Fox and Butterfly (177013)

Chapter 2

Nice to "meat" you

A few days after Hayato kicked Saki Yoshida out of his house.

Somewhere in Japan...

It was already evening, and the darkness covered everything.

There were very few people walking on the sidewalk, but they all disappeared quickly like a ghost in the night. It seems everyone just wants to go home. All the shops were closed, everything around was very quiet.

Hayato was walking down the street, looking around nervously.

"Damn it! if Obata sees me, he gonna fuckin kill me!" Hayato said worriedly, "That stupid junkie Saki just messed all things up!" Recently, he was very angry and nervous. Hayato really needs to calm down with a few cigarettes that can blow away the worries in his mind.

He began to think nervously about things that happened lately.

"Goddamm it, that bitch didn't make any more money but increase my debt. I can't fucking believe that she even used my money to buy Obata's drugs. If that fat guy catches me, he's gonna cut my throat and throw my body to the fish. Maybe I need to hide for a while to make more money. Then I'm gonna...."

"Excuse me, sir! Could you help me, please?"

Hayato suddenly heard a gentle female voice, which knocked away the stress in his mind. He glanced straight ahead and saw a delivery girl hugging a large cardboard box with a tired face. There are still a few more large boxes at her feet, it seems she needs to load all these boxes into the delivery van next to her.

"These boxes are so heavy, and my back... It suddenly hurts so much that I can't... bend over." The girl continued to speak with a worried expression on her face.

Hayato began to pay more attention to her appearance. She was a bit short and thin, wearing a cap and a company uniform. Her innocent big blue eyes and long brown hair instantly impressed him. The girl seems very young, she was probably still a student.

"Don't worry! Let me lend a hand!" Hayato quickly ran to the van.

He began to lift a cardboard box and put it in the car. "Geez.... Honestly, those boxes are quite heavy for a slender girl like you. I can't believe they make you work alone like this." Hayato sighed, showing his sympathy towards the girl.

"It ... it's just a part of the job." The delivery girl put the box on the truck and hesitantly said. "Well, normally ... I will finish it easily, but today ... my back suddenly has a problem..."

Hayato immediately noticed something unnatural in the girl's accent. Even though she spoke fluently, her accent was quite similar to a foreigner studying Japanese. "Eh... you are a foreigner, right?"

The girl was immediately surprised, her voice became more faltering. "Yes... yes... I'm an international student... I'm trying to get a part-time job to earn a bit more money... so I can cover my tuition."

"YES! YES! BINGO! She is a student!" Hayato thought happily in his mind. Seems like luck has smiled at him. A cunning scheme was formed in Hayato's mind. He then tried to create a perfect trap to lure this girl into.

Hayato pretended to be surprised and amused. He started asking more. "Oh, really? Where do you come from?"

"I'm... I'm American, I just moved to Japan... two years ago. My accent is... very bad, I'm still trying to improve it." The girl stammered, worried about her accent.

"NO NO! Actually, I'm surprised at your Japanese." Hayato encouraged the girl with compliments. "You really speak Japanese very well and fluently."