"Welcome."
"Hey, come in Patrick."
"Good afternoon to you all."
A man wearing a classy dress shirt and expensive jeans brand along with shining dress shoes walks into Odd Jobs. Everyone seems to know him.
"Same as always?"
"Yep, the usual black tea if you would be so kind."
"On it."
This customer is no human. He's a vampire, one of the strongest in the upper echelon of the Slayers. He'd been planning to make contact with Chifuyu the half-vampire, and it's been about a month since he's done so. Patrick became a regular at Odd Jobs Cafe, to get close to his prey and because Kagura's tea brewing skills are superb. He's gotten close to Chifuyu, always talking to him when he comes as well as Kagura since she's so social. Patrick along with other vampires have blended in with Shioto. He owns a multi-district company running luxurious suites and selling mansions. It's known as the Augustus Company. He has several contributions to neighborhoods all over, nobody could ever suspect he's a vampire.
"Thank you, Ms. Kagura."
"Enjoy."
Taking a sip, he notices something different about the tea.
"Hm. Did someone else make this?"
"Wow, you really noticed. It was me!" Chifuyu is the culprit.
"Splendid. You've gotten noticeably better, the taste isn't too far off from Ms. Kagura's."
"Looks like you've got some competition," Shinatsu gets out her mocking line of the day.
"Ho? I won't lose to you, Chifuyu."
"Bring it on."
"Then.. if you guys don't mind, I'll try both of your black teas." A young lady who is somewhat of a regular joins in.
"You're too generous. This'll be on the house, I'll make the best tea you've ever had!"
"Hey, I'll have one too."
"Me as well!"
Other customers hop in on the fun.
"Still wanna make these on the house," Shinatsu says with a sly expression.
"Black tea on the house for everyone right now!"
"Wooooo!"
"Sorry Kagura, is this fine?"
"Haha, sure. We can do this every once in a while."
"Unbelievable."
***
"You ready?"
"'Course."
Kagura is waiting outside of Odd Jobs with someone. Who could it be? Slowly opening the door, she peeks her head in. It's the time in the morning when everyone's getting ready. They walk through the lobby to the door that leads to the living room. Opening this one slowly as she peeks her head out again. The others look at her confused.
"What're you doing?" asks Chifuyu who's eating a bowl of cereal on the couch.
"I have a surprise."
"It better not be something dumb."
"Show us what it is!"
"Yeah, don't keep us waiting."
"Okay. Hehehe." Kagura slowly draws her head back behind the door, waiting a few seconds to fling it open. "Tadah!" The surprise is revealed.
"This guy?" questions Ariel.
"Diego?! What're you doing here?"
"Sup man, I was hired."
"Hired? I said to come visit us, didn't think you'd be working with us. Wait, I thought only Hunters could be members?"
"Me and Ms. Nailah discussed it with Diego, and we made an exception."
"For real? That's great! Welcome to Odd Jobs."
"Thanks. I'm glad I ran into you a month ago."
"Same here."
"Welcome."
"Welcome aboard Diego, a friend of Chifuyu's is a friend of mine."
Iris and Ariel welcome the 6th member, meekly and brazenly respectively. "Well don't just stand around newbie, the bathrooms need a cleaning." Shinatsu welcomes him not so warmly.
"Um… I don't think we made you clean anything when you joined."
"Be quiet Iris!"
"Ahem. I am somewhat of a handyman. So if anything breaks down in here, I'll try my best to fix it."
"Oh, cool!"
"Oh, I see the skills with a knife isn't the only thing you picked up in the past few years."
"Ha. I could say the same to you."
"What do you mean?"
Diego goes up to Chifuyu putting his arm over his shoulder and proceeds to whisper. "You were never good around girls besides Roxy, especially when they hit on you."
"Actually, I've leveled up a bit. I'm just not good around girls when they're flirting and stuff now." Chifuyu whispers back.
"In any case, what do you have going on here? A harem?"
"No bro! Also, relax when you're here. Don't try to hit on any of them."
"Don't worry, I know not to do that."
"So, what do you think dumb and dumber are whispering about over there?" Shinatsu asks Iris.
"No idea.."