Meshitaki Onna ni Yakuza no Ai wa Omosugiru

16. The countermeasures manual for troublesome people

 

 

「……Helloー, I apologize for the rudeness from before.」

 

Dipping my head in a bow, the man made an amused face.

 

「You have guts, Nee-chan.」

「No, it’s not like that. Right now, I really want to run away.」

 

When I answered honestly, the man slightly widened his eyes because he didn’t expect this answer.

Afterward, he smiled like a cat. 1

 

――He seems like the troublesome type.

 

While looking at the man’s crafty face, I thought such.

 

Should I be feel fortunate or unfortunate…… Or how should I put it, while I feel it’s a completely unfortunate occurrence, there are many difficult people around me.

Like Demon President, my childhood friend, and my elder brother.

 

From being half forcibly dragged around by those types of people, I’ve understood something.

 

Within those troublesome guys, they are persons of high ability, and there are many beautiful people.

 

Being capable and having good looks, I feel the world’s unfairness, but it can’t be helped.

It’s likely that because they have high capabilities and beautiful looks, they turn into troublesome people.

 

And, they know that they are people who excel over others.

It’s not overconfidence. Along with being superior, they recognize the distinct disparity between them and others.

 

And, difficult guys hate idiots.

 

Well, I get where they’re coming from. When the things they know are things others don’t know and their conversations don’t mesh, they get irritated.

From my speculations, troublesome guys have low stress tolerance.

That’s why when their partner says something slightly off, when they spew flimsy lies, when they act thoughtlessly, they pretty much immediately lose it and deliver a thorough retribution. 2

To the level of ”Eh, from that little thing, they’ll do such cruel vengeance!?”

 

One time I got sexually harassed while working at another company, and when I think of the punishment that demonic President did to that company in return, my blood still drains to this day.

Merely from saying some indecent things and touching me a little, that middle aged salesman probably didn’t think his main company staffed with 400 employees would be crushed……

 

I wasn’t the least bit in the wrong, but the guilt wasn’t half-baked.

I felt so bad, I turned my feet in the direction of that company and couldn’t sleep for a while. Well, since that company was crushed the employees wouldn’t be in that place anymore, so it was in an emotional sense!

 

No, I tried stopping him more or less. Desperately, at that.

It was completely useless though.

Then, when others heard just that, he was seen as a good President who valued his employees.

But I thought, “if he has that much leniency, then he should decrease my workload.”

 

Whoops, the topic derailed.

 

Well, it’s like that.

Troublesome people hate idiots. That’s why they also hate people who don’t listen, cheap lies, and stupid actions. Out of those foolish idiots, they hate people who draw close and shamelessly flatter them enough to vomit.

 

Well, this is the countermeasures manual I’ve compiled on how to deal with those troublesome people――

 

Put on a shallow smile and flatter them, make them recognize you as「one of the many」that they hate.Don’t lie, don’t compliment, keep interaction at a bare minimum, promptly leave the area.

 

Either one of those.

 

I looked at the ikemen in front of me once again.

It was likely, judging from the happenings before, his stress tolerance was low and he hated idiots. Probably, he especially hated stupid women.

Furthermore, he had no hesitation in using violence.

 

That being so, if I poorly act out the「type he hates」, I won’t know what kind of brutality I’ll be subjected to.

I dislike pain.

 

Meaning, my correspondence method would inevitably be「2」.

Ahー, I want to leave this place quickly……

 

Unsure… Original sentence here: それから、にやぁっと笑う。 Might be worded a little awkwardly, but basically the “slightly off, lies, thoughtless actions” part is talking about possible things the person they interact can do, and the last bit is their (the difficult people) reaction to those actions.