Chapter 29 29: “Date”
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nFive months had pass since my sister’s birthday and my the negotiations and I just turned to fourteen years old. I also got betrothed with Sophia along the process. I already told her about what will be happening in the future.
nI told her that I will be living for eternity alongside with my mothers and sister. I let her know that I will be having an ability to give Longevity skill in the future and agreed to live together with us.
nFour months ago, the first store of our company has been completed. It is erect within the commercial district facing the main road.
nThe construction was finished for only three weeks. Almost a week for planning and resources gathering, two weeks for the construction, and a few days for the interior design and advertisements.
nThe construction speed in this world were way faster than my former. The essence of magic makes almost everything possible.
nYou just have to hire some earth mages and alchemist along with the construction workers and Poof! You can have a establishment within a few weeks.
nI designed the establishment based on a famous fast-food restaurant in my previous world with purple as its theme. By the way, I named our company Raevender Company and Purple Queen for the restaurant.
n“Welcome to Purple Queen! May I have your order?”
nA smiling young woman greeted me when it is my turn to make order at the counter. I look up at the menu above the counter and choose a set.
n“Two set of regular burger and fries, please. And fruit juice as refreshment. Dine in.”
n“That would be 300 Fenn in total or three bronze coin, sir.” I grab three coins from my pocket and paid the cashier the right amount.
n“Please wait for your order to come and enjoy your meal, sir.” I approach the table beside the glass window where my companion waiting for me.
nThe currency of this world is called Fenn. The type of payment here were done with coins. There are five types of coins used in this world.
nStaring with the lowest value, nickel coin, bronze coin, silver coin, gold coin, and platinum as the most valuable coin. One nickel had the value of 10 Fenn. The value are multiplied by ten as the coin rank increase.
nSo a platinum coin had a value of ten gold coins, one hundred silver coins, one thousand bronze coins, ten thousand nickel coins, and one hundred thousand Fenn.
n“You made me wait.” said my blonde companion, with her blue eyes contract mine.
n“Sorry. The line is long.” I apologized as I took a sit.
nThis long haired blonde girl who I am facing right now is my Sister Louise. We am currently dining in at the fast-food restaurant that we just built.
nUsing the Parallel Profile, I changed my name to Raffy and my hair color to hazel brown and eye to green.
nI also changed my face using Level 2 Illusion Magic: Partial Transformation to looked like an average city boy.
nAs for my sister, she also used the same spell as me. Even though Illusion Magic is hard to acquire and difficult to manage, she can use it for a while. Although she’s a swordswoman, she’s also a student and daughter of Mom.
nWe used Unique Skill Limiter that we inherited from Mother. We suppressed our power until we degrade ourselves to 10% of our current level. Even if veteran adventurers saw us, their eyes would assessed us as newbie adventurers.
nWe are in incognito because my sister said that she wanted to experience eating in our restaurant in a normal way. It would cause a problem if we, the children of the Viscountess, just waltzed in the restaurant casually.
nNot just the costumers, but also the employees of the restaurant would panic and might lose concentration on their work. Being observed by the boss gives anxiety.
nI look around to see people occupied most of the tables, eating their ordered meals. There are parasol shaded chairs and tables outside, but also crowded.
nThe chiming of the bell of opening door and the clanking noise of colliding silver and plates resonate throughout the building. There are some who are chatting with their companion
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n“This restaurant really is popular. I heard from Mother that some neighboring countries requested us to open branches in their realm. Uncle already built a branch in the Imperial Capital, selling like hot cakes.”
n“We just started and don’t have enough funds to open branches yet. Plus, we need to do screening and interviews for trusted employees. We are still hiring more employees in this store only, how about having another?”
n“You take a point. The products are good, easy to prepare, and the most of all, affordable. No wonder that it is well liked by the masses.” she then looked at the line of patient people waiting for their turn to order.
nThe establishment was wide and had three floors. The first two floors were used for dining. A quarter of each floor were the kitchen while the rest are for the costumers to accommodate. The third floor was the office and a space for taking receptions.
nEven with two floors and the space outside, it is still not enough to serve all of our costumers.
n“Looks like our lunch are here.”
nThen a young man in uniform approached us skillfully balanced two metallic trays on his palms. He placed the trays on our table without spilling a drop of our juice.
n“Have a nice meal, and enjoy your date.”
n“Eh? But we are not…” I wanted to say that we weren’t in a date but he already rushed to the kitchen with a salute.
n“Did he thought that we were in a date and you were treating me a lunch? Well, he’s not technically wrong about that.”
n“Please don’t call it a date, Sister.”
n“Then what do you call to a couple of opposite gender eating together in a popular restaurant?”
n“…”
n“See?”
nI can’t find a response to answer my sister’s question. From the outside, we looked like a healthy young couple on a date. It is wholesome if you ignore that we are bound by blood.
n“Call it whatever you like.” I muttered, dipping a fry on the ketchup.
n“Even though you had a fiancée, just two stories above, you are already two-timing behind her back. What an unfaithful partner you are.” she said with a sad, yet smiling face, biting a piece of fry, with eyes locked to mine.
nSophia was in our territory and living with us in the mansion since the opening of the restaurant. She is currently working at her office on the third floor as my co-founder and this restaurant’s manager.
nGiven the distance between the restaurant and the mansion, she’s having a hard time getting home and vise versa. Since she’s not a combat type and I was worried about her safety, I made her engagement ring enchanted with Wrap spell and create Wrap Points that connects her office and the mansion.
nMothers then demanded me to make them rings even though they already had the bracelet. They were persistent and insisted me until I gave in.
nI took their bracelets and bestowed it with Silver Wolf’s Racial Skill, Size Change. It’s a skill that change the size of the user while consuming mana, depends on the change of mass and duration of the skill.
nHowever, the change is permanent on nonliving materials and can resize it again at will. Moreover, the user can apply mana only once per resize.
nAfter adjusting the bracelet to ring size, they wore it on the empty ring finger symmetrical to their wedding ring and jokingly said, ‘We are now engaged to you’.
n(Aaaahhhh! What they said still lingering around my mind!)
n“What is happening to you? Already lost your sanity?” she laughed as she saw me holding my head in cringe.
nFortunately, sister wasn’t there when that happened. If she happened to see that, she would use it as another blackmail against me. But unfortunately, her sharp gaze noticed the golden rings on my mothers’ finger.
nShe asked for details and she just smiled wickedly at me. Like mothers, she ordered me to modify her bracelet. I am just a dog who’s following the orders of my owner. If I don’t follow her, she will tell Sophia about it.
n“Stop saying nonsense. Just eat your lunch already.”
nI regained my composure and bite on my regular burger with my hands. The patty was made of ordinary meat so it tasted like the ones in my past life.
nThere are premium quality burgers but it was already sold out. It was made of monster’s meat so it’s quality was undoubtedly good. 𝒆𝙣𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝙚𝙩
nI took a glimpse of my sister to see her using fork and knife as a way of consuming her burger. Everyone has their own preference of eating, I guess.
nAfter finishing our meal, it was so good that a serving wasn’t enough to satisfy our stomachs. We ordered seconds and happily ate it with heart. Of course, it was still my treat.
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