Back To the Beginning
Southern Area Restaurant

Sure enough we all guessed, shortly after the speckles of rain began to fall and increased rapidly time after time. There was no other choice, it was the only place... We finally decided to take shelter at the place to eat.

Chloe who was silent just now started walking along as we walked towards the restaurant. Is he okay? Is he gonna faint? Hoping for the best, I walked towards the open wooden door and went inside.

This restaurant has the feel of a European style restaurant as usual. A long table that separates customers and workers with a variety of drinks displayed on a large shelf behind it, a customer-only dining table is round in shape with wooden chairs surrounding it. Some of the customers here were chatting coolly and there were one or two drunk people at the long table.

"Hey, witches. Where is this?" A soft voice emerged from my side, and felt several times my arm in a slow pull. It's from Chloe.

"Chloe's? you're already conscious? how are you doing?.. and witches?" ask Noland who realized Chloe first.

Not yet able to answer the two of them, a loud voice appeared from in front of us.

"Hey buddy! hurry in! you guys covered that door!" said the man who looks like the owner of this restaurant.

"Ah Yes! Sorry-sorry," I apologized. "Come, Noland, Chloe. I explain everything later," I continued whispering to my side.

You can be sure, Chloe, the one I'm holding hands on is the real Chloe. Fortunately, this time there were no bad effects.

We went deeper to find an empty table for us to sit on, the location had to be a little away from adult affairs and had a good view of the window.

Looking around for a while, we found the perfect place to talk and certainly without being disturbed by the loudness of adult laughter. From this table we can see the view of the streets that are showered with rain water, street lights that emit bright light, and ornamental flowers that look fresh when exposed to rain water.

I let Chloe take a window seat with me next to her and Noland in front of her, our position circling the table.

I put my coat slightly wet from the rainwater on the back of the chair and then sat in my casual dress. Eve when the rain is very cool and a little cold, accompanied by the sound of stubs rain resting here is so comfortable.

I see Chloe, she's the one who seems to be waiting for an explanation from me. Not wanting to make him wait for long I explained it to him straight away.

"So Chloe, you were acting weird like that... When we want to find a shady place, you suddenly just shut up and point in the direction of this restaurant."

"Again...?" chloe said she couldn't believe it.

"Did you remember anything back then?" ask Noland who wants to join the conversation.

"No, Chloe doesn't remember that moment, which Chloe remembers when you were talking about the gun store," Chloe explained with a shake of her head earlier.

"Hm.. don't remember yes..."

"But, thankfully you didn't faint like before, Chloe," Noland said, thanking the positives.

Chloe replied with a timid nod of her head and changed her gaze towards the outside of the window, looking at the scene.

At that moment appeared someone from my side and immediately spoke confidently.

"Good afternoon gentlemen! thank you in advance for choosing our restaurant as your resting place! If I may ask, what order can I present?" said a girl in the clothes of a restaurant waiter, she said as if those words were already outside her head.

If I look around, so far I have only seen 2 people as servants here, one of them is a young man and also this girl. From the looks of it, this girl is a few years older than me.

"Yes.we actually just came to this city, so we are still not familiar with the food here. If I may, can we get a list of the menus?" Noland.

"Sure! wait a minute, sir," said the girl hurriedly taking the menu.

Moments later, he returned with some menu items in his hand and placed them on our table. Without thinking, we opened it and looked at the menus provided.

The menu here is quite complete and as for the menu that is relied upon in this city. Maybe because of our look, hard drinks and the like are not shown here. Although my age and Noland can work, but still in the social life of our age is still not allowed for such things. After all, where would anyone be interested in buying liquor? there isn't, is there?

I have chosen my choice, a menu that seems delicious when eaten in this rain.

"How's Chloe? have you decided?" asked Noland to Chloe who seemed to have been flipping through the menu paper.

"Just pick what you think is good, Chloe," I suggested.

Chloe nodded and pointed to her choice.

......................

Satisfied with eating at this restaurant, I was amazed by the other customers who were here who did not leave this restaurant, even though the rain had stopped out there. It was as if this restaurant had already become their headquarters.

I saw Noland and Chloe who also seemed to be enjoying their meal. And when you look out the window, it's dark out there. Even though it is night, street lights and views around the road will still accompany. Maybe this is the advantage of this kingdom.

"Sorry to cut off your excitement, but we should just go and get some lodging to sleep tonight."

"But, Arthur. What about this restaurant? why is Chloe pointing this way?" ask Noland.

Noland immediately asked the main problem. Even though my mind was desperate to rest my body on a soft bed, I tried to twist my brain.

"Basically, we still do not know whether the path we are going through at this time is correct or not. Following the premonition is like playing gambling, the possibilities are unclear... it could even be smaller than 50 percent. But if we're going to insist on looking for him in this restaurant, we should at least be in close contact with the owner of this restaurant" I explained to Noland and Chloe.

It is true, our path is still gray, is this path true or not? if the severity is not, it is tantamount to wasting time on obscure things...

"Thank you for your visit! payment is paid off! Gentlemen can leave and I will take care of the rest" said the same girl who allowed us to leave with a peaceful heart.

The only thing to be sure of is...

DIRECTLY ASK!

"Did?!" the girl was confused. "Ep... What's the master talking about?" continue the girl.

Ughhhh! I speak without thinking! that's so messy! shit, how's this? that's so embarrassing!

"Eh, em.. anu, that's.." I said out of control.

"Hehe, that means the treasure is a salary" said Noland who saw my shameful behavior.

"As we said before, we just arrived in this city with the aim of working. So we want to work here. It seems like he likes this restaurant," Noland continued, helping me get my sentence back on track.

"ah! that. I understand... Sorry, but I didn't mean to refuse. As you can see here our customer is not very crowded and the person is just that, so we do not seem to need additional energy... and also we doubt that we can pay your services properly," said the girl explained the condition of this restaurant.

"Hm. I see, what a pity. It's okay, thanks for the response" Noland said, thanking him with a smile.

"It turns out that witches suck at communicating, huh?" there was a soft whisper from Chloe beside me. "Witch-liar-dad! it's 3P!" chloe said with a small laugh.

Could I have been teased by Chloe, and my nickname increased by three?!

Shamefully I walked out of the restaurant with Noland and Chloe following behind.

......................

The conditions outside are very humid, I've been very anxious to drop myself on a soft mattress and forget about what happened.

The distinctive smell of soil after the rain is still clearly smelled, this makes this night so calm with some people passing by on the streets.

I looked around to adapt back and look for another hope.

"Noland, you brought what I asked you this morning right?"

"What was this morning? which was? that's a lot, Arthur."

"Perfume."

"Yes, I brought it. Why?"

"Take it and get ready..."

Noland followed what I told him gladly, because he seemed to trust me so much.

"Already, Arthur... What will continue to do? do you have any weird ideas?"

"Freak idea?" chloe was confused.

"Yes, Chloe. Arthur, sometimes just suddenly has a weird idea in his head. I'm also amazed."

"Noland, please use that perfume according to my words."

"Hm! okay Arthur."

I turned my body towards Noland behind me, and started counting.

"Three, two, one, now" I whispered quietly.

Noland did it at the right time and perfectly as I imagined. Now just wait for the results.

"Hmm? So, what's going on?" ask Noland to be confused.

"Nothing! let's walk!" I said happily.

"Heh?! is that right?" noland said in disbelief.

We continued walking in a direction and Noland still could not believe what I was doing, trying to talk casually I responded with a laugh until I arrived at a moment.

"Zero, Chloe. Let's go down this road, I see on the map across this street there's a nice inn for where we're resting tonight," my words invite them to enter into a road that is relatively quieter than the usual road.

It seemed hesitant at first, but in the end we decided to go down that road and couldn't wait to arrive at the inn I promised.

Hoping with such a small possibility, to the point of giving myself goosebumps!

We walked down the street confidently until one day we stopped because...

"Hey son, can we talk to you for a second?" There was the sound of a man coming from behind us, running towards us.

A fish has eaten bait.

A soft mattress may have to wait a little longer.