Second: On Zaenosh

(Author's Note: Characters in Zaenosh speak different language, I translated directly. LOL)

Light-years away from Eurie's room on Earth was a bright galaxy of Kinsmoth where *Cheus System owned a planet called Zaenosh, the fifth planet; on it was *West Water, the smallest continent where Manton was stated. Manton was on the northeast part of West Water and the smallest landlocked country on Zaenosh. Manton only had four provinces and a city. The city was Aioro and in one of its bustling street were two young men moving swiftly from the crowd. Each was wearing coat which designs were prominent only on Zaenosh. Their backs were equipped with perilous weapons: two silver firearms for Jace and a black stout sword for Kaizer.

"Mister! You look so freezing cold! Try this blue potion I personally made, it will warm you...."

"This city is popular for my invisible ink..."

"Buy one and you'll take three of my dunking balls..."

“If you don’t want to be a goblin’s supper, try this charm…”

The street was noisy, expected for this time of the day was the warmest hours that people could get outside to shop. It was not winter in Manton, 7 degrees Celsius was just the normal temperature considering that summer here was approaching. There were also travellers that were passing by the country and Aioro was the best place to stay in. For this, important roads were usually connected to smaller streets like this one where hotels, restaurants, stores and shops branched out.

"He went in that pink house, Kaizer," the man who was leading the way said. Still walking, he waited for his partner to react but he expected for nothing.

"Kaizer we're....Kaizer?" He asked with his knotted eyebrows looking for a red-haired man. But there’s no red-haired man to be found. In annoyance, he tousled his brunet hair while cussing, 'where the hell is that mosquito head?!'

"Looking for me?"

"Uggh! Where the hell have you been?"

 "Just bought cloud cream," Kaizer said innocently then shrugged.

"Hah! So you prioritized that cloud cream?"

"Well, this cloud cream is good. It melts in my mouth with warmth---" Kaizer didn't continue talking because his companion was really erupting now. It was hard to make him angry. His cooking was the best Kaizer had ever known and making him angry was never a good choice if you wanted a great supper.

 "Okay, my bad. I'll just..." Kaizer saw a little girl walking and then he gave his ice cream to her.

"....no more cloud cream now, 'Grandpa Jace'," he said mocking, shaking his hands up.

"He found a Lytel dragon of his kind on the park. He said he'll just hang out there."

The two proceeded to the pink house Jace was talking about. It was a hotel, but unlike any other hotel, prostitution was vulgar in this place. At the ground floor was a restaurant where lady entertainers sung and danced as their customers told them. Their curvaceous body was almost naked in the thin linen clothing that poorly covered their privates. Jace watched them with pity. It was not his first time to see such prostitution but it never made him feel used to it.

"Are they not cold?" Kaizer asked.

 "There's a potion given to them that make this poor ladies forget their body necessities: hunger, pain, cold – whatever. It’s illegal but I doubt rules govern here," Jace answered.

"Tsk, and the city government ignores it."

The two walked in further. Servicemen and waiters were busy walking from left to right of the place. The restaurant was too crowded, no free tables could be seen neither an area to sit on. The two eyed the restaurant tables and found no hint of their target. They wanted to ask people who were passing by but nobody seemed like approachable. The only free people to talk to were the receptionists.

 'Of course! It is the receptionist', Jace scolded himself.

"Welcome to Cold Paradise! How may I help you gentlemen?" The receptionist was a fat woman on her thirties, pale skinned and grey-eyed, just like typical West Water citizen. She was wearing her nicest smile for she knew that Kaizer and Jace were young folks – fresh men to flirt with.

"We're looking for Bum Pan. Give me the keys of his room," Kaizer commanded the receptionist as he leaned aggressively to the countertop. The receptionist was pushed aback. It was not every day that she could encounter such a bossy stranger who was not knowledgeable enough that as a receptionist she kept their customers privacy first.

"I-I'm sorry Mister, I'm not allowed to give room keys unless I'm told to do so."

"Tsk! I don't care, just gi---"

"Ah, ah, ah," Jace entered the scene pulling Kaizer and tapping him like saying 'I got it'.

"My fellow friend is really...a little bit of irritating. But, I am very sure 'Milady' that we meant no harm," Jace said sincerely in the eyes but not in his heart. He leaned smoothly on the countertop, putting his hand on the woman's earlobe to tuck some hair falling down and when he pulled back his arm, he was holding a red flower that looked pale having it in front of the woman's blushed face.

"Ah..ahmm, I was...I was really not---"

"Just tell us the room number and we will knock politely. Bum Pan is our long lost friend and we are really excited to see him now," Jace pleaded grabbing the woman's hands. At his back was Kaizer whose face was blank, 'What a dirty gameplay!' he wanted to shout.

"O-Okay. Okay...room 302, the second room in fifteenth floor," the woman whispered flirtatiously. Jace thanked the receptionist and the two of them walked to the elevator.

"Since, when you got interested to baby fats?" Kaizer asked Jace as he pushed the bright button in the elevator that would lead them to the third floor.

The elevator was powered with water magic, maybe because to thrift electricity. It lifted upward when the opposite tube was emptied with water and plummeted downward when the water lifting the elevator puked back to the opposite tube. The water changed color for each time and it somehow added to the liveliness of the hotel. Watching the smooth tornado-like sipping of the water, Jace answered.

"Just now,” he said proudly.