The Power Enthusiast

MINERVO 97: Shopkeeper

"How dare you precede me! Goddamn bum!" Paul yelled at Abbas and Isabella after he reached the open hall on the ground floor. Here the atmosphere was quite crowded, many visitors were passing by in the middle of the hall, even so, they were not noisy, very calm and orderly, only the sound of footsteps knocking on the floor. "At first, there's no need to wait for me this early! I never said we were leaving at half-six in the morning! Because I usually leave at seven or eight! And you're embarrassing me! I feel like a late person here! Goddamn bum!"

Isabella and Abbas - who were sitting on the iron chair provided by the wall of the hall - turned their gaze to the newly arrived Paul, and strangely, strangely, the man even scolded them as if they had both done the wrong thing. As a result, Isabella shook her head while responding to Paul's words in a seductive tone.

"Geez, you're there, aren't you?" Isabella smiled her thin smile with astonished impression. "When we tried to get up early, because we had been chosen to accompany you to Barasta City, and of course we struggled with our might to get up earlier than usual so as not to disappoint you. But what is this? You even scolded us so fiercely? We should have gotten compliments for being able to come earlier than you," Isabella clicked her tongue with a flat look. "If you're still like that" Isabella licked her lips lustfully. "I'm going to bite that stick hanging from your crotch, until there's nothing left."

Paul gasped at it, imagining his vitals being bitten by Isabella breaking, breaking, breaking, and bleeding. Paul quickly shook his head quickly, for the terrifying imagination to vanish from his head. He immediately turned to Abbas's face, to hear the response he might be given. But unfortunately, Abbas was silent and silent, with a 'normal' face on Paul. As a result, Paul again voiced to reply to Isabella's words.

"All right! I'm sorry!" paul said bluntly apologizing to them, making the two students surprised, especially Isabella who never thought people as rude as Paul could apologize directly to others. "I'm just thankful that you guys have been willing to accompany me to visit Barasta City!" Paul looked at Isabella and Abbas, taking turns. "Now! Let's go!"

Paul immediately guided Abbas and Isabella out of the hotel area. When he arrived at the hotel terrace, Paul exclaimed to the two of them, "Before that, we must have breakfast first! I know you guys haven't had time for breakfast, right!? Then from that! Let's stop by Colin's shop!"

"Ah, breakfast, huh?" Isabella smiled faintly. "Then let's go there, all of you, too" Isabella giggled. "I want to meet a guy named Colin." Isabella has a curious face. "About what, huh? She it?"

"More or less! Colin's a loser! A coward! Useless! And noise!" paul replied firmly, describing Colin's personality to Isabella-albeit only her vices.

Isabella nods her head and says, "Hmmm, so, huh?" Isabella turned to Abbas. "What do you think, Abbas?" isabella said asking for a response from the burly man standing beside her. "Is that Colin really such a loser, a coward, a dud, and a noise, in your eyes? Hm?"

Hearing the question, Abbas immediately shook his head saying, "No," Abbas put on a calm face. "Colin is not so in my eyes" Abbas began to smile thinly at Isabella. "In my eyes, Colin is a very good figure."

"He thinks everyone is good!" sergeant Paul, making Isabella and Abbas look at him. "Don't ask this guy for his opinion! He could not see the ugliness of others! That was what made him unable to be honest in judging someone!"

"But" Isabella gave a mocking smile to Paul. "You're the same, right?" Paul was surprised to hear that. "Geez, there's just one, huh?" Isabella shook her head, as if what Paul was saying made no sense. "You easily think Abbas' judgment is not good, because he sees only the good of others. And on the same side, you are not much different from Abbas. You can only see the ugly side of others. I'm right, aren't I? Paul?"

"Huhh, it's useless, huh? Speaking to you," Isabella immediately stepped her feet ahead of Paul and Abbas who were still standing in silence. "I've contacted my pilot, and soon my personal helicopter will arrive. So, quickly take us to Colin's store, Paul. Only you know where it is, right?" Isabella smiled mischievously. "Honestly, all I know in this city is just the location of************men only, so give up. Don't count on me in finding the location of that shop."

Paul - with an irritated-looking face - begins to walk quickly, directing Isabella and Abbas, towards the shop where Colin works, and then, for a quick breakfast there - which happens to be located not too far from the hotel building they occupy.

"Is this the shop?" Isabella furrowed her eyebrows after Paul stopped in front of a small, fairly modest tavern.

"Yes! It's keda!" paul answered firmly. "Let's go in! My stomach is rumbling!"

Paul immediately pushed the door of the shop, causing a ringing bell that hung on the roof of the door. Isabella and Abbas followed Paul from behind, and finally sat down at the table the mentor had chosen. Paul looked up, inhaling the scent of the shop he had not visited for a long time. The last time he visited this tavern was during his first adventure in search of a hero, who had earned Colin the first hero here.

The atmosphere of the store is quite crowded and noisy, a lot of customers are laughing with their colleagues at every table in this room. The customers are not only adults, there are small children, teenagers, even the elderly. All were seen enjoying the food and drinks presented at their respective desks, many servants who looked busy, pacing with trays containing food and drinks to be delivered to the ordering table.

"It's a lot, huh?" Isabella looked around every corner in the store room, smiling at her thin smile wrapped in red lipstick. Then, Isabella turned her head back to look at the faces of the two men sitting at the same table as her. "So, what are you gonna order?" Isabella picked up a piece of paper that was rolled up on the table containing a menu list. "If I were, anyway. Hmmmm. It looks good, I'll order this. And the drink, I choose this." After pointing at what she wanted to devour, on the menu paper, Isabella immediately called out to the waiter who was pacing back and forth. As a result, the waiter who was a blue-haired man came to the table that Isabella occupied.

"Can I help you?" said the blue-haired maid, who was none other than her, was Colin.

Isabella, with a seductive look, shows her selected orders to Colin. Then, as Colin's face turned on the faces of the two men sitting across from Isabella, he was shocked.

"Paul!? Abbas!?" Colin flinched, even to the point of breaking the table. "What are you doing here!?"