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Reset【☆★Notice★☆】 The afterword contains
an extremely important announcement.
I hope you’ll read until the very end.
I received my winter bonus from Kaminosaki-san.
It’s great to get this much.
Actually, I appreciated more that the size of the amount showed they were properly evaluating my work. "Okaya-kun, nice one." "Sakuhira."
Just as I was leaving the editing department to head home, I ran into my colleague Sakuhira. We rode the elevator together. "Did you get your bonus?"
"Yeah, I did. Surprised me... who would’ve thought I could get this much."
"Right?! It’s super shocking! Kaminosaki-san is really generous~"
It seemed Sakuhira received roughly the same amount as me.
Well, he is in charge of Kamimatsu-sensei, after all, Sakuhira.
Besides, since he holds the same position of deputy editor-in-chief as me, the face value would be the same anyway.
"Oh my, but Okaya-kun is the one getting all the praise. That's because you've really stepped up your game lately!"
My coworkers are acknowledging my work ethic, too.
Seriously... this workplace is full of good people.
"Sakuhira is putting in a lot of effort, too. You don't have to push yourself quite so hard, do you?"
Ever since December started, Sakuhira has been powerfully churning through the workload.
It was as if he were being chased by something.
"You don't get it, Okaya-kun. If we don't grind now, we won't be free for Christmas!"
"Christmas... does that mean you're going on a date?"
As far as I knew, Sakuhira was single, just like me. "Hehe, exactly!" "Is that so? Congrats."
So Sakuhira found a girlfriend?
Why do I feel like... I'm being left behind?
I have a girlfriend myself, technically, but... maybe it's because she's only my interim girlfriend...? "Who is it?" "... ... ... ..." "Sakuhira?"
"Ahh... well... it's a secret."
It didn't matter to me who the other person was, and if he didn't want to be asked, I had no intention of pressing him any further... but...
Sakuhei was visibly uncomfortable.
He doesn't want me to know... does that mean it's someone from my social circle?
"No way... you and Kamimatsu..."
"That's not true!!!!!!!!! "
"...It's not the editor-in-chief, right?" "Ah, that one..." That one...?
"Oh, look, here we are! Well then, see ya! Okaya-kun! Take care of yourself!"
Sakuhei hurried away from the scene.
In the end, I didn't find out a single detail about his boyfriend.
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