'It must be hot! Hotter!'
'Stop blowing the wind! The fire must be fuelled by oxygen!'
Luck, at the head of the lime kiln, was simultaneously giving orders to Elsa and another starfighter who could control the wind.
It was the eighth quicklime kiln they had prepared today.
Elsa, whose vision was now blurred, said, 'I can't take it anymore...my star power is almost gone.'
'Okay Elsa, you have fulfilled your duty, you can leave. Anyway, the lime is almost done.'
Holding Elsa, who collapsed to the ground with her knees untied, Senna pulled her sister to a corner to rest.
'Well, Luck, now that we have cooked the lime, when are you going to make cement?'
Nikolai was getting impatient after three days of waiting. Every second that passed made him restless that he could not reinforce the walls of the compound.
Luck, sweating from being in charge of the kiln for so long, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, 'We are progressing faster than I expected! Thanks to your land users, you finished the kilns and lime pools in just 3 days!'
Although pleased with Luck's praise, Nikolai did not dare to relax.
'So? When will the cement be ready?'
Luck laughed inwardly at Nikolai's impatience.
'It should be ready in two or three days...and we can start repairing the compound walls in a week.'
Nikolai found a week too late and said, 'A week? Is it that long? Can't it be faster?'
'I can't do it faster...we need to react the lime we cooked with water to make slaked lime and then mix the volcanic mould with the slaked lime.'
'Let's just put the volcanic mould on the lime right after we've reacted it with water, and that's it!'
Luck smiled helplessly at Nikolai's suggestion.
'If only it were that simple! Lime gets very hot when it reacts with water! So the pool of lime we are going to react with the water will heat up like an oven! Then we have to wait for the lime to cool down and pulverise the slaked lime... it won't be done in a short time.'
Nikolai thought for a while and then smiled as if he had found a solution 'Cooling the lime is simple! Senna is here! She can use her ice power to cool the lime faster! Our earth users can pulverise the lime quickly! Right?'
Luck: (0_0)
He's right!
I'm thinking by world standards! This is Gliese!
'You might be right...maybe we can speed things up a bit.'
'Hahaha I knew it!'
....
Earth
Arya was travelling with Albert to their new shop, which was getting ready to open.
Albert was following Arya closely as he was taking notes one by one on the tablet in his hand about the things that Arya pointed out negatively or gave suggestions.
Arya looked at the 3-storey building in front of her and said, 'This shop will be our biggest shop, right?'
This building was the third shop she came to today and the last shop before the Drumpling shop that Luck wanted.
The inside of the shop was stylish and clean, images of Monster Burger's iconic monsters adorned the walls.
'Yes, Mrs Arya, this will be the biggest shop we've ever had, with the tables outside, we can serve up to 300 customers at the same time!'
Arya said thoughtfully 'Hmm 300 people is not bad...but how many people can we serve if we remove the tables outside?'
Albert didn't understand why Arya was asking such a question but he answered '270 people'
Arya began to fidget in her seat with indecision.
30 people! 30 people can make us thousands of Federation dollars a day!
Despite her desire to make money, Arya made up her mind and turned to Albert.
'Let's cancel all the tables outside.'
Albert: ...
'Huh? Why?'
'Let's put monster models outside the shop instead of tables! Bigger and more majestic models!'
Albert couldn't understand what Arya was aiming for and said, 'But why? There are already models inside the shop where people can take photos! If we remove the tables outside, it's like losing 30 customers! That's a lot of money!'
Arya smiled crookedly, feeling the pressure on her aching wound.
Stop talking like I'm losing money!
"Do you remember how many views the photo we posted on PhotoShare got?"
Albert smiled happily "About 7 million! After that photo, the shop was busy! How could I forget!"
Albert widened his eyes with a sudden realisation.
"Are you aiming for the same thing again? You want to gain more recognition with a bigger and grander monster statue! Very clever!"
Arya laughed proudly.
"You got it right!"
...
Arya smiled contentedly as she finished her tour of the shop.
"Everything is almost done, we can open in 3 days...what about the new employees?"
"The recruitment of new employees is finished, we just need to select the people who will be appointed as managers from our first shop to the new shops."
"Huh...do you have any suggestions?"
Nikolai was waiting for this question to come.
"Tiam, Fred and Abra would be good choices."
"You're right...they could be good choices...we can send Tiam as the manager of Luck's new burrito shop, Fred can be the manager of the shop that will be opened close to the first shop and Abra is a good choice for the Arnavutköy branch."
Albert looked puzzled, "Mrs Arya, what about this shop? The Nisantasi branch? This will be our biggest shop, who will be in charge here?"
Arya put one hand on Albert's shoulder and said, "You, of course."
Stunned for a moment, Nikolay grinned happily, realising that he was going to be the manager of the newest and biggest Monster burger branch.
So much so that Albert could hardly keep himself from crying.
Finally!
I'm finally going to be in sole charge of my own shop! I'm rid of Miss Arya!
Taking one last look at the new shop before leaving, Arya said, "But of course I can't leave this shop empty! I'll visit here often! You better work hard."
Albert: ....
I couldn't get rid of her again!
Am I going to be a hollow manager again?
A/N:
Hello everyone.
Since I'm back to writing again after a long break, there may be some inconsistencies in the story flow. I apologise for this.
Next week I plan to publish this story from scratch under another book title and attract more readers, so no need to give power stone for now! by the way, I would like to thank happy ponny especially for her/his? support.