"Read the air."
I was already in high school when I learned I wasn't even in real life to tell you that. Then five years later, I am still unfamiliar with that reality.
"Hmm."
Close the book you were reading and look at the clock. Somehow I was a little surprised to have been around midnight.
The company that left the local university to get a job was apparently a black company to tell the world. I don't know how rare it is for me as a black company to be able to get up before ten o'clock even as a newbie.
If it's like being on the news is the Demon King, well, maybe it's the Hundred Beasts Black or something like that.
I don't have that grade, probably.
"Continue tomorrow, or"
I don't have much time to go home tired at work and be free. If it's an hour, I read a book, and if it's two hours, I watch a movie. I'd love to make stuffed animals if I had more than three hours... but I rarely have a day like that.
I've just spent some time reading books today.
Think about it, I've always liked to read stories.
I read everything that comes to my attention, love, fantasy, mystery and history. Only SF wasn't a bit good at jargon though.
"But I wonder if Detective stuff was bad at this hour. I can't sleep with my eyes peeled."
I just found out there was a traitor inside the police.
I can somehow read who's hosi when I'm used to reading here. but that's my conclusion that it's the trick to enjoy the book to decide what you didn't realize.
"... n"
I just got up from my seat and noticed that a notification was coming to my smartphone.
"From Early Maiden......"
Tapping the notification pop labeled "Early Maiden Mio" revealed a blackened screen.
Early Maiden Mio:
I'm sorry I'm late at night. You didn't wake me up with a notification sound? I'm sorry if I was.
I realized that Matsumoto wasn't on business tonight, and when I thought about it, there was always Matsumoto when I talked to Murasaki. I was wondering if we could talk about piling up with each other once in a while, but maybe you'd like some time?
"Hein, give it to me, please, no more, no more,"
Myself:
I was concentrating on the book.
I spend a lot of this time alone reading books or watching movies.
Sent and marked as read-only. Looks like he happened to be messing with his smartphone.
Early Maiden Mio:
sj. sj js.
"Yes!?
Early Maiden Mio:
I'm sorry, I mistyped you. I'm sorry.
Myself:
I do that a lot, too.
Early Maiden Mio:
Thanks ■
"What's this square?"
Down on the ground, huh? Hole filling quizzical.
"'Let's see'." Thank you. "
Myself:
You're welcome.
What happened to Senior Matsumoto today?
Early Maiden Mio:
The locals are coming to Tokyo for work.
He promised not to see me in a long time, so I had him digest my pay.
Myself:
I kind of forgot, but it's paid, too, because it's a labor relationship.
Early Maiden Mio:
I'm gonna have you aim for a hundred percent digestion, but that means you've got more than twenty nights like this.
Myself:
Yes, you will.
There was some time until the next reply.
Early Maiden Mio:
Ah ■ Speaking of which, you were reading a book.
What kind?
"Two letters is very difficult, Maiden...... Is that" la "in" alas "?
Myself:
Detectives today.
It's an array that became a movie last fall or so.
Early Maiden Mio:
Oh, Italy's on stage?
Myself:
That's right, that's right!
A detective with a samurai soul talks about challenging the Sicilian mafia!
Early Maiden Mio:
I watched the movie, the director told me before recommended it!
Myself:
I didn't watch it because I wanted to read the original first.
How'd it go?
Early Maiden Mio:
The protagonist would have liked that. Any big mafia opponent, if it's seen as evil, it's Zuba and ■ ■
Myself:
Oh, please rattle me because I haven't read it to the end yet!
In the meantime, prevent rattling, and think of laying low.
"Zuba and, come on, it's two letters, so if you think normally, 'hang up'?
To sum this up, here's the deal.
"'Ugh', 'Ra', 'Cut'"
Cut.
"Betray!?
The possibility of Uranus or Taro Urashima... probably not.
"Who!? But betraying him would be a pretty close opponent, because telling me is a common acquaintance..."
No, there's only one.
Hard to believe, but I understood. Early Maiden, who was in betrayal, asks me for help pretending to be a public tale.
Myself:
Maiden!
Early Maiden Mio:
What's the matter with you?
Myself:
Senior Matsumoto's weakness is that he can't eat stinky tofu!
Early Maiden Mio:
Oh, uh, why weakness? Stinky tofu?
You're gonna be okay, right? I haven't been left out of the finished conversation, have I?
I've thought about it and noticed, but I know very little about Senior Matsumoto.
About my hobbies, about my family, about my student years. If I've been working with you for more than two months, I'd have heard a little bit about it.
That's the only thing I can tell you about Senior Matsumoto that I don't like. That's the Taiwanese dish "Stinky Tofu".
Myself:
At a company drinks party, Chief Hagepucci once fed him instead of the stinky tofu he asked for!
I saw Senior Matsumoto with such a wrinkly face after and before!
Early Maiden Mio:
I can't believe Matsumoto-san lost to soybeans.
Myself:
I don't know if this will help...
Early Maiden Mio:
Um, useful, to what?
I'm sorry if I was asking you something weird.
Myself:
I'm on your side, Maiden.
Keep chatting while I feel the conversation doesn't engage somehow.
Then, after enough.
Early Maiden Mio:
No, I'm not!
This is what I'm saying!!
Myself:
Oh, emoticons lettering...
After looking at the screenshot they sent me, I finally found out what was going on too.
The first 'thank you ■' is thank you + sparkle mark
The next 'A ■' is an A + sparkle mark
The last "Zuba and ■ ■" is Zuba and + Japanese Knife + Shiny Mark
He seems to have consciously used two emoticons only at the end of the day for variations.
I hear this phenomenon was between carriers and between old and new models in the age of email, but I didn't expect it to happen in chat apps today.
"But this..."
It attracted my attention more than those glittering emoticons, but at the top of the screen. The part where the chat opponent, if I may say so, shows' Early Maiden Mio '.
Early Maiden Mio:
Um, are you really sorry?
Matsumoto-san's doing a good job, right?
Myself:
This way, please excuse me.
For a long time, I don't like to read the air.
Mr. Tsuchiya often scolds me, too.
Early Maiden Mio:
Speaking of which, you're close to Tsuchiya and Matsumoto.
From the beginning?
Myself:
I was in charge of education, so naturally.
Early Maiden Mio:
I don't know what that is.
I didn't even go out with an educator in private.
Myself:
There, because those people say, "Read the air."
Early Maiden Mio:
Is that a good thing...?
"Come on, what do you think?"
Not a happy word to be said. My chest still gets a little painful every time I'm told.
But people have never even told me that before. Shut up and walk away from me and gather in the shadows and say:
"He can't read the air."
"He's insane."
"He's not sociable."
How thankful you can say that on the spot, face to face. How comforting it is to have your head bowed together when you accidentally say it.
Enough to understand that, I'm going to grow up, too.
But still. I dare you today.
Myself:
Maiden, by the way.
Early Maiden Mio:
What's the matter with you?
Myself:
I can't read the air, so I'll also say what they don't want me to notice if I do
Early Maiden Mio:
Really?
Myself:
That's why I'm telling you.
"This is the air you don't have to read, Senior."
I typed in a flick input as I looked back at the screenshot earlier and felt my mouth slacken small.
Myself:
From now on, you can call me Kira, right?
Maiden's special.
It was marked as read at the same time as the transmission, and there was a while as I thought. No wonder, no anxiety.
Early Maiden Mio:
Earlier, screenshots, right?
Myself:
Yeah, the ability to rename someone, that's handy, right?
Early Maiden Mio:
Um, I'm sorry.
It wasn't malicious. Really.
Myself:
I know, I know.
And it's just a name I'm ashamed to say, because I don't like it.
The golden grass from which my name came is a herb also known as the "Doctor Kill".
Turning from there, the flower word is' health to you '. It conveys enough what the parents wished for.
Now, though, I'm just bothering others. One day, I'm sure, I can be someone who can heal someone like Senior Matsumoto and help someone like Senior Tsuchiya.
Early Maiden Mio:
Well, that's sweet of you to say.
Thank you, Kira.
Myself:
Yes, Maiden.
"... Shit, this place was' Mr. Mio 'too"
But I still don't like reading the air.