A soft voice slightly startled the man, turning around to find a young woman looking back at him. He blinked, before rubbing the back of his neck, feeling slightly foolish for being caught staring into an empty store. “There used to be a camera store here, right?” he eventually asked, tilting his head a little, hoping that the girl would perhaps be familiar with the place, “any idea where it could have been relocated?”
Hillary shook her head with a slight frown forming her lips as she then replied, “I’m not quite sure. I’ve only transferred in this area three months ago. No one has told me there used to be a camera store in there. And with that said, it’s quite a shame that I can’t give you any useful information of where they could have possibly relocated.” She ended with a soft sigh, puffing her cheeks with a sorry face, brows slanted downwards. “This building was abandoned for a couple of years now, they said. Mmh, you never came back here for that long?” She randomly asked.
“All right, only Eric.” It wasn’t easy for Hillary to address him simply with the given name. She was directed to, and...
hillary–x: “Just Eric would do, Hillary-sshi,” he shrugged. The man was never fond of formalities as most would have...