Chapter 282: Say please.

"Look how the mighty has fallen." Haru thought to himself with a sigh leaving his lips curled up into a smile as he rested his head on the counter and awaited his first customer. The cafe had a couple of people inside that were already seated and enjoying their food, but they had all been served by the woman who Luke had instructed to teach Haru.

Suddenly the door to the cafe opened. A group of five young boys who looked to be around fifteen or sixteen years old walked in and approached the counter.

"Okay, now do everything that we went over before." The woman said and then waited for Haru to start talking.

"Hello, what can I get for you today?" Haru said with a smile. He felt excited. They were going to be his first customers, after all, and he wanted to leave a good impression so he wouldn't ruin his father's cafe's reputation. But before he could even finish what he was saying, one of the boys interrupted him.

"Get me two chocolate milkshakes and three strawberry ones." The boy said bluntly, not even bothering to ask nicely.

Haru remained silent and took a minute for the boy to correct his mistake.

"Are you okay? Why are you staring at me?" The boy asked as he looked up to see Haru looking down at him without saying so much as a word.

"Hey, You are supposed to take down a note of what he said and then start making the order." The woman who was training Haru whispered under her breath.

"Jeez, kids these days have no manners, do they?" Haru said to himself as he turned to make the order for them despite the fact the boy hadn't even bothered to say please.

"What did you just say?" The boy asked in a threatening tone.

"Haru, try not to insult the customers please it will give us a bad reputation." The woman advised him once again, so reluctantly, he stopped himself from saying anything.

Haru filled up five cups from the milkshake machine and then took them over to the counter to where the five boys were waiting and giggling amongst themselves.

"Here you go. That will be one thousand three hundred yen." Haru forced a smile and said what he had rehearsed as he placed the cups down on the counter.

But as soon as he did so, the boy who had shouted in a threatening tone grabbed one of the drinks and then pushed it over, causing the milkshake to spill all over the counter and Haru's apron.

"Oh, sorry, my hand slipped." The boy said before he even decided to push the drink, making it even more apparent that he did it on purpose.

"Okay, that's it, you little shit. Let me beat you in place of your parents." Haru said to himself and then began to take off the apron.

"Ha, I'd like to see you try." The boy said with a smile until a younger boy from the group stepped out with short blue spiked up hair.

"Come on, guys. Don't you think that this was your fault for being rude? He isn't a slave. You could have just said please, it wouldn't have hurt, would it?" The younger looking boy said with a frown.

"Shut up, Peter. I was nice. I decided to get you a milkshake too. But it looks like I have to beat you some more later, don't I?" The older boy said with a smile before looking back up at Haru, who had just finished taking off his apron.

"Come on. Come outside. I dare you." The boy who had spilt the drink said while taunting Haru.

'Who does this little bastard think he is?' Haru thought to himself with a smile. He wondered what kind of drugs he must have gotten his hands on to give him so much courage.

"Sure, after you," Haru said with a smile and then gestured to the door. Four of the boys smiled as their eyes began to light up with excitement. But the one known as Peter and the one who had stood up for Haru remained in the store alone.

"I'm so sorry for this, miss. They aren't good people. You should probably call the police before that man gets hurt." Peter said to the woman who had begun to clean up the mess on the counter.

"I wouldn't be worried about him. His father told me many stories about him, so I doubt a few children could do anything. Are you doing okay, though? They said that they were going to beat you again. They're not really your friends, are they? The woman asked Peter with a look of concern.

"I guess so." The boy said and then picked up a napkin and helped clean up the mess.

"Okay, follow us then. I will show you what happens when you disrespect a student from Tokyo international school for mages." The boy leading the group said and then walked outside.

"Okay, sure, sure, let's do it," Haru said with a smile and then watched as all four of the boys stepped outside before walking to the door himself and then locking it with a latch.

"Have fun." Haru smiled and waved at the window and watched as the boys looked at each other with confusion before realising what had just happened.

A few of the customers that were watching laughed to see that Haru didn't stoop down to their level and got them to leave the store without anyone getting hurt. It was admirable in their eyes.

"Hey, come outside, you coward! I bet you know that you will get beaten up. That's why your hiding inside, isn't it?" The boy shouted once again to amuse his friends while trying to provoke Haru into fighting them, but he wasn't interested in bullying children.

He was initially going to frighten them into trying to correct their bad behaviour. Still, he figured that for people like that, it was better that they learnt the hard way, and he was confident that they would soon learn their lesson without him even needing to lift a finger.

"Ha! You are just a cowardly fast-food worker. I bet that you don't even know how to use magic. People like you really deserve to die!" The boy shouted once again when suddenly a flash of light shot from his hand, followed by a large rock that struck the window and shattered the glass.

'Okay, Now this changes things.' Haru thought to himself before turning around and unlocking the door. But as soon as he did, one of the customers ran outside in front of him and tackled the boy to the ground.

"You're under arrest for destruction of property. Don't try to resist." A middle-aged man wearing a grey suit said while sitting on top of the boy's chest before putting him in handcuffs.

"That's convenient. Who would have thought that a police officer would be here?" Haru said with a smile as he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Well done for not doing anything illegal, or we might have had to arrest you also. Say you're pretty built for a boy of your age. What do you do for a living other than work here?" Haru turned to see a man who was much taller than he was with rippling muscles that were so defined that his clothes struggled to hide them.

"Not much. I just like to exercise." Haru replied. He downplayed what he did to not cause concern by saying he was a cultivator, but he felt like the man in front of him was pretty strong also.

Although he didn't have any characteristics of a cultivator, his body was full of mana which signified that he was pretty good at using magic.

During his time back in Japan, Haru had been testing out the differences between magic and Qi, and he determined that a mana pool was similar to a Dantian. It could hold mana, although it couldn't use the Qi within the mana to strengthen the body.

He theorised that the reason Li Jun said that he would have to give up on magic to become a cultivator is that a dantian couldn't exist alongside a mana pool, but it looked like it didn't need to since mana was technically just traces of Qi that had combined with the air.

He could see mana pools with his spiritual sense just as he could see someones dantian, and the man in front of him had the largest mana pool that he had seen since waking up.

"You exercise? It's unusual for people to exercise these days since they think everything can be solved using magic, but they don't know that exercise and magic go hand in hand." The man smiled and then looked down at Haru.

"You know, you should think about joining the military. You are calm under stressful situations, and you were able to direct their attention towards you so that no one else would get hurt or targeted by those delinquents. You have the qualities of a good team leader.

Magic is becoming less important these days since we invented magic weapons, so if you are concerned about your magic capacity, you will be fine." The man said with a smile.

"Mills. Don't even think of trying to recruit my son. He's too smart to go to war like, unlike his old man." Luke walked out of the office to see that Haru was talking to a man that he recognised.

"Kitagawa? He is your son, but he looks nothing like you?" The large man turned and said with a chuckle as he saw Luke walking towards him.

"So I'm told," Luke said before patting Haru on the back.

"Clean up, for now, and you can tell me what happened later," Luke said while looking at the glass all over the floor.