Before he can actually look around to see the customer, a short man barely 5ft tall stood in front of him, wearing a hat and a suit, looking very much like a manager.
"You are late. Come-on follow me. I'll show you the kitchen."
His eyes were not on him, it was straight at front.
Is that a tail ?
Are those wings ?
That.. that man is transparent.....
He doesn't even have a head !!!....
*thump* he felt his body go limp as he fall backward.
"Did the new employee faint? HA HA HAA... Took him five minutes, he broke the previous record, I guess I won the bet right."
The headless man laughed, my trick never failed even once. Maybe I'm really a genius.
The short manager took off his hat, his bunny ears popping from the top, "You all need to stop with this useless way of greeting our human employees they are sensitive."
"Well sorry boss !! He would have known anyway sooner or later." There tone doesn't look like they were sorry at all.
"Remi, come help the employee."
A petty woman walked out with a cat tail swaying behind her as she roughly pic the body as if she was slightly disgusted before taking him to what looked like employee break room.
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Ian opened his eyes to a white ceiling, he sat up straight with a jolt, was that a dream? Was he hallucinating? Are the effects of poor lifestyle finally catching up ? IS HE GOING TO DIE...that's why he can see Ghosts..
"Hey newbie, need some water?"
He looked up to see a man in normal waiters uniform, everything about him was normal if you can just ignore the swaying tail behind him and those tiger ears on top of his head.
Ian wants to sleep some more, maybe he accidently ate something hallucinogenic. What's Going On !!
"Don't faint on me buddy! Anyone who faints twice is automatically out of the job."
That did sober up him instantly, being jobless in this economy is far more scary than a few ghost and animal-human or whatever.
"Wow, that's impressive, Come-on I'll lead you to our manager, if those customers plays trick on you try to ignore them or get used to them. You'll realise most people here are harmless. Not that they can harm you anyway, just go change into your uniform."
Ian scrambled into his uniform, glad that whoever placed him here didn't forget his bags at least.
The quality of the material still surprised him a bit, but he had better things to worry about now. He followed the man out, eyes fixed on that tail and the only thing in his mind.
I am either hallucinating or this is the type of pervert diner where they make servers dress as an animal, where is that tail attached to?
He want to bleach his mind with the kind of images popping up in his mind.
He was soon led to an office. He nodded at the tiger-man and said a polite thank you before entering the office.
What The Actual Fuck !! Rabbit- man... do all employees wear animal cos play! He will not be putting a tail up his ASS!!
The same man who greated him on the gate looked at him weirdly, "I can just guess what you are thinking. Please don't."
"Ohh !! Is that not??"
"No.. all employees in the Dimensional Diner are hybrids, we keep our tail and ears visible to avoid confusion."
That's not something he felt any more comfortable after hearing. "Can you explain. So you are Rabbit."
"Hybrid! I share traits of both species. As you know this is Dimensional Diner, this is opened to all dimensions, across the universe."
"What do you mean all dimensions. Is that even real?? Are you sure we both are not hallucinating rabbit man "
" You can look outside the window, and my name is Zy22, you can call me Rain."
"What even is the resemblance between your name and Rain ?" Ian walked toward the window, expecting to see the same alley from where he came.
But he looked outside and the view was something straight out of fantasy book, it looked like multiple dimensions merged into one, there was one window from where you can see dragons, another showed a view of busy street with people dressed in ancient clothes looking very much like cultivation area, another showed a fight between gods and demons.
Is this real time CGI, he can see it in front of him but he just can't believe it. He is not an avid fantasy book reader, the only book he read are self help book, his friends mail him once every time they feel him losing his mind.
"So this Dimensional Diner connect the dimensions for-real.?"
"What else do you expect? It's in the name" Rain muttered, plopping down on the chair and motioning him to sit.
"There are galaxy café s too do you think they are in middle of galaxy smart-ass."
Ian felt strangely okay with the situation, well it's a Diner he will cook what else. As long as his life is not endangered what is there to be afraid about.
"Well our board, is very happy with your record, you were picked from around 2,867 galaxies and over a few billion planets as the Head chef of Dimensional Diner. It was a tough competition, also this is the first time a human from earth will be head chef, it's a great achievement."
All that pep talk sounded like he is joining a cult.
"This isn't a cult, anyway let's talk about your salary. We will match the salary of what a head chef in top restaurant in your world will get in your world currency. But that would be cheating you as that amount will be pocket change in here so you will get rest of the amount in time, that will be deposited in this watch you can use it to buy anything across dimensions we have currency exchange every time we stop at a dimension. Also you will get two days off, every week and you can decide if you want to go home or any other dimension also we did mention we will be providing you with accommodation."
He did not hear all that, only a few things registered in his mind:
> Rabbit-man can read minds
>He is getting a hell lot of money
>something -something time money
>vacations
That's not a bad deal at all..
"I've a question- can you read minds ?"
"I can't your face is too expressive, anything else?"
"Noo.. as long as you keep what you said."
"Sure, let's sign the contract."
Rain slid the contract across the table, it looked like a weird ancient scrolls, he went through all the conditions one by one ensuring that he will not get scammed.
"This is devine scroll, you will have to sign it with your blood."
He nodded still fixed on the scroll details.
>The secrecy of existence of Diner should be maintained, in case of failure the employee should accept the punishment of ...DEATH
"Isn't this too extreme." Ian looked up little confused.
" This is to ensure peaceful dining experience for our esteemed customer."
Well makes sense, he don't really have to worry about that, he used the small syringe provided and pocked his thumb, drawing a little bit of blood, letting it drop on the scroll.
The bond glowed bright, almost blinding him then a..
Ding !!
Welcome Head Chef , I am your personal assistance you can call me Clio .. I'll support you through your journey to make Dimensional Diner legendry.
A small humonoid robot appeared in front of him.
Now... What The Fuck Is This ?