magician in town

Chapter 77 The Corner Cafe

Chapter 76

At 05:30 in the morning, the city is sleepy.

The coffee shop on the corner had just opened, and a man put away his umbrella in front of the shop, punctual as every day.He looked about 37 or [-] years old, and compared with the little girls in the store, he seemed a bit too old.Still, he's charming, his hair is always slightly tousled, and he has deep, soft eyes with fine lines around them when he smiles, but that only emphasizes his It's just the charm of my uncle.As long as he walked into the coffee shop, there would always be two girls giggling for him.

Today he was wearing a casual suit with a very high-quality shirt underneath, and he carried a black briefcase in one hand and a long-handled umbrella in the other.He walked on the rainy and snowy road, but his leather shoes were not stained with any muddy water.A coffee shop girl ran over to take the umbrella in his hand and helped him put it on the umbrella stand in front of the shop.

He thanked him again and again, and walked to the cashier, the girl behind laughed nervously, and was excited that he could remember what he ate every morning, so that she could say that sentence to make the two of them very close that sentence. "Latte, scrambled eggs, biscotti, or the same?"

He smiled gently, and there was a faint hint of flattery that belonged to a boy in his eyes, but the scale was very well grasped.In order to be able to take care of him for a little bit, the girls are happy enough to spend two hours until the end of the first shift.

The man habitually sat down on the train seat near the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the food was quickly delivered by the girl in the coffee shop herself. He took out a book he was reading recently and put it on the table.This is a best-selling book written by an Israeli historian with a great sense of humor. He picked up his coffee and unconsciously stroked the line on the cover with his finger, "A Brief History of Humanity——From Animals to God" ".

He tapped his finger lightly on the line, and if the boy who recommended him the book was still here, what would he say?He opened the pages of the book, drank coffee slowly, and observed the coffee shop amidst the aroma of coffee.Usually at 05:30, he is usually the first guest here, and by the time he finishes eating, there will only be two or three guests at most, and they are all human.

But today, on the opposite side of the counter, there is already a mage sitting at the small table.It was a young man with an expressionless face and dark eyes.His body has a different posture, and he is also cautious when picking up the mug, which is the characteristic after using enhanced magic.For a while, he was still uncertain about how strong he was now, and he would be extra careful when touching fragile things.

He might be a registered executive mage, or even a battle mage.

At the other end of the coffee shop, with the counter as the dividing line, there is a small table area, and there are three people sitting there, all of whom look like humans.A man on a business trip opened his laptop, but he was empty, and he didn't know what kind of blow he encountered.Sitting at the small table by the window were two strolling aunts who had found the wrong place to rest. They ordered two cups of coffee that they couldn't drink, and began to compare with their promising sons. They became more and more involved in the show, and their voices became louder.

The man withdrew his gaze and returned his attention to the book.He knew that someone around him had been following him for the past few days. Some people might think that he would be attacked too, or some people might think that he was a criminal.He drank half a cup of coffee without touching the food.

At this moment, the door of the coffee shop was pulled open again, and the icy rain was swept in by the strong wind, which wet the ground from the door to the counter.Someone came to the coffee shop so early again?The man raised his head involuntarily, as if something was destined to happen today, everything was abnormal.

A very skinny girl came in, holding the door with both hands and struggling against the wind and rain, closing the door with all her strength and turning her head.The man saw her pale complexion, her whole body was as gloomy as the weather outside, and the negative charges were crackling around her.

Her eyes flicked across the man's face, and she didn't notice what the man looked like or whether he was attractive.Those things had nothing to do with her, and her mind was all occupied by anxiety and worry.What happened to Roach?She guessed grumpily that he must be dead, and that was why the two hundred and fifty refused to tell her anything.It's all because she's not a mage, if she wasn't born a human but a mage, she'd shit those [-]'s, including Roach!

In the train seat where she didn't see the window, a coffee cup in a man's hand was knocked down on the table, and the coffee flowed down from the wooden tabletop and dripped onto the opposite leather seat.

She was full of anger, melancholy, and anxiety. She looked at the counter for a while without any appetite.But she still bought a bear claw bread, a vanilla latte, she is now depressed, there is a 250% reason to eat sugar.

She wrapped the bear paw noodles into a thick paper bag and sealed it. Holding the paper coffee cup in her hand, she walked towards the door, opened the door of the coffee shop angrily, pulled the hat on her coat, and plunged into the wind and rain outside again. middle.

The man by the window stood up abruptly, and the mage sitting in the center of the coffee shop suddenly woke up and turned to look at him.The man hesitated for a moment before making up his mind. He rushed out of his seat, opened the door and chased into the wind and rain without even taking an umbrella.

The girl in the store chased him out and shouted several times, "Mr. Luo, your umbrella!" She couldn't stop him, and turned back resentfully, but unexpectedly collided with another man who was running out of the store.

The girl was knocked to the ground and screamed.The man couldn't help but glanced back at her, and asked her scribbled, "Are you all right?" He was about to leave after speaking.

The girl screamed and grabbed his pants, "I can't even move my legs, don't go!"

The business man who was dazed by the side came back to his senses, and rushed over to help the girl stop the man who hit her.The two chatting grandmothers were taken aback, and they both stood up. One of them, who usually had to be unreasonable, just glanced at it and shouted to call the police, and muttered, "I didn't even know I was sorry when I bumped into someone." Say, what’s wrong with young people nowadays?”

The mage wanted to go out anxiously, but he didn't know what was going on. It seemed that everyone in the coffee shop rushed out in an instant. All the customers and all the clerks surrounded him. In broad daylight, he wanted to break free. Impossible.

On the street outside the coffee shop, Lorien strode quickly through the icy rain, with the girl holding bear claw bread and coffee in front of her.He concentrated all his attention, the girl was still a human being, and her surface consciousness was all Roach - there was no possibility of misunderstanding - the face of his own son surfaced in the girl's consciousness many times .

He quickened his pace, the mage following him would always find a way to catch up, and that small obstacle couldn't hold him back for long.He wanted to catch the girl as soon as possible, but when he was two steps behind the girl, the girl stopped suddenly.

He subconsciously followed and stopped. The girl just looked around, and then turned into a shop by the side of the road.

He looked up, it was a 24-hour bookstore.This opportunity is much better than meeting her on the road, maybe the mage who followed him is coming soon.

He walked into the bookstore in a blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)