Zhu Feng’s tea shop, while quaint and tranquil during mornings and noontime, really was dead as dirt during the evenings. Unlike Starbucks, which had the glorious wonders of free Wi-Fi for all coffee-sipping customers, Zhu Tea didn’t have such a miracle, and thus, it was pretty much dead after dinner time, outside of a few people getting take-out dim sum or sushi. Well, after a nice day of part-time work, it was nice to be paid to do nothing other than walk around the restaurant in a Chinese dress. Whistling a catchy tune as he placed chairs on tables and mopped the dark, wooden floor, Hoshiko looked wistfully out towards the other side of the street, where a cute freshman was chewing on the end of a pen inside the neighboring Starbucks. Her low-cut shirt made it clear that there was much to be desired for in the upper departments, but her legs were real nice: supple, long, and of a healthy, orange tan.

Did she do track? Or perhaps tennis? Her bob cut didn’t provide much answers, but hey, she was cute, so who cares?

Finishing up the last of the closing routine, Hoshiko stretched out with a yawn, before wondering if it’d be better if he tied his back into a masculine ponytail, or appealed to her maternal feelings by going for a twin tails look. The approach probably should be something good-natured though. A free cup of coffee, perhaps, before commenting on the course material? Hm, yeah that sounded about right, but…

[i]*BRRRRRRTTTT*[/i]

Flicking out his cellphone from…somewhere in his Chinese dress, Hoshiko tapped the screen a few times to bring up his messages, and sighed. Dangeki Pawn Shop again? Chaser meeting again? Well, it’s not like he had school tomorrow or anything, so…time to kill some bad guys!

Discarding his plans of a one-night stand with a coffeehouse customer, the feminine boy strode into the Employee’s Only section of the tea shop and began changing to more comfortable clothes. Today, he had kept it light and breezy, a stylishly oversized shirt and jean shorts, putting an emphasis on his obsidian hair and his long legs. Yeah, he was rather proud of those legs of his. Made him look way taller than he actually was, and had the perfect combination of soft and hard, so that they felt nice to touch, but still packed enough muscle that most Youkai wouldn’t be able to have a touch.

[b]“Heading out now, Master! Let’s bag ourselves an SSS tonight, alright~?”[/b]

With that, the cheerful boy made his way out of the building, pumping heroic J-Pop tunes into his ears as he broke out into a jog. While it wasn’t as if the Dangeki Pawn Shop was that far away Zhu Tea, he really did want to get to that oddity of a business first for once. While the first few instances he had attributed just to a lack of high-level missions, these days, the boy was fairly certain that someone has been sniping all the fun missions and keeping it for themselves. A-class was nice, and the few rare S-classes that he had the luck of picking up was great fun, but…SS class? SSS class? Bloody hell, he was thirsty as fuck for something super manly these days.

That fucking greedy shitstain speedster, hoarding all the Super Super Super jobs for himself…

There was, as always, already someone there when Hoshiko arrived, a fresh-faced teenager who looked like he was thoroughly confused as to how a door functioned. Smiling brightly as he stood beside him, Hoshiko pushed open the door and was greeted with a…surprise

[b]“Oh,”[/b] he said,[b] “Kucchan, where’s the others? Actually, no…”[/b]

Hoshiko narrowed his eyes at the message board, before his emerald eyes glittered like a starry galaxy, filled with super duper happiness!

[b]"I'll take that SSS! Yay!"[/b]