December 6, 2013, 3:45 PM.
"Your mocha, please enjoy." With swift, clean movements, the girl placed the coffee from the tray in front of the rare customer in the cafe. Her expression was calm and indifferent, not an arrogant pout, but simply a lack of expression. Even so, it didn't diminish the popularity and warmth she garnered with her rare foreign hair and eye colors and exquisite features.
In the two weeks since Su Qing'an's cafe had finally officially opened, the cafe's customer traffic had significantly increased.
Most of the popularity was drawn in by Kiana, and well, the rest was Su Qing'an's doing.
A cafe with a mysterious opening time, excellent decor, and a prime location near the academy, managed by a minor boy who was both the shopkeeper and barista, and served by a silver-haired foreign girl.
The two of them had surprisingly good looks.
This was the key point, after all, in any world, most humans are shallow and judge by looks.
So, after some bored customer posted photos of the two of them and the cafe's address on Twitter, their happy days of playing games together while slacking off were shattered.
Although Su Qing'an didn't care whether the cafe was open or not, he honestly opened it to prevent Kiana from feeling guilty about eating and drinking for free every day and to give him a reason to pay her. As for whether his childhood dream of becoming a cafe owner played a leading role in this, no one knew.
Opens at 9 AM, closes at 4:30 PM, and if necessary, they might ditch a few hours and close early.
People online were already complaining about the shopkeeper's capriciousness.
Only the cafe's true regulars knew that this little bit of flakiness was considered capricious? For Su Qing'an, this was already considered sticking to the rules.
Hmm, take for example the girl sitting inside the cafe. She wore the high school uniform of Chiyou Academy. Her face, propped up by her hand, wasn't exactly beautiful, just pretty. Her hair, which cascaded to her waist, was a very light purple. At this moment, her emerald green eyes looked at the indifferent Kiana, a smile curling at the corner of her lips.
"I was surprised when I first heard the shopkeeper was looking for a waitress. Hmph, Kiana is just too good-looking no matter how you look at it. No wonder the shopkeeper made an exception to hire a waitress," the girl took a sip of her coffee, seemingly recalling something amusing, and teased, "By the way, Kiana, did you know someone online is shipping you and the shopkeeper? Having such high good looks has its own set of troubles, hahahaha. Oh, and by the way, I'm on the shopkeeper-crossdressing-as-a-girl faction."
A blush crept onto Kiana's face, her indifferent expression finally cracking. She gritted her teeth and whispered, "Satou Yunona, give it a rest. It's one thing for those silly netizens online to joke around, but why are you joining in the fun too? And what's this shopkeeper-crossdressing-as-a-girl faction anyway? If Su Qing'an hears about this, your coffee will probably be filled with sugar cubes from now on."
As one of Su Qing'an's rare regulars, Satou Yunona's coffee preference was clearly different from that of an ordinary high school girl. After all, this was a peculiar cafe that even used pure coffee beans instead of the more popular and cheaper chocolate syrup for its regular mochas. Coupled with its capricious opening hours, only a select few would frequent it.
And Satou Yunona really disliked overly sweet coffee. As expected, after hearing Kiana's words, the girl put on a bored expression: "Kiana, you really can't take a joke. Speaking of which, aren't you even a little interested in the shopkeeper-crossdressing-as-a-girl faction?" In a flash, Satou Yunona's expression became enthusiastic again.
"Com... completely not interested! Let's just forget about those weird fetishes!" For some reason, there was a hint of hesitation and wavering in Kiana's words.
But Satou Yunona, who didn't notice, showed a look of regret upon hearing this, like a missionary whose sermon had failed.
"Alright. By the way, the shopkeeper said you're transferring to Chiyou Academy tomorrow, right? Oh, I'm a little excited. If you're also in the first year, I hope you transfer to my class. Then we can go to and from school together." Satou Yunona, whose mood and thoughts changed extremely quickly, was undoubtedly a very normal girl of her age. At this moment, she seemed to be lost in the fantasy of having an extra friend in her class, her mood bright.
"Satou Yunona... what class are you in?" For some reason, Kiana had a bad premonition.
"Class one. So, what do you think, are you transferring to Class one?!" Satou Yunona looked at Kiana with great anticipation.
"Tsk." Was her intuition correct after all? Kiana let out an extremely faint sound of disdain.
"Did you just go 'tsk'? Kiana, that's so mean!" Satou Yunona's hearing was surprisingly good.
"No, that's your imagination. And yes, I am transferring to Class one."
With a cold, perfunctory, expressionless response, Kiana shifted the girl's attention by stating the fact. Looking at the smiling Satou Yunona, Kiana felt that her future school life would not be peaceful.
Although Satou Yunona was an honest and naive normal high school girl, her occasional mischievous side also made Kiana a little overwhelmed.
"Okay. You enjoy your coffee slowly. I have to go to work." Seeing a new customer at the door, Kiana turned and left with the tray.
"Mhm! Good luck, Kiana." Satou Yunona, in a good mood, didn't mind her coldness.
Well, perhaps in Satou Yunona's eyes, that coldness also added to her beautiful face.
Even though she, who could be called a beauty with a little makeup, couldn't resist Kiana's looks, especially with the exotic and silver-haired elements. She could already imagine the lively scene tomorrow in class, with Kiana being surrounded by a crowd.
In a sense, girls sometimes liked looking at beautiful girls even more than men did.
This was even more true in the world of Honkai Impact 3rd.
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