| Tsuzuru | To think that I’m going to be in a Sunny Works column myself….. |
| Izumi | I was surprised by the timing of it all myself. |
| Tsuzuru | It’s for the special feature column where they talk about different industries and all sorts of related past part-time experiences, right? I sometimes read those features myself. |
| Izumi | With all the part-time work experiences you’ve got under your belt, you’re the perfect fit for this! |
| Tsuzuru | Speaking of, how did they decide on me for this? |
| Izumi | Now that you mention it… Maybe they’re aware of how active you are with part-time jobs because of all the times you shared about them in the troupe blogs? |
| *DOOR OPENS* |
| Hidaka | Please excuse me for having you wait. My name is Hidaka, representing Sunner Workers. |
| Izumi | Tachibana, head supervisor for MANKAI Company. It’s a pleasure to meet you today. And this here is— |
| Tsuzuru | (Hidaka-san….? Why do I have a feeling I know that name and face——) |
| I’m Minagi Tsuzuru. Uhm….. Sorry for the question, but I was wondering if we’ve met before… |
| Hidaka | I knew it! It’s me! We worked in the same gas station together! |
| Tsuzuru | Aaahh…!! Wow, it’s been so long, good to see you. |
| Hidaka | Same to you! Seriously though, when I saw your name in the news about the Fluer Awards, I wondered if it was really you, so I thought to call to confirm. |
| Minagi was only a first-year high schooler back then, but he was really a hard-working juggler of part-time jobs even back then. |
| I even tried to invite him to the welcoming party once, but he rejected it while saying he had another job to get to. |
| Tsuzuru | Ahaha, I suppose I was. It’s a little embarrassing to talk about it now… |
| Izumi | (So that explains why he wanted Tsuzuru-kun for this job…) |
| Hidaka | I’d like to ask more about it in the interview, so without further ado, shall we start? |
| Tsuzuru | Yes, thank you for having us. |
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| *BALL THUMP* |
| Tsuzuru | …Hup, ho. |
| *BALL THUMP* |
| Tasuku | Sorry for having you tag along in this. I was just in the mood to do some pass practice. |
| *BALL THUMP* |
| Tsuzuru | All good. I wanted to do some light exercise myself, so it was good timing. |
| Oh right. Actually, the other day I met up again with an old gas station co-worker of ours. You remember Hidaka-san? |
| Tasuku | Hidaka…..? |
| Tsuzuru | You know, that guy who kept leaving around all the manga and magazines in the break room after he’d finished reading them… |
| Tasuku | Ahh… The one that got banned by the manager from using that gas station’s laundromat because he kept leaving behind paper waste everywhere? |
| Tsuzuru | Haha, I guess something like that did happen too… |
| He seemed like he wanted to meet you too, Takato-san. We exchanged contacts, so maybe we could all go out to eat or something together… |
| *PHONE BUZZING* |
| Tsuzuru | Oops, sorry. That’s mine. |
| ….Ohoh, speak of the devil. Hidaka-san could very well be asking for a meal together just as we said. Let’s see… |
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| Hidaka | I’m sorry for having to call you here again. |
| Tsuzuru | It’s no problem. What did you want to talk about today? |
| Hidaka | You see, I was hoping to commission you for a script that’s for a separate thing to the column interview we did before. |
| Tsuzuru | Eh? A script? |
| Hidaka | Yes. Here are the papers about the project. |
| Since the 20th anniversary of Sunny Workers is coming up, we’ve had a diversity of projects planned for it. |
| These include all sorts of event collaborations with other companies, as well as anniversary products… |
| Tsuzuru | I see, I see... |
| Hidaka | Among them, we have an omnibus of short stories currently in development, and if you’re willing, we were hoping to have you, Minagi, write the script for it. |
| Tsuzuru | A short story… |
| Hidaka | The kind fit for a web commercial, in short. |
| The plan is to make 3 videos in total, with the theme: "Supporting your first part-time life experience … What do you think? |
| Tsuzuru | Thank you for calling me for this. I wanna take the job. |
| Hidaka | Really!? What a relief! Thank you as well for taking it! |
| I’m certain there are a lot of people who want to take their first step into doing part-time jobs…. |
| And if there was someone like you Minagi— who had challenged all sorts of part-time’s even as a high schooler, were to help encourage others into taking that step, then I figured it would be nice to see… |
| Tsuzuru | …… |
| Hidaka | I’ll be anticipating for the script. |
| Tsuzuru | …’Course. I’ll do my best. |
