Now, Please Begin Your Speech

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He welcomed his first group of customers.

A middle-aged nurse, a delinquent girl, and a bespectacled man with a refined air.

“You can trade stories for whatever you want.”

“First, the story has to be bizarre.”

“Second, it has to be about the dead.”

The delinquent girl raised her hand.

“What kind of story counts as bizarre?”

He stood up.

“Then let me give you a demonstration.”

After he finished telling a very, very long story, the delinquent girl raised her hand again.

“I’ve got it now!”

“Now, please begin your presentation!”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.