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Chapter 80 - Head Quarter

Nixxin stared at a chessboard. "That guy, Pete William, is he some kind of special botanist?"

Util sighs and flips the board. Nixxin looks at Util, who just stood up. "Nahhh... He is just some kid in school."

Nixxin picks up the pieces. "Where did you see him?"

Util opened the door. "I saw him when I brought Vin to his school."

He goes out of the room; he is going to teach the new gardener they have. Nixxin looks outside; he closes the board and puts it on the edge of the room. Nixxin goes out to see the new kid they have. "Around my age, huh?" He is a tiny man; I wonder what he does in his life.

While reading at a library, a siren suddenly alarms them. Nixxin stands up to see the time; he opens the window to see what's going on, but he sees everyone going inside the headquarters.

Nixxin opens his feet in the window and flies; he widens his wings and glides down to the headquarters near the gate and cafe. Nixxin follows the bodyguard of the graveyard; he enters the headquarters and sees everyone.

They're very serious inside. This place is quite large, huh? Nixxin sat beside Aeolous. "Hey, what's going on here?"

Aeolous looked at him. "I don't know; we just like seeing each other here."

Brundo started walking in the middle and looked around at the members of the graveyard. "So, as you all know, we have a new member named William Pete, but... we have bad news."

Nixxin looked around the headquarters; there were also kids inside; they could be Brundo's and Lando's children. Vin is also here; there are so many people living here now, unlike before when we were only five when that gay old man checked the graveyard, and when did that gay old man live here?

The room is filled with people now; there are bodyguards, the Brundo and Lando families, the new gardener, the barista, the cook, the bartender, and the waiters in the cafe and restobar. Why do these guys live here? Nixxin looks at Aeolous. "Since when did they live here?"

Aeolous looks very engaged with what Brundo is saying. "Which one?"

Nixxin looks around the room. "Everyone."

Aeolous looks at him. "It's when the graveyard owner allowed us to have a headquarters in here; that's why this headquarters is pretty large." Nixxin breath deeps for a second. This ruins my peace times.

Aeolous looks at Nixxin. "Actually, we also plan to have a healer or doctor in the guild; we just can't find someone right now."

Brundo looks at the people around. "The problem we had is that we get fewer and fewer missions... The guild from the sky city hogs all missions. If you guys don't know, the missions start in the sky city and pass to other cities in the whole continent, but since the sky city guilds took many missions, our mission was to fix this problem. The only solution we had was to have a new headquarters in the sky city, which is near Satsuegishii's house."

Nixxin remembers the time he woke up in Sats's house, of what happened to him inside the portal. "With the new headquarters, we will need new members at that place, but of course we'll put Sats and new members to lead it. I will also try to find someone to assist me in getting missions on the mission boards."

After an hour, what the... Nixxin stared at the room. How did this turn to be like this? Everyone was partying in the room, eating, playing, drinking, and talking. Util gives Nixxin a drink. "Sorry, man... But I don't drink."

Nixxin gives the bottle next to him, but the next man is the new gardener; he refuses it, and Nixxin just gives it to Aeolous, who's singing. He stops himself just to drink. It's going to be night. Who would guard the graveyard if everyone is drunk and will fall asleep? The kids can't do anything; they're just playing at the back, while Johan is with his friends watching movies.

Util looks at Nixxin. He saw Nixxin looking at Johan. "Those friends of Johan became our waitresses and waited; they're pretty good at it though. Well, they're also trying to learn how to fight; after all, they have our guild badge."

Nixxin picks up his badge; it was black and has a coffin with flowers, books, coffee, drinks, and foods. Nixxin puts it at his shirt back. "So they planned to make our guild bigger and bigger?"

Util drinks a bottle. "Not really, they said this family is already fine, but if they have to... They will."

Nixxin looks at the coffee, and then people around start dancing as Aeolous sings a song. Nixxin turns his head to the gardener. "William Pete, why did you join our guild?"

William is very anxious and shy, but he still can talk; he just hides all of it inside. "I... I just need money so I can help my family, and also, this has free shelter and food. If I want to survive in the world, I just have to be a gardener in this guild, and there's a chance I will be one of the people who joins the guild before it reaches one year old."

Nixxin laughs at it. "Survive with that? Are you serious? Come on, that's a mediocre life. Look at the whole guild; it is big, but all of them have dreams. One day they will leave this place and have their own path. You can just dream."

William Pete lay on the floor; it suddenly summoned a thick foam. It is the Ulti's ability. Everyone is asleep, but William kept thinking of what Nixxin said, having a dream... What do I actually dream? It's not like a talented person or an extraordinary one... I'm not them. I'm just mediocre.

After William Pete waters the flowers, he looks at them; he still doesn't know what to dream of. His parents wanted him to just find a job that will make him have less work; that's why he loves gardening. He looks at everyone; they're going to school and going back to their work. They love what they live for; he also did, but the dream he has, he doesn't even know if he actually wants it.

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