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Chapter 10 - What will I do without you?

That one time Karino decided to invest on himself and things go wrong. One of his favorite white shirt had a brown iron imprint on it; he was trying to do some ironing because he was thinking to himself what if one day Rio wanted to have dinner with him on his own? He wanted to look presentable to her and make good impressions to add points for himself. However, what point was he hoping to add with his favorite white shirt being ruined by a very obvious brown stain.

"The iron isn't cheap either!" He bought it a week ago. He could still refund it since he's definitely NOT satisfied with the product! And it's still within the 'Return within 30 days policy'. He will have to go to the supermarket, get a refund, and get a new iron. He sighed heavily. "This one time I want to make a good impression and shit happens." He got himself dressed and he decided to go out. 

"Hm?" Kotarou was about to go to the park, "Sir Karino, are you heading out?" 

"Yeah I'm going to return a faulty iron." 

"Faulty iron?" 

"Yeah, ruined one of my shirts. Want to come along, kid?" 

"I don't think it will be fun." 

"You can just go wander in the supermarket while I sort my stuff out. I'll come and get you when I am done." 

"Fine." 

And they're off to return a faulty product. It shouldn't be THAT hard to return an iron, right?

~A few hours go by~

Kotarou was getting a little restless. He decided to go the customer service line. Once he's there, he saw Karino...with the box containing the faulty iron still in his posession. 

"Fine! I'll wait for the supervisor!" Karino looked visibly annoyed. Was he seriously panting in annoyance from arguing? "Young people these days have a lot of answers for every comeback!" 

"Sir Karino, I don't mean to offend but if you cannot argue with the clerk, what makes you think you can argue with the supervisor?" Kotarou finished wandering around the supermarket and he grew bored. Seeing Karino still couldn't get a refund and still had to wait an hour was getting ridiculous at best.

"I don't care! I gotta try something somehow!" Karino now wondered what he should say to the supervisor when they arrive in an hour's time. 

Kotarou decided to get to the front of the desk. "Hello, my name is Satou Kotarou. I would like to assist that good sir over there to return the faulty product." 

'Oh? Is he trying to help me return it? What a kind kid.' Karino thought to himself. 

"Sorry, kid. It's in our store's policy to not accept damaged products. Clearly, the product is damaged after it went into his possession." The clerk wasn't having it. 

"You do not know it was Sir Karino who spilled damaged the iron." Kotarou said to him. 

"But you don't know if he didn't damage it either. Look at him, does he look like the careful type?" The clerk asked Kotarou, "Also, he's holding a cup of coffee right now. Kid, let me tell you about no good adults who come here. They come here trying to return products that's over a year old and purposely damaging goods to get refunds from us."

"I am still here, you know?!" How dare they talk bad about him right in front of him?! Did they think he couldn't hear them?!