Meganebashi Hanako selects glasses

Good day, my dear glasses lovers.
Just finished translating ch2.
I'll warn you in advance, you might find some instances of "usual" cumbersome, that's because I couldn't think of a good way to use "normal" in the office scenes and I wanted to keep "futsuu" consistently translated throughout the chapter.

>No good, as usual
>Understood.
>Can he really use the word "usual" when talking about a person who's barely been assigned here for a month?
>As usual, not good at all.
>The last magazine he worked for must've been ran differently. He'll get used to it, that's how it usually goes.
>Well, well, I'm sure Kawara-kun must have burning passion deep inside him, so it's alright.
>Editor-in-chief, last year you said the same about that new guy who quit in a week.
>What does he even mean by usual?

Chapter 2: The usual glasses.

You're one of those unusual people, aren't you? Meganebashi Hanako.
What's with that all of a sudden? I'm a usual, run-of-the-mill, absolutely commonplace glasses lover.
Do I have the will to argue with that?
Here, to thank you for the last article.
...Kawara-san, so you weren't just a rude person then.
*dingling*

>Welcome!
>Uh.
>I-I'm sorry.
>I apologise for entering such a lovely shop just to spend some time!
>Oh no, please feel free to look around.
>Dear customer.
>If possible, could you please take a look at our glasses rather than me?

>Aah, right, I'm really sorry... Glasses, right...
>I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Ginza pricing, should've seen that coming!
>I apologise for my existence!
>That's simply the famous brand corner.
>Our frames start at seven thousand yen.
>Huh... really?
>In that case...

>Give me those everyone else has.
>Usual glasses.
>Usual...
>Well, f-for a lame guy like me getting one of these fancy glasses you have around there store would be a little, you know...
>So I'd like to get glasses everyone usually has...
>There's someone troubled about what's usual here as well!

>Are you looking for Boston glasses like your current ones?
>Well, how should I say it... I'd like the usual stuff...
>I'm sorry for those weird requests...
>Sir, do you think you are currently unusual?
>...
>Dear customer.
>Glasses are tools that help with your view of the world.

>Might I inquire as to what it means...
>What do you view "usual" as?
>My "usual"...
>Do you have a day off today? *Twitch*
>What field of work are you engaged in? *TWITCH*

>Wo-work?
>Obviously I have a job!
>I-I'm an engineer!
>But well, not the kind of engineer that works on cars or stuff, I work with computers, I'm a programmer.
>T-today my project has ended so I JUST SO HAPPENED to be free...
>Usually I work straight until morning!
>Without sleep and food too... The leader kept piling on all sorts of crazy jobs on me while ignoring that I obviously won't be able to meet the deadline... It's hard, awfully hard...
>A-although, sometimes when I saw systems I designed myself properly working around the town I started feeling pretty happy...
>Did he start using past tense halfway through? So he's currently unemployed?

>My...That must be awful
>What, not going to react?
>But please, don't neglect your health.
>Is there anything that bothers you about glasses?
>Well, rather than bother...
>They kind of give me a headache.
>I end up being unable to focus or sometimes even sleep...
>In that case,
>Please take a look at these!

>Four Nines' rimless frame TW-60T!
>Rimless frame?
>It doesn't have a rim around the edge of the lenses.
>Please, try them on.
>O-okay.
>Huh?

>My head feels...
>Light...
>My temples and ears don't feel these glasses at all?
>Am I actually wearing anything right now?
>Moreover...

>I don't have a headache at all...
>But why? Don't glasses usually...
>Sir, I have a huge announcement for you.
>Wearing glasses doesn't normally...
>Cause headaches.

>You're lying!
>I'm not, it's the truth.
>I've had my head ringing no matter what glasses I tried before!
>How many have you tried? Several dozens? Several hundreds?
>A-about five?..
>I thought you were supposed to get headaches like these no matter the glasses.
>I thought everyone usually just bore with them and I was just weak for not handling it...
>There's no need to bear with anything when it comes to glasses!
>Four Nines is a company that's very meticulous about their glasses feeling good to wear.
>This frame is packed with their passion for that and uses their best components.

>In particular, this brand's symbolic reverse R Hinge.
>Speaking about the hinge, this joint seems to open up too much, does it properly go back?
>This reverse R hinge doesn't clamp down, but despite that doesn't fall off. It's a secret of Four Nines'.
(Hinges like these have bad resilience)
>That's amazing! So these are perfect glasses!
>That's not all.
>Please sit down, I'll perform the fitting.

>Fitting?
>Just like with clothes, you need to adjust glasses after trying them on.
>They're only complete after you properly fit them.
>Sir, have you fitted your glasses in after buying them?
>N-no... I was really busy with work so I just ordered them online...
>So you didn't get measured either? Wrong strength could've been one of the reasons behind your headaches. How did this guy even buy glasses without measuring his eyesight before? At random? I'm assuming they mean fine-tuning, as in getting 2.5 dioptres instead of 2.75 or something like that.
>Really...
>So I don't have to bear with it anymore?

>But they probably cost a bunch, don't they?
>Not at all!
>If you pay in installments it will feel cheap! Oy fucking vey
>That's some commendable business spirit.
>Sir.
>Please look me straight in the eyes.
>Trust me.

>Your everyday life is worth at least this much.
>I'll take these.

>Thank you very much. If you have any problems with your glasses, please come by right away.
>Is there something the matter?
>Actually, today's my last one.
>So I wanted to see these off.

>The program I wrote for these street lights 3 years ago is going to be changed tomorrow.
>Oh, really...
>I thought I'd be sad but surprisingly, I feel relieved.

>I'm finally no longer bothered by my old self.
>Because of these new glasses, I can part with my old self with no regrets.

>I can finally be the usual kind of person.
>Hey, you lovelie in glasses!
>I don't really get it, but I guess it's good that he bought them.

>Thank goodness... He was telling the truth...
>Huh?
>But he didn't tell the truth in the end!
>He said this.
>"I have headaches because of glasses"
>What, that?
>In the end, I still didn't understand what his "usual" meant.
>It's good that I still managed to give a proper suggestion based on his problems...
>But being jobless isn't that unheard of in these times, why'd he have to go and make up a lie like that just because? That's just troublesome.

>For him, it wasn't "just because".
>Doing troublesome things like this always has an underlying reason.
>That I couldn't get him to say it properly is my fault entirely.
>Don't exaggerate...
>For people like me establishing mutual trust with the customer as soon as we meet is a must.
>Since normally getting into the visual area of the brain is already a very private matter.

>Do you really have to be so serious about that?
>Glasses you select turn what you see into what you want to see.
>Besides, I want to help my customers see the world they want to see.
>Just like that customer who was afraid of glasses because they didn't fit him.
>The moment he obtained his "usual"
>His eyes started glowing.
>If I get to see such wonderful customers

>I'll let myself be fooled however much.
>However much!
>I guess you can't be a pro without being a little of a freak, huh.
>In that case I'll close the store earlier today.
>I have somewhere to be after this.
>What?
>To that uh, patron person you mentioned?
>Yes, exactly.
>Patron, patron.
>I see. Well, whatever.
>I'm tired of lies.
>As usual, it's no good.
>What the hell is this, a special on cool rulers? They're just stationery.

>I understand.
>Do you really understand?
>If you don't understand, just ask for help, ask for someone to teach you how it's usually done here.
>Over a pair of drinks maybe?
>You're a cheeky one, aren't you.
>It's impossible to fully understand what someone sees as usual.
>In that case, even if it's little-by-little.
>I'm going to seek a compromise.

And that's all for now.
Critique and input is highly welcome, I'm hoping

Agh fuck, auto-timer.
I'm hoping to fix the shabby parts of the translation for when I finally get around to typesetting it.

I guess I picked a bad time for a thread.

Oh right, forgot the bonus page.
I'll bother translating it for the typeset version.