With Saya's addition, Raven's Amazon Café officially had two employees. Saya herself was incredibly diligent and capable. In her free time, she focused on learning how to grind and brew coffee, often humbly seeking guidance from Yuka. Though Yuka still harbored a slight hostility, she couldn't resist Saya's enthusiastic overtures. The two gradually became friends.
With enough hands in the shop, Raven was able to relax. He spent his leisure time reclining on the porch swing, flipping through magazines and looking at photos of bikini-clad women. Even with the two beautiful girls, Yuka and Saya, nearby, they lacked the "bouncing waves" of the models in the magazine.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, screams erupted from inside the main hall. A Spider Orphnoch, disguised as a customer, revealed its true form and began attacking the other patrons. Yuka immediately intercepted the creature, throwing a cup at it to buy time for the others to escape. A murder here would be terrible for their Café's reputation.
Saya, momentarily shocked by the sudden appearance of the Orphnoch, instinctively ran upstairs to retrieve the Delta Driver.
Raven heard the commotion and quickly rushed in from the back patio. With extreme speed, he choked the Spider Orphnoch by the neck and hurled it out the door with a superhuman burst of strength.
Once they were in a wide-open area, Raven launched into a furious attack, grabbing and mercilessly beating the Orphnoch. Fortunately, foot traffic in the area was sparse, and the earlier screaming had scared off most people, so there were no eyewitnesses to Raven "grappling with a monster" bare-handed.
"You bastard! You made all my customers run away! Who's going to pay for that?!" Raven utterly demoralized the weak Spider Orphnoch with his barrage. As he had consumed and absorbed more Orphnochs, his physical strength was nearing that of an average Orphnoch.
"Who the hell is the human and who's the Orphnoch?" The Spider Orphnoch was inwardly stunned, having never encountered such a ferocious human.
While the creature was having an existential crisis, Raven pressed his advantage. He dominated the fight with his fists and feet. However, due to the Orphnoch's inherent defense and life force, Raven's strength in his human form was unable to deliver a fatal blow. This allowed the thoroughly demoralized Spider Orphnoch to find an opportunity to escape.
He had come to cause trouble with a specific mission: to lure Raven to a certain location.
"Like hell I'll let you run!"
Seeing the creature escape across the rooftops with its superior leaping ability, Raven quickly mounted his motorcycle and gave chase along the same route.
Meanwhile, Saya, who had run upstairs for the Driver, had completed her transformation in the room. Climbing out the window and onto the roof, she spotted the escaping Spider Orphnoch's route. At the same time, she noticed Raven chasing after it on his bike.
"Why is Mr. Raven chasing an Orphnoch?"
"No time to worry about that." Although she found it strange, Saya didn't overthink it and followed, concerned that Raven might be in danger.
"Saya, it's alright. You can come down now." Yuka, seeing Raven pursue the Orphnoch, returned to the café to comfort the startled Saya.
"Huh? Where is she?"
Yuka went upstairs, but seeing the empty room and open window, she looked completely confused.
....
At the seaside.
The Spider Orphnoch had exhausted itself to reach its destination. Even with an Orphnoch's endurance, it was completely worn out.
"You ran all this way just to lead me here?" Raven casually surveyed the surroundings. A classic beach location. No doubt an ambush was waiting.
"You're facing death, and you're still acting arrogant?" Now that he had reached the spot, the Spider Orphnoch's confidence returned. He knew who was waiting behind him. The legendary Lucky Clover.
Sure enough, three figures emerged from behind a distant boulder.
It was Jay, Saeko Kageyama, and Itsuro Takuma. Three members of the Lucky Clover were gathered together.
"Sorry, darling. As interested as I am in you, President Murakami gave explicit orders: you have to be eliminated." Saeko Kageyama stared directly at Raven, giving him a dangerously seductive wink that made him feel a prickling of goosebumps.
"Let me go first," Jay stepped in front of the other two, his previously placid expression turning fierce. He clearly held a grudge against Raven, who had easily taken his first life. Now, with his strengthened power, he intended to settle the score.
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