"Valian!" she called, with a smile. "Nice to see you back!"
"Hey, Albedo." Valian smiled. "You alright?"
"I'm alright." Albedo replied, grinning.
"Hello, Penemue." Valian said, walking up to the other woman. "You up to your eyes in paperwork again?"
"Come on, Valian." Penemue replied, turning to her. "I've got other stuff than paperwork. It starts with 'p' and ends with 'n'."
"Well, knowing you and who you are, I'm not that surprised." Valian smirked. "Hey, Kenji! Get over here." Kenji walked forwards to the three women.
"Kenji?" Albedo looked at Kenji. "Kenji Gremory?"
"The very same." Valian grinned. "You jealous that I manged to get him?"
"A little." Albedo admitted, looking over Kenji's body. Penemue was doing the same, and a smile was coming over her. And it was slowly getting bigger, the more she looked at Kenji.
"Technically, I got you." Kenji muttered. Not that any of the three women would hear him.
"Kenji, this is Albedo." Valian said. "She's the owner of this café, and probably my best friend in the whole Grigori."
"Nice to meet you." Albedo smiled at Kenji, who smiled back.
"And this is Penemue, the Secretary of the Grigori, and one of the Cadre." Valian introduced the other woman. "And Albedo's older sister."
"Nice to meet you too." Kenji said, mentally sweatdropping. 'Azazel said that Penemue was the scariest Fallen Angel I'd ever meet, but she doesn't look that scary.' He thought. 'But, looks can be deceiving.'
"So, you want anything, Valian?" Albedo asked, smiling at Valian.
"Yeah, just a cup of tea, thanks." Valian said. "Kenji?"
"You got any blackcurrent juice?" Kenji asked.
"I sure do." Albedo said. "So, one tea and one blackcurrent juice. Coming right up." She then left through a door into a back room of sorts. Valian took a seat on one of the stools in front of the counter next to Penemue, and Kenji sat next to her.
"What do you think of this place, Kenji?" Valian asked.
"It's pretty nice." Kenji replied, looking around.
"Yeah, you say that now." Valian said, smiling. "The shit Albedo makes is great."
"I heard that!" came Albedo's voice from through the door. "And thank you!" Kenji, Valian and Penemue all laughed.
"So, I never asked, but who's the older sister between you and Albedo, Pen?" Valian asked the blue-haired woman sitting next to her.
"Me." Pen replied. "Not by much, though. I think it was 36 minutes."
"37." Came Albedo's voice again, as she walked out of the back room, carrying a mug and a glass in her hands. She handed the mug to Valian and the glass to Kenji. They both thanked her and drank.
Only one thought could go through Kenji's mind when he drank the blackcurrent juice.
VALIAN IS A FUCKING LIAR.
The juice he'd just drunk wasn't great.
It was fan-fucking-tastic.
Kenji gave an involuntary shudder as the liquid went down his throat. It was better than any drink that the cooks in his old family could ever make.
"I told you it was great." Valian smiled, as she drunk from her mug of tea.
"You were lying." Kenji answered. "It's amazing!"
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