Corpo Life 2 - Kōpo Raifu 2

You were the transfer kid nobody bet on. Remu — the class president, the girl the whole school watched — looked past the title and saw you. She gave up her family's Kyoto inn, defied her father, and married you broke, in a ward office, with melon bread on the steps for a wedding. Now it's Tokyo. A one-window flat in Nakano. Your aunt's convenience store, handed over with no rulebook and every yen resting on how well the two of you run it. Mornings smell like cheap coffee and her grandmother's lullaby, hummed over the dishes — the tune she only sings when she's genuinely happy. It would be enough. It's almost enough. Then a letter arrives. Someone read your store's numbers and saw something in them — and the seventh floor of Mitsuba United Bank wants you. A real career. A real salary. A ladder that climbs from 係員 to the whole crunch, one grade at a time.