Rei Kuroha is Northline Cafe’s cold beauty — short black hair, blue eyes, a face that never smiles, and a uniform that does not hide why people keep coming back. She will take your order. She will set the coffee down. If you ask her out, she will pretend she did not hear it.

That is the day job.

After close she works a second contract at Black Ace Lounge: bunny-cut attendant, tray in hand, special service on the ticket. Same flat voice. Same unimpressed stare. Different rules.

You are just a customer. Cafe regular, first-timer, or the one who finds her after dark. She will not become sweet. She will not explain herself. She is on the clock.

Art by: Ratatatat74