Starting a Night Shift Part-time Job at a Convenience Store.

Was there more to it?

“I want to leave at once, though.”

“Hold on a minute, I don’t plan on staying long myself either. Ah, even if I sent off a large number of specters in that way, they will eventually return.”

“Oiii!? Are you for real!?”

“Even if I have succeeded in purifying the spirits, only a small percentage of them have been liberated, and evil spirits are still around in great numbers.”

While saying this, Yakumo daringly began to pry open the door of the wrecked car with his spiked bat. That action set my still-unsettled heart leaping.

“You! Is it okay to do such a thing…!”

“In any case, the corpse has already been recovered, and nobody is going to retrieve the scraps from this place in the future.”

“Corpse… scraps?”

Even so, his action was too drastic. Especially if someone died in there.

Disregarding my words, Yakumo rummaged through the car, and after a short while, he seemed to have found something and returned with a body out of the vehicle. In his hand was a brown envelope that had likely been in a rather poorly preserved environment.

“What’s that?”

“It’s something my client asked me to retrieve. In a nutshell―it’s a suicide note.”

“Buh…!!”Not shared on aggregator sites

A word I didn’t want to hear again was uttered to me.

“S-Suicide note….! Why are you…!”

“Three years ago, the owner of this van died when their car crashed into a curve on a mountain pass.”

“So they committed sui…”

“No, that’s not it. They did attempt to die at one point, but they made the decision to persevere and make their way back…” Squinting, Yakumo remarked. “When I first discovered the van, I had a sight of the departed thoughts that haunted the vehicle’s structure, as well as its deathbed.”

Initially, he came here to die. Nevertheless, recalling the family he had left behind, he was one step closer to changing his mind. He was about to return home, not wanting to do this. However…

“I suppose the guys here interfered. They stuck their toe in and forcibly dragged the owner of this van into an accident after he had second thoughts.”

This is the truth, Yakumo explained.

“So that suicide note… to their family…”

“Although it’s somewhat shocking, my clients are willing to accept the reality. The owner of this vehicle will be in a little better position than if it had been abandoned here and gone unnoticed without the police locating it. Nobody would really want to die in a place like this… So it would be great if this could be given to their family member to ease their pain a little bit.”

“You went to such great lengths to find it…”

He risked his life so severely that he almost died…

“It is the job of an evil spirit exterminator to help connect the dead with the living.”

Destroying haunted places, interrupting ignorant couples, and so on… I was astounded when I heard you say such ridiculous reasons. So that was your real reason?

“You’re such a softie.”

“What?”Translator: MadHatter

“For a guy who spouted such nonsense, you must have a fairly good motive. The dead and the living, you’re helping them behind their backs, even though they’re strangers to you.”

“I wouldn’t say I’m helping them. I run a business after all.”

“But if it was just business, you normally wouldn’t be doing it that long.”

Yakumo’s expression revealed everything.

He was slightly reminiscent of Hyuga; this guy was the same as Hyuga. Even though he may be a stranger, I couldn’t help but be moved by him. He carried out his direct will as he saw fit.

He was a person who was capable of being considerate of others. Otherwise, he would not wear such a wistful face as he held the shabby brown envelope to his chest, trying to empathize with the suffering left behind by someone else.

“Haha, if you’re going to say that… you’re much better than me, Sonny.”

“…Huh, me?”

“Yeah, you accompanied me to this place, offered me your strength, and didn’t flee when I involved you in this mess; instead, you stuck by my side all the way through. You’re a huge softie and are kind to people you don’t even know. You are very similar to an adorable person I know… Moreover, you remind me a lot of that constant buddy of mine in the aspect that… you’re somewhat obstinate and don’t change your ways,” said Yakumo with a hint of joy in his voice.

I wondered who in the world he was recalling when he saw me.

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