"Hello, Mr. Meikadu. Here is your driving license. Please check it and keep it safe."
After accepting the beautifully made, clearly high-quality driving license from the Xinfei Merchant Guild's pretty receptionist, Meikadu glanced at his name and portrait on it, pumped his fist excitedly, and turned to run out of the office lobby of the guild's dedicated Magic Locomotive Driving Center.
He had barely run through the doors when someone approached from the opposite direction. Unable to dodge in time, Meikadu ran straight into them.
Fortunately, Meikadu reacted quickly enough to twist desperately aside, but his shoulder still slammed hard into the other person.
Thud!
With that dull impact, Meikadu realized that the person he had hit seemed very light. He merely swayed, while she staggered several steps backward and landed on her backside, letting out a pained whimper.
Hearing that sweet, feminine cry of pain, Meikadu immediately panicked.
It was a girl!
Meikadu hurriedly crouched down and extended his hand to the young woman on the ground, his face full of embarrassment. "Sorry, sorry! I... I wasn't watching where I was going. I'm so sorry..."
The young woman knitted her delicate brows and looked up at Meikadu. Their eyes met, and both froze.
"It's you?"
"It's you!"
This girl was none other than the receptionist who had attended to Meikadu when he last visited Falling Rain Valley to buy a Magic Locomotive, only to refuse his requests to take the driving license test and purchase one.
Recognizing her made Meikadu even more embarrassed.
Last time, he had arrived with high hopes, only to be turned down. In his humiliation and anger, he had snapped at her quite rudely. If President Xu of the Xinfei Merchant Guild had not come out to smooth things over, he probably would have caused