Brewed Awakening (Chapter 4)
“Good morning, Ninomiya-san. I have time this morning so I am looking forward to sitting here a while,” Ohno said and Nino lifted his eyebrow at the words.
“Good morning, Ohno-san. Slacking off, I see,” he replied. “May I take your order?”
“One Bewitched, please,” Ohno said pleasantly and put his cup down on the counter between them. “I brought my own cup again to safe the environment!”
Nino stared down Ohno when he come in and put his mug on the counter. He was so close to charging extra for the huge cup that the other brought but he wouldn’t want to give Ohno the satisfaction of knowing that he was contemplating it. He sighed and filled the cup with the right amount of coffee, putting it down to the side so that Ohno could fill it with his creamer.
“Anything else?”
“Do you have food?”
Nino lifted an eyebrow at the question and pointed to the glass front. “Those are not for decoration,” he said ironically. “I don’t put a bunch of plastic replicas anywhere that look nothing like the original things that I offer.”
Ohno snorted and then walked over to check the glass front. He found that the cakes looked good, but it was early and he was more in a mood for some breakfast style food. But he would definitely come back for some more sweets when he had the time in the afternoon. So he concentrated on the menu card to the side that had food that needed to be freshly made and hummed in appreciation as he found something.
And some more coffee as he was at it. “Oh, those devil’s eggs look good. I want one of those.”
“Sure,” Nino said with a sigh and punched both orders in the register before telling Ohno the total. “I bring it to your table in a bit.”
Ohno nodded and hummed as he prepared his coffee, happy with his choice and hoping it was at least half as delicious as his newly found favourite coffee.
“Oh, this is an amount of coffee I would need right now,” someone suddenly said, which made Ohno look up in confusion.
Nino rolled his eyes as he ignored the complaints and prepared the ordered coffee.
“Nino, are you playing favourites? You never said you had bigger cups! I want one of those.”
Nino snorted and pointed at Ohno accusingly, who smiled almost bemusedly. “This idiot brought this cup when I told him to bring a tumbler for a take-away coffee and to tell me when he would stay in before I fill a paper cup.” The man nodded in understanding, and Ohno was amused at the slight admiration in his face as Nino complained for a second about useless trash in their city. “So yes, Sakurai-san, those cups are not my normal ones and I won’t offer you one.”
“Even if I paid extra?” Sho asked with almost puppy dog eyes and Nino glared as he put the cup he had filled in front of him.
“I don’t pay extra,” Ohno hummed and almost laughed when Sho shouted in indignation.
“Ninomiya-san!”
“See it like that: I don’t go bankrupt thanks to my normal customers. If you all were like him, I won’t be here for much longer,” Nino snorted. “Bills don’t pay themselves. Also, even if I would consider it, I don’t have other cups like his.”
“I can bring one,” Ohno piped up and Nino glared at him, as Sho turned around and nodded.
“Yes, please,” he cheered and Nino rolled his eyes as he tended to the next customer instead of listening to these stupid ones as they went away to a table with Sho whining about long nights with deadlines in the early morning hours that he was almost late on and Ohno making soothing noises as they went.
Nino rolled his eyes, deciding that Sho either worked too much or was really bad at planning his time and work. He shook his head as he walked to the back for a second, warming up the bagel that Ohno had ordered as he cracked an egg in simmering water and finally assembled the ordered breakfast. On his way to the table, he took another cup of coffee and put it on the table with the plate before taking the now empty cup of Sho off the table.
“Someone ordered it and left without taking it. Either drink it or I’ll throw it away,” Nino said and turned around to take care of the other customers, ignoring Sho’s shout of delight as he sipped his second cup of coffee of the day and probably the 50th since he started on his sleepless work filled night.
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Ohno was smirking as he put his cup down on the counter, followed closely by a second slightly crooked red one. The rim was uneven and there was a bump on his handle that Nino was sure was not supposed to be there, again a clear sign of it being handmade.
“I am not going to fill two cups of those for you,” Nino said with a frown. “The coffee would be unswallowable by the time you finish the first cup and I am also not sure if I should allow you so much coffee in one go.”
Ohno was still smiling a bit stupidly at him as he shook his head. “Just this one for me,” he said moving the blue one forward. “It’s my favourite after all.”
Nino pointed at the second one with a lifted eyebrow. “And this is here because?”
“Oh! You brought me one,” Sho’s voice suddenly mixed into their conversation and Nino was close to scolding the man for skipping the line but then realised that Ohno was turning to Sho. He greeted him as if he was now a long-term friend and Sho grinned happily. “Good morning, Ninomiya-san. Ohno-san told me he would bring a cup for me, so you have one more. I would like to get a Witches Brew please and a Beelzebub Brownie. Oh, and I pay for Ohno-san’s order as well.”
Nino nodded mutely as he prepared the coffees and put the brownie on a plate while tuning out Sho and Ohno arguing over who was going to pay and if Ohno wanted something to eat as well. In the end, he was forced to prepare another Devil’s egg bagel since Sho couldn’t take a no as an answer apparently but in the end, Nino was glad when those two annoying and fussy customers were gone and sat at a table further away. He glared at them as they were disturbing his sinner peace and wiped the counter a bit more roughly than needed when two empty cups were put down in front of his fingers.
He looked up at Ohno who was peering down at him with a sleepy smile this time - comically almost after the amount of coffee he had, Nino thought - and traced the rim of the blue cup with the tip of his fingers.
“Ninomiya-san?”
“Yes, Ohno-san? Do you want seconds?”
“No, but I decided that drinking coffee here is the best. Better than taking it with me. So I thought about leaving these cups here. Sho-san also agrees it is the best plan.”
“So you expect me to not only fill bigger mugs than I normally sell but also to wash them? How is that environmental or making it less of a work?”
Ohno pouted at that. “You have so many cups to wash each day, these won’t even matter.”
Nino snorted but bit his tongue before he could rant about how they wouldn’t even fit well in the dishwasher beside the other cups. Nino rolled his eyes in the end and grabbed them without another word, Ohno smiled thankfully and then put a tip on the counter as a thank-you for the help.
Nino stared at the two mugs later that afternoon that now stood amidst the usual white mugs that he offered with a small shake of his head, not sure if he was happy or not for having them there.
“Good morning, Ohno-san. Slacking off, I see,” he replied. “May I take your order?”
“One Bewitched, please,” Ohno said pleasantly and put his cup down on the counter between them. “I brought my own cup again to safe the environment!”
Nino stared down Ohno when he come in and put his mug on the counter. He was so close to charging extra for the huge cup that the other brought but he wouldn’t want to give Ohno the satisfaction of knowing that he was contemplating it. He sighed and filled the cup with the right amount of coffee, putting it down to the side so that Ohno could fill it with his creamer.
“Anything else?”
“Do you have food?”
Nino lifted an eyebrow at the question and pointed to the glass front. “Those are not for decoration,” he said ironically. “I don’t put a bunch of plastic replicas anywhere that look nothing like the original things that I offer.”
Ohno snorted and then walked over to check the glass front. He found that the cakes looked good, but it was early and he was more in a mood for some breakfast style food. But he would definitely come back for some more sweets when he had the time in the afternoon. So he concentrated on the menu card to the side that had food that needed to be freshly made and hummed in appreciation as he found something.
And some more coffee as he was at it. “Oh, those devil’s eggs look good. I want one of those.”
“Sure,” Nino said with a sigh and punched both orders in the register before telling Ohno the total. “I bring it to your table in a bit.”
Ohno nodded and hummed as he prepared his coffee, happy with his choice and hoping it was at least half as delicious as his newly found favourite coffee.
“Oh, this is an amount of coffee I would need right now,” someone suddenly said, which made Ohno look up in confusion.
Nino rolled his eyes as he ignored the complaints and prepared the ordered coffee.
“Nino, are you playing favourites? You never said you had bigger cups! I want one of those.”
Nino snorted and pointed at Ohno accusingly, who smiled almost bemusedly. “This idiot brought this cup when I told him to bring a tumbler for a take-away coffee and to tell me when he would stay in before I fill a paper cup.” The man nodded in understanding, and Ohno was amused at the slight admiration in his face as Nino complained for a second about useless trash in their city. “So yes, Sakurai-san, those cups are not my normal ones and I won’t offer you one.”
“Even if I paid extra?” Sho asked with almost puppy dog eyes and Nino glared as he put the cup he had filled in front of him.
“I don’t pay extra,” Ohno hummed and almost laughed when Sho shouted in indignation.
“Ninomiya-san!”
“See it like that: I don’t go bankrupt thanks to my normal customers. If you all were like him, I won’t be here for much longer,” Nino snorted. “Bills don’t pay themselves. Also, even if I would consider it, I don’t have other cups like his.”
“I can bring one,” Ohno piped up and Nino glared at him, as Sho turned around and nodded.
“Yes, please,” he cheered and Nino rolled his eyes as he tended to the next customer instead of listening to these stupid ones as they went away to a table with Sho whining about long nights with deadlines in the early morning hours that he was almost late on and Ohno making soothing noises as they went.
Nino rolled his eyes, deciding that Sho either worked too much or was really bad at planning his time and work. He shook his head as he walked to the back for a second, warming up the bagel that Ohno had ordered as he cracked an egg in simmering water and finally assembled the ordered breakfast. On his way to the table, he took another cup of coffee and put it on the table with the plate before taking the now empty cup of Sho off the table.
“Someone ordered it and left without taking it. Either drink it or I’ll throw it away,” Nino said and turned around to take care of the other customers, ignoring Sho’s shout of delight as he sipped his second cup of coffee of the day and probably the 50th since he started on his sleepless work filled night.
-
Ohno was smirking as he put his cup down on the counter, followed closely by a second slightly crooked red one. The rim was uneven and there was a bump on his handle that Nino was sure was not supposed to be there, again a clear sign of it being handmade.
“I am not going to fill two cups of those for you,” Nino said with a frown. “The coffee would be unswallowable by the time you finish the first cup and I am also not sure if I should allow you so much coffee in one go.”
Ohno was still smiling a bit stupidly at him as he shook his head. “Just this one for me,” he said moving the blue one forward. “It’s my favourite after all.”
Nino pointed at the second one with a lifted eyebrow. “And this is here because?”
“Oh! You brought me one,” Sho’s voice suddenly mixed into their conversation and Nino was close to scolding the man for skipping the line but then realised that Ohno was turning to Sho. He greeted him as if he was now a long-term friend and Sho grinned happily. “Good morning, Ninomiya-san. Ohno-san told me he would bring a cup for me, so you have one more. I would like to get a Witches Brew please and a Beelzebub Brownie. Oh, and I pay for Ohno-san’s order as well.”
Nino nodded mutely as he prepared the coffees and put the brownie on a plate while tuning out Sho and Ohno arguing over who was going to pay and if Ohno wanted something to eat as well. In the end, he was forced to prepare another Devil’s egg bagel since Sho couldn’t take a no as an answer apparently but in the end, Nino was glad when those two annoying and fussy customers were gone and sat at a table further away. He glared at them as they were disturbing his sinner peace and wiped the counter a bit more roughly than needed when two empty cups were put down in front of his fingers.
He looked up at Ohno who was peering down at him with a sleepy smile this time - comically almost after the amount of coffee he had, Nino thought - and traced the rim of the blue cup with the tip of his fingers.
“Ninomiya-san?”
“Yes, Ohno-san? Do you want seconds?”
“No, but I decided that drinking coffee here is the best. Better than taking it with me. So I thought about leaving these cups here. Sho-san also agrees it is the best plan.”
“So you expect me to not only fill bigger mugs than I normally sell but also to wash them? How is that environmental or making it less of a work?”
Ohno pouted at that. “You have so many cups to wash each day, these won’t even matter.”
Nino snorted but bit his tongue before he could rant about how they wouldn’t even fit well in the dishwasher beside the other cups. Nino rolled his eyes in the end and grabbed them without another word, Ohno smiled thankfully and then put a tip on the counter as a thank-you for the help.
Nino stared at the two mugs later that afternoon that now stood amidst the usual white mugs that he offered with a small shake of his head, not sure if he was happy or not for having them there.