When I regained my senses I found myself lying on an unknown bed. When I recalled that conversation from earlier I was amazed to think good people really exist. But that was too good to be true. I know better than anyone else people help another when they tend to gain from them. No one in their right mind will help an orphan child being detained by royal guards. The only thing to find out was who that lady was and what she tend to gain from me.
"Ohh.... You sleep well" said the lady from earlier as she entered the room. "Who are you?? And why did you help me??" I asked. "My name is luna i own this small place, as you know. You came here to find a place to live don't you???" She replied. "Yes but I don't have money, and why did you help me?" I said. "Well I saw you helping that girl and then betrayed by her and knew that you're a good person, and as for your other problem you can stay here and I will give you food also, in return that you can serve here as a waiter and help me, is this alright?. " She said.
A place to live, food and a job, this isn't a bad offer and this lady helped me so I have to repay her somehow. "Thank you for your kindness, I think I can do that" i replied as a girl came in the room hiding behind miss Luna. "She's my daughter 'Iris' she's five years old please forgive her she doesn't like strangers", said miss Luna. "No it's alright, So only two of you live here??" I asked. "Yes, my husband died a long time ago" she replied with a sorrow in her eyes. "I am sorry for reminding" i said. "No it's alright, you seem quite mature for your age." Said Miss luna.
"Thank you for the compliment, and to let me stay with you" I said. "Well that reminds me I never asked your name" she asked me. "I never got one " i said.at orphanage we were given numbers. And I was so invested into meditation that I never gave it a thought. About my name in previous life I can't remember, only memories I have of my previous life are all blurry or in fragments. The only thing I have from that life is my sense of reasoning and knowledge of surroundings but I can't remember much about myself.
"Can you perhaps give me a name ma'am" i asked her. "What you are asking me to give you a name, but how can you trust something this important to a stranger" she said. "You saved me from a great danger today. I would've been a criminal if it were not for you and besides I am your nephew aren't i??" I said while smiling. "Yes you're probably right, so then how about we call you Lark, based on my late brother's name Lark Adrain. Do you like it??" She asked me with her moist eyes. "Yes it sounds great, he must have been a great man."i replied.
Now i had a place to live, food to eat and a job which doesn't require any hard work because of the few number of customers. Therefore i utilised my free time to train more and stabilize my third core. But the thought that wasn't leaving my mind was why did she save me , she never answered my question. I thought she'll probably answer some day so I leave it to be.
After a few days working here I felt like I was not contributing enough so after observing the declining customer rate I thought of coming up with something that can help marketing. Miss luna's cooking was obviously very good but the problem with this restaurant was increasing competition. In order to repay miss luna's kindness, I took the charge for marketing and increasing the customer rate.
I used the knowledge of marketing from my previous world but the problem was that compared to that world this one wasn't developed enough. I took some money from miss luna and made pamplets and distributed them into the neighborhood, adventurers guild and gave some to shopkeepers to distribute whom I came to know along the way. But as I expected this wasn't enough. Then I took feedback from every customer and requested them to spread word. Based on customer's feedback Miss luna adapted her cooking according to the request of every customer. And at last by using schemes and giving discount i completed my work successfully.
Five years passed and my fourth core began to stabilize. These were the best five years of my whole existence as I can recall. The business was coming smoothly, miss Luna hired many workers and she was only supervising now. She told me to study, train and do my meditation instead of working at restaurant. In these years I grew pretty close to miss luna as I felt motherly affection from her and Iris as my little sister. No money problems, a loving family and freedom to do anything what could a person like me probably ask for more than that.
But all that happiness came to end when Miss luna suddenly told me a secret that left a terrible scar in my memory........she answered my question I asked her five years ago that why did she actually saved me that day.
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