At that moment, Shigeru Ikeda remembered the words of the barber shop manager: "It is difficult for a prodigal son to turn around, your past, the karma you have done, will not let you go just because you changed your mind.
"They will follow you wherever you go."
Immediately afterwards, Shigeru Ikeda saw the store manager looking at him with complicated eyes.
At this time, someone opened the door and entered the store.
It's Nange's "Banchang" Onishi, a giant man with a height of 1.9 meters - seeing his figure, one can't help but think that the nutrition policies implemented by the Japanese government to increase the height of the whole people are really effective.
Onishi, who was as tall as a mountain, was holding a metal bat in his hand, and the stick was still stained with blood.
A group of guys in Nange uniforms poured into the convenience store after Onishi.
"Hey, isn't this Amao? Why did Ming Qinggao's trump card boss appear in the counter of the convenience store?" Onishi obviously knew why Ikeda Shigeru was working part-time, and pretended to be confused.
Suddenly, he patted his head with the bloody bat: "Ah! I understand! You are robbing, right? It must be so! Hey, clerk! Take out all the money! Don't you know who this is? ? This is the little overlord that is well-known in the entire Geshi district!"
Ikeda Shigeru yelled at Onishi: "Onishi! Don't fart!"
"Really? Are you going to tell me, are you working here?" Daxi looked back at his brothers, "Listen, Mingqing's Amao said he was working! Do you believe it?"
"The letter is weird!" A plane head monster wearing a worn-out "special attack suit" he didn't know where he got it laughed. If you don’t blackmail me, the young master will take the initiative to give you money, just to show off your power and follow behind you!”
"That's right, who knows how to work!"
"A part-time job is such a funny thing, only people with broken brains will do it!"
Shigeru Ikeda's face was blue, anxiously thinking about how to solve the problem in front of him—how to solve the problem in front of him as a "good person".
In other words, even good people can use force, right
"Master" - well, it's not a master, isn't Kiryu and Ma just using force to punish evil and promote good? Just like the real Kamen Rider.
If it was a "teacher", he should have pulled out a wooden knife, beat these bastards, and thrown them out one by one, it must be like this!
Shigeru Ikeda came to the conclusion that he started looking for something that could be used as a weapon...
But at this time, Mr. Zhongchuan rushed out from the staff room and shouted: "I have already called the police! The police will be here soon!"
The store manager gave Mr. Zhongchuan a helpless look, and said, "When these people came in, I pressed the emergency alarm button. The police should be here soon."
As a large chain store, it is still a store in Tokyo. The store is equipped with a closed-circuit television and a one-button alarm device that are still rare.
Mr. Nakagawa told Shigeru Ikeda about this on the day he joined the company.
But Shigeru Ikeda completely forgot.
Now, he suddenly felt relieved.
—Yes, good people can call the police.
—Being a bad boy for so long, I even forgot about this kind of thing.
Delinquent teenagers generally have a bad impression of the police, and basically forget that the police have the bounden duty of protecting the lives of ordinary people.
As soon as the words fell, the unscrupulous boy who was letting the wind outside the convenience store rushed in: "The note is here!"
Onishi was speechless, picked up a pack of paper towels from the shelf and tore it open, wiped the blood on the metal bat, and then threw the bloody paper in front of the injured Asano.
Then two patrolmen on bicycles with headlights arrived. Seeing this posture, the patrolmen walking behind immediately began to use their walkie-talkies to request reinforcements.
The patrolman in front got out of the car, carefully maintained a distance, pulled out the baton with the rope around his waist with one hand, and pressed the gun at his waist with the other.
"Stop! Police! Put down your weapons!" The police shouted through the slightly open door of the convenience store.
Onishi stared at Shigeru Ikeda, the smile on his face was as bright as when he first came in.
But he didn't say much, as if he didn't need to say much about the current situation.
He turned and raised his bat over his head, like a soldier surrendering his gun: "We will not resist! We are coming out!"
Then Daxi led a group of bad boys from Nange out of the store.
Only then did Miura come up to Shigeru Ikeda and said apologetically, "We just wanted to check on your part-time job, but we ran into Onishi and the others on the way, so we had to do this."
Irie said indignantly: "This Daxie must have got the information, he is here to find you!"
Shigeru Ikeda ignored the two former friends, but bowed to the store manager: "I'm sorry! I have caused you trouble!"
The store manager looked complicated, pursed his lips and said nothing.
At this time, a police officer came in, holding a gun in one hand and a baton in the other, and said to the unscrupulous teenagers in the store: "You also go out! Those who participated in the fight should go to the police station to take notes!"
Miura looked at Shigeru Ikeda, then helped the injured Asano and limped towards the gate.
Irie glanced at Shigeru Ikeda meaningfully, and followed in the footsteps of his two companions.
The police stared at Ikeda and shouted angrily: "And you! Get out!"
Ikeda Shigeru was a little emotional at this time, and almost shouted at the police officer, but the store manager said: "This is our clerk. Although he knows the two parties in the fight, he didn't participate in the fight. The surveillance over there recorded the whole process. Come down and testify."
The police officer looked at the surveillance and nodded: "Understood, thank you for your cooperation. Depending on the situation, someone may come to extract surveillance evidence later. Please be careful not to delete it."
"Understood." The store manager bowed to the police officer, "You have worked hard."
The police officer did not respond, and he glanced at Shigeru Ikeda again, his eyes filled with distrust.
Then the officer left.
Shigeru Ikeda bowed deeply to the store manager: "I'm sorry. Also, thank you for your help just now."
The store manager sighed, took out the cigarette case from his pocket to get some cigarettes, and then saw the no-smoking sign on the wall.
So he said to Mr. Zhongchuan: "Zhongchuan, come and see the counter for a while, and wipe the blood on the ground by the way."
"Yes." Mr. Nakagawa nodded,
The store manager walked into the staff room.
Shigeru Ikeda felt that he should follow, because the store manager obviously had something to say.
He glanced at Mr. Zhongchuan, who gestured to him as if asking him to follow.
So Shigeru Ikeda also entered the staff room. He glanced at the staff wardrobe that he had only used for a day, and for some reason he felt a sense of reluctance.
This reluctance reminded him of what he might face in the future.
But... maybe the store manager...
With apprehension and expectation, Shigeru Ikeda pushed open the staff room door at the back of the store.
The store manager is squatting in a standard Asian posture next to the trash bin behind the store, the sparks on the cigarette dangling from his mouth flickering in the dim light of the back alley.
"When you applied for the job," the store manager said, "I thought maybe that was the case."