[Aotu World] The Mysterious Café

[Blurb]

When Piers opened his eyes, he found himself lying in an unfamiliar place. He had been taking part in the war between gods in Aotu World. He opened the door, and a human several heads shorter than him stood before him.

"Mortal, where is this?"

"You're awake? Then come help me grind the coffee beans."

His temper flared. No one had ever dared order him around like that, especially not a mortal. His crimson eyes glinted with a dark, icy light.

"You want to die."

Then he discovered he couldn't summon his elemental weapon.

He had only a meager amount of elemental power left.

Piers: ?

Customer: "Shopkeeper, another latte, please."

The boy nodded, then said to the irritable red-haired shark, "Why aren't you grinding the coffee beans yet?"

Piers-shark: What are coffee beans?

"Care to explain?" The boy looked at the wreckage covering the floor.

The culprit was sprawled on the sofa, casually spinning a pen. Then he pointed it at the boy and hurled it like a javelin. "Don't dodge."

The pen stopped in midair, and the boy caught it.

"Rude. I shouldn't have picked you."

"?!"

Piers-shark: "Hey, why is there a cabbage head in the shop?"

The cabbage head himself: "Why is this dangerous guy here?"

The shopkeeper glanced at the order and placed the drink on a tray. "Number 31."

Piers-shark: "Tch. What a pain."

Zand saw a certain shark scowling as he carried the order out.

The cabbage head was startled.

There's a coffee shop on a familiar street, but it's a very strange place.

The shopkeeper is a boy.

The shop has a handsome guy with a bad temper who likes spinning pens and often gets on people's nerves, as well as a very green, rather goofy, cabbage-like handsome guy.

Thanks to the second guy, business at the shop is unusually brisk, but all sorts of strange customers keep showing up.

A passerby, curious about the place, opens the door, bumps into someone, and apologizes. Looking up, they see a dragon roasting a fox's backside over a small flame.

"You broke the shopkeeper's favorite vase. I'll make you braised pork!"

"Hey, hey, Piers, don't threaten customers with a spoon!"

"Cabbage head, get back to work! No slacking off!"

"What are you looking at? Never seen a dragon before?!"

The passerby shakes their head like a rattle drum. "Never."

"Zand, there's a delivery order."

"Huh? I can't fly right now. You want me to walk there?"

The boy thinks for a moment. "Electric scooter?"

"I'm a brilliant, suave, and elegant angel, and you want me to deliver food on an electric scooter?! Do you even have one?"

The boy frowns. That does seem like a good point.

A few minutes later...

A video appears online of a cabbage flying through the sky on a sword, carrying milk tea and coffee.

"I only came here on vacation. How did your world end up like this?"

"It's just a game, Elaine."

"Then I'm leaving. Goodbye."

"Don't go! If you open a shop, I'll send you employees."

The boy stares at the ball of light before him.

"You're sending me junk?"

"That's easy for you."

The boy considers it, then skips over the ball of light.

"I'll take this one, then."

"Can I ask why?"

"It wants to live."

[Reader Advisory]

▼ I revise the novel constantly.

▼ The shopkeeper has no name and is at the top of the food chain.

▼ There are crossover elements, but not many. The story is mainly about the two characters from Aotu in a "peaceful" world and their coffee shop. They won't take part in conflicts between various factions, and the shop is a point of balance, so comparisons of combat strength are prohibited!

▼ The setting is a hodgepodge of worlds. Anything can happen.

▼ Why Piers and Zand? Because the author likes them and wants to see them get bossed around ( ' - ' * ). Expect both persecution and favoritism.

▼ The characters may be slightly out of character or completely unrecognizable. If you don't like it, don't read.

▼ The shop isn't an ordinary one, so there's no scientific logic.

Theme: Live freely and enjoy life.