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“Huh? Ah!”\n\nWhen he touched
his watch, he could tell that it was certainly past his lunch
break time. Tatsumi always set an alarm for his clock-in time, lunch
break, and clock-out time using an application on his computer, but
he had been in such a daze he hadn’t noticed today’s alarm going off.
Since he couldn’t see, moving quickly was difficult, so he did things
early. Depressed he had wasted five minutes of his precious lunch
break, Shimura tried to cheer him up. \n\n“Well, if it’s all
right with you, why don’t we have lunch together?”\n\n“Huh……?
With me?”\n\n“Yes, with you, Konno-san. And two other people
too.”\n\n“Two other people?”\n\nWhen he tilted his
head, he heard the voices of two women behind her.
\n\n“Ichikawa.”\n\n“Yamanoi.”\n\nIchikawa was
hired at the same time as Shimura, and Yamanoi was hired at the same
time as Tatsumi, but she was four years older than him. He recalled
speaking to Yamanoi a little during their new employee orientation.
He most likely had never spoken with Ichikawa before. He must have looked confused about why
this was happening all of a sudden since Shimura spoke up jokingly.
\n\n“It’s nothing sordid, I promise.”\n\n“Well, since
there were a bunch of things we wanted to talk about, these two will
be representatives.”\n\n“Representatives?”