“… Phew… That was another hard day.”
At midnight when the date was about to change, I was finally finishing my work and ready to return ho.
I don’t rember returning on ti recently.
It’s been two years since I started this job. I don’t have any days off, and I think it’s a completely black workplace with constant overti.
However, I haven’t had ti to look for another job, so I’m continuing my current one.
“Ah…I feel a little dizzy.”
Before, when I was working continuously for 3 months without a break, I once collapsed at ho.
At that ti, I woke up imdiately, but I took a day off from work and went to the hospital because I thought this was dangerous.
But when I went to work the next day, my superiors were angry and my coworkers gave dirty looks.
While this wasn’t as bad as that ti, my walking was a little strange.
I wasn’t drinking.
I have just reached adulthood, and while I have drunk alcohol, I haven’t drunk enough so that it seems delicious.
The boss once took to a drinking party on a day when there was little overti, and I rember being forced to drink a lot of beer and having to rush to the bathroom many tis.
“What is with…this workplace.”
While mumbling to myself, I walked from the nearest station to my ho.
“Oh, I should stop at the convenience store. I haven’t eaten anything today… And I can buy sothing for her and go ho.”
I entered a convenience store on the way to my house and bought a lunch box and sausages, rembering that I hadn’t eaten anything today.
She must always feel lonely, and so sotis I want to buy her favorite food and make her happy.
I left the convenience store and headed ho again at a slightly odd pace.
I arrived at the apartnt after walking for about 10 minutes, and took out the key from my pocket in front of the naplate that read Takumi Hirooka, and opened the door.
“I’m ho.”
I opened the door and went inside while calling out to her.
I could hear the sound of scratching behind the door, at the back of the corridor leading from the entrance.
“Good, good. You’re lively today. I’ll open it now, so wait!”
I take off my shoes, go up to the corridor, stand in front of the door and open it.
As soon as the door was opened, a white object rushed out from inside.
“Kuuun… Kuuun…”
“Haha, okay-okay. Were you a good girl?”
It was Leo, a Maltese, that jumped at .
Our first encounter was when I found her as a puppy in a cardboard box that was thrown away a few years ago.
As a student at that ti, I had just started living alone, but thanks to Leo, I wasn’t lonely.
When I picked her up, I called her Leo without thinking, but later realized that she was a female. That was a good mory.
I’m sorry Leo, I gave you such a na in spite of being a girl.
“See, I bought your favorite sausage today!”
“Kuun… Wuff-wuff.”
When I showed the sausage, the tail that had been wagging a while ago began to wag even more violently.
She put her nose close to the sausage and was about to open her mouth and bite into it.
“Hahaha. Wait, wait. You can’t eat it like this. …Here, you have to take it out of the wrapper first.”
“Wuff-wuff! …Chomp-chomp.”
I took the sausage out of the wrappings and put it on the floor. She pounced on it and started to eat.
I better eat my own dinner as well.
It had been heated at the convenience store, and so I put it on the table, took off the lid and started to eat.
…It didn’t have much taste… Had they gone with a milder flavor today?
Regardless, I was hungry, and would not let any of it go to waste.
While I was eating, Leo finished her sausage and started to paw at .
“Kuuun…kyuun.”
“What? Do you want to play? Just wait a little. I’m almost finished eating.”
“…Kuun.”
I petted Leo so that she would calm down, and then I ate the rest of my food.
Then I put all of the garbage in the convenience store bag and left it in a corner of the room.
It was unburnable garbage day tomorrow, so I would have to rember to take it out before I go to work.
“Alright, co here, Leo.”
“Kyuun…kyuun.”
“What? I thought you wanted to play?”
“….Kyuuun…kyuun.”
For so reason, today she was pushing her nose into my face and licking a lot…
Had she noticed that my health seed worse than usual?
While it was rather odd, I rembered sothing just as I was considering going to bed.
“Ah, I better take a bath.”
I couldn’t go straight to sleep like this after returning.
Upon hearing the word ‘bath,’ Leo jumped away from .
She always hated baths…
I chuckled at her and then got up in order to take a shower. That’s when my vision swayed.
“…Is it an earthquake?”
For so reason, it seed like it was shaking… No, wait, was it who was shaking…?
“Wuff! Wuff! Wuff!”
Leo was barking loudly in the corner of my vision, but without being able to reply, I fell to the floor.
“Wuff! Wuff! Wuff! …Kuun. Kuuun.”
Perhaps she was worried about . I could clearly feel that she had co close. But I could do nothing as my consciousness faded.
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“…Hmm.”
“Wuff-wuff.”
I felt the wind blowing as I opened my eyes.
Had I been sleeping? And was this fluffy thing covering my face Leo?
“Sorry, Leo. Can you move a little. …You’ve gotten heavy.”
“Wuff.”
Leo’s voice sounded lower than usual as I moved her away and opened my eyes.
…The thing that entered my vision was a forest that I had never seen before.
“…Where…am I? Is this a dream?”
“Wuff!”
Hadn’t I been sleeping in my room? I rember eating dinner, but I don’t rember getting into bed.
Why was I in this forest…?
Thinking that it must be a dream, I pinched my cheeks, but it hurt.
“So it’s not a dream…? But why am I in a forest…”
“Wuff! Wuff!”
And Leo’s barking wasn’t just lower than usual, but also sounded more powerful for so reason.
As she had been barking next to as if she wanted attention, I turned my head towards her.
Now that was a surprise.
“What? Hey! So you’re not Leo!”
“Wuff!”
The thing that was sitting next to with its head tilted to the side was a wolf that I had never seen before. It was also much bigger than .
“…!”
I tried to get up so that I could run away, but perhaps due to having only just woken up, and the fatigue of the previous day’s work, I could not move my body well.
As I tried to scramble away, the wolf’s face ca close to mine.
I was going to be eaten! I braced myself and shut my eyes tightly.
“Kuuun.”
My eyes were closed, but that voice was familiar. And then I felt my face being licked.
Surely you’re not actually…
“You… Are you Leo?”
“Wuff! Wuff!”
She nodded and then barked as if to say ‘that’s right!’
“But why are you so big…”
What I first saw after waking up in a strange place, was that my beloved dog had beco very big.
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