Jade & Latte
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"I'm confused, you can easily agree to those terms...."

"What's wrong ? they both live here to be safer, who knows the dark crows will attack them again."

"Yes but this place is small, where maybe we add more people. If they stay here, where will I sleep ?"

"It's Jade, after all, you rarely sleep in your room. Just let River and Eliza use your room, keep you sleeping in the living room."

"You're really yes."

"Just forget the business of them staying here, tomorrow they come while carrying their belongings. Just tidy up your things and the trash you didn't throw away from three days ago."

Jade and Latte began to clear their headquarters. All the files that were splattered on the floor and on the table they threw away and most importantly they kept. The rest of the potato chips crumbs in a clean broom, all the garbage wrappers are thrown away, they also do not forget to clean every glass. They wanted when River and Eliza moved here to look clean and tidy.

While tidying up the files that were still scattered, Latte found a photo lying with sheets of paper that were not used. He took the photo, emblazoned with the figure of a little girl along with a middle-aged man posing in front of a magnificent house.

Jade saw Latte looking at the photo meaningfully, then she asked.

"You're still keeping it turned out, I thought you threw it all away."

"No, I just forgot to throw this one away." Latte answered him with a cold expression.

"Aren't you tired of lying about your own feelings ?"

"..."

Latte simply replied in a mute tone.

Jade actually knew that Latte did not want to discuss her and her family's problems, especially about her father. But as his friend and partner, he just wants Latte to be honest with his feelings. The atmosphere now became awkward, Jade decided to move to another room.

"I've decided to make this agency a great agency. To get a confession from him."

Jade who wanted to go to another room stopped for a moment because suddenly Latte said that. Though previously he never answered or discussed longer, their conversation about this always stopped with an empty answer. But this time it was different, Latte replied to him again.

"It's not just a confession from him. I want to prove to everyone that someone who is not a pure witch is capable of creating a number one agency on Domfront.... Well even though I'm just relying on your Jade power."

Latte smiled at Jade, unfortunately Jade did not feel happiness at that smile. He felt a sadness mixed with anger on Latte's face.

"Huh ?what is the problem of relying on one's strength ? relying on someone is not bad, it proves that you believe in that person. Anyway I know how much you're struggling to learn magic, so don't worry. Count on me as much as possible and we make this agency number one."

Latte answered him with a faint smile. Although Jade said it was okay to keep relying on him, at least Latte wanted to keep trying so that he would not become a burden. Back when they were in the academy, Latte was a very diligent and enterprising student figure to learn magic. Not many ordinary humans enrolled in magic academies, because they knew competing with pure magicians was a waste of time.

It is not impossible for humans to be great magicians, but they need more effort. Not only that, because humans do not have a natural source of mana then they need a magic medium. And the magic medium that has good quality, must be sold at an expensive price as well. Therefore humans who want to become great magicians need a lot of capital.

The whole room was clean, the unused files had been discarded, some of them stored on the roof converted as a warehouse. Food crumbs are also no longer present, the windows and gaps of the room have been cleaned. Their headquarters was actually not very large, just a building that measured seven by seven meters in height by twelve meters. The roof was turned into a warehouse to put things. The number of rooms is only four, two bedrooms, one living room at the same time receptionist and one main room. It's not hard to keep it neat. It was just that Jade was too lazy to take out the trash, and Latte did not have the free time to clean up.

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"Waaah !!" Eliza exclaims

"I'm sure this is the one tidying up must be Latte." River insinuating.

"Huh ? it's good you said yes.you're a guest with no respect."

"It's also for Eliza's sake, if I work here who's looking after her. Just in case the dark crow wants to go after him again."

"They're not going after you anymore River... Their business with you is done. Didn't you hear what Balder said before he left ?"

"already, Eliza told me she wanted to help our agency, too. He's gonna help us find clients on the internet." Latte cut across the interlude of Jade and River's conversation.

"Yes, my brother, I want to help you in return for helping me and Brother River."

"You must learn with your brother Riv how to treat the man who helped him" Jade told River.

River and Eliza keep their belongings in their rooms. Eliza and Latte share a room, while River uses the room previously used by Jade. And Jade slept in the main room because she preferred to sleep alone.

After one week, Jade and Latte's agency routine had not changed. Although they have added new members, to find work to eradicate the fiend is not easy. All fiend extermination requests have already been taken by the central agency association. To meet their daily needs all end up odd jobs.

River works as a waitress in a cafe, Latte becomes a self-service cashier, and Jade is tasked with keeping Eliza in their office. Supposedly for a seven-year-old like Eliza he would already have to enter a beginner's magic academy. But due to River and Eliza's condition that has not allowed him to have to wait for next year to get into the beginner's magic academy.

"Sister Jade...."

"Hmm ?"

"Agency kk with latte brother what's the name ?"

"Huh name ? there's nothing like that in us, Latte's too busy looking for names like that, and I'm too lazy."

"Owwh because I see how rich each agency group always has a name."

Jade began to think whether it was because their agency did not have a good name so there were rarely any customers.

"it seems like we should have a name."