Welcome to Gatori Cafe

Liam and Johan had also left. Now I'm all alone and don't know what to do. The house is already clean. There are no laundry to do. They said a soul was assigned to do the chores except for cooking. The same soul also bought me 5 sets of clothes similar to what I was wearing but just in different colors. Although I never met it yet.

I realized I never got a proper look of the house yet so I decided to wander around.

The only entrance is the elevator directly 3m away from the living room. To the right of the elevator is the only exit which is the stairs going up. Few steps to the other side of the living room is the dining area beside a counter bar. The counter bar is the only separator to the kitchen.

To the back of the living room, is a wide hallway with four doors, which is our bedrooms. The end of the hallway actually has a dummy waiter lift. I've never seen anyone used it before. To the front of the living room, it has another hallway. But this time it only has two doors.

First door is a training or gym room. This must be how they keep their body fit. The second one welcomed me with the scent of paper and wood. It's a library. I actually like reading. One of the reasons why I like cafes is because it is a place where I can get good food while reading in peace.

There are different kinds of books here. Mostly are similar to what humans have. So I guess they have access to human literature too. I'm sure they wouldn't mind me reading these books, right?

After looking at the bookshelves, I suddenly felt the hunger and decided to have lunch first.

"Are they also having their lunch right now? If they're eating out, does that mean there are restaurants out there?" Maybe after getting used to Gatori Cafe. I could ask them to tour me around the purgatory.

But is it safe for me outside? They said there are good souls and bad souls are not really bad. But with their stories, it seems like there are a lot of Angels of death. It can just mean two things. Peace and order are kept ,or there's a lot of chaos going on. If it's the latter, they might come home tired.

An idea suddenly came to me.

"What if... I cook today's dinner?"

The kitchen pantry is full. I can cook anything with the ingredients available. Let me see. Meat, of course. I can cook steak. I can also make seafood tofu stew. I layed the ingredients I think I need at the counter.

I boiled water, put the seafood, and other ingredients. I remember my mother putting the tofu last so I'll do that later. Meanwhile I'll start cooking the steak.

The boiling seafood is actually starting to smell good. I can also say the same from the aroma of the steak. In the middle of cooking, I heard a ding.

" Was that from the kitchen?" The sound didn't reoccur.

It just hit me late, but it was the sound of the elevator. I quickly turned around. The elevator is still closed. No, but I'm sure I heard it.

clack ~ clack~

Now what I'm hearing is similar to tiny steps. I tried getting closer to where the sound is coming from. It's from our bedrooms.

As I was about to arrived at the corner, a black tiny figure appeared. I screamed as my first response and it also screamed and ran towards the end af the hallway. The dummy waiter lift is open. The ding I heard earlier was from this elevator and not the main elevator.

"Wait!"

The tiny figured stopped before it hops on the lift. It turned around.

"Bah!" The first thing it said in a cute little voice. If I look closely, it looks like a cute baby goat. It's using its two hind legs to stand like humans do. "Bah!" He added.

"Stop. Don't move." I said as I slowly approach it.

"Bah! Bah!" It just keeps on repeating as he bows like he's apologizing.

I sat in front of it and patted its head.

"Bah?" It tilted its head with confusion. So cute.

I just smiled at it but it suddenly jumped and headbutt me. It hurts. I can feel my forehead stinging.

"Can you understand me now?" The Bahs are now replaced with words.

"You can talk?"

"No. When I headbutted you, I formed a link with you so now my Bahs are automatically translated to your speech."

"Oh I see. But does it have to be a headbutt?"

"Bah! It's the only way."

"Okay. So now can I know what you're doing here? You can't tresspass. Do you know whose residence this is?"

"Ah! Let me introduce myself. Bah! My name is Tan Tan. I am the familiar soul who takes care of the household chores of this house. I am sorry for scaring you earlier, Lady mistress."

"Lady mistress?!"

"Bah! Sir Liam said the Lady mistress of the house gets easily scared by the other souls" Does Liam have to call me that? Now others are using it too. " So he told me to make sure I only come here when no ones around. Since it's a Thursday, I thought everybody will be outside at this hour. "

He sounds dejected. " I'm sorry. Am I going to be punished? "

"No it's okay. I don't mind you coming over when I'm around but please call me Eugene instead."

"Ah. No. That would be disrespectful. Lady Mistress is Lady mistress." Well, thanks Liam for giving this nickname. "I think I should go now and come back another day."

"Why not stay for dinner?"

" Speaking of dinner, I think Lady mistress should go back to what you're doing." Tantan jumped on the elevator. "Your dinner might burn I can smell it. Also, please don't tell anyone we've met."

As soon as the elevator closed, I hurriedly went back to the kitchen. The steaks look charcoaled. The stew's liquid is already halved and some ingredients are sticking to the bottom of the pan. I mixed the stew and some of the ingredients are slightly burned. I just added water to let it boil again but this time I've already added the block of tofu.