Child of Destiny

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Shin and the others arrived in front of a restaurant with Jillian’s lead. They became very surprised when they arrived there since they did not expect the scene that they were going to witness.

There was no traffic of students in front of the restaurant like they were expecting. In fact, it seemed to be totally deserted. It did not seem to fit its reputation as one of the most famous restaurants within the academy and continent.

Jillian seemed to be able to read what they were thinking and quickly explained. “This is the Heaven Taste Restaurant. It may look a little deserted and don’t have many customers on the surface, but it is not because of what you are thinking.”

“This place looks like this because it did not accept any passing customers. Instead, it is only reserved for the customers who already booked a table or a room ahead of time.”

Molton thought for a moment and quickly added. “It is not because they are too biased to anyone. It is just they want to limit the number of customers that they have to accommodate. After all, no matter how good their service is, they still can’t accommodate countless costumers that will continuously flow through their doors.”

The others could not help but chuckle a little when they heard his explanation. Then Lorraine quickly asked. “If that is the case, then we also have to make a reservation before we can eat here, right?”

“Don’t worry. My sister and I are regular customers here and always book a room for us. The room is quite big, so it can accommodate all of us,” answered Molton.

“Will there be a problem? After all, you only book for two people. If you suddenly go over there with an extra number of people, don’t you think it will be against the rules or something?” asked Cloe curiously.

Jillian shook her head and answered. “It will be fine. Booking a private room is always meant for group gatherings or something similar. The restaurant will always put that in mind whenever they accept a room reservation.”

“The two of us are not used to eating with other people around. Even though the restaurant is only accepting reservations, it is always been fully booked, so there are always other people on the nearby table.”

“Even though there is quite a distance between the tables, Molton always felt a little uncomfortable eating with other people around, so we have no choice but to book a room instead even if there are only the two of us most of the time,” she explained, making her twin brother rather ashamed.

Then the group suddenly came to a realization. Then they started nodding their heads in agreement. They might be together with Molton for a short time but they already became familiar with his personality and habits.

At the same time, Shin suddenly noticed something and curiously asked. “If you are regular customers here, then the two of you are always been here? But I thought only students and faculties can enter the academy.”

“Ah! About that-… we are always been a student of the Magic Ace Academy. We are always been here since we are in younger age,” said Jillian.

She paused for a moment before quickly adding. “It is because of our connection within the school. Our grandmother is one of the head professors and an elder within the school, so she let us go to an affiliated school of the academy during our elementary and junior high days.”

“That explains why he is too familiar with the academy. He even knows a lot of things no matter how significant or insignificant they are,” commented Leonard with a quiet voice.

“But why is he always so shy and introverted if that is the case?” asked Arthur with a knitted brow.

Hearing that, Molton could not help but lower his head before answering. “Because I always have a very strict schedule. Aside from going to school and going back home, I’ve never been anywhere.”

“And-… and-… I don’t like crowded places. I also rarely socialized with my classmate, so-… so-…” his voice was getting quieter the more he talked.

Arthur could not watch, nor listen, anymore, so he quickly cut him off. “Alright, alright. We understand.”

“At least, you are trying to change now, which is important,” he added while patting the head of his junior brother.

“Let’s go,” invited Jillian as she led the way.

Meanwhile, Leonard could not take away his eyes from the name of the restaurant, especially when he found the design quite familiar.

Unable to hold his curiosity, he could not help but walk near Arthur before asking. “Hey, Arthur. Don’t you feel this place is quite familiar?”

Hearing that, Arthur knitted his brows quite deeply before shaking his head. He then looked at Leonard skeptically and asked. “What do you mean familiar? It is clearly our first time here, so how can it be familiar?”

He then paused for a moment before continuing with a joking tone. “Don’t tell me you worked here part-time before? You really are amazing.”

Leonard rolled his eyes as they entered the restaurant. And when they got inside, the sense of familiarity that he was getting grew. The atmosphere, the design of the interior, and other things were really giving him that sense of familiarity.

He was not the only one. Shin also could not help but furrow his brows as he surveyed the place with his gaze.

The two continued to sweep their gaze in the surroundings as they followed the waiter leading the way. And when they arrived and entered the reserved room, Shin and Leonard could not help but become shocked at what they saw.

The design of the private room was not only familiar, but it was also very similar to the place they usually went whenever they had the time.

But that particular place was not from the real world, but it was from a virtual world – inside a game to be more accurate. It was the place where they usually hung out and did some important meetings and that place could be found inside ?Destiny’s Fate? Online!

Even Arthur, who constantly denied Leonard’s words earlier, could not help but feel the same. He moved his eyes inside the room and found it quite hard to believe.

He then exchanged gazes with Shin and Leonard, only to find that they were all thinking the same.

“The design is very similar. Actually-… it is pretty much the same,” commented Leonard.

Then it was seconded by Shin. “The mixture of traditional and modern design. Cozy and relaxing that it can make you feel at home – it is really similar to that place.”

Leonard nodded in agreement. “We are quite a regular of that place, who will think that we will find something like this?”

“Maybe the rooms are personally designed by the owner or by someone who is hired for it,” said Shin.

Hearing the exchanges of words between the three, Molton and the girls could not help but look at them confusedly. They could not understand what they were talking about, which was why they were looking at the three with a questioning look.

“What are you three talking about?” asked Lorraine, unable to hold back her curiosity any longer.

Cloe, on the other hand, thought of something before sweeping her gaze at the surroundings. Then she suddenly got an idea of what they were talking about. She was not as frequent as the trio when visiting that place, so she was unable to quickly point it out. But now that she got a better and clearer look, she also found the two places were quite similar.

She nodded her head and voiced it out. “It is very similar to the Heavenly Resto-Bar inside the game.”

She then walked toward the table and examine everyone with her gaze before continuing. “Everything is almost identical. It is as if we are in the same place.”

Molton, Jillian, and Lorraine could still not get it since they were not regular customers of that particular place despite also being players of the game. Especially when the Heavenly Resto-Bar was only operating within the Saint Heaven Kingdom, which was not their main base of operation.

On the other hand, the waiter, who led them to the private room, immediately understood what these young people meant. He quickly walked in front of Arthur, who was the nearest to him, before asking. “Are Sirs players of ?Destiny’s Fate??”

Arthur finally cast his gaze at the waiter before nodding his head. “Yeah. We are regulars there.”

The waiter bowed at him before carefully asking. “Can I look at the customer ID that you have for our in-game branch, sir? We have special privileges for the players who are regularly visiting our place inside the game.”

Arthur slightly raised his brows in suspicion. But since the waiter was only asking for his customer ID instead of his in-game name, which was quite different, he did not mind giving it. ｂ𝚎ｄｎ𝚘ｖ𝚎𝚕．𝚘𝚛𝚐

He raised his right hand and tapped his advanced watch a couple of times. Then an ID number was suddenly projected by the watch together with its unique code.

Then the waiter quickly scanned it using his advanced watch and waited for a moment for the information to load. And when it was done, he quickly read the information, which made his eyes turn wide.

He saw a highlighted and golden ‘VVVIP’ label on the very bottom of the string of information.

He turned to Arthur and bowed even deeper before saying. “Can Sir wait for us for a moment? Our place will arrange special personnel to attend to your needs.”

Arthur was quite confused and could not help but turn to Shin and the others. Understanding his dilemma, Shin quickly answered. “Can you make it quick? We still have a class to attend after here, so our time is quite limited.”

“Absolutely, sir!” answered the waiter hurriedly, not daring to show any disrespect.

The Heaven Taste Restaurant had a special rule and all of the personnel working under it were very aware. Once an important customer from inside the game visited their restaurant, they had to show the utmost respect that they could give.

They were all confused about it, but since the owner himself gave that rule, they didn’t have a choice but to follow it.

After receiving consent from Shin, the waiter quickly bowed for another time before swiftly running out of the room, leaving the group very confused.

They were only here to eat, so what was with this situation?

Unable to fully comprehend what was happening, they looked at each other for a moment before shrugging their shoulder and taking their respective seats.

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