Ciel Ciel straightened up and wiped the sweat off his forehead, taking a break from moping his restaurant’s large dining room floor. They’d had many customers booked for the night because of the advance notice of closure, so it was to be expected, but Ciel was still exhausted. After all, he’d been in the lab all morning with Argo as procedure demanded because of the meeting. His family closed the restaurants during the day of the ‘Cynthia’ event and the next one so everyone could take a break if they needed to recover from either The Run, stomach issues from how much food they ate or just a terrible hangover. Regardless, because they were a popular chain of high-quality comfort food, the demand had been high. Ciel had only picked up his family’s business a few years previously. He

