Tokyo Wingman King

The other party hung up immediately.

The wind also stopped.

The sun's severity suddenly increased by at least 200 Scoville units.

The skin that had never been properly cared for sent a warning to Asama's pain nerves.

He had to take off his mask and walk into the shadow of the outdoor umbrella of the nearby coffee shop.

What does hang up mean?
Asana looked down at his phone and rechecked the number.

No wrong number.

The voice just now was definitely Anna herself.

Was I mistaken for an insurance salesman? No one would sell insurance to high school students!
Or was she angry because I didn't introduce my name and answer her questions at the beginning?
It can't be that the code [Mr. V] is wrong, right?
Asama hesitated between [making another call] and [confirming the situation with the head of the Nijo family].

Kenjiro Nijo didn't elaborate, only saying that the daughter of an American diplomat and vice chairman of [KID] could help him integrate into the campus at KKIS.

In fact, after the tiger-skin trick, Asana's progress in integrating into the campus has caught up and he doesn't need any guide at all.

Therefore, Asama believed that Anna, introduced to him by the head of the Nijo family, should be an informant.

Well, thinking about it this way, the reason for hanging up the phone has been found - Anna is probably not convenient to answer the phone at this moment.

Let’s talk about it later.

Asana put his cell phone into his trouser pocket and looked up at the cloudless sky.

So transparent.
Like the Great God.
"Um, sir, I'm so sorry, but we have a new product in our store! Can you try it?"

A shy girl's voice appeared nearby.

It was the waitress who had just walked out of the coffee shop and stood next to him for 2 minutes.

Her eyelids trembled slightly, she held the menu against her chest, stared down at her own toes, and her waist bent a little from time to time, as if she was bowing, or as if she had a stomachache.

Shinichiro Kondo's appearance shouldn't be considered vicious, right?

Maybe a newcomer to the workplace?
Asana turned his head and found that the girl looked familiar.

"Excuse me. Can you show me the menu?"

"Thank you very much."

When the waitress handed over the menu, she formally bowed, which she had been holding back.

"We have three new flower coffees and three new alcoholic coffees in our store. Please, please be sure to try them!"

She raised her head and their eyes finally met.

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"You you you you you why are you here???"

Rina Sakai, who was wearing a light blonde wig and an extremely revealing maid outfit, forgot to use the clip sound for a moment and looked at Asama with wide eyes.

"Do you work in this coffee shop? Or do you have another job?"

"Isn't this obvious at a glance? You, you, you're following me? I knew you wanted my home address with bad intentions!"

Lina Sakai, who was wearing a maid outfit, leaned sideways, tightly holding her apron with both hands, and shouted with a red face.

Seeing passers-by looking over at her, Sakai reached out to grab Asana's arm, but found that her pull was empty. Asana subconsciously dodged her pull.

Sakai went around behind Asama again and hurriedly pushed him into the coffee shop.

A retro doorbell rang.

Most shops that install these brass wind chimes have slow business.

Sure enough, there was almost no one in the shop filled with the rich aroma of coffee.

This is the trend of the times. The popularity of traditional European coffee shops cannot be compared with those emerging boutique coffee shops with modern and post-industrial styles.

From the French language on the sign and menu, we can tell that this is an exotic French coffee shop. The snacks include macarons and opera cakes, and the coffee cups on display are painted in Impressionist colors.

There are several pointillist landscape paintings hanging in the store. They are not works by masters such as Seurat and Signac, but the brushstrokes are very delicate and you can tell that each piece took a long time to create.

The music echoing in the coffee shop was vaguely Debussy's "Song of Bilitis". There was no opera singing or poetry recitation, but Pan's flute and violin replaced the human voice.

Debussy's work was based on the prose poem of the same name by French poet Pierre Louis. It is said to be dedicated to the writer Gide. It has also gained great influence in chamber drama and inspired many painters.

The circles of French musicians, painters and writers of that era often overlapped greatly, and everyone was a social expert. French cafes were where they often gathered.

It's a pity that this cafe is not a place that modern socialites would like to visit.

Seeing two people coming into the store, a young woman standing behind the bar smiled and applauded Lina Sakai.

"888888~ I've got a customer~ I told you, no one can resist your charm when Linana-chan wears a maid uniform."

The mastermind behind making Rina Sakai wear a maid outfit has been found.

"Manager, he is not a customer, he is my teacher."

"Teacher? It turns out our little Linana was lying."

"I'm not lying. The school is really closed these days."

"Is that so, teacher, are you sure you are not here to catch little Linana to go back to school?"

The store manager, who was wearing a light-colored wide-shouldered jacket, had big wavy hair and a gorgeous earring on her right ear, stopped mixing the cocktails and blinked at Asana.

Asama walked up to the bar, glanced at the cocktail in the glass, pinched his nose, and said,

"No, I'm not a teacher now. I'm just here to drink coffee. Give me an Americano."

"We don't have Americano in our store. Xiaolinana, please introduce some drinks to our teacher."

"Roger that!"

Sakai picked up the menu, like a student checking the exam site before an exam, and said, "Here."

Qianjian read the menu helplessly.

"I'd like a cup of Allongé, lightly roasted Kenyan beans, best served iced."

"Would you like some flower essential oils? Rose, orange blossom, and cherry blossom."

"Need not."

The store manager nodded, mixed the cocktail with the brewed coffee, took a sip, took out the bag of coffee beans, poured the beans into the measuring cup, and said,
"Xiao Linana, show our teacher to his seat."

"Okay. Sit over here."

Rina Sakai pointed to the middle seat against the wall, and Asana shook her head, indicating that they should sit at the bar area.

Hearing the sound of the grinder grinding coffee beans, he glanced at Sakai and asked,
"How many days have you been here?"

"The next day, Saturday's interview."

He is indeed a newcomer who can’t be any newer.

“Can you make coffee?”

“I’m still learning to remember the names of the various coffee beans.”

The store manager looked back and forth between Sakai and Asama and said with a smile,

“You have a really good teacher-student relationship.”

"What? Me and him? No, no, he's just the talkative teacher in the school, so I talk to him more."

Rina Sakai quickly denied it.

"He talks a lot, so you have to talk to him more—"

The store manager said meaningfully.

Sakai's face immediately flushed.

"I am indeed a talkative type. Thanks to Sakai-san, I was able to adapt to school life within a week of joining the company."

"Oh my, Xiaolinana, your teacher is praising you and saying that you have a bad relationship?"

Sakai Rina glared at Asama, as if to say, "How could you ignore my message if we are so close?"
Asama looked at the store manager and asked,
"I want to know what the hourly wage and hours are for Sakai-san's part-time job here. Would the store manager be able to tell me?"

The store manager glanced at Rina Sakai, and when she didn't get a negative response, she replied,

"It's not something that can't be discussed, but you have to order one more cup, teacher."

Asama shrugged and ordered a 600 yen glass of steamed milk for Sakai.

The store manager smiled and quickly made a cup of milk with the coffee machine steam wand and replied,
"I work eight hours a day, take a one-hour break at noon, and earn 8 yen an hour, eight to ten days a month. After all, my small shop is not doing well, so I can't afford to pay more."

The store manager smiled as she placed the pressed coffee powder under the coffee brewing head, pressed the coffee machine's buttons, adjusted the machine's various parameters, and finally fixed a ping-pong-ball-sized ice ball under the outlet and began extraction. The coffee machine, engraved with the [LA_MARZOCCO] brand logo, began to emit the roaring sound of a passing tram.

The most expensive cup of coffee in this shop is only 1300 yen, and the Asama one is 1050 yen.

If business is bad, it would be a loss to run the store yourself, and it would be a pure loss to hire a store clerk.

"I see the store's business hours are from 9:10 to : at night. Does Sakai-san have a night shift?"

"It depends. Sometimes I go to bed late and get up late. In that case, I will inform Xiaolinana to come to work at 1:30 pm."

"You're really leisurely." The store manager was amused by Asana's envious tone.

"Who among those who want to open a coffee shop is really diligent? If I were asked to be a teacher or a civil servant, I would rather continue to be unemployed. By the way, the teacher cares about Xiao Lina very much~ Did you come here specially to see Xiao Lina working this time?"

"Well, you could say that."

"And you still say you didn't follow me? Kondo you bastard!"

Rina Sakai's body tensed up again.

"Ms. Manager, can you tell me why you hired Sakai, a coffee novice?"

"Everyone has come from Xiaobai. The important thing is that Xiaolinana is cute, isn't she?"

The store manager looked at Sakai in maid outfit with admiration and smiled.

"Yeah. Because Sakai-san is so pretty, I'm worried that she'll be bullied while working part-time."

[Beautiful. Pretty or something] Sakai Rina was confused by Asama's words.

"Wow~~~ Mr. Kondo really likes Linana~"

"She is my most important student, accounting for 25% of the class."

"Oh? Is it so important?!"

"There are only four of us in our class! Ms. Soma, don't be fooled by him!"

Rina Sakai came to her senses from her confusion and glared at the man who lied so casually.

"I'm not confused. Kondo-sensei obviously just happened to meet Linana, but he came in to say these words to me because he cares about Linana. Linana, the teacher's coffee is ready. Please help me send it over. Remember to use the delicious magic."

Rina Sakai took the coffee cup from the shop owner and placed it directly in front of Asama. After waiting for a long time, she whispered, "Coffee. Make it delicious for the master!"

Asama picked it up and took a sip. The citrus aroma and rich fruity acid stimulated his taste buds.

However, it was not tasty because the coffee powder was ground too finely and conservatively, and adding ice could not suppress the sourness, and the sweetness that should have appeared in the tail note disappeared.

"Very good. The charm of the acidity of lightly roasted beans is fully brought out."

He gave an intuitive assessment.

"Who inspired it?" the store manager asked.

Asana glanced at Sakai, whose face showed a mixture of shyness, pride and disgust, and the store manager smiled meaningfully again.

Asama took another sip of coffee and asked,

"Ms. Manager, are you planning to turn this into a maid cafe?"

"That's exactly what I was thinking. I've taken over this shop for three months, and there haven't been any customers. My cooking skills aren't bad, and I've posted a lot of ads, but nothing's happening. If I turn it into a maid cafe, it should be able to attract students from the nearby Meiji University."

"Then, Miss Manager, do you know the corresponding service items, service procedures and most importantly, maid training of a maid cafe?"

The store manager was silent for a while, then asked,
"Does Kondo-sensei often go to maid cafes?"

Upon hearing this, Rina Sakai immediately looked at Asama with contempt. She had completely forgotten that Asama was not interested in women.

Asama shrugged.
"I hate girls who act pretentiously, but in the classes I taught before, most of them set up maid cafes during the cultural festival. It would be irresponsible not to do some research."

"So Mr. Kondo wants to teach Linana how to be a qualified maid?"

"Another cup of Geisha black coffee, please."

"Mr. Kondo drinks so fast, I suggest you have a cup of espresso, so that you don't feel full later."

"Okay."

Asama answered the manager's previous question again.
"Of course I can't instruct maids. I just think that maids who force themselves to smile in maid cafes are too tired, and 1500 yen is too low."

"Wow~ Mr. Kondo is helping his students negotiate part-time wages? This is the first time I've seen such a thing in my life."

The store manager laughed, the kind of smile that shows disdain for people who meddle in other people's business and have no sense of boundaries.

"No, I just don't like my excellent students doing things they don't like."

"Is the teacher a little too controlling? You're not Xiao Linana, how do you know she doesn't like it?"

Asama looked at Rina Sakai, the girl who used her hot girl persona to protect herself, and unconsciously pulled down her maid skirt that couldn't even cover her buttocks.

"It's all your fault! I lost my job and Miss Soma was so kind."

Rina Sakai, who had changed into her private clothes, followed Asana, pouting and complaining.

"But the choice is yours, isn't it?"

"I've already signed something like that with you, how could I possibly resist you?"

"Then do you understand why I said that?"

"Why? It seems like you don't like Miss Soma very much."

"Because you won't learn anything and you won't make much money staying in that store."

"Nonsense, Miss Soma is such a great coffee expert, how could I not learn anything? Didn't you drink three cups in a row?"

"To be honest, all three cups tasted terrible."

".You are such a liar! Shouldn't we leave now? It feels like we are abandoning someone in trouble."

"An earring from someone else costs 200 million RMB. You are really amazing when you empathize with the difficulties of the rich."

Asama remembered the earrings Miss Soma was wearing and laughed.

"I have to say, Sakai-san, you are a really good person, even though you still chose to resign."

"Kondo you are such a cold-blooded guy."

"If scolding me makes you feel better, go ahead and scold me."

Asama shrugged, he just trusted his nose.

Miss Soma had a very faint smell of marijuana on her body, and the bottle of flower coffee essential oil was also marked with the letters CBD (cannabidiol).

Asana didn't think that the person who came up with the idea of ​​adding alcohol and cannabis oil to coffee and having the shop staff wear brothel costumes to attract customers was a decent person.

In addition, judging by the way the manager looks at Sakai and the music that's playing on loop in the coffee shop, Sakai might soon get into unnecessary trouble.

Although Bilitis in the poem "The Song of Bilitis" is bisexual, both Debussy's work and the subsequent film deliberately strengthened the love between women, and gradually made Bilitis a lesbian bible.

Even though business is not good, they still hired Rina Sakai with an unusual salary, which clearly shows that they have other motives.

Perhaps Rina Sakai was able to make the decision so quickly because she had already sensed the strange atmosphere of the coffee shop.

"Kondo where are you going now?"

"I have things to do in the afternoon and evening, so I'm going to find a place to kill time."

"Well, how about buying books with me?"

Asama looked at Sakai, who became inexplicably shy. Apart from looking a little stupid, she didn't look like a hot girl at all.

"Didn't you go buy some a few days ago?"

"I went to several bookstores, but the books you recommended were too expensive. I didn't have enough money."

"So that's why you want to work?"

"Humph! You ruined the job I finally found."

"Then you can go back."

"How can I go back after all this? I will never be able to walk along the road past the coffee shop again in my life."

Well, this is the extent of a normal person's compassion. Compared to other people's difficulties, one's own dignity is more important.

Asama had no intention of looking down on Sakai. Compared to the previous Sakai Rina who wanted to harm his homeroom teacher whom he had never met by selling body, the man in front of him who worked hard for a living and was kind was already very good.

"Here's a piece of advice for you. If you look for a job again, make sure you look for a job that you like and where you can learn something."

"Didn't you say you weren't a teacher today? You're so arrogant and preachy."

"At least I know you don't like working in an outfit like that."

Sakai paused for a moment and spoke in a strange voice as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat.
".Do you know me well? You have only known me for five days longer than Ms. Soma has."

"Because your dislike is already written on your expression and actions."

Asana looked at the part of Sakai that was previously exposed but was now covered by clothing.

Sakai covered his chest and cried out,

"You're a perverted teacher!

The attention of passers-by was attracted by Sakai's strange cry again.

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The girl who had said "How could I possibly resist you" two minutes ago now started calling him a pervert.

Asama felt that the contract he signed with Rina Sakai must be in the state of Schrödinger's cat. (End of this chapter)