The Trendy Sticker Notebook

It's really popular right now, isn't it?

But if I did it again, my wallet would definitely be empty of bills and
I'd probably get a stack of repayment requests instead.

Well, I was pretty into it myself, in my own way.

But there was a problem:
stickers are weak in the countryside.
Unless you go to the city,
you can't get your hands on strong stickers.

Even if I asked my parents,

“Just be satisfied with what you have here!”

is what they'd say. That's not it.

I want “stickers from that place.”

That sense of exclusivity.

What we'd call “things you can't buy online” today.

Like stickers from the FELISSIMO mail-order catalog,

or the fluffy, fuzzy ones.
𓃟(I'm a pink pig)

Just by sticking those on,
I felt like my life had been upgraded a notch.

※It just felt that way.

Then one day, at my father's yakitori restaurant,
a customer happened to show me a sticker.

“Half price,” “Eel,” “Great deal.”

------It's powerful.

I thought, I want this.

"Hey, can I have one of those? I want to put it in my sticker notebook."

Then the customer,

And gave it to me. I stuck it on immediately.

"Ru-chan, do you want more?"

I answered immediately,

"Yes! If possible, all of them."

...What a greedy child.

The next day.

A bundle of stickers collected from each department arrived at my family's store.
Meat. Fresh fish. Deli. Produce.
Yes, that customer was a supermarket manager.

My sticker notebook,

became a supermarket.

Ru-Store is now open.

And, surprisingly, it was popular.

Especially with the boys.

I understand why. It's not sparkly.

It's not cute either.

Purely practical.
Impact to make them buy

Where did you get that?

What's an eel?

Is it okay to stick a 'half-price' label on that?

Before I knew it,

I was talking to boys through the medium of stickers.

And so I learned.

Girls stick them for the 'aesthetic,' while

boys stick them for 'utility.'

And from that day on,

belonging to neither the girls' group nor the boys' group,

I would live as a 'sticker shopkeeper.'