It's been another three years since Emiya Kiritsugu passed away, and Aoi is sitting on a bench in front of her store, eating takeout ordered on the phone. Qing looked at the bare cherry blossom tree in front of the door, the branches were shaking in the cold wind of winter, and during Qing's brief look, the food that had just been delivered from the takeout was already cold. With a sigh, he put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, leaned back on the chair and looked at the bare and swaying branches, unconsciously stunned.

"This winter is the ninth year since the end of the last Holy Grail War, and before you know it, this blandness is only the last year----- 'Qing looked up at the pale gray sky that was about to snow, and winter was coming again. Unconsciously, in the past eight years, there is no memory worth recalling, and it is this kind of life without any brilliance and splendor, which is truly quiet and worth cherishing, and grasp the time at this moment with all your energy.

couldn't help but feel a gust of cold wind hit his body, Qing couldn't help but shiver, tightened his clothes slightly, and returned to the store with dishes and chopsticks. Stuff the cold meal into the microwave oven under the counter to heat it, and in his spare time, he reads through the magazines on the shelves casually, basically all of them are non-nutritious lace news and bizarre gossip, but although there is no nutrition, it can't help but look quite conscious, all kinds of people fight each other for various reasons, bombarding each other, to some extent, it is indeed much more interesting than the soap opera on the TV screen.

After watching it for a while, with the ringing of the microwave oven, Qing casually closed the book and put it back on the shelf, took out the reheated meal from the microwave oven and ate it again, and because it was indoor, plus Qing also turned on the air conditioner, so the meal was very slow to cool, and it was a little hot, but it was obviously impossible to burn and burn. The take-out dinner, which was quite sumptuous, was quickly eaten, and after a little tidying up, Qing walked out of the store with disposable plates and chopsticks, and threw the garbage into the trash can at the intersection.

Back at the store, Zhongqing did not close the door, but left the door open, allowing the cold wind outside to carry away the heating inside. Because when you eat in the store, the smell of the food will stay indoors, and the old store manager once sternly warned Guo Qing that she should never do this kind of thing, because the smell of food permeating the room will affect the business of the store. This is why at first Qing would eat dinner outside against the cold wind, but it was too fast to cool outside, so Qing returned to the store to continue eating.

But fortunately, Qing is the only store manager in the store, and the clerk, and the cleaner, security, procurement, and maintenance----- so as the commander of the light pole, Qing, in fact, will not know about doing something out of the ordinary, and naturally no one will blame him. The door of the store was opened like that for a while, and the cold wind basically swept away all the heating in the room, and at the same time, it also took away the residual smell of the dinner, and the finished Qing closed the door. Seriously, this winter is much colder than in previous years!

The door is closed, with the support of two air conditioners, the room will soon warm up again, and Qing, who feels warm again, has to sigh, modern and comfortable life is really a terrible existence, even Qing himself feels that he is not too happy, and his body is about to be corrupted by this comfortable life. The howling of the cold wind outside is getting louder and louder, and the temperature has dropped rapidly with the naked eye, Qing glanced at the clock on the wall that was just less than five o'clock, and it was obvious that according to the temperature outside at this moment, there would be basically no customers in the next time.

But you can't say, 'If you don't have customers, you shouldn't be able to open!' That's the way it goes. I've been a store manager for several years,Qing deeply understands this truth,But it's very boring to do nothing.,Qing turned on the TV installed in the store two years ago.,Although the number of times you turn on the TV in two years can be counted on one hand,But it's nothing to spend this kind of unjust money.,After all, the cost of one person is not very large.,The income of the entire convenience store flows into your own pocket.,So for the serious overflow of funds, there is not much feeling about spending money indiscriminately., And every month, she will withdraw 20% of her income and send it to her old store manager.

However, even with such a 'lavish' expense, Qing still saved a very considerable amount of money! Watching boring TV after boredom, Qing can be said to be more and more boring the more he watches, and for a while he wants to ask himself, 'What are you doing watching TV when you are idle!' ’。 Time passed slowly, and Qing yawned while constantly pressing the remote control in his hand, constantly changing the TV channel. And at this time, in Qing's perception, a person walked towards the convenience store against the cold wind.

Qing stood up suspiciously, the TV was not turned off, but the volume was reduced, and the remote control was casually placed on the cash register, and the strange man who was facing the cold wind also pushed open the door and walked into the store. "Uh--- welcome, is there anything I can help with?" Qing looked at this sudden customer, and from the bottom of his heart, he had a feeling that he wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh in person.

It was a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, wearing a suit with a comb on his back, with gold-rimmed glasses, and two mustaches, no matter how he looked at it, he was a sophisticated and successful person in high society, but due to the strong wind blowing outside, half of his shiny back was blown up, and the leaves were mixed in his hair, and the other half of his hair seemed to be covered with his hands, so it was preserved, and not only did the man's hairstyle look bad, but his neat suit also had this large piece of water stain, which spread to the gold wire glasses on his face, It's like walking through a pond and being splashed with sewage from a car that suddenly passes by----

The middle-aged man didn't pay attention to Qing's greetings, but took off his glasses and was wiping them intently, Qing's existence was completely ignored, seeing that Qing basically didn't feel anything, he watched the middle-aged man wipe his glasses with a smile in his heart, wear glasses, and take out a comb from his pocket to comb the big shiny back----。 The waiting process lasted for ten minutes, and the middle-aged man seemed to have taken care of his appearance.

However, even though the man had put away his appearance, he still didn't pay any attention to Qingqing, and looked around at the furnishings of the store completely ignorantly, touching around, and tapping here and there with his fingers. And just as Qing was about to ask again, the middle-aged man said, "80 million yen." I'm going to take back this shop that the old man transferred to you. ”