Inside a big nightclub lit by colourful lights and alive by loud music, with crowds of people dancing and drinking, two people silently approached the drinks counter. One beautiful and hot woman in her twenties wearing a red and blue stripes shirt and deep blue jeans next to her was a handsome redhead man younger than her probably a high schooler wearing a black coat over a t-shirt and black jeans. Those two people were obviously Shu and Mia, Mia lead Shu over the counter and sat down.
A bartender quickly come to their service, the bartender was a mature woman in her late twenties wearing a white shirt, black pants with a black sleeveless coat over her shirt.
"Welcome madam and sir what would you like to drink?" The bartender asked them respectfully, as this was a high-class pub. All the people who come here are rich and even though Shu and Mia were dressed normally she could tell they were very rich as the way they carry themselves spoke for their background.
"Nothing hard just give us two orange juice, he is still a minor. He's not allowed to drink." Mia ordered.
"Okay ma'am, coming right away." The bartender took Mia's order and left to bring juice for them
"Hey... I can at least drink beer, you know something like some beer can't make me drunk with my physical body." Shu said with a frown, he was not much of an alcoholic but Mia was treating him like a child this made him displeased.
"So what? You're still a minor a is prohibited from drinking alcohol and don't forget even though we are lover's I'm still a teacher how can I let one of my student drink with me." Mia spoke dryly, with a no-nonsense face cutting Shu's protest mercilessly.
Shu shut his mouth although he was not happy he knew when Mia had this expression it means she is in her teacher mode and he can't argue with her.
"Here's your order ma'am." In between their small argument, the bartender came back with two glasses of orange juice.
The bartender promptly served them just like one would expect from a high-class pub. Their service is really fast and efficient even though the club is so packed with people.
Mia drinks her glass and showed the bartender woman a business card, the bartender was surprised when she realised because the card was the private meeting card of their boss with this card one can get a discount and ask to meet their boss. She became even more respectful toward Mia as the owner of this club is a very rich man and some who had his card will be a tycoon.
"Can you tell your boss the Mia Sasaki daughter of Yuki Sasaki has come to meet him?" Mia said after showing the card she didn't want to waste more time fooling around.
"Yes ma'am fortunately today he is present, I'll go right away and inform him." The bartender hurriedly bowed then left the inform her boss. She didn't ask them any questions as she understands she can't offend people who has her bosses card.
"Okay let me advise you the boss here is actually a dwarf so don't look surprised and don't talk about his height." Mia said to Shu after the bartender was gone. Dwarfs are very sensitive about their height so it was advised to not bring it up as they are quite stubborn and flicky individuals.
"I'll do as you say." Shu nodded said.
"Excuse me, the boss has invited you two to a private room, please follow me." The bartender woman came back and requested the duo to follow her.
Mia and Shu simply nodded and gestured her to lead the way.
The bartender leads them through a staircase that goes towards the second floor. The second floor was a big hall with many doors on either side. They walked past those rooms and arrived outside a room that has a wooden door. The door was made of black wood looking extremely tough and old, the bartender stopped near the door and bowed to the both of them and said.
"Ma'am this is as far as I am permitted to come I can not enter. Please go inside." She then knocked on the door, then left.
"Come in." A voice was heard from behind the door.
Both Shu and Mia looked at each other for a moment then Mia nodded and opened the door.
Upon entering they saw a room made of wood and steel looking like one of those old forging rooms the room has yellow lights giving it a more antique look overall it was cosy and warm.
"So what is grand princess Mia want?"
A shot man wearing a silver business suit asked upon noticing their arrival. The man looks to be around the same age as Mia with dark brown hair and brown skin, he was around Shu's waist in height he has black eyes a big nose in respect to his face and the end of his ears are pointy but unlike elfs they were just sharp at the end not longer in size.
"It's not that important, I just came to visit your establishment because this friend of mine here wanted to buy a sword."
Mia replied to the man with a graceful and neutral manner unlike when she talked with Shu. She is a princess of a kingdom after all, it would be unexpected of her to talk with everyone as an equal. She have a reputation and pride to maintain as a strong woman as strength is the paramount in the supernatural world and if a princess treats everyone as an equal is a sign of weakness.
"Oh...is that true? It has been a long time since someone came to buy items. Come.. come lets sit first, I'll call for some snacks."
The dwarfs demeanour totally changed the moment Mia mentioned they came to buy a sword. It was like the seren looking man was just a facade. Well Shu expected this Mia had said that dwarfs are a greedy bunch, their greed is too much for their own good. There is nothing non negotiable with them as long as you name the right price.
The dwarf led them to a metal table and preped chairs for them to sit. Mia and Shu didn't stant on ceremony and took their seat side by side. The dwarf had called someone to bring them some snacks by a phone, then he also sat down opposite to them.
"Then let me introduce myself I'm Garaled Eriti a dwarf and amature blacksmith." Garaled introduce himself first, than looked towards Shu curiously. He knows Mia as one of the princess form the cat domain. But he can't recognise the boy seating next to her he could feel he is a red dragon and by the amount of dragon aura he is releasing unconsciously gave him the idea that he is a young dragon because dragon's have a lot of mana from birth it takes them a lot more time to learn how to control their powers, however as Shu can already take on normal human form he deduced him to be a noble atleast or the princess wouldn't personally escort him here. A dragon noble is already equal to a princess or even above some of the royals from the cat race. So he decided to know more about him before he offened Shu by mistake.
"My name is Alroy Ruina Dragonel. This is as far as I can tell you for now, I hope you don't mind but I am told to keep my identity a secret." Shu also introduced himself with the name that was on his ID device. He didn't tell him about his background or Scarlett because he didn't want to create a situation where someone tried to investigate his identity and become suspicious and he is still not strong enough to assure his own safety.
"No..no it's not a problem this is very common among noble houses to order their children to keep their identity a secret for convenience and for the sake of gaining proper experience here on the mortal worlds." Garaled shrugged it off and spoke with a smile but inwardly he was even more sure to treat him with more respect as everyone fears the unknown.