[Webnovel translation] I started working the night shift at a convenience store: (Chapter 1 pt2)

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  Horror webnovel: I started working the night shift at a convenience store (Ch.1 pt2)



Chapter 1: The automatic door (pt.2)

"Oh... Are you sure you want to hear more about this?"
"Kind of. We were interrupted right in the middle of our discussion, and now I want to know what happened next."
"Right... but maybe I should just stop here."
"Come on man, you can't just do that! Starting from today I'll be part of the team too!"
"It might scare you off."
"Don't worry about it, I'm not the type of guy to get scared so easily."
"Maybe... but I really think it'd be best for me to stop here. Some things are better left unknown."

This guy, I swear...
In the end he didn't say one more word about it.

"Aww, cheer up, don't look at me like that!"

He said, poking my cheeks. Shivers ripped through my spine in the blink of an eye.
I see how it is... Nevermind ghosts, true horror was standing right in front of me.

"If you really want to know more, you'll have to wait next time and ask Takenaka himself." 
"Takenaka? He was working the same as her..."
"Mhm, he's not the most talkative fellow out there, but he's a hottie. It's not like I dislike bad boys like you, but whenever I see Takenaka's adorable face it wakes up the little girl inside me and my heart skips a beat."

"The little girl inside..."
Ahahah! I don't know about down there, Aoyama, but you sure got the spirit!

"He's just one year older than you, and he doesn't speak much but he's a nice dude."

He doesn't speak much you say? Given how reluctant I am to speak with strangers I wonder how things will go when we meet...

"Don't worry, you'll be fine once you manage to break the ice."
"Yeah... I hope you're right..."

Hearing that he's not the most social guy out there made me a bit apprehensive.

"Give it a shot! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you."
"I'll try. While we're at it, what's Hirai like?"

He said so earlier, but the night shift team seems to revolve around him, Takenaka, and Hirai, so I might as well make the most of tonight and ask for informations about her too.

"What is Hirai like you ask...  hmm, to put it simply she's a little Miss Mysterious, I guess."
"Little Miss Mysterious? What's that mean?!"
"Well, she's a good person too, but I remember her using words that came off a bit weird. I'm not gonna delve in too deep, but she does use strange words at times."
"I see..."

Weird words?
What did he mean by that? Is she some kind of hippie? Like Miss "connected to the universe," who only swears by opening her chakra or something?
I sure hope not.
I shouldn't let this discussion influence how I'll approach them. 
People working here sure seem to have personalities as diverse as they come, leaving ghosts aside for a minute I'm more worried about getting along with them in the first place.

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"Alright. Would you mind taking out the trash? Oh right, the garbage dump is right behind the store."

Following Aoyama's request I went to collect trash bags. Some were in the store, some outside. I gathered them all and headed behind the store.
Lo and behold, a garbage dump was waiting for me right behind the store, just as he had told me.

The air outside felt moist and heavy, a solemn silence engulfing everything.

Between the trees all around us an inky black reigned supreme. Staring at it would have you feel like you were about to be drawn in these woods.
Did people really go to there to end their life...?
I wonder if some people hanged themselves there, or locked themselves up in their car waiting to die from carbon poisoning like you often hear about on TV. 

I can't see ghosts. Or rather, I don't even believe in them in the first place, so I didn't think much of it when my eyes got lost in these woods.
However, when I started entertaining the idea that someone might have hanged themselves in there, ahead of me, cold sweat started running down my spine.

Let's just get this over with and head back to the store.

"Ew!"

Disgusting!
When I got closer to the dump dozens of cockroaches were roaming around trash bags before scattering in an instant.
They were big black cockroaches of which the back glistened in the dark. It's not rare to come face to face with them this time of the year, but I was grossed out by just how big they were. 
They had gathered around chicken and lunchbox leftovers, to them this must have been paradise on Earth.

Oh god... I hope they didn't build a nest nearby... I can't deal with these. This aversion I have for them is bred-in-the-bone, there's nothing I can do about it.
I shuddered thinking about it as I made my way back to the store. A beacon of light in the dark. 

"I'm back!"

I entered the store and headed straight to the counter. I looked around, but as expected there wasn't any client in sight.

And then, it dawned on me.

"Aoyama? Where are you?"

Aoyama had vanished without a trace.





Hi everyone!

Hope you enjoyed this chapter as well, I've already started working on Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, so they should come out soon enough!

Source: https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054880681711
Original author: 天野　アタル  (Ataru Amano)

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