Chapter 28 Section 3

By the end of the day on Friday, the entire department is in no mood to work.Everyone says it's good recently, but it's still the happiest time to go to work on the last day of the week. Want to hang up the phone as soon as possible.After finishing the work hastily, the young employees began to invite their friends to drink. "Miss Nakamori, would you like to go together? Let's have a drink together once in a while." While Yumi is cleaning the blackboard, a male employee from the same department asks her out. She has been asked out several times so far, but never attended. "Sorry. I have an appointment today." Yumi bowed her head and apologized.

"That's the way to go. Are you dating a boyfriend?" "Well, it's kind of..." "Wow, I didn't know you had a boyfriend. I'll torture you another day, but I'll let you go today." "Goodbye." She watched the employee leave. After tidying up, Yumi also changed clothes and left the company.She and Goro made an appointment to meet at the coffee shop they often go to at six o'clock. Yumi arrived five minutes early, but Goro was already sitting in the seat by the wall.He was wearing jeans and a black leather jacket, and he was well-groomed.He spotted Yumi, grinning crow's feet and raising his hand.

"What did you find? - I want coffee too." Yumi sat down on the chair, asked Goro, and said to the waiter who came to order.There was already a coffee cup in front of Goro. "Unfortunately, there is no big gain. Frankly speaking, this kind of thing is difficult to investigate." Goro said apologetically. "Yes. Has it really become a taboo?" "Perhaps. If you are too thorough, you will be treated with strange eyes." "Yeah... To be honest, I haven't made any progress here. I have a friend in the personnel department. I asked her for help and checked a little this morning."

"What did you find?" Goro asked. Yumi shook her head. "I only know that the development planning office wants to find a person in charge of personnel affairs, so I transferred someone from the design department that was vacant at the time." "Is that person Yumi?" When Goro finished speaking, the waiter brought coffee. Yumi added milk and stirred it with a spoon, looked at him and said, "But, I have an interesting discovery." "What discovery?" "About Goro." "My business? What's wrong with me?" "I didn't notice before. When I transferred the department, you also transferred the department. You transferred from the manufacturing department to the current experimental department."

"Oh," he nodded with an expression on his face when someone mentioned something unexpected, "well, yes. Because I have been in the same department since I joined the company, it's almost time to transfer departments." "But, is this a coincidence?" "Huh?" Goro frowned. "I always thought it was no coincidence." "How is it possible...you think too much." "Really?" Yumi stared fixedly into the coffee cup.She fell silent, so Goro bowed his head too.But soon after, he took the initiative to break the silence. "I understand your feelings very well. But, you think too much. This murder has nothing to do with what you think. I think so." After saying this, he lowered his head again, his attitude felt like he was just trying to State your own opinion.

"I know," Yumi said, "I know very well that this may just be my imagination, but I hope... I hope you will let me go and do it for a while, if you say you hate me like this—" "That's not what I meant." Goro looked a little at a loss, "I don't hate it. But, what are you going to do next?" "Well, I haven't decided yet, but..." Yumi took another sip of coffee, glanced at the scenery a little far away from the window of the coffee shop, and then continued: "Mr. Sueyong——I want to investigate this person I am very concerned about the fact that Mr. Hashimoto was asked to come into the office with Mr. Hashimoto before the head of the office was killed.”

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