Util calls them silently, "Hey, Drei, Nixxin," sitting on a bench in front of Drei and Nixxin while looking at the shop behind his back.
Nixxin and Drei got alerted and approached him. "Did you see a potential shop?"
Util looks at a shop, and he sees a kid. The kid puts his hand below a metal shutter, then he uses his power to forcefully lift the metal shutter. Util looks at them back. "Let's go back to Aeolous, and I will tell the plan."
Util stood up back to the garden, and they all hurried to go back to the garden to talk about the plan with Aeolous. "Aeolous! We have a plan." Aeolous, while sitting in a chair, looks at them. They're exhausted after running to the garden; they're gasping for air, and then they slow down and approach Aeolous. They all sit on the ground behind the gate of the garden; the air is cold, breezing through their skin—the air in the garden is sweet with a scent of blooming flowers.
Util breathes deeply and looks at Aeolous's eyes. Aeolous gets confused by how serious Util's eyes are. "Oum... what happened?"
Util calms his breathing and himself before he says, "So I see one shop down the village."
Aeolous wonders what the topic is about and sits on the ground with them, and Util continues, "You see, the seller is actually a kid; he cannot protect himself, and there are thugs harassing his shop."
Aeolous nodded. "So are we going to protect that kid?"
Util propped up his hands pressed to the ground, and he continued, "Something like that, or we can call it a way of trading by giving him protection."
Aeolous thoughtfully smiles, then Util continues, "But he has to give us some discount or something like that."
Aeolous's smile vanishes, and he thought to himself, Of course these guys would have done these evil things.
Nixxin understood it and added an idea to the plan: "Since Aeolous is the guard of the garden, he cannot leave the garden right".
Aeolous nodded. "Of course I can't."
Drei thinks it was really unfair that Aeolous will do nothing. Nixxin continues explaining his idea, "And the shop opens at 7am to 4pm, which is 9 hours."
Drei looks at Nixxin with narrow eyes, finding Nixxin suspicious. "How the fuck do you know those things?"
Nixxin laughs, "Because it was written at the top of the shop."
Drei looks at the ground. "Oh yeah... That makes sense."
Nixxin continued, "So we part those 9 to three of us—the first 3, which is 7am to 9:59am, is mine, which means I will look over the shop at those times, because the other is more likely busy at those hours. While the next is Drei, which is 10am to 12:59pm; at those times no one actually visits their dead relative, while the last is Util from 1pm to 4pm."
Aeolous laughed, "Looks like I got nothing to do." Drei got so tired of hearing it that he had to do something.
Then Drei adds a suggestion: "What about this? At 12nn I will order foods for us, and Aeolous will take it, and Util will order foods for us at around 3:40pm. Util will order our dinner for night and breakfast for morning. Before Nixxin goes to the shop, he will eat first, so we have to adjust our breakfast from 8am to 6:30am. Then, you guys, Util and Nixxin, will wait at the gate at 12nn to make sure there's someone to welcome people and there are no thugs that will try to enter the garden while Aeolous isn't at the garden."
Aeolous stands up. "It's already 7:23am; I guess the shop is opening by now."
Nixxin is walking on the bridge going down; when he sees guys, he already judges them without knowing them. Those guys look like thugs—thugs usually group themselves and show that they're cool. As I expected, he sees them throwing trash everywhere, and they're ordering food without even paying and yelling at the kid. Then Nixxin approaches the store and orders at the store, "Can I buy random foods in here?"
The kid smiles, but for Nixxin, he sees the smile that hides something, as the smile has frightened eyes. "We have... beer noodle soup—that is 30."
Nixxin lays his arm on the counter. "Isn't this shop giving food for free?.
The kid glanced at the men behind Nixxin and stood there silently. "No, you've mistaken it; those guys bought what they're eating."
Nixxin looks at the men behind eating. "Hey man, is this shop free?".
One guy looks back and smiles. "Yes, it's free; don't worry about paying."
Nixxin looks again at the counter; the kid holds tight to a cloth. "I guess they will pay for it."
Nixxin smiles as he perfectly performs the plan. He shouts, "Hey guys, how much do you guys pay in this shop?"
Another guy looks at Nixxin. "That kid is very kind; we don't have to pay, man."
Nixxin stares at the kid still faking his smile. "Kid, why are we lying?"
The kid walks to the stove and fires it while Nixxin is standing at the counter. "I would like to pay you one-third of the price; in exchange, I will protect your shop from those thugs—there are only four of us, and those guys are more than us. They don't pay, while we will for one-third. Isn't that a good deal? And if we lose, don't worry, I won't blame you, and I will help you cook in here for free for one month. Is that fine?" He smiles almost a laugh; the deal is both win. If he loses, he gets a chance to learn recipes and how to cook, and if he wins, he will pay for one-third of the price.
Nixxin walks back and approaches the men at the table; there are five of them. Then Nixxin holds the guy's hair near to him. The guy looks at Nixxin and gets angry. Nixxin slams his head on the table. The table gets cracks, and its table feet and food are scattered on the ground. Nixxin stoops his body to pick up a table foot and hits it on the guy's face in front of him. Another guy punches him, but he uses the face of the man he holds in his left hand as a shield. He picks up the chopstick falling. Nixxin kicks the table in its feet. The table shields Nixxin from another punch, and he kicks the table, causing it to get destroyed completely, and the guy behind it receives a heavy hit. Nixxin pierces another guy's cheeks with the chopstick. The guy cries, blood flowing over his face and mouth, and the chopstick reaches another guy's cheeks, leaving a hollow in his face. "Tell all of your friends to meet me at the front of the graveyard garden." Another guy gets scared and runs away.
Then he's back at the counter; he picks up his wallet from his pocket, he opens it, and he looks inside. "Kid, how about I don't pay for now? I promise I will in the future."
The kid smiles at him, but his eyes look terrified, and he nods his hand trembling. Nixxin sits in a chair, feels the wind breezing over his skin, and looks at the sky above, cloudy and dark. "Kid, do you think it's going to rain?"
The kid looks back; he got confused. The kid scratches the back of his head. "Maybe you're a tourist in here, you see... No matter how dark the sky in here... It won't rain."
The kid breaths and continues, "There's no sunlight that enters this planet; all the light is biological, magical, or from technology—the brightest light that appeared in here is in a color of magenta when a queen enters this place." Nixxin stares at the kid.