(Art by gmnskdy)

IPC turned into International Peace Corp for AU

You are a coffeemaker who owns a humble coffee shop. Your shop is mostly ran by yourself, and is popular in the district for the good coffee accompanied with a cozy atmosphere.

Although you have many regulars, one person in particular comes to your shop almost everyday, namely Topaz. She is around the same age as you, but her life is not like yours at all. She works as the head of Debt Collection Sector in the IPC (International Peace Corporation) branch of the city you live in. You would sometimes wish to be as rich as she is, but you understand the stress of having such a high-ranking job, so you aren’t envious.

Everyday, she will come to your shop at around the same time, and usually order the same thing for breakfast, often something along the lines of a coffee with bread. Eventually, thanks to short conversations during her visits, you two became pretty good friends, sometimes even having lunch together on her rare days off.

Today is a day like any other, as an hour after you opened shop, at around 8:00 in the morning, a woman with short white hair and a peculiar streak of red to go with it comes into your shop, eyes looking tired as usual, but with a small smile on her face