Back To the Beginning
Phoenix
A voice came from behind us calling out to us, from his voice he was a man. Surprised and curious about what happened, we reflexively turned our eyes back.
Sure enough, on the other end there appeared a man wearing a dark dress running small while raising his right hand, hoping we would follow his words, whereas on his left hand he carried a hat on his chest.
"How is this, Arthur? Are we gonna stop?" whispered Noland towards me.
"What can we do, we have to ask what it means. Maybe there's something important" I assured Noland.
Chloe who was being held by Noland tightened her grip because she felt scared.
Well, if you look at the man with his clothes all dark at night and the condition of the quiet road is a little suspicious and scary for young children.
We stopped our footsteps and turned our heads toward the man with Chloe already safely behind us. Seeing that, the man who had been running small towards us started to slow down his speed and started to walk casually towards us. It was close enough, the man took some distance knowing our suspicions.
"Thank you for stopping" said the man, a little bored.
"If you could know, who would you be? and what's the reason you called us?" ask me to ask her identity and why.
"I'm a resident here, I live near here. Take it easy, I don't mean to be bad. I just want to offer you a job at my workplace." The answer.
"Where do we know it's true?" I asked him with a suspicious face.
Hearing my question the man grabbed something from inside his suit and picked up an object, looking like a folding wallet. Knowing that our suspicions were still not lost, he stuck the object towards us while still taking some distance. It took a few steps to take that thing from him. After I took it, I opened it to see the contents. This object has an identity card of the worker with his name, position, and place of work.
"So, Mr.Jhon. What kind of work do you offer?" ask after knowing his identity.
"Honestly, I didn't know about it, I was just told to stop you. Let my boss do the talking."
"Right? where's your boss?" tanya Noland looked to the left-right looking for the superior he meant.
"Wait a minute, he'll probably be a little late... Uh! that's him" he said after looking back.
Looking in the direction he meant, we looked far behind him. At the place where this man came from earlier, another man appeared from a distance. The man was dressed in dark clothes, wearing a hat over his head, and he walked using the help of a small stick of support on one side of his body. Even though he walked with a crutch, he walked very confidently towards us.
Arriving beside the man, he placed the stick in front of his body and grabbed his hat and placed it in front of his chest.
"It's nice to meet you guys. I'm Edwyn Wolf, I'm the owner of the Phoenix company" he said.
"Does this company really exist?" I just can't believe it.
"Hey, be polite to him!" mr.jhon.
"It's okay, Jhon... Looks like you're newcomers to this kingdom, right? If so, as Jhon has said. I invite you guys specifically to work at our company" he said.
"Yes, that's right... Can I first ask? why would the owner of the company bother to invite us specifically directly to this dark and desolate condition?."
"Yes, sorry for arousing suspicion in you... Let me give you the reason... I'm interested suddenly in you guys."
"About what?"
Receiving my question, he responded by directly turning his gaze towards Noland beside me who had from earlier listened to the conversation.
"You may know what your name is?"
"I?!" noland answered with confusion. "... I'm Noland Filibert. What's wrong with me?"
"If you may know...what things did you wear when you left the restaurant?"
"Heh?! ... Arthur," he said annoyedly at me.
"That's our perfume. What's the problem with that?" say answer.
Noland took the perfume out of his pocket and passed it to my hand with a look of annoyance.
"It's Perfume... Can I touch it?"
"I'm sorry but, this is our precious item. We can't hand it over to just anyone."
"Well if you say so. You will be here to work for my company for a special salary. But instead, you must give me the perfume."
"I'm sorry, but it's still not enough" I said, showing off the perfume on my left hand.
"Hey! You should know that the Phoenix company is a big company that is very coveted by people to work there! It was a foolish choice to reject this special offer!" said Mr.Jhon infuriated with my answer.
I could see the look on the face of the owner of the Phoenix company was very confused by my answer I was giving earlier. He may think that only with his company status can he get whatever he wants.
"Include me, I'm Arthur and my friend Noland. We're both Mr. Meinhard's contract partner from Monte Rosa!"
"Mr.Meinhard?!!"
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Two months had passed in Monte Rosa and we were forced to work by Mr. Meinhard. We were really exhausted, because sometimes the things he asked for were very strange and made me have to push myself past my limits.
By the way, I recently rose to 13 years old, I never thought I would be celebrating at Monte Rosa, but that's pretty good too. Despite only a birthday, there remains no mercy from Mr. Meinhard for me. Therefore I had to force myself to stay up a few times to fulfill his request, forcing me to like what I did not like, and other such things. He gave that feeling to us. We don't want to grow up fast!
Inside Mr.Meinhard's office, Noland and I were discussing a plan for marketing Mr. Meinhard's stuff, although it was quite tiring, but over time it was a little exciting. Sometimes when given things that level under our daily activities, we finish it quickly and get a little bored because it is too easy. So, given the absurd is a little exciting and challenging.
On the sidelines of our work, Mr. Meinhard from his desk said something to us.
"Hey, Arthur and Noland. From your current performance it's possible that you can leave Monte Rosa sooner than you think."
"really?! I finally got out of this job!" I was happy and a little joking.
"Huh... You used to say that to your job that gave you money. Remember, even if you leave Monte Rosa... You are obliged to work at my command" said Mr. Meinhard arrogantly.
"Well, Mr. Meinhard," answered me and Noland.
"And one more thing, I basically strongly refuse you to go anywhere else while you have a contract with me..."
"Why is that?" ask Noland.
"Well, that's because I'm famous in all kinds of places and it's very dangerous for you who might be harmed by those who envy me..."
"Hui, his arrogant attitude began to emerge." I joked.
"... But that's the truth. This is special to you, Arthur!"
"Heh?! how me?"
"You're definitely going to use my name to ease your way, right? That's fine, but it's very risky considering that a lot of people may have a selfhood of me."
"By the way, why didn't Mr. Meinhard just make more friends?" ask Noland.
"It's definitely because he's lazy to make friends! he's anti-social!" my answer.
"Not lazy to be friends! I just don't have time for that" she replied.
Hearing Mr. Meinhard's reply, Noland and I laughed in his study.
"After all, I basically refused your departure because of that... But after knowing your next destination I became a little calm."
"Hm? What's in Breithorn?" ask Noland.
"As I said, I rarely make friends. But that doesn't mean I don't have friends, does it? In Breithorn, I had a friend who was close enough, we had already done many work agreements. Because of his existence I'm starting to be a little sure to let you guys off there."
"Heh... Mr. Meinhard's friend, I want to know" Noland said.
"But how does that guarantee our safety? We don't know the location anyway."
"Just relax, you'll see him."
"Why are you sure?" my many.
"Insting entrepreneurs" the answer is short.
"That can't be a guarantee! In such a vast kingdom, there is only a small possibility that we will meet him, one person out of hundreds of thousands of people there," I said still in disbelief.
"Trust me, you'll meet him. The company has a very wide scope and surely the people there know about it" Mr. Meinhard assured me.
"How's he?" asked Noland who looked curious.
"He is a very proud man of his company. You'll easily identify him because he has a Phoenix pin on his chest..."
"Phoenix.." said Noland.
"Use my name if you need anything" said Mr. Meinhard.
