My Heroine is Too S*xy

A little while later.

I finally caught my breath, pulled up my underwear and pants, and started tidying up the area.

Oh, it’s Natsumi’s bra. She forgot it.

I picked it up and stared at it intently.

Yeah, looking at it again, it really is huge. These cups… they could probably fit whole melons.

For some reason, I buried my face into the inside of the cup and sniffed.

Mmm, the bra smells really nice too.

“Ichiro-san, thank you for letting me use the sho—kyaaaaah!? W-what are you doing~♡ G-give it back♡”

With perfect timing, Natsumi came back and flew over, snatching the bra from me.

Guh… This is unmistakably perverted behavior no matter how you look at it…!

“You really are such a pervert, Ichiro-san~♡”

Just as I thought, I’m being treated like a pervert again—orz

Natsumi turned her back to me and quickly put her bra back on.

When she’s in her right mind, stuff like this is still embarrassing after all.

“S-so then, Ichiro-san♪”

She sat down right next to me and pressed herself close, looking around at the counter desk and the surroundings.

“Um… were you studying?”

Natsumi noticed the bookkeeping textbook I had left out on the desk and asked.

“Ah—yeah. Even though it looks like there aren’t any customers and I’m just slacking off, running a shop by myself means there’s a lot to do and a lot to learn. It’s pretty tough.”

“No, not at all! I would never think you’re slacking… You really are busy… And yet I keep being selfish…”

Her voice grew quieter toward the end.

“U-um! If it’s okay with you, please let me help out at the store!”

“Help out? You mean like a part-time job? I definitely could use an extra pair of hands, but… honestly, I don’t have much money to pay you.”

“N-no way! I don’t need money at all~!”

As the owner, this was an incredibly welcome offer, but making a middle school girl work for free would make me the ultimate deadbeat, wouldn’t it?

“Um… is it… no good…?”

She looked up at me with teary, sparkling eyes.

Uwaa… If she begs me with that face…!

“O-okay, fine. Then for now…”

“Really!? Yay♪ Thank you so much!”

She cut me off, beaming with a huge smile and hopping up and down in joy.

Hmm, working isn’t that easygoing, you know…

Well, we’ll try it out, and if Natsumi ends up hating it, we can stop then.

“So, about the hours… it’d be bad if you stay too late, and it’s hard for me to escort you during business hours, so maybe one or two hours…”

“Oh, you’re open until 22:00, right? That’s totally fine with me!”

She’s going for full-time unpaid labor!?

Accepting this would definitely make me the ultimate deadbeat.

“No no no, until closing… there wouldn’t be any break time either, and your fa—”

I quickly shut my mouth before saying “family.”

I felt like I absolutely shouldn’t touch on anything about Natsumi’s home situation.

“My fa…? What is it?”

“Sorry, I just bit my tongue. Um, and you wouldn’t have time to eat dinner either.”

“How do you usually handle dinner, Ichiro-san?”

“Me? Well… when there are no customers, I secretly eat convenience store rice balls.”

“Muu… Eating convenience store food all the time is bad for your body…”

“Yeah, exactly. So…”

“Then I’ll make dinner for you too!”

Full-time unpaid labor plus meals on top!?

“Ah… but I’m sorry. I don’t have any money on hand right now… could you lend me some?”

And it’s free!?

“No no no no! I’ll pay for everything!!”

“Ah… yes. Thank you♪ I was worried it might be tough to do it every day…”

Huh?

At this point, it’s already decided that she’ll be doing full-time unpaid work with meals every day?

“Yay! Now I can spend lots of time with Ichiro-san♪”

Ah…

I see. So that was the goal.

I’m such an idiot. Why didn’t I realize it sooner.

………

I won’t treat her like a regular part-timer and won’t push her too hard.

“Yeah, okay. Got it. Looking forward to working with you from now on.”

I held out my hand to Natsumi.

“Yes♪ Please take care of me! Ichiro-san♪”

She gripped my hand with both of hers and hopped up and down again.

Yeah, she really is adorable.

Honestly, I’m really happy I get to work with such a cute girl like Natsumi.

But… there are still problems.

First is Natsumi’s school uniform.

She always comes straight here from school, so she never changes.

I think she should go home once and change since it’s close, but I can’t say that.

So she’ll inevitably be in uniform. What should I do?

I kept looking up and down at Natsumi in her uniform, deep in thought.

“W-what’s wrong, Ichiro-san?”

Having a girl work in an adult shop while still in her school uniform is definitely questionable, right?

“No, of course your uniform is insanely cute, and I’d love to keep looking at it forever if I could.”

But working here in uniform might cause issues, so I was wondering what to do…

“W-w-w-w-what!? S-suddenly saying something like that—♡ Mooo♡ Mooo♡”

Her face turned bright red with an audible boof!, and she started smacking my chest hard. Whack! Whack!

Ow ow.

Wait, what? She reacts that strongly to those words…? Ahhhhhhh! I mixed up my thoughts and speech!?

“Mou~♡ I-if you want to see Natsumi in her uniform that badly…♡ I’ll stay in uniform in front of you the whole time… okay?♡”

I’ve sunk even deeper into the swamp.

Ugh… making an underage girl work in an adult shop until late at night in her school uniform.

We’re way past three strikes—this is a full house of jokers.

Does this violate some law or not…?

I desperately tried to recall all the erotic shops I’d visited in the past.

………

When I was still in middle school.

I went to a secondhand bookstore packed with erotic books and took one to the register—only to find a girl from the same class standing there in her school uniform.

I later heard she was the shop owner’s daughter and had been forced to help right after school.

Incidentally, that was also the first time I wanted to die.

………

Yeah… it seems like it’s probably fine?

My own daughter would be too close in age though.

…Alright, let’s set her as my niece!

That should work, probably.

“Ah—um… anyway, let’s set that aside for now. There might be complaints about employing a minor, so let’s say Natsumi is my niece.”

“Niece? Okay, understood. Still, Ichiro-san… choosing niece play instead of little sister play is quite the niche taste♡”

I didn’t say anything about play at all!?

I-is this pace going to be okay…?

“Well then, I’ll start working right away! What should I do?”

Let’s see… there are lots of things I want her to do, but first, the basics.

“Can you straighten up the products on the shelves and dust them off?”

“Yes! Understood♪”

The products get messy every time customers touch them, and I couldn’t keep up with it. Just having her do that would be a huge help.

And so, my time working together with Natsumi began.

By the way.

This kind of shop has some unique customers, so there are several mirrors installed near the ceiling so I can see the entire store from the register counter. There are no blind spots.

Natsumi was briskly rearranging products and cleaning.

She occasionally stopped to stare at items and breathe heavily… well, that’s within acceptable limits.

…I was rock-hard the whole time I was stocking shelves when I first started too.

Before long, customers started trickling in, and each time:

“Welcome♪”

Natsumi’s adorable voice rang through the store.

Every single customer did a double-take when they saw her.

Well, obviously.

Some even came over to me and asked, “Who’s that girl…?”

When I said, “My niece kept pestering me to let her work here…” they made strange faces but usually accepted it.

Still, I was worried, so I kept a close eye on any customers near Natsumi.

Then, at that moment.

One customer was holding his smartphone with his hand hanging down unnaturally. The camera lens wasn’t hidden and was pointed toward Natsumi…

Uwa, seriously…? That’s definitely upskirt photography, isn’t it?

Just because she’s a girl in a place like this doesn’t make it okay, idiot.

Calling the police would be easy, but that would cause trouble for Natsumi too.

For now, I couldn’t let it continue, so I decided to call her back.

“Hey— Na… part-timer girl, come over here for a sec!”

“…? Ah, yeees! Coming right now!”

I almost called her by name and hurriedly used a weird call instead.

Natsumi understood and quickly came over.

“Sorry, sorry for the weird way of calling you. I can’t let your name slip when customers are here, so I’ll call you that.”

“Ah, yes. Understood. Am I not allowed to say my name?”

We whispered behind the counter.

“My name is already known, but yours would be bad. We don’t know what kind of customers might be here.”

Not to mention the weird guy is right in front of us.

“Yes, understood. I’ll be careful too. So, what did you need?”

“Yeah, sorry to interrupt your organizing, but could you count the stock? I need to place a rush order for some items.”

I led Natsumi to the back room.

For today, I’ll stop having her work in the store area.

I need to think of some countermeasures…