I push the kid!

"Fool."

"as long as you are happy."

"Hurry up." Ogura Yuki said, "Bye!"

Before Makimura Taku could say goodbye, the phone beeped and hung up.

He put away his phone and rushed to the Starbucks store owned by Ogura Yuki's family ten minutes later.

The store is neatly decorated in white and light green. There are many empty seats and several office workers are operating Apple computers while drinking coffee.

Near the door, two girls were chatting about idols, their voices were pleasant and clear.

"Ah~ah, I know, I know! That combination is awesome!"

"Of course, that's Trickstar! I bought all their albums! By the way, I support Mao Izara from this group!"

"Mao Izara? She's good, but I'd recommend Ice Eagle Hokuto~"

"Beidou-senpai is also very good!"

"Yeah, right~"

"Yes."

“He is truly the ultimate idol!”

"The ultimate idol? Then add Beidou-senpai's name and it becomes KIH!"

"KIH is?"

"My nickname for the ultimate idol, Beidou~"

"Then Mao-senpai is KIM!"

"Correct!"

"Whoosh~"

They all laughed at the same time.

Makimura Taku walked right past them and looked ahead.

The dark green Siren sign is behind the counter. There are two women and one man working in front of the counter. They are all wearing aprons and are relatively young.

He walked forward and the two girls noticed him immediately. The boy was washing cups.

"Um," one of the girls asked tentatively, "Are you Makimura Taku?"

The girl behind her leaned on her back, looked up at Makimura Taku, and whispered in the ear of the girl in front:

"He's so handsome, he must be right~"

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Chapter 23. Read

At this time, the boy who had just washed the cup came over, wiping his hands and saying, "Hello, what would you like to drink?"

"Hey, he's not a guest." The girl behind him whispered to him.

"Ah?" The boy turned around and spoke.

Makimura Taku looked up and glanced at the three of them.

The girl in front pointed behind her uncertainly and said, "Um, Makimura Taku-kun, shall we talk inside?"

"Okay." Makimura Taku nodded to her.

The two walked into a smaller room, and the girl behind took this opportunity to describe what happened to the boy in a low voice, while they continued to stay outside to entertain the guests.

"Hello, I'm here to apply for a job."

In the small and bright room, Taku Makimura sat down on a neat sofa, and the girl who came in with him sat diagonally to his side.

"Yeah, okay!" The girl looked a little flustered and checked her phone again, "Sister Youxi told us about it, Makimura Taku, right?"

"Yes."

"Well, my name is Koizumi Hanami."

"Okay, Ms. Koizumi." Taku Makimura replied politely.

Koizumi Hanami blushed and waved her hands, saying "no, no" all the time. Her ears immediately turned red as if they were about to bleed. She held her face in her hands and shyly said for a long time:

"Well, just call me Koizumi."

Makimura Taku responded and nodded slightly. Koizumi Hanami suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "Oh, right! The girl outside is called Teramoto, Teramoto Maki, and the boy is called Nishida Hideki..."

"Okay." Makimura Taku said, "Is there anything I can do after the application?"

"I forgot! Sorry." She bowed quickly, then straightened up and checked her phone again.

"Let me see. Sister Youxi said..." She read the text on the phone in a serious manner, "Let Makimura Taku stay in the store and don't have to do anything, or you can ask him what he can do, such as making coffee?...Huh? Could it be a sponsorship?!"

She put her phone against her chest and looked up in surprise. Makimura Taku smiled euphemistically: "I do know a little bit about making coffee, but the coffee making steps in this shop may be different from what I thought..."

"What should we do then?" Koizumi Hanami asked a little anxiously.

"If you ask me, I will."

At this time, a phone call came in, and Koizumi Hanami was so scared that she almost dropped the phone on the ground.

She stood up quickly like a well-trained soldier, apologized twice, and then ran to the side to answer the phone.

"Youxi, Sister Youxi. Yeah, he's here," she glanced at where Makimura Taku was, and Makimura Taku was looking at her, so she immediately looked away, "Okay. Yes, yes."

She took off her cell phone, turned on the speakerphone, returned to the sofa, and placed the cell phone directly on the table.

"Makimura Makimura." The voice of Tomoki Ogura came from the receiver of the phone.

"What?" Makimura Taku said, lowering his body slightly.

“Can you make coffee?”

“I think I need to learn more about the coffee-making process at this shop.”

"That's fine," Ogura Tomoki seemed to have expected it. "Let me think about it. You don't have to do anything. Just take a favorite book and sit by the door and read it. It will attract some customers. That's enough."

Makimura Taku didn't say anything, but Koizumi Hanami was stunned first.

"No," said Makimura Taku, "Isn't it a bit bad? If I don't do anything and still get paid, isn't it weird?"

“It’s not like I didn’t do anything.”

“Does reading count?”

“Oh, this is a great way to attract customers!”

“I’m not a celebrity.”

"Although not, you are more dazzling than a star."

"Wow?" Koizumi Hanami exclaimed in surprise.

"Koizumi, get out quickly." Ogura Tomoki urged.

"Sorry, sorry!" Koizumi Hanami bowed to the air and ran away, leaving her cell phone and Makimura Taku alone in the small room.

"Is she gone?" Ogura Tomoki asked after she left.

"She left," Makimura Taku glanced at the door, turned off the hands-free function on his phone, and put it to his ear to answer the call, "but this is her phone."

"Never mind that." Ogura Tomoki cleared his throat, "Can you do what I've assigned to you?"

"That's just keeping someone, right?"

"It doesn't matter what it's called," she said. "Can it be done?"

"Not very good."

"You." She sighed.

"Stop it." Makimura Taku imitated the sigh.

"I'm serious."

"Can I learn from them for a few days first?" Makimura Taku said softly.

"You don't want to do simple tasks, but have to choose difficult ones," the cat cried out as she stroked it, "You are such a weird person."

"I don't want to owe you a favor."

"Then go and hand out flyers for me at the store entrance."

"Let's talk about it later when there are no customers in the store."

"Okay." Ogura Tomoki's voice came from the receiver, taking a deep breath. "Then you can learn it in the next two days. If you have any questions, you can call me. I'm always free."

"Why call you?"

"I want to hear your voice, no?"

"OK then."

"Idiot." She hung up the phone.

During the two or three hours in the afternoon, there were not many customers in the store. Students were in class and most office workers returned to their workstations. The people who remained in the store were basically programmers.

Hideki Nishida was pulled into the room by Hanami Koizumi to sort the dishes, wash the tablecloths, and label and store the new raw materials in the store.

Maki Teramoto was outside teaching Taku Makimura how to make coffee. When a customer came, she temporarily left him aside and let him be the handsome signboard.

"I just made a caramel macchiato. The ingredients used are 12 grams of coffee beans, 30 grams of caramel sauce, 200 ml of milk, and an appropriate amount of caramel sauce as decoration on the coffee surface."

After the customer took the freshly prepared coffee, Maki Teramoto wiped her hands with paper and turned to explain seriously to Taku Makimura.

Makimura Taku nodded: "What is the water temperature for brewing coffee in this shop?"

"93 degrees is best." She was stunned. "You asked such a detailed question?"