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The restaurant "Nomioka" was one of the largest and most luxurious restaurants in the city. With well-served tables, delicious dishes and delicious drinks here are the most important deals or business dinners, on which the fate of not only the person but the whole group depends. Of course, there are also ordinary business dinners here, where people in business suits discuss boring things. In the end, this restaurant was also one of the most popular in the city. The assortment of prices was so wide that it suited both rich officials and simple clerks. A unique place with a unique atmosphere.

A woman in a strict business suit enters the restaurant. In her brown hair, a red ribbon is woven, and the gold badge of the gas miners' guild on the lapel clearly showes where she works. Unger the gold badge was another badge. On the silver surface was written: "Hotaru Mori, Gas Miners Guild." Unlike the formidable the guildmistress Yukari, almost no one knows this shy woman, who was the transporting division supervisor and the main fear of ships captains. She was well known for constantly checking the product and its quantity. After she received this post, attempts at theft were stopped forever. There were people who didn't like her, but most respected her for being strict but fair. She glanced around the room and walked confidently to the already ordered table. The waiter immediately wanted to take the order, but Hotaru gave him an easy nod of the head, ordering him to wait.

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Shortly after, a strapping young man walks in, taking short glimpses around to take a gander of the area. Had he realized the extent of where he was going to, he would've thought twice about wearing his less business-like set of clothing apparel. Either way, his glimpse fell on a young woman with a rather nice business suit and with a red ribbon woven into her shining auburn hair. On her lapel bore the familiar golden badge of the Gas Miner's Guild. Unlike her however he did not possess a silver badge or other token but rather an ID of sorts clipped onto his belt. He wiped his hand down his beard in preparation for the looks he was about to get. Regardless, he walked with a confident stride to the table where she was sitting and began pulling up a chair when out of the corner of his eye he spotted something out the window. The city was nice without a doubt but it saddened Kaiichi to see sights that had not changed amongst humans in millennia. He walked over to the window and looked down to see three hooded figures seemingly innocently grouping together like a small friend group - then the one of the figures handed two items to each of the other figures. It was too dark to see what they were holding (the height of course didn't help either) but he could make a very confident guess - Cardamine. The sad drug was a common sight in this day and age. Its structure breaking up and altering complex DNA was rather scary and the fact it wasn't going away anytime soon made things worse. He let out a small sigh after the exchange and walked back to the chair and sat himself down. The young woman - which he knew as Hotaru Mori - gave him a strange look. Not surprising, considering he pulled a chair half-way out then randomly walked to the window then back again. In fact he was getting glancing looks from either sides of the restaurant as well (The casual clothing helped with that). Kaiichi felt compressed, like the air around him was closing on him. Embarrassment. He shook it off and rose his head with a small smile. A waiter came and asked to take his order. He waved him off calmly,. "Would you mind giving me some time?" The waiter nodded - annoyed - and walked off. Kaiichi noticed the waiter didn't even ask if he wanted his drink first, which was somewhat rude. Being in his father's company, he'd experienced fancy diners with their waiters and waitresses before. Never liked them, always preferred 'hole in the wall' locations. Small, not well known, but the food would always blow you away. An unfortunate trend being the servicers in fancier locations would often place more importance on how much money they made in tips rather than actually care about their customers' service. Not all were like that though and that gave him a little bit of hope that the trend would go away. He took a good stare at the menu, it was haphazard. Not in organization, but in price and quality. It left him somewhat confused, most of the places he went to specialized and the prices usually didn't go above or below a 10 - 20 credit average but these prices were all over the place. On the flip side, at least it was well-organized. It was placed in sections (it was a tri-fold menu, rather antique in idea and design). One section had prices between 15 and 5 credits - most were fried fishes, antique Asian-style dishes (General Tso's Chicken was in there, a pleasant surprise for Kaiichi) and various cheap sushi rolls and dishes involving some sort of meat with rice. Interestingly enough, there were a few burgers stashed in there as well. Another pleasant surprise. in another section were dishes ranging from 15 - 55 credits. The largets price range he saw. In this one there was grilled fish, full sushi rolls, sashimi, hotpots, lobster, and various other seafood items alongside fried meats and other entree' assortments. Finally, there was the pricey section. 250 to 2000 credits. Ludicrous prices, but it made sense. These weren't synthetic. the other food items on the menu are cut and printed from Synth Paste. After consuming just the paste several years ago the populations of the quadrants wanted more, so printers utilizing the paste in unusual and fun ways came about. Unfortunately, Synth paste has a certain aftertaste that is present in all foods made with it and is considered a low-class meal. You want to eat something that matters? the fresh, imported goods. Sure, fish pork, and cow amongst other food items still existed but with the domination of Synth Foods across the market the demand just naturally leaned to Synth paste. it's much cheaper, and it can be modified and molded to include only certain tastes and/or nutrients and vitamins. As stated before though, it has that strange unexplainable aftertaste that - by the belief of some - is very uncomfortable. The general populous just agree that is has to do with the manufacturing process and Synth Foods Inc. Clearly hasn't made any effort to remove it regardless. After looking about the menu, Kaiichi decided to spoil himself a bit and go with the General Tso's - but made with fresh, real ingredients and not Synth paste. He waited for the Waiter to return and requested it as well as a glass of sweet tea with light ice - fresh, not synthesized. The waiter again seemed annoyed wth the specific requests but it was his job anyways. He turned to Hotori and said "Alright then, so what did you go with?"

A woman in a business suit followed the movements of a man with a slight tinge of anxiety. She felt that he was really feeling in the wrong place at the wrong time. Such feelings were familiar to her, after all, she had grown from the bottom of the career ladder to such a high position at the cost of overwork. And when she was invited to the conference, where she was promoted to the rank of supervisor, she felt absolutely the same. Finally, the man approached the ordered table and began to carefully study the menu. Nothing new, many residents of Kusari maintained their conservatism about synthetic products. Hotaru usually ate them, however, after seeing that her interlocutor ordered a chicken for herself in the emperor of real products, she decided to afford expensive food too:
"I will stick with sushi with salmon stuffing"
The waiter left and appeared after a couple of minutes with two glasses of water, which he put on the table. Hearing a very obvious question, she took a sip of water and said:
"So, why did I decide to invite you to this business lunch? I already said from the beginning that your work was noticed by us, so we decided to talk to you about how you see your future career in the Guild. Quite possibly, you will become one of the supervisors or at least my assistant. What do you say about it?"
Her voice was pretty melodic and pleasant to the ear, like honey. She looked at the man not with the cool eyes of the boss, but with the warmest sight.

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance. I feel like this is an excellent opportunity for me, It would be my honor to accept your request" Kaiichi waited eagerly for his food but it was taking a while. Instead of letting the moments pass in awkward silence, Kaiichi in the spirit of ridding the setting of awkwardness was about to begin to ask questions to learn more about her. If he was lucky, he could earn some brownie points. The young woman in front of him was attractive (naturally) and it couldn't hurt to get to know her better. He stretched and leaned back, sipping on both the tea (when the waiter finally came) and some of the water. It tasted sweet. he was about to speak when the moment was abruptly disrupted by a waitress from behind Hotori slipping on some substance he did not see - successfully splashing water all over him and his associate. He sat in stunned silence unsure of what to do next. Does he try to end his suffering and pardon himself for a few minutes or bravely sit stalwart, not moving? Both failed, as when it happened he burst out laughing. Nothing wrong with having a good laugh at unfortunate events. Getting upset would just make negative emotions worse and escalate. It occurred to him then, what she was thinking? She also sat in stunned silence.

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