Chapter 26: A box labeled with the product name
Looks like they’re even hauling in cardboard boxes.
"Still raining."
According to the weather forecast in the chat, this rain is going to last all day.
Top Chat: So it’s really going to keep pouring
Top Chat: That’s a problem
Top Chat: What are you gonna do?
"I’ll get a cardboard box and use it as an umbrella."
Top Chat: That’s some wild thinking again lol
Top Chat: Elf in a cardboard box
Top Chat: Do people even give those away?
Top Chat: Me, supermarket part-timer. Awakening my true power
Top Chat: Talk about whether they give them away or not lol
"They do here."
Top Chat: Really?
Top Chat: Me, supermarket part-timer. I throw away mountains of cardboard every day
Top Chat: I run a greengrocer, so honestly I’d be glad if someone took away the veggie boxes
Top Chat: Wow, so cardboard ends up being that much trash
Top Chat: …Wait, so if you know that, then…
"I’ve worn one home before."
Top Chat: Words of a green-haired girl who looks like a high schooler
Top Chat: Even if I got gender-swapped, I could never be Elf-san. I’m sure of it
Top Chat: That level of guts though
Top Chat: If the rain doesn’t stop, are you really gonna go ask for one…?
"Already did."
I picked up a cardboard box that was sitting in the basket and waved it at the camera.
Top Chat: Damn, this elf is serious!
Top Chat: Please let the rain stop before shopping is done!
Top Chat: Please stop! Please stop! Please stop!
Top Chat: A desperate wish
Top Chat: Oh, the camera’s shaking
"Avoided people. That okay?"
Top Chat: It’s fine
Top Chat: The camera never shakes normally, so it just surprised me a bit
Top Chat: I’d forgotten, but yeah, this is a walking selfie stream, huh
Top Chat: I’ve gotten used to it, but even just this much is already weird enough
"Eggs, good. Still got rice… guess that’s fine."
Top Chat: I figured, but Elf really is a rice eater, huh
Top Chat: You were eating ramen and miso soup too
Top Chat: Little by little, my sense of weirdness is breaking down
Top Chat: What even makes an elf “elf-like,” again?
Top Chat: What’s Elf-san’s dinner tonight?
"Stew."
Top Chat: Stew lol
Top Chat: What do you mean, “stew” lol
Top Chat: What’s that supposed to mean?
"Put it in a pot and stew it."
Top Chat: Stew what lol
Top Chat: What are you, Ishikawa Goemon?
Top Chat: Sorry, can we get the actual dish name?
"Stew."
Top Chat: Oh no, the info just got even vaguer
Top Chat: Wait, that’s the actual dish name?
Top Chat: lmao
"Oh, Kirishi-tan."
Top Chat: Huh, Kirishi-tan?
Top Chat: Kirishi-tan??
"Eh?!—Elf! Don’t you dare point that camera over here!"
"Okay."
Top Chat: Whoa, that really was Kirishi-tan’s voice
Top Chat: Oh right, you two’s living areas overlap
Top Chat: Yeah, you’d be within biking distance
"Good mor-mornin’, Kirishi-tan."
"Morning, Elf… ahh, I let my guard down… Well, yeah, we’re near the riverbank, so it’s not strange to run into you here…"
"What’d you come to buy?"
"Hey, you—first, ask if it’s okay to film me. Just groceries. I come shopping every three days, same as always."
"I’m not pointing the camera at you, though?"
"The audio’s the same thing!"
Top Chat: But Kirishi-tan still answers anyway
Top Chat: For real lol
"Well, my agency gave permission, so filming’s fine."
"Then can I point the camera at you?"
"That’s a no. Face reveal’s off-limits."
"Hmm."
Top Chat: Oh, she actually got permission
Top Chat: What kind of permission, though?
"Wait here a sec."
Out came a pair of scissors and a cardboard box.
Top Chat: Elf-san?
Top Chat: What are you planning?
snip snip
"There, that works."
Top Chat: Cardboard Rider
Top Chat: I’m dying lol
Top Chat: What are you even crafting on the spot lmao
"…You don’t seriously think just slapping a mask on me is fine, do you?"
"Isn’t it?"
Top Chat: Me, supermarket part-timer. Resolving to carry masks everywhere
Top Chat: Shouldn’t that be cardboard instead? lol
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