The café owner

He muttered curses as he stared on the large pile of documents stacked up on the table in front of him. A fortune would be needed to resolve the situation described and caused by these documents, unfortunately an impoverished café-owner like him had no way to afford even a small fraction of this fortune.

“We are going to have to sell the café and move to the wildlands.”, after some deliberate thoughts he could only feel defeat. There was absolutely no way he could turn the tables. Ultimately, he was still forced to give up.

“Then that’s what we are going to do.”, a soothing female voice suddenly came from behind him.

“Lio you know it isn’t your fault. They want your property, so they sabotaged our business. How could you have competed with three of the four largest families in the city?”, the young woman behind him said.

Lio turned his head to face her. His expression was a mixture of shame and regrets.

“I could have escaped the trap if I had noticed fast enough!”, he said with an indigent expression.

“You didn’t have the experience. Who could expect something like that from an immature, young boy that had just turned 14 at that time?”, the girl retorted whilst shaking her beautiful head.

Lio made an ironic smile.

“Well, Rei, guess your father thought I was mature enough. After all he gave you and Siina to me, making you my slaves! He decided that I was mature enough to control your entire future and god was he wrong!”

Rei was silent for some time. Then she shook her head again.

“No matter what you say, it wasn’t your fault. But that is not important anymore. What happened, happened. We need to look into the future and decide what we are going to do once you sold the café.

Without owning land in the valley, we will be forced to leave. In that case I should pick a peaceful area in the wildlands and prepare our move there.”

Lio looked at her silently. He knew that she was right, but his mood was to foul to even think about the future right now.

“I really did not deserve someone as beautiful and intelligent as you.”, he depressively looked at the ground.

“But you are right. We should think about our move to the wildlands.

That is…”, he stocked and lifted his head to look directly into Rei’s eyes.

“If you really want to follow me into this abyss and give up any chance to remain in the ancestral valley.”, he did not say it, but his tone of voice made it clear.

In his opinion she and her sister should stay here and search for a new master.

Rei’s expression turned bitter and her brown eyes narrowed.

“If you really think of us like this, you should really just go alone.”, she gave him a hurt look and turned around to walk out of the room.

Lio sighed deeply. To him it felt like he was slowly descending into a swamp of despair. Struggling, fighting, trying to think of a solution, whilst knowing that there truly was none.

He felt tired.

Suddenly he heard loud footsteps and a high, girly voice.

“Lio, don’t take my sister’s words seriously!”, a sixteen years old girl came running through the door.

She was about 1.7 meters high and had the same, slender but curvy build as her older sister. And just like her older sibling she too was only wearing a cloth around her hips and a red collar around her neck.

Moderately large, uncovered breasts bounced a little as she stormed into the room, her face flushed and her eyes slightly tearing up.

She ran straight towards Lio and almost threw herself into him, only to slow down and wrap her arms around his head, pushing it against her chest. The poor guy almost suffocated between her lumps of flesh as she tightly embraced him.

“Don’t leave us! Please, take us with you to the wildlands!”, Siina pleaded desperately, tears further building up in the corners of her eyes.

Lio managed to get an arm between himself and the breasts, pushing her slightly away from him to get the direly needed fresh air.

“C-calm down.”, he said after breathing in a few times.

“No one is going to leave you behind.”, feeling livelier after this sudden attack on his life, he rustled through Siina’s hair and calmed her down.

“We are going to manage somehow.”, he knew that it would be harder than it sounded.

But he was going to try it either way.