For Your Sake (16)

Saying goodbye to someone else, regardless of genre, is bound to unfold in a sentimental atmosphere.

For example, when the android T-800 protecting the protagonist throws itself into a smelting furnace, when you have to release a Pidgeot you painstakingly caught with tears in your eyes, or when you finally resolve to remove a talking terrorist brain tumor…….

Anyway.

My relationship with Paul Lucas wasn't particularly deep, nor had we known each other for very long.

Still, even resentment is a form of affection, so saying goodbye to the megacorp employee who had often visited our grocery store as a regular customer should normally have turned into quite a sentimental moment.

Bzzzz….

A gigantic fly the size of a candy drop came buzzing toward me in a figure eight.

It was an awkward situation, since there wasn't even any tissue to be found.

But I clapped my hands together and crushed the fly barehanded without the slightest reaction.

Smack...