The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 1 by Nanako Tsujimura

Author:Nanako Tsujimura [Tsujimura, Nanako]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-06-03T07:00:00+00:00

The following Friday, I was dragged along to go drinking with some college friends. We ended up in the same bar in Roppongi as last week. One of the older guys in my prep class was very eager to invite me. I thought the professor would be coming, but that wasn’t the case at all—even the guy who invited me ended up not being able to make it. It ended up being a peculiar party made up of just six second year students. There were no girls in the class to begin with, so there wasn’t even that to look forward to.

It was a trendy bar, but not the kind of place a bunch of single guys could really relax. The interior design was so overdone, all form over function. The prices were middling, and there wasn’t much in the way of food. After two hours of partying, things were starting to drag.

“That reminds me, Seigi, you quit your weekend shifts. I hardly see you at all these days, man.”

“Yeah, I started another part-time job.”

“What kind of job?”

I knew if I answered honestly, saying I worked at a jewelry store mostly serving tea, it would turn into a Q&A session since everyone was bored and didn’t have anything else to talk about. What should I say instead, though? That I was handing out flyers? No, that wouldn’t be believable. I’d be getting paid more working the night shift than that.

“Uh, um…I’m in the hospitality industry.”

“Oh, are we doing twenty questions? Are you a host?”

“Seriously?! How much does it pay? What’s the place like?”

“No hostesses there? Are there any hotties? Like among your customers?”

“You’re gonna destroy your liver working a job like that. That shit is seriously rough.”

I guess the Q&A session was unavoidable after all. I was an idiot for trying to lie about it. Convincing them they were wrong was going to be a pain. I visualized the fictitious club. The owner was a foreigner, and I served drinks. We got a lot of customers from overseas and the prices were reasonable. Honestly, it wasn’t that far off the mark.

I mostly told them the truth—other than the fact that it was a jewelry shop—and my drunk classmates listened intently. I got a little carried away and started speaking triumphantly about how attractive my boss was—the blond-haired blue-eyed polyglot who was possessed of such overwhelming beauty that it was hard to believe that such a living creature even existed. The atmosphere changed when I got to that topic.

They were all staring at me for some reason.

“…So you’re, like, alone with this boss of yours in the shop?”

“Whoa, that’s sick. What do you two get up to when there are no customers around?”

“What do you mean, what do we get up to? I make drinks, clean, and run errands. Stuff like that.”

When they asked me how I’d gotten the job, I told them that I’d saved my now boss from some drunks on the street one night. The moment I mentioned that, the dull atmosphere did a total 180.

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