YLTKH side story 1 – Mary-san saw!
“Kisugi, c’mere for a bit”
I – Kisugi, an executive of the Kuromizuchi Association received a summon by the chairman[1], on a certain day at 22:00.
I took two days off, yesterday and today, for personal business. But, I was suddenly called out at night.
I tilted my head thinking what could have happened. As there wasn’t any new important notice that came in in particular, I went to the office relatively casually.
“Heyaa”
“Kisugi Executive, thank you for your work!”
“Thanks. Is the chairman here?”
“Y, y, y…Yesssu!”
What, what was with that stutter.
Look at that fellow being startled in spite of himself.
He has not reached the degree of being here for 5 years yet, but in general he has been through many experiences, and I thought that he wasn’t the sort of guy that would get so panicky.
“Eh, are you okay…?”
His face was deathly pale and sweat was dripping down profusely all over his face.
“Aren’t you sick?”
“Nnnnoo! I’m fine”
“What is it? Did anything happen?”
It was too strange a reaction that he lowered his voice to enquire further.
Speaking of which, taking a glance at the usual office scene – something was strange.
The neatly arranged desks and chairs were damaged here and there, and the houseplants that should have been placed here have disappeared. And finally, were those faint marks that were left behind on the wall, bloodstains?
To have left such stains in that position on the wall would mean that it was a fairly big and showy movement causing a lot of blood to fly and splash. Most likely, also on the floor–
As I thought of that and looked down at my feet, the mat that had been laid out has been changed to a new one.
“Was it some group that came to pick a fight with us?”
There should have been no syndicate in this area that could compete with the Kuromizuchi Association.
Was it a group that has stretched its hands out from some other district? Or was it a Chinese emerging force?
I felt a premonition of war and started to turn the wheels in my head. My underling at the side shook his head.
“T, that’s wrong! C, chairman is”
“Eh? Chairman?”
My thought that it was another group’s attack was repudiated. What an anti-climax.
“What happened to the chairman?”
“Oh, uh, uh, that…”
No, this guy’s no good. He’s useless.
I looked around the surroundings to see if there was anyone who could calmly explain the situation.
“Yo, Kisugi. Aren’t ya late”
The chairman came out from the door at the interior part of the office.
“I apologise….ugh!”
The moment I saw the chairman’s face, my breath was instantly caught in my throat.
At first glance, his facial expression looked the same as usual. However, only his eyes were glaring like those of a starved beast’s.
In that place, there was a violent mania, usually occupied by indifference and coldness.
It was right after I thought… What on earth happened.
“You, you are extremely irritating”
Accompanying his deep voice, his kicks came flying.
Without time to avoid, I got hit in the solar plexus and collapsed.
Damn it, so embarrassing.
“… I’m very sorry. I…What did I do?”
While holding my stomach and catching my breath, I apologised and sought for answers.
“Why are you on day off? Thanks to you, it’s all messed up”
“Huh…?”
I was dumbfounded. As soon as my body was picked up, a kick came flying to me again. For a moment, my body was floating in the air.
My breath was completely stuck in my throat.
I fiercely rebuked my hazy mind and pondered.
――Why are you on day off, he said. Didn’t I say in advance that I’ll be taking day off?
“Because you were resting, I was in a bind and had to ask that idiotic eggplant to do the job. In the end, it’d be the worst if that person were to escape or something like that.”
So, because I was resting, he asked someone to do a job. And that person messed up. In other words, I who took a day off was in the wrong.
That is to say…
―― He’s venting his anger on me, isn’t he!!!
T/n:
[1]Actually the word is more like President, but not to confuse with the other ‘president’ (Nanao’s boss) so I’ll stick to chairman
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