Chapter 12 Chapter 1 Counter No. 15

When accidents happen, it seems like everything goes wrong.The case that took place at counter No. 15 on the third floor of Yebisuya Department Store was the same.If the director of the third floor was still the former Gongwu Jinji, it would definitely not lead to such terrible consequences. However, Director Miyatake was fired a week ago for some reason, and the new third-floor director Keikichi Sawai was recently transferred from the Osaka branch, so he is still unclear about the situation in the store.As the saying goes, everything is not going well, everything is not going well, an old salesperson named Akiko Isono at counter No. 15, unfortunately also left the counter at that time.

Just before the incident, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, Akiko Isono turned her head to the newcomer Fushimi Junko and said, "Miss Fushimi, please...help me take a look, I will go for a while... ..." She blushed and said coyly. "Oh, what's the matter? Ah... Could it be that one again?" The young Fushimi Junko innocently widened her eyes. "Hmm..." Akiko's beautiful face nicknamed "Cosmos" blushed slightly, "This is really troublesome. If I had known this, I would have been on menstrual leave... I thought there were still two, It won't come until three days ago. How could I have thought of it earlier." She drooped her long eyelashes and murmured.

Although Akiko came to the store much earlier than Shunzi, and she was seven years older than her, Akiko did not put on airs of seniority at all, and Shunzi liked Akiko very much. Shunzi readily agreed, "Well, okay, you can go. Leave this to me, and nothing will happen. If there is anything I don't understand, I will ask the director." "Then please." After Akiko Isono left the counter, she trotted past the adjacent counter.The adjacent counter is the women's clothing department. Inside the dark counter, there are mannequins wearing semi-finished or finished women's clothing.The restroom for employees is separate from the restroom for guests, and it is located behind the women's clothing department where guests cannot see it.

At this time, the third floor was very deserted.This Yebisuya department store is a seven-story building. Before World War II, it used to have a stable customer base. Although it was not very grand, it was known for its stable marketing methods.However, after the war, department stores anywhere were the same, and there were very few goods sold, so the fourth floor and above were rented out to offices and performing arts venues, and the mall only opened to the third floor.The third floor is mostly precious metals, as well as the jewelry department, women's clothing department, musical instrument department, western furniture department, etc. There are few counters with customers, and it is approaching the closing time, so there are even fewer customers.

In mid-November, at 4:30 in the afternoon, it was already a little dark, and the third floor with few guests was empty and cold. This kind of thing for women is really troublesome——Fushimi Junko, who was left alone at the counter, leaned against the cash register, thinking about it blankly.She is only eighteen years old, and she is a new clerk who just joined the company ten days ago.She had been studying in a girls' school before, but due to family financial reasons, she suddenly dropped out of school and came to work here. This was the first time in her life that she went to work. Being a salesperson in a department store is still very easy... In the beginning, Fushimi Junko didn't pay much attention to it, but when she actually did it, it was far from the same thing. Recently, she finally realized that this is a A hard job.

First of all, the heating is not turned on now, and it is freezing cold from the waist down.Moreover, the characteristics of counter No. 15 were there, and there were not many customers in the first place, which made the young Shunzi very upset.Occasionally, there are customers who come over, and they must be some proud ladies or young ladies. That is to say, most of them are hard-to-serve guys. Therefore, counter No. 15 is notorious in the entire department store for being troublesome. The No. 15 counter on the third floor is the precious metal and gemstone counter. It's okay for a beautiful and elegant person like Ms. Isono, but a rough person like me is really not suitable to stay here.I am still more suitable for the toy department or the grocery department, the kind of lively and simple place.I'm obviously a novice, why did you arrange me in such a difficult place...

Fushimi Junko was still leaning against the cash register, thinking blankly about these things.At this time, she suddenly noticed something moving, and turned her head to look. At some time, a woman in a western dress was standing opposite the display rack, looking into the counter. "Oh!..." Shunzi muttered, and rushed forward. Regarding the situation at that time, Fushimi Junko said: "When I noticed someone, that person was standing on the opposite side of the display shelf, looking into the counter, and she couldn't see her face at all. Moreover, she was wearing a thick Thick veil... yes, very thick veil, it seems to have two layers, so, in the end, I couldn't see her face... As for the clothes on her body? It was black, wearing a thick coat, and wearing a Leather gloves... I don't remember the rest clearly. After all, I never dreamed that such a terrible thing would happen..."

The woman waited for Sunja to come forward, then pointed to the counter with a gloved hand and said, "Show me that brooch." Her voice was so low that it was almost inaudible. Fushimi Junko took out the brooch.The woman still lowered her head, held it in her hand and looked at it for a while, probably because she didn't like it, she pointed to another brooch.Shunzi took it out, and the woman lowered her head again, fiddled with it casually, probably still dissatisfied, and asked Shunzi to take out the bracelet again.The voice was still barely audible. In this way, the woman asked Fushimi Junko to put brooches, bracelets, rings, artificial pearl necklaces, etc. on the counter one by one, but soon, Shunzi made an amazing discovery.

Under the signal of the woman, Fushimi Junko lowered her head and took out a jewel-encrusted powder compact with a mirror from the counter. The agile movement of the gloved woman's hand was reflected in the mirror of the compact.Sunja found something shiny and hidden in that hand. Fushimi Junko was startled.My heart was pounding with fright, and my knees were shaking.When she held the powder box and stood up, it seemed that she was the one who did the wrong thing. She felt hot all over her body and was about to cry.The guest still lowered his head, looking at the small powder box that Shunzi took out in his hand.Shunzi immediately looked over the counter, two rings, a brooch, and valuables worth about 3,000 yuan were all gone.

Fushimi Junko looked around with pleading eyes.Shopping malls have requirements. When this happens, the salesperson is not allowed to yell or question customers, because doing so will damage the reputation of the shopping mall.The salesperson must immediately report this situation to the directors of each floor.But Shunzi can't leave the counter now, because whether Akiko Isino has come back, once she leaves the counter, there is not even a person watching the counter... Shunzi looked around anxiously, tears were about to flow out, at this moment, Keikichi Sawai, the director of the third floor, noticed her expression.Being experienced, he immediately noticed the situation from Shunzi's expression, so he immediately left his seat and hurried to the No. 15 counter.

"Thank you very much for your patronage!..." Director Zebin rubbed his hands together and gave Shunzi a quick wink.Although Sunja's face was livid, she still pointed to the ring, then stretched out two fingers; pointed to the brooch, and then stretched out one finger to him. Director Sawai nodded slightly, and said: "...I'm really sorry, could you please come to the office for a while?" His words were very polite. However, upon hearing this, the woman's hand, which was fiddling with the compact, trembled violently. "It won't take you any time, just a short while, please come to the office..." With a "snap", the woman put the compact on the counter, grabbed her handbag, turned around, and with a sway of her shoulders, she was about to walk across.Director Sawai immediately grabbed her wrist and gently pulled her back. "Please don't get carried away... This happens quite often, I just want to ask you a few words, and... Anyway, please come to the office." Director Sawai still spoke very politely, but the hand holding the woman's wrist increased his strength.The woman twisted her body two or three times, trying to shake off his hand. At this moment, the salesperson in the adjacent women's clothing department heard the movement and turned her head this way.Seeing this, her expression changed drastically. "Ah, no, Director, she..." As she said that, she hurried around the counter and was about to rush over, but at this moment, Director Sawai, who was holding the woman's wrist, suddenly went limp. Regarding the situation at that time, Fushimi Junko said: "At the beginning, I didn't understand what was going on at all. The director's body suddenly bent in two, leaning against the woman, and then paralyzed. It seemed that she fell limply on the floor. Well, there was no sound at all. I kept staring blankly, at this moment, Shibazaki who was beside me suddenly yelled loudly. I regained my composure and took a look...that woman I was running towards the stairs. However, it was all so sudden that I didn't even have time to react." Shibazaki Zhujiang, a salesperson in the women's clothing department, made the same statement: "When I found that woman, the director was holding her hand and was going to take her to the office. I knew that woman came often, and the director had just taken office, so I didn't know her yet. , I wanted to rush out to remind the director, but at that moment, the director suddenly fell down slowly... No, I can't tell whether that woman is the usual person, after all, she wears a thick veil Cover your face, and everything happened so suddenly..." Not to mention, after hearing Shibazaki Zhujiang's cry, all the customers and shop assistants on the third floor rushed over one after another. "What... what's going on?... Bastard, what are you shouting about. Director, what's the matter?" Surprised, a male clerk bent down towards Mr. Sawai, who was lying at his feet, and then jumped back as if he had been bounced off. "Ah, what... what's going on here? Someone stabbed the director in the side!" For Fushimi Junko, this seemed to be the limit of the tension and excitement she could bear.She screamed like crazy: "It's that woman! That woman did it! ... It's that female thief wearing a black veil! Killed, killed, killed..." Then, Shunzi lost consciousness, and with a "gudong", he fell headlong on the display shelf.