"It really is still here..."
Unable to sort through the feelings in her heart, Larkspur murmured softly and stopped before the sign.
"This is the place?"
Beside her, Xia Liang raised her head and looked toward the second floor of the small building, but she could not see anything. She could only lower her head again. "Why is a café on the second floor?"
"Probably because of the rent."
Larkspur briefly voiced her guess, leading Xia Liang some distance into the first floor before stepping onto the stairs. "Anyway, let's go up and take a look first."
Xia Liang said nothing more. She merely looked around with curiosity as she climbed the stairs alongside Larkspur.
Following the stairs to the second floor, the two of them could smell a faint coffee aroma as soon as they reached the landing. Looking ahead, they saw an open door.
Yet at this point, Larkspur instead felt something like the timidity of returning home.
If the information was correct, then the café before them should be the one the old Fangting City Squad had frequented. But how much did it still resemble the one in her memories?
She had not even known that it had changed addresses and moved once. In that sense, the café in her memories no longer existed.
"What's wrong?" Xia Liang asked curiously when she noticed Larkspur's dazed expression.
"...No, it's nothing." Snapping out of her thoughts, Larkspur gently shook her head. "I'm just feeling sentimental."
No longer dwelling on it, she led Xia Liang into the café.
Before them was a long bar counter, with all manner of coffee-brewing equipment arranged behind it. As Larkspur approached the counter, she saw an elderly man busy at work behind it.
He looked to be in his sixties. His hair was somewhat