Su Yu, who returned to the store with an injured hand, quickly heard another voice.
"Su Yu, you're back … Ah, hand!" A girl wearing home clothes came out from the inner room. The moment she saw Su Yu, she couldn't help but exclaim.
Sure enough, this scared her. If I had known, I would've gone to the school doctor's office to treat my wound.
Su Yu stood in place and blinked. She smiled and comforted her, "It's just a flesh wound. I didn't want to go to the school doctor's office, so I came back first. Kyōko, can you help me bandage it?"
The girl called Kyōko froze for a moment. She quickly turned around to get the first aid kit, "Okay, leave it to me."
Looking at the girl's hurried figure, Su Yu's smile deepened. Her brows loosened slightly. Returning to the store was like returning home. Su Yu leaned back on the sofa and asked, "What are we eating tonight, Kyōko, I'm so hungry."
"I made some curry. It'll be ready in a while." Kyōko carried the first aid kit and carefully used a pair of tweezers to pick out the glass shards stuck in the girl's right hand. "Really, Su Yu doesn't take care of her body. How can a girl's hand get injured so easily …"
Kyōko couldn't help but educate her while treating her wound. However, she didn't hear a response for a long time.
She froze for a moment and looked up at the person lying on the sofa. The girl's long black hair poured down and her eyes were closed.
She seemed to have fallen asleep.
Looking at the girl's casual appearance, Kyōko smiled helplessly. After bandaging the wound on her hand, she carried a blanket from the bedroom and covered the girl on the sofa.
"She still doesn't know how to take care of herself." Kyōko's gentle brown eyes flashed with a trace of helplessness. She looked at the girl's defenseless sleeping face and couldn't help but mutter to herself, "She's so gentle to others …"
Kyōko's full name was Kyoko Sasakawa. Two years ago, she was abducted into an alley on her way home. Just when she thought there was nowhere to hide, a somewhat old wooden door suddenly appeared behind her.
At that time, Su Yu just happened to open the door from the inside. When they saw the girl's amazing beauty, the gangsters were stunned. Kyōko couldn't describe what happened next. She only remembered that she was extremely scared at the time, and Su Yu saved her.
After that, Kyōko unexpectedly stayed in the shop. It was also after interacting more with Su Yu that she realized that there were several souls from another world in her world. And as the person whom they pursued, Sasada Tsunayoshi, originally had a crush on, even if she didn't do anything, she became the number one love rival in their eyes.
After understanding this series of absurd causes and effects, it seemed that the hostility and targeting in the past all had an explanation. But at this time, Kyōko had been misunderstood by everyone around her. Even her own brother had doubts about her.
She didn't want to go back, didn't want to be tortured for no reason, and didn't want to see her family's distrustful eyes.
At this time, the girl who often had a smile on her face spoke to her.
"Since they all think you're an extra existence, do you want to come with me?"
This proposal was like a novel idea that suddenly popped up in her leisure time. But in Kyōko Sasakawa's eyes, it was like an open embrace, giving her a place that could accept her.
After tidying up the bandages in her hands, Kyōko Sasakawa carefully picked up the medicine box and looked at the girl who was sleeping on the sofa. She whispered "Good night" softly and turned off the light.
— —
When she woke up, the sky was already bright outside. Su Yu got up from the sofa and stretched her body.
The injury on her right hand was bandaged, and the fatigue of losing her lifespan had disappeared with a night of sleep. The tip of the girl's nose moved slightly, and she smelled the aroma of food coming from the kitchen.
She followed the smell to the kitchen. She leaned against the door and looked at the back of the girl wearing an apron in the kitchen. "Good morning, Kyōko."
"Good morning, Su Yu," Kyōko turned her head and looked at her with a smile. "Today's breakfast is sandwiches, okay?"
"Haha, I'm satisfied as long as I have something to eat," Su Yu smiled nonchalantly. She lowered her eyes and said, "Although it's a bit rushed, we're leaving today."
"Eh, leaving already?" Kyōko's hand paused. She turned her head and looked at the girl who poked her head out of the door. "Do you want to buy ingredients again …"
"No, the next world seems to be normal. Before that, let's eat rice balls first." Su Yu waved her hand and left the kitchen.
Hearing her words, Kyōko turned her head and looked at the fridge next to her. Indeed, the fridge in Su Yu's shop had an endless supply of rice balls, but eating one thing all the time was not good for the body. So whenever there was a chance, she would go out to buy some ingredients and come back to cook.
This was part of the repayment to Su Yu for taking her in.
She hoped that this trip would not be too far.
— —
Su Yu, who left the kitchen, came to the front hall of the shop.
There were a lot of things scattered on the simple and even old display cabinets. Each item was attached with a name and description. There were a total of three such display cabinets placed on three walls. Facing the door of the shop was a semi-enclosed counter. At the beginning, she woke up in this place.
She had no memory of the past. She only remembered this shop and her name. Now, this was all she had, no matter which world she went to.
Everything in the shop had to be exchanged with lifespan, from the goods displayed on the display cabinets to the common currencies of various worlds listed on the counter, and even the expansion of the living area behind the shop. Everything could be exchanged in the shop as long as one had enough lifespan.
When she woke up from the darkness, she was faced with the dilemma of having all her lifespan forcibly exchanged for goods. Her heart twitched little by little as time passed. Just when she thought she was about to die, the first customer opened the wooden door.
For a long time after that, she couldn't forget the feeling of being on the verge of death. She just wanted to quickly accumulate a lifespan that would not be exhausted no matter how much she squandered. So for a long time after that, Mary Sue's grocery store maintained a willful way of operating. It didn't matter what you wanted in the store, as long as you could pay the corresponding price, it would not be a problem to mold you into a god in that world.
Su Yu didn't care at all about selling a large number of dangerous abilities. Those worlds had nothing to do with her. She would randomly appear there because there would be business. She didn't care what kind of ability she sold and how much damage it would cause to the world.
Until that day, when she opened the door and saw Kyōko lying in the muddy water.
It was also from that day onwards that she gradually realized that all the characters in the 'script' were so alive, with flesh and blood.
Kyōko was no doubt a gentle and kind girl. This could be felt from every bit of contact she had with her. But such a beautiful girl, when they first met, even showed signs of PTSD. If she left her alone, what awaited her was probably destruction.
So she made a bold decision to bring away Kyōko, one of the original characters in that world. And the following facts proved that her choice was right.
She had lived for a long time, but she hadn't done many right things.
The girl sat behind the counter and threw the store manager's key on the table. The key gradually melted on the wooden table and formed a complicated pattern.
Stroking the pattern with her fingers, Su Yu closed her eyes. She felt the ground under her feet tremble slightly, and the world outside fell into darkness. At the same time, the information of the next world slowly flowed into her mind.
Indeed, as she said, it was still a very safe world. It was just that the information about this world was very scarce, and the settings of several key characters were also very mysterious.
But she had been to many strange worlds. After confirming the information, Su Yu opened her eyes and entered the house to enjoy the breakfast made with love by Kyōko.
This kind of dimensional travel would last for a period of time. During the travel, the entire store was in a state of lockdown. The key had turned into a switch, and even Su Yu couldn't open the door to the outside world. So during this period, she just had to wait quietly.
The entire store drifted in space and time for about two days before it quietly stopped somewhere.
Waking up from the fixed sleeping time, Su Yu yawned and walked to the front hall. She saw that the switch on the counter had turned back into the key. It seemed like they had arrived at their destination.
The girl's mouth curved up slightly. She reached out and took the key on the table.
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