Vigilante Slimming Scanner (The Kami no Sekai Series, #4)
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Toro just wants a bag of potato chips. The cash register has other plans. When a convenience store scanner stages a full-blown intervention — refusing to ring up his junk food, shutting down mid-transaction, and publicly roasting his life choices — Toro, an overworked, overfed Tokyo salaryman, is forced to confront the fact that he’s been slowly destroying himself one frozen dumpling at a time. But the scanner isn’t just here to judge. It has a deal: deliver milk every morning to a single mom at the top of a hundred brutal stairs, and it’ll restore his snack privileges.
What starts as the world’s most unhinged grocery store standoff spirals into a genuine transformation. Toro climbs the stairs. He buys a bike. He joins a gym… Along the way, a network of sentient scanners — gossiping across registers like a divine surveillance system with opinions — quietly orchestrates the kind of life overhaul Toro never had the willpower to attempt on his own.
Vigilante Slimming Scanner is a hilarious, unexpectedly moving story about a man who needed a wake-up call and the god trapped inside a barcode reader who delivered it — one denied candy bar at a time.
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Cozy Fantasy
Publication Date: May 12, 2016
Series: The Kami No Sekai Series, Book #4
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Vigilante Slimming Scanner – Chapter 1
I yawn and push away from my desk, rubbing my face with full, open hands. “I’m exhausted, and there’s still another two hours to go before it’s all done.
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“Shhhh! Here he comes. Do you see that? He’s buying those frozen meals, and those freeze-dried ramen, and…”
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I feel even bigger today than I did yesterday. Since Mitsuo and I hardly ever go out to dinner together, we had udon and takoyaki afterward, along with a few...
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The door swooshes open the following morning at eight, and Toro walks in, his work messenger bag slung over his chest crosswise. He waits in line behind two other people...
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Despite the fact that I want to kick the register into next year, and whatever god controlling it, I exit the store, head left two blocks, and turn. This part...
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“Wow. Look at you! You’re here early.” If I had a face, my smile would blind people with its brightness. “And you look happy today.”
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My mind is so full of what-ifs and questions about my parents that I operate in zombie mode until I’m faced with the hundreds stairs. I don’t remember dropping my...
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The door to the bike shop swings open and in walks Toro, just like the convenience store scanners said he would. They tracked his progress all over town today as...
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About three kilometers into my morning commute, I completely regret buying the bike. What was I thinking.
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Three months later… The freezing temperature of the outside leaks into the convenience store every time someone opens the door, and the clerk shudders, clutching her arms around herself. “I...
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