WaterStill Estate

Emmy got to school the next day with nothing on his mind, or rather, with only one thought on his mind,

...to apply for the job,

He had even forgot about Alice who he thought was his savior yesterday and had promise to find a way to thank her today, a way that won't feel awkward. it has completely left his mind.

All that was on his mind now was to close from school and go find the address on the card, then apply for the Job.

He got a few beaten as usual, get lunch for John and others, when it was closing time Emmy wasted no time zooming off, out of the school. His great mood was so obvious that all his classmate thought something is wrong with him.

Leaving school as soon as they closed, Emmy navigates his way to the address written on the business card, it was a bit hard but Emmy had been busy exploring the district and the nearing district for the past week and with a bit of help, he was able to get there with so much stress.

When Emmy entered the street that was on the card he was surprised, it's not even a street, it's an estate that was located far after his school, far away from the district he lives in and cut away from the main road. Getting there, he realized that he needed some sort of privilege to enter an estate which he had none.

But funnily enough, the business card turns out to be a type of invitation, the card was in his hand when he got there and as the security AI bot scanned him, he noticed that the card shone brightly and then he was allowed to entered.

Emmy was dumbfounded, how the hell did the business card turns out to be an invitation, it's as if someone had known that he's looking for a job and thus, they dropped it on him why he was passed out. A quick realization hits him.

"Damn, what if the card belongs to Alice. She must have mistakenly dropped it when she took me in. Fuck, why didn't I think about how it got into the room before."

But it's too late, he had already gone this far, so he's not going back unless he applied for the job.

"Alice, sorry for this one, I promise to return the card and thank you after getting the job."

The estate was quiet and peaceful, it's almost as if nobody lives here but there are actually people living there, it's just that the estate itself is devoid of sound with the help of sound barrier.

Although, he couldn't see anybody outside but looking at some buildings, he could see the beautiful inner part well designed with technologies and beautiful portraits, he could also see the silhouette of people moving in different buildings. The buildings were made of transparent glasses that can turn opaque at the user's wiEven the view of the estate itself looks more like heaven, no public bus, not even a private car moving on the street but he guessed car owners decided to park in their building or outside the street in a garage.

Looking down at the surface of the floor, it was made of indestructible transparent glass that shows a beautiful river that was down below, giving it a heavenly vibe. different aquatic creatures keep coming up by the seconds showing off their beautiful and heavenly body. It looks like the estate was built on a beautiful river but Emmy also suspected the river to be an illusion.

He had the desire to stand in one place observing the beautiful landscape, but he had job to apply for, so he wasted no time.

The sky was also made of the same glass the land was made of but it has no such beautiful view as that of the land. Instead of the beautiful river that was in place of the land, up in the sky, there's no any beautiful artificial view, the transparent glass only reflected the natural view of the sky above making it have the same climates.

'Does rain even fall on this street.'

He wondered, and even if rain falls, where does it go. The glass would keep it from entering the estate, Emmy guessed that the water will either remain on the glass for some times or it will move somewhere else through some invisible channel.

'Huh? Maybe the rain water is the source of the river below.'

He guessed.

He walks towards the teleporter station that was a few meters away from the entrance of the estate, there, the station is a lot different from other teleporter station he had seen. No guard is stationed here, no AI bot as security personnel. The station is just there with nobody guarding it, but Emmy knew there will surely be some security procedures that's a lot difficult and harder than facing an actual guard.

Entering the station peacefully, Emmy expected to see a glowing circle shining brightly ready to transfer him to whatever location he had in mind, but no such thing exists here. Instead of the normal circular portal that transport people to wherever they are going, this one instead is just a room full of different rectangular steel sarcophagus that stood straight with different light glowing on them.

'Huh? Isn't this an elevator? Why is the station full of elevator instead of portal circle?'

The rectangular boxes really look like elevator, but they aren't an elevator. Who would be crazy enough to put an elevator in place of a portal.

Not knowing what to do, he walks towards one of the boxes, written at the top of the box with neon light was "Mechanical Teleporter" and looking straight at the right hand side, he saw a large green button, the button looks the same as that of an elevator.

He decided to press the green button as it's always done with an elevator to access it, but as soon as he pressed the button, instead of the box to slid open, it's the neon lights on it that went off. And at the same time, Emmy heard different cracking sounds coming from all angles of the room and looking around, he saw different laser gun coming out from the wall and pointed at him from all angles, only him.

'What the hell, what was I supposed to do?'

*Identify yourself. *

He heard a mechanical voice coming from nowhere, it travels around the room from no specific angle. His heart skipped for some seconds as he heard the voice, it reminded him of the voice that delivers message for him from Lord Lucifer, at first he thought it was the same voice. But this one doesn't sounds ancient and also, it's a feminine voice.

Regaining his posture, he replied.

"err, I'm Emmy."

*Identify yourself. *

The voice repeated.

*Are you a guest, an intruder, an inhabitant or a worker of this estate who lost their identification card?

If you are a guest where's your invitation license, if you are an inhabitant or a worker who lost their identification card what's your identity code. Providing none of this means you're an intruder and you will be fired in half a minute. *

Emmy gulped, would be fired in half a minute. Immediately he pointed out the card that was in his left hand the whole time.

The voice didn't say anything for some seconds, or maybe the card is being scanned, Emmy just raised it up and hoped that the laser gun won't be fired.

The laser gun is not going to kill him, but it would make him go through hell, the bullet is not meant to kill, it's just for punishment. Although, there are some that their purpose is for killing, but this for here or anyone used as a security purpose is just for punishment. The bullet will electrify the target for as long as the gun still has bullet. One bullet will electrify the target for an hour, if two or more is shot at a time, the time and force of the punishment would be increased. And here there are countless laser gun ready to be fired in a matter of seconds.

'Damn, that might be deadly than Lord Lucifer's hell.'

*License confirmed, all fire should be retracted. This person is a guest. *

The soft feminine voice said bringing him back to his sense.

*Welcome to RiverStill Estate, guest. *

*To access the teleporter, place your card on the transparent screen on the machine and insert your location on the screen once you're inside. *

Emmy did as he was told, placing the card on the box, it slid opened and he wasted no time before entering it. Once inside, he saw a small window screen and quickly inserted the address and number on the card on it.

And then everything went dark.

And then it's bright again and Emmy found himself outside of a glassy tall building and writing at the top of the building is;

MISS SOFIA CAFÉ

"Found you."

He wasted no time walking into the building.

The building is fifty story and the last floor is where the words were written, which means the last floor is where he's going to, he doesn't need to go through an elevator.

Entering the Café, Emmy had his mouth wide opened and his heart skipped, he stepped back cold sweat running down his forehead despite the fact that Air condition is working in the café.