Kit found he couldn’t take his gaze off the extraordinary eyes, he hadn’t even noticed that he had made his new employee uncomfortable until the man dropped his lashes to cover his eyes. “Ah sorry, I didn’t mean to stare so hard. I have just never seen eyes like yours before.” As Kit said that he realised that wasn’t quite true.
He remembered that when Peaches was casting spells his eyes glowed. Was this man also a necromancer or something else? “Are you a necromancer?” If he was then Peaches would have someone to discuss his profession with.
“Yes, I will leave. Thank you for letting me work here for a short time.” The man gave a small bow and went to walk off.
Kit quickly grabbed his arm. “Why are you leaving? Do you not like working at the restaurant?” After Kit spoke, he wanted to slap himself, of course the man would be worried Kit would run him off now that he knew he was a necromancer.
“Oh, I’m not worried about you being a necromancer, my friend Peaches is also one.” Kit wanted to quickly put the man at ease about his main profession.
The man turned his glowing eyes back to Kit. “You do not mind that I’m a necromancer?”
“Not at all. I’m Kit by the way.” Kit dropped his hold on the man’s arm and held out his hand. The necromancer fit his hand into Kit’s and the two shook hands.
“My name is Red Windsor, you can call me Red though. Thank you for letting me continue to work at your restaurant.” The smile Red gave Kit was blinding.
“Red I’ll introduce you to Peaches later, I’m sure I saw his face among the crowd earlier. I’m betting you two will have a lot to talk about.” Red seemed to brighten after their talk, Kit was glad the man had decided to stay.
The group soon made their way to the dining hall. Food was being distributed to the seated people. Kit randomly sat down at a table, most of the faces were familiar. There was only two that were new, he quickly introduced himself.
One of the new employees was a young girl with freckles and red hair, her name was Jarlsberg, and she was a server. The other new face was a young man around Kit’s age, his name was Gouda, he was assigned to the takeaway section.
Kit soon forgot about talking as his tummy rumbled, he quickly pulled out some meals from his pouch and handed them around the table. Once he was finished eating, Snickers appeared beside him, “Kit let me introduce you to the new staff.”
Kit bid goodbye to the table and followed Snickers. “Who have you met already?” Kit rattled off who he already spoken to. “Ok, lets head over to this table first then.” Snickers took him to the table right next to the one he came from.
Most of this table were new faces. “Let’s make the introductions quick, I still need to discuss things with Kit. Just raise your hands introduce yourself and what area you work in. Let’s start from the left and work our way around.”
The first person to raise their hand was a slight woman with glossy light brown hair. “I’m Laruns and I work in the takeaway section.” Next was an elderly woman with white hair. “I’m Victoria and I am a chef.” After Victoria a rough looking man raised his hand, “My name be Edam and I be workin as a server.”
The last person to raise their hand made Kit’s eyes twitch once again. This person looked like Snickers! Was he collecting Snickers family? The only difference between them was their hair, just like Mud and Kiri!
The girl looked underage, but Kit knew that looks were deceiving. Take Snickers for example she was over 100 years old. The young lady he was staring at had streaks of brown mixed in with green, at least it would be easy to tell them apart with this distinguishable feature, Kit thought.
“My name is Oria and I am a server.” Kit looked at Snickers then whispered in her ear. “Is this another relative?”
“No, we are not related, we are just blessed with good looks.” Snickers didn’t lower her voice as she spoke. Oria started laughing at Snickers words. “Snickers is right we just look similar, luckily we do not have the same taste in men.” Kit didn’t know what their taste in men had to do with anything, then a light bulb went off in his head.
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Snickers was very possessive about Leonard, this must be Oria’s way of reassuring Snickers that Leonard was not her type. He remembered that Snickers had also asked questions about the other female employees’ taste in men at the first interviews they had ever conducted.
Kit could only shake his head, He didn’t think Snickers had anything to worry about with Leonard finding someone else attractive, the man was absolutely obsessed with her.
Thinking of Leonard, he wondered if he was back from the information gathering Snickers had sent him on. Kit quickly scanned the room, Leonard’s large frame stood out, so he was easy to spot. This made Kit happy, it meant as soon as he was ready to upgrade his restaurant Leonard could build it.
He returned his focus back to Snickers to see that she was walking off. She turned her head and then flicked her hand in a motion for him to follow. It looked like they were off to the next table for introductions. Kit quickly said goodbye and made plans to get to know everyone in the next couple of days.
He then hurried off to find Snickers at another table. Upon arrival Grandpa’s voice boomed, “Kit my boy, have you made anything new for this old man to try?” Grandpa’s twinkling eyes held hope, Kit laughed and took out the gnocchi and placed it in front of Grandpa.
“Oi, what about me.” Twix familiar voice sounded. Kit looked next to Grandpa to see a vexed Twix, Kit laughed once again and handed another plate to Twix. Kit shook his head then turned his gaze back to Snickers.
“You made a new meal and did not tell me! Where is my plate!” Snickers hands slapped down on her hips emphasising her annoyance.
“Ah sorry Snickers, here.” Kit pulled one more plate from his pouch. He then lifted his head to see Crackers and Cupcake staring at him, Kit chuckled then handed out two more portions. While he had been handing out plates Snickers sat herself down at an available seat at the table, next to her was an unfamiliar man.
“Hello I’m Kit.” He smiled at the new face, the man returned Kit’s smile with one of his own. A large scar ran down the man’s face, it crinkled with his grin. Kit automatically ran his hand over his own scar, it surprised him that he now longer thought about it.
The only reason he remembered was that he was staring at someone else with a scar on their face. This thought made Kit’s smile widen, it looked like he had finally gotten over his insecurity about his face.
“Hello Chef Kit, I’m Truffle, I am a chef.”
With the introductions over Snickers started to speak around the food in her mouth. “Kit there is only one more employee for you to meet, they’re at the table over there.” Snickers pointed to a table not far away.
Kit felt calmer now that he could put a name to the new faces, so he made his way over to the table without Snickers. Peaches greeted Kit as he arrived at the table. “Hello Kit, was the trip to Fairweather town eventful?”
A wide grin flashed on Kit’s face he was happy to see his friend. “Hi Peaches, yes I got the market stall set up and even got a new ingredient I’m excited about.” Kit started conversing with Peaches it was not until Snickers appeared that he realised he had forgotten about his new employee.
“Sorry Peaches I need to steal Kit, we have a lot to discuss.” Peaches gave Snickers a bow of acknowledgement. “Then I will take my leave.” Peaches bid goodnight then stood up and left.
“One moment Snickers, I got too caught up chatting with Peaches and didn’t meet the new employee.” Kit swung his gaze around the table to find the only face he didn’t recognise. It was a young man with a face full of pimples, Kit blinked this was the first time he saw anyone with acne in the game.
Kit automatically assumed this was an NPC, if it was a player, they would have adjusted their face to get rid of the blemishes. “H-hello C-chef K-kit. I’m Danbo” The young man blushed a deep red.
Kit could tell how nervous Danbo was by his reaction. “Welcome Danbo, I hope you enjoy working at the restaurant. I’ll leave for now, but I will get to know you over the next couple of days.” Kit gave the young boy a soft smile, he knew how difficult it was to converse when you were that nervous.
Now that he had met everyone, Kit followed Snickers to one of the lounge rooms. As he walked, he started to count how many new people he had just met. There were 13 new employees, plus Milka and Finn that made a total of 15 new staff.
With so many new employees he felt the service part of the upcoming restaurant promotion was taken care of, now he only needed to organise a grand opening for his one star restaurant and finish making enough new dishes to sell.
Kit settled down on the couch with Snickers sitting across from him. “What did you want to discuss Snickers?”
“Wait a moment Kit, Leonard will be joining us.” Just then the door opened, and the large man walked in and sat down next to Snickers. “Snoo Snoo, why did you not wait for me!” Kit rolled his eyes, he forgot how these two acted around each other.
“I didn’t want Kit to get dragged into a conversation and delay our talk.” Snickers patted Leonard on the hand, then turn back to Kit. “I want you to purchase the restaurant promotion tonight.”
Out of all the things he thought Snickers would want to talk about this hadn’t crossed his mind. “Why? We are not ready yet Snickers. I told you I want to be prepared this time.”
“This is part of the preparation, we need the blueprint so we can see what materials we need for the building and what kind of designs will be available. Remember when you built the restaurant you had to purchase the blueprint first?”
Kit ran his mind back to opening the restaurant. He officially didn’t activate the restaurant until it was completed. “Ok then I will purchase the blueprint tonight.” Kit felt excitement spread, he couldn’t help it, he was going to see what options were available for his one star restaurant!