"What the fuck dude... It smells so bad. What did you eat!"
Ryo replies,
"Baked sweet potatoes..."
Ritsu came and says,
"Oh? What happened to them?"
Ryo and I bow to her. We say,
"We are very sorry Miyazaki-San! We will make sure something like this will never happen again!"
Ritsu is chuckling and replies,
"It's alright, Norl-Kun, Inoue-Kun... After I ate the delicious ramen, I feel refreshed. Thank you for the food."
She unlocked her car and says,
"I'll see you tomorrow, Norl-Kun. I'll repay you someday. Bye-bye..."
Ritsu gets in the car and then left.
After we handled the guys and let them go, we go back to work until midnight. Then closed the restaurant. Ryo is going to stay over at my house since his house is far from here. That night, Ryo farted in his sleep, and I had a nightmare that baked potatoes are chasing me...