Chapter 74. Boar Ha
"Who are you!"A high pitched voice rang out behind Rei causing him to turn around quickly. Rei could see a pig looking at them with hostility.
'Hawk?' Rei though as he saw the pig.
"Lady! Did you hear me! I said who are you!" Hawk repeated as he walked closer.
"Er I'm not a lady I'm a guy. I'm called Rei and this is my dad." Rei said as he introduced themselves.
"What's your name mr pig." Rei asked looking at Hawk.
"I don't have one." Hawk said as he sat down watching the duo.
"Umm can I give you one?" Rei said wanting to befriend Hawk.
"Then you should give me a powerful one." Hawk puffed out his chest in pride waiting for Rei to give him a name.
"How about Hawk? They're fast powerful and one of the top of the food chain?" Rei suggested.
Hawks eyes sparkled as he walked up to Rei.
"Not bad at all! I shall accept you as a follower." Hawk said as he patted Rei on the shoulder. Rei sweatdropped at this.
'You want to accept a ex-peak ascendant as a follower?' Rei thought.
"Hawk, I don't want to be a follower. Why don't you become my friend instead?" Rei asked.
"Hmmm, fine I'll reluctantly accept you as my friend." Hawk said as he sat down next to the duo.
Rei only shrugged at Hawks supposed reluctance.
Standing up, Rei looked out of the cave and he could see that night was about to fall. Grabbing some vines, Rei covered the entrance while he made a small fire pit in the cave and lit it up. Rei waited for Meliodas to wake up while Hawk sat next to him bragging about his dreams.
It wasn't long until Meliodas woke up and looked around to see Rei and Hawk.
"Dad you ok?" Rei said as he went next to Meliodas.
"Rei? What happened?" Meliodas said slightly clutching his head.
"Well the seven sins were framed for killing uncle Zaratras and Merlin sent us away." Rei explained.
"Is that so....Let's go get some information in a near by town." Meliodas said as it was important to understand the current situation.
"Also Rei who's the pig? Is it dinner?" Meliodas asked as he looked at Hawk.
"How rude! I'm Hawk! Friend of Rei." Hawk said puffing out his chest.
"A talking pig!!!" Meliodas said as he looked at Hawk.
"Hey dad can we take him?" Rei asked.
"Hmm why not." He replied as he stood up stretching his body.
The trio of man and pig made their way towards a near by town. But frowned immediately as the kingdom had sent out wanted posters before they were even framed. Every one had posters even Rei.
- Most dangerous sin. Adopted child of the dragon sin of wrath Meliodas.
-Powers: Gluttony, allows him to eat all types of energy. Attack with physical power.
It then followed with accurate drawings of him all the way up to adult hood.
"Wait why are my pictures so accurate?!" Rei said as he looked at the pictures.
"Didn't you know? There are a type of magician that can see the future at the cost of their lives. The kingdom had one left and I believe they used his life to get images of you since you have a monstrous amount of potential. Meliodas analysed while Hawk didn't know what was going on.
"This....." Rei said as he couldn't believe they drew everything to such a degree.
"Hmm how about you add a feature to your face yo make it less recognisable?" Meliodas asked.
"Like what?" Rei asked.
"How about a mask covering the bottom half of your face?" Meliodas asked.
"What about a blind fold?" Rei suggested because he can use his haki to move around with and train it up once more.
"Wont they see through the disguise?" Meliodas asked.
"I'll just grow my hair out a little then. It shouldn't give anything away about my identity if I combined the two." Rei said.
"That'll work." Meliodas said as they went around the market to buy a long strip of cloth. Eventually, they settled with a white cloth and wrapped it around Rei's eyes and tied it on the back.
"Right then Dad, what shall we do now? Should we try find the guys now?" Rei asked.
"No we can't do that just yet. Merlin should know it too which is why she separated everyone in the group. We'll be laying low while I train you for a few years ok?" Meliodas said as he saw a building for sale.
"How about we run a bar as a cover?" Meliodas said.
"Sure but wont we be stuck in one place?" Rei asked as he followed.
"Don't worry, we can place the bar on mama's back. She is very big and can move around easily." Hawk suggested.
"If that is ok Hawk then we'll do just that." Meliodas said as he grinned.
They walked to the pawning shop as they looked at what they could pawn.
"Let's sell my sword." Meliodas said as he brought out his sacred treasure.
"Dad but wont that be bad? I can make a few blades to sell." Rei said but Meliodas shook his head.
"If I sell this not only will I get money for the bar. The knights also wont realise my identity just in case." Meliodas said to which Rei only shrugged as Meliodas did say a valid point.
Soon they walked out of the shop with enough money to buy the bar.
"Hey dad, since the building looks like a hat shall we call it Boars Hat?" Rei suggested.
"Yeah that's a good name." Meliodas said as he smiled. Meliodas then had Hawk show him to Hawk mama and take a look at the surface area.
"Woah, she is huge isn't she." Rei said as he had to tilt his head so far in order for him to see the top of Hawk mama.
"Yep now lets go buy that building." Meliodas called out as Hawk explained to Hawk mama about the situation to which she nodded and followed the trio to the building. Meliodas and Rei started to go get a few new set's of clothing for the bar.
"Hey dad why are you buying womens clothing as well?" Rei asked as he saw Meliodas buy a few sets of female clothing as well.
"Well I could keep it for the off chance that we get female staff or do you want it?" Meliodas asked with a shit eating grin.
"Fuck that." Rei said simply as he walked away causing Meliodas to shrug and follow Rei to the till as they paid for the clothing.
When they walked out they could see the building already installed on top of Hawk mama.
"How the hell were they so fast!!!" Rei exclaimed as he didn't understand how they built it in the span of them shopping for clothing.
"Don't think too deeply about it. Hahahaha" Meliodas laughed as he paid the workers the rest of the money. Rei could only stand dumbly as he shook his head and didn't question it.
Soon for the next few years, there had been a rumour about a bar with the best alcohol, best food and great eye candy. The bar was called boar hat and it comes and goes when every it wished. In these years Rei had been studying hard on training and cooking to make the bar more of a success. Rei had also tried to use the system more but found out that his skill count was at it's limit and that he could only buy manuals to train in passives much to his disappointment due to the fact that he can't materialise anything in the real world until he goes to the higher realms. So in the end, Rei could only buy a manual on Joichiro Yukihira's cooking style. It was only during his 3rd year did he get the passive King of cooking.
"Dad wake up! It's opening time!" Rei shouted out as he was now 15 and it was only a few months left till Elizabeth shows up at the boar hat.
"I'm up I'm up." Meliodas said as he rubbed his head.
Rei left him be as he walked down stairs and quickly cooked a breakfast for Hawk and Meliodas.
"Buhii! Rei you breakfasts are always so good!!!!" Hawk said as he devoured his meal.
"Hahahaha well glad you enjoyed it." Rei said as he walked out of the shop and saw a huge queue waiting for the opening time.
"Everyone! We'll be opening shortly ok!" Rei shouted out.
"YEAAAHHHH!!" They cheered as Rei smiled.
Walking in and bringing out the sign of "Boar Hat is open!" Rei welcomed everyone in.
"Right guys what do you want for breakfast?" Rei asked as he put on a apron and went behind the counter.
"REI CHAN SPECIAL!!" They shouted in sync.
"Damn it guys!! There is no chan in the meal name and I'm a guy so atleast say san ok?" Rei shouted out.
"Doesn't matter since Rei chan is beautiful!" One of the customers said.
"Handsome!! And keep saying chan and no food for you guys." Rei said as he twirled the spatula on around his fingers.
"REI SAN WE'RE SORRY!!" They called out as they had fell in love with Rei's cooking, so much that they even bring their family over to have the food. It was cheap as well which was great news to them.
"Hahahaha much better, now then give me a moment and I'll cook for you." Rei said as he got out his tools and started to cook.
"Hey Rei san, I've always wondered since I'm new but why do you have a blind fold on?" A new customer asked.
"Well I've have had a problem with my eyes since I was a kid so this is to protect it. Don't worry, I can still use my other senses." Rei said as he demonstrated great strength flipping a huge amount of rice.
"Ahh~ how great would it be if Rei san was a girl and got married. Who ever marries him would be the luckiest person ever." A customer said as the others quickly backed away as they knew it was taboo to say anything like that to Rei.
Rei stopped cooking as he looked over with a smile.
"Care to repeat that." Rei said holding a knife ready to throw.
The man quickly shook his head as he denied with all his strength.
"Hmph, less food for you." Rei said as he resumed to flip the rice.
"My condolences buddy." A person said with a hand on the guy's shoulder.
"If so then share you food with me." He said looking at the guy.
"FUCK THAT!" He cried out as the walked back to his seat.
As Rei was cooking Meliodas walked down in his uniform.
"Hou~ Busy again in the morning." Meliodas said with a smile as he went over to the bar.
"Oi Boss! You're so lucky to have Rei as a son!!" The people shouted at Meliodas who only proceeded to laugh.
"Shishishishi, I know."
"Hey dad your foods over there." Rei said as he pointed over with his spare hand.
"Thanks." Meliodas said as he proceeded to eat.
"Alright guys it's done. Pass me your bowls." Rei called out as he gave everyone their servings. Except for the customer who said he should be a girl only got half a portion much to his demise. Eventually, Rei took small pity and gave him a little more.
"Now then, remember to pay up by my dad over there and don't pull any stunts. Ok? I'll remember everything." Rei said as he started to wash up. The customers nodded as they didn't dare skip out on their bills. Last time some one did that they were tied up and starved with Rei's food below them for 2 days straight. Each time it went cold, Rei would give it to Hawk and make a new dish with the smell heavy enticing the person to try eat it. Eventually the person almost went insane as he paid up a large portion of his total assets just so that he could be let off and eat Rei's food once again. It was also this incident that they started fear Rei slightly.
In addition to this, there had also been a wide range of females that had tried to gain Rei's love but each time he had refused them. Some were beauties that made other woman cry with envy. When Rei was asked why he refused, he just replies with, 'I can't do this, I'll be letting Eve down if I did this.' The people never knew who Eve was but they could tell that Rei was loyal to her.