The Player is a Part-Timer

Chapter 1: Just an Everyday Café in an Everyday Town

"Damn! Still not precise enough! I need much more practice with my powers! One might think the faction that old man spoke about keep this area clean... ah! Whatever, at least some target practice for me."

Wearing a simple tracksuit colored black and white, her appearance was completely shadowed by the darkness of the park, only a small backpack with visibility stripes on her back visible.

Indeed, this person was a maximalist in certain things, always dissatisfied with her performance.

"Well, whatever... better go home. Still, need to prepare the shop for tomorrow..."

Either way, currently, she can only sigh somewhat reluctant, asking: "Why me?" and "Not as I can change anything now..."

With that, sulking a little bit — as she did so every day since she arrived — the "girl" decided she can't do anything with her current state, shrugging once more, she picked up the pace, completely ignoring the neatly sliced up bodies around.

If someone finds them, it will be not her problem. Or, she cared not what will happen to them later. She only hoped, that "old pervert" not crashing in her place once again... or she will be forced to put him outside! Either way, she won't get paid to clean this mess up; thus, she decided to leave them here.

"That darn old man!"

Almost two months here, and she already felt it was a bad decision returning to Japan. That, she had chosen the worst possible town and moment to settle. That, the setting was somewhat odd, giving her a lousy premonition about something, she should remember.

Only mumbling, she can't help it, but feel it will not end well for her. Since she came to this world and met that "exact" person, she somehow felt, it will only end badly for her...

She was sure, in the coming days, "he" will jank her to something unpleasant she would rather be left out. It was just a feeling, an instinctive hunch. Yet, she had no idea how close she was to the actual truth!

"This will drive me crazy! Better return home and sleep out this dilemma! And when I thought to listen to the jabber of that bitch in my head the worst thing that can happen... sush you! Trying to think!"

Shrugging, she turned on the music to the maximum with her new mobile, trying to repress the constant voice of that other person in her head with music.

Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin' everybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day, hey hey...

And thus, the music boomed in her ear, and the girl disappeared in the night... still mumbling something in the dark.

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP!" she roared in the night, seemingly screaming with the air.

Flashback end:

"To think, about around two months ago, I didn't have to worry about such things..." the figure behind the bar sighed tired, leisurely cleaning a coffee cup. "But I wanted a familiar environment, I wanted to relax, and care about nothing, start a new life, so I decided to return to Japan. Start everything, anew! In an environment, I am at least somewhat familiar with. Why I even accepted the offer of that old man? I just started to settle down here..." just remembering the whole thing, still wondering how that old man found her, she shuddered.

"Damn old man! I was careless letting those "chickens" go in the beginning..."

Honestly, who thought it would come to this? After all, around a month or two ago, it was just a game called YGGDRASIL she enjoyed so much.