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Saiki, are you used to Japanese yet?

No, not so much. I make many mistakes when speaking.

Well, learn already.

Right now, I can't count on you to do my grocery shopping.

Yes, I will do my best, Kissaki.

You better.

Are you kind of soft on Saiki?

Please give it back, Miyakoshi.

I'LL TRY GETTING REVENGE

Your wish didn't come true, so the monetary offering...

8,764 yen.

Plus 1,000 yen.

Gimme a discount!

That's not the way you ask someone to do something.

Give me a discount!

You're doing it wrong, Higashida!

The basic rule of collecting a debt is not going soft on the debtor.

In fact, you should increase the amount.

Increase it?

- Higashida! - Higashida!

Higashida, wake up!

Don't be a debt collector!

N-No, I wasn't really...

She told me,

"I gave you a present, so your return gift has to be three times that."

- So she tripled my debt! - Shindou...

Even though she gave me dog food! It's crazy!

Shindou, Kamakura is listening.

She's an ogre! An ogre!

I understand, so please stop hurting yourself.

Fine, 8,000 yen.

9,000 yen.

Give it up, Miyakoshi.

You need to take responsibility for what you made.

You're the one who made that chocolate.

You're the one who made that Higashida, too.

- Give me a discount, at least by 1,000 yen! - 9,000 yen.

Pay me back, too.

But you never gave me anything.

Cash is fine. Pay me back triple.

We're talking about zero, so three times that is still...

You didn't know?

Three times zero is 30,000.

Is that right?

Manager...

Kisaki, it's not right to sponge off of the manager.

After all, he's got money.

After all?

Why do you have so much money?

I'm surrounded by weirdos here, so you didn't really stand out until now.

But when I think carefully, it doesn't make sense.

After all Miyakoshi's violence, you haven't died.

That's rude!

And Kisaki extorts you for large sums of money, which you just keep paying.

That's rude.

And you're incompetent, but you're the manager for some reason.

INCOMPETENT

Senpai!

Tasaka.

TASAKA

Milady! Is Milady here?!

She was a little while ago, but...

Where did you go, Milady?!

This is Tasaka, Kamakura's bodyguard.

To be precise, I'm a bodyguard who watches over Mr. Shindou

to make sure Milady doesn't kill him.

But a second ago, you called the manager senpai.

Yes, he was my senpai back in high school.

He was so strong and often helped me out.

- No way. - No way.

A knee-jerk denial?!

Tasaka always tells huge whoppers.

Even you?!

There's no way a useless adult who just likes cute things could be like that.

U-Useless adult...

W-Well, anyway, he was a bad-ass juvenile delinquent!

Honestly, he was so tough!

Who?!

That is kind of like the manager!

I know, right?!

He wouldn't talk, but the cat on his head would meow,

so it was said the guys he'd beat in a fight would have nightmares

for three days and nights about that cat.

So the nickname that stuck was

Cat Sakaki!

Kisaki?!

True...

My cat, Miyo, refused to get off my head.

Everyone avoided me, but I wouldn't call that being bullied.

But weren't you always fighting back then?

No, the leader of the juvenile delinquents back then was my friend,

but he was so weak...

Fight in my place to give our school some dignity!

I'm not into fighting.

I'll buy the best brand of cat food for Miyoko!

Miyo stood up!

So it couldn't be helped.

You're the one who can't be helped.

After high school graduation, Miyo stopped riding my head,

but then scary people came to scout me.

I went along, too!

Why Kamakura's?! I thought I'd at least think that.

I didn't think that would be a good idea,

so I've been turning them down all this time.

But they told me to take this money as a promise...

that I wouldn't join anywhere else.

There was nothing I could do.

There really is nothing you can do.

Now do you see how great he is?!

No, just the opposite.

Then why is a manager like that an easy victory for Miyakoshi

and easy pickings for the money-grubbing Kisaki?

The weirdness level of this place is going to skyrocket!

I refuse to accept that state of things!

Manager, you need to be normal!

Does he hate me?

But... Oh, I forgot!

Milady! Or rather, Mr. Shindou!

Excuse me! Pardon me!

So how did a loser like you end up being the manager here?

Um, it's complicated.

Wanna hear?

Nah, I think I've heard enough for one day.

Muranushi.

If there's something you'd like as thanks for the cookies you gave me last time...

No, that's okay.

Well, I can't just give you nothing.

Then do me a favor. Go out with me.

U-Um... Go where?

An art supply store.

I need supplies to use for class, but they're heavy to carry.

I won't interject! I will not interject!

Excuse me!

Saiki!

This, too, please.

Roger.

Come to think of it, Saiki, do you remember my name?

U-Um...

Um... Adachi.

Correct.

Kouno.

Bingo!

Malignantushi.

Give that man a cigar.

Lucky!

That's no good.

You need to think about the words before you use them,

Adachi.

If you get cocky, you're going to get hurt, Adachi.

Oh, no. I mixed up Saiki and Adachi.

Sorry, Adachi.

All joking aside, it makes me sad that you can't remember my name.

And since I'm sad, maybe I'll smile—

Don't smile!

You've got it wrong. I don't mean smile at you, Adachi, but at Saiki.

That's even worse!

You mean I should only smile in front of you, Adachi?

Saiki, that's Sayuri Muranushi.

U-Usury Muranushi?

Kamakura.

Oh, Muranushi. Is something the matter?

Did it go okay with the customer at table 5?

He picked a quarrel with me before,

so I avoided him without even thinking about it.

Oh. He kind of tried to pick me up,

so I went boom with a roll of banknotes, and then the black suit went boom,

and then all kinds of things went boom.

Boom.

Shiho is so kind to take pity on a scoundrel.

After all, if Papa found out about it,

his chance in society would go boom.

Boom.

What's wrong?

If I were cuter, the customer wouldn't have gone "boom."

I think you're cute, Muranushi.

Your eyelashes are like boom!

That's not true. I can't even smile decently.

Oh, Muranushi.

You don't need to sell your smile to the customers so cheaply!

I don't know what's going on, but you work with customers!

Sheesh!

When you work in this industry, you better be amiable!

At a family restaurant, smiling is number one!

Right, Higashida?!

Yeah...

But for some reason, I have the feeling that I'm not good at smiling lately.

Why?!

It's your fault.

Dammit! What the hell's wrong with all of 'em?!

Kisaki, smile!

- Forget it. - What?

You can't work in the service industry if you're not a pro at smiling!

I see. Since I'm a pro, I guess I'd better.

Okay, that'll be 10,000 yen per smile.

Sakaki will pay!

Come to think of it, at this restaurant, me aside,

neither Muranushi nor Kisaki smile.

Kamakura smiles, but her behavior is questionable.

Shindou cries.

Saiki doesn't understand the language.