The following day after our sea event, the academy welcod the morning with a more upbeat mood than usual.
The sumr festival was just around the corner so the production job students had already started their preparation for stalls. A slight hecticness was clearly visible between them.
"Hmm-mm, nope. We're still short-staffed."
Alulu uttered a groan as she discussed their plan with Hannah in our guild room.
"Yeah. Maybe it wouldn't have been much if we had three...no, four more people..."
Hannah seed to be sharing the sa sentint as her.
Their worry could be traced back to the shop they were going to set up. It turned out the food shop they had in mind wasn't the regular food stall but a B-class gourt shop. The scale of the shop was now becoming the source of trouble for the three, Hannah, Alulu and Kairi. Their situation seed dicey... I thought when soone raised their hand in response to their plight.
"In that case, Lulu wants to help out! Lulu also wants to try servicing in a shop, and beco Lulu the Shop Assistant!"
"Oh my! I would definitely sweep the shop if Lulu is the salesperson! Unfortunately, that's just a pipe dream. Hold on, Lulu. Your height may put you in trouble."
"Mmm-mm. But Lulu wants to try it out."
"Then let's do that; I will also join to look after you, and support you."
"Uwah, thank you so muchhhh, Celia Onee-chan!"
"Fufufu, of course. It's my duty as your big sister to support Lulu in every endeavour."
"Thank you very much, really." (Alulu)
With the spur of Lulu, Hannah and Co. succeeding in getting two more staff mbers.
"I was literally sweating thinking about the situation you know~. But we're still a bit short."
"Hmm, who else can help us out?"
Once again, Hannah and Alulu started their brainstorming when soone entered the guild room.
The newcor was Satoru, one of our helpers, who took his entry with a beaming expression.
"Good morning everyone! Oh, it's been a while, Hannah-sama, Lulu-san! ......Huh? Is it or does everyone seem oddly suntanned?"
Satoru cheerfully greeted everyone but after taking a look around, his eyes suddenly blinks repeatedly. I could see question marks, in taphorical way, floating about his head.
Well, let's not end his greeting on a dry note.
"Good morning, Satoru. I guess the sunscreen didn't completely block the sunlight huh~."
"Yes. There was also a hot sandy beach and the reflection, so it's hardly enough to prevent sun tanning."
Hearing mine and Sierra reply, Satoru blinked rapidly as if he just heard sothing funny and his expression soon changed into one of astonishnt. Huh, is sothing wrong?
"S-Sea? Did you go to sea? ......with everyone?"
"Yes! We played with everyone in the sea! It was so much fun!"
"Hu......h? B-But I...... didn't?"
With the reply from grinning Lulu, Satoru spoke as if it took all his strength to utter those words. His voice was shivering to the core.
Then, as if she had just realised sothing, Sierra tapped her hand with fist.
"Indeed. Now that I look back, you were not there."
"My whole existence was forgotten!?"
With those words, the dam Satoru was holding back burst forth.
Ack, yeah, my fault too. I only realised just now as well.
Besides, he seed to have been busy with so work for the last few days, maybe that's why he missed all the talks about the sea event. And speaking of, he was yet to be our when we were deciding on the details for the event, so we also completely missed him.
I guess it was truly bad timing.
I carefully chose my words and tried to console him.
"Satoru, let's go together next ti, alright?"
"Z-Zephyr-san. I knew it, you're really a god!"
No, that's why I am telling you to stop with the believer act.
When I urged him, he recounted this wasn't the first ti he had missed an event like this, and has been facing a similar situation for a long ti, with a teary look. I nodded in the flow, saying 'Aha, it's indeed one of the rare things, but it does happen. Yeah, totally' and easing his mood.
"What's he doing?"
"Is this so kind of new ga?"
In between, the other two of , Maria and lina-senpai, arrived.
I explained the situation to them which elicited a surprised "Oh no!" reaction from both of them, seemingly realising sothing. Afterward, these two averted their gaze from Satoru. Maybe...these two had forgotten about him in the sa vein. Well, not that I had any right to say and kept quiet.
"Hello, and good timing, you two. If you're free, can we discuss the rental items for the shop?"
Hannah suddenly jumped in the situation and steered the topic. At Least this saved the situation from taking any more awkward route.
As for ...well I had dungeons to take care of so unfortunately I wasn't free to help them out.
The first task in my agenda was to increase the level of the remaining mbers, unlock their third order skill tree and at the sa ti procure sufficient equipnt to start our exploration for Interdiate-high dungeons. So I was just as busy. And looking at the timing, It was about ti for to go out.
"Then, I will be going out. Good luck for your shop, everyone."
"Thanks, and you too, Zephyr-kun. Good luck~."
I cheered Hannah and Co. for their effort and left the guild room.
At the end, it seed like Satoru had also volunteered himself to help out in heavy stuff and support their shop. Good luck, Satoru. I will make sure you're not forgotten next ti.
And so, we spend the remainder of our sumr vacation on our respective tasks, securing equipnt and helping other mbers in levelling up.
By the 29th of the month, I had fulfilled my one of the tasks---getting every mber of too, which ans another interview. Or maybe I should go the scouting route this ti? Either way, it's another work. Truly not a mont to break.
But on the other hand, one of the academy events, the sumr festival, starts tomorrow. I was incredibly excited to participate in the actual sumr festival of as well!
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