Sigh! Uncle Hue sighed as he saw the dungeon portal open up. He along with the other two were watching Henry's fight, he wasn't worried about Henry losing, rather he was glad the boy finally fought someone other then him.
"That's gonna be a problem down the road" Kento said as he observed.
"I'll try and talk to him about it but I'll leave the rest to you" Hue said as he sipped his tea.
"Also about th-"
"Don't worry about it, they'll grow to like each other. Kento waved his hand and stopped his friend.
"If that doesn't work, I'll lock them both in a closet filled with monsters" Hearing this, Hera giggled as she thought back to some old memories
"It never fails" Hue added as they all laughed
"Are you guys gonna tell them that this isn't a normal dungeon" Hera asked as they saw the kids walked through the portal.
"I'm pretty sure they'll figure it out." Kento said as they got up from their seats.
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The kids walked out of the dungeon entrance. Their senses quickly adjusted to the open environment. Compared to the dungeon even this cloudy day seemed like a bright day.
"You kids did good but it took you guys one hour to close the dungeon, it took us only thirty minutes to close our first dungeon and it was only the three of us" Hera looked at kento with confusion when she heard his words but that look quickly disappeared.
"Now let's go eat" hearing these words the kids finally remembered that they were actually hungry. Funny how the human mind works huh.
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Although it was small, hope city still had a plethora of businesses and each type of business had it's fare share of competition.
Flying car cruised through the rainy skies while ordinary cars covered the high ways and moved like busy ants in a colony, blinding lights from billboard and huge screens brightened the atmosphere, car horns and loud shouts echoed through the air, it was the morning rush hour.
Although flying cars was something accessible to the public, not everyone had them as they were quite expensive to buy and maintaining them would cost an arm and a leg. In a city like hope city, traffic was a pain, even with the flying cars taking some pressure of the roads, the roads were still overpopulated.
Hera followed a series of "road" signs as she navigated through the maze like city. After a while of cruising, the car finally stopped in front of a restaurant, the building of the restaurant stood out amongst the rest of the buildings.
The building wasn't nearly as tall as the other skyscrapers, nor was it any brighter than any of it neighbors, in fact it wasn't bright at all, no LEDs or brightly colored signs. The building was shaped like a perfectly symmetrical hourglass, the red color on the walls were dull and old, the sign of the restaurant wasn't eye catching at all.
Shackled Tastes is a restaurant that is in a league of it's own, regarded by many as the best in the world, those who had once tasted their foods even once, would find themselves becoming addicted to their food if they weren't careful.
Hera showed her ID to the guards and they opened the gate for her. She entered and made her way to the parking lot, car's of every kind filled the area and there wasn't a free spot in sight.
Hera made her way through the area, it seemed like she was familiar with the area. The flying car finally stopped in an underground parking area, and by sheer luck a spot opened up for them to park.
Exiting the car, the group headed for the elevator as they didn't worry that it might get stolen, this was after all a heavily guarded place.
The elevator stopped and the group entered a lobby. Unlike most restaurants this one had multiple receptionist, even with that, rows of people waiting in line could be seen filling the room. The interior of the lobby was luxurious the red furniture was pleasant to look at.
Hera lead the way as she went to the only receptionist desk that didn't have a line.
"Top half please" Hera said, by this time she had already wore her armor and covered her face. Everytime people saw her scars, they would stare at her in a strange manner, which makes her uncomfortable.
"Who are they, I've never seen them before"
"hmph you don't mingle with us nobles so you wouldn't know, that one at the front is the Goddes of war, I've seen her a couple of times. I don't know the rest but that tall old man should be Kento Lotus aka the cold death"
"What? the Lotus family? I heard they are the weakest family among the royals"
"I heard that, due to their decline in power, they lost most of their businesses to the Fyr family."
The people in line started gossiping, all of them were wearing the most luxurious outfits out there, they were all respected people in their respective fields and had tones of money. They were doing what arrogant rich people did best and that was gossiping.
"Here, Mrs. Hera" The receptionist gave her a golden ticket, she didn't even check her identity as she was familiar with her armor.
The group ignored the gossips and went into an elevator near by, Hera used the ticket to open the elevator.
The doors opened and a lobby simular to the one on the first floor appeared before their eyes, the lobbies were almost simular, except this lobby had one receptionist and the furniture here, looked more expensive and more fragile than the other lobby.
"one room please" Hera said.
"One moment please" A woman quickly guided them towards a room, they were currently on one of the top floors of the building.
"This isn't necessarily" Henry mumbled under his breath, he wasn't the only one annoyed by this back and forth interactions. (So too were the readers)
"What would you guys like to order" the girl asked as she handed out menus.
"I'd like the chria..." Kento, Uncle Hue, Hera and Athena were already familiar with the menu so they quickly ordered.
"You guys can order as much as you want, it's on me today" Hera said seeing the kids being indecisive.
"Can I get something with a spicy taste" The three kids placed their orders based on their preferences, leaving only Henry staring at the menu.
"*Sigh*Something simple and filling" Henry said, him staring at a menu with names he didn't know didn't help anyone.
"It will be out in a moment" the lady bowed and left, the lady didn't wast time and was straight to the point. Henry figured that they were probably trained to do this.
"Now while we wait for them food, tell us how you guys defeated the dungeon boss. I want to know how you guys worked together" Uncle Hue said with a smile.
The kids got nervous, it was only now that they remembered that they were told to work together in order to build trust amongst each other.
Hmm! "It wasn't that hard really, we worked together and easily deafeted the bosses" Athena quickly cleared her throat and lied straight through her teeth, if one looked at her, they wouldn't be able to tell that she was liaring.
"Ohh really, tell us more and don't leave out any details" The adults smerked as they heard her words, she wasn't aware that they were watching.