Chapter 118: In Japan, Part 2

"Somehow, it has become a daily routine."

Kobashigawa's best friend and colleague Tanaka sat down in a cool round chair while taking off his coat in an unpopular hospital room. The face of my best friend, which I saw for the first time in a week, was as calm as usual, but even now, nearly half a year after the accident, I do not seem to regain consciousness.

The presentation members of the company came to visit us after finding time for about a month after the accident. However, as time went by, I was busy with work and private life, and the number of times I came to the hospital room decreased.

Meanwhile, only Tanaka continues to frequently go to this hospital once a week.

For Tanaka, the fact that Kobashigawa was unconscious and unable to move was unacceptable, and I was worried during work, so I often left the business and came to this hospital.

"Why don't you just wake up? I'll be the ace of the sales department."

Even if I tried to mock it, Kobashigawa with a white face wouldn't say yes or no. Her IV tube painfully pierces her right arm, and her respiratory and electrocardiograms are just rhythmic. Her proud face, which she once said was handsome, looks somewhat slender with flesh falling off, and her masculinity is diminished. However, Tanaka felt a little hatred and the invincibility of his best friend in the appearance that he had to say that he was handsome, and a faint smile naturally spilled from his face.

"Presentation member Sasaki-chan, in fact, seems to have been seriously aiming for you. But you see, a woman has a suitable age? I'm going to marry my business partner Bonbon son next time. Tell Sasaki-chan. Please give my best regards to Mr. Kobashikawa. She seems to have lost three kilograms in shock when you had an accident. "

Tanaka throws words to Kobashigawa as if to tease.

I have become accustomed to one-sided catch in the last six months. Without any particular concern, Tanaka took out his smartphone from his pocket, opened the photo app, and rushed out in front of the Kobashi River, which closed his eyes.

"Look, this is Sasaki's marriage partner."

Tanaka grinned.

The screen of the smartphone shows a dull Yuu and a beautiful Sasaki with a big smile.

"It's disproportionate. You'll get it."

The best friend, who would give an unscrupulous reply that this was completely for the money, did not speak with his eyes closed. Tanaka is satisfied with the black joke that he would have been told, and puts his smartphone in his pocket.

He talks about recent topics. You wouldn't hear it because you weren't conscious. However, Tanaka made a close friend of the overestimation that transcends humanity without permission, saying that he could learn in a dream and return to the front line immediately. Kobashigawa's business performance and evaluation from the surroundings are so high, and the fact that people of the same level do not appear is a factor that makes Tanaka's image of Kobashigawa bigger.

However, the probability of being saved is 0.001%. Consciousness cannot be restored, and sleep learning cannot be done.

The head office moves to Roppongi, I found a back menu in my favorite dining room, annoying HR old man who shakes his right hand many times, commonly known as "Shabu-shabu" is too addicted to cabaret club big breasts I talked from small talk to news, and noticed that a lot of time had passed.

It was when Tanaka began to lift his hips from the round chair, asking if he was about to return.

The unreserved footsteps echoed in the corridor and stopped in front of this hospital room.

"Excuse me"

A thick and dashing voice echoed, and the sliding door of the hospital room opened with a noise.

The person who came in was a man with thick eyebrows with a crew cut, which seems to be in his early fifties. His hair is gray, he wears brown tops and bottoms, which may be factory work clothes, and his chest is cluttered with three pens. His eyes are sharp and reminiscent of craftsmanship, but when he finds Tanaka, his mouth is soft.

"My name is Gotanda from Towai Co., Ltd. Is Mr. Kobashikawa's room in the Tokyo Nanahishi Sales Division 1 here?"

"Yes, that's right ..."

Tanaka was wary of the fact that a person from a rival company had come, but as soon as he came to the hospital, he immediately released his fighting posture and stood up and stuck a half of his sales smile on his face.

Gotanda received that expression and took a breather.

"Maybe you're from the same sales department?"

"That's right"

"No way, Mr. Tanaka?"

"Yes, that's right…"

"Oh!"

The man who calls himself Gotanda happily narrowed the distance and held Tanaka's hand with a different hand than the one he had.

Tanaka was confused when a middle-aged man who did not know suddenly shook hands.

"That's rude, but who are you?"

"Oh, I'm sorry for this. I'm the president of a factory that has no help from Mr. Kobashikawa."

"Did you help?"

"That's right"

"When is it?"

"It was a year and a half ago. It means that the older brother I met at a bar was actually a super-major salesman."

"... I'm sorry. Please give me a little more detail."

"Disrespectful disrespect. It's a bad habit to skip the contents."

Gotanda's tone gradually became sloppy, perhaps because the stiff words were painful.

He put the fruit of his sympathy in his hand on the table at his bedside.

"Simply put, he arranged the job. When the company seemed to be sick and I started to think seriously, my brother would introduce me to an acquaintance, so I went to the meeting place designated with half confidence. I went. "

"Is this the bridge?"

"I brought a big guy and I was almost sick. Hahahaha."

Gotanda laughed vigorously like a great master of ancient and modern times. He seems to be funny just to remember.

Tanaka stares at Gotanda with a sloppy eye, and looks down at his best friend, who creates a fearless atmosphere despite being bedridden and unconscious.

"Who did this guy introduce?"

"That's it, that. A famous Korean manufacturer."

"Oh, maybe ..."

Tanaka pulled out from his memory a super-major manufacturer of TVs and mobile phones. He even remembered that a great man had come to the company party, and was frightened by the fact that Kobashigawa had somehow obtained a connection. What's more, he even performs a feat of mediation.

This guy ... I think I now have a clear reason to say that stupid and genius are a single piece of paper.

He used his hand to approach the great man at the party, liven up the story, hit it off, and exchange contacts. After that, he even introduced him to other companies. You won't get credibility just by meeting once. I should have met and kept in touch several times to deepen the relationship value.

What kind of hand tube did you use?

"I was introduced to the manager of the product development department there, and I desperately appealed to my product. That's why the skin on his neck was connected."

"That's how it happened ... Is it a visit to the Kobashi River today?"

"Oh yeah! No, I'm glad I was alive."

Gotanda, who reacts brightly and differently from his acquaintances and friends who come occasionally, makes his eyes black and white. Normally, he has a painful look and is about to begin an old tale about the Kobashi River.

"When you die, everything is par, par. The big brother is alive. I feel like this brother will do a miracle."

"Certainly"

Tanaka nodded loudly and folded his arms to show a deep affirmation.

Everyone thinks that this is not the end of the game.

"Well, when I heard that my brother was unconscious in an accident yesterday due to wind rumors, I had a slight panic, but I'm glad he lived in this way. I don't think he's alive to make a miracle. I was prepared to die once, and that's the truth, the truth. If I live, I'll do something about it. "

"One in 100,000 people can be saved."

"Is it 1 / 100,000? It's a good gambling."

"Do you think it will happen ...?"

"This older brother seems to be doing something more ridiculous than waking up."

"Hahaha, that's right."

"Maybe I'm doing my best somewhere while I'm sleeping now."

"Oh, I was talking to a colleague. He's such a savvy guy who doesn't fall for free and doesn't waste while sleeping."

"Oh, Tanaka-san and others are also middle-class story tailors. Can you write your brother's fantasy world and make it into a novel?"

"No, I don't have that kind of talent."

"Oh, that's right."

Perhaps Gotanda remembered something, he tapped his left hand with his right hand, saw Kobashigawa's sleeping face, and then looked back at Tanaka.

"I've been listening to Mr. Tanaka's stories from my brother."

"What? Is it my story?"

"If you have a chance to meet, Gotanda-san told me to do it at the bar."

"That's how I got my name."

"Yes, it was exactly what I was hearing."

"How did you hear that?"

"History lovers, food lovers, anime lovers. He's a decent guy, decently popular, and able to do decent work."

"this guy..."

Tanaka glared at the bed, feeling like Kobashigawa laughed.

The unfaithful sleeping face opened his eyes at any moment, and he seemed to get up and hit his shoulder to comfort him, saying that anything was fine, Mr. Tanaka.

"I was told to call Tanaka decent," Soko Tanner "for short."

"Please forgive the nickname like such a cheap cocktail."

"Well, that's not good. By the way, Mr. Tanaka. No, Mr. Tanner there."

"Don't rephrase!"

"Ghahahahaha! Okay, how about it, even from now on?"

Gotanda who laughed vigorously and made a gesture of drinking alcohol with a little bit.

Looking at it, Tanaka felt that he somehow understood the feeling that Kobashigawa had put his shoulders on this man. He feels a little jealous that he can't hate anyone wherever he goes, and he nods happily, "I'm at work."

"It's okay to work for about a day."

"Are you Esper?"

"Mr. Tanaka, who is serious enough, is easy to understand."

"Please stop it anymore"

"Gahahahahaha. I was asked by my brother, he wants to talk about what he was told, and I also want to talk about how he got along with this brother."

"Oh, I want to hear that too."

"Let's go then. There is a store that serves good oden wherever you go by taxi."

"Maybe there with this guy?"

That's right, Gotanda lightly called out to Kobashigawa, "I'll come again."

As prompted by the words, Tanaka glances at his best friend through his sleeve on the coat, and picks up his business bag, leaving a grudge and abandoning the line, "Remember me."

Gotanda laughed loudly when he heard Tanaka's abandoned line, and was angry at the nurse who happened to be nearby to be quiet, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I left the hospital room while cutting my knife.

While bowing to the nurse, Tanaka also imagined what kind of oden shop Gotanda and Kobashigawa went to, and kept the feeling of wanting to tell me why he didn't tell me, Gotanda. I followed my back. "The heating in the hospital room in winter is too effective," he said to Gotanda. He laughed vigorously, saying, "It's global warming, it's warming," and the nurse got angry.