"Hey, hey, what do you think the boss's goal actually is? First Origin Mall, and now Hearthstone Tavern."
"Who knows? It's not like you don't understand the boss's personality. Maybe it's simply an interest of his?"
"Personally, I think everything the boss says is just him pulling the wool over our eyes. He definitely has some other purpose—he just won't tell us."
"Cough, cough. Stop arguing. Let me say something fair: what the boss is thinking doesn't really have much to do with us."
"Shut up."
"Oh..."
Facts proved that, more often than not, standing up to mediate meant risking getting burned by the fire yourself.
Shinkai Seiko's group marched down the road in grand fashion. They had not deliberately used magic to interfere with perception, so they drew quite a few looks along the way.
After all, no matter how one looked at them, they did not resemble ordinary citizens. Their bearing alone set them clearly apart.
Still, no one paid them much attention.
It was the time of the city celebration. Steel City received visitors from all over the world nearly every day, so most citizens had long since grown used to such sights.
Following the address Yao Ziyan had sent, the group quickly arrived at their destination.
"So this is the tavern the boss opened here?" Gu Yunxi tilted her head up at the three-story building before turning to survey the surroundings. "It's much better than Origin Mall was at the beginning. Sigh, the boss has forgotten his original aspirations."
At the end, she let out a long sigh.
As one of the earliest customers to discover Origin Mall, she clearly remembered what it had been like back then.
The shop had been cold and deserted, while the boss lay in a recliner at the entrance, rocking