After breakfast, Kiara returned downstairs and resumed business.
During the next hour, several customers visited the store.
Only one made a significant purchase, buying an AK-47 and one hundred rounds of 7.62x39mm ammunition for a total of 150 gold coins.
Zion escorted the wealthy customer to the training grounds and demonstrated the rifle, expending ten rounds in the process.
Even after deducting costs, the sale earned Kiara a tidy profit of 80 gold coins.
Her mood improved immediately.
With renewed enthusiasm, she resumed manufacturing 9mm rounds.
Ten minutes before nine, the front door opened.
Alucard stepped inside.
The moment Kiara saw him, her eyes lit up like a gambler spotting a lucky charm.
"Welcome, Alucard," she said, her smile widening. "I have been waiting for you."
The teenage welpire let out a resigned sigh.
"Is it that day already?"
Having worked at Nexus for more than two weeks, he knew exactly what that expression meant.
