Chapter 2

“You..” said the old man as he kept staring into Yasashiro’s eyes.

“M-Me?” Replied Yasashiro in a tense manner. Sanyu was still under control of the old man, she just sat there and watched. However, Yasashiro could feel Sanyu’s internal rage that grew second by second.

“Yes you” repeated the old man.

“W-What’s with me?” Yasashiro started to become concerned.

“If we were in the real world it would be weird to see a young hop like you in accompany with a stunning beauty like her” said the old man in a charming manner.

“T-That’s n-not the point of this conver-” Before Yasashiro could finish his sentence Sanyu stood up and slammed her hands on the table and Yasashiro scared back. The old man said “Sit down” but Sanyu only held her hands on her head for a short second like if she had a headache and then jumped over the table and pinned the old man down to the ground. The other guest was looking and the Barista immediately came to calm the situation.

“How dare you to make my best friend uncomfortable?!?” yelled Sanyu in the old man's face. The Barista tried to get Sanyu off from the old man but that didn’t work until Yasashiro begged Sanyu to let go of the old man.

“But if I’ll let go of him he will again try to control any of us!” She replied in panic.

Yasashiro bowed down and said “Please excuse me for her temper, we are willing to talk to you in a normal conversation” in a really polite and calm manner.

“B-But…”

“Please Sanyu..” He just looked at her.

She hesitated a moment. “F-Fine” she said and let go of the old man and sat back down next to Yasashiro and pouted.

The Barista helped the old man to get back up and he too sat back down on his chair and rests his head on his hands. After helping, the Barista bowed down and apologized and went back behind the counter serving the other guest who too, turned around.

“Now where you found a way to withstand my ability I have no use for it anymore” said the old man to indicate Sanyu to calm down.

“Who are you anyways?” she asked out of pure curiosity. “You just came to us and started to pester us. So I think some explanation would be needed!” she demanded.

“I think you’re right, a gentleman would have introduced himself in the first moment”

“It’s also not really gentleman like to order a-” short hesitation “... to order a girl to sit down and shut..” she whispered

“You’re probably right… Anyways! My name is Belmond! And this is the only thing I’ll tell you about me” he presented.

“And why did you come to us to begin with?” Sanyu kept asking.

“Okay okay. Straight to the real business I see” Sanyu nods. “Well... You have to know that the game claims how everything is random using a Random Number Generator, right” Sanyu nods again.

“I am trying to figure out the exact system, and based on my observations I can confidently say that it’s more likely to receive a medium age as well as height. It’s pretty much the same as with the abilities. The more you are approaching the limit, the rarer it gets. Therefore being young and small here is really rare as well. What made me interested now is the question that if you got “lucky” with your age and height, if the same counts for the ability. Let alone the fact that he isn’t 100% human which is something I haven’t heard of in this game and seems to be another insanely rare “mutation”” Belmond kind of whispered that so the others in the cafe currently couldn’t hear this as if this was some secret operation.

“So you want to use him as your guinea pig???” asked Sanyu indignantly.

“I wouldn’t describe it as that, but I would grant you something valuable in exchange” Belmond said even more quiet.

“And what??” Sanyu seemed to be impatient about Belmond

“Information. The most valuable good” Belmond said convincing.

Yasashiro wanted to say something, but Sanyu interrupted him.

“What are we? The underground or something? Come on Shiro, we go” Sanyu took Yasashiro’s wrist and to dragged him. She paid for the drinks and then headed outside the cafe together with Yasashiro at his wrist. Once outside Sanyu still didn’t let go of Yasashiro and headed around multiple corners with him to make sure Belmond didn’t follow them.

“H-Hey, what’s into you all of a sudden?” Yasashiro asked.

“I must protect you” said Sanyu in a very serious manner.

They soon stopped, and Sanyu felt to be secure. They arrived a main street with many people and shops around. They navigated through the crowd to be sure to remain undetected just in case. However they drew a lot of attention to themselves due to Yasashiro’s outstanding cat ears, so they decided to go into a smaller side street first to gather thoughts. Especially Sanyu seemed to be quite exhausted after all of this.

Sanyu: “Phew… what a wierdo..”

Yasashiro: “Well, they seem to be everywhere, but more importantly what went into you again??”

S: “We already got information that we could might use, and if we would have stayed there for a little longer, he might would have been able to get us to talk too”

Y: “So you kind of betrayed him by a few informations??”

S: “Well.. Kind of. Also, I didn’t feel well in his presence, and you didn’t too!”

Y: “I knoooow, but he seemed to be serious about it”

S: “I’m serious about it too when I say I’ll protect you”

Y: “T-Thank you.. But I think it will get even more difficult now since we know how rare my “mutation” is”

S: “At least we do know now what we should be aware of”

Y: “A-And how are we going to solve this problem?”

S: “We will hide them!”

Y: “Eh?”

S: “We have to look out for a store where we can buy hats, there we can hide your cat ears, also we should figure out something for your tail..”

Y: “I’ll completely entrust this to you then I guess..”

S: “Thank you for counting on me! I will do my best!”

Y: “Mhm.. Also, did you just call me Shiro in the cafe??”

S: “Ehehe.. Yes, but you have to admit t-that is kind of cute..”Y: “Eeehh?!? B-But only kind of, hmpf-”

S: “Hihi”

Both blushed after the end of this conversation and started heading towards a cloth store without drawing too much attention. Meanwhile Belmond was still in the cafe and talked to himself in anger:

“Ohoho.. You think I give up that easily?... You’ll see.... And then you will wish you never played this game once you realized what is happening… This is definitely not over yet…”

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