It Wouldn’t Be So Bad Being An Apartment Complex Manager! I Was Optimistically Thinking That, But There My Life Started To Go Downhill!

Chapter 13: Room 211 – Satake Machiko ①

Ten days have already passed since that passionate night… However, my heart has been getting bluer by the day… It’s because, no matter how long I wait, there has been no visit or even a phone call from Tanaka.

Although I have seen her a few times in the past ten days, for some reason she only nods at me without any expression, and she doesn’t even talk to me.

(Did I make a big mistake that night?… Could she be pregnant?… No, that can’t be…)

She is the one I lost my virginity to! I can’t wait to hear the reason, but I can’t talk about such things outside, so I’ve been living with this anxiety every day.

(Should I call her?… But if she suddenly hangs up without giving me a reason… I… I won’t be able to recover…)

As I was quietly watering the flowers outside, I looked at the apartment parking lot, but her car was not there… Just looking at that scene made me feel like my heart was being squeezed.

(Is this the essence of the promise Tanaka talked about?)

A few nights later, while I was feeling miserable, the doorbell of my room rang!

I thought it was Tanaka, so I hurriedly opened the door, and there stood a middle-aged woman who seemed to be around the same age as my mother.

“Good evening, young manager! I’m Satake from room 211 next door!”

“Oh, hello… Is there something I can do for you?”

I gave an indifferent answer to the resident across the street, who I was meeting for the first time, probably because I was shocked that my expectations were so thoroughly dashed.

Satake-san is around the same age as my mother, but she doesn’t have the typical plump figure of a middle-aged woman, but rather a slender build, with hair in a rounded short bob, and her face is quite beautiful in a “beautiful witch” kind of way, but she probably dyes her hair a bit brown to cover the white hair.

(My mother is more feminine than that… But her age is… She’s old enough…)

“You see, the fluorescent light in my dining room was flickering and about to go out in the evening!… So I just bought a new one, so… Manager, can you change it for me?”

“Uh, me?”

“My height doesn’t reach the ceiling, you’re the manager, right?… You should do that for me!”

(Tsk!)

Middle-aged women, just like my mother, are so shameless!… Plus, I’ve been in a bad mood lately, and it’s already night, and although the possibility is low, there might be a visit from Tanaka…

“Well, tonight is late, so maybe tomorrow…”

“Huh?… So you want me to spend the night in that flickering dining room?… You can change it right away, can’t you?”

(Then, you do it yourself!)

“But… at night, when you change it, the room will be completely dark, and that will be more troublesome…”

“I have a flashlight in my room!… So, are you going to change it or not?… Well, if you don’t, I’ll call the company that hired you and complain first thing in the morning, you know!… That young manager is completely useless!”

“Uuu… Well, I understand… I’ll come right away…”

“That so? Good boyl♪… Hurry up!”

(Fuck that old lady!)

Unpleasant things that make me feel uncomfortable keep happening around me, even though I don’t want them to!

The only one who can heal this feeling is Tanaka, but she has been ignoring me all this time…

I became even more blue, but I visited Satake-san’s room with a ladder in hand.

“Come in!… It’s in the back dining room!”

“Excuse me…”

I was guided to the dining room, and I was greeted by the painful flickering of the fluorescent light before anything else.

But what caught my eye first was the lingerie drying rack that was attached near the glass door of the dining room!

There were middle-aged women’s underwear in white, beige, black, and dull pink, being dried under the annoying flickering of the fluorescent light, and I was at a loss for where to look.

“Oh, I’m sorry… I’m a bit sloppy because I live alone… I’ll put it away right away!”

“No, it’s fine… I don’t mind…”

Satake-san hurriedly moved the drying rack to another room, and also got a flashlight from somewhere, and returned to the dining room.

Women’s underwear… I couldn’t help but think of Tanaka’s cute white underwear again.

“You see, this building is farther away from the other buildings, right?… It gets dark at night, and the streetlights are scarce, so underwear thieves come over the fence behind!… I’ve had many of my underwear taken before, so I dry them inside the room!”

(I don’t want to hear about a story regarding underwear of an old lady…)

“Well, that was unfortunate… I’ll get ready to change it…”

“Hey?… Can’t you tell the parent company to try to install some security devices?”

“Haha… As a newcomer, I’m not in a position to say that…”

(If you can call to complain, why don’t you say it yourself!)

I started to change the fluorescent light with an unsteady hand, and Satake-san watched me from a chair.

I think it would be nice if she offered to help, like “Can I help you with something?”

“Hey?… my boy, manager-san?”

(My boy?… Is she treating me like a child?)

“What is it?… I can’t take my hands off right now…”

“You probably don’t know this yet, my boy, but… In this building, you can hear the sounds from the neighbors… In my case, it’s from the bathroom!”

“Is that so… Thank you for telling me!”