Birthday Celebration

*July 7, Year 772*

After they were done washing up, John and Sebastian went out to eat in restaurants and relax the whole day.

As it is John's Birthday today.

They were heading to Boar's hat to see if he can reserve the whole place to celebrate his birthday, and he's gonna invite whoever is in the guild today.

After all, he had over 2 million in cash right now, minus 1 million as a down payment for the apartment building that he was building.

And that's only one building, he can't afford the other two, it's either the other two or the apartment.

So he chose an apartment where it can provide him with income immediately after it was finished building.

The architect said that 100 sq. meters per 2 bedroom apartment are too big, so we decided that it's gonna be four 3 bedroom apartments per floor.

And with the size of that apartment, it's no problem to charge in the range of 100,000 to 150,000 Jewels per month.

With four apartments per floor and 6 rentable floors, that's 24! Per se the rent is 100,000 per month, then he'll earn 2.4 million Jewels per month!

And 12 times a year, that means 28,800,000 and he'll be rich with just this alone!

It won't be long before he won't be able to spend as much as he earns when he invests this in different places.

Anyway, they already reached Boar's hat and ordered, John ordered braised pork belly while Sebastian ordered some Pork Char siu udon noodles.

It was a heavy breakfast, but he's a growing boy so it's fine.

After they were done eating breakfast, John went to the counter and found Ella, the one who guided them when he and Cana were working there.

Seeing John, Ellas asked." What would you like to order John?"

"I would like to ask if Makino is around?" John asked, this way of asking sounded like he was a Karen from his previous life.

"Oh, she's in the back, why do you ask?"

"Well, I was wondering if I can reserve the whole restaurant in the evening to celebrate?"

"Reserve? Sure, we provide these services to other people as well, such as birthdays, weddings, and even just a party."

"What are you celebrating anyway?"

"It's my birthday that I'm celebrating," John said with a smile.

"Your birthday ok- Wait! Your birthday?! Why didn't you tell us?" Ella's shout attracted the other people in the counter as well.

"It's John's birthday? Why didn't you tell us we could have prepared a gift."

As for why they were overreacting? Well, it's because John is very familiar with the people of Boar's hat as he often came here to eat.

"Shhhh. Don't be so loud you are disturbing the other customers."

Realizing their blunder they hurriedly calmed down and apologize to the disturbed customers.

John then went to the office in the back to look for Makino, after reaching the office and knocking.

"Come in!" A soft voice sounded from within.

John entered and saw Makino eating breakfast.

"What brings you here John?" Makino asked.

John answered. "Ella said that you provide reservation services for celebrations."

Makino stopped eating for a while and took out a piece of paper from her desk and asked.

"Time, event, and how many people?"

"Evening, my birthday, and about 150 people"

Makino nodded and wrote them down.

"The original price for this reservation with 150 people is 500,000, but since we know each other and it's your birthday, I'll give you a discount and you only have to pay 450,000"

Hiss*

John took a deep breath when he heard the price, his current money will shrink by nearly half for this celebration.

But he still took out the money needed from the Mage's Sanctuary and handed it to Makino.

Makino smiled when she took the money, she then wrote something on a piece of paper and handed it to him.

"You can hand this to Ella and she'll know what to do."

After that John took the note and handed it to Ella who was working at the counter, after receiving the note, she made a receipt for him then went to the door and flipped the open sign to we're closed.

After that John went to the Fairy tail guildhall to invite the people that are currently in Magnolia and idle.

What John didn't expect was that when he walked in everything was dark inside the guild hall.

But a second later all the lights turned open as members of fairy tail popped confetti while shouting.

"Happy Birthday John!" "Happy Birthday John!"

John's eyes teared up looking at the members of the guild that waited for him.

Makarov walked through the people with Cana behind him as he say.

"Happy birthday kiddo, You've grown a lot in the past few months that you are here in Fairy tail."

"While it is sad that not all members are here to celebrate your birthday, especially Gildarts, I'd be a fool if I trusted that man to make it on any important occasion."

While wiping the tear from his eyes, John said. "It's alright, Old man Makarov, I came here this time to invite you to eat at Boar's hat in the evening, I reserved the whole restaurant for the night."

The mages cheered that there was a party, and Makarov smiled even more, as there was a party, it will surely not lack booze.

Today was one of the happiest moments in John's new life, as he had a new family, although rowdy and even borderline barbaric.

He now has a family that he can celebrate with, party with, share worries with, and live with every moment of his new life.