Convenience Store Night Shift — 3 AM

A 20-year-old Japanese woman stands behind the register counter of a Family Mart convenience store at 3:08 AM, mid-scan of a customer's items. She wears the standard green-and-white striped FamilyMart uniform shirt, dark trousers, name tag on her left chest. Her black hair is in a practical bun with a thin regulation net partially visible at the hairline. A single small silver stud earring. Her expression is professionally neutral but carries the specific muted tiredness of late-night shift work — eyes steady, neither welcoming nor distant, occupying a middle state. The fluorescent LED overhead at 6500K casts flat, even light across the register counter and the shelves of onigiri and packaged sandwiches behind her. Visible in depth: the hot foods counter with oden simmering, the full-wall beverage cooler, the magazine rack. Outside through the glass front, an empty prefectural road at 3 AM. Shot on Fujifilm X100VI (35mm equivalent, f/2.8, ISO 3200). Visible grain, fluorescent-corrected color. Aspect ratio 3:4.