บท 29: Chapter 29: “Date”
Five months had passed since my sister's birthday and my negotiations, and I just turned fourteen years old. I also got engaged to Sophia along the process. I already told her about what will happen in the future.
I told her that I will be living for eternity alongside my mothers and sister. I let her know that I would be having the ability to give Longevity skill in the future, and she agreed to live with us.
Four months ago, our first store was completed. It is erected within the commercial district, facing the main road.
The construction was finished in only three weeks. It took almost a week for planning and resource gathering, two weeks for construction, and a few days for interior design and advertising.
The construction speed in this world is way faster than in my former one. The essence of magic makes almost everything possible.
You just have to hire some earth mages and alchemists along with the construction workers, and Poof! You can have a business establishment within a few weeks.
I 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.
"Welcome to Purple Queen! May I have your order?"
A smiling young woman greeted me when it was my turn to make an order at the counter. I look up at the menu above the counter and choose a set.
"Two sets of regular burgers and fries, please. And fruit juice as refreshment. Dine in."
"That would be 300 Fenn in total or three bronze coins, sir." I grabbed three coins from my pocket and paid the cashier the right amount.
"Please wait for your order to come and enjoy your meal, sir." I approach the table beside the glass window, where my companion is waiting for me.
The currency of this world is called Fenn. The type of payment here was done with coins. There are five types of coins used in this world.
Starting 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 values are multiplied by ten as the coin ranks increase.
So 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.
"You made me wait." said my blonde companion, with her blue eyes contracting mine.
"Sorry. The line is long." I apologized as I took a seat.
This long-haired blonde girl whom I am facing right now is my sister Louise. We are currently dining at the fast-food restaurant that we just built.
Using the Parallel Profile, I changed my name to Raffy and my hair color to hazel brown and my eye color to green.
I also changed my face using Level 2 Illusion Magic: Partial Transformation to look like an average city boy.
As 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 the daughter of Mom.
We used the Unique Skill Limiter that we inherited from Mother. We suppressed our power until we degraded ourselves to 10% of our current level. Even if veteran adventurers saw us, their eyes would assess us as newbie adventurers.
We 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 into the restaurant casually.
Not just the customers, but also the employees of the restaurant would panic and might lose concentration on their work. Being observed by the boss causes anxiety.
I look around to see people occupying most of the tables, eating their ordered meals. There are parasol-shaded chairs and tables outside, but it is also crowded.
The chiming of the bell of an opening door and the clanking noise of colliding silver and plates resonate throughout the building. There are some who are chatting with their companion(s).
"This restaurant really is popular. I heard from Mother that some neighboring countries requested we open branches in their realm. Uncle already built a branch in the Imperial Capital, selling like hot cakes."
"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 for this store only; how about having another?"
"You take a point. The products are good, easy to prepare, and, best 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.
The establishment was wide and had three floors. The first two floors were used for dining. A quarter of each floor was the kitchen, while the rest was for the customers to use. The third floor was the office and a space for taking receptions.
Even with two floors and the space outside, it is still not enough to serve all of our customers.
"Looks like our lunch is here."
Then a young man in uniform approached us and skillfully balanced two metallic trays on his palms. He placed the trays on our table without spilling a drop of our juice.
"Have a nice meal, and enjoy your date."
"Eh? But we are not…" I wanted to say that we weren't on a date, but he had already rushed to the kitchen with a salute.
"Did he think that we were on a date and you were treating me to lunch? Well, he's not technically wrong about that."
"Please don't call it a date, Sister."
"Then what do you call a couple of opposite genders eating together in a popular restaurant?"
"…"
"See?"
I 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.
"Call it whatever you like." I muttered, dipping a fry in the ketchup.
"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.
Sophia was in our territory and had been 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.
Given the distance between the restaurant and the mansion, she's having a hard time getting home, and vice versa. Since she's not a combat type and I was worried about her safety, I made her engagement ring enchanted with the Warp spell and created Warp Points that connected her office and the mansion.
Mothers then demanded that I make them rings, even though they already had the bracelet. They were persistent and insisted until I gave in.
I took their bracelets and bestowed them with Silver Wolf's Racial Skill, Size Change. It's a skill that changes the size of the user while consuming mana, depending on the change in mass and duration of the skill.
However, the change is permanent on nonliving materials, and you can resize it again at will. Moreover, the user can apply mana only once per resize.
After adjusting the bracelet to their ring size, they wore it on the empty ring finger symmetrical to their wedding ring and jokingly said, 'We are now engaged to you'.
(Aaaahhhh! What they said is still lingering in my mind! But I don't mind marrying them, though. If we're allowed.)
"What is happening to you? Have you already lost your sanity?" She laughed as she saw me holding my head in cringe.
Fortunately, my sister wasn't there when that happened. If she happened to see that, she would use it as another form of blackmail against me. But unfortunately, her sharp gaze noticed the golden rings on my mothers' finger.
She asked for details, and she just smiled wickedly at me. Like mothers everywhere, she ordered me to modify her bracelet. I am just a dog who is following the orders of my owner. If I don't follow her, she will tell Sophia about it.
"Stop saying nonsense. Just eat your lunch already."
I regained my composure and bit into my regular burger with my hands. The patty was made of ordinary meat, so it tasted like the ones in my past life.
There are premium quality burgers, but they are already sold out. It was made of a monster's meat, so its quality was undoubtedly good.
I caught a glimpse of my sister using a fork and knife to consume her burger. Everyone has their own preferences for eating, I guess.
After 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 hearts. Of course, it was still my treat.
ของขวัญ
-- ได้รับของขวัญแล้ว สถานะพลังงานรายสัปดาห์
-- การจัดอันดับด้วยพลัง 
-- หินพลัง