Overworking is a good virtue

Anemachi loves her days off, especially when her life isn't threatened by her psychotic Imouto constantly.

Chugging in a handful of chips while reading through manga on her bed, Anemachi is enjoying her free time as much as she can. Her bare and cute foot flinging around the bed indicates the good mood she is in, mouth humming unknown songs that she has taken to liking recently.

She has spent her day so far binging in anime and has now turned to reading manga to fulfill her entertainment needs.

Suisei has to help mom run some errands today, and with a stream schedule not long after. She won't be bothering Anemachi anytime soon., thus leaving Anemachi having the whole day for herself.

' If only the rest of the day can remain this peaceful…'

She really loves her time alone, it's a nice experience.

However, a phone that dials in breaks the illusion of peace that she has.

"Anemachi, could you come over to help out with some paperwork? We have some problems over here, so I will appreciate it if you can come here…"

"No, no, you don't have to come. But we really are lacking in manpower now. If we can't finish it in time, our salary this month might be cut in half, and so is our leave for this year…"

Speaking on the other side is of course A-chan, the background is filled with noises of argument and complete chaos, clearly something has gone wrong there.

Anemachi of course reluctantly put on some proper clothing and drag herself to the bus station, pink lips cursing her own life and the management for ruining her whole leisure day. As the bus arrives, she bids farewell to her comfy home and heads towards hell on earth.

There, Anemachi was greeted by A-chan with an awkward smile and the pile of paper she is holding now, which Anemachi takes in with complete silence.

And she was reminded of the corporate slave that she has always been, and will be.

"Sniff, when will I finally be able to retire from the endless life of pain and suffering? Working for meager pay and barely any benefits, when will all these end?" Facing the computer on her table while murmuring to herself, the negative energy release is even felt by A-chan who is miles away from her.

It's already 10pm with the sun long gone, yet her work seems endless. From what Anemachi has heard, it looks like all of this is caused by some idiot that has deleted the finance record for this whole week.

And now they are redoing all of it once again, going through old paper and sheets. That idiot of course is demoted on the spot for mistakes like this.

But still, Anemachi is blaming the main culprit who had dragged her down to this hole, A-chan who is now approaching her at her desk.

"E-eh Anemachi-san, would you want-"

"Hmm?"

Looking back towards A-chan, Anemachi's eyes are now pitch black, covered by the hatred of being dragged to work during her off days.

"Do you have anything for me, A-chan? Or did you come here just to laugh at the misery that you have brought upon me?"

Looking straight into her eyes, A-chan can sense that if she answers this wrongly, she could very well be at risk of being murder by her colleagues, the reason is forcing her co-workers to overwork.

"A-ahem, of course not. I always admire people who are willing to go out of their way to help out in work." Ignoring Anemachi's stare that could pierce through her soul, A-chan continues. "Here, bring you some coffee."

"Ha, I wonder if I should thank you for it. A coffee so that I can work through the night huh?" Anemachi shows no gratitude towards the demon before her.

"I'm sorry alright? Don't get so sarcastic." A-chan tries to justify her actions to calm Anemachi's rage. "We really don't have enough people, and I even manage to help you to get a new office!"

"My own office?" Anemachi catching an exciting word just now, curious. "You mean I can have my own personal office?"

"Yeah, Tanigo-san noticed your effort recently, especially establishing a proper schedule for us. So he told me that if you don't mind, you could use that office. Though you might need to clean it up a bit."

"O-oh." Anemachi is indeed catch off guard by the good news

To have your own office just a few weeks into your job, it's not something that happens a lot. Right now, Anemachi just has a small work desk that can barely fit her and some of her personal belongings.

But if she really can have her own office, it will certainly make working more convenient and comfortable.

"Yeah, of course, I won't mind. Where is it though?"

"Ah, about that." Scratching her head, A-chan gestures her hand towards a direction. "Follow me then, but don't get your expectations high."

Following A-chan, Anemachi was led to the third floor of the building, which happens to be the highest too. Looking around, this floor is mostly dedicated to talent usage, for example venue and equipment for 3D model recording and some streaming PC for talents who require it.

Of course, all of these fancy things have no relation to Anemachi. Instead, she is brought into the back of the floor, where there lies a seemingly normal door.

"Uh, don't expect too much alright?" Just before A-chan pushes the door though, with a worried tone again warns Anemachi. "There is still some work done before you could properly use it."

And in the dead of night, where only the street light and the moon remain to brighten up the world, A-chan pushes into the mysterious door.

Where she was greeted with a dark figure pouring upon her small and slim body.

"AHHHHHH!"

"A,A-chan!?" Noticing A-chan getting devoured by some mysterious being, Anemachi though tired from work, rushes to her aid. "Are you alright!? What happened?"

"Mmaskkmdmsa-" A-chan's voice is however muffled by something, stopping her from speaking.

It's only when Anemachi enters the room, only she realizes what has gotten to A-chan.

Inside the room is pile and piles of crates, accessories, broken electronics and just useless trash in general. A-chan meanwhile buries under the immense number of these objects.

Her upper body completely stuck inside, lower body struggling around like a dead fish on land, leg kicking rapidly, panties showing from the intense movement.

....Black huh?

Removing the unsuitable thought in her mind, Anemachi proceeds to dig A-chan up before she dies from suffocation.

Though having reduced strength as a female, Anemachi taking in a deep breath, with all her might pulls A-chan up from the rubbles.

"Mksmfnkmmsnd, AHH!" With a loud breathing voice echo through the room immediately, A-chan manages to avoid death for now. "Ha,ha,ha. Thank you, Anemachi-san."

"Are you alright? And what's the deal with this room anyway, isn't this a storage of some kind? Why are we even here?" Checking for injury, A-chan seems mostly alright.

"Yeah I'm alright. Ahem, regarding that...Well, this will be your new office."

"W-what?"

Turning her head around, all Anemachi can see is metal racks stacked with crates, with dust accumulating upon them. There is nothing that resembles an office here.

"...Are you pulling a joke on me?" Anemachi really isn't in the mood for a joke now.

"I'm serious alright?" Sighing, A-chan explains. "This is an old storage room for broken and old equipment, but we had decided that it isn't worth our time keeping these here, so we wanna clean this up."

"And yeah, you can have this room for yourself after that."

"Ah, I see." Without objections, Anemachi nodded to it. "So when will the cleaning be done?"

She doesn't really mind how the office is now, as long she gets to have one in the end.

"That will have to depend on when you finish cleaning it."

"...You are saying that I have to get rid of this mess on my own?" Anemachi is dumbfounded by the word she hears

"..." Silence echoed in the darkroom.

"How about the furniture inside?"

"...Let's get back to working shall we?" Feet starting to move, A-chan however is held back by Anemachi's hand.

"A-chan."

"...?"

"Can you go ahead and die for me?"

"No?"

Anemachi did hold off the urge to not strangle A-chan and get sent to prison in the end.

Of course, she won't have to buy her own furniture, she is given a fund to set it up herself. But she will indeed have to clean up the office with her free time if she wants to use it anytime sooner.

But first thing first, Anemachi will have to finish her work for today. Anemachi looks towards the mostly empty office and sighs.

She eventually ended up volunteering herself to finish it up through the night as everyone are going back home. There is still some leftover to do, and it's already late. Even A-chan will have to go, handing the key to Anemachi before she leaves.

Anemachi isn't doing this just from her goodwill though, she has something in her mind.

The trolls during Miko's stream have been popping up a lot recently ever since Anemachi conversed with Miko at her house a week ago, so much that Anemachi suspects that something is wrong.

She wanted to check through some private files that could help her investigate.

What she is doing now might be violating some policy of Cover but...

'Who cares right?'

Thinking to herself, Anemachi gets into work for the whole night.