Life After Prison

“Scammers? How dare you call us scammers just because you can’t afford to pay for your meals? “The manager sneered. “It’s not a scam when we’ve displayed the price very clearly in our menu. “Oh, really? Could you bring over the menu that we looked at earlier, then? Severin asked with at cold smile.

“Right! That wasn’t the price displayed on the menu we looked at earlier!” Judith immediately remarked.

“Go and get the menu,” the manager said to the waiter. “These people just won’t accept the truth until they’ve seen it for themselves!” This is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

The waiter brought over the menu in no time, and the prices were different from before! There was almost a tenfold increase in the prices of each dish and drink!

“It’s not the same menu we were given earlier. This one’s brand new. The one we looked at was a little aged!” Diane’s expression became uglier as she looked at the menu. It was as clear as day that the menu given to them by the manager had been made in haste.

Even so, the manager merely said with a frigid smile, “It’s the same. What you see now is the menu for our restaurant. We can’t help if you can’t afford it. The total cost of your meal tonight is a hundred and sixty thousand, so please pay up!”

“My foot! We don’t need to entertain scammers who only want to scam me of my money. We’re leaving!” Severin remarked coldly.

“We have a group of customers who are trying to leave without paying for their meal! Tell those thugs behind the restaurant to come in here!” The manager smiled coldly and shouted at another male waiter.

“This is getting interesting!” Severin knew right then that they were targeted on purpose. Still, he was curious to know who the owner of that restaurant was, and in what way did he offend them.

Soon, more than a dozen thugs came in from behind the restaurant. They were a group of gangsters that were under the care of the establishment. Some had red hair while others had green hair, and there were those with tattoos on their shoulders too. One could tell at a glance that they were unsavory characters.

“Gotta hand it to you, you’ve got guts to come in here and have a meal when you know you won’t be able to pay up!” A guy with gold teeth sneered.

“Be a good boy and pay up, or else we’ll just have to rip your arms off if you don’t have any money.” said another guy who was holding a steel pipe.

“Pfft. As if.” Severin stood in front of his family and glanced condescendingly at the thugs. He even stretched out his hand and made a come-hither movement at the other guys. “Come at me if you have what it takes!”

“Guess you’ll only learn your lesson after getting a good beating!” Their leader, the man with gold teeth, gritted his teeth and rushed up first. He held a kitchen knife and he went straight for Severin’s jugular. Clearly, he had no intention of showing any mercy to Severin.

Diane hugged Selene and stood anxiously several meters behind Severin. Having seen Severin’s skills before, she had a bit of confidence in him and believed that he was able to defeat those small-time thugs.

True enough, Severin dodged his opponents’ attacks with relative ease and even delivered a couple of punches while he was at it. With each swift movement of his punch came a gust of wind. He landed

one blow on each of the thugs that came charging toward him, and more than a dozen or so thugs ended up collapsing on the ground.