The Unsettling Convenience Store Experience

• 🌙 The narrator recounts their experience working the night shift at a convenience store in Fujinomiya, Japan, a job that disrupted their sleep cycle.
• 👤 Most nights were slow and lonely, with the narrator often alone, leading to daydreams about potential robberies rather than supernatural encounters.
• 👥 The few customers who visited at night were typically late-working individuals, reclusive youths, or noisy teenagers.

The First Encounter

• 👻 One particularly slow winter night, an attractive young woman entered the store, exhibiting shy behavior and walking towards the beverage section.
• 👯‍♀️ Shortly after, the same woman reappeared, but with darker circles under her eyes, and again headed to the back.
• 💡 A light in the back flickered and went out, and when the narrator returned from getting a replacement bulb, the second woman had vanished.
• 😨 The woman reappeared a third time, looking more distressed with cracked lips and greasy hair, causing the narrator to attempt to speak to her, which led to the lights going out momentarily, and her disappearance.
• 👂 Following this, the narrator heard multiple sources of breathing behind them, but upon turning, found no one there.

A Disturbing Second Encounter

• 🧹 A few nights later, while sweeping, the narrator bumped into someone, only to find the same girl from the previous year, now with bloodshot eyes, messy hair, and cuts on her face from scratching herself.
• 🤫 She whispered something before the lights flickered, and she vanished.
• 😨 This second encounter confirmed for the narrator that something truly wicked was happening at the store.

The Climax in the Cooler

• 🥶 A year later, working a new night shift job, the narrator was restocking coolers when their hand collided with something cold, moist, and soft inside a cooler.
• 😱 They discovered it was the girl's face, her mouth unhinged, allowing the narrator's hand to enter her throat.
• 🗣️ The narrator screamed, causing the entity to crawl backward and fade away, unlike her previous instant disappearances.
• 🏃‍♂️ Shaken, the narrator fled the store and went home, keeping all the lights on and feeling violated and fearful.

Lingering Fear and Reflection

• 💭 The narrator never learned the girl's identity or the reason for her haunting.
• 👻 The experience instilled a deep fear of the paranormal, changing their perspective from skepticism to genuine apprehension.
• ⚠️ The narrator realized the entity's intentions were not kind, despite initial thoughts that she might be a