Secretary on your shoulder

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[Shinichi Hoshi's "Secretary on My Shoulder" is one of his short stories. In this work, the setting is a future world where people carry small robots on their shoulders. This robot serves to support the individual's life and work.

A salesman with a parrot on his shoulder.

When the salesman mutters "buy" to the parrot on his shoulder,

Parakeets are truly fluent salespeople.

Meanwhile, there is also a parrot on the shoulder of the woman receiving the sale,

Summarize the sales talk and whisper "buy" into the woman's ear.

When the woman replied "no" to the parrot, the parrot returned a polite refusal,

The salesman's parrot receives it and gives a straightforward answer to his master: "Go home.

A small animal with wings, descended from the heavens. An angel or a demon?

Without being able to distinguish between good and evil, benefit and harm, people put "fairies" on their shoulders - and they were not able to distinguish between good and evil, benefit and harm.

The "fairies" that drifted ashore from other planets were obedient and reserved, good at comforting and praising, and were ideal as pets. A semi-private distribution company was established, and they quickly became popular. However, when the company had completed its mission and only the task of editing the company history remained, an old employee who was researching past records had a suspicion: ......

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