Chapter 28: VIP MORNING

The next day, morning in the small house inside a private room, Ken was on his comfortable bed. His head was on a soft pillow. He moved his head to the left and right and his head sank into it.

Then, after 20 minutes he slowly opened his eyes and woke up from the bed. There was absolute silence in the place. Ken stared at the floor, and looked around the place. He smiled.

"I’m a VIP worker and today I can escape working if I want."

He stared again at the bed and the pillow.

"Let us enjoy again."

He jumped on the bed, and covered himself with the blanket, and slept for an hour. Then he opened his eyes at one, and leapt out of the bed to the door. As he hit the floor he gently opened the door. That time all the workers had gone except the VIPs. Some were sleeping, and others went out to the market.

Ken walked out the small house, and stretched his arms.

"I have slept today a lot... Today is for myself."

He stretched his stomach.

I think I’m the last person in the house.

The sunlight struck on his body. He widely opened his arms.

Today I should take a bath... I’m dirty as a pig.

He started to sing a little song from his past life. And jumped up like a princess in Barbie. Then suddenly he felt someone was looking at him. It was another VIP. He looked young with dark circles under his eyes.

As Ken stared at him, he spoke.

"I didn’t see anything."

But he was about to laugh. Ken walked away from the place. As he was far from the man he burst out laughing.

Ken finally moved out of the place, and he saw Lily with her mother who carried some items to prepare the meal for the VIP workers. As they were near a carriage that transported the bread for the workers.

Ken walked toward them with confidence. He reached near them and said.

"What’s the problem here?"

Lily turned and gazed at him. He looked familiar and she looked at his face. Immediately she smiled. Her mother stared at him, and looked at his clothing.

He is a worker... A poor one but handsome. But no money, he is nothing like all those bastards.

Lily said.

"The horses suddenly stopped, they don’t want to move... And the tires are broken."

He looked at the tires. One was broken. He rubbed his chin twice and Lily’s mother thought.

He’s acting as if he is a genius that went to an academy.

Ken asked, "What is the carriage transporting?"

Lily replied with a smile.

"The provision for workers."

Ken folded his arms then said, "Then we only need a big horizontal wood to fix it."

They nodded and at once Lily’s mother reasoned out.

I have seen this face somewhere...

In a few seconds she recalled. Then she sneered at him.

Now everything is clear... A slave worker... That wants to influence my child negatively.

Her eyes widened and she glared at Ken. Suddenly he felt an intense pressure on him, but still he smiled. And walked in the streets going to the market.

Lily asked him.

"Will you go to the market like this with the same clothing?"

As he heard that he felt ashamed because his sweat had stuck to his skin. His clothes were the same as every day. Moreover he never took a bath since the day he was with Kana.

I don’t even have money on me... My pockets are dry as a desert.

Then Ken froze and gazed toward her and spoke.

"Go and stay beside the carriage. I’m coming soon."

He stepped twice and remembered about the hardness of the bread.

If I’m lucky it can be the same hole as for the strongest bread... With Liz here I will be a hundred percent sure she will take it at random.

Immediately he sprinted toward them, and entered the carriage. The mother shouted.

"Thief... Thief!"

As if she was waiting for that opportunity.

All of a sudden Lily covered her mother’s mouth and stared at her. Her eyes were indirectly saying that guy is not a thief. Her mother calmed.

Meanwhile, Ken was in the carriage and there were packets of breads. He breathed in and breathed out slowly.

Give me luck.

He picked up the first bread and it was soft. Then he took the second and it was still the same. Then the third, fourth, fifth, sixth...

Then at that moment, Liz was walking in the streets and she touched her lips.

"It’s as if someone is talking about me."

Then Ken moved out of the carriage and immediately he saw her. She was as if she was thinking of something. Then he leapt over the carriage. As he hit the ground he walked slowly and then Liz gazed at him. And she made a sign with her left hand as if she was almost dead.

Ken said, grabbed her hand and she didn’t resist. She moved into the carriage with him. And Ken invited her to choose a bread from the breads that were there. She chose one.

I knew it would fall on the hard, dry one that can break stones and shatter the ground.

He chose one and it was exactly what he wanted. Liz breathed out disappointed as usual.

"Take this bread. It’s a gift for your promotion."

As she gave it to him she immediately walked away. At that time he saw she wore dear clothing as if she won the jackpot.

Ken furrowed and whispered.

"Is she a VIP?"

Then he moved out and tried to put the bread in the tire. It entered after a few minutes. He successfully arranged it and the two ladies climbed on the carriage. The horses walked and the carriage moved to its destination.

[*Bonus*]

The horses were still not moving. The tire was cracked in half.

Lily’s mother crossed her arms.

"It will take hours to find wood. The VIPs will starve."

Ken looked at the bread in his hand. The unbreakable bread Liz just gave him.

It’s harder than stone... It can shatter the ground...

His eyes lit up.

Lily: "Ken? What are you doing?"

Ken, dead serious: "I have an idea."

He held the bread up like a weapon.

Step 1: Jam the bread into the broken tire hole.

THUG

The bread didn’t break. The tire did.

Lily’s mother: "THAT’S NOT HOW YOU FIX A CARRIAGE!"

Ken, sweating: "No wait, Step 2. We use the other bread as glue!"

He grabbed 3 more soft breads from the carriage and tried to mush them around the hard bread.

Result: It became a sticky, crumbly mess. A horse immediately walked over and started licking it.

Lily covered her mouth to stop laughing.

"Mom, he’s trying..."

Lily’s mother, glaring: "He’s trying to get us fired!"

Ken sighed and threw the bread-tire on the ground. It bounced.

"Okay... plan failed. The bread is too strong to be a tire and too delicious to be wasted."

He then picked up a big horizontal branch from the side of the road like he said before.

10 minutes later: tire fixed properly.

As the carriage started moving, Ken took a bite of the rock-bread.

CRUNCH

His teeth hurt.

"Worth it."

Liz, watching from far away:

I knew he would do something stupid with my bread