"Umm. Um. I'm sorry." I replied while stammering with my face blushed in shades of pink.
He laughed in response. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. It just seemed weird someone like you got off at that stop."
Huh? When my face scrunched up in confusion, he added, "The dirty maid uniform stands out in this district."
Ohhh. Why didn't I think of changing out of those clothes? Stupid Rika!
"It's like you sneaked out of your house to get away from someone."
"Wait. You could tell?" I almost yelled out loud.
Somehow I was saying almost all the things inside my head out loud. I was sure I would never say these things on my own. Could it be?
"Could it be I was reading your mind?" He smirked as he placed some of his gold strands of hair away from his forehead.
"How?" I whispered.
Was he even a human being? At this rate, with the strangeness of the first district with the mana and all that I wasn't sure if I could tell.
"I'm not."
Ok... Now I was sure he was reading my mind.
"If you're not a human being, then what are you?" I interrogated him.
"A spirit, a elf, a fairy? Choose from one of the three. That's what other people named me in the past centuries, and frankly I don't care what I'm called." He shrugged.
When I suddenly blanked out, I found myself already at the stop and out of the bus with an unwanted headache.
Why was I here? My head flickered as I remembered. I wanted to go to a local cafe or have fun at whatever looked fun.
And somehow, coincidentally, I found myself in front of a cafe. How did I walk to here from the bus stop?
Since I was here anyways, I just went in to find myself in a comfy cafe with warm wooden chairs and tables.
I sat in one of the chairs while seeing the cafe was completely empty just like the bus. "Can I get your order?" A familiar smirk accompanied with his golden strands asked.
"Wait. It's you? What are you doing here?" I kept on asking.
"Taking your order. By the way, here's the menu." His large pale hands gave me a fragile piece of paper.
MENU
Spirit Whiskey 3 Memors
Elf c.o.c.ktail 4 Memors
Fairy Shot 2 Memors
Water 10 Memors
What was Memors? The first district currency was Aris. From looking at the menu, water seemed like the safest choice.
"A gla.s.s of water please?"
"Sure. Coming right up." He grinned in response.
When he came with a gla.s.s of water, I confessed, " I don't have any Memors with me. I have Aris instead but-"
"I know you don't have any Memors. But, first order is on me." His eyes strangely glowed golden yellow and I accepted the gla.s.s of water when I would usually ask more questions before accepting.
"How do I get more Memors?" I asked not wanting to have no money with me where Aris didn't count as payment while taking a sip of the water.
I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. Before the cafe was empty except for me and the strange waiter. Now, the cafe was bustling with people with elf ears and golden hair and eyes.
"Welcome to the spirit currency centre! I was wondering when you would finally figure out." The waiter winked.
Huh? My thoughts were getting more and more disjointed ever since the mystifying bus ride.
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The waiter placed several Memors in front of me. The Memors looked similar to j.a.panese Yen coins except each one had a different colour.
"Since we are in the light spirit realm, each Light Memor will be exchanged for 100 Aris. However, the Green, Red, Blue,Yellow, Purple and Orange Memors will be exchanged for 500 Aris."
Should I be glad that Luke was from a rich family? He never suffered from money and always put spare money in both of our bank accounts accessed from our marbles for 'just in case' purposes.
When I looked into my bank account, I saw the familiar 100,000,000 Aris. I would never need 100,000,000 Aris to spend in the future, so I concluded it would be most helpful to leave about 1000 Aris in my account and convert the rest into Memors.
"17,000 Green, Red, Blue,Yellow, Purple and Orange Memors each and 480,000 Light Memors please."