CH 3

Lunch with a beautiful woman is hard.

[Well, what am I supposed to do?]

I ask her as I grill the meat to fill the silence. It’s an expensive restaurant and the smoke is quickly sucked in. Only now I want the smoke to drift between me and her. That’s what I thought.

The aroma smells delicious, and normally I’d be ravenous, but to be honest, I didn’t have much of an appetite in front of a beautiful woman.

[I want you to make me a popular user.]

[I thought the people in the direction department would know more about that.]

The direction department is the part of the sales department that deals with the production company and acts as the link between the production of advertisements. The sales people make proposals and get clients, and the directors in the direction department work with the production companies to give shape to the projects. …… In other words, they are the professionals who create ads that sell.

My job is to create the websites that come out of that, to make surveys, and all sorts of things.

[But I couldn’t find anyone else to do it for me other than Fujishiro-san.]

I don’t like it.

I can’t say it even if I think it.

[Wouldn’t it be better if it was between women?.]

[Do you think they will tell me the truth?]

Oh, why the agitated tone? Mamiya-san put her mouth agape and put the tan salt on the net. Well, I guess there’s a lot going on between women. ……

[Yes, if you say it’s part of the job. I’ll do it, but, you’re sure about me.?]

[Yes!　Then we have a contract!　Let’s eat!]

Mamiya-san smiles broadly and grabs the touch screen at the end of the table and orders a variety of things. ‘I knew the rice had to be a big serving!’ She said and tapped the touch panel.

**

[Yeah, you’re really bad.]

Looking at Mamiya-san’s phone while she was on a food break after eating a large amount of meat, I unintentionally let my true feelings overflow from my mouth.

Her photos are too terrible. In the first place, is it an addiction?　The photos are so blurry that I suspect she has some kind of addiction, and she has no sense of the angle of view or shade of light.

She seems to have used a processing app, but the filters don’t match at all, so it’s counterproductive.

The selfies in particular are all taken at angles that would be impossible for a normal girl, although they are made possible by the quality of her face.

[Uhhhh.]

Cute.

Mamiya-san, who snarled like a puppy that has had its toy taken away, glares at me cutely.

[Well, the photos are fine, but if you’re in the PR department, you’ve got writing, don’t you?　How do you do it?]

In the PR department, it’s our job to do PR for the company, so we have to send out texts to various media outlets. If the company decides to announce a new service, it asks the press or an online news website to produce an article about it.

In addition to this, PR people may be asked to chair various events organized by the company. Give speeches, or prepare drafts for company information sessions for new graduates, for example.

[It’s outsourced.]

So you’re not good at thinking up sentences ……?

[I’m a face hire, after all…]

Mamiya-san, delusional, and puffed up on her own, gulped down her oolong tea as if she were drinking beer. Everything she does is cute.

[Lunch time is almost over, so let’s do the rest over chat room. First, yes. What kind of Kamegura Mamiya-san wants to make, ah, I’ll make up some questions and send them back to you in chat.]

Mamiya-san glanced at me.

[Why are we chatting? Wouldn’t it be quicker to talk?]

That is what she said. Well, to be honest, if you say so, but talking to Mamiya-san all the time in the company is bad for my heart and mental health. I’m glad, though.

[Well, it’s just an exercise in communicating sentences to people.]

[eh~]

[It’s not “eh~]

[*Stare* Don’t tell anyone about this!　The talk stays between only me and Fujishiro-san.]

[I know that.]

After she finished paying with the company’s credit card, which I was told would come out of my expenses, I said I was going to buy cigarettes and returned her to the office first.

Anyway, I bought some cigarettes and had a smoke in the smoking room at work. It could have been a big problem.