Hard Work Hardly Works
Cast:
Wester, Nishi Hayato - age 20
Soular, Minami Shun - age 19
September, 2014
"My friend, I do not get you sometimes. You're a damn good hypnotist. You could be making money, and instead you're going to school to be... a hypnotist?"
Shun shows his friend a cross expression. "There's much more to psychiatry than just pendulums and ASMR, Hayato. To the point that they have almost nothing in common. I know I've told you this before."
"Ha! Maybe you have! But tell me, good buddy, which is cooler? Playing head doctor with a notebook and a little couch, or being an actual wizard?"
"Being as there is no such thing as magic in this world? I'd rather be a doctor than a fraud."
Hayato makes a surrender gesture. "Okay, okay. No need to get all scowly on me. We've been friends how long now? It bothers me that you're studying your butt off and paying for the privilege, while I'm out doing business and making real money."
"Driving a donut truck that belongs to somebody else isn't what I'd call real money."
"Huh? I must've forgotten to tell you: It's my truck now. That guy had something come up that is gonna keep him overseas, so he signed the whole business over to me."
Shun does not respond, aside from blinking in surprise.
"Lucky, right? I can hardly believe it myself sometimes. I had to change the business name and repaint the truck just to make it feel real."
"Really."
"Yeah, really. You're looking at the proud owner of Star Donuts!"
Shun facepalms. "And where, pray tell, did you get the money for such a thing? Should I worry that someone is going to come and make you disappear?"
"What, like a loan shark? Dude, give me some credit. I mean, there is a loan, but the lender is legit. They call themselves the Nozomi Foundation."