When the Monday comes, as always, we set off from our base, at the earliest hour, 6 AM. Waking up early is not difficult thing to do for me, as I am the kind, if I had to wake up early, I would, and for Natasha, waking up early is already her lifestyle. So, we aren't really complaining about anything when we head to work. By the way, I tried to make a new menu, I am considering selling a fried chicken popcorn, it was a like a chicken tidbit, the meat was cut into small cubes and fried with batter. A feasible menu that might be another new attraction to our business, but unfortunately, Natasha objected to that, saying that selling a chicken popcorn that, that delicious would get us into a lot of trouble.
Mutated Chicken, as soon as it was brought near any settlement, the settlements themselves will try to interfere and confiscate or force those chickens to be handed over to them. So regretfully, I shelved those menus for the future, perhaps when we have a lot of people within our family and perhaps have enough power to defend ourselves, perhaps by then, I can sell them out in the open, as much as I like.
"If I can, I want to avoid any unnecessary fights… but, when push comes to shoves, I would stand my ground…".
"As long as you are willing to get bloody… that should be enough, I prefer the you right now, Honey…. You feel…wiser…". (Natsha)
As we were driving to Station Ail and Wail, Natasha and me, were talking about whether I am comfortable on picking up my weapons in a fight. To that, I answered honestly, I am okay with fights, but taking a life, to do that, to me it shouldn't be done so easily. One need to have a valid reason to do so, because if you just simply do it, because you can, then that would be a slippery slope to go down towards the path of a maniac and a bloody tyrant. And to me, I would never want to lose myself, on that path. Still, to Natasha she was relieved that I am fine and ready to make that hard decision at any moment, when it was truly needed.
"Still… it is quite amazing that your firearms, is quite modern and very effective and powerful as well…". (Natasha)
"I supposed so…".
Another useful fact that I recently discovered, is that the weaponry of this world, is still stuck in 1940s. majority of them were an old weaponry and even the DIY firearms were heavily followed the old era style. So, the firearms that I bought from earth, just changes the game entirely, buying a tactical assault rifle, just shocked Natasha a lot, and since then she was enamored by it. I gifted her an Assault Rifle and a Sauer Semi-auto Handgun, as for myself, I decided to buy a new Sniper rifle, I figured that since my foot is a bust, I could just be a sniper that sniped from afar and doesn't really need to move around a lot.
Once we got to Station Ail and Wail, as always, there were already a few people waiting for us to open our stall. And on time, we opened our stall and immediately went to business, turns out the reason why there were a little less people waiting today, is that a lot of people thought that we will not be coming back here, and probably already moved on to another town, which to our customers, that sort of move, is fairly common in this world. With that I assured them that by all means, if I were to move one to another town, I would definitely be telling everyone that I would be doing so a few days early. Which is a gesture that a lot of my customers really appreciate.
"Hey, you guys were the one that supported my business from the start…. I can't just ditch you all like that…. Here's your order~ thank you~…".
"Thank you, Boss Azra…". (Smiling Customer)
I handed a customer order with a smile, while conversing with Bear, who is happily munching on his burger beside my stall.
"It was very gentlemanly of you, Azra to think of us fondly like that… but hey, no one will hold it against you if you want to open business at another town… this is your business after all…you can do anything you like with that… right?". (Bear)
"Hahaha… thank you for saying that Bear…".
"Yeah… sure we all here will be missing the burgers… but your bread and mineral waters are still being sold at the town shop…with that no one will complain about it…. but if you go away… a lot of the shop in town would surely be delighted as heck… Hahaha". (Cheese)
"Yep… if I'm gone those folks would be celebrating all day for it…hahahaha…".
I know that a lot of business in the town, dislike me quite a lot, and they couldn't be happier to see me move away from this town, after all, I am selling high quality and better product than what they were selling, and I even sells them at the same price as their useless and low-quality product, as soon as my stall were opened, they could not compete with me at all. And all that they can do, is lower their price compare to mine and hope that I would go away quickly. Which for me, going away right now, only after 2 weeks of opening my business, is definitely not in my schedule.
"Hmm? …what is that commotion?".
As I were busy multitasking of cooking the burgers and also talking to my customers, at the town gate. I saw a group of people, all men, and all of them were in the larger body sized, were walking on the road, all acting like they owned the road.
"Woah~ …that is a lot of pudgy people…Heh!". (Bear)
"You're right~ …like a bunch of Mutated pig, walking in together in a herd…. Hahaha!". (Cheese)
"That's funny!". (Rowdy Customers)
Right in front of my stall, all of my customers were merciless as they just launch roast after roast at the group of obese men walking on the road, there were a lot of them and with each step they take, they are also kicking dust behind them, which says a lot about their sorry states.
"Hold on…. Hahaha…they are stopping because they ran out of breath! …Hahahahaha!!!...". (Bear)
"That's hilarious! they can't even walk 10 meters without stopping! ...hahahaha…I wondered how this people stayed alive in these days and age…hahahaha". (Cheese)
It was a very comical scene, the spot where we are right now and the town gate is about roughly 100 meters or so. The group that was kicking up the dust as they were walking, stopped walking every 10 or so meters, and every time that they do so, all of them would look like they aged 10 years, huffing and puffing for air. Everyone noticed this and started laughing again, and with those realizations, the bystanders also started to laughs as well. Turning the entire spectacle into an impromptu comedy sketch.
"Fuhh~ …. Boss Azra…I got something to tell you.". (Ham)
Out of nowhere, Ham ran past the group of those seemingly affluent people and stopped just right in front of my stall, he went back and stood close beside me.
"Calm down, Ham …. you're out of breath, just how far has you been running?".
"From inside the town market of course! …. hah~…. Fuhh~…I am calm now, Boss…". (Ham)
"Okay, so what is it? ...".
"Boss Azra…see those folks over there? ...". (Ham)
Ham pointed his finger at the group of currently taking their breaks in the middle of the road.
"Yeah?".
"Those guys, are all shop owners from inside the town…and they were here…to cause a trouble for you…and your stall…". (Ham)
"What?".