An hour before closing the shop, Lief congratulates the two apprentices as they have survived their 1st month in the shop
Lief: as a sign of relief for both of you, how bout you take out that last cake on the complimentary table and leave early?
Yza: why? did we do something wrong, Lief?
Roland: I'm quite sure that we didn't violate any of the rules right?
Lief: no, no, I mean, I'm glad that both of you guys survive your 1st month of servitude here, very rare for the company to send apprentices instead of a made manager to the branches, that's all, so please have a good rest for the night and leave early I mean
Yza: Woah! what a relief, I thought you were to lay us off, thank goodness!
Roland: Maybe we can stay for a few minutes as it's an hour earlier before our closing time Lief
Lief: no, no, the two of you, take that cake and go home, ok, I can manage as we don't have much to clean for now, so go before I change my mind
Yza: sure, if you say so, I really need a good rest for the day, have a good night Lief
Roland: well, I guess I'm gonna hit the grocery first and go home, have a good night Lief
After changing their clothes, Roland and Yza left the shop with the cake. While checking the inventory, a man wearing sunglasses entered the shop
Lief: sorry sir but we're already--
oh, it's you--
are you ready to take the basket Mr. Gremery?
Gremery: yeah, but, can I add some things on the paper young man?
Lief: sure sir, absolutely ( gives the paper to the man )
Gremery: ( looks at his back and the surroundings first, then he writes a few additions to the paper and gives it back to Lief ) that would be it, is it still a manageable young man?
Lief: ( looks at the paper, then he talks back to Gremery ) definitely sir, as it is almost on the edge but still didn't violate any of our company rules, would you want it now?
Gremery: good heavens, finally, I can put that mad dog to hell, damn Cole, always mocking my intelligence about everything, but not this time, not my art ( bite his lips, and after a minute, he leaves the shop and walk away with the basket )
Lief: Jealousy is a destructive affair
Backstory:
Jason Gremery and Bryan Cole are long-time colleagues, who graduated from the same college school with the same degree but different takes on a certain matter, arts. Gremery takes art as his hiding zone, where everything according to him must be expandable, and nothing must be in his way of proceeding to further success but Cole sees a great concern in such a manner. Gremery doesn't give a damn about the lives of the pieces that he is using as long as it helps him achieve his goals, like that time he uses a thousand frogs to fill a full-body skeletal cow, just to create a green cow or that time when he cut parts of different animals like cat, dog, rats, and sheep's so he can change their missing body parts with painted prosthetic things, and the last project that scared Cole was when that time Gremery told him
Gremery: Arts is full of mystery, one image leads to something and that something begins to creep in your head like it's screaming to be materialized
Cole: yeah, but please do it in moderation, you're going too hard, even perfection has its limits
Gremery: have you heard of this continent called Yeasia?
Cole: Yeah, what of it?
Gremery: I heard most people there live in a poverty situation
Cole: Yeah, news has been featuring them a lot lately, like many of their young ones are migrating here for greener pastures as they say
Gremery: so I don't need to go there now, do I?
Cole: well, you can meet a great number of them in the bars or just in the park or grocery stores or even church, they are quite religious you know
Gremery: Good, guess I don't need to fly to the other side of the world to meet them
A few days after meeting Gremery, Cole was surprised to see his friend on the news headline as Gremery was apprehended by the cops for kidnapping a 9 years old child, a Yeasian kid, and lucky for him, his buddy Cole bailed him out of prison
Cole: What was that Jason?
Gremery: chill your balls, Bryan, I thought it was my niece so I brought her to my apartment
Cole: really?! for 5 days, that little girl was missing for 5 whole days, and now you're a,-- to other people, a pedophile
Gremery: come on, those are just baseless accusations from people that we don't know unless you believe what they say so, do you, Bryan?
Cole: Are you crazy, you are my pal, but, please, I didn't get on why you do that
Gremery: if the world was so perfect that everything should just roll accordingly, then the things that we are doing right now are no longer the true art, but a ball, a circle of buffoonery that would be rolled by the majority who most likely veto on their very minute imaginations
Cole: everyone has a say when it comes to art my friend, and that's how we grow
Gremery: that's why the level of art these days is downgrading rapidly, so I'm trying to calibrate it a bit, put life on it, you know, invite a few individuals, and voila!
Cole: What do you mean by calibrating Jason?
Gremery: come on Bryan, your way of thinking bores me, when I said to expand the ideas, I meant it, but our foolish teachers and several people told us that such ways would consider an act of crime, well they say crime, I say Art!
Cole: please don't tell me, that your using humans as--
Gremery: ( smiles at him and walks away )
Some of the key points of Gremery's anger towards Bryan consist of Bryan winning the 1st ArtPrize award, 1st to travel the world for free, 1st to collaborate with other top artists out there, and married his long-time crush from high school, Linda Blush. But the thing that angered Jason most is when Bryan won an art competition where the theme is about Gore which he shouldn't be in the first place as he constantly heard Bryan contemplating that such art is only for a madman, and yet he does such thing to win a competition. Jason takes it as a bitter insult as he thinks that his friend was a monstrous hypocrite who only thinks of himself, so he decided to strategies a plan, but at the time he has money issues, and he is living in a very poor condition, but luckily he stumbles on the Boutique, and there he finally got his answer.
Jason didn't see the service car in near the shop so he decided to walk back to the nearest car dealership, and since he wrote in the paper that he needs a very important car, he just needs to give the dealership clerk a coupon from the basket. A few minutes later Jason is already on the streets, riding in his new sports car, and he thought, that a car is not enough, so he goes back to the Boutique, and grabs clothes to pair with his newly owned car. After dressing for the night, another thought pops into his mind, Jason thought that he can't constantly use the coupons as he needs to use cash later to pay some people that won't probably understand the worth of the coupons, so he waits in a nearby Bank, a clerk comes out and Jason honks to the man, the man walks towards him and Jason show the man 5 coupons and he asked the man if he knows what he means, the man just laughs and said, of course, any wishes he wants shall be served, and Jason told the man that he only needs to give him all his money from the bank in exchange of the 5 coupons. A few minutes passed by and the man got his 5 coupons and Jason got a $521,433 on his hand. Jason's imagination runs wild again, he thought that before he would destroy Bryan he needs to party first, so he goes to one of the most popular clubs in New Yark, Club House of Yeah. After parking his car, he nods to one of the bouncers and shows a coupon, the bouncers immediately accompany him inside, and he was surprised to see that there was a dress theme for the night, so he decided to show his basket to everyone and shouted, " Orgy, anyone? ", and everyone takes off all their clothes and everybody on that club have a good time, everybody is banging everyone on the club, foods and drinks keeps coming and Jason was really happy about it, he never experienced such thing, he always thought that he can only enjoy things independently, but now, it's totally different, he let his inner beast wreak havoc, he bangs whoever he wants to bang, he drink whatever he wants to drink and he does whatever he wants to do.
Jason woke up back in his apartment, and he is thinking really hard about how it happened that he only have 5 coupons at the moment, and he is missing a tooth due to him fighting one of the bouncers just to get back one of the coupons, his car was outside, it hit a pillar of the apartment building where he is currently at.
Jason lost a good 12 hours and he only has another 12 to fulfill his request so he hurried out of his apartment and look out for some potential freelancers, and it didn't take him that much time to find those people that he needs, one after another they come and after hearing his order they take the coupons and leave, Jason then goes back to his apartment.
Jason's first plan is to kidnap Bryan's wife and children to use them as bargaining chips so he can lure Bryan to a place where he wants him to be. An hour later, the man who he put on the job called him
Gremery: so, are you with them now, are you on your way?
F.L.1: sir, his wife, and children are already out of the country and I can't locate them for now, maybe if you give me some time I can execute the job
Gremery: No! I want them now!
F.L.1: well, I can't do the impossible, so I'm withdrawing from the job
Gremery: Sure! bring me back the coupon then
F.L.1: sir, according to the rules, if the request written on paper is not followed, then the coupon is void, and useless, which means I just need to destroy it
Jason: are you fucking kidding me, then how am I gonna execute my plans if I'm missing a coupon?
F.L.1: sir, according to the rules, if the coupon is destroyed by the means of it being void, then the customer shall get another one in the Boutique as a replacement, it's free as long the reason behind for getting a replacement is justified and can be verified
Jason: oh really?! ( throws his phone on the wall )
An hour passed by again and one of the freelancers called him, and it was about his 2nd order, his 2nd order was to kidnap homeless people and bring them to him, he wants to show Bryan his new method of producing his art piece. Jason was caught off guard as the freelancer brought with her some 20 homeless people of different ages, and it immediately fills up his room real quick, they stink and constantly ask for food and that just makes him angrier.
Another hour passed by and another freelancer called him, it was about his 3rd order, his 3rd order was that he wants to call upon the major news companies to do a live report as he wants to unfold Bryan's supposed to be dark secrets, there will be hidden cameras around the building and it will be his tactic to outmaneuver Bryan and put him on a bad spot, and yet the freelancer told him that the news outlets have rejected his proposition as Bryan is considered hot stuff at the moment and putting him on a bad light is bad for the city, which makes Jason even angrier and he starts throwing things and throwing stuff.
An hour passes by again, and he heard loud car noises out of the building, and a freelancer called him, it was about his 4th order, he wants to surround the building with prostitutes and hooligans so it would be easier to take notice from the passerby that would lead for the media to put it on their headlines.
His last order was too absurd according to the freelancer, as he wants a one-on-one talk with the Mayor, even though the freelancer tried his best, it's just too hard, and that leaves Jason with no option but to go back to the Boutique.
Inside the Boutique, he only sees Leif wondering around, so he goes in
Lief: oh, your back Mr. Gremery, anything I can help you, sir?
Gremery: I need a new basket, give it now!
Lief: sir, if you can justify the reason, then there won't be any problem
Gremery: Problem you say, your services are very poor, you can't even give me the maximum satisfaction, and you want justification ( pulls out a knife ) final warning boy, give me a basket of coupons, and I'll forget that this even happens, now!
Lief: guess you are correct all along ( looks at the person behind Jason )
Gremery: ( looks to his back, and he was tased by the man standing behind him )
Lief: congratulations, looks like you win, Mr. Cole
Cole: As expected, yeah
A day passed by and the Yza and Roland asks about the recent case
Yza: that was crazy, I thought we only offer 1st come 1st serve kind of service here?
Lief: that's correct and will always be
Roland: then how come that Mr. Cole we're able to give a request like that?
Lief: if I'm correct on what you are currently thinking, then I guess the both of you are wrong
Roland: what do you mean by that Lief?
Lief: Mr. Gremery indeed gave an order first, but it was Mr. Cole who was first to do a formal request with our company
Yza: what do you mean by that Lief?
Lief: Mr. Cole's request was, that his request can be only triggered by Mr. Gremery's request, like if Mr. Gremery signed a request with us, then the request of Mr. Cole will be put into action immediately
Roland: you mean that Mr. Cole knew all along that Mr. Gremery would be here?
Lief: of course, it was him who guided Mr. Gremery here, he use other people to walk Mr. Gremery here, and voila! here he is, smart I say
Yza: that is another way of bypassing our rules, ain't it?
Lief: Yes, it only takes a call from us for him to take down his friend
Roland: so did he kill Mr. Gremery?
Lief: no, he is not that kind of a person
Yza: so where did he send Mr. Gremery then?
Lief: right after Mr. Gremery fell on the floor, our chauffeur take him and send him to a local mental institution
Roland: so Mr. Cole is not heartless at all
The three of them continue cleaning the shop as it was already closing time.