Chapter 226

A month after Hajime showed just a bit of good-for-nothing act at Yuuka’s restaurant.

Currently, everyone was gathering in the living room of Nagumo residence. The【120th something of Nagumo Family Meeting】was opened.

The one who sat at the center of the large dining table was Hajime, and right in front of him was Liliana who was sitting with an awkward expression.

「Now then, Lily. Do you know what is the meaning of this family meeting?」

「u, mo, more or less……」

Liliana averted her face quickly to the side, but ahead of her gaze there were Yue and others who weren’t even hiding their exasperated expression. What gouged her heart especially deeply was that even Myuu was looking at her with eyes as though she was looking at someone hopeless.

Hajime was about to open his mouth toward Liliana whose gaze was swimming *sui~* to the opposite side.

But, before he could speak, *pururururu* a phone’s ringtone rang.

「Ah, I, I’m sorry. Please excuse me a bit.」

「Ah, oi, you」

Liliana looked the other way even when Hajime raised his voice while putting her own smartphone on her ear. And then, what could be heard after that were only words related to business like contract or client and so on.

Before long it seemed that they had reached an end and Liliana cut off the call. Seeing that, Hajime sighed while opening his mouth.

But, before he could speak, *pururururu* a phone’s ringtone rang.

「Ah, I, I’m sorry. Please excuse me a bit.」

「……」

She answered the phone. This time it seemed there was a problem occurring regarding the shift at her part-time workplace. Liliana was listening to the phone while going ‘uh-huh, uh-huh’ before she quickly started to give out instructions, like who to call, who to substitute the shift change, what to do about the lacking place such and such, and then what she want to be dealt with next and so on……

Hajime wanted to act the straight-man ‘Managing shift schedule obviously ain’t the work of a part-timer right!’, but for the time being he endured it.

Before long the talk came to an end and Liliana cut off the phone. Hajime then sighed while opening his mouth.

But, before he could speak, *pururururu* a phone’s ringtone rang.

「Ah, I, I’m sorry. Please excuse me a bit.」

「……」

Liliana answered the phone. For some reason there was a sobbing voice coming from the other side of the phone. Liliana was consoling her talking partner while sometimes she also reprimanded, and then in order to deal with a grave problem that seemed to occur from some kind of miss, she took out one more smartphone from her pocket and quickly began to give out instructions.

Before long it seemed that she finished and Liliana cut off the phone. Hajime who got a vein pulsing on his forehead was opening his mouth.

But, before he could, *gatari* the sound of someone standing up from a chair resounded.

「I’m sorry, Hajime-san. It seems that the section chi――cough-, a regular employee who was entrusted with an important project made a miss, and it turned out into something that a part-time worker like me has to deal with. And so, I’ll go out for a bit!」

A part-time worker that followed up for a regular employee’s miss. Or rather, a regular employee who came crying to a part-time worker even though it was his miss. Furthermore, it seemed this regular employee was a section chief.

Since when the definition of part-time work had changed drastically like this.

Liliana quickly put her outfit in order while saying things like「At this rate the two hundred employees there will be out in the cold! As a part-time leader, I have to do something」before she tried to go outside.

*snap-* One more vein emerged on Hajime’s forehead. And then a word.

「Shia.」

「Yes sir desuuu」

From behind, the rabbit-eared wife who was dancing to the same beat with the husband embraced Liliana who right now was about to exit the room.

「Shi, Shia-san? I’m sorry, but I’m going to wo――」

「Yes yes, I’ll just make you cool your head a bit heree」

「Eh? Wai-, NOOOOOO-」

Liliana screamed, and then after that she received an artistic German suplex and the floor struck the back of her head.「My head-, my head hurts like it got splitttttt-」The former princess was shouting while rolling around on the floor in agony.

「Uu, just what are you doing. After this I have an important work……」

「Is that, something more important than the family discussion?」

Liliana complained while rubbing the back of her head with teary eyes. Hajime asked her with a sigh mixed in it.「Uu-」Liliana was at lost for words, and Hajime said in respond.

「If that’s how it is, then I’ll attempt to solve the root of the problem and make it so you lose your reason for going.」

「E, err, Hajime-san, what do you mean specifically?」

「……Today’s weather is sunny, it seem that there will be random meteor impact later.」

「Let’s have a discussion.」

Indeed, the root of the problem would be cleared. If there wasn’t any troubled person, then there also wouldn’t be any trouble.

Feeling how unbearable it would be if the meteor shower that once annihilated the capital of her own country was dropped on her part-time workplace, Liliana took her seat in panic.

「Look at you, even though recently you were grieving because not to mention me, you weren’t able to even converse satisfactorily with anyone in the family because of work, work, work, but then you tried to get out abruptly from the discussion to talk about that, just what’s with that?」

「Tha, that’s, obviously, even I is also fed up here you know, Hajime-san? I really want to yell out loud, just why are they all relying on just me, please manage it somehow just by yourself. But, before I realized it everyone relied on me and I was placed at a position with responsibility, and now it’s really hard to break out from it.」

「Even though it’s part-time work?」

「Even though it’s part-time work, yes.」

Hajime sighed for who knew how many times already. He then handed over the mirror he had prepared to Liliana who was talking with a voice that couldn’t hide her emotion of「I’m fed up already」.

The face that was reflected in the mirror, was the creepy face of workaholic Lily with fierily blazing eyes.

Liliana gently put down the mirror.

「This is a mistake. It’s not like I’m starved or anything. This is a misunderstanding. Thanks to doing moderate amount of work from the part-time, day by day I’m in the process of getting closer to become “a normal girl” ――」

「Including the part-time at Sonobe’s place, how many part-time works you are currently holding?」

「……I, it’s, seven.」

「The job description?」

「A, a bit of managing stocking and dealing with the client.」

「Other than that?」

「Something like fast food restaurant.」

「The specific.」

「……I’m in charge of the part-time at the main restaurant while entrusted to coordinate the surrounding seven branch restaurants.」

「The call just now?」

「At another establishment related with food and drink where I’m working part time, various things happened and I worked like an advisor of the head office trade section……it seems there was a miss at the transaction that was started from my advice where the company’s fortune is at stake, at this rate it would get complete revocation. If that happen, depending on the situation there is even the possibility that the company will go under.」

Hajime wordlessly pushed out the mirror. It was as though he was an exorcist that was pushing out a cross toward a girl who was possessed by a devil! What was reflected in that mirror was a creepy face that seemed to say「This is a heavy responsibility you know, Lily! Gufufuh」……

Immediately,「Stooppp――. Don’t show me the mirrorrr――!!」Liliana writhed in agony.

……She was completely like a girl who was possessed by a devil.

「Yes yes, at~~ten~~tion! Now that we have confirmed that presently Lily-chan’s workaholic level isn’t improved at all, everyone please state your opinion!」

Sumire who held the role as the chairman of the meeting tapped the table *kan kan* with a spoon and asked for opinion from everyone.

「Yes!」The one who raised her hand the very first was Myuu. Sumire pointed with a fork at Myuu「Yes, Myuu-chan!」. Her manner was really bad.

「I think that Lily-oneechan’s addiction, it won’t be fixed even if she died!」

「Kafuh!?」

Myuu launched her words like a bullet of anti-material rifle grade with a cheerful smile on her face. Liliana pressed her chest and collapsed.

Next,「Yes desuu!」was Shia with her rabbit ears standing straight. Sumire pointed sharply with long chopsticks「Yes, Shia-chan!」. Just where did she take it out from?

「I think that something like rehabilitation, is meaningless to fix a person’s core nature desuu!」

「Guhih!?」

That opinion actually had much persuasiveness. A~ll of Shia’s family were people with screwed up core nature. Incidentally, Shia’s self-proclaimed best friend the princess of the elf was also a pervert at the core. Soon she might turn from her best friend into her step-mother. However regarding this case, Shia was averting her rabbit ears from the reality.

The next one who hurriedly raised her hand was Tio. After her Remia also raised her hand while smiling. Sumire said「Yes Tio-chan, Remia-chan!」while pointing with a snap using a ladle. For a moment it looked like the ladle materialized from empty air……was that just an imagination?

「For example, if I hath mine butt spanked moderately in the name of rehabilitation, and then asked if this nature of mine can be fixed by that or not, then the answer is it’s impossible! This art the same.」

「What a hardship. Even though she wishes to stop working and be together with family, but without working she will be frustrated……it will be great if there is something else other than work that she can do.」

「Uu. I’m the same like Tio-san……even if you ask me something other than work……after all I’m just a hollow person……hics-」

Liliana lost her nerve. And then she fell down before starting to trace circles on the floor with her fingertip in an easy to understand gesture.

「Nn-」Yue raised her hand. Sumire said「Yes, Yue-chan!」while pointing with a fry pan for rolled egg so hard it made *buon* sound. ……It looked like she took it out from her cuff though.

Beside Sumire, Shuu’s eyes were sparkling, 「Sumire, you, your party performance skill had gone up again!」his tension was climbing up to the sky.

「……You want, remodeling?」

「Hiih!? No thank you!」

‘That difficult nature, want me to remodel it along with your soul?’ Yue wriggled her hands while standing up from her chair. In respond to that, Liliana screamed while dragging her body backward.

Hajime gave a glance at Liliana who was trembling like Davis-kun before he scratched his head and opened his mouth.

「Well, it’s positive that this nature of Liliana cannot be fixed just from doing part-time work.」

「Uu, Hajime-san?」

Liliana’s shoulders dropped despondently.

Hajime’s gaze ran around toward Yue and others. He judged that they all had reached a conclusion. And then, he made Liliana to sit on her chair in order to tell her that conclusion.

「Lily. Anyway, these two months of rehabilitation turned out meaningless, that’s why, how about if in the next two months you don’t do anything?」

「Not doing, anything?」

Liliana was bewildered. Hajime nodded「Yeah」. In a sense, this was a shocking proposal for Liliana.

「Resign from all your part-time works, and then, become a shut-in NEET for two months.」

「Eh?」

Like this, with the unanimous vote from【The 80th or 130th, well it doesn’t matter which of Nagumo Family Meeting】, it was decided that the princess of another world was to become a shut-in NEET.

By the way, regarding the mismanagement of a certain trade department that made a miss, it was resolved in moderation by Hajime due to Lily’s entreaty. Of course it was resolved using a way that wasn’t a random meteor impact in a sunny day.

AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.

Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.

I uploaded three chapters consecutively for the celebration of this story’s resumption, but for some reason this Lily arc didn’t end.

Unexpectedly I have fun writing and unconsciously the story got dragged on.

Especially, how it became as though this is Yuuka’s turn even though this is Lily arc……Lily, how pitiful.

Now then, my deepest apology, but next week’s update at Saturday will be Lily arc too.

In this After II, I’m thinking to try to write about the wives or classmates that didn’t get spotlight.

And when I finished with that, unexpectedly there are a lot of wishful voices and Shirakome himself is also growing in the mood for it, so I’m thinking that perhaps I should try writing about the story of Kouki-kun got kidnapped too muchhh.

Well then, please take care of Arifureta from here on too.

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